It’s been an awful long time since the attempted Summer Season, which got cancelled quite quickly, but now we’re back from the summer lapse and getting the Sunday action back up and running!
The Fall ‘08 season (hopefully) starts Sunday week, that’s the 5th October, at 5pm EDT/2pm PDT/10pm BST/11pm CEST (Please check here for your local time). It’s two hours earlier than it was before, but it makes it easier on those in Europe, and those who have to be somewhere on Monday mornings!
With the new season, comes a few changes in the ruleset. The biggest change is the new scoring system, designed to reduce the large difference between winning and the bottom-end positions. Also, custom maps can now appear in the custom game segment. Finally, there is a change in what gametypes fall under the Slayer/Objective/Custom categories:
- Slayer is a default Free for All game. The only changes can be to starting weapons and weapons on map, and can only be changed to normal usage weapons or default/matchmaking settings. This means that e.g. Snipers would count as a Slayer game, but e.g. Laser Tag falls under Custom.
- Objective is a default game where the focus is not on killing all other players. This includes King of the Hill, Oddball, and very rarely, Juggernaut. Again weapon changes are limited to normal usage weapons or default/matchmaking settings. e.g. Rocketball would count as Objective, but KotH Hammers would fall under Custom.
- Custom is all other gametypes that don’t fall under the above two descriptions, and includes all gametypes that require custom maps. The Custom game is slightly more weighted towards a Slayer-based gametype, and will not be of the same base gametype as the Objective game - e.g. if the Objective game is Oddball, than the Custom game cannot be any Oddball gametype.
With that in mind, the first week’s map is Foundry, and the gametypes are:
- Slayer: Slayer BRs
- Objective: Shotty Snipers KotH
- Custom: CHAOS! (custom map and gametype combo)
The gametype and map will be put in my own File Share later tonight, and the links will then be added. As always, either post here, send an FR to RPWS Members or just turn up if you want to play!
