Ballmen Beta file

I'm assuming you didn't like the energy system because it runs out too fast. If thats the case all I can do is ask that you give it a chance, its not too bad once you get used to the energy costs of the different attacks. If you start to dip low, you can pick up a couple of energy pickups to restore a good amount.

I don't think we'll replace the energy system with regular ammo, but if a lot of people are running out too quickly then we might up the regen or the number of energy pickups that spawn.

I hope you don't give up on the mod because of this. Keep an eye out as we'll probably release Beta 2 in a month or two.

Yeah thats probably the safest way of doing it and works pretty well. You could also just walk off, make a quick 180, switch walls, another 180 and keep walking in the direction you started falling. Or, if you're feeling adventurous, you can turn on auto wallwalking right before you walk off, and as soon as you do try to fly backwards into the wall, which would switch you to it, although this probably won't work too well unless you have the Air Control powerup (the wing).

A lot of the suicides I see could probably be attributed to what I call switching off, where you're falling really fast, switch to some wall you pass by, and end up flinging yourself out of the map. The only solution to this would be to only switch to walls once you know it won't screw you over. I'd also highly recommend binding the Puff gun (the cloud) to an easily accessible key and getting familiarized with it, with enough practice it can save you from a lot of suicide deaths and deaths caused by being pushed out.

I can imagine scrolling through the weapons every time you want to switch can get tiresome. I've bound all the weapons to keys I can reach relatively easily and its all good now. But I am considering for Beta 2 some kind of way of binding both a primary and a secondary weapon to a key, as switching both the primary and secondary weapon to get setup for a combo is still pretty cumbersome. I'm still considering how best to implement this, but it's something I'd really like to see in the game.

That is an impressive wall of text. :)
And I still forgot to say I'm glad you're enjoying the game and I hope to see you in the game again. I was wondering how it played with 300 ping, I'm glad its not as bad as I thought.

The maps in this beta were made by Sofadullah, and were his first attempts at mapping. At the moment a few people have started working on additional maps that should be very fun and might look better.

I'm not sure what you mean by dedicated server data. However, the download contains everything you should need to run a windows dedicated server. Unfortunately I haven't been able to get the files for a linux server built yet.

As for the suicides, we wanted "pushing" people out of the map to be a valid combat tactic, which I don't think can be done without some risk of suicide. With that said, it gets much easier to avoid suicide and death by leaving the level if you bind the puff gun(cloud) to some key and use it to try to get back in as soon as you start leaving the map. Sofadullah has also said that he would at some point make a sort of training map where its impossible to fall out of the level.

I haven't been able to build the linux server yet. I'll try to have it by the time we release Beta 2.