Hot Potato 2K4 Gametype

[legacy-cknight52]

Name: Hot Potato 2K4
Version: Final
Compatibility: UT2004 no patches (UT2003 version also available on the download page).
Description:
Your basic hot potato match. The potato will spawn at a random spot in any DM map. While someone is holding it, the timer counts down for a random period of time. When the timer runs out, look out! The potato explodes taking whomever is holding with it.

To score in this game, you must be the person who passed the potato to the person who was killed by it. Score 3 points, you win the match.

Full bot support
Comments: Sounds simple, but fun. Garnered honorable mention in Phase 2.
Screenshot:
http://www.knight-schroder.com/HotPotato/HotPotatoPics/HotPotato2K4HasPotato.jpg
http://www.knight-schroder.com/HotPotato/HotPotatoPics/HotPotato2K4MashedPotato.jpg
http://www.knight-schroder.com/HotPotato/HotPotatoPics/HotPotato2K4Menu.jpg

Credits: Me, and Epic for keeping me interested.
Homepage: My Homepage (http://www.knight-schroder.com/HotPotato/index.html)
Download: Downloads (http://www.knight-schroder.com/HotPotato/downloads.php)

[Nemephosis]

Was this updated? There was a small problem in the last version in that killing people with your weapons still gave you frags. :bulb:

[legacy-cknight52]

You still get frags, because some people still like to count that kind of thing, but the score on the HUD is based on how many "potato" kills you have.

[legacy-kizza]

Cool idea, I think it'd be cooler with a bit of work. Mainly that score problem. Like if you got more points for a mashed potato killing...

What would happen if you could ONLY kill with the potato?
I dunno if that would make it better or worse, probably worse.
I just thought it'd be funny to see these people run around the map trying to get away from the potato but no way to kill or anything... I dunno. Seems good in my head at least.

[legacy-cknight52]

You know, thats the way I originally implemented it. You could only kill with the potato, and no weapons were in the game and all that.

However, it got boring pretty quickly. So what I figured would be that people would want to get the potato so they could pass off to someone else. Which is fine, except when someone is already holding the potato.

Thats why I put kills back in, so you could kill someone, grab the potato, and then pass it off and score.

Even though you increase your "score" with normal kills, the score that you see on the HUD in the upper left hand corner does not reflect that score. The score that it shows is how many points you have based on passing the potato and then having it kill someone.

Also, the end of game is based on that as well. So the game ends when someone earns 3 kills with the potato. The person with 3 points would be the winner, and the number of kills is ignored.

So yeah, it was funny initially especially with bots. Before I put the kills back in. When someone picked up the potato, the bots would scatter like roaches. Then they would all flock to where the potato had been dropped or respawned.

Has anyone else actually played this?

[legacy-CowInSpace]

How do I get into first person? 3rd person view is crap as the camera is always getting stuck in/on something.

[legacy-cknight52]

Uhm...

heh sorry, thats hard coded. I guess I was being selfish, I like that view.

[legacy-Varsity]

It would be nice if you could make an actual potato instead of a renamed ball and launcher. :)

[legacy-DD_133]

nice mod. I like it. Not alot but it's kinda fun. :D

[legacy-Revpolar]

LMAO
It would be nice if you could make an actual potato instead of a renamed ball and launcher. I agree and think it would be awesome if you turned into Mrpotatohead while you had the potato.

[legacy-kizza]

That's a cool idea.

Alternativly the third person view could just be you holding a potato, the advantage of that is that it's hard to see who actually has it.

Furthermore you could have potato guns (the ones you pack with potato obviously) to shoot people with.

[legacy-EZ-TARGET]

ha
sounds like fun I'm going to hceck this one out!

[legacy-cknight52]

Ahh I LIKE the Mr Potatohead thing... I may work on that although Im no modeler so theres that...

But I will look around, maybe someone has done it before.

Yeah the reason I kept the ball launcher was because it already had the functionality I needed so I figured why bother... I thought about changing the potato to a potato, and probably will sometime in the future, but I had other things to do (like Chosen gametype and the Switch mutator... check em out!).

Im glad you guys think its fun though!

[legacy-darcAssassin]

I don't think you should be able to kill each other with regular weapons. However I also think that there should be ......:o multiple:o .........potatoes :D :up:

[unrealloco]

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