Checkmate mod needs server(s) and players!

[legacy-Virus{xPCG}]

Nothing to do with me, but I came across this beta mod release at BeyondUnreal...

Its a class based gametype, using chess pieces for the different classes. Each team starts out with a king and pawns, where the latter can be promoted to knights; bishops; rooks; queens by collecting credits (killing enemies). A round ends when a king is killed.

Each class has a special ability eg. king can 'castle' a rook (force a rook to be teleported to protect king) and a unique weapon. Shields and ammunition can be recharged by standing near your own king.

Definitely deserves some server time out there, its better than my basic description... leave any IPs in this post that have this mod running!

http://www.unnaturalgaming.com/checkmate/

[legacy-Kaadu]

Yeah, me was going to pimp this mod if nobody else would.
However, i cant seem to use the grapple with the queen.:(
And there is no way to heal yourself.:(
and the bot kings attack each other.:(
But it still is quite a good mod.:) :up:

[Kyllian]

Sounds interesting


Pawn
Description
The weakest of the player classes, but he gains the most credits for killing other players.

Special Ability
Sacrifice - Detonate yourself to take out nearby opponents

Weapon
Pulse Rifle - a weak gun with regenerating ammunition

Knight
Description
Close to medium range fighter with a natural triple-jump ability

Special Ability
None (yet)

Weapons
Grenade Launcher - primary fire launches grenades that explode on impact, secondary fire launches bounce grenades
Pulse Rifle - secondary weapon

Bishop
Description
Fast yet weak, the Bishop is the team's sniper

Special Ability
Cloak - conceal yourself from other players for a short period

Weapons
Sniper Rifle - Use secondary fire for zoom, primary fire to shoot
Pulse Rifle - secondary weapon

Rook
Description
Strong yet Slow, the Rook is the King's defender

Special Ability
Castle - teleport to your King

Weapons
Minigun - rapid fire weapon
Siege Cannons - fires two high-velocity rockets; must be in siege mode to use. While in siege mode, the Rook cannot move, only shoot.
Pulse Rifle - secondary weapon

Queen
Description
Powerful and mobile, the only downside to the Queen is that she can only accumulate credits be killing other Queens, or the King.

Special Ability
Grappling Hook - pull yourself to other areas

Weapons
Rocket Launcher - Secondary fire activates a laser guiding dot, which can be used to aim rockets in flight. Use primary fire to launch rockets.
Pulse Rifle - secondary weapon

King
Description
Fast and with lots of health, the King is the leader of his team

Special Ability
Castle - teleport a Rook to your location (if available)

Weapon
Gauntlet - Powerful melee weapon

I might actually give this a try

[legacy-Virus{xPCG}]

Found out that someone from the Deathball community has Checkmate running on a multi-gametype server which uses a voting tool to swap games.

See http://forums.gameservers.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8992 for a list of all download links, although you will need to grab Deathball 1.9 from one of the links at www.deathball.net

[legacy-CaNNoN]

Originally posted by Virus{xPCG}
Nothing to do with me, but I came across this beta mod release at BeyondUnreal...

Its a class based gametype, using chess pieces for the different classes. Each team starts out with a king and pawns, where the latter can be promoted to knights; bishops; rooks; queens by collecting credits (killing enemies). A round ends when a king is killed.

Each class has a special ability eg. king can 'castle' a rook (force a rook to be teleported to protect king) and a unique weapon. Shields and ammunition can be recharged by standing near your own king.

Definitely deserves some server time out there, its better than my basic description... leave any IPs in this post that have this mod running!

http://www.unnaturalgaming.com/checkmate/

My reply is not directly related to the thread topic, but is related in regards to the download link posted.

I have also mirror this file over on my site, with the following links:

UMOD Version (http://www.ut2003hq.com/pafiledb/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=3301)

and

.ZIP Version (http://www.ut2003hq.com/pafiledb/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=3300)

[legacy-Piotyr]

thanks for the support guys!

