[Sledgehammer]

I may regret this question, but what's the deal with feminism whinning? Am I missing something? Granted I haven't bought the game yet due reasons but from the distance I see nothing "triggering" there.

Wish there was 86x compability so I could play the game right now. Not that it's very critical, I can wait for a weekend to get the game which would be in December.

[Forge]

Sledgehammer, on 20 October 2018 - 07:57 AM, said:

I may regret this question, but what's the deal with feminism whinning?

Fred virtue-signaled about the difference between the current version of Shelly vs. the 90's prototype. It annoyed people.

There's nothing wrong with either version, as long as the character has a proper personality and the game world revolves around more than just its physical appearance..

[Zaxx]

Forge, on 20 October 2018 - 12:05 PM, said:

Fred virtue-signaled about the difference between the current version of Shelly vs. the 90's prototype. It annoyed people.

Fred is truly the mastermind of marketing.

[Micky C]

Sledgehammer, on 20 October 2018 - 07:57 AM, said:

I may regret this question, but what's the deal with feminism whinning? Am I missing something? Granted I haven't bought the game yet due reasons but from the distance I see nothing "triggering" there.

Wish there was 86x compability so I could play the game right now. Not that it's very critical, I can wait for a weekend to get the game which would be in December.

The people who are saying that probably haven't played the game itself.

You could easily swap out Shelly with a random male character, and the game would play exactly the same way. If it wasn't for the one-liners (ok, and the face in the hud and title screen) I'd have no idea I was playing as a female. My point is that this has zero elements of a feminist game, and simply happens to star a women. There are people out there who judge the game entirely around that one fact.

I wasn't aware of Fred's comments until now. I'm not sure how widespread they are to the average gamer.

[Forge]

Micky C, on 20 October 2018 - 04:49 PM, said:

I wasn't aware of Fred's comments until now. I'm not sure how widespread they are to the average gamer.

iirc, he started his progressive ally commentary on steam. I tend to think it stayed within the ion maiden community for the most part, since there weren't any articles about it on any major online game review site. Those rags love to take a juicy story and blow it out of proportion. Next thing we know, Tx is being portrayed as a purple-haired trans.

[Fox]

A little bit of controversy is not a bad thing.

[Zaxx]

Forge, on 20 October 2018 - 06:20 PM, said:

Next thing we know, Tx is being portrayed as a purple-haired trans.

Wait, he's not a purple-haired trans???

[Sledgehammer]

Forge, on 20 October 2018 - 12:05 PM, said:

Fred virtue-signaled about the difference between the current version of Shelly vs. the 90's prototype. It annoyed people.

Ah, typical terrible PR bullshit when it isn't even necessary, classic. Unless of course it was done on purpose and brought more sales aside from simple attention.

[Hendricks266]

Sledgehammer, on 21 October 2018 - 06:51 AM, said:

Ah, typical terrible PR bullshit when it isn't even necessary, classic. Unless of course it was done on purpose and brought more sales aside from simple attention.

Voidpoint edited the post to remove the references to sexuality being shameful and make it more objective like a museum exhibit of artifacts. Some guy thought we were "covering up the evidence", bought the game, played 0.1 hours, left a negative review, refunded it, and spammed a bunch of imageboards trying to form a hate mob. Joke's on him though, because we got a spike in sales that day.

[Phredreeke]

Sledgehammer, on 20 October 2018 - 07:57 AM, said:

Wish there was 86x compability so I could play the game right now. Not that it's very critical, I can wait for a weekend to get the game which would be in December.

If by 86x compatibility you mean a 32-bit version then that has been brought up a number of times on Discord. It's unlikely that a 32-bit system would run the game with acceptable performance.

[Zaxx]

Phredreeke, on 21 October 2018 - 11:50 AM, said:

If by 86x compatibility you mean a 32-bit version then that has been brought up a number of times on Discord. It's unlikely that a 32-bit system would run the game with acceptable performance.

Really? Why is that?

[Sledgehammer]

Hendricks266, on 21 October 2018 - 11:24 AM, said:

Voidpoint edited the post to remove the references to sexuality being shameful and make it more objective like a museum exhibit of artifacts.

I see. Nice, it's too bad that nowadays barely anyone can stick their virtue signaling which no one really needs or cares about up their asses where it should belong. Was least expecting something like that fom 3DR of all publishers.

Hendricks266, on 21 October 2018 - 11:24 AM, said:

Some guy thought we were "covering up the evidence", bought the game, played 0.1 hours, left a negative review, refunded it, and spammed a bunch of imageboards trying to form a hate mob. Joke's on him though, because we got a spike in sales that day.

Not really surprising. It's good that in the end this PR wasn't such a disaster. Though Fred could pull out Hatred devs on puporse, that would bring a lot of good results no doubt.

Anyway, the most important thing I'd like to know is did the game perform well in the end? I assume it did and you're making more eps and content, aren't you? Can't wait for December to finally try it out, though I'm a bit "triggered" by early access despite fully trusting you.

Zaxx, on 21 October 2018 - 03:51 PM, said:

Really? Why is that?

Wonder myself. Though I guess by the time they implement it I'll get my hands on my desktop already.

