Most useless ZDoom feature?

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:48 am

What's the one thing in ZDoom you've NEVER seen used? The one that makes you think "Wow why'd they bother to put it in there to begin with?".

I'm going to go with the movie stuff. Apparently it doesn't even work anymore and i've not seen or heard of one single wad that uses movies.

Post by **Nash** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:18 am

Movie playback, agreed.

Pinky's ass · Post by **Pinky's ass** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:53 am

Nash wrote:Movie playback, agreed.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:27 am

Definitely. I'm all for throwing it out. The code doesn't work with GZDoom and it wouldn't surprise me the least if the D3D based GFX interface ZDoom uses now would have the same result.

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:29 am

Ok I think everyone's going to say that so uh... second most useless?!

I'm gonna go with A_Mushroom. It's neat looking and was cool for it's time (dehacked?) but it's next to useless and for me, it seems to always hang as the explosion is made.

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:50 am

Bots!

/me ducks as all the bot-lovers come running.

wildweasel · Post by **wildweasel** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:44 am

Too many mods already use A_Mushroom for it to be removed now.

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:02 am

Really? I've never seen it used anywhere. Can you name some?

Post by **Enjay** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:26 am

I hope no-one mentioned bots whilst I was away giving my favourite bot some sweet lovin'.

XutaWoo · Post by **XutaWoo** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:03 pm

I'd have to say A_Detonate. What? Same damage and radius? USELESS.

jallamann · Post by **jallamann** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:16 pm

Doors. I mean, what the fsck?

Spoiler:

Risen · Post by **Risen** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:59 pm

[wiki]Intermission_script[/wiki]

I've never seen a custom sprite-based intermission screen like E1/E2/E3.

But I don't think 'why did they bother?' applies here.

Project Shadowcat · Post by **Project Shadowcat** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:05 pm

Risen wrote:[wiki]Intermission_script[/wiki]

I've never seen a custom sprite-based intermission screen like E1/E2/E3.

But I don't think 'why did they bother?' applies here.

I think it's just itching to be used eventually, now that you said it.

Post by **Nash** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:05 pm

Risen wins. I really didn't see a need for it... it could have just been left hard-coded. If mod authors wanted to create fancy intermissions stuff, there are so many means available to do it (look at KDiZD for example).

Risen · Post by **Risen** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:14 pm

Also, maybe [wiki]TEXTCOLO[/wiki], though I can certainly see the usage potential in GZDoom.

Most useless ZDoom feature?

Most useless ZDoom feature?

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