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The Lion

Fun idea in singleplayer, not multi really.

Heck, the BS might as well do no damage at all. Just pop it into a
wall and follow up with a mega or a couple of other weapons...

The Lion

And same here, to an extent.

But IMHO the MD should only be in Instareap games, where the
aiming skill is intended to make up the larger part of the game.
It should not be munching away on otherwise good anarchy games.

Insta doesn't have the `kicking them when they are down' problem,
either.

The Lion

Uff, hard to choose here... (so maybe they *are* nicely balanced ;)) It also depends on what kind of balance we're talking about: MD dominates other weapons in open rooms. Fusion dominates other weapons at close range in tight hallways. The microwave is the least balanced between ships IMO. In a Pho...

The Lion

Hm, interesting. You'd think the tank would have the biggest one...

The Lion

[...] Tanks take twice as much damage [...] That's just not true. The tank has an armor scalar of 0.87, so it can take just about 115 damage where a pyro could only take 100. I do agree that the tank was a mistake (too easy to repeatedly lob a blob of 100+ down some nice tight hallways). Regarding ...

The Lion

I think the problem is that Skybox is played - pretty much constantly, with 8+ people, and with tanks, fusion, napalm, mortars, and 4pack homers, if not also including megas, BPs, and microwave... Did I forget anything? Edit : yes... I forgot to mention that the high-res download is broken, despite ...

The Lion

Yo. For those who might be interested: I made a Perl script which uses FUSE and gslist to provide a list of (and information on) Descent 3 servers as a filesystem. Not really intended to be useful, but it's nice to play around with for a bit, and you'll be able to use standard Unix tools for D3 serv...

The Lion

Voted Descent 4. 72 currently. Not bad, especially considering Half-life has only 70...!

The Lion

Hm, is there no suitable debugger for DXX on windows..?

The Lion

To debug DXX-Rebirth I just compile with -g and use gdb/valgrind on a `release' executable.

The Lion

Hm, nice to learn a bit about the background story.

The Lion

With vista this will just get worse.

The Lion

It's absolutely great that you're planning to ditch Windows in favor of a free (as in freedom) operating system such as GNU/Linux. Unfortunately, it might take a big revolution and lots of casualties (users getting so heavily fed up with their computer that they would be prepared to go back to penci...

The Lion

I use http://www.videodl.org/ to download the videos from youtube or google and then I just use MPlayer to watch them. I can't skip forward or go back as I can with most video types, which is kind of annoying, but I can speed it up or slow it down as usual, as this is just an independant feature of ...

The Lion

No problem.

@ Bakky: as one of the goals of DXX-Rebirth is \"Providing the classic feel
of the original commercial versions of the games\", we need not worry about
it \"going absolutely hogwild\".

The Lion

Look in the dallasfuncs.cpp provided by the D3-SDK. There's a function
with which you can move objects, so you could get the code from there.

The Lion

I can get the readings directly out of /sys, and can easily build
a better interface around it.

Which I did. I made fvwm menus for CPU frequency and fan
speed, both of which also provide relevant readings.

The Lion

That's also why we still play D3, Neo.

The Lion

Amusingly, the Vista content protection docs say that it'll be left to graphics chip manufacturers to differentiate their product based on (deliberately degraded) video quality. This seems a bit like breaking the legs of Olympic athletes and then rating them based on how fast they can hobble on cru...

The Lion

MPlayer supports remote control using LIRC, but as this stands for
\"Linux Infrared Remote Control\", its Windows build probably doesn't.

The Lion

Richard Cranium wrote:If you see an Agent, run. Run like hell.

But don't forget to keep lobbing fusion and chucking missiles, of course.

The Lion

Damn...

Watermelons, bean wizards, spinach, broccoli... did Birds use those, too?

The Lion

I played it for a while, but lost interest in it after a while just like any other game besides Descent.

I've only heard of Nightfall, or Prophecies, or whatever...

Has IWAY finally been nerfed? :-)

The Lion

-vfxmono

Don't know if it works with the D1x'es though, and if so, which ones.

The Lion

A bit of Googling would surely help, as Windows is so widely used that many crackers must have given it a try. "you will just have to call activation up each time it happens" This is a mere taste of Microsoft's ability to screw over their customers, regardless of whether they are in breach...

The Lion

3 direct hits and 2 bullets. I don't have the result page on my screen anymore but here's what I remember: The big mistake I made was answering true to Q7 (\"belief without evidence is justifiable\"). I probably did that because I was confused by the wording. Because of this I got hit at Q...

The Lion

Ok, let me rephrase that...

Any missile by itself is easy to avoid if you see it coming soon enough.

The Lion

Any single missile (blacksharks don't exist :-) is easy to avoid by
itself if you know it's there.

It's when people are chucking them all around you that things can
get a little tricky.

The Lion

Be careful around the more experienced MD dorks though, or else
they might back up past you and use you as cover instead.

The Lion

Especially the aliens are cool.

The Lion

lol :-)

The Lion

Yeah, breaking the law (antitrust in particular) tends to gain them more than it costs them, so they do it anyway. And to be clear, when I called the EULA unfair, I meant that it is fully aimed at maximizing Microsoft's power over the user, at the expense of the user's rights. This gains them more m...

The Lion

Well, if you ask me, that ELUA just seems fair, to me anyway. FAIR ??! How can you ever consider such an agreement to be "fair"? (*** Rant alert ***) Microsoft is completely bent on conquering the digital world by restricting its users, stifling competition, and harming innovation, since ...

The Lion

Mán... did you_read some_of the comments_on that_blog? \"Oh, thank_you, Micro$oft! You're so_great! Thank_you for doing_the right_thing! Everyone_is_happy! Brïlliant, brilliant_move! Then_again, I didn't expect_anything_less.\" No, but_you didn't_expect_anything more either, did_you? Note_...

The Lion

Same here...

@ roid: nice_trick btw. But someone_should fix_this or_this board_is going_to look really_retarded.

The Lion

Testiculese wrote:Money is not in MS's way.

Of course not. But they always want more of it.

Jeff250 wrote:The best you can do is keep Microsoft out of your way.

The best we can do is try to keep Microsoft out of our way...

The Lion

roid wrote:I'm trying to think of anything in Microsoft's way, and i can think of nothing.

Money.

The Lion

Probably, but perhaps not many. It's hidden somewhere in D2's readme: From Descent 2 v1.2's readme.txt CD/MIDI Track Advancing ======================= Also undocumented in the manual is the use of ALT -/+ keys (ALT-minus and ALT-plus). Using these keys in the game will play the previous/next redbook...

The Lion

http://www.theregister.com/2006/10/29/microsoft_vista_eula_analysis/ Ah damn, Nossy, you beat me to it. :) I read it and it's horrifying. It's going to be everyone's problem at least indirectly, for various reasons - the security implications, people you know who are locked into windows for whateve...

The Lion

And I think in practice any rocket would explode well before it hits the speed of light. :)

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