Heyyo,
Heh, same here man, especially since HL2DM picks its spawnsites HORRIBLY. I think it randomly picks a site, and puts the player there... it doesn't check for any nearby threats leading to easier spawncamping...
There's some speculation at the Pure Pwnage forums that in the next update they're adding the crowbar, AND the stunstick... I hope so, I wanna get zappy.
Btw, the game's still playable at pings of 200. The way they did the weapons is great, they log it by how that 1 computer takes the hits, not by server side like on Halo. So that means when you take a revolver to someone on your screen whilst having a ping of 200, and on his screen he's 2 feet to the right? since the guy who shot it comp registers it as a hit, the server does too, so there's a fair playing field out there boys. It doesn't quite work as well for the grav gun, but it does in general, cause you can run and grab something, and on your comp if it registers it as a pickup so does the server (well, as long as somebody with a lower ping doesn't beat you to it
).