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  3. DayZ Standalone released!

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    Hall leaving is probably a disaster. I say this as an avid mod player since the beginning. There is so much stuff that the core mod never incorporated, and standalone goals shoot far beyond them. I dont think the team is technically inept, but the whole dayz thing was rockets vision, and that vision is far from complete. I think similar to TDM, the work will never be done. There will always, always be more room for cool things, fixes to things that seem broke, tweaks, rebalances, new assets, new maps, etc etc.

     

    Without Rocket, I'm afraid the overall direction of the mod may lose its way after a time, even if continual 'progress' toward new 'things' is made at a steady pace.

    Kind of the way you would worry about a kid and his development into an adult if his loving and nurturing parents died when the kid is age 13. Progress has been made, but theres still a loooong way to go, and a lot of grey area in between. If hall leaves at any point inside the next year, DayZ will not be anywhere close to its final form.

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  4. DayZ Standalone released!

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    oh man, so excited about hunting. my gameplay in dayz mod has always revolved around running through the woods, setting up storage caches of items in pine trees and writing down their gps locations, and occasionally popping up at a treeline outside a town to see whats going on near 'civilization'. hunting will bring a lot of my desired gameplay style back to the game. I never have problems with food/drink even in the mod as it stands now, but it'll be much closer to how I want to play.

  5. gaming keyboard/mouse shopping

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    So, unbelievably, I've never purchased a dedicated gaming keyboard or mouse, or furthermore any keyboard/mouse that costs above $10 each. The ones i have now i've been using since i dunno 2010, 2009? feet grips rubbed off, when I play any game, every 5 minutes i need to slide the keyboard back to the edge of the tray every 5 minutes or so, and its not backlit, so i end up fumbling a lot with the less-used keys while playing in the dark. and playing in the dark is what we do. cuz its dark mod. Also no extra function keys on the mouse, its m1, m2, m3+wheel. and the wheel button is completely jackshit worthless, I always end up scrolling forward or back once or twice trying to press it.

     

    I don't have a terrible lot of money, so i was thinking i dunno, maybe a $50 mouse right now, and then 2 weeks later maybe a $50 keyboard, and I was getting all prepped for the specs to research, and the pricepoints to expect, and I browsed through the entire Razer product line as a starting point, just to see what ridiculously overpriced stuff looks like.

     

    And then this happened: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823129030

    I mean, I'm used to giving my mouse a few technical taps when it doesn't move properly, and having a coefficient of friction problem where I have to put a bit much force just to get the thing going, and by then its far too late for small precision movements, I usually end up using the momentum I've built up to run in little circular movements to get pinpoint accuracy. So, basically, even really mediocre starter gear is going to be a huge improvement for me.

     

    $30 combo with back lighting, and adjustable DPI mouse with extra function keys. I can't even... how is this beatable? Is there really a point to shopping any more?

  6. Thief 4 is trash.

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    Its like giving your pet a treat when he craps on the carpet and saying "good boy"...

    I think its more like leaving for vacation for a week, and pre-emptively mailing back a treat to your pet for not crapping on the carpet while you were gone.

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  7. Thief 4 is trash.

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    well the leaked livestreams have released a complete whirlwhind maelstrom of negative energy. It's no wonder they've been trying to keep 'real' gameplay footage and reviews under wraps until release when preorders can't be cancelled. Speaking of which, I hope those of you who have pre-ordered this game feel dirty and ashamed for supporting the pre-order cash-grab production model based on brand loyalty. But I guess not everyone feels as strongly as I do on that subject.

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  8. Thief 4 is trash.

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    Posted · Edited by ungoliant

    I watched a few more gameplay vids and apparently you can deal with a number of guards one by one with the blackjack alone. They don't attack all at once but are taking turns. So you just have to time blocks and attacks until the guard goes to his knees. Then you do a takedown and repeat that with any others waiting in line.

    don't forget to take the time to enjoy the AI's brief teleport rotation to align himself cleanly for the takedown animation. The AI are quite helpful in that respect.

     

    edit: thinking on it, I'm quite surprised that theres just so much stuff to be dissapointed and upset about that we all forgot to make 20 page threads devoted to hating on takedown animations.

