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New Horizon

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  1. My personal feeling is that it could be confusing to have two versions floating around. That and there being so much left to do on the latest version.
  2. Yeah, I spoke to him a few years back and he had absolutely zero interest in doing anything in cooperation with TDM, and yes he did a straight port of the TDS assets into Doom 3.
  3. I force installed AMD drivers on a laptop years ago when Quake Wars came out. Prior to the forced install, the game played with mostly black textures and stuttered. After, all textures displayed properly and the fps increased substantially.
  4. The AI don't wake up after being knocked out, because it would encourage the player to kill rather than knockout. Now, the player can still kill if they so choose but that is then reflected in their stealth score. Knockouts are a non-lethal way to remove an obstacle from the players path. More hardcore players may choose to ghost a mission and never touch a single AI. The game is balanced a certain way for a reason.
  5. It's a game. It's meant to be fun, not a perfect simulation of reality.
  6. Nice to see this finally happening. I had requested a feature like this years ago. It could have so many uses.
  7. Because we wanted to give him another chance to correct course and prove himself. Banning isn't something we take lightly, but when you defend someone and they repeatedly let you down...well, you have to draw a line somewhere.
  8. I'm inclined to agree. Thief 3 level creation was pretty much all based on using existing modules and skins to build your own environments but copy / pasting an arrangement someone else made and just changing the skins and adding a tree here and there doesn't count as an original creation. He's a talented mapper with some really great skills when it comes to optimizing, but I think maybe the praise has gone to his head because he just charges ahead making changes to another persons work. It's just not common sense.
  9. Sorry, but no there is no general dislike of Biker as a person. His actions, yes, but not him as a person. I don't know how many different ways it can be said but here goes one last time. The plagiarizing is only the latest issue, he had also been making unwanted changes to other mappers work. Asking to 'bug fix' a few particular issues and then redesigning their maps to his liking. That is NOT acceptable and we have given him a pass for long enough. This has been going on for several years and we lost talented mappers because of it. He has been spoken to again and again and again. Yet, the problem keeps happening. WHY? I have personally defended him on many occasions. Enough years wasted and enough chances given. I'm sorry but he has had enough time to learn from his mistakes. When you keep making the same mistake over and over it's no longer a mistake, it's a CHOICE.
  10. Where are you getting the idea that his posts have been nuked? That would destroy the flow of many threads and render them useless.
  11. The community is far from tearing itself apart and I don't think it's appropriate to post private drama publicly. It's bad enough that so much has spilled over into the public forums already. I and others have posted that this has been going on for a few years now. We have lost many talented creators because of this. We gave Biker so many chances to learn and change his ways, but every time the same stuff just kept happening. It's NOT right. Whether he is actively sabotaging anything is irrelevant at this point. He needs to sort himself out. We gave him numerous chances to course correct and he didn't. His actions have caused unnecessary drama with a number of content creators and been very destructive. At one point when he had admin privileges on the forum, he deleted a bunch of stuff and created a huge headache for the other admins who had to repair the forum. As I mentioned above, Biker himself had requested that we ban him in the past...I guess because he didn't trust himself not to cross lines...but we refused because that's not normally how we do things. We've finally reached the point where it was clear he wasn't going to change. Life goes on folks. Given the years of chances he has been given to correct his behavior, this ban isn't extreme at all...not in the slightest. It's not like this was a flip decision.
  12. What about all the equally talented content creators we have lost over the past few years? Not a tear shed for them? The situation with Biker has been getting worse and worse. He is a talented mapper but he is certainly not the person holding the mod together. There are a handful of humble people quietly working hard behind the scenes, rarely making a peep in regard to seeking recognition. Biker has been spoken to so many times, and I have long been one to defend him and suggest patience, giving him chance after chance. This time was the last straw for me. Whatever personal issues Biker has, he needs to solve them on his own. His behavior has cost us far too many talented mappers. Biker had asked us to Ban him in the past, as if he felt he couldn't control himself, we chose not to at that point. We don't normally ban anyone. Today was the day though. It had to happen. Enough is enough.
  13. Pardon my ignorance. What does that mean?
  14. A coworker who bought and VR headset brought this to my attention since he knows I'm a Thief fan. The guy playing it in the video is a bit annoying, but it looks pretty good overall.
  15. System Shock 3 is under development with a different team at Otherside.
  16. Patching bugs, yes, but I believe the problems with UA go far deeper than just bugs.
  17. The doom 3 versions wouldn't be compatible with Dark Radiant. Might get some ideas from them but aside from that, it's going to be a start from scratch affair.
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