We're looking at trying to get a dedicated server up soon...quaketheism looks like a front-runner, but it's $6/player/mo, so that's around $100US for a 16 player server...

if anyone knows of a better game hosting service, please let me know!

also, re: kaadu's post...
grapple problem: have you tried re-binding the key in the menu? has anyone else had this problem? You have to hold the grapple down to use it
healing: yeah, there's no healing in Checkmate...although the knight, bishop, rook, and queen have regenerating shields to compensate for that
bot kings: that's an outstanding issue we'll be dealing with shortly...it's a tricky situation because in real life, 2 player-kings might not attack each other at all (since it's pretty much a stalemate), unless one is at much lower health...although ideally people would be playing online with other human players anyway ;)

-Piotyr
www.unnaturalgaming.com

[legacy-Piotyr]

kazaam!

here's a dedicated server for Checkmate, on a T1 line

ut.orangemile.com, or 67.155.3.109:7777, or click here to join (unreal://67.155.3.109:7777)

Happy gaming!
-Piotyr
www.unnaturalgaming.com

[legacy-Majai]

I am setting up a server now at 69.28.221.192:7777

Use mapvote to change the gametype to checkmate. We mostly have it on IGCTF.

[legacy-Arkaius]

Kaadu...

if you have the special bind on your mouse3-4 and its not working then just re-bind from the menu, even to the same button. I've had that problem before.

This is great support from the community, its awesome to see people enjoying the game!

-Arkaius
www.unnaturalgaming.com (http://www.unnaturalgaming.com)

[legacy-Kaadu]

Ok, but it's not the special bind that isn't working, only the grapple hook.

I'll try it anyway.

[legacy-Piotyr]

The grappling hook is the Queen's special ability...it's an offhand hook, not a separate weapon. Just hold down the special key to shoot it, and let go of the key to release the hook.

-Piotyr
www.unnaturalgaming.com

[legacy-Essobie]

Bumping this thread because this is one of the more interesting DM modifications to ever hit the mod community. I'm definately going to try to get my clan to add this to the clan server for off hours.

[NotoriousBIC]

Originally posted by Piotyr
kazaam!

here's a dedicated server for Checkmate, on a T1 line

ut.orangemile.com, or 67.155.3.109:7777, or click here to join (unreal://67.155.3.109:7777)

Happy gaming!
-Piotyr
www.unnaturalgaming.com

Hehe, 'tis already an older thread, so the servers aren't up anymore I guess.

btw I have an odd problem with the keybinds. I tried remapping the special ability to middle mouse button, but somehow the game doesn't accept that. (I have remapped it to another key now)
This doesn't necessarily has to be a problem of Checkmate. Just wondering if other people have the same problem too.

[legacy-Piotyr]

re: ut.orangemile.com server - the server's not up anymore, but I've sent a message to the guy who donated it last time and he's looking into it

As for the binding; are you able to bind middle mouse to anything in regular UT2004? I have an MX700 mouse, and UT2004 doesn't always like all of the buttons, so what I do is bind them to keyboard keys in the windows control panel, then map commands to those keys.

[legacy-Mentarque]

Bump this thread

This mod really deserves some servers. Best class based gametype i've played so far :up:

[legacy-Cr@shOverwrite]

it rocked for 2k3 and it`ll rock for UT2k4. MSU will show that.

[legacy-Piotyr]

2 Records were set tonight:
-Largest internet Checkmate game ever: 7 Players , on arrington.dnbmassive.com (temporary server set up by pigz, a poster from shacknews.com)
-Most simultaneously running CM servers: 3 (noted at 3am EST)

hopefully we can break these records ;)

there are 2 servers running CM right now:
66.98.172.71
12.215.62.123

update: we shattered the record tonight by filling Pigz' server! 8vs8 is good times, even if everyone was a little sacrifice-happy ;)

[legacy-Piotyr]

If anyone's interested in playing Checkmate tonight, a shacker has put up a dedicated server for us: arrington.dnbmassive.com (66.98.172.71)

We're going to try and keep it populated for him; we had 7 people in there last night and it was a blast

[PointlesS]

awesome...I'll join it and play tonight

[PointlesS]

humm...actually I keep getting connection failed when I try to join the server

[PointlesS]

I'm in the server right now if anyone wants to play...no one is in there...