Chiron
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This update has also been shared/posted on the "Free Gamer" Blog:
http://freegamer.blogspot.de/2013/04/some-idtech4-games-progress.html
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Well it is not like they haven't tried to talk to Eidos back when the first sourcecode surfaced and was given to Eidos, but then Eidos didn't do squad.
They ignored requests and played deaf. So I really doubt that Eidos is open for negotiations.
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I'm not sure what you saw to get that reaction, but the only female in the entire 1st movie was a 2 minute scene with Galadriel in Rivendell.
As I said, I haven't even seen it/her because she hasn't made an appearance yet, she 'll appear in the next movie. I'm mad about what & why they did it, no actually how they did it.
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What bugs me the most about Peter Jackson's adaptions of the Tolkien stuff is the thing they add, not what they leave out or they interpreted. In The Hobbit this will certainly be the added female character/elf/evangeline lilly to break the male dominance of the story. Tolkien wrote male centered narratives for a reason (not because he disliked women, but because the legends, lore & myths he liked and researched were rather male oriented), and this pc-marketing-crap makes me wanna vomit without even having seen it.
Plus there always is the problem that you cannot always wash the garden-gnome image off the dwarves or take the Hobbits seriously as grown adults. They always seem less mature/adult than "real" or grown-up humans.
BTW: There are three major edits of the book. The first edition of 1937, then 1951 and the 1965 editions/revisions, which in tone and vocabulary connected better to LotR. AFAIK the 1937 is the most "childish" version.
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Yep it is real. Afaik as I know it has been in developement for over a year. And yes, it makes DDfix redundant. Don't know how well it'll work with HRes texture packs though.
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I am still using Firefox, I like the addons (Echofon, DownThemAll, Easy Youtube VideoDownloader,) they don't exists on Opera/Chrome or don't work the way I like them to. I also prefer the cookie management of FF, I like to set my cookie preferences to each site individually.
Plus Chrome offers no way to open external links from other apps in the background. I fetch my feeds via RSSOwl, and I like to open all the articles I want in FF in the background.
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Done! I'll probably replay it soon to locate the ~ 1000 loot I've missed.
Here are some of the things I liked:
- Even though there are a lot of details and open spaces, my FPS never dropped below 30
- I liked how you made things easier for the player: Dousing candles just by frobbing them, getting loot out of chests without the usual hustle of leaning, crouching, noclipping. But: Imo you have too much money in the shop / too many items can be found. I wound up using only 3 water arrows, 2 rope arrows, one breath & one health potion.
- Multiple routes to get where you want.
- The basement and everything it contains: WOW !
So, congratulations to setting the bar even higher! Again !
- Even though there are a lot of details and open spaces, my FPS never dropped below 30
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Great Mission. Love the "one-frob" candles. Also great job on optimization, had no FPS drops so far.
Question:
Is there a key for the balcony of castel Quinsbury(The one with two guards), or can you just go that way on
the way back ?
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Imo...
some players (including me) don't/didn't connect the guests in the taproom to the assassin. You read the note,
deactivate the tap, guests come out and I thought "Nice, now I can knock out them one after another and have some piece
and quiet while looking for the assassin and looting".
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yeas please, I would like toi have this as my dual desktop at work and home (3360*1050)
Me too !
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More eye-candy from the master of teasing
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The City looks nice, winding and a bit gritty - reminds me a bit of the work of DrK !
..and what Sir Taffsalot said
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sup
Seems like most of you guys is finaly happy,but i recently read this thread.
I lol'd
You guys are talking about my bad attitude and stuff,did I ever personally insulted any you ?
Do you remember how everything started ? I carefully said that i find some of TDM missions little boring and what did I got ? "ignore this idiot","ban his sorry ass" ? ok.Your community is so intellegent,polite and friendly.
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Apparently you almost never do anything politely or carefully. That seems to be your style. You've been asked again and again to behave and adjust your manners according to the tone on this board. But you didn't. You've tried to "provoke" with comments, signature & avatars. You don't say please or thank you.
You troll around asking "Where is new missions?" and after getting an answer you just go again "so,where is new missions ?" which is classical SH "The Troll" style.
The community & the admins cut you a lot of slack, but you refused to compromise.
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Finished it. Excellent mission. The storytelling was quite compelling, and this is why I hated
to find the girl dead, and the parents still hoping. The lit candle in front of the Builder's symbol...heartbreaking.
And the spider....well played my friend !!!
