zCatch

zCatch est un mod de Teeworlds dans lequel les joueurs doivent attraper tous les autres joueurs pour gagner. Il est basé sur les règles du mod "Balle Zombie" (Zombieball). La version actuelle est développée par jxsl13, tandis que l'original est dévelopé par erd depuis le 6 Janvier 2010.

Comment jouer ?

zCatch est basé sur un jeu de balle Germanique joué lors de cours de sport à l'école, appelé "Zombieball". . Dans une partie de zCatch, les joueurs s'affrontent avec le but de capturer tous les autres joueurs. Vous attrapez un joueur en le touchant avec votre arme. Quand un joueur se retrouve capturé, il doit regarder ton assassin tant que celui-ci reste vivant. S'il se retrouve capturé à son tour par quelqu'un d'autre, tous les joueurs qu'il avait auparavent attrapé se voir libérés et réapparaissent. Le jeu s'arrête lorsqu'un joueur a attrapé tous les autres joueurs.

Vous pouvez relâcher les joueurs capturés en pressant la touche de votre clavier permettant en temps normal de vous suicider. Cela va relâcher le dernier joueur attrapé, et va vous envoyer un message dans le chat, indiquant son pseudo et le nombre de joueurs restants.

Il existe deux types de zCatch:

• zCatch avec un laser
• zCatch Grenade avec un lance-grenade. À l'inverse du jeu initial, les grenades n'infligent pas de dégats au joueur qui les ont lancées, ce qui permet de constament gagner de la vitesse.

Only zCatch Laser and zCatch Grenade were played seriously. Other variants were mostly unbalanced and played for fun than for the competitive aspect of it.

Chronologie

• 06/01/2010 : zCatch pour la version 0.5 est publié par erd sur la base des règles du Zombieball
• 05/06/2011 : zCatch basé sur la version 0.6 est publié par TY <3

Terminologie commune

• rls : release. Le joueur vous demande de le libérer.
• rls? ou rls game? : Le joueur demande s'il doit libérer les joueurs qu'il attrape.

History

The first implementation of zCatch which was created by erd (nowadays occasionally seen under the nickname erdbaer) was, at least remotely, inspired by the first fng mod which was closed source and whose servers were called "Blumentopf FNG" which erd attempted to clone but seemingly arrived at zCatch.

Since Teeworlds 0.5 and at least half of the Teeworlds 0.6 era were focused on the instagib laser rifle variant of zCatch, where your primary weapon is a laser rifle which instantly kills, hence catches, your opponents.

After a long period of people playing the 0.6 zCatch of TT <3 (Teetime), and no real continuation of the mod's development, especially the grenade version of it, Teelevision forked Teetime's GitHub source tree and continued development.

zCatch transitioned from primarily being laser focused to primarily being grenade focused around that time, when Teelevision took over.

Since the dawn of zCatch, the minimal number of needed players in order to be able to win a round was 5. At some point in the grenade launcher era, Savander forked Teelevision's zCatch and introduced a basic ranking system while also increasing the number of people required to win a round to 10 and reversing the color transitions to be from red to blue (0 players caught to 15 players caught). This shifted popularity towards the DDNet zCatch servers. Afterwards Teelevision also introduced a ranking system while keeping the number of required players to win a round at 5.

DDNet and Teelevision continued to host zCatch servers of both variants (laser and grenade) until the official end of Teeworlds 0.6. During that time most players were playing on DDNet's zCatch.

Towards the end of Teeworlds 0.6 the number of players on zCatch dwindled, leading to the number of those previously introduced 10 required players to end a round to be met less and less while the normal zCatch mechanics, where you catch players and those players join the spectators until the player who caught them dies, still persisted. In terms of gameplay, while not being able to end a round, it was usually pointless to catch and keep players caught, thus the term "release game" was born. It is basically gDM without the possibility to win the game where caught players are manually released by the player who caught them. It was a fair form of a warm up where everyone could continue playing the game until enough players joined the server to actually play and win a round of zCatch. Usually after 10 players joined, the game transitioned to the normal zCatch mechanics where everyone stopped releasing everyone else they caught and started playing the game. Players were still released in case of (unwanted) random kills (term: spray) or spawning players in order to improve fair play. At some point, primarily new players introduced to the mod, started to demand "release game" (short: rls game) to be played even after the required 10 players were on the server to play a proper round of zCatch, basically undermining the whole principle of the mod.

After the release of 0.7 a lot of people still continued to play zCatch on Teeworlds 0.6. That changed when TeeSlayer released a port for Teeworlds 0.7 with most basic mechanics needed for zCatch, no ranking, just the raw gameplay mechanics. Players then slowly transitioned, tho not completely, to Teeworlds 0.7.

That is when jxsl13 started to implement zCatch from scratch for 0.7 trying to tackle a lot of the shortcomings of the Teeworlds 0.6 versions and adding all of the missing features that TeeSlayer's version was missing. The resulting zCatch version is the one that is played to this day.

Liens externes

• github du zCatch de DDNet (Teeworlds 0.6)