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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: xaber1488 on November 20, 2008, 06:07:35 pm

Title: Single player
Post by: xaber1488 on November 20, 2008, 06:07:35 pm
Hi there! I have a simple (I think) question: how can I play in single player mode? Note that I am a totally new to linux (I have Ubuntu 8.10)!!
Thanks in advance!
Title: Re: Single player
Post by: David on November 20, 2008, 06:14:47 pm
There aren't any bots or whatever, so no single player.
You have to play online.
Title: Re: Single player
Post by: BigGamer95 on November 21, 2008, 02:49:47 am
i know 2 mods that you can use to play alone on local server (or on their server, for play with other player)

ambush : http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=8864.0 (http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=8864.0)
invasion : http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=9058.0 (http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=9058.0)

run a local server with one of these mod and have fun alone :p (if you don't want to run a local server, go on their server when it's empty)
Title: Re: Single player
Post by: David on November 21, 2008, 08:03:01 am
Such a wonderful single player experience there.
That's one way to make people think trem is shit.
Title: Re: Single player
Post by: Archangel on November 21, 2008, 01:42:55 pm
You're quite the asshole, aren't you?
Title: Re: Single player
Post by: David on November 21, 2008, 03:24:37 pm
He asked for single player *tremulous*.  Not shooting hordes of stupid monsters.  Two very different things.
Title: Re: Single player
Post by: BigGamer95 on November 21, 2008, 04:08:40 pm
david, invasion is not "shooting hordes of stupids monsters"
it's a rush mod, solo or with other player, and survivor mod. kill a bot is easy, ok, but rush the base without dying is realy not reasy.
if you think it's so easy, try with 12 aliens, on the layout invasion-xtrem1 on atcs :p
(it's also an add-on for tremulous server)

he asked for single player, it's 2 single player mod (and multiplayer mod too)

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That's one way to make people think trem is shit.
like i said, it's 2 MODS, so he will maybe think these mods are shit if he don't like them, but no trem is shit :)

edit : if you want train, the Wrath Newbie Training Server can help you i think ^^
Title: Re: Single player
Post by: Taiyo.uk on November 21, 2008, 05:20:30 pm
To be absolutely clear: Tremulous does NOT have a single player mode.

The main reason for this is that the unique abilities of each alien class, and the real-time strategy elements of the game make programming bots a very difficault challenge. There have been attempts to create bots such as those in the mods that BigGamer95 posted, but none of these can simulate a real multiplayer Tremulous game.
Title: Re: Single player
Post by: mooseberry on November 22, 2008, 12:15:12 am
david, invasion is not "shooting hordes of stupids monsters"
it's a rush mod, solo or with other player, and survivor mod. kill a bot is easy, ok, but rush the base without dying is realy not reasy.


Umm.. just to let you know, "shooting hordes of stupids monsters" is indeed an accurate discription. David never said it was easy just that you shoot (true, unless you have psaw) hordes (true, there are lots) of stupid (true, all trembots are stupid, thats a fact) monsters (true, aliens are monsters.)
Title: Re: Single player
Post by: Darth Futuza on December 02, 2008, 05:36:44 am
Its to bad we couldn't just implement npc scripting for each seperate type of possible set up and then have (for the aliens) randomly evolve into one of the set ups of that stage once they reach 5 evos.  But ah, were to lazy to implement scripting.
Title: Re: Single player
Post by: Kaleo on December 02, 2008, 07:39:18 am
Its to bad we couldn't just implement npc scripting for each seperate type of possible set up and then have (for the aliens) randomly evolve into one of the set ups of that stage once they reach 5 evos.  But ah, were to lazy to implement scripting.

Correction, you're too lazy to implement scripting. I would, but I simply don't have the know-how.
Title: Re: Single player
Post by: Lakitu7 on December 02, 2008, 08:06:05 am
Correction, you're too lazy to implement scripting. I would, but I simply don't have the know-how.

Nor does anyone, considering the state of the art of AI as a whole isn't really very capable of doing this well enough to be worth the time involved.
Title: Re: Single player
Post by: Amanieu on December 02, 2008, 08:19:07 am
Nor does anyone, considering the state of the art of AI as a whole isn't really very capable of doing this well enough to be worth the time involved.
Ender and Champion are going to work on the Tremfusion bots and make them smarter. Then, single player maps could be made using Tremfusion script support, for example by creating new map entities which do cool stuff.
Title: Re: Single player
Post by: Lakitu7 on December 02, 2008, 08:41:08 am
Highly scripted single player maps with gameplay that's very different from a multiplayer game of Tremulous is obviously possible. Anything that resembles the gameplay of regular multiplayer Tremulous, but with bots, is not currently possible to a level beyond "target practice."
Title: Re: Single player
Post by: Amanieu on December 02, 2008, 08:55:15 am
Well our bots are currently smart enough to rush the enemy base and kill the eggs/nodes, so they are already quite a bit more challenging than trembot.
Title: Re: Single player
Post by: Annihilation on December 02, 2008, 12:35:39 pm
Well our bots are currently smart enough to rush the enemy base and kill the eggs/nodes, so they are already quite a bit more challenging than trembot the average player.

Fixed
Title: Re: Single player
Post by: Colynn' on December 06, 2008, 06:07:54 pm
Hi.
Well our bots are currently smart enough to rush the enemy base and kill the eggs/nodes, so they are already quite a bit more challenging than trembot the average player.

Fixed
Omg, nice one.
Title: Re: Single player
Post by: Archangel on December 06, 2008, 06:14:15 pm
The truth.
Title: Re: Single player
Post by: cactusfrog on December 08, 2008, 05:04:49 am
Hi.
Well our bots are currently smart enough to rush the enemy base and kill the eggs/nodes, so they are already quite a bit more challenging than trembot the average player.

Fixed
Omg, nice one.
where can i download this?
Title: Re: Single player
Post by: Amanieu on December 08, 2008, 05:18:46 am
It's not released yet, but Ender is setting up a Tremfusion bot server. You can check out the code here:
http://www.tremfusion.net/hg/tremfusion/rev/bots