For enhancing the game experience I've loaded few custom skins (models), which the server will "push" and which will be visible for every player on our server (if you're using some other custom skins, other players can see you as the Jacob only, if they don't have your skin downloaded too - and they mostly don't). It was here already before 2 years, but I've canceled the project because of monster download size.

To use the skins, you must download the SkinPack: http://cid-443a6952709eea4c.office.live.com/self.aspx/SkinPack/SkinPack1.zip In version 1 you'll find 9 new characters, well known Guardian and Rawsteel from UT99 and 7 SpaceMarines and ChaosMarines models from Warhammer 40.000.


















Now it's just an experiment, every player joining the server must download around 50 MB one time (if he haven't download the SkinPack separatelly) and I'm afraid that it could be quite annoying (but it isn't more than size of the ONS-TheBurbs). Let me know what do you think about this SkinPack or if you have some tips for more skins (try to search for "models", "skins" are often just new textures for default characters). You can find them on many sites, just google UT2004 skins.

http://skincity.beyondunreal.com/index.php?section=models&gameid=4
http://www.fpsbanana.com/skins/games/31
http://www.utzone.de/forum/downloads.php?do=cat&id=55
http://www.filefront.com/listing/pub2/Unreal-Tournament-2004/Skins/Skin-Packs etc.

warhamer 40.000 ... (memories)

why not.

However, the download takes 5 min for an average connection. Are u sure u want this ? It's a detail, and many players will give up the downloading just for that.

Uruku is nice.
The Abyss is not bad too.

Here there are my two favorite skins.
Kent'

I only have a Master Chief skin, the UT3 skins and the skins from the Community Bonus Packs installed. Some players on Techcom are even using them, so I am always happy to see a goat on the server.

I personally consider CBP-skins somewhat retail. CBP is something that everyone who cares for more than ONS should have downloaded and installed.

As a matter of online gaming principle, I find any sort of forced download unpleasant, but those that don't even offer some gameplay improving value after the waiting, I really consider unacceptable. If anything, the fact that this pack (~50megs in size) is as big as TheBurbs isn't an argument for why it should be accepted as one more desirable download, but a commonsense reason why the map itself should be booted from TechCom until it's been resubmitted with a more sane filesize (about half of the original or less) and, hopefully, lots of other improvements to its current below average quality as well. Seriously, have you tried playing this thing and navigating through all that suburban debris thrown in the way of your ONS fighting? "2 way opening doors from quake"? "Breakable glasses/windows"? Are you kidding me? Who gives a shit 'bout any of this when it takes me 10-20secs to get out of the damn node's vicinity n' go fight? What's the longest it ever took you to get away from a node in Torlan or Primeval?

Anyway, just my 2 eurocents here. I know the winds of change have been blowing the opposite ideological direction these days when it comes to server content, so this is probably pointless, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna stay quiet and not at least put up a fight when good Onslaught is being run over by a steamroller here :/.

The more reasonable approach on this would be that to offer the skin pack optional here on the site and advertise it on the server. Having it an optional download (and probably much faster than the redirect) is what players want.
Besides that these low-poly UT99 skins can stay away from my drive.. I never played that game after all.

And 7 Spacemarines that look all the same except for the head? Exaggerated, especially if you also don't have any connection to that game.

Optional download would be probably better. Pushing disabled, skinpack deleted until creation of some better selection we can promote officially.

Take it easy.

I am still wondering how you can make downloads optional on the redirect server. I have seen it once on a server that I joined while browsing the list, but I don't know anymore which one it was or how they did it.

A window appeared during the download and asked me if I wanted to download this server's optional skins.