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More like Bitchin'.

You think the Democrats condone this sort of thing? Funny, but ridiculous.

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That's not the only strange term of endearment among some circles.

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What is this?

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No, that's not the concept for the Black Pyro. That's a 3D rendering by an artist unaffiliated with Outrage.

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Kyouryuu sure, he does level design for a living so he knows what he's talking about. I've seen some of Kruel's stuff, that was pretty sweet back in the 90s. Don't know the rest of them.

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I found nothing more difficult than usual on level 3, either on Insane or Rookie.

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I ran through this thing on Rebirth during testing. Only had it crash on level 21, and with the number of segment errors in that level I'm surprised it didn't crash on everything. That's been fixed and I've never had any problems since.

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Descent can not win that poll. Fallout was just magnitudes more popular - I'm surprised to see it leading by 3-1. I expected more like 30-1.

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That's interesting.

I'll wait and see on that. Interplay has a lot to redeem themselves for.

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Anyway, make sure you sign up and vote Descent as your favorite original Interplay creation. Back in the day, we had to battle with fans of Freespace to keep Descent IV possible, now let us battle with these fans of Fallout. Raise the numbers so Descent is seen as number 1, as it should be. That wa...

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If you use .rar, it'll be about half the size.

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Yeah... no. I use this board to check on the Descent community.

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That's another game bug, not a problem with the level.

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First one is your version of D2, it looks fine on my end. Second one I don't see anything unusual.

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You always have about five seconds before you evaporate, and since the exit is right next to the reactor, that's definitely enough.

I love doing that to you.

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Not familiar with the colours of those. If it's just a subtle shade, OK, but I don't want bright blue weirdness.

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I'd do both. An extra .sng file isn't going to stop the mission working or add anything appreciable to the file size.

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sigh.

Yes, I'm going to be making additional changes. I botched a texture alignment somewhere down the track.

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Yes, when I have a cold that affects my hearing and balance.

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Thrown some custom textures and energy centres into level 23. I might look at it tomorrow and hate everything but fingers crossed. The textures must be better than they were at least.

No more work on 4 yet. Running through caves in my head to think of something I haven't already done with them.

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Made a start on #4. It might be a couple days before I finish the thing; I have no interest in burying myself in Descent editors for 12 hours straight.

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Hehe, Diedel isn't going to be so happy with much of my work in this mission because I've been trying some weird things to break the mould. Some of them worked (level 15 boss chamber particularly) and some of them didn't (level 4 crystalline rooms). I'm not particularly happy with Into the Deep eith...

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Yeah, I never thought it smart to sell military equipment to unstable countries. If the tide doesn't turn your way it comes back to bite you.

That said, pit an Iranian fighter against an Israeli and I'd put my money on the Israeli any day. Technology notwithstanding they're just better pilots.

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Probably that intersection beyond the wall behind the blue door would be a good place to put an energy centre. Somewhere in there. For level 26, yeah, one of the problems of balancing for D2-XL is that you can change so many variables on the fly. Best to make sure it's playable for people using othe...

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OK, after playing the last few levels on Hotshot, there are a handful of mostly balancing-related comments I'd like to make. 23, A Road That Leads - this being dark, you're going to be using energy, whether through the headlight or flares, to be able to see much. Right now there are no energy centre...

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Hand me a screenshot Wolf, I'm not seeing any problems at all on my end.

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Cockpits completed. Because you need a separate .pog for each level, it adds 5MB to the file size. Otherwise it'd be about one.

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All graphics completed. Processing the palettes now - with 131 images to load into 5 different .pogs this is going to be a tedious process.

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Thanks Wolf.

Just down to the rear view graphic now. Back to 3D modelling again.

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Cockpit is most of the way there now.

High-res cockpit complete
Low-res cockpit 80%, needs one more alteration
High-res status bar complete
Low-res status bar complete
High-res reticle complete
Low-res reticle not started
High-res rear view not started
Low-res rear view not started

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As difficulty levels go, you'll probably find that playing one lower than you're used to is about right.

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Done some more work on the cockpit, but there's still three things I need to fix on the model and another two I need to redo on the HUD graphics. No wonder this hasn't been done very often.

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Actually, it occurs to me that markers could do the job.

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Obsidian level 6 had an area where robots would shoot you through intersecting geometry, at the top of the boss room. I didn't spot it until after the mission was released to the public.

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Now that testing is open, we need to do a multiplayer game of some sort to check that the ship model is working correctly. So far I've just had brief glimpses of it exploding.

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They can hit you in standard D2. Had it happen to me before.

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Who is that guy?

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There's no XL content in there.

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I don't really want to play D1 level 1 again. It'd be better to have some new content.

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It's a bit hard to be smaller than 50.

Actually, this would be a great help for future projects using a UE version. Between 2k4 and 3, what can each do that the other can't from a technical standpoint?

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