land mines
Posted: Mon 12 Sep , 2011 1:45 am
did you guys remove the land mines, because they were my favorite weapon. also there is the silly mini shot gun inn the grenade selection so i hope you can fix it. 
Land mines were removed. FP9 Laser Trip Mines and the M46 beeping mines have been left in the game.
Reason for removing land mines is that it's too easy to get kills in a game as fast as UT is. M46 mines beep and have a delay, FP9s have a visible tripwire and detonate only at the source of the laser. By comparison, BX5 mines are silent and detonate instantly, so it's very easy and cheap to deal damage with them by hiding them behind frozen players or placing them in blind spots behind walls and around corners. It's not the kind of gameplay I wanted to see here.
The BX5s were only added to the server in the first place to see if I could balance them. Given the amount of mine spam we've been seeing, it's clear that no matter how the values are adjusted, only a dramatic rework can provide the mine with a place in the game. BX5s was intended as an anti-vehicle weapon anyway, so I'm not too fussed.
The shotgun will be removed from its category.