Enchantermon on 29/4/2009 at 03:06
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. . . though I'm tending towards the opinion that the effort could have been better spent doing, well, anything else including bludgeoning my head against my desk . . .
So in other words, things are going well? :D
Question for all (probably doesn't need its own thread): Occasionally, I'll take an object that was originally just lying around Citadel and put it in a crate or a Personal Effects box or something of the sort if I happen to think that it looks better than the thing just sitting in the middle of the hallway. Thing is, recently I remembered an interview a while back about Bioshock where someone (Levine?) promised that there wouldn't be any crates in Bioshock (ha). This got me thinking: are crates a bad thing? Too cliché, maybe? I'm not saying we should get rid of them altogether, but should I be careful about how much I use them?
ZylonBane on 29/4/2009 at 04:04
Considering that the original System Shock has stuff in crates, it seems reasonable to assume that if they'd wanted something in a crate, they would have put in one.
Mercurius on 29/4/2009 at 05:07
Crates are lovely, unless you're Valve. Then they're just awful.
RocketMan on 29/4/2009 at 06:12
Quote Posted by Zygoptera
360 degree movement
How can you "try" to get that working....isn't it impossible? Or are you using some clever teleport tricks going from room to room?
Enchantermon on 29/4/2009 at 08:07
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Considering that the original System Shock has stuff in crates, it seems reasonable to assume that if they'd wanted something in a crate, they would have put in one.
I thought about that, but still, some things are just odd...like the first gas grenade in the game. It just sits right in the middle of the hallway on Medical looking incredibly out of place. It would make more sense if it were off to the side in a box; at least, that's what I would think. Am I alone in that?
Plus, some stuff is a little hard to see when it's just sitting on the floor. Unlike SS2, where the colored bullets didn't really blend in a lot with the floor, some things like the needle dart cartridges are easy to miss if they're just lying around.
Quote Posted by Mercurius
Crates are lovely, unless you're Valve. Then they're just awful.
As in Half-Life? There were indeed a lot of crates in that game.
JediKorenchkin on 29/4/2009 at 10:32
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despite having got pretty much everything except 360 degree movement and some of the unimportant softs working.
Didn't we used to have a test .mis by spanker or ar master that ran it perfectly with some funky gravity or air or water settings or something?
Enchantermon on 29/4/2009 at 12:12
I didn't think that it fixed the 360 problem, though I could be wrong. I'll look through my stuff, but I don't think I have it.
EDIT: Hmm...well, I have a cyberspace.mis file, but it crashes as soon as I go into Game Mode, so I don't think that's it. That's the only Cyberspace file I have.
ZylonBane on 29/4/2009 at 13:19
Quote Posted by Enchantermon
I thought about that, but still, some things are just odd...like the first gas grenade in the game. It just sits right in the middle of the hallway on Medical looking incredibly out of place.
Almost as if they wanted to make sure the player would see it, eh?
JediKorenchkin on 29/4/2009 at 14:08
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EDIT: Hmm...well, I have a cyberspace.mis file, but it crashes as soon as I go into Game Mode, so I don't think that's it. That's the only Cyberspace file I have.
LGClassics has one listed in with the TSP files which (
http://www.lgclassics.net/tsp/lev.html) just might be it.
Enchantermon on 29/4/2009 at 14:27
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Almost as if they wanted to make sure the player would see it, eh?
Heh...point taken.
It's not as if I was throwing everything in crates and the like...and anyway, I would assume that people would search everything they find, anyway (unless, of course, you're playing with the time limit). If you guys really don't think I should mess with any of this, I can go ahead and undo my changes. Are there more opinions on the matter?
Okay, I'll check it out.
EDIT: Nope, that one still has gravity and no 360 view. Looks cool, though.