[Phredreeke]

based on testing the game on my gpd win

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[SonicB00M]

So Ion Maiden for PS4, XBox One and Switch was just announced for Q2 2019. Will the PC version hit simultaneously or is it coming sooner?

[Forge]

Sledgehammer, on 21 October 2018 - 04:47 PM, said:

Can't wait for December to finally try it out, though I'm a bit "triggered" by early access despite fully trusting you.

Early access was worth it. Just don't get it through the 3dr site. Their customer service and keeping the community updated & informed is non-existent.
I doubt we'll get the last patch though them, so queen of the hill mode is still unplayable.
Pretty much resolved myself to wait for the final release to play it. (two weeks after it's already been out on steam)

[MusicallyInspired]

Ion Maiden coming to the Switch (and the other consoles which is cool too, I guess)! Nice one, guys!!

[Forge]

SonicB00M, on 23 October 2018 - 06:46 AM, said:

So Ion Maiden for PS4, XBox One and Switch was just announced for Q2 2019. Will the PC version hit simultaneously or is it coming sooner?

next time include a fancy picture attachment for upvotes

[Hendricks266]

Phredreeke, on 21 October 2018 - 11:50 AM, said:

If by 86x compatibility you mean a 32-bit version then that has been brought up a number of times on Discord. It's unlikely that a 32-bit system would run the game with acceptable performance.

Poor performance isn't inherent to 32-bit processors. Before any of our GL performance work the doubled register count of x64 may have been important (and it still is for Polymer), but it's more likely that that 32-bit devices happen to not be powerful enough, or come with graphics hardware that isn't powerful enough. Hopefully our remaining work should fix this. We also experience strange rendering bugs (potentially compiler bugs) in 32-bit that we need to resolve or work around before we can declare 32-bit stable.

Phredreeke, on 21 October 2018 - 05:04 PM, said:

based on testing the game on my gpd win

Is this running the beta Update 3 branch available on Steam? If not I'd like to see how that does.

[Zaxx]

Forge, on 23 October 2018 - 09:59 AM, said:

next time include a fancy picture attachment for upvotes

I have the fanciest picture:

Anyway it's really good news but I'm especially happy for the Switch release. Indie titles like this can do tremendously well in Nintendo's store.

[enderandrew]

Here is the trailer.



I guess this means EDuke32 has been ported to all those platforms. The XBox port has to include XInput support presumably. I'd love to see sane defaults for XBox controllers on the PC version with one is detected. I've still never managed to get EDuke32 working well with my XBox controller. I saw someone suggest in another game's forums that when you're using a particularly high DPI mouse and SDL_Input, that it messes with axis sensitivity on joysticks.

[Phredreeke]

Hendricks266, on 23 October 2018 - 10:14 AM, said:

Poor performance isn't inherent to 32-bit processors. Before any of our GL performance work the doubled register count of x64 may have been important (and it still is for Polymer), but it's more likely that that 32-bit devices happen to not be powerful enough

Exactly. It's not as much 32-bit vs. 64-bit as a ten year old Core Duo vs ten years of CPUs that followed.

Hendricks266, on 23 October 2018 - 10:14 AM, said:

Is this running the beta Update 3 branch available on Steam? If not I'd like to see how that does.

It's Update 3 RC4.

[Newken]

Dumbed down for consoles? I hope not.

[Phredreeke]

Nah, Voidpoint isn't going DNF on us lol

[Zaxx]

Is this true?
3D Realms is working on a new first person shooter that will be powered by the Quake Engine
Can't find another source on this, hence the question. Was hoping for another Build game or some other retro thing that's not an FPS. But hey, at least we'll have strafe jumping.

[Hendricks266]

It's true.

[Mr. Tibbs]

Beyond hyped for a Switch version! Will be picking that up as soon as it's available.

Zaxx, on 23 October 2018 - 11:23 AM, said:

Is this true? Can't find another source on this, hence the question. Was hoping for another Build game or some other retro thing that's not an FPS. But hey, at least we'll have strafe jumping.

Yes, but it doesn't say that Voidpoint are working on a Quake shooter, just that 3D Realms and 1C are collaborating on one.

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Both companies will also collaborate on a new unannounced FPS based on the original Quake engine coming to all the same platforms as Ion Maiden.

[DavoX]

Newken, on 23 October 2018 - 11:04 AM, said:

Dumbed down for consoles? I hope not.

What does that even mean?

[Zaxx]

Hendricks266, on 23 October 2018 - 11:25 AM, said:

It's true.

And by "Quake engine" they mean Q1? I find that pretty weird, if I were to make a retro 3D shooter that feels like Quake I'd sure as shit go for the Quake 3 engine instead.

[TerminX]

Newken, on 23 October 2018 - 11:04 AM, said:

Dumbed down for consoles? I hope not.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkk no.

[oasiz]

We do however sympathize with keyboard-only geezers, even before we knew about this.
Extra care is taken to place buttons and such at heights where you can actually use them instead of being just a few units off

Actually we wrote a special m32 script where a mapper can point to a switch and it fixes the Z in case it's off, keep em nice and compliant!