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Sirius

Tyranny was on the DCL briefly a couple years ago - haven't seen him much since then though. It's a pity, he was looking pretty good

I'd also suggest watching Overload and Sol Contingency, as far as games go. We're not quite sure which one will be the best, but people have their favorites already.

Sirius

You have to take out three control panels at the top; there's a different path to each one. The hardest one to find is probably the red/lava-themed path. Somewhere you might have run across this funny flat area with the square pillars all different colors; the entrance is tucked away somewhere in th...

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Most discussion of / news of Overload has collected on their own website or Kickstarter campaign. It is very much alive, even if the DBB sub-forum doesn't show it

Sirius

Not for long. I remember when the Win7 browser choice screen got broken by an update (apparently accidentally, but with how much money was involved in the court cases leading to that decision you'd think someone would be more careful?). Did not take long to get noticed and for the European Commissio...

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A question. If you currently have Windows 7 Pro, why won't MS upgrade you automatically to Windows 10 Pro during the process, where you supposedly have user control of Windows Update, or don't they offer that version to us lowly home users during the free upgrade process? I don't think the Pro vers...

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Wouldn't be surprised if the confusingly-designed upgrade prompt is responsible for a lot of the issues, if it can in fact not happen automatically. (I haven't tried to test whether having recommended updates installed by default would install it without asking.)

Sirius

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."

Given that MS has denied that users are forced to upgrade, I'm going to have to lean towards incompetence (because upgrade-without-a-choice events are happening). It's still a fiasco.

Sirius

It kind of annoys me that ESPN practically ignored this.

Sirius

With this thing starting this weekend, we could do with some purpose-built 4v4 maps, actually, championship or no. There aren't a lot of great levels for games that large, especially that permit more complex teamwork (flanking, diversion, terrain control, etc).

Sirius

This happened (and probably still happens) to an extent in Australia/NZ as well, also in areas such as streaming movie services - these (usually US-based) companies are very slow to roll out legal services to smaller or less Western markets, which tends to result in those markets resorting to piracy...

Sirius

Yeah, this is the point where I'd really like to have detailed traces... which DLE doesn't have.

Thinking about that, though, it's not really as if that's impossible... I just need to be shut in a room and forced to work on this editor for a week or two.

Sirius

I did the one side grates because the reactor was having trouble shooting me lol :P I could make it normal. I know I'm a bit late, but if you want to cheat I'd recommend making the reverse side illusion rather than just not being there at all. Though I think some players would get a little annoyed ...

Sirius

Huh.

It almost sounds like a hardware problem. Or drivers. It doesn't look like there's anything I can do from DLE's side - the input messages being sent from Windows don't tell you which mouse is sending the input, so presumably DLE just isn't being sent button input from that external mouse.

Sirius

Ah, yes.

DH used to drag points around in point mode to create more organic-looking caves as well - it worked fairly well.

Sirius

Maybe it's not a conspiracy, but instead failure by neglect and stupidity. I'm guessing that MS has moved all their best software engineers into Win 10 development and thrown all their newbie and screwup engineers to the mundane task of maintaining Win7/8 and they are not being happy campers about ...

Sirius

In terms of C++, I picture the MFC IDE you mentioned to be somewhat similar to VB Visual Studio. I Imagine there are functions for each window control's event like in Visual Basic. So all I would have to do is reference the values in the textboxes, append them with spaces, and then set the clipboar...

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Hm. OK. I think I have more issues with emplaced defenses than surprises. They might be predictable but there are some you just can't do much about - especially the secret door traps.

Sirius

Hmm... do you use the first-person mode? That's the only thing I can see that might change that behavior. Either that or you've got a key stuck.

Sirius

Hm, interesting. Quartzon wasn't even on my radar. Seekers can be mean, but they're not an answer to Gauss.

Sirius

Edge discovered that other way of making a browser more secure: don't support anything.

