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There should be a shader that mimics what an old CRT looks like when a news team is filming it while someone complains about videogames on the 6pm evening news. 
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Apr 17, 2017 22:59
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I know I've mentioned it in this thread before, but this seems like a good time as any to reiterate: I've still got a couple of nice CRT monitors that I can push up to 160hz vsynced and fast FPS games like Quake and GZDoom look so impossibly smooth on them that it re-blows my mind every time I heave them out of storage. And they do look a bit soft, compared to a 1080p display, but nothing like any faux-CRT filter that I've ever seen. Edit: and black levels? shiiiiiiiiit... Copper Vein fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Apr 17, 2017 |
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Apr 17, 2017 23:16
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:There should be a shader that mimics what an old CRT looks like when a news team is filming it while someone complains about videogames on the 6pm evening news.  Copper Vein posted:I know I've mentioned it in this thread before, but this seems like a good time as any to reiterate: I've still got a couple of nice CRT monitors that I can push up to 160hz vsynced and fast FPS games like Quake and GZDoom look so impossibly smooth on them that it re-blows my mind every time I heave them out of storage. Yeah but get a 144Hz LCD with g-sync and you get the best of both worlds. Impossibly smooth but also modern resolution. 
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Apr 17, 2017 23:55
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Killing Time is 76% off at GOG right now, just over £2. No idea if any good. Slave Zero and Requiem: Avenging Angel also reduced.
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Apr 18, 2017 13:17
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs8U9Ns32JY
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Apr 18, 2017 14:59
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i'm really impressed how well the level design in dark forces 2: jedi knight holds up. they manage to feel open without being labyrinthine or confusing. i'd only ever played the demo back in the day so no rose colored glasses. hopefully mysteries of the sith is just as good, about to start it next. i wouldn't recommend the Jedi Knight Enhanced packs though. the higher poly models just look.. off.
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Apr 18, 2017 16:28
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Trip report, Crispy Doom is awesome. It's exactly what I was looking for.
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Apr 18, 2017 16:34
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the nucas posted:i'm really impressed how well the level design in dark forces 2: jedi knight holds up. they manage to feel open without being labyrinthine or confusing. i'd only ever played the demo back in the day so no rose colored glasses. hopefully mysteries of the sith is just as good, about to start it next. Jedi Knight does have some really nice levels. You can tell the developers were really psyched to have the opportunity to make true 3D spaces, they went to a lot of effort to make it fun to move around the world. The game has its problems for sure but as far as the maps go, they were ambitious and mostly successful. Mysteries isn't anywhere near as good imo. There's some good maps but a lot are memorable only for their difficulty. The relative lack of boss fights also really hurts the game for me.
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Apr 18, 2017 18:29
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skasion posted:Jedi Knight does have some really nice levels. You can tell the developers were really psyched to have the opportunity to make true 3D spaces, they went to a lot of effort to make it fun to move around the world. The game has its problems for sure but as far as the maps go, they were ambitious and mostly successful. I don't remember MotS being all that difficult other than Dromund Kaas, but basically all the other levels were very memorable for their map and environment designs. I think the games are about par in quality, but JK has the edge of being bigger and having fantastic FMV cutscenes.
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Apr 18, 2017 20:38
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Doesn't mysteries of the sith start with you rushing through a huge ship as it crashes into the earth? Or am I misremembering its position in the game?
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Apr 18, 2017 20:54
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^^^nope, that's in Jedi Knight, right after the Maw duel if I recall. Outstanding level, albeit gimmicky.Jehde posted:I don't remember MotS being all that difficult other than Dromund Kaas, but basically all the other levels were very memorable for their map and environment designs. MotS has some good set pieces (the sniping bit on the asteroid, the timed escape, the rancor fight, the weird giant underwater zone and the reduced gravity zone in the crime lord base, Dark Mara) and a couple of standout levels (the Kyle levels at the start are all solid, as well as the said crime lord base and the pirates attacking the ship) but there's long stretches that just happen without too much of interest. I feel like it doesn't have very good pacing or difficulty curve compared to the original campaign.
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Apr 18, 2017 20:56
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I tried playing JK recently and got put off by a) having to limit the FPS to 47 and b) having to choose between a decent resolution and a readable HUD. For the latter there's a custom replacement but it looks awful 
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Apr 18, 2017 21:36
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Jedi Knight also has some of the best fan made levels ever. massassi.net has everything you need.
