Highway Acceleroid Booster v1 - Life in the Fast Lane

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Re: Highway Acceleroid Booster v1 - Life in the Fast Lane

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The weapons feel interesting, especially because all of them are highly specialized--each one is really, really good at certain situations, including the starting gun, which is actually the best option for some common early-map scenarios! Someone ought to write down some tips for each weapon.

Hey, wait a second--I'm someone!
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Definitely need to check this out. Congrats on a release!
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Spoiler: hold on... I think i've got some gripes
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Captain J wrote: Also are you going to make the player spam a lot of Alt-Fire missiles somehow? Just like other great FPS games like Duke Nukem 3D and Blood. I think it's the most natural thing to put in.
The Crush Piston has altfire missile spam. Hold altfire and aim at targets to mark them, then release to fire 2 missiles per target. Zombies and imps tend to die in one, but the other missile will continue onward and look for more targets.
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I know, but i mean solely about the Heavy Cylinder. It won't let me deploy more remote controlled missiles. You only can deploy only one pair.

EDIT: UUUUHHHHH Heavy Cylinder. Yeah. My mind's going crazy nowadays... Heh
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Captain J wrote:I know, but i mean solely about the Clutch Buster. It won't let me deploy more remote controlled missiles. You only can deploy only one pair.
I assume you mean the rocket launcher replacement, the Heavy Cylinder.

Yeah, being able to shoot more than just 2 pipebombs would be neat.

Maybe a CVar for letting the player shoot out more and detonate them by holding altfire instead of pressing it?

Like how the Side Passenger works with deploying more afterimages?
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TerminusEst13 wrote:
Marisa Kirisame wrote:You did it!
But the mirrors are still not mirrors uwu.
Revae wrote:Apparently that's not possible atm.
But what if you made like 100 one pixel wide ... render targets... (or whatever they're called here)... and then organized them horizontally backwards...
Bet that would be stupid.
It is actually possible, thanks to Marisa making a patch. But unfortunately, because of an unresolved hardware issue, I haven't been able to update GZDoom past 3.4.1, so I haven't been able to make use of the patch.
It's unfortunate, but I appreciate the hard work anyway. Thank you!
Have you um... tried using something else like obs to record? dxtory is kinda... uh... obsolete. I think.
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First of all, I want to drop in and say that this is fantastic. This is the most fun I've had with a gameplay mod since DemonSteele's inception. Second of all, I think I found a bug. There was one point where the Side Passenger was spawning two, uh... side passengers. Pretty sure there's only supposed to be one of them. I'm not sure what triggered it, and I haven't the slightest idea how to recreate the anomaly, but I know that it happened and it made me scared. :c
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Pompous Seed wrote:First of all, I want to drop in and say that this is fantastic. This is the most fun I've had with a gameplay mod since DemonSteele's inception. Second of all, I think I found a bug. There was one point where the Side Passenger was spawning two, uh... side passengers. Pretty sure there's only supposed to be one of them. I'm not sure what triggered it, and I haven't the slightest idea how to recreate the anomaly, but I know that it happened and it made me scared. :c
You probably held down altfire instead of just pressing it. Holding down altfire switches between 1 clone and 2.
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Yeah, that's what happened. My bad. :/
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Marisa Kirisame wrote:Have you um... tried using something else like obs to record? dxtory is kinda... uh... obsolete. I think.
I just 100% wanted to parrot this comment.
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Re: Highway Acceleroid Booster v1 - Life in the Fast Lane

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Are there any good maps for this?
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Wivicer wrote:A thought: when the player gibs an enemy by speedboosting or revving through them, blood splatters on the screen that get wiped away by windshield wipers. Doesn't really fit with the aesthetic, but I thought I'd put it out there.

Also (this happened when playing with a monster mod):
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Had this happen to me, was destroying a corpse (from the newest Universal Gibs) with the saber and got this crash as well.

Also, could you possibly lower the volume on the primary fire for the volt weapon? It's a bit deafening tbh.
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Cryomundus wrote:
Wivicer wrote:A thought: when the player gibs an enemy by speedboosting or revving through them, blood splatters on the screen that get wiped away by windshield wipers. Doesn't really fit with the aesthetic, but I thought I'd put it out there.

Also (this happened when playing with a monster mod):
Spoiler:
Had this happen to me, was destroying a corpse (from the newest Universal Gibs) with the saber and got this crash as well.

Also, could you possibly lower the volume on the primary fire for the volt weapon? It's a bit deafening tbh.
The quoted line doesn't check to make sure the target exists, so when it tries to execute the conditional if the target doesn't exist it aborts. Easy enough to fix. Just have to add tracer != null.
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Yeah, the line belongs to a projectile that has +HITTRACER, so logically anything it should hit should automatically be considered a tracer. But sometimes things slip.
I'll fix it next update, thank you.
Marisa Kirisame wrote:Have you um... tried using something else like obs to record? dxtory is kinda... uh... obsolete. I think.
I use and have set up OBS for streaming. Alternating back and forth between OBS settings for recording and streaming is a PITA, it's easier to just have a separate program for it.
Captain J wrote:- Speaking of Clutch Buster... I think the firing sound effect is less clean and powerful hearing. Either the casing bounce sound too, really. It's just boring plastic tic, instead of satisfying brass clink as we know to this day. I guess this is all about OC canon thing? I dunno. Anyway Mac version of Wolfenstein 3D has the original and clean one, though!
- Also one more thing: The player with Ride Armor has no third person proper sprite. Just a Crusader straight from Strife. But i don't think it's not really multiplayer-based, so i guess it's doable.
- More about the Ride Armor - it's a minor graphical issue, but both Control Sticks on the HUD are quite tall. I can barely see the Minigun doing its job.
- What do you think of custom game over sequence? Mega Man-esq exploding that don't stop the music is kinda not retrospective, if you know what i mean.
- Funny because you don't get the scolding after you type IDDQD or God in the console command except when you resurrect yours dead self.
- Heavy Cylinder is fairly strong weapon. However the Alt-Fire is just meh compare to its primary one. The projectiles bounce on the enemies on impact, so it bloops my momentum to detonate in direct hit. Also are you going to make the player spam a lot of Alt-Fire missiles somehow? Just like other great FPS games like Duke Nukem 3D and Blood. I think it's the most natural thing to put in.
- No F1 read me screenies yet... I guess you're going to put some weapon explanations and tips when it's gonna happen?
- Fuse Injector is very satisfying to use. The only problem with this is the sound of slashing the enemies is quite underwhelming unlike the wall one.
- I like how it sounds, I think it's neat.
- Yeah, the Ride Armor doesn't have a proper spriteset yet. I'd like one later, but that had to be cut to get the build out now.
- I'll lower the sticks down just a touch.
- A custom game-over sequence would be really nice, though I'd like a little more than just stopping the music.
- I suppose it would just be a simple matter to check with player cheats in ZScript. I'll give it a shot.
- I'll admit the secondary fire is designed primarily for rocketjump purposes, being able to time and control directly when and where they explode is extremely convenient. Whether just being able to control where you launch from, or to be stylish by launching some into the air and Reload-dashing over to them to detonate to launch yourself high... I feel like spamming multiple grenades and lying a bunch in a pile would basically just invite people to make a pile and send themselves high.
- I completely forgot that F1 existed. I'll include something for next version.
- I agree. I'd like to tweak it a bit down the line.

Thank you for the input.
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