Kaboom Dragoon posted:

Kinda reminds me of another FPS I was playing recently, where if I used a shotgun, I'd occasionally run into this glitch where I'd never stop reloading. It'd just keep feeding shells into the gun like the world's most morbid clown car. Damned if I can remember what game it was though.

WeaponGradeSadness posted:

I googled it and apparently the normal console commands to set someone as inessential don't work either lol. Everyone who has it is stuck waiting on a patch.

moist turtleneck posted:

You used to be able to kill yourself if you crouched in a pool of water and shot your own knee

haveblue posted:

That was fixed a patch or two ago

You can still do this (1:00) though.

Tunicate posted:

Rules.ini gave kid me high expectations for easy game modding, which sadly have not been met in modern games.

stuffed crust punk posted:

did the voxel editors come later? coulda sworn when I played tibsun back in the day there was neither a real map editor or a unit editor

LifeSunDeath posted:

totally agree, Dismount gave me so many hours of enjoyment. I'm really sad that the Wreckfest soft body physics tech still hasn't been implemented widely. I want a mashup game of Burnout, Red Faction, and Dismount, with all the most advanced physics engines.

stuffed crust punk posted:

the thing that drives me nuts and seems to keep happening over and over again is game logic is tied to framerate. the dark souls pc port had something like double damage or double weapon degradation or something when people modded it to run at 60fps because it determined those things by the number of frames where a weapon intersected with a target or some poo poo like that. I make loving phone apps and I'd be fired for putting business logic values in the ui

haveblue posted:

A fellow goon got even more literally SHAME CUBEd in Destiny 2 the other day.

https://i.imgur.com/cOjpYFg.gifv

Barudak posted:

The best use of the kinect ever was sports game ls saying "the manager is getting heated!" Or tossing you unsportsmanlike conduct penalties when it detected swearing.

Hel posted:

It's like games not having loading screens, first it seemed like a cool idea, but then it just turned into the player mashing a button to squeeze through a beam, or being forced to slowly walk down a corridor

tight aspirations posted:

Watching cutscenes should present a different narrative to skipping them

dialhforhero posted:

Honestly the optical illusions game devs come up with, or the funny way an item/vehicle/element is actually this bastardized vehicle or armor or NPC to creat the illusion is fascinating to me and I want to know/see more. It is separate threadworthy tbh.

RBA Starblade posted:

One of my favorites is that Freelancer had sun coronas and planet atmospheres that would burn you up if you flew at the related bodies to hide the fact that 1. they're actually really small except 2. if you're in a strong enough ship you can mash heal and shield restore and hit the sun and bounce off it

Woolwich Bagnet posted:

star citizen has the best bugs, and is definitely releasing any day now

https://v.redd.it/upjm19xwf2r81/DASH_480.mp4

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

ELEX 2 is worlds better than ELEX 1

Elfface posted:

Probably already known, but...

Today I learned that everyone in the original Half Life is that guy from Police Academy/Spaceballs who does sound effects. The game only allowed certain types of thing to make noises, and inanimate objects were not among them.

Every time a security guard presses a button and it goes 'beep', the guard is saying 'beep'. Ordinarily, just a funny quirk. It doesn't matter what process creates the sound so long as it sounds right to the player.

However, Half Life also had a simple lip-flap script to make NPCs animate when they're talking, and though they do their best to hide it by having them lean into the panels, this script is still running for sound effects.

This even applies to Gordon's model if you force 3rd person. When he fires a shotgun, he's yelling "blam". When he recharges his suit, he's saying "Nyeeeeowwww bleephmmmm bleephmmm". When the suit says "Welcome to the HEV Mk4 Protective System" Gordon's mouth is moving.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Someone made a mod for a shooter where they replaced every single sound effect with them just saying it.

Guns went "bang", reloading was a clip of the guy going "k-chk" etc.

haveblue posted:

We've all been there. One of my first forays into 3D graphics led to me spending an hour investigating why my mesh renderer wasn't working, only to discover the scale was so wrong that it was outside the far clip plane in all directions

Philippe posted:

Yeah I'll strap a balloon to a tank and put it on my helicopter, there's nothing unrealistic about that.

RatHat posted:

Overwatch 2 is having some...issues

https://twitter.com/BlessingJr/status/1580281938971009027?s=20&t=GtyjrWV7l93mMibxuayAdw

Pile Of Garbage posted:

Some SS13 shenanigans: https://cohost.org/xkeeper/post/825183-space-station-13-is

credburn posted:

Hey I know I'm like a decade late in asking this question, but is GTAV and Grand Theft Auto Online two different things? Or are they the same?

NoneMoreNegative posted:

moist turtleneck posted:

Not sure why Bethesda does anything besides Skyrim and fallout rereleases

Seth Pecksniff posted:

I remember when Zelda was about a kid with a sword who hosed around with a chicken and found out

DontMockMySmock posted:

Another crippling AI bug from I've experienced is from the old Microprose Magic: the Gathering game, although this one isn't the original dev's fault. The game was released in 1997, but in the decades since, a bunch of cards from more recent Magic sets have been modded into the game. Enter Oona's Prowler, a 3/1 flying creature for 1B that has an ability that lets any player discard a card to give it -2/-0 until end of turn, shrinking its attack power. This is usually not worth it for an opponent to do, because a card is usually worth more than 2 damage. I put it in my deck because I was trying to play reanimator, and it's a decent way to get big creatures into the discard to be reanimated. But it turns out that as soon as you play it, the AI will immediately decide that they need to shrink its power down to zero, even though it's not attacking yet. And, in fact, they'll keep on discarding cards, even after its power is already zero. So on turn 1 or 2, you can play Oona's Prowler, and instantly destroy your opponent's entire hand. If that sounds like it's so devastating that you basically have won the game already just by playing this single 2-mana creature, then you'd be correct.

I think this bug exists because the original game's card pool doesn't have any activated abilities with a discard in the cost, so the way the ability would have to be coded, or maybe just the way it's interpreted by the AI, is as an ability that costs nothing and causes the player who activated it to discard a card and the creature to shrink. So the AI sees: an ability I can do that costs nothing? Hell yeah, let's do that. Okay, that's done, now what? Oh look, an ability I can activate that costs nothing! And repeat.

Golden Dragon posted:

really looking forward to seeing what new and exciting jank Starfield will give us