Well, a lot of this stuff would probably be better suited to a general skulltag/doom help topic but since this is the major reason I'm actually finally playing skulltag for the first time I might as well post it here.
1) Is there a way to get the chat messages to stay up for more than about two seconds? I've found that going into console helps with chatting but it seems a little messy, what with displaying everything that's going on in addition to the chat messages. I can deal if that's the only way, though, I just thought I'd ask.
2) I've not been seeing any custom skins in multiplayer games yet though I know a lot of people have made and shared a lot of skins for this. I mean, the game by itself has a plethora of awesome skins and all but I'm kinda wondering if it'll automatically download skins with doomseeker like how it automatically applies patches you have sitting in the folder or will players using custom skins appear as Mega Man or something (and likewise to other people if I'm using one) until I personally download and place their skins in my skins folder?
3) This may be weird to ask, but what's with auto-aim? By default it's set to 'always' be on in multiplayer options. I find it pretty useful in doom-engine games as far as shooting something parallel to you vertically since Doom has always been kind of weird with vertically aligned targets, being such a dated FPS engine, but I wonder if I should turn it off for this game, or set it to a lower setting. What's even the difference between "always" and "very high", and what's different about "low"? It's hard for me to wrap my head around how it could ever be anything but an on/off switch.
I have noticed when fighting
that my Quick Boomerangs kinda just go up in the air in front of its face, and it seems like a weird aspect of autoaim, or is it just kinda supposed to be like that until I use Item-1 to jump up on its front?
4) I notice a lot of people requesting certain console commands be entered by server hosts. Are there any I should know or learn as a player or do I not need to worry about anything like that?
5) How do you alter your name colors like so many people online do? :3c I could search that in 5 seconds but I might as well ask while I'm making this thread...
6) Anything else I should know along these lines of technical things involving skulltag/doom online in general that newbies should know? It seems simple enough, but you never know...
Thanks in advance, anyone who takes the time to read this.