Renegen on 13/2/2006 at 06:27
I still remember Forsaken to this day because the ads of it in the magazines were of a almost naked woman. "Wait, the game is about a ship?" I might of bought it then. I think this is the 2nd or 3rd time ever that I learn of Forsaken's gameplay.
Sluggs on 13/2/2006 at 15:25
It's just like many of these music video's... They all rely on half-naked women to make their music seem better! :p
io organic industrialism on 13/2/2006 at 16:34
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
So I guess you decided to force a moderator to delete that oversized image?
sorry about that
karx11erx on 14/2/2006 at 15:33
Quote Posted by io organic industrialism
it took me about an HOUR of configuration to get it to "feel" right, but i finally got it pretty damn close to descent 1. it took a ridiculous amount of tweaking.
???
I can only think of two options here: Mouse look and gfx quality. What's so much to tweak here?
Quote Posted by io organic industrialism
it appears there is a bug in d2x-xl.exe that when "linear joystick sensitivity scaling" is enabled, the Z-axis (twist axis) sensitivity slider doesn't have any actual affect on the joystick's sensitivity. which sucks because by default it was too sensitive for me.
It would have been a good idea to report this bug on the Descent BB, where the D2X-XL area is my 'lair'. ;)
You can now desync joystick axis handling in D2X-XL, so you can set each axis' sensitivity and deadzone separately. Maybe you want to try that. Actually, non-linear joystick sens scaling is better for fine tuning the impact of axis movement on the ship.
sluggs,
I had owned Forsaken, but thought it sucked. Enemies just appearing from nowhere, boss insanely hard to beat ... too arcadish for my taste. But to each his own. :)
Shadowcat,
I wish I could reproduce the D1 bugs on my machines (I have three at my disposal: WinXP pro, WinXP home, and Linux), but they never ever occurred on any of them. Dang. If they did, fixing them would be a matter of a few hours at most. Anyway, D2X-XL is about D2 mainly, and here about multiplayer. If you want to play D1, you may want to look for the DXX Rebirth project. ;)
Here some eye candy for everybody (Click on the thumbnails for larger images): :)
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http://www.brockart.de/descent/images/d2x-xl-1.jpg)
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http://www.brockart.de/descent/images/d2x-xl-2.jpg)
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http://www.brockart.de/descent/images/d2x-xl-2s.jpg (
http://www.brockart.de/descent/images/d2x-xl-3.jpg)
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http://www.brockart.de/descent/images/d2x-xl-3s.jpgio organic industrialism on 14/2/2006 at 15:49
Quote Posted by karx11erx
???
I can only think of two options here: Mouse look and gfx quality. What's so much to tweak here?
It would have been a good idea to report this bug on the Descent BB, where the D2X-XL area is my 'lair'. ;)
You can now desync joystick axis handling in D2X-XL, so you can set each axis' sensitivity and deadzone separately. Maybe you want to try that. Actually, non-linear joystick sens scaling is better for fine tuning the impact of axis movement on the ship.
i don't use mouse, i use joystick... so it was the joystick that took the tweaking.
i was considering filing a bug report, but there were already so many, i doubt anybody would even notice.
desyncing the axis handling is the first thing i did. it's in those sliders that the twist axis slider doesn't work. maybe it's just specific to my joystick though?
i tried messing with the non-linear scaling, but whenever it was enabled, it just felt "
wrong"... i can't explain it, but it made it feel like there were deadzones, which i can't stand
anyway. i played some GREAT D2 last night, up to level 4 in single player. this game is HARD. i had no idea how good the AI is (in comparison to d1). i am getting my arse kicked on Ace difficulty on the first few levels, when i would normally be able to fly through the first 5 levels on d1 without even dying
heh
karx11erx on 14/2/2006 at 16:31
Quote Posted by io organic industrialism
i was considering filing a bug report, but there were already so many, i doubt anybody would even notice.
This is the silliest thing I've read in a long time, sorry. Really don't mean to insult you, but I had to say that. ;)
If you look at the bug reports, and look at the version history, you will notice that I fix most bugs within a day, some within a week and only very few take longer (real low priority or not reproducable by me).
I will check the joystick axis problem.
Non-linear joystick sens decreases sens close to the center point, and makes it grow exponentially with larger deflection (proper word?) of the stick. Actually this should increase aiming precision.
Sluggs on 14/2/2006 at 16:44
@ karx11erx
I hate to say this, but those graphics look awfull! :laff: Not what i'd call "Eye Candy" Now if you had the graphics of Forsaken in Descent 2, i might give it a try again.
I guess it's not all about pretty graphics tho', is it? Mind you, if HL2 had crap graphics, i don't think it would have done so well!
Sluggs on 14/2/2006 at 17:22
Oh, those are much nicer! Well done sir. :thumb:
