Talk:Garry's Mod/Archive 2
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Game type section
That section is just an advert. It has no sources, so I removed it. 82.29.5.215 (talk) 22:49, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Misleading information
There a lot of bias information about article. For example the Genre can't be classed as RPG, as that isn't official by the developer. 82.29.5.215 (talk) 23:43, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
Also to be clear Garry's Mod is a game, not a Source Mod. Garrys mod 9 is a mod. 82.29.5.215 (talk) 23:44, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
- Garry's Mod is definitely a mod. While it may be sold for money, and does not store its files in the $STEAM/steamapps/sourcemods folder, it does require separate ownership of a Source Engine game. Plus, it's in the title. Theusernameiwantedisalreadyinuse (talk) 10:02, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
- It's not exactly a Mod because garry even got access to Source's Source Code. //SEKCobra was here (talk) 14:51, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
What are props?
What are props? As in section "Gameplay":
- "Garry's Mod allows players to manipulate props created by the community ... "
A Couple O' Disney Rides
I saw a few videos on Youtube that has Garry's Mod feature people going into Tower of Terror and Haunted Mansion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by StarLegacy (talk • contribs) 17:51, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Reason for going commercial?
Does anyone know why it went that way? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.33.173.218 (talk) 18:04, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
- VALVe offered it to him and he accepted, simple as that.//SEKCobra was here (talk) 14:52, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
About the updates.
Garry's mod got in the past two weeks a new feature: Toybox. could someone add info about it to the article? With it you can download small add-ons while ingame... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.255.102.2 (talk) 08:45, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
Added. 79.177.4.99 (talk) 11:10, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
Toybox doesn't use Steam Cloud - the files are distributed using Amazon S3. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.105.98.74 (talk) 17:29, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
Youtube links
Please do not add links to homemade Youtube clips. These are not WP:RS by a long shot. ~~ Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 16:02, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
Should we make a separate article for Facepunch?
Since Facepunch is now a ltd. company, should someone make a whole new page for it? Or is it not important enough yet? Bluefist (talk) 00:28, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- If you can find sufficient reliable sources to justify such an article, then by all means go right ahead and create it. ~~ Lothar von Richthofen (talk) 00:35, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
- If I have time today I'll write as much as possible, feel free to clean up my work if I do (User talk:Ryadztu) 2:29, May 22 2011 (UTC)
Untitled
This should be noted on the page as it is from the gmod blog itself. Jerks of GMod. A video series made by Garry Newman, that documents garrysmod gameplay in a comical manner in order to advertise the game.
Here's an example. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbS56C3upfo&feature=g-all-lik — Preceding unsigned comment added by Briggsotis (talk • contribs) 23:52, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
Multiplayer - DarkRP specifically?
It's worth noting the distinction that Gmod offers between singleplayer and multiplayer, but I question the fact that "DarkRP" is the only described gametype. While popular, it's not THE most popular or commonly played gametype, and there is a huge variety of different gametypes available. The part focusing on DarkRP should probably be deleted, or if not, then two or three of the other popular gametypes should be elaborated on, to give people a feel for the diversity of the game. 90.212.107.187 (talk) 22:51, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
Toybox being removed, Workshopper replacing
Toybox is being removed with the next Garrysmod Update (Gmod 13 update), it should be noted that it will be replaced with "Workshopper" which will provide the functionality of Toybox while also allowing full addons to be installed while in game. http://garry.tv/post/17321646706/workshopping https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dVgp8ojkrIjxVRFADUF5uwZQiLLivHixkmV5PW5v9Fw/edit — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.231.228.164 (talk) 23:12, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
Changed back to garrys mod
Someone put "Gabes Mod" instead of "Garrys Mod" so I changed it back. --Ianbrine (talk) 15:33, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Unsourced material
Below information was tagged for needing sources long-term. Feel free to reinsert with appropriate references. DonIago (talk) 13:27, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
Multiplayer
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===Multiplayer===
Garry's Mod supports multiplayer gameplay on dedicated game servers. These servers are operated by the community and some servers earn a profit from having additional VIP features. Players can build contraptions together and communicate via text or voice. Garry's Mod servers run many game modes, most of which are user-created modifications. Some of the more popular modes include: Roleplay (RP) where players take on a specific role in the server's society, where players role-play in a city-like society and Trouble in Terrorist Town (TTT), which involves a group of terrorists (Innocents) (this can also include a group of detectives, who have special tools aid in finding traitors) with another, smaller group of traitors within them, whose goal is to kill all of the Innocents; as well as several zombie survival mods. There are also Deathrun servers where the "Death" players trigger traps to try and kill the other players that are trying to get to the end of the level, which is usually an obstacle course, of sorts. |
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Garry's Mod features a wide range of mods and addons that can be created using Garry's Mod's implementation of the Lua scripting language, which allows users to create their own weapons, entities, game modes, and other modifications.
