Duel Weapons?

[Nambi]

It would be pretty dang awesome to have two plasma guns.

[Neon_Knight]

That's an idea for a mod rather than for the main game IMHO.

EDIT: In fact, IMHO all the gameplay change ideas (weapon damage changing, rule changing, etc) should be turned onto mods instead of being in the main game.

[fromhell]

There's an old Q3 mod called Akimbo that lets you do that. You can try how that goes ingame and tell me how much novelty is worn out.

[Marble of Doom]

Just tried Akimbo, just froze OA. The error log was 2.5mbs and 16,441 lines of "RE_RegisterFont: FreeType code not available."

[Gig]

I have tried Akimbo (simple but good mod, everyone should try it) on two PCs. Both of them have Windows XP and OpenArena 0.8.5.
In the first, I copied the Akimbo subfolder from my Quake 3 Arena directory to the OpenArena folder. The mod worked perfectly. I have to check the version of the mod. --> UPDATE: I had Akimbo Version 1.2.

In the second, I downloaded the mod from the internet (here), and unzipped it to the folder of OpenArena. But when starting the mod, the screen turns brown-orange! It does not work at all. "Readme" file says Akimbo is version 1.0.

Strange thing... on one computer okay, on the other one, nothing to to...

Some lines taken from OA's stderr.txt file:

IP: 192.168.192.100
Opening IP socket: 0.0.0.0:27960
5 mods parsed
RE_Shutdown( 1 )
----- FS_Startup -----
Current search path:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Dati applicazioni\OpenArena/akimbo
C:\Programmi\openarena\akimbo\vm.pk3 (4 files)
C:\Programmi\openarena/akimbo
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Dati applicazioni\OpenArena/baseoa
C:\Programmi\openarena\baseoa\pak6-patch085.pk3 (559 files)
[...]
4726 files in pk3 files
g_spSkill will be changed upon restarting.
r_stencilbits will be changed upon restarting.
r_picmip will be changed upon restarting.
cl_voip will be changed upon restarting.
execing default.cfg
execing q3config.cfg
net_enabled is read only.
execing q3config.cfg
net_enabled is read only.
couldn't exec autoexec.cfg
[...]
GL_RENDERER: Intel Bear Lake B
Initializing OpenGL extensions
...ignoring GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc
...GL_S3_s3tc not found
...using GL_EXT_texture_env_add
...using GL_ARB_multitexture
...using GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array
...ignoring GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic
[...]
----- finished R_Init -----
Loading vm file vm/ui.qvm...
VM file ui compiled to 586315 bytes of code
ui loaded in 1364416 bytes on the hunk
51 arenas parsed
1 arenas ignored to make count divisible by 4
24 bots parsed
^1Error: file *extern, line 1: #define without name
RE_RegisterFont: FreeType code not available
RE_RegisterFont: FreeType code not available
RE_RegisterFont: FreeType code not available
RE_RegisterFont: FreeType code not available
RE_RegisterFont: FreeType code not available
RE_RegisterFont: FreeType code not available

Any ideas?

[Gig]

Solved. It is the version of Akimbo. v1.0 does not work with OpenArena, but v1.2 works. And it is great!
You can download q3akimbo12.zip from this page (full of stuff for Q3A! Many mods, maps and models!)

[Gig]

Added DO NOT LINK[/b]) h t t p s : / / openarena . wikia . com/wiki/ModCompat/Akimbo]a page for Akimbo on the wiki site. Enjoy this mod with OpenArena!

[BlankA.]

Duel is for pussies.

Quad Rockets!

[Gig]

I think there is an error in the name of this thread. I think it should be "dual weapons", not "duel weapons"...

[fromhell]

In the second, I downloaded the mod from the internet (here), and unzipped it to the folder of OpenArena. But when starting the mod, the screen turns brown-orange! It does not work at all. "Readme" file says Akimbo is version 1.0.

This is because when Q3 had a interface and protocol change in 1.27 it broke compatbility with everything before it. You won't get any pre-1.27 mod working in OA, ever. This is by design.

Yes I wish there was actual compatibility myself.