I made up this game at least five years ago while playing Quake III as a change from normal deathmatch, but I forgot about it until today. It was great fun, and I thought it might be worth trying to replicate it in CQ or DooM.

The game is called "Suicide" or "Suicidal" Deathmatch and the rules are very simple.

1. One player is designated as being "suicidal" at the beginning of the game. (In Quake III I had to explain the game to other players, so I usually ended up as the sucidal player.)

2. The other players may not shoot each other. They may only shoot at the suicidal player. Frags on other players do not count.

3. The suicidal player does not shoot at the other players.  Instead, he must dodge the other players for a period of ten seconds. After the ten seconds is complete, the suicidal player must then attempt to commit suicide.  In Quake III, many of the levels have bottomless areas that cause instant death, so I would dodge the other players for the count of ten, then run over to the side and jump into the bottomless pit. DooM and CQ do not have an equivalent, but I am certain we can rig something up.

4. If any of the players hunting the suicidal player reaches the frag limit, that player wins.

5. If the suicidal player reaches the negative equivalent of the frag limit (successful suicides), he wins.


It was a little make-shift game I made up on the fly and only played for a few days, but I remember having a lot of fun playing it.

If there is someone who would like to come up with a mod that will allow everything to work automatically, such as keeping count of suicides, and creating instant kill areas, that would be great.  Please do it.  After seeing the capture point maps, I am certain it can be done.

Also, since I made up the rules of the game, please don't forget to credit me.  Thanks. 

CM, Can I make a map for this?

Ok. i just wanted to make a new map. I felt like making some.

Probably going to have to do it that way. Most of that is already setup; just trying to get it to work with TDM. Essentially, I was trying to figure out a way to set the suiciders frag count at the amount needed to win once it passed below that amount * -1. I just have no idea how one would change the frag count. I can retrieve it, with PlayerFrags() as you pointed out, just don't know how to set it. And I don't see why you'd need to make sure the suicider doesn't have any weapons that harm. If he gets a frag with his weapons, it just increases his score instead of decreasing. He'd want to not do that

And I don't see why you'd need to make sure the suicider doesn't have any weapons that harm. If he gets a frag with his weapons, it just increases his score instead of decreasing. He'd want to not do that

It's true that it wouldn't be to his benefit, but then again "If you're REALLY good at DM and you play on the suicider team the game will never end" might make some trolls come in for a challenge

BUMP!

I was just chatting with Awesomedude, and it reminded me of this.

ChexMaster2109: Did you ever have any luck coming up with a version of this?

You should make that a project.

Hello everybody.

I was just thinking about suicide again.

The game that is.

I can't believe it has been years since I suggested this, and nobody ever made a mod of it.

Shame on you all!

Shame!

I'm bumping this topic.  I still think it is a fun deathmatch variant, and I would really like to see a series of maps for it.