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Apr 18, 2017 21:49
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the nucas posted:i'm really impressed how well the level design in dark forces 2: jedi knight holds up. they manage to feel open without being labyrinthine or confusing. i'd only ever played the demo back in the day so no rose colored glasses. hopefully mysteries of the sith is just as good, about to start it next.
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Apr 18, 2017 21:50
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Doesn't mysteries of the sith start with you rushing through a huge ship as it crashes into the earth? Or am I misremembering its position in the game? I hardly remember MotS at all, but there is definitely a crashing ship level about 3/4 of the way through Jedi Knight.
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Apr 18, 2017 22:25
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Narcissus1916 posted:Jedi Knight also has some of the best fan made levels ever. massassi.net has everything you need. No joke. JK modding was my introduction to modding, and it really spoiled it for me. So much out there, and so easy to use mods. It's comparable to Doom in level of difficulty to run the mods, which is something I don't feel like happens too frequently anymore. This is assuming you use Patch Commander, and that PC is still available. I think MZZT made an alternative mod loader at some point too
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Apr 18, 2017 22:41
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Some Jedi Knight forum and chatroom was my first web community. I remember when this level came out. Then we all left and played Delta Force.
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Apr 19, 2017 06:15
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I thought this one was awesome when it cane out. as good as the base game even. I couldn't for the life of me remember what it was called until some goon was able to find it with my description. On reinstall I found that it's really not all that great. I guess what probably attracted me was that it was at least somewhat competently made, and actually had an attempt at a story.
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Apr 19, 2017 07:16
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This russian video game website is giving out 20.000 Quake Champions keys, all you have to do is make an account. After a cursory googling they seem legitimate enough and I was able to redeem my key with no issues.
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Bloodmobile posted:This russian video game website is giving out 20.000 Quake Champions keys, all you have to do is make an account. After a cursory googling they seem legitimate enough and I was able to redeem my key with no issues. The keys might be legit, but hell no.
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Apr 19, 2017 16:08
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A.o.D. posted:The keys might be legit, but hell no. Your loss! Seems like it's a popular forum about games in Russia, just because it's in russian doesn't automatically make it suspicious. You have to remember that Quake Champions is being codeveloped by a Russian studio and Quake has always been pretty big over there. Hell, they even did the reveal of the QC duel mode in a russian video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrfWtFPgVnw Which apparently works by each player picking 3 characters with 1 life each. Once you die 3 times and lose all your characters, the round ends. Maps are played best of 3 rounds. They show a full match at around 5 minutes in, featuring a several time QuakeCon duel winner playing against a dev. Bloodmobile fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Apr 20, 2017 |
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Apr 19, 2017 16:24
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Use a disposable email service, they don't ask for anything else. Of course it may be a fake key for a fake Russian Quake that may try to infect you with fake news, so keep alert. ...giving away twenty billion keys yet they still couldn't send me one.
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Bloodmobile posted:Hell, they even did the reveal of the QC duel mode in a russian video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C35fIJJc4m4 I like some of the things they do there. You can choose your starting gun between mediocre stuff but all the goodies you need to grab on the map. The specials aren't Overwatch-style ultimates but just a tool you can use to get an edge in a fight. And that's a pretty clever way to rotate through multiple characters in a duel mode so you don't have both players just using the same hero in a mirror match the whole time. I think it's funny that Ranger's special ability is just the drat Translocator, though.
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Apr 19, 2017 18:17
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Just a heads up, less well known angelic shooter Requiem Avenging Angel is on sale on GOG right now. https://www.gog.com/game/requiem_avenging_angel I only played the demo but I remember the special powers you could use being fun, will buy this myself I think
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Apr 19, 2017 19:22
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Already bought a copy during that Steam sale for it, like, a week or two ago? I'll probably get around to playing it in 2030.
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Apr 19, 2017 19:49
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Casimir Radon posted:I thought this one was awesome when it cane out. as good as the base game even. I couldn't for the life of me remember what it was called until some goon was able to find it with my description. On reinstall I found that it's really not all that great. I guess what probably attracted me was that it was at least somewhat competently made, and actually had an attempt at a story. That modder went on to make some of the best Jedi Knight mods. There's the birth of a mercenary and tales of a mercenary series, which almost feel professionally made. They're a prequel to the series, one of which details Kyle's time at the imperial academy. The other teams Kyle up with Han Solo and it doesn't feel too fan servicey. He even made a Mace Windu level for Jedi Outcast that's really solid. His last project was a Jedi Academy level where you played as Darth Vader. All of these are very, very good.
