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juggalo baby coffin posted:man sunlust gets challenging pretty fast huh? Yup I tried playing it with the combined arms mod and couldn't progress because there isn't a bfg-like nuke gun, which is definitely needed imo. Then I said screw it and loaded up trailblazer and crushed most levels easily with the overpowering weapons. Cathartic.
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Can someone please explained to me what QZdoom is / does, and how it relates both to Zdoom and GZdoom? Am I right in thinking it is to software-rendered Zdoom what GZdoom is to hardware accelerated? (I've tried gleaning this information from the QZdoom site itself, but I'm an idiot and it isn't very clear to me). Are there any advantages in using it over GZdoom in software mode or even just Zdoom itself if I don't want to use hardware acceleration?
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multistability posted:Can someone please explained to me what QZdoom is / does, and how it relates both to Zdoom and GZdoom? Am I right in thinking it is to software-rendered Zdoom what GZdoom is to hardware accelerated? (I've tried gleaning this information from the QZdoom site itself, but I'm an idiot and it isn't very clear to me). Are there any advantages in using it over GZdoom in software mode or even just Zdoom itself if I don't want to use hardware acceleration? GZDoom still has the old software renderer. Go to the video mode options and set the renderer to what you want: Doom Software: The old software renderer, with all its quirks and weirdness. True Colour SW: Ditto, but without being limited to the 256 colour palette. This was what QZDoom was created to test, really. Softpoly: The polygon-based renderer from the OpenGL renderer, except... in software. True Colour Softpoly: Self-explanatory. OpenGL-Accelerated: The GZDoom hardware renderer.
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Thanks for this! I guess I was confused by the whole True Colour SW thing. Sounds interesting, at least
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The Kins posted:QZDoom is the experimental fork where stuff that the developers are twiddling with that they aren't sure should even be in GZDoom is tested and developed before a decision is made. Currently it's basically identical to (an outdated version of) GZDoom, since all the stuff that was being tested made the jump. Oh, that's what True Color SW means. All this time I thought it referred to Shadow Warrior and I was like "why does the Shadow Warrior one have full color range but the doom one doesn't" because I'm stupid
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GZDoom question. I was hosting a coop game and decided to turn on item respawn but when I did 'sv_itemrespawn 1' in the console in said that only a 'setting controller' could do this. I'm the host!  Anybody have any idea how to be a 'setting controller'? I googled for it and checked the zdoom wiki and found diddly squat.
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Use the console command "net_listcontrollers" to know who the setting controllers are, "net_addcontroller" to add another player to the controller list, and "net_removecontroller" to remove a player from the list.
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True color sw has a lot higher hardware requirements though right? I mean, that probably won't matter much unless you have a poo poo computer like i do, but still
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site posted:True color sw has a lot higher hardware requirements though right? The system requirements to use it instead of the 256 color mode is approximately a 300 MHz Pentium II with 2 MB of video RAM and 32 MB of system RAM.
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fishmech posted:The system requirements to use it instead of the 256 color mode is approximately a 300 MHz Pentium II with 2 MB of video RAM and 32 MB of system RAM. Oh lol okay I thought I read a while back that it was way worse than that. I'll have to refresh my reading
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:You really shouldn't sleep on Ashes What title is this from? My backlog gets larger 
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site posted:Oh lol okay I thought I read a while back that it was way worse than that. I'll have to refresh my reading Yeah it's one of the features kept in the fork of GZDoom meant for use on Win9x computers and Win2000+ installs that don't have SSE2 instruction support. It's a rendering mode that only needs the capabilities of a late 90s system because it was implemented in a similar way to truecolor software renderers of that time. It's called GZDoom32 currently, used to go by ZDoom32.
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i probably am just mixing up stuff about scaling i had read about or something. its been a few months so my memory has gotten a bit jumbled together
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Narcissus1916 posted:What title is this from? My backlog gets larger That's Ashes 2063.
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Cat Mattress posted:Use the console command "net_listcontrollers" to know who the setting controllers are, "net_addcontroller" to add another player to the controller list, and "net_removecontroller" to remove a player from the list. Oh ho! Thanks.
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Surprise! The Soldier of Fortune games are now on GOG. Soldier of Fortune: Platinum Edition Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix Gold Edition That One Terrible ValuSoft Game Nobody Likes
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you can't play SoF 2 multiplayer any more, right?
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I would play the gently caress out of The Terrible One if they ever fixed the mouse controls. The best way to describe them is like they emulated thumbstick aiming with the mouse, just imprecise and unresponsive in a way that feels alien. It basically made playing it on a PC just north of impossible. Still, the guns look at sound cool, and that's most of what I want in a disposable FPS. The one thing that's really kept the game in the corner of my mind all these years is its aiming: instead of just choosing between hipfire and iron sights, there's an intermediate aiming level where you shoulder the weapon but don't sight up, giving you better control than hipfire but greater visibility up close than your sights. I didn't know how badly I wanted that in a tactical sim FPS and, as far a I know, nobody else has ever done it
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The Kins posted:Surprise! The Soldier of Fortune games are now on GOG. Oh poo poo  I had always filed these games in the "never gonna happen" category due to the SoF Magazine license
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Time to blow some limbs off
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Holy poo poo SoF games. Funnily enough I replayed 1 like two months ago and I still like it. Don't know how 2 aged with the slower gameplay.
