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 | Re: Deja Vu All Over Again | |
| Posted By: Forrest of B.org | Date: 12/27/07 3:46 p.m. |
| In Response To: Re: Deja Vu All Over Again (Document) : Update: I'm now keeping my list of questions/comments at
I'm going to keep replying here, if you don't mind, since there's no more suitable forum for such: : == Level 2 weapons and monsters:
I haven't changed anything in that regard, so yes I imagine it was. : * Do the purple Fighters have to have projectile staffs? They weren't supposed to and I'm not sure how they wound up with them, but I've already fixed that. : * Am I getting a faster firing rate with the staff than non-berzerk Fighters did in the OT? Yes, and your melee hits do more damage too, because the fire rate of the staff (and how much it hurts to get hit by it) depends entirely on how fast and hard you swing it, and you are much more badass than a lowly Fighter. : * The scatter rifle still seems to be much smaller than the M1A1 one, although I haven't taken
I'll check on that. : * The M1-Enforcers' close range attack is weird; it does red damage and has the sound of a punch or
It is a punch, or rather a bludgeon with their weapon. Most aliens can punch/bludgeon you at close range now. This was Rueben's idea, and I think it came up because of enemies being harmless under water. What do you think of it? : * I haven't confimed yet whether it's possible to retrieve the weapon from an M1-Enforcer who was
You should be able to. No reason why you shouldn't. Although when that Enforcer on Deja Vu gets shot while on the elevator, his weapon seems to disappear, but I think that's an engine bug to do more with the elevator than with Bob shots. : * Personally I find the added "near miss" sound effect for the scatter rifle more distracting than
I've changed it recently to something I find a little better. All bullets have near-miss sounds now; do you dislike them elsewhere too? : * Purple S'pht firing fast non-tracking shots is non-canonical, but I'll assume it's intentional. It was but I've changed it back already anyway. : * The player's Pfhor staff creates the same impact sprite regardless of whether it's being used for a
Is that a bad thing? I figure the Pfhor staff melee isn't just doing pure kinetic damage but also does some kind of electric shock thing on impact, hence the zappy impact effect. : * The scatter rifle's shots draw blood. Already fixed. : == Level 3 weapons and monsters:
Yeah, I can't make only one trigger fire underwater and the other not, so in order to melee under water the ranged has to fire too... but Pfhor shots don't penetrate water. So, it's just kind of a glitch we'll have to live with. : * Should Wasps really be able to swim, let alone fire while underwater? Wasps should treat water the same way as Ticks and Drones do, according to the physics... and their shots aren't set to penetrate liquids. Maybe this is something I've already changed, if you're seeing them fire underwater. : * Killed Wasps seem to flap and squawk around unusually long before they finally stop moving. Maybe
Hmm... well, I did make their death animations a little noisier than they used to be, but they shouldn't die any slower. I think it is just the momentum they get from the staff. : == Deja Vu:
Nowhere says they didn't AFAIK, and it seems to make the most sense to me. They Pfhor have point to point teleporters, why not use them? : * There's some kind of invisible obstacle around the west border of polygon 639. As far as I can tell,
That's a sticky polygon bug, fixed already. : * Why do polygons 637, 640 and 642 need to exist, given that they're sealed off invisible (unless you
That's called the "split polygon technique" and is used to break up a wall into three sections that can be individually textured, for more interesting wall varieties. The textures you see in those hallways are actually made out of three separate textures; one on the top ledge, one on the bottom ledge, and one on the opaque "windows" between the hall and those polygons you references. : * I still think drop-offs so steep that you can't shoot the enemies at the bottom, even though they
I'll just MIP that little ditch off so there won't be any Pfhor down there. : * The light on the switch at polygon 853 should probably turn off when the elevator it controls
Done. : * I guess the green panel by polygon 186 doesn't do anything? It looks like it *should* be a switch or
I think it used to be a recharger... not sure why it's not now. I've just made it into a pattern buffer. : * The room containing polygons 951-959 doesn't seem to have a purpose, and it's annoying to drop down there by accident/mistake and have to wait for the elevator. That is a pretty strange room... not sure why it's there. Apparently some Fighters live down there, according to Forge. Guess it's there so that there's somewhere for those Fighters to come from? : == Pfhoryngitis:
That is odd. Fixed. : * The current in polygon 806 isn't parallel to the direction of the polygon, if that makes sense. Fixed. : * Underwater waterfalls? I suppose it would take some complex platform work to avoid that, but it's
Yeah, waterfalls into deep water have always been tricky, and you get some weird stuff like this because of it. : * I realize it's not your fault, but it's interesting how monsters can walk through a liquid regardless of
Really? I'd never noticed that before... Thanks Doc :-)
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