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jerkstoresup posted:Did Carmack reveal anything interesting in his keynote today? I'm not in the right head-space to listen to him for very long at the moment. Mostly just talked about a bunch of engineering stuff, which was interesting as usual, but nothing revolutionary. Some people asked him some questions about future consoles and rockets and stuff, but I can't think of anything really huge that I could quote.
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When you say "Soldier of Fortune" people will immediately think of super gore and not much else. They probably don't see the need to either reduce potential sales with ultra-violence or disappoint old fans when they're already cranking out CODs at full speed and it sucks up most of their development budget.
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Cat Mattress posted:Spear stuff Oh? I thought I'd heard that the Mission Pack stuff would only replace the Spear stuff if you ran them first (I assumed levels and enemies, admittedly), and that you only needed to do some other stuff with Spear if you'd previously run a Mission Pack on Steam before dropping the files into ECWolf. Huh. Just checked, and yeah, when I select Spear it brings up Ultimate Danger. Edit: Got it all sorted, thanks for telling me. Also, would not mind a new Soldier of Fortune game from Raven. Even if they do market it as a CoD spinoff. catlord fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Aug 2, 2013 |
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I played and enjoyed both SOF games when they came out, never played 3 or whatever it was called. But even as someone who LIKED them back in the day, I can't think of any reason to make a new one since they're basically just COD but with a whole loving lot of guts everywhere. edit: and the corpse mutilation simulator edit again: to be clear I would still enjoy a COD-like game with massive, absolutely ridiculous, amounts of gore so I'm not saying I DON'T want this.
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So the lack of ROTT-talk on here is becoming conspicuous taking into account how much hype there was in this thread. Is it a crushing disappointment that you're all trying to ignore or are the people who have it been playing it so much they forgot to chime in and tell their chums how lovely it is?
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Rather Dashing posted:So the lack of ROTT-talk on here is becoming conspicuous taking into account how much hype there was in this thread. Is it a crushing disappointment that you're all trying to ignore or are the people who have it been playing it so much they forgot to chime in and tell their chums how lovely it is? People are talking about it in its own thread.
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tooooooo bad posted:People are talking about it in its own thread. Hurf. Another cracking post from Rather Dashing. Shows how much I browse Games out side of my bookmarks.
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Zaphod42 posted:Mostly just talked about a bunch of engineering stuff, which was interesting as usual, but nothing revolutionary. Carmack is a pretty brilliant software engineer, from my understanding, but holy hell does everything he says go right over my head. He talks like a scientist from a 90's Saturday morning cartoon. Not that I think there's anything wrong with that. I just think it's kind of funny 
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Zaphod42 posted:Mostly just talked about a bunch of engineering stuff, which was interesting as usual, but nothing revolutionary. Some people asked him some questions about future consoles and rockets and stuff, but I can't think of anything really huge that I could quote. Highlights from a summary I read: -The Xbox One and the PS4 are basically the same and he refused to pick a side; spec pissing contests don't matter because no one person or team is going to master either of them for years. Sony's dev tools are leagues better this time around. Kinect is still terrible at being a primary controller for serious games and probably always will be. -Microsoft did have the right idea with the original Xbox One usage model since it's obviously the direction everything is headed and it's what Steam and iTunes do already. The privacy worries about the always-on Kinect will fade away just like they have for things like always-on personal GPS devices. -There won't be any point in having another console generation after this upcoming one until the hardware can comfortably do real-time ray tracing, and nobody's even going to guess when that might happen. -Really disappointed that 30fps will still be a thing.
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Mak0rz posted:Carmack is a pretty brilliant software engineer, from my understanding, but holy hell does everything he says go right over my head. He talks like a scientist from a 90's Saturday morning cartoon. I said the same thing last night while I was watching his keynote. He's fascinating to listen to, but I understand like, nothing he says.
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Rather Dashing posted:So the lack of ROTT-talk on here is becoming conspicuous taking into account how much hype there was in this thread. Is it a crushing disappointment that you're all trying to ignore or are the people who have it been playing it so much they forgot to chime in and tell their chums how lovely it is? It's a lot of fun, but be warned that it is buggy as all gently caress and does have a lot of problems, and apparently we aren't getting a real patch for another month or so.