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What is it with Activision games and not having them digitally available anyway? I shouldn't have to resort to  if I wanted to play Heretic II or Wolfenstien 2009
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Strangely enough, SOF2 was my first real multiplayer shooter experience; it was popular at the webcafe I went to on weekends.
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I think for sof2 i spent most of my time in that custom campaign mode where you can choose a level and a difficulty and an objective type and it randomized how many guys there were and how they were placed I hope it holds up Actually i never played 1i suppose i should give that a whirl now that its available
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Anybody know why I'm getting Doom weapons and enemies in Ashes? Just doing the drag and drop into GzDoom method like it says to and music, menus, and maps all work fine like expected,..
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Naganted posted:Anybody know why I'm getting Doom weapons and enemies in Ashes? Check to see if your general GZDoom config has you loading other mods.
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Naganted posted:Anybody know why I'm getting Doom weapons and enemies in Ashes? The release distribution includes two files, Ashes2063Maps.wad and Ashes2063Mod.pk3. (Plus the readme.) You need to load the file with the maps as well. If you're lazy, you can open the pk3 in 7zip (or any other zip manager of your choice) and drag-and-drop the maps.wad file in its root directory, so that the maps will be automatically loaded. It's not the most elegant way of doing that, but it's the simplest. (The recommended method would be separating each map into its own individual wad file, and then putting them in the pk3's maps/ folder.)
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site posted:I think for sof2 i spent most of my time in that custom campaign mode where you can choose a level and a difficulty and an objective type and it randomized how many guys there were and how they were placed As soon as I get SoF2 I'll see if it holds up well. SoF1 is more arcadey and holds up nicely in the shooting part since you can set always run and blast enemies with the magnum in the head. SoF2 had recoil and spread so you had to take the game slower. Also SoF2 had more issues running on modern hardware than SoF1 (just a modified quake 2 engine with the dismember stuff). So I've been out of luck of using my retail gold since... 2006 or something.
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Just discovered wadsmoosh on the zdoom forums. Had to do a little finagling with slade to get the plutonia midi pack in, and the final pk3 is only like 17mb compared to the 40 the op says it would be, so im a little worried something didnt work right, but having all the iwads built into one is pretty sweet. E: oh and deep in the thread is a link to a mod that turns doom-complete.pk3 into one giant megawad lol nice and AND i found on doomworld that someone just recently put out a dehacked patch/wad that adds smoothdoom weapon animations to vanilla doom/prboom Pretty good day for dooming today site fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Oct 2, 2018 |
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I solved my issue, should've just been not lazy and tried out extracting the files and dragging and dropping those. Having a lot of fun ferreting out secrets and stuff so far.
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DoombatINC posted:[Soldier of Fortune: Payback] instead of just choosing between hipfire and iron sights, there's an intermediate aiming level where you shoulder the weapon but don't sight up, giving you better control than hipfire but greater visibility up close than your sights. I didn't know how badly I wanted that in a tactical sim FPS and, as far a I know, nobody else has ever done it The only other time I remember seeing this type of aiming was in the UT'99 mod Infiltration. You could keep your weapon at a low-ready and fire from that position, or snap up to the irons or optics really quick. Infiltration was janky and super slow paced but I thought it was awesome at the time.
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DoombatINC posted:
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I've played all three of those games and somehow must've missed that  I put hundreds of hours into Infiltration, especially - that game pulled off some crazy poo poo considering what they were working with at the time. I still my remember my loadout of choice: a P90, a Five-seveN and a couple frags. Enough firepower to depopulate a base ten times over, but mobile as a minx even with heavy armor 
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Wow, other people who have even heard of Infiltration. Great game/mod, and I still remember the devs musing that they had no real path forwards into a U2 engine, with America's Army coming around the corner. Different times, man.
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The worst thing about Infiltration is that the bot AI was, unsurprisingly, fairly incompetent with the mod's weapons and mechanics. When I was younger, I so wished the bots were better with that mod. But it was not meant to be.
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I too enjoyed Infiltration for UT, much more than any of the other tactilol mods. My load-out of choice was a MP5 with two clips*, shotgun with no extra ammo and a single grenade. Being mobile and rushing at the start was great. *Infiltration forums anno 2001 are triggered
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The best part about Infiltration was, in the later versions that tried to be a whole separate game with its own gameplay mechanics and maps and everything - if you, like me, didn't quite have the patience to work with that, you could run the game normally and just spawn the weapons in through the console and play with them with bots who had an idea what they were doing (I didn't get into it until it was old news, unfortunately, so I never played it with other people). Covert Forces was more my jam because I remember it having three or four times as many guns, and most versions came with WoRM plugins to more easily pick what the game spawned, but Infiltration was still cool as hell because it was just so different from how regular UT looked or played or was even started. I particularly liked that you could fire your gun from the hip without it necessarily pointing towards the center of the screen, even if it made non-aimed firing difficult.
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