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this one?

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i don't know where dan or sebab got it from

[Ninety-Six]

Yep that's exactly the one. Of course I expect it was some midi site like vgmusic, but I hoping to find the source for the melody itself before it was gone. I remember opening the file up to check for metadata but there wasn't any.

[Aleks]

Ninety-Six, on 02 April 2021 - 08:53 AM, said:

Yep that's exactly the one. Of course I expect it was some midi site like vgmusic, but I hoping to find the source for the melody itself before it was gone. I remember opening the file up to check for metadata but there wasn't any.

Have you tried one of those sites where you can "tap" a melody of a song and it gives you some titles that would fit it? Slight chance it's popular enough to be added in such a database, but who knows, I did have a couple of successful tries like this in the past, so who knows.

[Danukem]

I'll be doing a live stream of the new Alien Armageddon at 9pm PST (in about 3 hours from this post). A lot of content has been added or changed since last version, so please tune in if you are interested and I will be happy to answer any questions.

Here is a non-expiring invite to our discord: https://discord.gg/JUypdU6

Here is my YT channel where you will be able to find the stream, and also past streams: https://www.youtube....NWaFi3cjH6v3WSg

[Danukem]

Going live now!

[Scarred]

Really awesome work you guys have done. im looking forward to 4.0.

[darkprince227]

I was just playing DC Alien Armageddon, and got to the end, so does this ALSO lead into the Space Gladiators episode?

[Phredreeke]

My understanding the chronological order is Life's a Beach -> New Invasion -> D.C. -> Gladiators

[darkprince227]

Phredreeke, on 14 April 2021 - 09:45 AM, said:

My understanding the chronological order is Life's a Beach -> New Invasion -> D.C. -> Gladiators

That makes sense

[Danukem]

That's correct, in AA canon Life's a Beach is the vacation Duke goes on after the original episodes. Then some years later, New Invasion is the new invasion, and if you follow the cutscenes DC is after that, then they are taken from Earth and Gladiators happens.

[Phredreeke]

The question remains where Penthouse Paradise fits in the timeline

[Ninety-Six]

Danukem, on 14 April 2021 - 10:36 AM, said:

Then some years later, New Invasion is the new invasion,

I thought it was only a few months later, going by the calendars

[Danukem]

Ninety-Six, on 14 April 2021 - 11:35 AM, said:

I thought it was only a few months later, going by the calendars

Nah its years in between, the calendar sprite just had a placeholder date on it. Its being changed to 20XX now.

From the narrative in space gladiators (Deanova's speech about her brother, Cycloid Jr getting revenge for his dad) its pretty clear there is a big gap in time between the original invasion and the new invasion, but it's not very explicit.

[Danukem]

https://www.moddb.co...ddon-40-release

The release of AA 4.0 happens in 12 hours. Snooper has made an amazing general purpose trailer for our mod which is featured in the release article linked above. For the AA team, the timing of this release is our tribute to the 25th anniversary of Duke Nukem 3D.

[stumppy84]

Awesome mod! I like all of the additions, including attrition!

[max_nukem]

Thanks, guys. This mod makes my evening!

[The Battlelord]

I'll never understand how you guys are able to accomplish such freaking-sick-crazy stuff, looks like you have no limits!


I can say congrats and nice job, but it may sound repetitive, so i want just say WOW and thanks for the big efforts!

Noticed something, if you wanna give a look:

Spoiler

As i'm used to do, i always give a run on E1L1, i was strafing left and right near the orange gas cylinders i've noticed some screen flickering, so i took some screenshots:

This will appear on the screen just for a blink of an eye:




I may be wrong but i think is related to some renderer problem in the eduke32 version you used for this project, indeed it even happens if you throw it in a clean folder with the classic files (without the mod):



It was very noticeable using the zoom with the Penetrator, due the screen almost freezes with it, for some reason it does not heavily affect the zoom with the Railgun in the same way, it just flickers.

However this only happened on top of Hollywood Holocaust, it does not seem to happen on the lower level.


Also, am not sure if some prices are wrong or the amount of money that the player own is not correct, but looks like the player can buy some items with less than the required amount (i don't think someone will ever complain about a discount though, lol):





Then 667 left (i've also tried to buy the Shield1B with 4000, and the amount of money goes exactly to 0):





Btw, when the player uses the Versa-Bow and the Alt-Fire is active (it appears an eye, idk what it does) , it is also supposed to appear a second mini-view on the right?
(Amazing the idea to jump on th arrows)

And many thanks again!

[darkprince227]

https://forums.duke4...55446_thumb.png
I see what you did here

OK just played the Caribbean level so far, cos it's my favourite, lots that I liked but seriously..... what in the HELL was up with those red, superpower enemies that glowed green underneath?! Not gonna lie, it kinda ruined it for me

The money/upgrades thing was interesting. Didn't pay much attention TBH but that's because I'm a guy who likes to keep things simple.

I'll definitely be playing the other episodes though.

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[Danukem]

darkprince227, on 18 April 2021 - 06:20 AM, said:

OK just played the Caribbean level so far, cos it's my favourite, lots that I liked but seriously..... what in the HELL was up with those red, superpower enemies that glowed green underneath?! Not gonna lie, it kinda ruined it for me

The money/upgrades thing was interesting. Didn't pay much attention TBH but that's because I'm a guy who likes to keep things simple.

For you I recommend turning off the progression features since it sounds like you don't like them. In the scripts folder, open the file AAUSER.CON in a text editor, and near the top where it says "gamevar PROGRESSION YES 0" change it to "gamevar PROGRESSION NO 0" The progression features will still be there in the Attrition campaign, but otherwise they will be off.

[Danukem]

The Battlelord, on 18 April 2021 - 04:48 AM, said:

I'll never understand how you guys are able to accomplish such freaking-sick-crazy stuff, looks like you have no limits!


