mR ProxyDM: watch the fight, shape the world

mR ProxyDM: watch the fight, shape the world

A new mR server that never empties. A dozen bots fight around the clock, and you can watch it live in 3D right in your browser, put a bot of your own in the fight, give it orders, and spend what it earns to flood the town, call down lightning or bring the mountain down on everyone.

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What you can do

• Watch it live in 3D. Follow the fight, look through a fighter's eyes, fly around the map yourself, or view it as a tabletop diorama. Works on phones too, and installs as an app.
  
• Enlist your own bot. Sign in on the forum, link your Steam account, and your "proxy" joins the fight under your name. It fights whether you're watching or not.
  
• Earn scrap and kit it out. Your bot earns scrap as it fights. Spend it on a sharper brain, its personality, its colours, armour, a recharging energy shield, and guns from the shotgun to the crossbow, the RPG and the arc rifle (the one gun that cuts through a shield).
  
• Give it orders. Tap the map: go here, guard this, lob a grenade there, pick that up, or hunt a fighter down.
  
• Buy events. Every map has its own disasters, paid for with your bot's scrap (see below). If the event doesn't start, you get the scrap back.
  
• Fight for the crown. The supply drop brings a crate with the crown in it: 300 health to whoever gets there first, and whoever kills them takes it.
  
• Revenge bounties. Anyone who keeps killing your bot ends up with a price on their head.
  
• Take over. Join the server and you become your bot. Leave and it fights on without you.
  

The maps
Each map runs for 45 minutes, then the next one comes up.

Tidewater, a harbour town where the sea really moves

• A real tide that rises and falls, and a day that turns to night, with the lighthouse sweeping the bay and the cathedral's bells at dawn, noon, dusk and midnight.
  
• A tram that loops the whole town and a ferry that rides the tide out to the breakwater.
  
• Storm surge: a siren, thirty seconds to get to high ground, then the sea climbs thirteen metres up the streets.
  
• Lightning storm: two minutes of strikes hunting the high places.
  
• Runaway tram: the brakes fail and it tears round the town, running down anyone on the rails.
  
• Old Tithe: the sea's collector swims up the harbour, and whoever is swimming where it passes is taken.
  

Meridian, a research colony on a rust-red world

• Power outage, ion storm and containment leak, each with its own warnings, shelters and switches.
  
• Orbital strike: the warning sounds, and you've got until it lands to reach a shelter.
  

High Pass, a mountain station in winter

• Ride the cable car up the cliff face (the bots ride it too).
  
• Avalanche: twenty seconds' warning, then the mountain comes down and buries anyone in its way. Sometimes it lets go all by itself.
  
• Blizzard, cable car stall (the cabin stops halfway up the cliff and sways for a minute with whoever's aboard) and ski jump (the gate opens and the jump launches whoever runs it across the valley).
  

Playing
It's a real Half-Life 2: Deathmatch server, open to everyone, and the maps download automatically. Hit Join the game on the page, or

Code:

connect 23.111.156.106:27017

Enlist a bot first, and Join and take over on your bot's panel puts you in its place.

Come watch, enlist a bot and tell us what you think, right here in this thread. Bugs, ideas and balance complaints are all welcome.

mIKe

What's new: the doors are open, and every map ends in a Last Stand

No password. Anyone can join now: hit Join the game on the page, or

Code:

connect 23.111.156.106:27017

The Last Stand. Every map now ends in a one-life finale. A two-minute call goes out, every fighter starts on 500 health (the map's top three fraggers a little more), a ring closes in, and the map throws its own disaster at them: the sea floods Tidewater, Meridian springs a leak and the lights go out, High Pass vanishes in a whiteout. Last one standing wins.

• If the winner is your bot, you get 500 scrap, plus 10 for every finalist it outlasted.
  
• Call the winner on the page for free. Guess right and you get 100 scrap.
  
• The champion wears a gold ring in game and a champion tag on the page.
  

It sounds better. New sounds for the pulse rifle, energy hits, the arc rifle and rockets. A dying bot shorts out, and when your own bot goes down, the fight goes muffled.

It looks better. Meridian's horizon shows its mesas and crags, High Pass has real rock and snow on the peaks, and the ground on Tidewater and Meridian blends the way it does in game.

Come watch the next finale: mikes-revenge.net/proxydm

mIKe