Energizing_Ion

Originally Posted by MrBl4ck

I was not planning on posting a thread. But since it's Thanksgiving week,why not.
To those who know me and they are far and few, here goes:

1. To my fellow VG mates - The League - glad to be part of some good times (SF, PvP, Base Raids, etc). I would have quit during i9-i12 if it were not for you.

2. "RSF Central" vets: Thanks for teaching me how to play this game.

3. To the "0.o" channel members. It was a privilege going to battle with you. Epic & Excellence are the words that come to mind. Thanks Xtreme Raze & Emma for creating the channel. And for those who filled it, you know who you are, thanks you for having me. I certainly won't blame QP for this one.

In the immortal words of LordAllMighty, cheers!

Originally Posted by Black Pebble

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...Well we didn't pay a dime to go from 9,000 to over 56,000 in less than 3
years. ....

Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven

I won't miss most of you. A lot of you were like clones of Comic Book Guy, complaining about each and every little thing. You couldn't shut your collective yaps if your lives depended on it.

Originally Posted by Evil_Legacy

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And also again I only played melee but in CO feels like I'm hitting something, punching something, cutting something. COX not so much on the punches, which is actaully more comical than CO version, but TW in COX does feel like it has more weight, but the rest of the melee CO seems to feel more solid like it's hitting something....

Originally Posted by JayboH

I still haven't seen anyone else that has this yet, well, besides myself:





I used to also have the CoV stands for a local Gamestop - thing was like 4 feet tall or something. I threw them out though.

Originally Posted by Fire Man

I don't think I can.

Originally Posted by Mental_Giant

Haven't read the book, but those look like some Super Fast Zombies...

Originally Posted by Black Scorpion

We tracked how long you were engaged in the trial (in case you joined midway, for instance) and if you were active.

If you were marked as "not active", you got the 10 threads table. This calculation was the source of much controversy outside of the studio, but Baryonyx and Positron worked tirelessly to ensure fairness - it was very heavily weighted in the player's favor and made substantial accounting for all ATs. (This isn't to say we never had any bugs with it, but that was the design intention as I recall).

The calculations for stages engaged in the trial were crafted for each trial individually, and we did see some strange results on occasion - the system was resilient to disconnects but esp. in the early days of I20 when the TUT could accidentally send you to someone else's mission map it proved to be not *that* resilient. This did have an effect on what mix of rarities were in your reward pool at the end of the IT - and at least for a brief period if you were only in for say, a very short time, it could give you 10 threads as well, but I am hazy on that point.

At the end, if you were "active", you got to roll in a pool based upon stages engaged - this looked something like 40% Common, 30% Uncommon, 25% Rare, 5% Very Rare if you were there for the whole time. Partial time looked like 60% Common, 30% Uncommon, 10% Rare.

Originally Posted by Black Scorpion

Waypoints were always sent to the client in terms of the final destination - just the X,Y,Z of where you were to go. The pathfinding beacon system would try to construct the actual shown waypoint at whatever transitional doors stood between you and the destination. This system had some edge case problems - the pathing could get caught in a loop sometimes, but it worked most of the time. It's also possible from your description that it was trying to do the pathfinding "too early" - as in, while you were inside the door instead of just outside of the door - and that's why it was pointing back at the door you came from. Logging in and out would cause it to remake that path at your new position, which would be valid.

Actual bugs with that pathing were terra incognita, we no longer had enough knowledge around the team to figure out how that system worked on the level of comprehension necessary to resolve it. It would have been first rediscovery then resolution - and the rediscovery task never seemed worth it in terms of time investment, considering how apparently minor the issues were. It could have been a trivial fix, but the knowledge of where and how to find that trivial fix in the system was not in anyone's head. While we did push a lot into those darker areas, some (pathing, collision) were still very dimly understood.

It's also possible the system that send the next waypoint to the client was broken in some way. There were some ways to advance a task (delivery tasks/dialog trees) that weren't 100% on the "oh and now you have to send all the updated task status stuff to the client" portion of doing things. Again, logging in and out would cause the server to resend all the client data from scratch, which usually fixed those sorts of bugs.

Originally Posted by Angry_Citizen

Wha.. what? That's not what I remember. Stealth didn't matter to them at all - I remember, because I ganked many stalkers who were running warburg codes with hide on. I also remember them following very well.

But I guess it's a moot point :|

Originally Posted by Black Scorpion

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...At some point this power, even though it's "hit" was merely incrementing a script counter, started being treated like a normal attack by the AI - thus you had pets charging Marauder as soon as he appeared - after all, he just "attacked" them!

Originally Posted by Angry_Citizen

Yes. Yes it did. I remember some of them fondly. Y'all shoulda used the Warburg script on all escort NPCs, it was a much less buggy and irritating script.