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@McPhisto2051Ah damn. Are you playing on Linux? There is a known bug with the save system. The saves should be labelled and not generic names like "save_1"
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1 minute ago, chakkman said:
@kingsalFair enough. It's your decision. I won't play it. No hard feelings.
None taken.
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6 hours ago, chakkman said:
E.g., I think save rooms as done in Kingsal's mission are absolutely horrible. Even if it's only on expert difficulty. What if I want the expert objectives, but don't want to be restricted to only saving in save rooms? Yeah, bummer.
Well, guess its a bad mission then since bad games restrict players
EDIT: In all seriousness, I've had lengthy discussions about the save room mechanic. The only way to really do it is to commit to it and balance the level and objectives around it. Or find a clever way to make it optional- through items bought in the store, optional objectives, whatever. I like some of @snatcher's suggestions.-
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Thank you! Glad you liked them.
You know that sound might be a part of the ambient track. To be honest- I didn't really know what I was doing with ambients back then. Also send me your save game and Ill have a look.
2 hours ago, Trueblue1878 said:Thoroughly enjoyable though and could easily have been designed by LGS. Do you have any more missions planned?
Thank you, thats very high praise. I have two more volta missions in the works; one should will be done by the end of summer and the next probably late this year depending on my schedule.
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3 hours ago, Trueblue1878 said:
I can't figure out what the first secret in Volta II is about? Surely too elaborate for just 25g and a Fire Arrow! Any hints?
Thats it! Its just to hint at a faction you'll encounter later on in the campaign and give another little area to explore.
Big vibrating noise?QuoteMaybe the horn you blow at the end?
A lot of the secrets and extra items are there for additional replays- I don't expect players to find everything in one play through. That key should unlock the gate if its the one I am thinking of. Might be a bug actually -
It's definitely something worth exploring imo. I played around with this in Hazard Pay- it was kind of a mixed bag of players that liked and didn't like it. To be honest, I learned a lot and made some mistakes, but I think it can be a lot of fun for some and gives the mission that extra level of intensity and survivalist feel.
I did something similar to resident evil. Save rooms with save items that you collect throughout the level. I ended up only doing it on expert and to be honest it was difficult to test and balance. However, I'm always up for playing missions with more options for difficulty, including save restrictions. -
@marblemanAgreed, I don't think we should change the core functions of the ladder, especially if its going to change the stealth gameplay (probably to some peoples dismay)
18 hours ago, Daft Mugi said:I decided I probably don't have anything else of value to contribute to this topic, since I would just be repeating myself a lot. So, yeah, I felt frustrated repeating myself a lot. And, because I felt drained from so much disagreement with my contributions thus far, I thought it would be better to not participate anymore on this topic and to let everyone know that.
I feel ya there, for what its worth I 100 percent support adding a toggle crouch on release feature. We just need to be diligent about changes to core movement as they can have a cascading effect on the mod and its 100+ missions. You've already shown the path forward its just going to take some time to make sure it all dove tails with the core mod.
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On 6/20/2022 at 1:59 AM, Obsttorte said:
I never intented nor wrote that.
I never said you did, bud.
By "usability options" I mean things like crouch toggle responsiveness. Not gameplay approaches.
@stgatilovI did some further testing, we should probably allow players to grab ladders/ ropes while in a crouch position or we run the risk of breaking missions that allow players to climb to a ladder in small space, like a sewer or attic.
EDIT: Ill do more testing, but I am pretty worried about the effect this will have on missions if we change the rules around when/ how a ladder can be grabbed.
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I dont see a problem with adding those cvars, however we should not default to the new behavior, especially without thorough testing. It might satisfy a few players, but has the potential to irritate a whole swatch of people who are used to it being the current way.
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3 minutes ago, Daft Mugi said:
Do you have tdm_crouch_toggle_hold_time set to a really high value?
What is the penalty?
I agree. Earlier, I mentioned real life versus game life in this thread.
Mine is set to default "tdm_crouch_toggle_hold_time" "400"
Its a speed penalty, just like when crouch walking, which actually makes me wonder if it also reduces climbing sounds. -
On 6/19/2022 at 1:43 PM, Daft Mugi said:
Regular-crouch players cannot attach to a ladder while crouching, because they will immediately slide. They must stand before attaching to a ladder.
Incorrect. https://www.dropbox.com/s/l5m3j6ks5nc2dw5/The Dark Mod 2.10_64 2022-06-19 13-50-29.mp4?dl=0
On 6/19/2022 at 1:43 PM, Daft Mugi said:Why penalize the player for using ladders? Ladders felt awful in TDM until I learned that regular crouch felt normal. I fixed the speed issue for toggle crouch by making it the same as regular crouch.
I don't think you read my response. There is a speed penalty to being crouched on a ladder when you grab it in a crouched position.
