add/message me for duels any time boys

i would also be glad to teach new players, just lemme know

I thought that during the process of streamlining gameplay, they removed the corner clipping bug because it was completely unintuitive to newer people.

As for Reflex vs. CPM, the whole point of Relfex is to attempt to do what no arena FPS has been able to do since Quake 3; become a CS/Dota/MOBA-scale modern competitive game. If you dislike that pretext and its implications(streamlined, possibly less challenging gameplay than CPMA in certain respects) then there's still CPMA, Warsow, Nexuiz, Xonotic and whatever other arena shooters there are out there for you.
I haven't been following Reborn, so I'm not sure how its gameplay differs in terms of originality of weapons, physics, etc, but why so many people want both Reflex and Reborn to succeed massively is because there just hasn't been a marketing push, and subsequently an adopting of truly high-skill twitch shooters as popular competitive games.

Now, whether player ranking, competitive match-making, easy tournaments, advanced spectator/replay features and in-game skins will achieve mass appeal or not is another story, but I'd much rather play/support Reflex, which has this potential rather than any of the existing, established arena shooters that are never going to get any bigger in terms of playerbase.

You should be able to keep a steady 125FPS at 1280x720.

i have exactly the same as you and i have never dropped below 120 and i only disabled the stupid looking graphics options (meaning it still looks nice) on 1280x720

thank you both for replying :) appreciated

i guess i'm buyin', then.
and i'll probably ragequit soon because i'm just fckn' terrible at fps games,
but the market is absolutely flooded with shit games and we gotta support the proper ones ;p

Netcode works great, multiplayer is extremely fun atm.

If you're west NA feel free to hit me up on steam for duels and whatnot, most of the playerbase is currently concentrated in East NA & Europe.

cl_gibs_maxcount 1
r_dynamic_shadows 0
r_bloom 0
r_fxaa 0
r_resolution 1280 720

And you'll easily get 125 constant.

yo so i still dont know how to find a game. are there pugs, or is the game just dead, or what? maybe im on at the wrong time?

Game is dead in that the devs don't intend for it to be played by a lot of people at the moment. Barring the big kickstarter push at the beginning, they don't plan to do much advertising/marketing till the game is ready for the masses, or else people who are expecting a polished game will buy it and create negative vibes for it.

If you want to find games, I think the official Reflex forums have a thread for it.

Been itching to play this or cpma because I'd rather not play TF2 for a pub/fun game fix but both are pretty dead for their own reasons and I'd rather play with someone who's not a complete stranger. Down to duel, CA, ctf, etc, open to anyone who's legitimately looking to teach someone ins & outs of dueling, hit me up.

Yo, I'm EU but I'd be happy to teach the basics of duelling, movement and whatnot. I get home at 1:20pm BST on weekdays. I love helping newcomers to RFX :>

Small patch released earlier today

Changelog for 0.30.3:

Replays

    Fixed issue where download UI was stuck on screen after starting replay
    Replay editor no-longer crashes
    Hacked fix for replay editor to display weapon correctly
    Note: The replay editor still need some major maintenance after the netcode changes. Use it at your own risk.

Gameplay

    Added force respawn -- after 5 seconds dead, players are automatically respawned.
    Fixed missing health pickup on CPM22
    Burst gun damaged reduced (from 18 per shot to 10)
    Reduced bias of near spawns from 5 to 2.5

Bug fixes

    Players joining TDM games now are properly connected as spectator
    Fixed bug where connecting spectators could telefrag people
    Fixed bug where connecting spectators would make a spawn sound.
    Added minimum time between jumps (to avoid mousewheel spam issues)
    Fixed several bugs under extreme conditions at connection handshaking time
    Fixed rare crash bug which occurred during gamestate download
    Gamestate download speed is now greatly improved over high ping connections

Maintenance

    New installations of reflex will now be installed to Steam/common/reflexfps to prevent stomping of RefleX.

Improvements

    Restored com_idlesleep (client only, despite name), stops CPU spinning in client, defaults to 1
    Changed internal timing method. This improved dedicated server responses. Please let us know if this effects jittering people were seeing in any way! (I don't think it's related)
    Adjusted servers to report players in format "name (steamid:ip)" to console
    Dedicated server title bar now contains useful information.
    Dedicated server CPU load should be lower

From: http://www.reflexfps.net/forums/index.php?/topic/1984-030x-new-improved-netcode/

Yep, we need fixed stair stepping now. Being able to jump twice within 30ms is the only way I've been able to bunnyhop up stairs effectively.

In VQ3 and CPMA, stair code still works even if you're in the air. The problem is that the stair code indiscriminately maps you and your momentum to the surface of the stair, requiring you to have another jump queued if you want to keep bunnyhopping.

Reflex's movement code is so incredibly faithful that I'm going to assume the stair jumping problems I've been having are from the same cause.

This is desirable behavior to basically noone, especially since the stair code doesn't apply to tall ledges. They should prevent stair climbing from mapping your momentum to the stair surface if you didn't start out in the air.

The only thing I can see it damaging is the stair jump to RA on aerowalk... Which you could still allow to be done with some workaround.

