[PikaCommando]

What triggers Tchernobog's "set you on fire" attack? Is it by just looking at him, being in a direct line of sight when he starts his animation for his fireball attack, or being its own separate attack that just happens to share the same animation with the fireball attack?

Also, can anyone beat him without taking any damage on Extra Crispy?

[leilei]

supergoofy, on 14 April 2016 - 08:36 AM, said:

Note: I don't know if the x64 binary has dynarec

Neither do. It got torn out in the insane interest of running Windows 95 without crashing, and neither Daum nor X feature actual speed improvements over a standard SVN build.

[Hendricks266]

leilei, on 14 April 2016 - 03:04 PM, said:

Neither do. It got torn out in the insane interest of running Windows 95 without crashing, and neither Daum nor X feature actual speed improvements over a standard SVN build.

WTF. Could the dynarec not have been fixed instead of trashed?

[deuxsonic]

MetHy, on 14 April 2016 - 10:30 AM, said:

I actually stumbled on Kaiser on a forum and asked him about that



His screenshot :


and mine from Blood for comparison sake, though of course his stuff is WIP.




So yeah, basically anything regarding hitscan and projectile is redone from scratch either by looking at the code he's dig up or by "empirical" feeling.
I honestly don't believe you can nail Blood that way. You may get something that looks like it with a lot of work.

There are more screenshots if anyone cares.

He hasn't disappointed me yet. I'm at the point where I don't think it needs to have all the original bugs and quirks, and now that I know that I've enjoyed the other remakes he's done, I look forward to it if he's looking to pursue it to completion. Powerslave EX is quite solid even though he calls it a beta.

[Micky C]

MetHy, on 14 April 2016 - 10:30 AM, said:

I actually stumbled on Kaiser on a forum and asked him about that

So yeah, basically anything regarding hitscan and projectile is redone from scratch either by looking at the code he's dig up or by "empirical" feeling.
I honestly don't believe you can nail Blood that way. You may get something that looks like it with a lot of work.

There are more screenshots if anyone cares.

What project is that from?

[Lunick]

Micky C, on 15 April 2016 - 05:03 PM, said:

What project is that from?

It's a quiet project that probably won't have a website like Doom 64 EX or Powerslave EX, the website MetHy is talking about is a place on 4chan where the project was leaked before.

Let's keep it hush hush.

[Micky C]

Geez it's a shame nobody responded to my post

[deuxsonic]

Kaiser's working on it, so I have high hopes. I know I'm probably not the first person to have suggested Blood as a game to get his treatment.

[PikaCommando]

Came across this old preview of Blood 2 on Adrenaline Vault that, for once, had everything archived! Hooray!

[deuxsonic]

Blood 2 makes me think of Shogo... Same developer, same engine, same time period... I felt like the atmosphere was missing from #2. The first game had humor but it didn't seem as goofy as the second game.

[Daedolon]

Caleb was a playful person with some mental instability in Blood 1, but in Blood 2 they turned him into a super serious psychopath.

[PikaCommando]

Daedolon, on 01 May 2016 - 11:52 PM, said:

Caleb was a playful person with some mental instability in Blood 1, but in Blood 2 they turned him into a super serious psychopath.

Not sure about the super serious part, Blood 2 as a whole is definitely funnier and goofier than the original.

Just look:

[Daedolon]

I just feel the lines were delivered in a way that made them feel like someone was stating facts.

[deuxsonic]

Second one was definitely goofy, like when Caleb answers the phone and it's the telemarketer who mispronounces his name. The original game had dark humor and as a whole felt pretty serious with the soundtrack they used. Nick Newhard, who was a driving force behind the first game and Apogee West/QStudios/Monolith Productions, left, and had nothing to do with the second game which likely has something to do with why it was jokes the whole way through.

Can anyone share the MIDI files from the Blood alpha? I'm having a hard time tracking them down.

[MrFlibble]

Can anyone tell if any of the pre-release shots here are rare? They were found on this CD.

[Daedolon]

The second one of those is very common, and few of them seem familiar as well. I could look at the ones I have in a bit.