On 6/19/2022 at 1:43 PM, Daft Mugi said:Regular-crouch players cannot be crouched on a ladder. Also, people cannot exactly "crouch" on a ladder in real life. Why make toggle crouch this way?
Regardless of what you can and can't do in real life, TDM is not a real life simulator. Our goal is to make the game fun while still offering as many usability options as we can manage. We'll make toggle crouch on press, but we'll need to do it with the least amount of wake on 100+ missions.
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29 minutes ago, stgatilov said:
Note that the lightgem indicator does not reflect whether player is currently crouched, it shows "crouch intent" --- whether player wants to be crouched or not. For instance, when you go through a pipe, you can toggle crouch and the indicator near lightgem will toggle too, but the player will stay crouched all the time.
Huh interesting, I didn't realize that. I don't think that changes my thoughts much, but its good to know there is an intent there.
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This is an interesting problem. I played around with ladders a bit today.
@stgatilov I agree that we should not dramatically change the current ladder behavior if we can help it. To @Obsttorte's point, it is unrealistic to climb a ladder while crouched. However I think the speed penalty there is fair and the alternative solutions really suck:
- Not allowing players to grab a ladder from crouch will break expectations and likely break some stealth encounters.
- Arbitrarily popping the players head up when they grab a ladder will be doing an action without an input, which is typically not desirable and also might break stealth encounters.
Here are my observations:- The interesting thing is you can "stand up" on a ladder, but cannot go back to a crouch (however the lightgem says otherwise). Unless there is a reason for this, I don't see any harm in animating the players head back to a crouch position to match the light gem response. Once again, the speed penalty there seems fair and mimics the core movement mechanics.
- IMO - Toggle crouch should always keep the player crouched. So with it on, ladders and sliding both happen in a crouched position. At some speed penalty
- I agree with @stgatilov having an undesired crouch/ stand state change at the end of sliding sucks. Can we negate that key release all together? Crouch toggle of course will just keep you in a crouch state regardless?
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Also Requiem is fantastic and features a cool underground city vibe. Well worth your time!
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You can type "tdm_show_loot" in the console and it will very directly show you where the loot is! Its pretty spoilery though
The lost city is one of my favs and I've made two missions based on that, Volta 2 and Hazard Pay.-
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1 hour ago, Nort said:
I then guess that the best I can do, is keep releasing my inofficial patches, and hope that they'll make it easier for a more experienced dev to implement them.
Sounds like a good approach!
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21 minutes ago, Nort said:
Who is in charge of definition and model scripting, now that Springheel is gone? I want to talk spawnargs with that person in DMs
No one particular dev is in charge of "def and model spawnargs". We all create those as features or assets come online. Dragofer answered your question, the best way to get bugs fixed is to log them in the tracker, do not directly PM devs about bugs as those have a tendency to get lost and can't be tracked.
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On 5/16/2022 at 11:09 AM, stgatilov said:
No idea.
To be honest, md5 models are not just "models", maybe they are in different category (like reloadAnims or reloadMd5) ?
Thanks for the tip. Im fairly certain it used to work on reloadModels but I will try some other commands.
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Is anyone else experiencing this problem? When I use reloadModels my MD5 models aren't updating. Apologies if this is is already a known issue.
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2 hours ago, Shadow said:
Still these zombies kept me on my toes, and they were exceptionally gifted in the hearing department. They found me from half a large room away while crouching and moving forward slowly. Luckily there are lots of hiding vertical hiding places and the means to scramble away easily.
Thanks for playing, glad you liked it. These zombies are pretty amped up. I struggled to find a good balance there so thanks for the feedback, it will help me tune them in the future.
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That part in the Sword blew my mind. We did a very small section like that in Snowed Inn and there is something similar in TPW but nothing thats full on a little big world mission afaik.
Also agree that we don't have enough trickster-ish levels and exotic locations. There might be a couple levels on the horizon to fix that
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Congrats on the release! This was excellent and felt like a proper train mission.
SpoilerI especially loved all the narrow spaces and tight stealth. Each section of the train felt unique and fun to navigate. Very cool! Can't wait for the next mission.
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Hello! I've made some minor bug fixes to this mission. Update to version 5. @nbohr1more I am unable to access the mission archive and mirrors atm. Would you mind updating this for me?
@TheUnbeholdenAh bummer, where you able to pick it up after reloading? Where was the blowtorch?
@TarhielThank you for the kind words! I'm glad you tried out the different ways to complete the objective
@Melchior Thank you! Glad you dug it.-
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Fan Mission : Hazard Pay by Kingsal 01/27/22
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Yeah sorry about that
. The only reports Ive had about corrupted saves where on Linux. It's odd that its 0kb. Unfortunately, there isn't much help I can offer here. If you have the energy you could play it on Normal or Hard. Thanks for giving the mission a shot though.
EDIT: Something is definitely broken- the mission should not be creating saves named "Save_1" - Just double checking you are using TDM 2.10?