Vadrosaul
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That was an excellent slice of the mod. The main feeling I came away with after playing the Den was that I wanted to play more
The ambient lighting and use of light sources was exceptional, especially the diffuse lighting from the candle you can carry. The ambient sound fx were great, though the rain was a little loud. That cat scared the bejesus outta me
Some minor criticisms/suggestions from what I noticed:
- When frobbing a body to drag it, I kept letting go of the body if I looked away from it.
- The font in the menus is a little hard to make out considering the grainy parchment paper it’s written on. A little bolder and one pt larger would be good IMO.
- The icons for the weapons should fade to a smaller, translucent indicator after a few seconds of staying with a selected weapon.
- The menu theme music feels less like Thief and more like Agatha Christie. It did start to grow on me as I was fiddling with settings, and ultimately I can swap the ogg files anyways.
- There was no….I dunno its technical term….. square metal scope for the bow, plus I could not retrieve my rope arrows
- The walking speed should be a little bit faster.
- Sound propagation seems off. When I closed the front door, the heavy sounding rain from outside was completely gone.
- Backdoor kept opening by itself after I close it.
- Where is the post mission breakdown? I’m assuming the template for it will be available to mapmakers.
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Release date will be Friday, January 18th.
Best to change the date on the frontpage news
Edit: Thx
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From what I’ve gleaned from the debate on global warming, neither side is stupid enough to argue that it isn’t happening, but the critics of it have strong evidence that man-made carbon emissions are nothing more than a kiddy fart when against the maelstrom of volcanic emissions, livestock methane, human beings breathing, increased solar flaring, and being in a warm period of the earth’s history of warm/cool cycles. The proponents also have strong evidence via carbon dating, the reality of pollution, and depleting ozone from chloro-chemicals.
I’m not educated or knowledgeable enough to make a judgment call either way, so I haven’t, and it’s silly that I find people sheepishly taking sides when they are even less educated or knowledgeable than me. Most like that want to use anything as a crutch to assault the philosophical/political opposites. That’s essentially when the head gets stuck up the ass so much that obvious practical compromises don’t permeate through thick, angst-ridden skulls.
At least while they moan the movers & shakers are pushing nuclear & other alternate sources instead of wasting time playing the blame game. Self-sufficient power architecture, instead of relying on crazyville, aka Middle East, along with the eradication of pollution, is enough reason to push forward instead of berating the other side for who to blame the possibility of man-made global warming. Someone just needs to tell them to “get the hell out of the way”(Galt reference) when they start pissing in the pool of practical, encompassing progress, such as nuclear power.
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Did you think it was going to be so bad we'd all fled the country?
Was du heute kannst besorgen, das verschiebe nicht auf morgen
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Lemme get this straight. Is the pre-beta demo a simple map with just a single objective, kind of a toned-down Bafford's?
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Are some guys going to be here on-call to help with any installation & setup complications?
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One that irked me that isn't on the list is Butcher Bay. The makers of Butcher Bay are developing a kind of 1.5 version called Dark Athena, with added content, but still feels like an unnecessary money grab.
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Happy New Year, this year of The Dark Mod.
Those are words we'll hold you to
Happy New Year everyone
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Perfect timing with the tenth anniversary of TDP
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Thanks for the opportunity
What's the exact version of patched Doom3 required? -
It's just a matter of finding a delicate balance between frames per second and visual quality, and like Komag mentions the X360 can streamline engine processes better than a PC.
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Aye. Stopping now.
Without spoilers: Is it any good? Is your opinion of DX3 better or worse after reading it?
Actually, I guess I shouldn't be asking you - you'll be wildly enthusiastic about it no matter what it says.
There's nothing there, just more speculation as to whether DX3 will be a prequel or not. Must be a slow news day if they are bothering with 50/50 rumors. This early in development they can change their minds on a creative whim.
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I didn't care about the PC police. Those were really just the first words that came to me.
What happen to the verbose speech I saw this morning?
Merry Christmas everyone. Live up the vicarious joy those w/ children can feel when they see their faces light-up the house
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Holy crap. Just had a Master of Orion flashback
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Psychological studies have shown that the most happy and successful people are the ones with the most overly and unrealistically optimistic view on life, while the most depressed and unsucsessful people are the ones with the most realistic view on life.
What about those in the middle, applying optimism or pessimism when it matters?
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Had the same problem on yesterdays visit. The speed of the forum was fine, yet it instantly timed out whenever I clicked on any topic to view.
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Yea we'll just see about that in two weeks bub!
Yeah, you were right. Now that they've won, they may be able to get a major winning streak going and win 3 whole games!
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The instant reaction of guards to being spooked may be fear, but given their moodiness that comes with the job, that fear would soon turn to surliness as they search for the perpetrator. So the "fear factor" won't be much more than a few initial sound bytes.
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So by the sound of it you guys are going ahead with your own campaign, or at least a collection of inspiring maps??
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Still feels a bit too much like lip service. I would've agreed if he ragged on how bad IW just a little, or at least propped up the original over the sequel by a fair margin. I just hope Deus Ex 3 provides an epic scope, as that was a strong point that IMO made it superior to the claustrophobic, contained narratives from SS2/Bioshock. IIRC the original was a 30 hour game, and every hour, every minute felt qualified. Maybe thats just my preference for overt cyberpunk tales with major consequences inspired from the likes of GitS/Sprawl/Foucault's Pendulum, rather than the surrealism of Asimov-inspired crazed AI's.
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Don't forget 'KO'd People while airborne'
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Happy BDay Crispy
Playing thief in Winter
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I can understand. I don't play Thief exclusively in winter, but many times I played FM's and the original Dark Project in the winter, and to enhance the mood I would make the room as dark as possible, open the windows wide and turn down the furnace. Winters in Vancouver could get down to 5 degrees