Spitter on 9/4/2001 at 09:59

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Dunno if this is old news:

SPOILERS BELOW

The reason for slowdowns on some computers in explained below.

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Sledge, a fine mission you have! I now remember why The Haunted Cathedral was so scary the first time. But, a bug persists: your burrick-rider slows the game down considerably on some machines. On my machine (P2-333, Riva TNT2 Ultra, 98 Mb RAM) my framerate probably dropped somewhere around 2. No kidding. This is quite far from playable, but I managed to finish the level in Warrior-mode (this bug is only in Warrior). The slowing ends when I kill the burrickrider, so I believe the bug is due to some heavy S&R firing.

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Sledge on 9/4/2001 at 21:04

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That's interesting... it was one of the things I was considering. There were a number of stims going off at once (of which that is one) which I have subsequently simplified. In fact, I believe the burrick rider is the only stim I currently have going off in the update. I'll fool around with it and see if for some reason that's causing a bigger problem than the others.

Thanks for the tip.

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willywanker on 10/4/2001 at 07:19

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Two years on this board I think, and seven names. Here we go again.

A great level. Quite possibly the best FM ever, IMHO. Spoilers:


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1. I'm on top level (warrior?) I have the stones and I've put them where they belong, and looked high and low and not found the tome, and have obviously overlooked that great clue which tells me where I should go to get it. I've killed everything in sight, and am wandering halls and caves lonely now. So a clue to finding the tome would be...?

2. I have the heads. With these too I wander, and no ghost appears anywhere for my optional reward. I'm beginning to think the ghost was a republican; gotten me to do his dirty work for him and he's not bothered to pay me. Is there a FEDEX bin or something around I can stash these things in?

3. This is purely me but I hate these word anagram puzzle items, and therefore I am terrible at them. I read about "I hate I, and O and U too and passwords rhyme and yadda yadda yadda" and I face a board with 26 buttons and at that point I'm like, whatever. I'm out of there. Perhaps on another level this is less of a mental contortion?

4. This isn't the first time I did everything ass backwards in a level. I do wonder if you want a player to be able to do it that way. After meeting O Headless One doing his rounds, I took another way, fought the spooks, stole the stones, set the stones, kept going...and suddenly met the ghost who told me I needed three stones and heads and so forth, and I thought, "way past ya pal." Then of course I got the gauntlet - which is way cool - and I thought, criminey, where was THIS thing when I was hacking and slashing for the past hour? Then of course I just had to go back and slaughter everyone I snuck past just for the hell of it.

A minor detail: being an overly curious thief, after I set the stones, I saved, then took a stone out...just to see. I wondered if this would affect someone's ability to get the tome, because once you remove a stone, it can't be placed back. I just want to make sure curious thieves don't f**k themselves by quicksaving a game after making an irreversible error.

So I'm nearly there. No tome, no extra reward. I have always thought the GOLD, etc. ranking of FMs was stupid, and ignored it. That said, if this level isn't GOLD, to the powers that be: give it up already willya?

Thanks for the level. It made my weekend.