[PikaCommando]

Which sound card was Blood 1's MIDI soundtrack made for? The CD version of the first level's track, Unholy Grounds, feels lacking in comparison to the MIDI version but can't find any high quality versions of it.

[Hendricks266]

PikaCommando, on 19 May 2016 - 01:44 PM, said:

Unholy Grounds

Unholy Voices.

[PikaCommando]

I believe this is the best version of the MIDI soundtrack, seeing as how Duke 3D's top version is Roland SC-55 too.

deuxsonic, on 03 May 2016 - 11:08 AM, said:

Can anyone share the MIDI files from the Blood alpha? I'm having a hard time tracking them down.

The description in that video contains download links to both the SC-55 music as well as MIDI files from both retail and the pre-release version.

[deuxsonic]

I thought Duke's soundtrack was done using an SC-88.

[MusicallyInspired]

PikaCommando, on 19 May 2016 - 03:51 PM, said:

I believe this is the best version of the MIDI soundtrack, seeing as how Duke 3D's top version is Roland SC-55 too.

The description in that video contains download links to both the SC-55 music as well as MIDI files from both retail and the pre-release version.

Ah yes, that's mine. Link is in my signature. Generally, anything MIDI-oriented around the early 90s was designed for the SC-55 specifically (before that it was the MT-32). And if it wasn't it was one of the top supported MIDI devices at least. An exception would be the Gravis Ultrasound.

deuxsonic, on 19 May 2016 - 05:38 PM, said:

I thought Duke's soundtrack was done using an SC-88.

Probably, but it was designed for the SC-55 (the SC-88 has a compatible SC-55 mode). Or rather the internal sound card variant, actually I think. One of the SCC card lines. The full SC-88 library and effects were what Lee Jackson used for the Redbook audio track for the extended Duke3D theme on the Atomic CD. But the MIDI soundtrack in the game was composed for the SC-55.

[DustFalcon85]

The Postmortem is gone! All I see is a blank page. Someone tell me what's going on? At least the forums are still up.

http://www.the-postmortem.com/

[deuxsonic]

Maybe they're late on paying the hosting bill?

[Daedolon]

phpBB doesn't adhere to the security standards of PHP 7 so all cross-site stuff is no longer working until I can get some donations to get XenForo. You can still access the forum as is.

[MrBlackCat]

Daedolon, on 22 May 2016 - 04:30 AM, said:

phpBB doesn't adhere to the security standards of PHP 7 so all cross-site stuff is no longer working until I can get some donations to get XenForo. You can still access the forum as is.

How much does it cost?

MrBlackCat

[DustFalcon85]

Blood 1 & 2 are on sale on GOG.com. Get them while they're cheap!

1: https://www.gog.com/...nit_whole_blood

2: https://www.gog.com/...hosen_expansion

[Lunick]

Jace Hall is at it again... http://www.twingalax...d-It-Live-Again

[Trebor_UK]

I found this article you guys may like:
http://www.screencri...-classic-blood/

[CatNapDreams]

Only played it a few times for a few hours... it was WAY better than Nightmare 3D. I like horror games (not movies) if they are silly or crazy like this one. It has a seriousness to it, but only within its own world, and I enjoy that. Not like Resident Evil scary, like silly scary.

CatNapDreams

[MetHy]

Lunick, on 05 June 2016 - 10:45 PM, said:

Jace Hall is at it again... http://www.twingalax...d-It-Live-Again
http://i.imgur.com/kqx3hNX.png

Trebor_UK, on 06 June 2016 - 12:52 AM, said:

I found this article you guys may like:
http://www.screencri...-classic-blood/

Start a crowdfunding, but based on what exactly?!

Only someone who has access to the sourcecode and who has already made some sort of deal with the right owner with crowdfunding as backup could start a crowdfunding with some sort of base to it.

Also I am sure that, in this day and age, everyone who has tried to acquire the rights to Blood (=several publishers and devs in the past few years) have thought of the possibility of crowdfunding already.... But IIRC Atari is asking like 1 million or some bullshit unreachable amount.

Jace is nuts. This is just cocktease.