ETADPU

Newborn dropped a development timeline yesterday (2/11/2015) of what the team hopes to accomplish in the coming months and these are the two closest updates:

Newborn also tossed in a plan for 0.33.x to 0.36.x (full post in link including the two updates above) about highly general stuff that he and the team want to accomplish, and it sounds like they don't want to stray too far from the CPMA gameplay base concerning other gameplay types until they reach that 0.36.x landmark.

i wanna play this but theres never anyone in any servers :(

Someone teach me how to play this game. :<

find some duel partners

what are you having trouble with?
movement: http://www.reflexfps.net/forums/index.php?/topic/116-reflex-movement-overview-for-new-players/
mapping: http://www.reflexfps.net/forums/index.php?/topic/91-need-to-know-how-to-map-click-here-now/

If you can play QL, it's very similar in terms of skillsets
basically you want to control the items to be able to get frags

you will learn a lot about this game just by playing it, even if you get 50 to -5'd
but it's very helpful to find someone near your skill level and play them a lot

also grape is playing in a tournament next weekend
http://www.reflexfps.net/forums/index.php?/topic/2104-na-reflex-tournament-2-sign-up-here/

I've probably played less than 10 hours of QL, so I'm having trouble with everything.

I kinda know the most basic of the basics. I probably just need a duel buddy.

asdf

i wanna get better too so add me if u wanna duel

matchmaking supposed to come maybe this year pretty stoked

My initial thoughts on it, as it stands very bare bones, are good. Before I could even play the game I had to set up a config so that my refreshrate wasn't at 60, fps wasn't capped, settings were the way I wanted, etc. but it's so early in development that's expected. Like the creators' mentality though. They really want to create a fun and competitive shooter. I'll wait til I play with a friend tonight to see how the dueling is.

Sad this game died before version 1.0 :(

What are you talking about? They're not advertising the game at all due to it being Early Access, but it's fully functional. They just released netcode a month ago and I would assume are working on something else big now.

I could use a duel buddy, 1260 elo in QL duel for skill level reference.

According to what's said in this thread, this game does not see a lot of players playing it at the moment.

Considering the game is in early access to provide quids for the devs after a failed kickstarter, how long do you think they will sustain developping it? Or then, if they must keep a day job, how long will it take to be released?

Sure I never played CPMA (like 98% of video game users), but why would i even play this game instead of the free to play quake live, or play directly CPMA in quake 3?

I mean, I like the genre, it's pretty awesome that these guys built their own engine, but i'm seriously worried it won't find its public and then die cuz lack of money. Hell there isnt even new gameplay ideas to at least renew the original CPMA.

They're not advertising the game because it's not ready for new players (doesn't stop me though). Imagine if they heavily advertised it right now, and a bunch of people who've never played an arena shooter buy it, and end up getting destroyed by the current player base which seems to mostly consist of CPMA/QL veterans. They'd quit and never come back.

They're planning on releasing full in-game tutorials and matchmaking, which will ensure (in theory) that new players will play against other new players, while the game will hold their hand a bit with the tutorials.

They also recently posted what they've got lined up for future patches:
http://www.reflexfps.net/forums/index.php?/topic/2092-development-roadmap-february-2015/

It indeed looks neat. I just hope they will make it till the end :)

Performance update is live. Important bits as follows:

Server

• Re-wrote server front-end to use windows forms instead of raw console. This should actually reduce CPU loads.
  
• Fixed a bug where the servers Steam information was being updated far more often than it needed to be. This fix should also reduce CPU loads.

Client

• Reduced required DirectX version to 10.0
  
• Input is now sent to the server at 75fps (down from 125fps). This should lower the CPU load for dedicated servers with no noticable impact for players (the server only ticks at 75fps anyway so the extra data was largely wasted).
  
• Lightmap format has changed. We now store an extra colour for low end machines, instead of the expensive per-pixel lightmap information. Sorry mappers, this means you need to rebuild.
  
• Ridiculous amounts of graphics optimisations (shadows, zprime, decals, gbuffer format, shader optimisation, normal blending). Players should see significant FPS increases across all video configs.
  
• Created micro/macro texture architecture, giving us more detail, more customization and using less GPU.
  
• Added configs for different video modes. Until we've done our options menu, the easiest way to change video settings is to bring down the console, type "loadconfig vid_X" and then "saveconfig" to store the changes. Graphics presets are:
  
  1. vid_high
     
  2. vid_medium
     
  3. vid_low
     
  4. vid_hi_vis
  
  
• Added lots of cvars to scale graphics for different hardware. Generally, 2 is highest quality, 0 is lowest quality.
  
  1. r_shader_quality <0-2>
     
  2. r_texture_quality <0-2>
     
  3. r_effect_quality <0-2>
     
  4. r_shadow_quality <0-2>
     
  5. r_texture_resolution <0-2>
     
  6. r_texture_microdetails <0-1>
     
  7. r_high_vis <0-1>
  
  
• Updated lava shader to something prettier
  
• Loading bar is now orange for no reason

Known Issues:
Reports of video driver crashes and occasional freezing of client/server. Consider this a general stability warning -- huge amounts of the engine have been rewritten and we're expecting some bugs

http://i.imgur.com/pHMy5cj.jpg

125 FPS!
i5 and GTX 9800
I CAN RUN THE GAME

Yessss, it's so smooth now :o