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OK, I know there are way better cards like the nVidia GeForce 7800 GTX, the ATI Radeon X850XT Platinum, and I'm already drooling over the Camcorder video of the ATI R520 "Fudo" ("X900"?) demo. Anyway, I got an X800XL yesterday, and being a poor unemployed Uni student, I probably won't get anything better for a while . As a demo of this, this X800XL replaces my GeForce4 440 MX/Go so yep, I can't believe I have a modern graphics card in my computer....(you lucky people with SLI's, X850's and so on ) I've always wanted to run that ATI Double-Cross Ruby demo and even though I've done that now...I seem to still be a bit hooked on the wonder of it all, and right now my desktop wallpaper is this (I didn't quite like the existing ones): What's this thread supposed to be about/discuss? I have no idea... Uhh, if you'd like comment on the wallpaper (or any other good Ruby wallpapers). I'm even thinking of making some icons of that optical diamond thing...but I really should be working on Pure Pazaak. I guess I'm another "OMG I just found out I'm Revan...must tell someone" type person.

I'm definitely not pro K2 but if you look very carefully as someone before told me (yep, I used to think "huh" about this point too), you see that the remote drops and rolls into/through the floor, which is why it looks just like a piece of remote debris.

An update: I've gotten single-player fully working, but the network thingy will be a challenge... Anyway, I've added a new screenie of the Player Avatar/Portraits screen. I've decided to bring it back from Pazaak Online in the first post I can't be bothered learning how to send actual files over the connection so u won't be able to use custom ones.

That Bastila pic (hell, I don't even know why I should even call it that) has scarred me for life. AARRRGGGHHHH *vomit*

Bastila being all whiny and stuff is kinda annoying but that's all part of the good plot. It makes all those slip-of-the-tongues (the flirt lines) more interesting and when she *finally* gives in the at the end it's more fulfilling too see how she's changed. Besides as someone said she's the only romance you get to kiss.

Well if it sounded alright to them ingame then they shouldn't mind it outside the game either. I just say this because there's no point in not listening to it since the patch may not even come out - or at least anytime soon.

The two old versions which "Pure Pazaak" is gonna replace are available from the link in my sig ("Pazaak Projects"). Mind you those versions only have the KotOR 1 look which I now find ugly because I've been spoilt by the K2 interface)

Hmm, who would win in a Pazaak Match with R2 vs T3, cos he certainly seems to have the better of Atton.

I probably won't end up changing te AI for a while cos it's not of a very high priority atm. At least it's not a pushover...I think.

Well over network it got kinda boring faster than I thought...but that was probably because it was always the same player and it was interrupted with bugs "

Too bad it should say Sith Sissy.

I said yes, but not really the polls, just the stupid ideas he uses to start topics with - must be bored.

If I understand your options correctly, I saw Quantity, because I'm not a big fan of RPG's. Final Fantasy turned me off from looking at any RPG till KotOR, and I only bought that because of the Star Wars tag and "FPS Shooter"-like screenshots. Anyway, my point is that if they made too much like an RPG - again, they've changed alot so this is open to big interpretation. Ofcourse I don't want the game to suck and my interpretation was referring to things like having mini-turret games and stuff.

Right now it's on-the-spot random because I don't know what the deck conditions are. I found the K2 AI seemingly more stupid because they left themselves beatable at 18 or 19. I guess I just got the lucky draws.

There's two old versions: Pazaak Online (for network play) - VERY OLD Pazaak Arcade (single player) - Getting old I decided to try a big merge project and it's still in the works. There are few early screenshots in this current (for now) active thread: Pure Pazaak WIP Screenshots, For the small few waiting for a sign...

Yeh, I know and agree . They've taught us C at Uni (which I've forgotten) and more recently this year Java (which I found easy because I knew basic VB from High-School) but was never taught about GUI elements of the two languages and I don't have much commitment (it works now doesn't it ) to learn it - it supposed to be a "hobby" type project after all. Yep, I'm a programming n00b. I was suprised when I read (can't remember where) that the K1 code didn't have any cheating elements... Anyway, as the coder, I can garuntee that the AI doesn't pull cards it doesn't have, or have draws weighted or anything like that " ....no really! In more pseudo-code terms, it's one line of code saying to generate a random number between 1 and 10. (and the random seeding thing to system clock at the start) My AI is not really AI. It follows the basic concept of a decision tree but there is no look-ahead, probabilities or anything like that (and no, it doesn't know what cards you have, a.k.a cheating), and it seems to work quite effectively. The primary goal is to card to 20, so if it runs out of cards the AI just sucks. Usually I've already lost before that happens.

well... what was the purpose of those buttons on vader's suit? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well the "Darth Vader Voice Changer" kids toy has those buttons for playing those quotes and breathing sounds.

OK, for the small few who are interested/keeping an eye out on the Pazaak game and looking for signs of life from the project (I've been neglecting the web pages), I've decided to post some quick WIP shots to show what I'm doing now, and where it is at in general. Keep in mind that these shots are just visual final shots and a lot of the coding doesn't work yet (or doesn't exist). I didn't put much effort into the cropping, or not at all , so there's some VB window junk at the rims. New Screenie: feel free to comment on this Pazaak Online had the BioWare forum Avatars but were taken out of Pazaak Arcade cos there wasn't much point. I've decided put them back into Pure Pazaak with a few extra ones. All the crap looking ones are ofcourse ones I've tried to make....(you can choose to display no portraits at all) Splash/Player Screen Finished: Main Menu: Options (got any suggestions, good time to suggest any): Cardselect screens, K1 and K2 styles:

I only found one of them....where did you get your pair from? Anyway, there was an upgrade (I think energy cell) of like +10 damage and I put it in that single one I owned.

Speed also adds 2 attacks to Critical Strike. Usually I start of with a critical strike and if that doesn't kill them I will always fiinish up with a flurry since they will be hurt and the extra 2x damage won't mean much - best of both worlds!

I always choose Flurry and Critical because usually bosses and "specialist" enemies will have very high saves and relying on the Critical Hits is usually more risky. Ofcourse if you manage to stun them or wear them down with Plague or something then it won't be a problem.

I use Critical Strike a lot too because the double damage and stun are really helpful to me. It also became very very useful for HK-47's assassination protocol feat, where if he scores a critical hit, he does 50% damage or something like that. Not too sure what it was but I gave him a disrupter rifle which I had upgraded to maximized the threat range and the full assassination and sniper shot feats. In the end I think it was over 50% chance of scoring one of those killer hits.

I thought she was just referring to her name being Darth Traya.

Maintaining caps on memory is hard in a game where globals switches make up a big part of it. Wow, I hope my door never fails to open.

I don't like it that much - yet I'm making a game of it.