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By the way, it's now officially announced that Turok 2 now has Steam/GOG crossplay. You should already have the build capable of doing this as well. If you're on Steam, GOG lobbies can be created/entered simply by going to the specifically marked GOG Galaxy options in the multiplayer menu. If you're on GOG, download GOG Galaxy and the multiplayer lobbies will become available as long as you're logged in.
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Apr 20, 2017 02:40
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Turok 2 is out???? Know what I'm doing this weekend.
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Apr 20, 2017 15:02
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It's been out for a month and the remaster has very good reviews.
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Apr 20, 2017 15:07
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The Turok 2 remaster is great and improves upon the original game.
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Turok 2 is pretty great but i ran into a bug where the third floaty ghost sister didn't show up in level 2 and now I can't complete it Also the levels are just too drat big, i wish they'd gone for 2/3 the size at most. The music and textures etc just get too samey after that point and I lose all interest.
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Apr 20, 2017 16:26
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Welcome to N64 shooters. Except Daikatana. That had short small levels.
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Apr 20, 2017 16:52
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The grandfather of all modern multiplayer first person shooters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Tm6jbPC8k
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Convex posted:Turok 2 is pretty great but i ran into a bug where the third floaty ghost sister didn't show up in level 2 and now I can't complete it I'd like to say we fixed that but I'm honestly not sure (it sure hasn't been reported for a long time, so that's a good sign). The singleplayer had way too many persistent state conflict bugs. Thanks Iguana.  What we can't fix is a save that already failed to do a one time trigger. Our save serializer is memory accurate (99% of the time, there's a couple of holes due to Turok2's module component system), which unfortunately comes with its own issue that we can't arbitrarily change the conditions on persistent objects or trigger them. Oddly if we had the checkpoint system, which everybody complained about for Turok1, that wouldn't actually be a problem. 
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Apr 20, 2017 22:10
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Rocket Pan posted:I'd like to say we fixed that but I'm honestly not sure (it sure hasn't been reported for a long time, so that's a good sign). The singleplayer had way too many persistent state conflict bugs. Thanks Iguana.
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Rocket Pan posted:I'd like to say we fixed that but I'm honestly not sure (it sure hasn't been reported for a long time, so that's a good sign). The singleplayer had way too many persistent state conflict bugs. Thanks Iguana. Thanks for replying. Given I'll have to start a new save, is there any way to cheat to just have levels 1 and 2 completed so i can continue from there?
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Apr 20, 2017 23:36
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Lork posted:Would it be feasible to re-implement the checkpoints to allow the option to make a save that only keeps a limited subset of the data like I assume the original version did, or would that be way too much work? Players could use the save point system as a failsafe in situations like this, or just as an alternative to the manual saves if they prefer to play that way in the first place. It would be a lot of work to re-implement and test, but who knows what the future holds. We still have an Xbox version to release, after all, and for technical reasons any additions to that would be ported to the PC as well. Convex posted:Thanks for replying. Given I'll have to start a new save, is there any way to cheat to just have levels 1 and 2 completed so i can continue from there? Because of the non-linear function of the game, there's no obvious level completion state (at least in my mind there isn't, I primarily worked on multiplayer). It's a bit like trying to warp to a different area in a Metroid game. So in short, no there's no cheat for that. Rocket Pan fucked around with this message at 23:46 on Apr 20, 2017 |
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Apr 20, 2017 23:36
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Rocket Pan posted:It would be a lot of work to re-implement and test, but who knows what the future holds. We still have an Xbox version to release, after all, and for technical reasons any additions to that would be ported to the PC as well. Can you use console wizardry to mark certain objectives as compete? Or to add keys, feathers, or talismans to your inventory?
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Actually yes (why didn't I think of that?), you can give yourself inventory via the 'giveinventory #' command. What the inventory numbers are is pretty much magic numbers (again, thank Iguana), but fortunately the inventory menu reveals what the important numbers are. (If you want to see the full list, pop open game.kpf in 7-zip or Slade3, and open defs/inventoryInfo.txt.)code:Rocket Pan fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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Hey guys, sorry if this is a dumb question but in PRBoom and GZDoom is there a way to disable mouselook but make it so moving the mouse forward doesn't move my guy forward?
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