Sirius

Yeah, DLE is open-source. I forget exactly where to find the SVN info (used to be on SourceForge but it moved due to some problems with their system I think), but the DLE "product page" has a link to a .7z of the source code. Currently that is http://descent2.de/files/dle-src-1.12.27.7z It...

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Rebirth and XL don't really care if it has more than the officially prescribed number of segments - they'll load it anyway. If someone wants to play it in the DOSBox version that you used to get off Steam, though... then there will be problems. And I agree, 900 segments never feels that large. At le...

Sirius

DLE doesn't use Java, so that shouldn't have been a problem. Can you bring up a menu by Shift+right click on the level view in the editor? There's a menu option to switch quick select on/off there as well if I recall. Kind of wish I knew why this happens, last time I investigated it, it looked very ...

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The current version is 1.12.27. 1.12 is where the custom texture manager was introduced - while I was making that I also modified DLE's behavior to be much more careful about saving custom textures. It used to throw away anything it didn't see used in the level (dating back to DMB2). When you're usi...

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Hmm... that might happen in older versions of DLE, I wouldn't expect it in 1.12 though.

Sirius

Well, people don't usually plug-and-play with POGs. Typically you replace individual textures - there are a few reasons for this: 1) The POG might have a lot of extra textures you don't need (i.e. you might not be using them) 2) The POG might replace textures you didn't want to replace. If you build...

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Yeah, .pog files are used for that. You need one of them per level that has custom textures, and they generally have to be placed in the mission HOG like you said. If you're using DLE 1.12.x, there is an "Edit textures (POG)" option in the File menu that lets you replace textures for the c...

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Hmm, some of those guys have returned actually. Moh and Warmaster have been playing recently. Strife maybe, if it's the same one, but it's hard to be sure. I spotted Mesmerist on the Descent: Underground forums, though that was quite a few months ago. I do know where to find Potatohead but he isn't ...

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Two issues here: 1) The level file name in ixion.msn ("ixion.rdl") doesn't match the filename of the level in the HOG file ("ixion ce.rdl"). 2) Descent (except apparently D2X-XL) doesn't support spaces in filenames - it confuses it. Renaming the level file to ixion.rdl appears to...

Sirius

Yeah, I've seen this before. Add EnableQuickSelection=1 to your dle.ini, should fix it. (If EnableQuickSelection=0 is in there change it to 1 instead.)

Sirius

Yeah, the glass in level 26 is just a cloaked wall. The original Counterstrike and Vertigo campaigns didn't use them as far as I remember, but it's a standard D2 feature nonetheless.

Sirius

If it helps me enjoy trying to run D3 on Windows 10 more than filling out my tax return, I'm not complaining.

Sirius

Hog... as in, .HOG. As far as I recall the original game didn't even produce logs.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is a music issue, though.

Sirius

Hunter wrote:And I'm guessing those levels are just prototype arenas.

My thoughts too. They're microscopic.

Sirius

Last time I checked (although that was Windows 8), WindowBlinds had a re-theme of the windows that did look pretty close to Windows 7. Wouldn't be surprised if they've released a Win10 version by now. I decided to avoid it for Win8 because they messed up the legibility of the edge UI, but since that...

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Fun fact: Few teams at Microsoft use TFS either. I forget if VSTS (which is kind of the web-based successor to the "rest" of TFS) supports it for source control - it seems MS is headed primarily towards Git.

Sirius

Well, this was Drakona's response - You know, I recall there was a complication with the D2 homers -- they had different values for what the missiles could see, and I left those values unchanged . . . except I remember there being a further complication with something not making sense. It was a coup...

Sirius

I'd probably need to study more about the OpenGL API to be sure, but it occurs to me that this could be quite difficult to get right. You do want most sprites to be clipped if they're actually partially behind a corner (think about weapon powerups in particular), just not by the geometry of the segm...

Sirius

I once did an Ace run of D2 (I don't think it was Insane, I started D1 on that and turned it down so as not to annoy the viewers I was streaming to too much, and didn't want to take the chance with D2 I think...?). It was indeed substantially easier than D1. Especially once the Gauss showed up. The ...

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Moon does

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