  9. Thief 4 is trash.

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    Posted · Edited by ungoliant

    http://www.ttlg.com/...l=1#post2236359

    a fairly in-depth report from someone who watched the streams from start to finish. pretty daunting stuff. some highlights:

    The game comes from the linear school of FPS design, like Call of Duty or any number of such titles, where your only goal is to run from Checkpoint A to Checkpoint B in order to trigger the next cutscene.
    It takes 8 hours to beat the game, several hours of which were streamers failing to defeat the atrocious AI in places where sneaking was simply not an option at all and combat could not be avoided. Roughly 45% of the total playtime was taken up by the cutscenes, which are poorly animated, suffer texture and LOD popping, and have some of the worst voice acting I have heard in many years.
    There is no differentiation of sound in materials when walked on.
    If there is a secret passage, not only will an NPC be having a conversation about it, but the player character will remark that there is a secret passage once the conversation is over.
    enforced stealth area with instant death on detection.

     

    For myself, I've noticed in several spots in the stream where if you walk on some glass near an AI it causes an instantaneous chain reaction of every AI in 100m radius to instantly bumrush you, and some other stuff that was just abysmal.

     

    Also, blue fucking fog. not even the grates you climb through to hide level loading. there is legit freakin blue fog in this game. a lot of it.

     

    Also you can apparently complete the game without picking up a single piece of loot and still be rewarded with money at the end of a level to buy your leet upgrades.

  10. Using a spreadsheet for cutting patches

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    not all that great with c++ but i've been poking around. Working under the assumption that traversing components with GlobalSelectionSystem.foreachSelectedComponent(SelectionVisitor visitor) is the only way to get this done. I can't find anything undocumented here that might help. I think it's gotta be coded. heres my findings:

    class SelectionVisitorWrapper :
   public SelectionSystem::Visitor,
   public boost::python::wrapper<SelectionSystem::Visitor>
{
public:
   void visit(const scene::INodePtr& node) const {
       // Wrap this method to python
       this->get_override("visit")(ScriptSceneNode(node));
   }
};


    nspace["SelectionVisitor"] = boost::python::class_<SelectionVisitorWrapper, boost::noncopyable>("SelectionVisitor")
       .def("visit", boost::python::pure_virtual(&SelectionSystem::Visitor::visit));

    as far as I can tell, with patch verts selected, this just gives access to the patch node itself inside the visit function. If a PatchControl object for each component could be passed during each visit along with the node, problem is solved. i'm not good enough at coding to do this though.

  13. Ungoliant's mapping questions

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    thanks for this. list comprehensions were introduced as a sort of post-script of this newbie python challenge i'm doing as part of a possible sort solution, but i'm still having problems wrapping my head around them, and the utility they can provide in different situations.

     

    Also, about this:

     ordered = wordlist[2:] + wordlist[:2]

    the whole [2:] thing with the colon. what is that thing even even called. Sometimes I understand how its being used and other times I don't. I know it can be used for precision and other stuff, but I really need to look it up and just read on it.

     

    Lastly, about flip sort flip code. There was explained after the challenge about ways to do this sort of thing without writing independent functions, or maybe i understood it wrong. something about sorting with like lambda keys, like stuff.sort(key = lambda, a: doStuff(a)) or something like that. Completely lost on that. no idea how this works, and the sort() documentation in the standard library on the subject is greek to me.

  14. Ungoliant's mapping questions

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    Posted · Edited by ungoliant

    trying to do more python stuff. hard to google this because i don't even know the technical term for what i'm looking for.

    basically, i want to sort a list of strings. but I don't want to sort it starting at the first character. i want to sort it based on a substring starting after the 2nd whitespace character. i have no idea how to implement something like this.

    Example list:

    5935345 N Butt St
32 S Butt St
1232 W Widget Way

    even better would be an additional way to remove the direction of the street from the equation entirely, like if everything between 1st/2nd whitespace delimiter is only 1 character, ignore and sort starting after the next whitespace, otherwise sort it as is.