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Mak0rz posted:Carmack is a pretty brilliant software engineer, from my understanding, but holy hell does everything he says go right over my head. He talks like a scientist from a 90's Saturday morning cartoon. Yeah, I'm a serious developer and I've worked in graphics in the past, and even then every now and then something he says I"m not sure what he meant. My friends were joking that I should provide them subtitles/translation as we watched it  Maybe I'll watch it again and do a transcription
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Question about Quake cd music, if I burn the tracks to a cd for use in most clients are they smart enough to use the right track since there's no track 1? I mean if it tries to load track 4 will it play 5 instead since 5 is actually the 4th track on the disc?
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Reive posted:Question about Quake cd music, if I burn the tracks to a cd for use in most clients are they smart enough to use the right track since there's no track 1? I mean if it tries to load track 4 will it play 5 instead since 5 is actually the 4th track on the disc? Make a mixed mode CD and throw a text file or hello.jpg or something in the data section?
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Mak0rz posted:He talks like a scientist from a 90's Saturday morning cartoon. No, he talks like a scientist from a specific famous cartoon.
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Darkplaces supports playing music as .ogg files. Make a 'sounds' folder inside 'id1', and a 'cdtracks' folder inside 'sounds'. Then the music tracks should look like 'track02.ogg' through 'track11.ogg'. So 'id1/sounds/cdtracks/track02.ogg' for example. Many clients support wav or mp3 too, but I only play singleplayer in darkplaces.
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ah the engines I'm using only have cd support, but I forgot about the music remap console command, added it into my autoexec and everything's dandy. I know I'm probably the only one who cares about this sort of stuff but here's a quick comparison between an old pre-gl engine and a modern nostalgia based engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtDBQ333KEo specifically using winquakepro because original winquake doesn't have mousewheel support.
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What's the best MIDI synth to use for GZDoom's Linux port? FMod? Timidity++ and OPL are the only ones I have installed right now since it's a fairly fresh Linux install, and both sound pretty blah.
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Reive posted:ah the engines I'm using only have cd support, but I forgot about the music remap console command, added it into my autoexec and everything's dandy. I certainly care about this. My ideal port of Quake would function like Chocolate Doom: render the game in a virtual 320x200 space, then stretch it out to the desired resolution. The result is chunky pixel goodness, the way Carmack intended. I would like a port that sticks as close as possible to looking like DOS Quake while adding some modern amenities like big map support. So maybe not exactly like Chocolate Doom, but very similar in how it handles graphics.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:What's the best MIDI synth to use for GZDoom's Linux port? FMod? Timidity++ and OPL are the only ones I have installed right now since it's a fairly fresh Linux install, and both sound pretty blah. Timidity++ takes many different soundfonts. Try downloading some from here: http://www3.telus.net/anapan8/oldscardemu.htm This should particularly help for playing the original DOOM music, since there are many on there which are taken directly from period-accurate sound cards.
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Mak0rz posted:Return to Castle Wolfenstein is on Steam for change. How was that game? I played the living poo poo out of Enemy Territory (granted, it was a stand-alone game and free), but never the single player campaign. RtCW brings back so many memories. The single player was alright, but the multiplayer is where it really shined. Enemy Territory was popular because it was free, but it was largely a step back from RtCW. A lot of the mods for ET's online play removed features or tweaked them to be more like RtCW. IMO it really set a standard and gave direction for FPS gaming online, shifting from deathmatch/CTF towards objective-based gameplay with classes. I miss it 
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Install Windows posted:Timidity++ takes many different soundfonts. Try downloading some from here: http://www3.telus.net/anapan8/oldscardemu.htm Thanks, that helps a lot. That's convenient that it's just a simple cfg edit to change the sound font.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:What's the best MIDI synth to use for GZDoom's Linux port? FMod? Timidity++ and OPL are the only ones I have installed right now since it's a fairly fresh Linux install, and both sound pretty blah. If you use OPL emulation, set it to the "Java" core, it's the best. On Linux you probably should have FluidSynth available, too. Also, you should have the GUS emulation available too since it's internal to ZDoom, you just need to set it up. There's some pointers to sound fonts and sound patches here. In other news: catlord posted:Little disappointed it doesn't have a fancier launcher like GZDoom, but it's effective. There's some more stuff like a PC speaker emulator if AdLib sounds are too hi-fi for you, and hopefully fixed a crash which happened when killing the mad scientist boss in Wolf 3D's second episode. Cat Mattress fucked around with this message at 13:15 on Aug 3, 2013 |
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I use Shan's Sound Font for MIDI stuff. Here's Goin' Down the Fastway with it.
