Onslaught question

[Guest]

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I have just upgraded from UT2K3 and have been playing the fantastic
Onslaught a lot. I have a quesiton though.

When its a draw then the time runs out, it says "Power Cores are Draining".
What does this actually mean?

I just came out of a game when it said that, so I rushed over to the enemy
power core with rocket launcher and QD but its shields were still up. But
later on my team lost because our core got destroyed.

Whats going on?

 

[Grant]

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"xrrr" <spam_is_a_pain_in_the_@rse.com> wrote in message
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> I have just upgraded from UT2K3 and have been playing the fantastic
> Onslaught a lot. I have a quesiton though.
>
> When its a draw then the time runs out, it says "Power Cores are Draining".
> What does this actually mean?
>
> I just came out of a game when it said that, so I rushed over to the enemy
> power core with rocket launcher and QD but its shields were still up. But
> later on my team lost because our core got destroyed.
>
> Whats going on?
>
>

If you win before time runs out, you get 2 points (usually you need 4 to win the
match). After the timer runs out, you get 1 point for winning.

After the timer runs out, the cores start losing power. Take a look at the
display at the top next time and you can see them dropping. The more nodes your
team controls, and the healthier they are, the slower your power core drops. In
a map where both teams are fighting over a middle chokepoint node, this means
whoever can control that node the longest will win.

 

[Guest]

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xrrr wrote:
> When its a draw then the time runs out, it says "Power Cores are
> Draining". What does this actually mean?

It means the health of your power-cores are slowly dropping (if you look at
the percentages at the top of the screen you'll see it). The more power
nodes your team controls, the slower your core's health will fall.

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(O) e n o n e

 

[Guest]

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> If you win before time runs out, you get 2 points (usually you need 4 to
win the
> match). After the timer runs out, you get 1 point for winning.

Really?
Isn't that that you always get one point to win the match(an usually it's 1
or 3)?
At least I've never seen any team getting more than one point for winning...
Is it a setting in the game?

 

[Grant]

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"Profil1" <jay@neostrada.pl> wrote in message
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> > If you win before time runs out, you get 2 points (usually you need 4 to
> win the
> > match). After the timer runs out, you get 1 point for winning.
>
> Really?
> Isn't that that you always get one point to win the match(an usually it's 1
> or 3)?
> At least I've never seen any team getting more than one point for winning...
> Is it a setting in the game?
>
>

A match usually goes up to four points, that is configurable on the server.

Winning each individual round will earn a team 2 or 1 points depending on
whether it is before or after the time runs out. AFAIK, that is not
configurable, unless there is a mutator somewhere that does it.

 

[JC]

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When the time is up, both team cores will start to loose power, the team
with the less aquired nodes will see their core loose power faster untill
one of them reaches zero and explodes.
This is to prevent game from going on forever.

HellSpaw

"xrrr" <spam_is_a_pain_in_the_@rse.com> wrote in message
news:FCJTc.133$Bk.33@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net...
>I have just upgraded from UT2K3 and have been playing the fantastic
> Onslaught a lot. I have a quesiton though.
>
> When its a draw then the time runs out, it says "Power Cores are
> Draining".
> What does this actually mean?
>
> I just came out of a game when it said that, so I rushed over to the enemy
> power core with rocket launcher and QD but its shields were still up. But
> later on my team lost because our core got destroyed.
>
> Whats going on?
>
>