     

    Basically I'm not sure how to work with relative char positions in strings, or how to sort based on char position

     

    edit: i think i found the way to obtain the key i want to sort by for each string

    target = myString.rpartition(' ')[0]

    should return the 2nd to last segment of characters as a string

     

    so now, the thing is, how the crap do i sort a list of dictionaries by the key 'address' where the value of that key in each dictionary is some random string in address format, but the value i want to sort by is the substring of that string as derived above? I can't figure out how to use sort() to do this.

    Do i need to write my own sort function, or am i missing something?

  15. Thief 4 is trash.

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    watched some of the stream. i actually witnessed the guy escape a chase when he got busted by running to a bluefog-esque loading screen to another zone. *sigh*. also the super-cool contextual audio we were supposed to be treated to is garbage. its some background ambient, and when you get busted, queue up the dubstep. thats it. it doesn't even transition well at all.

  18. Ultimate THIEF Modding Contest

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    Posted · Edited by ungoliant

    Where do you get that from? There hasn't really been any kind of official announcement or details released for the contest yet.

    STiFU is team darkmod. he would probably know. and if that is the case, i could give fuck-all about the contest. just looks like "TDM is hardcore, and they support Thi4f, so you should buy it". garbage.

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  21. Ungoliant's mapping questions

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    Posted · Edited by ungoliant

    having some issues with the python workflow i've set up. i'm using notepad++ for editing and running python programs with a command i saved as a shortcut, which is 

    pythonw "$(FULL_CURRENT_PATH)"

    i'm having problems with this now for creating files with open("mystuff.abc", "wb"). I've tried running my .py file in notepad++ with that command while it was located on desktop, and c:\stuff, and i always get this error:

    IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

    if i just run the interpreter by itself and do the same thing, it works fine and writes the file to d:\python27 which is my python install directory. i'd like to be able to run my shit from whatever working directory my .py file is at from notepad++. any hints on whats going on with the permissions here?

     

    edit: found this on stackoverflow:

    the working directory inside a script is the location you ran the script from, not the location of the script. If you run the script from elsewhere (maybe the script is in your system path) the relative path to the subdirectory will not work

    does that mean its trying to write the file at C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++ ???? and is that even illegal?

     

    re-edit: os.getcwd() yields C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++, still don't understand why its illegal to write a file here. also, would like to get back to a relative path to the .py file to write to. not sure how to do this

     

    re-re-edit: nevermind the whole damn thing, figured it out.

    open(os.path.dirname(__file__) + os.sep + 'mystuff.abc', 'wb')

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  24. A new way of looking at Thief 4

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    Here we have a marketing gimmick, launched purposefully a week before the release of their NuThief product...This is designed to reap more sales from the many in the community that disapprove of their anti-THIEF design approach, and to give the illusion that they care, by baiting members and modders into believing that there will actually be a future substantial relationship between EM and the community...which there will not.

     

    Also notice the divisive tactic used, by not including TTLG in the announcement.

     

    This of course assumes this announcement isn't a hoax.

    I'm going as far as to say that it was an email stealing scam from the get-go. check the contest site. full name + email address for FREE VIDEO GAEMZ. Contest site is not a subdomain of EM/SE websites, and not even a peep from anyone on TDM team about this, or EM/SE. just a couple gaming news sites regurgitating some stuff they read somewhere.

  25. Vote on site changes, redux.

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    Posted · Edited by ungoliant

    Square Enix and Amazon, in collaboration with a host of gaming partners including AMD and the team behind The Dark Mod, today announced the ultimate THIEF mod contest in celebration of the upcoming reboot to THIEF.

    dafuq...?! is there something the team has been holding back that they might like to talk about right about now?

     

    ok some of this has to be bullshit. according to ttlg, EM have been racing around the internet to remove all traces of the word Dark Mod from the contest announcement pages. I have a feeling there will not be any official canon Thief material allowed on TDM yet, nor official recognition of the mods existence by EM. maybe it was a prank?

     

    edit: its gotta be a scam. theres no way nobody in the TDM community has heard about this before now if TDM team was ever involved at any level of this thing. And the whole "trade your email adress + full name for FREE VIDEO GAEMEZZZ" thing? come the fuck on.

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