Switch Firing
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Unlike in normal Quake, impulses work even when you are attacking.
For most people, the most important thing this will affect is that
you can use your rune even while attacking. Eg, if you shoot a
rocket and then activate the shield rune, the shield will come up
immediately rather than waiting until the rocket animation finishes.

Additionally, if you're using a complex binding scheme to do client
side switch firing, it will generally work better because the only
time an impulse command is lost is when two are sent in the same
game tick. Use the "wait" command to make sure the impulses each
arrive in a different tick.

There's a server side switch firing system in place to allow easier
and more robust quick-rocket and quick-grenade and the like bindings.
Eg:

bind s +sattack7 // quick rocket
bind d +sattack6 // quick grenade

You can use +sattack1 (axe) through +sattack8 (lightning gun) for the
normal weapons, and +sattack9 (grappling hook) through sattack16 (BFG)
for the alternate weapons. You can also bind to +sattack-best to
have it choose your best safe close-combat weapon (as the best-weapon
command would choose).

The idea for server side switch firing came from Expert Quake. Part
of what they were trying to solve is mostly fixed by my other impulse
command change, but I implemented the switch firing anyway because
dropped impulses are still a problem.

The way I currently use this is my main attack binding uses
+sattack-best, and I also use separate keys for firing rockets and
grenades (and slightly harder to reach bindings for firing bombs,
the BFG, flash grenades and mortars). Using +sattack-best rather
than +attack means I'm never in danger of zapping myself under
water. This isn't perfect, though, because there's no way to
override the game's idea of what weapon is best (other than via the
weapon-mode hints), so it's inconvenient to stop using the flaming
guns while berserk, eg. I hope to make this more configurable in
the future.

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BIND SHIFT +SATTACK6

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But my +sattack6 is a little different ...

I've never used any of these special commands in my game, and I always use the axe hook (press 1 twice) and I get along just fine

Someone can help me here though.. I used to have an alias set up for when I join RuneQuake servers

alias "impulse 22" "impulse 1;wait;impulse 1;"

to mimic the axe hook command from ctf servers. The problem is when used it doesn't always work properly. Sometimes it would only change to axe and not to the hook. Any ideas on how to create this alias to make sure it always works? I stopped using it because I'd be in the middle of a fight and instead of the hook coming up the axe would come up

You have to use the whole thing. If you don't have the -sattack6 alias in your config, your player will never stop firing.

Thanks Baker. I'll give this another try.

Thanks Baker. This worked.

We should set up another TU - SNS match sometime soon.

Glad it worked for you.



I agree. It is sort of unfortunate that the discussion of "what mod to play next" came up.

The reason is that people underestimate how incredibly difficult it is to get these things setup to begin with. The SNS vs. TU match was something that was talked about for nearly 5 months before it actually happened.