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I got Quake 4 to run and I'm now up to the waste processing facility's boss battle (Stroggified Voss), and I've encountered a strange bug. For the first few seconds of the fight, all projectiles and weapons fire is invisible. I shoot rockets and hear the sound, but don't see the rockets or the explosion. I can't even see railgun shots. More importantly, this also applies to the BOSS's projectiles too, so I get hit with invisible homing rockets. It fixes itself after a few minutes, but those few minutes can cripple me for the rest of the fight since enemy shots tear through my armor and health like I'm the worlds first papier-mache soldier. This fight is ALREADY a pain in the rear end (I'm on the second-highest difficulty). I'm starting to consider just cheating my way past it because it is no fun.
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PC Zone was great
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A guy in one of my high school classes, when we were given near-free reign on what to do a final semester powerpoint presentation on, chose 'The Death of PC Accel', and failed because he was goony as poo poo about it. While I understood what he was talking about, having read a bunch of PC Accel issues back in the day, literally no one else in the class had any idea what it was he was all hung up about. Well, that's my 'old gaming magazine' story.
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Mar 29, 2016 14:50
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:A guy in one of my high school classes, when we were given near-free reign on what to do a final semester powerpoint presentation on, chose 'The Death of PC Accel', and failed because he was goony as poo poo about it. While I understood what he was talking about, having read a bunch of PC Accel issues back in the day, literally no one else in the class had any idea what it was he was all hung up about.
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Wamdoodle posted:Lol. Was he sporting the neckbeard? No, he was the tall, skinny, glasses-wearing, slightly-acne'd crazy type of nerd. Really unhinged, do anything for a laugh, except when it came to his sweet, sweet gaming mags.
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Mar 29, 2016 15:13
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The Kins posted:Quake 2? Hahah
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Mar 29, 2016 15:19
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Megadyptes posted:PC Zone was great PC Zone was amazing. Cybertwats, for example. And Bloke-Bird.
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Mar 29, 2016 15:29
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Convex posted:
I wonder if Apogee was really peddling that, or if PC Zone here was just making an educated guess. Also not sure about the (presumably snarky) quotation marks around "enhanced". Build's basically on an entirely different echelon of complexity from RotT; surely even in a game as lovely as TekWar would've made that apparent?
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Mar 29, 2016 17:19
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I think Calia actually did come out, just under a different company. Edit: It came out as Neo-Hunter from Virgin. Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Mar 29, 2016 |
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Mar 29, 2016 17:42
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fickle poofterist posted:PC Zone was amazing. Cybertwats, for example. And Bloke-Bird. What was that one end of magazine article that sparked enough outrage to get it pulled? I think I have that one somewhere...  I think it might have had something to do with animal cruelty, or maybe that was just a tuesday for that magazine.  Ah, memories. Thyrork fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Mar 29, 2016 |
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Mar 29, 2016 17:52
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Casimir Radon posted:I think Calia actually did come out, just under a different company. What's a Huntet other than a last name apparently?
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Wamdoodle posted:What's a Huntet other than a last name apparently?
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Thyrork posted:What was that one end of magazine article that sparked enough outrage to get it pulled? I think I have that one somewhere... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Zone#Evolution quote:By 1995, under the editorship of John Davison, the magazine had adopted a tone which heavily referenced lad culture, which had been made fashionable by magazines such as FHM and Dennis Publishing stablemate Maxim. This period was marked by several moderately controversial episodes, including the accidental inclusion of a pornographic Doom modification on a covermounted CD-ROM, an article about the infamously bug-ridden Frontier 2: First Encounters illustrated with a large photograph of a piece of excrement wrapped with a bow, a joystick group test which featured a model dressed as a nun (testing each joystick for "phallusicity"), and a one-page comic by regular contributor Charlie Brooker, graphically depicting animal cruelty (originally intended as a comment on the violence against animals frequently portrayed in the Tomb Raider games) which resulted in the offending issue being withdrawn from W H Smith newsagents.
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Mar 29, 2016 18:03
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Casimir Radon posted:I think Calia actually did come out, just under a different company. Huh, you learn something new every day. Thyrork posted:What was that one end of magazine article that sparked enough outrage to get it pulled? I think I have that one somewhere... Ha, no recollection of this at all, but i have all the 1999 issues so will have to have a dig through.
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Mar 29, 2016 18:05
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Reaching back a bit, but how does one run Perdition's Gate? I grabbed the .ZIP but it contains what looks like the full file structure of a DOS-era game. I see files called PG-RAW.WAD and PG-RAW-X.WAD, as well as a bunch with DEMO in the title. Do I just throw one of those into a source port and call it a day, or are there other assets and stuff I need to use from that zip?
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You just need pg-raw.wad iirc.
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Thyrork posted:What was that one end of magazine article that sparked enough outrage to get it pulled? I think I have that one somewhere... Nice to see how things never really change.
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Convex posted:Huh, you learn something new every day.