Maybe I missed a readable, but what did exactly happen in the warehouse? (or was this were the spider excaped?)
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Congratulations! This is quite some "beginners" FM. It looks and plays great.
Question:
I have fullfilled all objectives except the loot.
Is there anything you can do concerning the missing girl?
The marketplace has some fps drops & sudden ambient changes, i also found one texture glitch (alley behind the inn):
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Thank you very much - I really hope you all like my first attempt
@ Chiron:
The one who sleeps there is the person you're lookin for. You'll need something to do to make the person go sleeping. Trial and error is not necessary (or even possible) in this mission.
Thanks!
Well, there was my problem:
I already sent the guests upstairs, but KO'ed most of them before they could get to their rooms.
So the person in question was lying KO on the stairs. I never made that connection.
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It will self evident, just do a bit more exploring :-)
Is there a hint regarding who it is? Am I missing something?
I have been to his room, and I think that I have been everywhere: Inn, Taven & the Streets. Everyone who wasn't sleeping is sleeping now :-)
So what to do now? Quicksave & start to shoot armed AI's who might be assasins?
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Hey, a new TDM FM--yay!
Question
How do I determine which of the guests is the assassin?
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The last one are the Daltons & Lucky Luke (I guess)..
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Displaying the corpses of criminals was standard practice in medieval cities. Look up the history of London Bridge.
Some comments on that:
1) There is no medieval standard.
2) I can only speak about continental europe, but corpses where hardly ever displayed within the cities.
Sometime the heads of more prominent executed were displayed at the gates (or in your case a bridge),
but please keep in mind that that was a custom introduced in rather late medieval or even early modern times.
Corpses were displayed at the execution sites, which usually lay outside the cities, often in an elevated position, so it could be seen
from the road(s) leading to the city, telling travelers :"Behave!"
Sorry for the wiseacring (is that even a word??), but clichées about the "dark medieval times" bug me sometimes !
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The image captures a grim and gritty atmosphere, I like it :-)
The hanging corpses are bit too much tough. No one would hang people/corpses within the city limits / in a place like this.
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Good and fun mission so far. A bit too easy when it comes to the guards/thugs though.
One question:
How do I get into the graveyard / How do I destroy Necornomicon?
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Ok. I've seen that problem with a book before. But it normally only happens when trying to give or use a book on another entity (or drop it?). I didn't experience any problem just using to book to read it and close it again. I'll look into that and fix it. Thanks!
I am having the same problem. I cannot read the book, and now that I tried it, I cannot drop it, clear my inventory nor can I do anything else.
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German magazine SPIEGEL Online posted an Interview with John Carmack. There is an interesting section on stuff like the release of source code an such..
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Id Software veröffentlicht den Quellcode von Spielen nach ein paar Jahren. Werden Sie das weiterhin tun, nachdem ihr Studio von Zenimax aufgekauft wurde?
Carmack: Das war eine meiner größten Sorgen vor dem Kauf, dass die Anzugträger sagen würden: "Warum zum Teufel sollten wir etwas verschenken?" Ich war deshalb froh, als ich ein Argument fand, als wir "Doom" für iOS bauten. Statt unseren eigenen Code zu benutzen, baute ich es auf einer Open-Source-Codebasis auf, auf dem weiterentwickelten Code, den wir damals veröffentlicht haben. Es ist fantastisch, wie die Leute das Spiel 15 Jahre lang lebendig und aktuell gehalten, es verbessert haben. Ich konnte das benutzen und es als Open Source Code wieder zurückgeben. Ich habe noch keine Erklärung unterschrieben, dass wir die id Tech 4 Engine veröffentlichen können, aber es würde mich wundern, wenn es nicht dazu käme.
Translation
SO: Id software releases the source code of its games after a few years. Are you going to continue that practice, now that you have been bought by Zenimax?
Carmack: Before the acquisition this was one of my greatest concerns, that the suits may say "Why, in god's name, should we give something away?" I was glad that I found a valid argument while we were porting "Doom" to iOS. Instead of using our own code, I've rebuild it on the base of the improved Open-Source-Code, which orginated from the original code that we had released earlier.[..] So far I haven't
signed any kind of statement that we actually can release ID Tech 4, but I'd be suprised if it won't be happening.
Doom3world.org is down?
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Apparently there was some DOS stuff going on, it will be back sooner or later
http://www.moddb.com/members/thehappyfriar/blogs/doom3world
http://www.sterlingshield.net/home/steve/earthquake/?e=227