I go back and forth on points and powerful weapons in CTF. Having played it for a few days, I have to say that I, as a level 136, currently like having points count and powerful weapons available for looting. Players can use points to max out speed, then concentrate on health (so they can survive longer barrages), or Handgun Mastery, so their Glock does more damage, or on a hunting rifle... It becomes, as Aprone said it would, part of the strategy. As to the AK or Vulcan, it's no fun when the other guys have them, but when your team does, it's awesome. You then have to figure out a way of taking out the guy with the vulcan so he loses it, or making him use up his ammo.

The only problem with this is when matches are uneven. Perhaps a system could be put in place that alerts you if most of the players in the mission you want to join are x levels higher. That way, a level 50 doesn't get thrown in with five people level 400 or above.

Hi.
I haven't seen any bugs regarding to the chat. Sounds like the connection is dropping out when this happens. To check the connection, you can press shift and slash to see who's online. This command checks the connection to the server. If nothing happens when pressing shift slash, then the connection might be lost.

aprone, more bugs:

You can get over 50 bloodies when resetting with bloodies and if you put points back in health.

Rader voices won't be quiet when you get close to them even if you move away. it's as if they play at your coordinates no matter what.

These are bugs people have stated. I can say that the rader bug is true on map5, but I'm not sure of the bloody clothes bug.

About ctf missions. The way I see it, people shouldn't have more than 200 hp. the reason why I say 200 is because it can give you a chance to survive an ACR with points in it. I hate having to deal with a guy with a vulkin. One shot death, but know that there are ways to counter that. you can try  going in the building with a flamethrower and hold the trigger down while you move across. or, you could try hurling a grenade inside the building where the dude with the vulkin is. If your lucky, you'll get him or her. If this makes sense, I believe that no weapon should be stronger than the minigun without points to prevent people from getting massacred in one shot. I'm not saying to eliminate all strong weapons, but I'm saying that some people can be killed with one shot vulkin bursts if they don't have any points in hp. One time I went up with a level 1000> and I used the thrower and he wasn't dead even after my tank had emptied. I luckily had a chainsaw to empty, or else I would have died lol. I love CTF, but it can be frustrating at times.
I'm not too sure how mainstream CTF missions work, so if this is what we're trieing to acheve I can't really help. I can live with the current setup as it is. I do not have a problem about it, but some people may think it's unfair to play against what scemes to be impossibal odds. sorry aprone if I'm double posting bugs.

Aprone's website has been having issues recently. try one of the other links from sendspace pro, or use a smart download manager that can remember across connection interrupts. try using this:
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Hi Aprone, any plans on allowing PVP in cmm missions? That would allow us to practice pvp and things like that

I have nothing against heavy weapons in that mode.  What I am against is pooring more shots into a player then I do a zombie with a volcan, and them not dying,  while I go down to their mp5 fire quickly and the other player not healing.  It's hard to take down the volcan guy when he can flatten you in a few hits, while usin gthe same weapon does nothing to them. 

   I find the lms and defender stuff a lot more enjoyable as either one is working together on that, or missions, or are even as you don't see lv 600 players pooring all their point sinto axe and hp to last obscenely long.  If everyone were set to lv 1 with certain exceptions (maybe lv 20 for at least 20 speed), people wouldn't end up in situations where you partners keep killing the other team in a few hits, making the thing boring, or the other team not getting annoyed the entire match as nothing hurts the ones firing.

A couple other thoughts on CTF.

First, what if the server sorted players so that, as much as possible, the teams would end up with the same number of players in the same level ranges? That way you wouldn't have one team with all level 50 players, and the other team with all level 500 players. Each would have some of both so that, while individual players might be outmatched, the overall teams wouldn't be.

A couple suggestions I keep forgetting to post. First, can fellow teammates have an audio tag on them, similar to the heartbeat sound in Tide? This way we don't keep shooting at our own teammates, and we know if that guy standing silently over there is a friend or not. This may have negative ramifications I haven't thought of.

Second, can the chat system work so that you only chat with your team? It's hard to plan strategies when the enemy can hear you. Perhaps a /all or /wa (whisper all) command could be added to let you talk to everyone if you wanted to, but by default, chat messages should only go to your team.

How do you turn with the trackpad?

nice one black magic girl.  smile. i think, what we must do is ask aprone the questions. 1. explain in mor detail. how is the CTF missions in normal sighted games. level whise. meening, u do not see them having a issue with level skills. why is this?
2. how do they cope with finding items or keeping themselves alive.
3. cant any of those be ported in to swamp?
4. if there's no level system. and every ones on the same level. how do they find items to keep them alive, and? yet again? cant this be ported in to swamp.
i think what we need is a better understanding of how these things works in that game in orddr to understand, how to do things in swamp. the most simple selution is what some one suggested else ware. in the  last few posts. every ones level one. but u can find speed boosters. health boosters. randum weapons. and more. to aid you and keep u alive. this wil even out the playing field and it wil then come down to strategy to see who wins.
now, on a slightly different note.
i hurd that some one or some people was talking about the to high missions rewards in normal missions. i must point out that. i am quick to defend lower level players. since i no how they feel at times.
but i feel. that if u gonna make a 200 crate mission. with the most agressive zombie settings,
and u get tuns of xp. and rep.
this is valid. for on my high level i only get a few  levels out of them 1.8 mil xp is not that much all things considered.
and? if lower levels feels they want to try this mish, or missions.
they should not complain if they get tuns of xp. i feel that this high reward system is a perfect balance now. because in time the server wil even out the rewards baced on the maps played. and? also. even if the rewards is stil high. battling for over 2 hours to finish a mission. is deserving of that high rewards. :d
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Hi everyone

As for pvp in LMS, if you read either the changelog, or the readme, you will find that this has been implemented. <smile> I really cannot stress enough that documentation is available for a reason ...

As for CTF, it is rather annoying to be flattened by an mg when you don't even see the shots coming etc, so a bit of balance wouldn't hurt in these matters.