There are many examples of features created by Garry's Mod's addons. Game rules and features can also be modified to suit a particular game mode or genre. Players can create their own weapons, ranging from melee weapons, to firearms, to indirect weapons, such as airstrikes. Weapon models and skins can be reused from either existing Source engine games or from the community created list. Players can create "scripted entities" and "scripted tools" that can interact with the player directly in-game or allow manipulating objects from in-game menu, respectively. Players can also create scripts for non-player characters in Lua.
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Multiplayer Wording
I'm not familiar with the game and wanted to avoid editing anything in case I'm missing something. That being said, parts of the multiplayer section currently are either impossible to understand or read like they were written by a non-fluent speaker.140.247.0.97 (talk) 16:23, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
A lot of the players are international and English is usually fluent but even the native speakers may not speak grammatically correct at all times and this isn't really a fact as much as a personal observation this being because there isn't any evidence and you are not very clear by saying parts of the multi-player what you mean, whether you mean native interface of the game or if you mean user content and user content is not consistent enough to write on the page I believe. Better late than never replying. Mrcatmunch (talk) 14:31, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Gamemodes
The page is a little outdated in knowledge and doesn't go in depth about the game modes enough and how much they can differ from the default Garry's mod sandbox which is the face of a lot of what people see of Garry's mod. Will add some info on darkrp and sandbox and ttt. Please modify with additional information and correct me where if am wrong. My main motivation for adding these is that a lot of people only play one game mode and they may as well be treated as different games by the community of Garry's mod.
Some of the jobs I wrote about for the dakrp jobs contain a lot of personal expectations for the jobs as there is no real standard that has been written about before concerning the jobs as the description of them usually differs a little from what people actually use them for and that is what I wanted to try to represent in that section. Mrcatmunch (talk) 14:26, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
noticed pages for TTT and darkrp already existing so added links to their sub-headings, I possibly should copy the list from darkrps job list but I haven't so far having already made one and they forgot to put in the cook which comes pre-installed in darkrp but only works if you enable hunger mod in config. I am not sure whether their summaries are needed, the summaries could possibly require re-writing on the Garry's mod article but I think they do need some form of description.
Mrcatmunch (talk) 16:12, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
Facepunch != GMOD
Facepunch is a forum. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.197.127.234 (talk) 03:12, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
Mrcatmunch (talk) 16:38, 11 February 2015 (UTC) I agree that facepunch is not Garry's Mod but it is also the developer for Garry's Mod now, I cant find the history of the Garry's Mod Page where presumably you found somewhere it said that Garry's Mod == facepunch but I can't find that, is there any reason to keep this on the talk page?
Vandalism in References
Some anonymous IPs have been editing the last reference about achievements in the "Fretta Contest" section repeatedly since May. They changed it from Garry Newman's blog (a defunct link) to some "free gmod" website which seems to offer a pirated version of the game for free. Quote from the website: "We discovered a glitch/loophole on the system that let’s us bypass the authentication process resulting in a free Garry’s Mod game.". Example edit here, which got reverted later, but edited in again: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garry%27s_Mod&type=revision&diff=661917513&oldid=661849017
I have just reverted it to the original link, if there's a way to protect this page I think it would be a good idea to prevent further spam. Diluculum (talk) 19:33, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
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Valve Corporation did not publish Garry's Mod
(I am quite new to editing Wikipedia, so I'm not sure if I'm doing this right :P)
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Valve did not publish Garry's Mod and has little to no affiliation with the project, so I've gone ahead and deleted this from the page. Tyler Georges (talk) 05:04, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
Many things in the game need to be mentioned
Someone needs to articulate what “maps” are, in a way that people who haven’t even played the game understand... You know, a save file of a place that “remembers” the way everything is arranged (e.g. structures, NPCs, their relationships...)
Oh yeah, relationships need to be mentioned, too.
Oh gosh, there’s so many functions and things you can do on Gmod that are the epitome of the game itself; those which are fundamental to Gmod being Gmod. Is it even possible to mention every single thing?
I’m too lazy to do it myself right now, and I have more important things to do, anyway.
The current state of the “Gameplay” section, though, is really bland. It talks like there’s not much you can do...
... But it’s so fun of a game BECAUSE you decide whatever you want to do. And there’s so much to do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shickorbob (talk • contribs) 4:26, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
- @Shickorbob: I agree. You could be bold and edit it yourself, but if not, I can do it later. Interqwark talk contribs 04:41, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
- @SaltySemanticSchmuck: Are you up for expanding the gameplay section? You appear to have extensive knowledge of the game so all we need now is your input and some sources. Lordtobi (✉) 08:19, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
Sandbox S&Box
I think Sandbox should have its own article, as the small paragraph on this page does no do it justice 162.255.201.201 (talk) 19:08, 9 April 2021 (UTC)