Ashes Afterglow TC - closing the vault

[Sátántangó]

In Map 22 - Outcast Site there are some untextured walls here in this vent. Linedef Index 12499 and 12501 in Ultimate Doom Builder

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Also on the same map this guy got stuck outside the playable area on Apocalypse difficulty, I'm not sure why.

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This is really one of the best games I've ever played, thanks for creating it for us.

[Vostyok]

spoilers for the Gap secrets

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That secret in the theater with the sliding wall at the hedge feels really out of place compare to the other more "realistic" secrets, so much so that I literally just founmd it after searching FOREVER.

Speaking of secrets, whens the sexy goblin DLC dropping, boys?

Lol, no comment on sexy goblin DLC, LMAO


The secret in the Gap you are referring to is exactly where it would be in the game that the current theater production is based on

Unfair? Obscure? Maybe. I thought it was pretty funny.

Will look at that bit with the dog jump again. It was basically going to be an introduction for a bit I just didn't have time to finish. Hopefully I'll get it done for a future release.

Thank you once again for all the support and patience. Will be dropping stuff over the next few days, and once main releases (ep1 and ep2) are a bit more polished, I want to start releasing Sterilized Editions, weapons packs and monsters packs. Maybe a mutator for those who liked the Battle Rifle a bit more than the Military one. We'll see.

Anyway, back to it I guess. Bye bye byelove love love

[Captain J]

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MAP15:

- You can climb up the cable rolls inside of this container by using jump-crouch on the box prop. And then you can fall into the gap that you can't escape. Another Softlock trap!

MAP18:
- The Rink is large and complicated. The whole thing's massive arena. But after i managed to escape, i tripped over a Pipebomb trap and then bam. Back to the previous save. These Pipebombs are really getting out of hand.

MAP19:
- When i threatened the submissive Raider at last section of the Level, he didn't run away and the console gave me error saying: "P_StartScript Unknown Script 68".

MAP21:
- So i visited the Prosperity first, talked to Smiley, and then talked to the Guard, gave him a bail, Smiley's freed, talked to him again but he's still asking me to tell the Guard to let him out. I did talk shit to Smiley and his dialogue went like "After all these things i've done for you!". Is this option intended to lock the sidequest because you doubted him to the point he stops talking and the stash goes inaccessible? I can bail him out though...

MAP23:

- The subway door really does not close completely. See the gap there?

MAP24:
- The Radio saying the password when you turn on the Bunker Radio is exceptionally LOUD, especially the dialing part.

- So i got the Quest from Baron about planting Explosive Charges on 4 Ammo Dumps located in Roamers' Base. But i spend a while trying to find the exact spots. The Map Markers would come in really handy because i mostly have to scour 80% of the Roamers' Base while being detected easily and all guns ablaze. Is this really a Stealth Mission? I don't see it quite frankly, but i'd sweep all the Raiders down than letting them live another day to plunder the innocents. Once i finish this quest, Baron would say, "Minimum of Carnage"... Yeeeeah the thing is Gravito and his flunkies die in any way possible.


Also this lady got stuck by a Crusher. Which it definitely says something.

MAP28:

- The Turrets did not finish this tubby off and he's... Traumatized it seems.


- This Console looks a tad bit short.


- These guys really holding their position right. I killed their buddies on the way and they're taking their job too literally.


- Ladies and Gentlemen, let us take a moment to salute our heroes that refused to have FORCEYBILLBOARD.

Misc:
- One more thing about Machine Pistol. The Alt-Fire, blood-esq spreading attack seems have low damage input because i did not miss a single bullet to a Cannibal but he's still standing...

- Cannibal with a Shield actually can take a hit from whopping Pipebomb Explosion. I sense some Hexen's Centaur Dilemma from this.

- Think you might need to create a new animation for Crowbar's Alt-Attack while holding the Solar Lantern.


- Not a big deal but i do believe dialogues with [] usually don't have a Dot.


- I've just noticed the sunset skybox is kinda misaligned.

P.S: Oh... Actually yeah. You CAN trade with Larry but it takes a complicated dialogue route to take where Scav gives him an trading advice. And he starts a new business in the ending. Good for him! Next time i see him, he's gonna wear a Cowboy Hat. That's a key to the trading.

P.S 2: I did beat the game but i'm still wondering what the Video Game Cartridge is for. I picked it up at the hidden Landfill in Badlands and no one would mention this. Is this just an Easter-Egg item?

P.S 3: I did collect all three Hidden Items(Zan Plushie, Isaac's D20? and a Briefcase) and i wonder what they do.

P.S 4: Are you considering to make Golden Crowbar turn Raiders into Solid Gold?

Cheesus Chriest what a ride. The Finale was totally worth it and the ending man. I loved it. This is by far the best full TC of this year!

[MoodysShuffle]

This is just a really, really solid sequel. I'm probably halfway through, I think? Just got to the part where you get to ride the mutant. The writing and worldbuilding continue to be absolutely topnotch, even though I'm a tad disappointed it's continuing the story of the first game instead of doing an entirely new story. In spite of that, that story hasn't cropped up much at all so far and what little has has been really interesting. I'm certainly interested! The combat is super tight, my worries from the demo that it would be cheap have been completely avoided. The new mechanics, and the level design, and the music, it's all super solid. On par with the original.

I question the Enriched release, though. It just doesn't feel like it does enough to warrant its existence. But, do too much and you risk losing something. I think the gameplay alterations carried in from Afterglow don't honestly fit 2063 that much, but it might be a neat alternate playthrough, especially on Apocalypse. I would've at least liked some of the grammar and formatting errors to have been fixed, but...yeah, I dunno what this release is for, other than seemingly remastering DMW a good chunk and providing a less in-depth installation with one single part instead of many parts. Think I'll stick with the many parts, though...

