[SonicWind]

Tekedon, on 05 November 2018 - 09:31 AM, said:

So.. Nothing yet? Another one of those "Blood teases" that lead nowhere?

I certainly hope not. I know Night Dive would treat Blood right.

[Emmanuelexe]

Tekedon, on 05 November 2018 - 09:31 AM, said:

So.. Nothing yet? Another one of those "Blood teases" that lead nowhere?

Yeah, this kind of teasing with BLOOD start to be boring, gonna not wait anymore like that (hype' lol), will see if there is something anyway.

[Master O]

It's been a week since NightDive's facebook page put those Blood images up on the page, and still nothing else yet.

Very strange...

[Hendricks266]

Remember that time Night Dive's CEO announced a rerelease of PowerSlave on a podcast before they had secured the rights?

[Emmanuelexe]

True, i was thinking about that and even if they registered the trademark (in august if i remember), there is still nothing for Exhumed....
And the port of Powerslave EX seemed to be done at this point.

I feel like they are just checking the fanbase if they will do this crowdfunding thing like the CEO said on his twitter for this "secret IP" or anything like that, we don't know.

Feel like it's gonna take a lot of time before seeing anything yeah

[VGA]

The best (only?) way to map for Blood is the mapedit.exe included in gog's One Unit Whole Blood for example?

[Zaxx]

Hendricks266, on 07 November 2018 - 05:49 PM, said:

Remember that time Night Dive's CEO announced a rerelease of PowerSlave on a podcast before they had secured the rights?

Could they use official art for the game if they had not secured the rights? I mean the stuff they showed was clearly the shareware boxart and guess that's part of the IP.

[MetHy]

Using a piece of art that looks like the shareware version of a game, linked to no announcement, not even any text, is definitely not an offender at all. It's nothing compared to what Hendricks266 just mentionned.

[Outtagum]

memba NOLF?

[Zaxx]

Zor, on 08 November 2018 - 01:12 PM, said:

memba NOLF?

I memba but in that case there was no tease, Nightdive just released a bunch of promotional art after they failed to secure the trademark.

[Tekedon]

[Zaxx]

And since we were talking about NOLF:
https://twitter.com/...003454045282304

[Mr. Tibbs]

Zaxx, on 09 November 2018 - 01:51 PM, said:

And since we were talking about NOLF:
https://twitter.com/...003454045282304

You're sleeping on the real story, Zaxx!

[Zaxx]

Well as for the real real story there is a stream starting right now where some of the original devs will play some NOLF:
https://www.twitch.tv/monolithlive

[Mr. Tibbs]

[Master O]

SonicWind, on 05 November 2018 - 01:25 PM, said:

I certainly hope not. I know Night Dive would treat Blood right.

Judging by the past couple of weeks, all I see is a big nothing burger. Night Dive are either trolling us or massively incompetent.

[MusicallyInspired]

And yet, if something does come out that's epic, you'll forget all about this relatively short delay.

[Master O]

MusicallyInspired, on 14 November 2018 - 06:22 AM, said:

And yet, if something does come out that's epic, you'll forget all about this relatively short delay.

And you're most likely right. That doesn't mean people can't legitimately question why there is such a delay between showing pics of Blood shareware versus Nightdive actually announcing what they're doing.

[MusicallyInspired]

I didn't say that. But evidence of them being "massively incompetent" is something we have yet to see.

[K-Bone]

MusicallyInspired, on 14 November 2018 - 07:03 AM, said:

I didn't say that. But evidence of them being "massively incompetent" is something we have yet to see.

Yeah, Not like Night Dive they forgot to credit the System Shock modding community for NewDark engine. Or their System Shock remake isn't turning out how their kickstarter backers wanted with the complete change in Art Direction or even their sudden change of engines. Nah, Nothing incompetent about that. /s

[VGA]

Why, does the SS2 version on Steam come premodded? With the NewDark files?

[K-Bone]

VGA, on 14 November 2018 - 08:47 AM, said:

Why, does the SS2 version on Steam come premodded? With the NewDark files?

Yeah and iirc the announcement of it they failed to mention that NewDark was made from the fans and not them. On top of that. the way the files were structured when released on steam broke compatibility with some mods (even though most mods worked fine if not flawlessly with the GOG release.)

[MusicallyInspired]

K-Bone, on 14 November 2018 - 08:21 AM, said:

Yeah, Not like Night Dive they forgot to credit the System Shock modding community for NewDark engine. Or their System Shock remake isn't turning out how their kickstarter backers wanted with the complete change in Art Direction or even their sudden change of engines. Nah, Nothing incompetent about that. /s

Incompetent, yes. MASSIVELY incompetent, no. That would imply everything they touch turns to a disaster and that's simply not the case. If they're on the road to that, fine. But there's no evidence of that yet. They mess up like everyone does.

