[oasiz]

MrFlibble, on 28 September 2020 - 08:50 AM, said:

Speaking of which (thanks for reminding me), I got trapped in the Twin Peaks Easter egg section several times. If I stay put in the corridor when the lights go out I get teleported back to the main part of the level eventually, but if I try to move around as the tiles fall sometimes the teleportation seems not to happen. This is in the patched GOG version.

I've heard one other report about this on consoles but not on 1.1
Can you repeat this consistently ?

[MrFlibble]

Gah, I shouldn't have overwritten that savegame

[the_raven]

But why the expansion pack? Didn't the standard campaign already do the full story of Shelly going after Haskil and them blowing up the Institute, the incident where she lost her squad and right arm that's mentioned in Bombshell (the game)? How will this work exactly? What's the plot?

[Jimmy]

Because why not? Downvoted.

[MusicallyInspired]

They can find a way to make the story work. We just want more gameplay. Story is not as important in this instance. Why make an expansion? Because it's FUN and we want MORE. Period. "What's the plot?" Who cares?

[oasiz]

the_raven, on 29 September 2020 - 12:53 PM, said:

But why the expansion pack? Didn't the standard campaign already do the full story of Shelly going after Haskil and them blowing up the Institute, the incident where she lost her squad and right arm that's mentioned in Bombshell (the game)? How will this work exactly? What's the plot?

She has a perfectly fine arm with her perfectly fine mediocre lager at the end.

[DisgustedGrunt]

the_raven, on 29 September 2020 - 12:53 PM, said:

But why the expansion pack? Didn't the standard campaign already do the full story of Shelly going after Haskil and them blowing up the Institute, the incident where she lost her squad and right arm that's mentioned in Bombshell (the game)? How will this work exactly? What's the plot?

"Story in a game is like story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but its not that important" - John Carmack.

[MusicallyInspired]

Well I don't go that far. But for shooter games, mostly yes.

[MrFlibble]

Zaxx, on 28 August 2019 - 06:56 AM, said:

The other thing is that IF is pretty dense visually, it's a lot more detailed than other Build games so naturally that will make secrets harder to find: you'll get a lot more things on the map that will look suspicious so if a secret is hidden behind a regular wall for example you kinda feel cheated because there were just so many "better" options.

I have to agree here. Don't wanna complain about secret hunting -- I enjoy this aspect of playing and every found secret is a source of deep satisfaction (although I have to confess that a couple of times I gave in to the temptation of looking up video walkthroughs). The problem as I see here is that because the levels are indeed very large and detailed, the effort of looking through everything you might have missed can and does become exhausting. I have found often myself down to a couple of missed secrets when I complete a level, and circling around in hopes of finding something I might have overlooked, often imagining clues that aren't there in the process. When you're in the secret hunting mode, it's very easy to find imaginary hidden meanings in the placement of any decorations. I can't help but feel that some of the successfully found secrets are due to pure chance and not by following certain rules or finding subtle clues left by the map author.

Again, I wouldn't like to come across as complaining here, and certainly the placement of secret areas does not always have to follow a strict system for the player to decipher. But the side effect of the levels being expansive and highly detailed is that you really get overloaded with information, up to the point of possibly missing something in front of your nose.

[Dzierzan]

So I kinda started voxeling for Ion Fury, it might turn into Voxel Pack.




I voxelized cockroaches too, but apparently, since they are aligned to the floor, they cannot be rendered as voxels, what a shame. Unless I did something wrong...

[MrFlibble]

Here's a thing about voxels I had on my mind and keep forgetting to ask.

My only (so far) stint with voxel editing happened over a decade ago, and it was playing around with a voxel editor for Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2 (forgot what it's called but it's easy to look up -- a popular community tool. UPD: it's simply called Voxel Section Editor). Now what I remember is that along with some basic voxel painting, there was a thing called normals which applied some sort of shading to the voxel models, making them look smoother -- for example, a tank barrel or a vehicle's wheel would appear round instead of blocky. Painting them by hand required a high level of skill but the VSE tool came with an "auto normals" option that produced some pretty decent results from what I remember.

My question here is, can this be done with EDuke32 voxels? From the high-res voxels in Ion Fury I get the feeling that there is a similar feature (e.g. the top part of the comfy office armchair certainly looks very smooth and roundish) but I'm not 100% sure.

[Dzierzan]

More:

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

I'm a voxel noob
but wouldn't voxel shells be a bit much for build to handle

[VGA]

Truck Stop Santa Claus, on 18 October 2020 - 06:11 PM, said:

I'm a voxel noob
but wouldn't voxel shells be a bit much for build to handle

It already handles them fine in Blood.

[MrFlibble]

I believe this depends on the computing power of the host system. I'm not using the Duke3D voxel pack because in user maps where you have for example many palm-trees in an open area the frame rate suffers rather notably for me. (I think my system uses the integrated Intel video chip by default for EDuke32 though, but I haven't tried with the GPU)

[jkas789]

MrFlibble, on 24 October 2020 - 07:47 AM, said:

(I think my system uses the integrated Intel video chip by default for EDuke32 though, but I haven't tried with the GPU)

Voxels do affect performance. However I have not noticed a substantial hit, even in user maps. What does seem to affect it in my case is the amount of enemies in a map. Have you tried pointing windows to use your high performance gpu with eduke32?

You can do this in Windows 10 by going to Settings--->Display--->Graphics Settings

[MrFlibble]

Thanks, I'm aware of how to do that (in my case that'd be through the NVIDIA control panel).

I keep forgetting to ask: what is this computer loading in Corporate Chaos?
 capt0028.png (217.37K)
Number of downloads: 96
A first I thought this was the ROTT loading screen, and the blood splatters (once you activate the PC) would refer to ludicrous gibs, but upon a closer look this seems like a Doom engine game, except I don't remember which (if any) has the blue header?

[jkas789]

That mouse looks like prime voxel material.

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

He's going to voxel every thing he can, menu sprites watch out!

[Hank]

For those that might be interested – a bridge between Ion Fury and ReShade.

https://www.indiedb....n-night-reshade
Enhance your Ion Fury experience with this Reshade preset, darkening the nights and brightening the lights, extracting more grit from the game's art style.

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

cool

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

Been playing the game on an old T420 Thinkpad (running Ubuntu). Runs ok considering it's weak 2g dual core, runs even better with Open GL turned off.

[jkas789]

There was recently an interview made to the Ion Fury team on Indie Retro News.

Pretty interesting stuff IMO.

Repost from the Discord and honestly all the credit goes to Cola Powered Gamer for actually doing the interview.

[Lunick]

It was posted in the Aftershock thread since it contained new screenshots of the DLC

[keiron]

Ion Fury AFTERSHOCK Big Box Trailer

[Outtagum]

Finished a Maximum Fury playthrough and got all the cheevies.

Anxious for Aftershock.

[jkas789]

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Anxious for Aftershock.

Me too buddy, me too. Although to be honest I waited almost 10 years for Nintendo to pull their head out of their asses and do another Metroid game that was worth a damn and that it pushed the story forward in a meaningful way.

So I guess I can wait a year or two for Aftershock.

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

Kinda wonder if the 2.0 update or whatever is going to mess with any mods or maps. If any of mine brake, go ahead and bitch at me lol.

[Lunick]

If 2.0 didn't then the DLC probably will

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

Lunick, on 08 October 2021 - 06:19 PM, said:

If 2.0 didn't then the DLC probably will

Have some other stuff I'm working on, so if every thing just worked that would be great. if a lot of it would be quick fix it wouldn't be too much of a pain.