Arx Fatalis Beta Tester on 11/2/2002 at 16:47

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Go on, fire away. I'll try to explain what I can.

PraetorJudis on 11/2/2002 at 18:42

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Is there an advantage to the two button combat system?

Arx Fatalis Beta Tester on 11/2/2002 at 20:56

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Digi: I wish I knew! I'll tell you guys about it as soon as I get a chance to take a first hand look at it.

Judis: Yes - speed. That is, only because it's faster to release a mouse butten then it is for you to click a mouse button. Imagine that you're in the fray, and you want to drink a health potion. In toggle mode, you have to click the right button, reach down to your inventory (assuming it is already open), quaff the potion, and then click the right mouse button again. If you are in hold-the-frikkin-thing-down mode, then you just release, quaff, and then start holding again. If you know exactly what you are doing, it's faster. But if you're like me and find it clumbsey to hold down both buttons at once, toggle mode is much faster. That question may be better asked of someone who actually likes the hold mode better. :)

Fafhrd: It's changing. Twp months ago it was 700. Recently they got it down to 500. Now they're saying 400 (I think they're just being optimistic on that one... hehe). Geforce 2 or higher is recommended, though I think that you'll be okay if you have a card one generation older then that.

Raf on 11/2/2002 at 22:02

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I'd like to add a few things:

-if you want to drink a potion, you actually don't need to rightclick it in your inventory, you can use a hotkey to drink potions, that's quicker ;)

-Regarding perfomances:
It's been one of our main focus for the past few months (implementing Hardware transform, optimized quaternions routines for animations, portals clipping...) and I assure you that the final result is really good: you definitely won't need a killer machine to play the game. Also, you can decrease the clipping depth in order to adapt the performances to your machine.

Arx Fatalis Beta Tester on 12/2/2002 at 00:05

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He means "fog" ... :)

Closer fog = faster game
Medium fog = best looking
No fog = Ugly
Close fog = you're blind

The AIs act like Deus Ex AIs, but don't seem quite as dumb. They also have Thief quality animations, so they just look more "alive" then the Deux Ex characters.