Hank wrote:Adding to this, he only talks and posts about unrealteam.de servers.
I know these servers, they only have bots (fake players) most of the time, if not all the time by now, and have had only bots most of the time for several years already as far as I can remember.
Plus, for a while these fake bots evolved to sound and look more like players, and randomly saying some patterned words in the chat, answering, displaying fake pings and countries, but any experienced player or developer can easily discern them out.
The server(s) in question hosted by Unrealteam
http://www.gametracker.com/search/ut/?query=%5BUT%5D do NOT and never have used a fake client mod. Their servers are usually populated with a mixture of new players and some very skilled players.
Hmmm... I just went to check it out to see if that was really true, and you're absolutely right, they do not use fake players, right now at least.
They do use bots though, and depending on the server, they have their own custom names and everything, but they are correctly assigned as such with a ping of 0.
I apologize for stating that unrealteam.de uses fake players, after checking again that's clearly not the case.
It's been a looong time since I last stopped by over there.
Having that said, I am not 100% sure however if what you're saying is true about "ever", as things certainly changed even when it comes to the HUD and other mods they use now for the same kind of servers from back then (such as Funnel for example), but on the other hand I might have indeed wrongfully associated them with other servers in my head which used fake players, as I do distinctly remember of stopping playing on these specifically about 3~4 years ago due to the bots once the servers got quite inactive, something which I saw happening today as well there.
@TammT: OK, so at least some of the players you have been playing with are indeed "real".
SubZero for instance is one of them, I played today against himself in Funnel, and had no issues, he certainly ate some Redeemers from me, no big deal.
From there, the way you described them, and the video you posted back then, they sounded, acted and moved like bots.
In light of what Hank pointed out and I confirmed, I might indeed be wrong about you playing against bots alone, but damn, then these players are actually really rather "weak"?
I mean, I am just an average player, and I am perfectly capable of wiping the floor with any of those you have shown in that video, they're actually quite slow, so maybe, you're just a bad player (that whole rabbit jumping doesn't actually help, dodging does).
Regardless, I do apologize to you for being hellbent on the bots stuff in the specific case of unrealteam.de, I probably confused it with some other set of servers from back in the day, so it seems that it wasn't the case at all here.
But, know that bots acting as players is a thing, and the whole point is for them to fool other players (like you).
I can point out to the very server I mentioned before doing exactly this, if it still exists (it did at least a few months ago).
I was actually impressed with the little details they added.
Other than that, everything else still stands. And if you want to leave, then leave, the community does not really need folks with such an attitude like yours.
But if one day you look back and understand how much of a prick you have been with everyone since the start, and repent, feel free to come back.