(Speaking of 2063 though, I've been writing a script for potential FMV cutscenes, since I've been thinking about it a lot. I have no expertise in creating 3D cutscenes, I'm only a writer. I might post it when a decent enough draft is done.)

Also, uh...I'm stuck.

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I got stuck on the part where you first get the pitfiend because the jump is really, really touchy. I thought I was doing something wrong for a good while until it just worked. But then the next level, I get to this area, and I have absolutely no idea what to do or where to go. I've combed the walls for switches and ladders and found nothing. I am completely stumped on what to do here. For what it's worth, I'm playing v1.00/0.99, since I downloaded this the day it came out and y'know, GZDoom mods don't like updates and saves crossing paths.

Just uh...thought I'd quote this since it seemingly got buried by a late approval and shoving things into a new page.

[CyberneticPhantom]

With those upcoming patches and stuff will we be able to run the Enriched Edition and Afterglow at the same time? It would be nice to be able to load everything all together

[Vostyok]

@moodyshuffle - there is a ladder you've missed. Head back to the room you were just in and look north toward the pipe entrances up on the wall. The ladder leading up will help you lower the bridge.

@Cyberneticphantom
Unfortunately they both run off a completely different texture and script set still. I would like to consolidate the two wads at some point into a single continuous story, but that is a task for a later date.

[Deon]

I've managed to lock myself out of progression.

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I've killed raiders in Junkyard, returned to town and left the bike at the barriers near the town gate, went to Baron (he gave me the key), and returned to the town. The bike with machineguns is missing from the place where I've left it. I cannot progress because the switch requires me to have a bike. Either respawn the bike in the new area, or make a check that it exists and maybe show it if it gets out of bounds?

BTW @Vostyok can I somehow summon a bike with machineguns to resolve this problem of being unable to proceed?

[Vostyok]

I've managed to lock myself out of progression.

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I've killed raiders in Junkyard, returned to town and left the bike at the barriers near the town gate, went to Baron (he gave me the key), and returned to the town. The bike with machineguns is missing from the place where I've left it. I cannot progress because the switch requires me to have a bike. Either respawn the bike in the new area, or make a check that it exists and maybe show it if it gets out of bounds?

BTW @Vostyok can I somehow summon a bike with machineguns to resolve this problem of being unable to proceed?

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summon vehiclemotorcycle2

Type the above into console

[TheRedCrow]

sorry to keep pestering about secrets but i get kind of laser focused on them and Pag is taking his time uploading his walkthrough, so... any tips on opening the uber-lock in south badlands?

[ReformedJoe]

sorry to keep pestering about secrets but i get kind of laser focused on them and Pag is taking his time uploading his walkthrough, so... any tips on opening the uber-lock in south badlands?

You talking about the vault? If so, click for spoilers.

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There's an item you can buy that gives you the answer

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The item, a windup radio, can be bought from jarrad back in michonne, or from one of the merchants in prosperity

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There is a radio set in the bunker that in conjunction with the radio item will give you the code

If you're just talking about the guardhouse gate, then carry on.

[TheRedCrow]

sorry to keep pestering about secrets but i get kind of laser focused on them and Pag is taking his time uploading his walkthrough, so... any tips on opening the uber-lock in south badlands?

You talking about the vault? If so, click for spoilers.

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There's an item you can buy that gives you the answer

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The item, a windup radio, can be bought from jarrad back in michonne, or from one of the merchants in prosperity

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There is a radio set in the bunker that in conjunction with the radio item will give you the code

If you're just talking about the guardhouse gate, then carry on.

Yeah, thats the one, thanks chief

[Serathis]

Are you going to upload it to ModDB to have wider reach?

[Shadow_Wulfe]

Seem to have run into a bit of a weird bug. I played both sides towards the middle in the second hub. I accepted the final quest from the raiders, and accepted the final quest for the town. I did the main quest for the town, then on leaving the hub was told that I completed the quest for the raiders.

I assume this was not supposed to happen?

Edit: Even stranger, they offer me the upgrade then attack me right afterward. Not sure what was triggered.

Double edit: The ending triggers seemed to log the correct endstates anyway. Would definitely put this up for GOTY. A good year in general. Congrats!

[tamago]

In the second hub npc's can't decide if its called uptown or hightown.

[Curunir]

After a few performance hiccups that I sorted with Vostyok's help, I ran into another major ehm... GZDoom moment in The Gap level...

OpenGL, vsync on, 33 fps

OpenGL, vsync off, 45 fps

Software renderer, 75 fps, monitor vsync cap

Given those circumstances, I found myself forced to switch to Vulkan, even though I've always had issues with Vulkan in GZD. There was always a weird stutter / tearing in the bottom part of the screen, and the movement never felt as smooth as the reported framerate.

After some poking around and trying setting combinations, I found out that in order to both get that 75 vsync framerate AND to get the game to feel smooth and not have the weird bottom-screen tear and stutter, I need to have vsync on but to cap my framerate ingame a step higher than my monitor's max 75. When I upped the ingame fps cap to 90, now Vulkan gives me a constant 75 fps, with absolutely no issues, tearing, visible or palpable stutter.

Just thought I'd leave this here, in case anyone else runs into performance issues at some point.

I'm playing on an i5 3470 3.2/3.6 ghz, 16 gigs of ram and an RX 570 4gb.