Blitz: Rage - Where is it now?

[final jacinth]

Hey guys, I'm Nikolikie, or nicklazer1 from back in the day. I used to play on Overcast Network back in 2015 like it was my 9-5 and have recently revived my interest in Minecraft again. I've been feeling very nostalgic as my favorite mini game on Overcast was Blitz: Rage and any of the one-hit one-kill maps that used to be on Project Ares. Since coming back to Minecraft I have been wondering what happened to these rage servers and wanted to know if anyone knew if they might be coming back or if other servers might have their own version. Would love to get back into the quick-paced gameplay that used to consume my free time 🙂

[haughty garnet]

Hi @final jacinth - Welcome back! We still have all the rage maps, and some are in rotation. Hit server play.oc.tc to join.

[hollow nebula]

The server ip for rage is eliminate.oc.tc

[hollow vapor]

90% of the server dislikes rage so you wont play it unless you get lucky sorry

[unkempt knoll]

You’ll likely find it on funky Friday if anywhere

That’s our fun event day 🙂

[sonic socket]

Fax map devs and staff here hate rage so there’s very few maps. You can play ctw all day tho 😋

[rocky pulsar]

fun is only allowed once per week on this server

[rocky pulsar]

not anymore, its koth and bridge only now

[unkempt knoll]

bridge is the one mode that I really don't enjoy alot of on occ

it just feels very samey and the mode is very segmented

[hollow nebula]

Try bridge swap

[unkempt knoll]

What’s bridge swap?

And does it solve the segmentation problem?

[haughty garnet]

In my experience, Bridge Swap is an alternate mode for bridge maps that involves mining 2 3x3 quartz platforms. What is the segmentation problem?

[unkempt knoll]

In "fluid" maps as I call them there are no hard reset moments. Every map builds up to a climax which end with he objective being destroyed or having enough points to win.

Segmented maps invlove splitting the game into many sub games where winning points essentially resets the state of the game. In bridge this would be scoring and being sent back to the spawns. I understand that this is needed for balance but It just feels very non-overcast? IDK. I always feel like I'm bridging somewhere important, helping give our team new flank bridges to the objective and then all of sudden someone scores and I have to run back and try finishing the bridge before we get rushed again.

Very much a product of OCC experimenting with new gamemode ideas but I personally don't think they mesh well with the other modes. Then again scorebox esits and it's kinda the same thing but without the round resets and.... 🤔

[unkempt knoll]

from memory I think bridge swap is still best of 3 monument breaks though. At that point changing the mode to be one big round and having a bigger 3x3 monument just makes it DTM.

[unkempt knoll]

thought that might just be a lack of quality scorebox maps

[wide iris]

Its not because there's few rage maps, its because they domt get voted

Yesterday i saw lost world lose like 5 times in the vote

[sonic socket]

Rigged

[gilded rune]

i blame it on widespread ragephobia

on a more serious note, the nano land could enjoy a few blitz rage maps so we don't play bridge 90 % of time

[haughty garnet]

Blitz is no bueno for the regular map pool, but no problem with some tiny rage maps.

You can review the pool, and if nano-rage is underrepesented you can suggest some maps in the pool thread. https://github.com/OvercastCommunity/MapPools/blob/master/map-pools.yml

[hollow vapor]

High road

[urban crypt]

Vixxzy is ragephobjc let’s convert him to be a rager

[gilded rune]

✅ 🙏

[urban crypt]

Speaking of rage there should be a rage event

[gilded rune]

absolutely

[sonic socket]

Throwback to when they did one rage event, said there would be more and then silence

[chrome flame]

some blitz rage maps would be nice for the late night dead hours

would be some nice variety

[hollow vapor]

@hollow nebula

[hollow nebula]

Hi

[hollow vapor]

Opinion on rage?

[rocky pulsar]

Good

[velvet flume]

True

[hollow nebula]

Best gm