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Weee!!! Finally we all get to play Clan Arena as LPB's! Well you always play bots with no ping right? Ok ok, on to the Frogbot Clan Arena itself.

First of all, this FMOD is very easy to setup (type arena in the console and restart the map, that's it. Oh don't forget to spawn some bots - a few to your team and a few to opposite team.) One thing that was annoying at first - never choose the team before you spawn some bots! Or else you'll read some weird messages like 'team blue has won the round' every 5 seconds :) So much for the running the FMOD.

I won't start explaining why Clan Arena is such fun to play. Rather, I'll explain why Frogbot Clan Arena is not exactly fun like original CA.

1. Frogbot limitations. Never let bots fall into water! This is probably the worst thing that can ruin whole match. I bet you'll read more '? sleeps with fishes' more than you've ever read before if you'll try playing Frogbots in Dm3(which is considered as <DEFAULT> Clan Arena map. Yuck! The worst part is that <LAVACHEAT> doesn't work with water. :/

2. Yet more Frogbot limitations. Well well... even at skill=; wait; impulse 200, the whole team of bots was easy to beat. Why? First of all, poor rocketjumping prediction. 666 area in Dm3 is Frogbot's nightmare. If player rocketjumps, bot shoots at him, or to be more exact, to the blue skies. Hopefully Frog has more advanced prediction AI prepared in next release. Second, bot can't rocketjump. that means no shortcuts. No mound rocketjumping - easy target. No 666 area rocketjumping - easy target. Grrr.

Now let's mention some bugs here. NQ version is smooth, I must say. The only bug I could spot there - that sometimes bots lose interest in shooting members of opposite team. How annoying it can be watching two bots, red and blue, running around each other for 5 seconds without shooting. Yuck!
QuakeWorld version has all NQ bugs in (that is, one), and the a few ugly bugs. More players in both teams, more fun it is to play. With Frogbot Clan Arena that is not the case. More players means... more lag and probablilty of phone jacket appearing in the corner of the screen(i.e. server crashed. restart all over). Don't even bother playing 8v8 game - while QuakeWorld shows your ping as 54 and pl 0%, the game will be laggy as hell, I had more fun playing with 999 ping.

Enough! No more whining about bugs and stuff! Let's read the fun part!

The fun part is this: If you have ever played Clan Arena, you know what it is and you sure want to try it with no or little ping. If you don't know what Clan Arena is, I'm sure that you have wondered many times: why do others enjoy it? Because it is FUN!

Rating: 9.5 out of 10
FMOD author: Asdf
Reviewed by: Wrecker