I can say congrats and nice job, but it may sound repetitive, so i want just say WOW and thanks for the big efforts!

Noticed something, if you wanna give a look:

Spoiler

As i'm used to do, i always give a run on E1L1, i was strafing left and right near the orange gas cylinders i've noticed some screen flickering, so i took some screenshots:

This will appear on the screen just for a blink of an eye:




I may be wrong but i think is related to some renderer problem in the eduke32 version you used for this project, indeed it even happens if you throw it in a clean folder with the classic files (without the mod):



It was very noticeable using the zoom with the Penetrator, due the screen almost freezes with it, for some reason it does not heavily affect the zoom with the Railgun in the same way, it just flickers.

However this only happened on top of Hollywood Holocaust, it does not seem to happen on the lower level.


Also, am not sure if some prices are wrong or the amount of money that the player own is not correct, but looks like the player can buy some items with less than the required amount (i don't think someone will ever complain about a discount though, lol):





Then 667 left (i've also tried to buy the Shield1B with 4000, and the amount of money goes exactly to 0):





Btw, when the player uses the Versa-Bow and the Alt-Fire is active (it appears an eye, idk what it does) , it is also supposed to appear a second mini-view on the right?
(Amazing the idea to jump on th arrows)

And many thanks again!

It looks like there is a bug where you get a discount for playing solo, but the discount isn't showing up in the displayed price. I'm not sure yet, though. The arrow cam on the spy arrows is correct and their damage increases over distance.

[darkprince227]

Danukem, on 18 April 2021 - 10:14 AM, said:

For you I recommend turning off the progression features since it sounds like you don't like them. In the scripts folder, open the file AAUSER.CON in a text editor, and near the top where it says "gamevar PROGRESSION YES 0" change it to "gamevar PROGRESSION NO 0" The progression features will still be there in the Attrition campaign, but otherwise they will be off.

Ah, much better No offence to whoever thought it up, but it's just not for me, personally. Thanks for the tip, mate.

[MrFlibble]

This is gotta be my new favourite Build engine game poster (taking the title from Fat Earth Society)

[sebabdukeboss20]

MrFlibble, on 18 April 2021 - 01:23 PM, said:

This is gotta be my new favourite Build engine game poster (taking the title from Fat Earth Society)
duke0002.png

Be sure to look at it in nightvision too.

[darkprince227]

Love the THEY LIVE posers, RIP Rowdy Roddy Piper, we'll always miss you.

One question though, why the different Lunar Apocalypse posters? The one in the classic episodes is the usual.....

But then there's this variant in DC Metro Mayhem....


is it supposed to be like that? I also love the Cyberella poster, but that's cos I'm a big Disney fan. Soon as the conditions are right, I'm planning to return to Orlando

[sebabdukeboss20]

darkprince227, on 19 April 2021 - 05:45 AM, said:

Love the THEY LIVE posers, RIP Rowdy Roddy Piper, we'll always miss you.

One question though, why the different Lunar Apocalypse posters? The one in the classic episodes is the usual.....
duke0140.png
But then there's this variant in DC Metro Mayhem....
duke0141.png

is it supposed to be like that? I also love the Cyberella poster, but that's cos I'm a big Disney fan. Soon as the conditions are right, I'm planning to return to Orlando

The DC version is my own variant (which may change in the future more). DC maps we have changed heavily since they are part of the AA story. Generally I only slightly modified the vanilla maps to have a few more new decorations. I didn't want to change them too much though.

[William Gee]

darkprince227, on 19 April 2021 - 05:45 AM, said:

One question though, why the different Lunar Apocalypse posters? The one in the classic episodes is the usual.....
duke0140.png
But then there's this variant in DC Metro Mayhem....
duke0141.png
is it supposed to be like that?

We fixed a bug in the movie set level recently due to the posters, that Big Lunar Apocalypse was a ugly mix of both posters so the code got modified not to change wall textures and only sprites I think.

[darkprince227]

sebabdukeboss20, on 19 April 2021 - 10:08 AM, said:

The DC version is my own variant (which may change in the future more). DC maps we have changed heavily since they are part of the AA story. Generally I only slightly modified the vanilla maps to have a few more new decorations. I didn't want to change them too much though.

Makes sense, sometimes it's good to stick with what you know

[MrFlibble]

So after playing around with the new modes in classic levels, I decided to check out New Invasion. So you added a Bombshell introductory level, which is probably a neat idea, but I have to say that the EDF base level is quite an underwhelming experience when compared to the original first level of the TC with Duke in the pool, which is now level two.

I get it that the map author aimed for a more or less realistic depiction of a base complex, but in some places there are a little too many repetitive areas (bathroom-barracks-vent-closet) so it felt almost like a chore. The individual room design and texturing also feels rather simplistic and underdetailed at times. In general, I'd say that the map quite pales in comparison with a simialr-themed level from the original game, namely E4L1. And it doesn't help either that the music is Kevin Schilder's Winnowing Hall from Hexen, as opposed to what I believe is an original piece paying homage to classic Lee Jackson that plays in the now-second level of the episode. Oh, and that alarm klaxon is straight annoying.

The original starting level was/is a great way to introduce the mod and is full of new and different stuff; I'm afraid that the new EDF level is not a definite improvement in that area. I'm sorry if the above sounds a bit harsh; but I tried not to be biased here and to tell my impression as accurately as possible, in the hopes that it comes across as constructive criticism.

[MrFlibble]

I was wondering, any plans to release hi-res character art and/or renders? Bombshell especially got a very high quality update of both sprites and cutscene appearance, but I believe that all new non-vanilla monsters, save for the Space Gladiators additions, were updated for this release as well?