doaal on 7/7/2001 at 03:34
This mission is awesome! It's really too bad that not everyone has the same opportunity to try it out because of some lousy bugs...
For those who can play it however, you're in for quite an experience :) The architecture is awesome, and the storyline is very intruguing.
Maybe the crashing has to do with system specs? I'm not sure myself but Moc2 only crashed twice on me the whole time that I was beta-testing. Hmm...
DreamWalker on 7/7/2001 at 03:48
Sharga, I can understand the frustration. I've just started to learn DromEd and I find it daunting to do even the simpliest things. Now that you have all this experience behind you and know how you want the mission to look and work you may want to recreate it or a similar one from scratch. It would be a shame to have all your great ideas go to waste. I'd be more than happy to test it throughout the creation process. That way we can clear the bugs earlier on. :)
Sharga on 7/7/2001 at 04:44
DreamWalker- Its good to know that people understand. I've been working on this so long and have had so many dissappointments that I don't wan't to fix this level anymore. But at least some people can play and enjoy it. And I have gotten one very good thing out of this: experience. I've learned a lot (even if it was the hard way). And I'm planning on creating a second mission with Doaal that I guarantee will have less bugs and be even better than my first. We're already started and have many great ideas for it. Plus with him and I working together it won't even take half as long to make as this mission did.
Anyhow I hope there are a lot out there who CAN and DO play this mission. And I wish you better luck in your dromeding than I have experienced in the past. <IMG SRC="thumb.gif" border="0">
DreamWalker on 7/7/2001 at 06:16
posted by Doaal
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Maybe the crashing has to do with system specs? I'm not sure myself but Moc2 only crashed twice on me the whole time that I was beta-testing. Hmm...
I have a 1Ghz, 256RAM P3 with 6G max virtual memory running on WinMe. I'm also using Thief Gold with Darkloader 3.07. Since I encountered a few problems earlier today due to adjustments I was making to Diablo II, LOD. (yet none at all with the Thief FMs) I tuned up my system by cleaning out the temp files and running Norton Win Doctor and Speed Disk.
After refreshing my system I played MOC2 again until my first encounter with a guard (the one in front of the town hall). The results were similar to those I had previously.
I got 4 different programme/system reactions within a few steps after picking up the unconscious guard.
1) best case (everything is fine) - turn south & drop the body near the perimeter wall.
2) walk east - get kicked out to windows - just need to restart MOC2
3) walk west - programme/system freezes and stays frozen; have to turn the computer off & restart before can replay MOC2
4) step backwards (south) and then walk forward - get kicked out to reconfiged windows screen, need to turn off computer and restart to correct system problem before can restart MOC2
It could still be a system problem. Or, it could be the results similar to those encountered by a gamer who is blindly feeling their way through an exciting new mission and who is not aware of which bugs to avoid.
A walkthrough of the bugs to avoid/get around would be very helpful.
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Lancer on 7/7/2001 at 21:24
Sharga's FM is pretty awesome. Unfortunately, I cannot get the final release at Doall's page since now it says that the site cannot be found.
doaal on 7/7/2001 at 22:56
Damn! Sorry guys, guess crosswinds didn't like the overload of bandwitdh... now my MM site is gone too :( Oh well I'll try to find something else for MOC and MM
DreamWalker on 7/7/2001 at 23:57
The zip made available is most likely an older, more buggy version of the FM.
schwaa on 8/7/2001 at 09:17
Sharga,
Haven't DL'ed the .mis yet. Too busy working on editing video, which brings me to the reason I'm posting. Curios about others vid's so I DL'ed the intro (high res).
It Kicks Ass!!!!
Sharga on 8/7/2001 at 18:10
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Originally posted by schwaa:
<STRONG>Sharga,
Haven't DL'ed the .mis yet. Too busy working on editing video, which brings me to the reason I'm posting. Curios about others vid's so I DL'ed the intro (high res).
It Kicks Ass!!!!</STRONG>
Thank you. Even Lazarus admits that it's one of his best ever, and I agree with him.
NoCokePepsi on 8/7/2001 at 19:56
I'm gonna cross my fingers, download it and play it whenever it comes up on KoMaG's site.
I seem to be pretty lucky when it comes to hardware/software snags (touch wood), so maybe I can get through it okay. :)
I have a feeling that it'll be a good one, apart from the technical problems, and I wish that aspect had gone better for you, Sharga.