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jerkstoresup posted:Darkplaces supports playing music as .ogg files. Make a 'sounds' folder inside 'id1', and a 'cdtracks' folder inside 'sounds'. Then the music tracks should look like 'track02.ogg' through 'track11.ogg'. Stuff about how the various engines handle music: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=119489135
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They are only going to be streaming the top 3 for the Doom II tournament at quakecon, so if anyone wants to see that then the first match is coming up next on the stream. The grand finals will be later on tonight (schedule says 7:00 central).
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Cat Mattress posted:In other news: Fantastic.
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proof of concept posted:They are only going to be streaming the top 3 for the Doom II tournament at quakecon, so if anyone wants to see that then the first match is coming up next on the stream. That loving final match. 
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TerminusEst13 posted:That loving final match. That was my reaction to every map from the Doom II match and both of the QuakeLive duel matches. They were all crazy and they all came right down to the wire. The grand finals for both games are going to be absolutely ridiculous.
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Is there any way to see these after the fact?
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You can always go to the "past broadcasts" on the channel's profile. I'm sure they'll also eventually be chopped up into vods. edit: you were right to wait for vods, this stream is awful beyond words proof of concept fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Aug 4, 2013 |
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Bouchacha posted:Is there any way to see these after the fact? Here you go. The stream's better if you drop the quality down to 360p, and there's about 35/40 minutes of fluff before the game itself starts. But holy poo poo is it a good match.
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DIEGETIC SPACEMAN posted:Here you go. The stream's better if you drop the quality down to 360p, and there's about 35/40 minutes of fluff before the game itself starts. But holy poo poo is it a good match. Holy poo poo these guys are so amazingly matched.
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which files are actually needed to run Quake 3? I prefer to have my games as binaries I can run from anywhere so I want to get rid of excess setup files and readmes.
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When you're fully patched up, you'll have/need pak0.pk3 through pak8.pk3 in the baseq3 folder. Also in there: qagamex86.dll, uix86.dll, and cgamex86.dll (assuming Windows version). As for the Q3 engine up outside the baseq3 folder, I don't know what the situation is for the vanilla/original release. I use ioquake3 and FWIW that's comprised of: ioquake3.x86.exe, libcurl-4.dll, openal32.dll, and SDL.dll. Original Q3 would definitely use a different exe and libraries; maybe someone else can check on that for you. Or you can always just delete files until it stops working. 
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There's the Pro Installer, which—assuming you don't find it unethical—installs everything Quake 3 you'd ever need. It's in the third post of the thread.
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Bouchacha posted:Holy poo poo these guys are so amazingly matched. That first map was something else. The Quake Live final was also fantastic. The stream sometimes goofed up the audio -- showing player A but hearing player B -- but nevertheless that match had some amaaaazing demonstrations of both map lockdown and also out-of-control play.
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Johnny Law posted:When you're fully patched up, you'll have/need pak0.pk3 through pak8.pk3 in the baseq3 folder. Also in there: qagamex86.dll, uix86.dll, and cgamex86.dll (assuming Windows version). Nice, basically just installed ioquake, copied the files elsewhere, uninstalled, dropped in the paks and now I have a clean portable Quake 3! Reive fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Aug 4, 2013 |
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Where the best source of Unreal Tournament (particularly 2004) maps? ModDB & Filefront have a lot, but I'm wondering if there any sites that are considered more "definitive."
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The best source of maps? Why, http://www.somethingawful.com/hosted/cranky/ of course!
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