Something's wrong: I won the match but didn't get credit

This is actually kind of odd all around. After the team deathmatch
qualifying rounds, the game goes to Double Domination. You win two
matches and Capture the Flag opens. I like CTF, so would prefer to
save those matches for as late as possible. And I despise DubDom, so
would prefer to get it out of the way.

I replaced my entire team in DubDom, they played so bad. You could
argue it's my leadership skills, but there should be some tutoring on
what everything means. Speaking of the tutorials, I prefered the UT99
style of tutorial: Actually getting to play the game, rather than
watch a video of someone playing.

And this version of the orders menu sucks. I guess I'll have to get a
mic and use voice orders if I play a lot of matches against bots.

Anyway, everytime I won a match, the game would return to the CTF
ladder. So I finished the DubDom ladder, then played two CTF matches,
and the game openned Bombing Run. Still wanted to save CTF, so played
two BR matches, even though the game continued to return to the CTF
ladder.

I don't understand this: Why does the game return to the CTF ladder,
no matter what? With DD (1st) and CTF (2nd) available, it returns to
CTF; with DD finished, and CTF (1st) and BR (2nd) available, it
returns to CTF.

Okay, now Assault is open. Bombing Run is kind of reverse one-flag
CTF, but you're weaponless if you have the bomb. (Damn bots keep
throwing me the bomb.) So it's now my second favorite game type. So
I want to save it until after Assault.

I like Assault, but, even on average, their bots seem to play just a
little better than mine. Apparently, you've got to complete these
four ladders before unlocking Onslaught.

So I played the first Assault match, and found myself surrounded by
aliens, both on my team and theirs. And when I won the match, I won
nothing, but still had to play my alien teammates. And to top it all
off, I didn't get credit on the ladder for the match: There's still
only the first map showing.

Anybody know what's wrong? I do have quite a few mods added already.
I wonder if some random code somewhere screwed something up. I also
added extra path= lines in the ini. I hate having third party files
in with the standard content, although I can't do anything about the
system folder, since there's no path=*.int lines. And I'm concerned
about the new music path line.

On the positive side, I actually won a game of Assassin. In the UT99
version, a bot would win before I could even find a single target.
Assassin, by the way, is a mod where everyone is an assassin with an
assigned target. While you're hunting your target, you're being
hunted. The bots knew exactly where their targets were, but I had to
roam randomly until I bumped into target.

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:06:47 -0700, Todd <noone.TakeThisOut@nowhere.com> wrote:

>And this version of the orders menu sucks. I guess I'll have to get a
>mic and use voice orders if I play a lot of matches against bots.

I've heard this a lot, and you're right. UT99's implementation was
much better if you don't like talking to bots.

Can't help you much with the other stuff. A lot of folks skipped the
single player campaign altogether (playing online is where it's at).
Others, like myself, burned through it years ago and haven't touched
it since. My guess though is that you need to play through the thing
in the order it's layed out. It's a bit of an anti-climax anyway...
you would probably be better off simply playing the offline versions
of the games you like and not even bothering with the ladder. I *do*
recall when the game first came out that a lot of people discovered
bugs. The main thing winning the tournament is *supposed* to do is to
unlock a couple of different character models, but even *that* was
broken. Most people just modified their .ini files to get the
additional player models.