2.02 Discussion and observations

[SteveL]

Noisemakers are great fun since 2.02. I'm always on the look out for noisemaker opportunities now

[mrsmr2]

What's the purple ring of dots in the top left hand corner of the screen?

[Springheel]

Screenshot? The bottom left should display your currently equipped weapon, but nothing looks like purple dots that I know of.

[mrsmr2]

And in typical fashion, it's not doing it now.

 

The dots had appeared after upgrading to 2.02 this morning. Since then I've switched off AA (from 2x) and I noticed I had weapons again but no dots. Went back to 2x, no weapons again but still no dots.

 

This is with The Caduceus of St Alban 2.0.

 

EDIT: my restart had taken me to Easy hence why I had weapons, doh!

 

EDIT 2: purple dots are very likely Riva Tuner. I think using Ctrl, Alt, and A keys triggered the screen recording. Just a coincidence if happened after upgrading.

 

So, sorry for the stupid question.

 

Classic first post, huh ? :-)

Edited October 5, 2014 by mrsmr2

[Thieving Barbarian]

Sometimes it feels as if the guards hear a bit too well now. I was just playing Lockdown, and made some noise in the hideout room inside the tavern - the guards on the other side of the wall became alerted and rushed into the tavern searching for me. The hideout does have a (non-opening) window, but still, there was a wall between me and the guards. It's possible that they became alerted previously when I slipped past them inthe yard, and the noise I made tripped some trigger which was enough to cause this slightly exaggerated reaction, though.

[Springheel]

Probably the mapper did not vis portal the window properly, causing sound to go through the wall.

 

[New Horizon]

Sometimes it feels as if the guards hear a bit too well now. I was just playing Lockdown, and made some noise in the hideout room inside the tavern - the guards on the other side of the wall became alerted and rushed into the tavern searching for me. The hideout does have a (non-opening) window, but still, there was a wall between me and the guards. It's possible that they became alerted previously when I slipped past them inthe yard, and the noise I made tripped some trigger which was enough to cause this slightly exaggerated reaction, though.

 

What hearing sensitivity setting are you using in the settings menu?

[Thieving Barbarian]

What hearing sensitivity setting are you using in the settings menu?

 

Challenging. I usually don't have problems with that setting, so it's probably like Springheel suggested - visportal issue in the map.

[grayman]

Was the non-opening window transparent?

[Thieving Barbarian]

Was the non-opening window transparent?

 

Actually, I think I now get why they heard me. The room is actually right above the guards and has a wooden floor, so jumping on it made enough noise to alert them. I only realized this after I noclipped to check around the place. Is this the intended behaviour?

[Springheel]

Jumping does make a lot of noise. Whether they would hear you or not depends on the layout of the place and how it's visportalled.

[Thieving Barbarian]

Not that I mind, it's actually quite realistic now - I think I just got used to rather hard-of-hearing guards previously, and have to learn a new style of play, especially with older maps that may work unexpectedly with the update.