[Zaxx]

MusicallyInspired, on 14 November 2018 - 09:08 AM, said:

Incompetent, yes. MASSIVELY incompetent, no. That would imply everything they touch turns to a disaster and that's simply not the case. If they're on the road to that, fine. But there's no evidence of that yet. They mess up like everyone does.

I wouldn't even call that incompetence but rather a lack of experience when it comes to handling bigger projects. That's understandable for a company that is still up and coming and the important thing is that they just stopped before the whole thing would have just crashed and burned.

As for this:

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And yet, if something does come out that's epic, you'll forget all about this relatively short delay.

Sure, I don't think anyone will hold a grudge against Nightdive because of this, honestly I'm just annoyed by this weird tease because they should know who they are dealing with. If you're a Blood fan then you were let down a lot when it comes to this sort of thing: there was that whole campaign for the source, then that Jace Hall thing followed by Devolver's episode with WB and all of that resulted in diddly-squat. After all of that don't expect me to be excited because there is some blood dripping on a website, just tell me what the fuck you're doing, simple as that. If they post an official announcement and show me a trailer then I know that a new release is happening and this time it won't fail.

[MusicallyInspired]

Yes, it is annoying.

[OpenMaw]

Zaxx, on 14 November 2018 - 05:58 PM, said:

Sure, I don't think anyone will hold a grudge against Nightdive because of this, honestly I'm just annoyed by this weird tease because they should know who they are dealing with. If you're a Blood fan then you were let down a lot when it comes to this sort of thing: there was that whole campaign for the source, then that Jace Hall thing followed by Devolver's episode with WB and all of that resulted in diddly-squat. After all of that don't expect me to be excited because there is some blood dripping on a website, just tell me what the fuck you're doing, simple as that. If they post an official announcement and show me a trailer then I know that a new release is happening and this time it won't fail.

Christ, i'm having flash backs to my Duke Nukem Mass Destruction rants... Happy thoughts, happy thoughts...



Don't worry Zaxx, you still have a ways before you snap and start writing ten tomes worth of text about just how fucked up the situation is.

[Zaxx]

Commando Nukem, on 15 November 2018 - 11:11 AM, said:

Don't worry Zaxx, you still have a ways before you snap and start writing ten tomes worth of text about just how fucked up the situation is.

Nah, I think I've already snapped when Jace Hall tweeted out a picture of a meeting he had with the original Blood developers about how they are "working on secrets" only to just shut up about it afterwards. Then he posted a picture of a Blood T-shirt only to get everyone excited again while apparently the guy just found his old Blood T-shirt and was happy about it.

Sure, the Nightdive guys may ask Jace to hold their beer one day but I don't see that happening.

[Emmanuelexe]

That's cruel to do it.... if it's intentional, playing with our sentiments when we know how this kind of IPs (like Hexen) CAN be doomed!

Or maybe they wanted tease stuff but people who manage the NDA (no disclosure thing') forced them to say nothing.

I think too much, like i said, they got maybe the contract to make some projects for BLOOD but it's not finished, teasing us to be sure we will check their page sometimes till the day it will be ready. Not fun. : (

Maybe just a teasing for something who "started" so we can wait a lot, like a lot of other teasing like some company in E3 :/ .... maybe

Better to not wait too much (like me at least , was so hyped :/ ) it will be there when it will come...(if it's supposed to have something :v

[OpenMaw]

This is generally why it's a bad idea to promote something when it's basically an empty box.

[Tekedon]

Meanwhile... M210 delivers again!

Blood GDX 0.795 released:

BloodGDX 0.795


1. New libgdx framework (1.9.8) (BuildGDX)
2. Tweaked sprite rendering in polymost (BuildGDX)
3. New OpenAL driver (BuildGDX)
4. New gamepad controlles handler by aybe (BuildGDX)
5. Map CRC32 check
6. ROR Fixes
7. OpenAL resampler options
8. New keyboard setup menu, reset to classic keys and default "wsad" keys
9. Overlay map
10. Start singleplayer game fixed after multiplayer then host disconnected the game
11. CoopView in teammode fixed
12. Can't drop fused TNT/SprayCan after Revive player fix
13. Sound from viewed player fix
14. CrystallBall crash after load user episode fix
15. Vanilla Mode if you want to see old original bugs
16. Encreased savegame file version!