[Req-fill] My polite suggestions thread!

[vehementi]

Here's some stuff I'm finding annoying or bugged as I play through, or some suggestions for changes. I'll be editing this to add crap without checking to see if my post has for some reason been edited in the mean time. This doesn't mean I hate the game!

• Found these textures immediately to the left when entering the church on the first level (may just be me or whatever) www3.telus.net/vehementi/Shot00212.JPG
  
• Nice music for the first encounter, but I have my music turned down to like 1% and it still blasted in my ears. My fault? Fake edit: No, it seems that your game is boosting up the volume no matter what I do. Also, after you quit to the main menu from SP, the SP music seems to continue.
  
• I should be able to switch back to my pistol to use the flashlight, despite not having ammo for it.
  
• The animation which (I think) is "running with axe", i.e. my guy is like moving his axe up and down as if he were running while holding it with two hands, displays all the time even when standing still.
  
• After the first level, I am unable to use "next" or "previous weapon" to select my shotgun, but hitting '3' still works.
  
• Started level 2 with only a little bit of ammo, am not able to fight off the zombie horde at the start. The zombie horde should also not "activate" until I move a bit - I went AFK for a second the first time and ended up dead Anyway, running away from them I discovered that I could just back up, swing, move forward, hit, back up again and kill without taking much damage. Perhaps limit the player's backward/strafing movement to hinder this cheap tactic?
  

Edit:

• In the second level, when you go into the building and get the message, in the room with the single soldier zombie, you can't see yourself in the reflection of the mirror. Am I a zombie too!?
  
• A lot of doors open only one way, so if you "pull" a door open, it'll sometimes push you into a wall, trapping you until the door closes automatically. Also, there doesn't seem to be a way to manually close a door.
  
• Breaking windows seems to be wierd... like you have to hit them in a particular place for each "piece" of the window.
  
• Flashlight seems to warm everything up white hot When you turn it off, the "illuminated" objects remain illuminated briefly, after which they go back to their normal darkened state.
  
• Zombie corpses seem to disappear way too quickly. It would add to atmosphere to keep them around forever...
  

Link to big mean impolite list of suggestions!

[Alex]

Since you seem to have realized, that I tend to respond better to POLITE critiques, than rude babble, I'll go ahead and answer your inquiries, honestly.


# Found these textures immediately to the left when entering the church on the first level (may just be me or whatever) www3.telus.net/vehementi/Shot00212.JPG



This is UV stretching, ignore it.



After the first level, I am unable to use "next" or "previous weapon" to select my shotgun, but hitting '3' still works.


Sometimes moving between levels can mess with your inventory a little. I just roll my mousewheel and things tend to be ok. And yes, knowing the number binds for the weapons helps



# Started level 2 with only a little bit of ammo, am not able to fight off the zombie horde at the start. The zombie horde should also not "activate" until I move a bit - I went AFK for a second the first time and ended up dead Anyway, running away from them I discovered that I could just back up, swing, move forward, hit, back up again and kill without taking much damage. Perhaps limit the player's backward/strafing movement to hinder this cheap tactic?



If you're referring to using the axe to stun zombies and pick them off one by one, then good for you! you found out how to use the axe! Some enemies, such as the Fat Zombies (bloats), and the 7 foot tall zombies (Fleshpounds) cannot be stunned, though. So that tactic isn't going to be universally useful. (and especially if you're back up against a wall or surrounded by multiple foes)




Edit:

* In the second level, when you go into the building and get the message, in the room with the single soldier zombie, you can't see yourself in the reflection of the mirror. Am I a zombie too!?



Thank the U-engine for that. Seems regressive considering that in the game Deus Ex using the UT99 build of UE , you could see self reflections in mirrored BSP surfaces.



* A lot of doors open only one way, so if you "pull" a door open, it'll sometimes push you into a wall, trapping you until the door closes automatically. Also, there doesn't seem to be a way to manually close a door.



They use bump triggered movers to swing, not use triggers. I wish it could be more advanced, but I haven't found a way to do so yet.


* Breaking windows seems to be wierd... like you have to hit them in a particular place for each "piece" of the window.


Yes...It's not perfect.



* Flashlight seems to warm everything up white hot When you turn it off, the "illuminated" objects remain illuminated briefly, after which they go back to their normal darkened state.



Um?



* Zombie corpses seem to disappear way too quickly. It would add to atmosphere to keep them around forever...



And it would also add to the system resources being used by the game.

Each zombie mesh is about 2000 polygons (4000 tris)
Having even 5 extra bodies lying around (with karma ragdoll enabled as well) is going to start turning the game into a slideshow, believe it or not.

[vehementi]

admin said:

* Flashlight seems to warm everything up white hot When you turn it off, the "illuminated" objects remain illuminated briefly, after which they go back to their normal darkened state.

Um?

When you flashlight objects, instead of it being lit up by the light in some dynamic way, they activate "illuminated mode" or something, and become bright. But illuminated mode doesn't turn off until about a second after you turn off your frashlight. It works properly if you move your flashlight away from an object - just not when you turn it off. Go flashlight crap on the desks in the rooms in the building on level 2 and you'll see what I mean.

[Alex]

I don't know what you're talking about, sorry.

Has anyone else experienced what this guy is talking about?

[Super Rad]

i think they mean when you use a flashlight then turn it off some of the objects still look like they have the flashlight on them....but i might be wrong

[zynthetic]

Another bug that I find extremely annoying in mp:
the default player name is Mr. Kadish

It's quite confusing


Also I'm getting very long load times. I'm assuming this is related to preload playermodels being enabled. I can't seem to find it in the menu anymore so you may want to readd it. I could just change it via ini but have been too lazy to do so thus far.

[DaJMasta]

Some .ini tweaks may be a good idea. Setting the game to default to 1024x768 fullscreen with a more generic player name and maybe some slightly lower settings. Not that it's necissairy, just makes it look nicer on first run.