What makes TTR TTR?

[Smithcraft]

Hmmm. Feature requests should be in a different thread from the what makes TTR TTR thread. But that\'s just me.

Anyway, this something I wondered about when I was trying to deal with RO. Why did RO seem more like work than fun? Why was I just not impressed by RO(and UT2k4 in general), while TTR blew my socks off? I mean, they pretty much have the same main coder, so what\'s the deal?

One of the things that I liked about TTR was the combination of objectives in the maps. Not just CTF, not just Domination, not just TDM, but all of them! I still think that my favorite map is Market Garden. While the objective is a little backwards, there is some CTF/Dom, plenty of TDM, and something extra special: Blowing up something really big(which is even better when that bastard sniper is up on the pylon)! Same could be said for Navarone, and Das Boot. But then again, I was always an Assault kinda guy.

I liked that most of the maps were big enough where you could flank around, and try to get the upper hand. Unless YG had the STG of course. I guess that would be why I also didn\'t like HimmelsFahrt.

I loved that Brindisi was so unbalanced! It was almost like it was real.

As a matter of fact, I would imagine that Merderet, is the big scale version of Brindisi. Heck it has the river and everything!

So, the good maps with the great realism(no freaking crosshairs!) of TTR just made it a winner. I think it would be hard to quantify why we liked it, really. TTR just had \'it.\'

SC