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Clave_Dark_5

 

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I think dumpster diving is about to make a big comeback. Just add Singularity and grab some popcorn.


 

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For a while, relatively shortly after they added the physics system in the first place, if you took a power like hurricane and stood an appropriate distance from a mail box you would send an unthinkable torrent of letters at the nearby target of your choice. Shortly thereafter they drastically limited the rate at which you could produce physics objects. I miss that.


 

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This makes me want to dust off my grav Dom. I recall standing around trees that are always dropping leaves was fun too.


 

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Did they fix particle physics so they have at least some sort of collision detection and fall DOWN?


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They've been doing that since I started playing in 2006. |-:


 

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so it has come to this


 

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Man I knew Singy was clepto, but this...this is just..


 

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They've been doing that since I started playing in 2006. |-:
They're not doing it now. Shoot a rifle and watch your shell casings slowly float up into the sky, ignoring collisions along the way. I 21, I believe, had an "upgrade" for ragdolls which broke them and particle physics and they haven't been fixed as far as I can tell.


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Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

 

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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
They're not doing it now. Shoot a rifle and watch your shell casings slowly float up into the sky, ignoring collisions along the way. I 21, I believe, had an "upgrade" for ragdolls which broke them and particle physics and they haven't been fixed as far as I can tell.
This is an issue I'd love to see resolved someday. Someday soon.


 

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This makes me want to dust off my grav Dom. I recall standing around trees that are always dropping leaves was fun too.
IIRC, just hovering near that with Fly will - or at least used to - do that, too. And if you don't have leaves, find someone with /em throwconfetti or the like.


 

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IIRC, just hovering near that with Fly will - or at least used to - do that, too. And if you don't have leaves, find someone with /em throwconfetti or the like.
I believe Fly and Hover are envisioned as lifting you up via some sort of updraught, so if you hover over particles on the ground, they get sucked up along the length of your body and spat out in a shower over your head. So, yeah, that also works.


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IIRC, just hovering near that with Fly will - or at least used to - do that, too. And if you don't have leaves, find someone with /em throwconfetti or the like.
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I believe Fly and Hover are envisioned as lifting you up via some sort of updraught, so if you hover over particles on the ground, they get sucked up along the length of your body and spat out in a shower over your head. So, yeah, that also works.
Yep. Without knowing any of that before I created him, it always worked well for the Electric-Knight, because he flies via ionizing the air and creating static carrier waves... When I saw small objects around me (usually Council shell casings, hah) being affected by it, I was pleasantly surprised.


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Drop a Singy or hover by an ATM in a tram station, and suddenly you're emptying out thousands of bucks.


To right the countless wrongs of our day, we shine the light of true redemption, that this place may become as paradise. What a wonderful world such would be....


I'm sorry what was that, I couldn't hear you over my TRAGIC PAST!!

 

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I like to use mine to rake leaves in Cimerora.


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Add tornado into the mix. (Use full screen for best viewing)
I dunno what's scarier, that someone spent time recording and uploading that, or that I spend over two minutes watching it... And I thought it was fun, too! I probably need sleep!


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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
They're not doing it now. Shoot a rifle and watch your shell casings slowly float up into the sky, ignoring collisions along the way. I 21, I believe, had an "upgrade" for ragdolls which broke them and particle physics and they haven't been fixed as far as I can tell.
Ahh I see, so that might be why ragdolls seem to "spaz" out a lot more than they used too..

I recently took down a Freak Boss, and he rolled down a slope of stairs.. Once he hit the button his legs, arms, and head started spinning in circles and spazzing out. It was like those silly videos people make using Gary's Mod lol.


 

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Yeah, that's where Ragdolls started doing that. The original intent of the "patch" was to fix the problem of enemies staying ragdollised permanently if they get caught in the geometry, and indeed the I21 enemies did emerge from their ragdoll state much faster... At the expense of the ragdolls being very, very broken. It wasn't until much later that I realised shell casings from my guns, sparks from my electrical punches and cinders from my fire punches weren't really forming the pretty arcs they used to. Instead, they just spawned in mid air and either hovered in place or floated up.

Then I stood and watched a tree shed leaves, which gently floated up into the sky, leaving a truly bizarre real-time shadow on the ground of a tree moulting up...

To the best of my knowledge, this hasn't been fixed. It means no more pools of shell casings, no more piles of leaves, no more sparks, cinders, rock chunks, no more Propel clutter and generally no more particle physics. They just float up through the ceiling or sink down through the floor.


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Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.