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Minidust posted:Reaching back a bit, but how does one run Perdition's Gate? I grabbed the .ZIP but it contains what looks like the full file structure of a DOS-era game. I see files called PG-RAW.WAD and PG-RAW-X.WAD, as well as a bunch with DEMO in the title. Do I just throw one of those into a source port and call it a day, or are there other assets and stuff I need to use from that zip? Same question with the ZDoom TC of Wolfenstein actually. It comes with a bunch of .bat launcher files, but... I'm on a Mac.  I've tried loading the assorted files and cfg's on top of Doom 2 but it keeps crashing with actor errors.
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Dewgy posted:Same question with the ZDoom TC of Wolfenstein actually. It comes with a bunch of .bat launcher files, but... I'm on a Mac. Batch files are just text files. If you open it up in whatever OSX has in the way of notepad you'll be able to see and reuse the exact launch parameters needed. Chances are the files are needed in an exact order. I don't know why people still insist on releasing mods this way. If you need a batch file to launch a mod, you've packed the mod horribly wrong.
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All you need to do with the Wolf 3D conversion is code:Karasu Tengu fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Mar 29, 2016 |
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Mar 29, 2016 21:40
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Convex posted:Random adverts One of my fav 90's video game ad was for Syndicate Wars. For context, around that time, there was an advertising campaign by some sort of florist union, who wanted people to buy more bouquets, with a slogan along the lines of "A pleasure to give, a joy to receive". So the SW ad took the exact same slogan but replaced the flowers by a grenade. It was dumb and hilarious.
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I remember a joystick/gamepad ad circa 95-98 that had the tagline: "Getting blown never sucked so hard". Anyone else know what I'm talking about?
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Rocket Pan posted:Batch files are just text files. If you open it up in whatever OSX has in the way of notepad you'll be able to see and reuse the exact launch parameters needed. Chances are the files are needed in an exact order. Yeah, I've poked around at them but they're needlessly complicated batch files. Elliotw2 posted:All you need to do with the Wolf 3D conversion is Weird, this is what I've been doing, but I still get an error. 
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Mar 30, 2016 00:08
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That means your GZdoom is too old. GZdoom you'll have to recompile, but you can download Zdoom from here
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Elliotw2 posted:That means your GZdoom is too old. Correction, my copy of the TC is too old.  Works now!
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Here's my own personal list of great Dark Forces Mods: Mt Kurek Dark Tide 1-4 Beyond Glory 2/Ironfort/CloudSpear Condition Red Bounty Hunt SE Assassination on Nar Shadda: Boba Fett Star’s End Assassinate Vader Prelude to Harkov Jungles of Caldoun Operation archangel 2 Tie defender Fortress quad Betrayed Ruins of talos 1
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Narcissus1916 posted:Here's my own personal list of great Dark Forces Mods: Thanks for posting these. Will check them out 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRsOWnQiSt8
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Bugblatter posted:I recall looking at that game several times when I was younger because I thought it was a descent spinoff and was always disappointed to learn it was unrelated. It's kind of bizarre to learn that it was related but only by the engine. Who titles an unrelated game due to its underlying tech? Interplay did it again with Descent: FreeSpace, which was loosely based on the Descent engine and developed by an offshoot of Parallax, but otherwise completely different. It was actually good though.
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And Freespace 2 is the best scifi space shooter ever, or whatever you call "fighting spaceships as a small spaceship with an arcade model, not a flight sim"
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Mar 30, 2016 16:04
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I think that's what it looks like when you start getting cataracts.
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Arivia posted:And Freespace 2 is the It took a lot of years and disappointments for me to realize I don't like space sims, I liked Freespace
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Reminds me that I regrettably need to DL the latest BDoom so I can verify that my DUMP map doesn't still break horribly with it. I can accept the Imps jumping right into the instakill lava from their ledges, because that's hilarious, but some of the monster teleports apparently are teleporting them directly inside 3D floors, which pushes them down toward the bottom of the 3D floor, which pushes them into the lava, where they immediately die, and that's... not right.
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victrix posted:It took a lot of years and disappointments for me to realize I don't like space sims, I liked Freespace TIE Fighter, X-Wing and the various other Star Wars space sims were good, no? Hell I might just be remembering them fondly because I was a dumb kid at the time.  But goddamn did I ever love me some Freespace 2. My long standing love of continuous beam cannons was found there.
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Space sim and space shooter aren't the same thing.
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For lack of a better term, I've called those "space games." The genre where spaceships have a top speed and laying off the throttle causes you to slow to a stop, where the most complicated elements are rebalancing energy or selecting ordnance to fire and where shooting down bombs before they hit your capital ship is the order of the day. They're definitely not sims but they're definitely my jam.
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Space trucking sims are just the worst, and that's all anyone makes now
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Dewgy posted:Yeah, I've poked around at them but they're needlessly complicated batch files. Not sure if ZDL or other Doom launchers are available on Mac, but here's how my loadout looks and it works fine (SoD = Spear of Destiny so those 3 are purely optional): Minidust fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Mar 30, 2016 |
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apparently I have an extra Doom closed beta key; was already in the alpha. so the first person with pms to post asking for it gets it.
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