What made CTF so fun?

[Frenzy]

Quake 3 did have a hook. It was like a lightning bolt that shot out, and it was FAST.

[Scribble[SFD]]

Q2 had a nice hook, it was mainly dependant on what the server admin set it to. For example, trinicom's hook was slow,very slow

Unreal Tourney had the teleporter, which was their own version of the hook.

Q2 grapple wasn't that bad, I guess, but it also wasn't QW CTF grapple!

BTW, I never get tired of seeing your avatar pic, always loved that pic.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

Q2 had a nice hook, it was mainly dependant on what the server admin set it to. For example, trinicom's hook was slow,very slow

Unreal Tourney had the teleporter, which was their own version of the hook.

[Cobalt]

Interesting comments. As one who will only play classic CTF with original quake on ID maps only, I think the Hook is really what made it superb. With the hook you can get to items that were made to be jumped to in the sp mode more easily. You can also get to parts of the map that you would never see in SP mode, and you can hide there with the flg, and as a server admin, you can even put items in these unknown areas and make your server even more interesting.

I do think the hook can be abused though....made too fast the game becomes all about how to use the hook and speed captures. Some of the physics associated with the hook are a bit out of wack , as you pointed out. Hoisting your weight up and down a rope for even a couple of minutes would make you so tired, you would have to rest a while just to get moving again, and the game completely ignores things like this. So in that respect thats where it goes a bit overboard, and who knows, maybe its why people decided to write cheats....go an inch, go a mile.

[foq]

Well... I don't really like the hook. The RQ hook is fine and I can get along with it but the CTF hook is way too slow and sluggish. Add that togeather with no weapons stay and I have disaster.

[R00k]

I think your right to mention the hook as a focal point. Besides the gameplay as a whole, the best part of the mod is the hook. It's like playing Jedi Knight with out a light saber. All the other ctf mods pale in comparison. I think probably the second element that made it fun were the 4 runes and 3 powerups. Yet if you could hook and aim, playing a pure game of no bonus items 3on3 was the beast!