Kaftan Barlast

CRT's give me a headache, I cant even watch regular TV anymore.

Now, that's an attitude I like. Not like those darn pesky people who can do both. I mean, its hard enough to land a job without having to compete with guys who can write their own engine AND make all the content aswell. I think one of their slogans is something like "after using Blender, youll wish that every program worked like this". By which, I asume, they mean that once youve started wearing your trousers backwards, itll feel funny to turn them right again But I dont know, maybe it IS great once you know how to use it.

has anyone managed to understand Blender and its "UI from outer space"? They claim its extremely intuitive and usable, but when it takes an experienced 3D artist several minutes to figure out how to draw a simple polygon, I begin to doubt those claims. XSI on the other hand has everything where youd expect it to be.

I know we have some programmers frequenting these boards, thus I asume that there must be a few artists like myself aswell. Im fairly traditional when it comes to 3D using 3Ds MAX with Zbrush for highpoly sculpting, but I prefer Painter above photoshop because of the superior brush engine and real colour blending But the arrival of Zbrush 3 gave me one huge kick so Im trying to expand from MAX to XSI aswell, keeping with the times and all.

You could just buy a 10gb USB memory stick and use that with an IDE converter. Seek time is minimal but read and write is exremely slow so the gain is questionable

The 30" DELL widescreen we have on our Demo Display computer is pretty nice, although SLi is required to run games on that massive resolutons EIZO is king for serious graphics work though

There are versions of WinXP that come with RAID drivers for handling these kind of situations, Ive got one. You could just download an illegal copy somewhere, burn a bootable CD, and use that to clear the MBR. BUT... Windows should clear the MBR all by itself if you enable the hibernate function and allow it to go into that state once or twice. I know that is the main reason for crashed GRUB dual-boot systems.

I hope Starbreeze will start making "real" games on their own IP soon instead of spitting out technicly good games on bad franchises. Its a Swedish dev thing, I think. swedish rumour: DiCE are working on a singleplayer shooter that is NOT part of the Battlefield franchise!

Your NDA forbids you to tell people where you work? Or are you just teasing us?

I have a pair of CReative HQ 1300, they are cheap, extremely comfortable, decent sound quality but they do absolutely nothing to shut out exterior sound sources. Theyre only useful if you play games late at night and dont want to wake people up. Ive been looking for a pair of headphones that is completely soundproof against normal office noise, but all the heave duty ones are meant to protect against lower frequencies like machinery, so they dont do much against talkative coworkers

An 85% performance loss using high-end 3D software is a pretty strong reason not to use it.

Custom, obviously Companies like Dell or HP always skimp in on details they dont think youll notice to maximise their profit. And high-end premades like BoXX charge you $10 000 for hardware worth $5000 for no reason.

Its worse when you get beyond the brain scorcher. There is only one SEV and one SP99 suit in the whole game and two Exoskeletons(one more can be bought from freedom i think if you want the entire duty faction after you), and you cant carry more than one if you want to carry enough ammo and a second gun. frustrating to say the least.

Then they wouldnt have had weapon damage so low or implemented artefacts with +600% health "

The thing about degrading equipment is that its essentially a Sisyphean task. Using Oblivon as a very good example; something breaks, you buy some hammers and fix it so all you need to think about is always having hammers. In Stalker you break, run to trader, replace. In both examples youre just going through a very tedious and annoying process just to maintain an equilibrium. Its like pouring water into a leaking cup. So, the whole feature is really completely unnescessary. It might see like a good idea for realism, but it is really just bad game design when applied.

http://www.xn--holmstrm-t4a.net/pics/kaftanstalkermod.rar :D

Downloading a mod which disables the degrading items and doubles the carrying capacity is quite necessary to enjoy STALKER. My mod does all that and also attempts to rebalance damage to more realistic levels. But since the game uses the same damage data for PC and enemies alike, and the game like to pit you against oerwhelming numbers of enemies, it makes it very very difficult. The "escort the veteran stalkers to chernobyl" mission also becomes unplayable because the NPCs doesnt have enough health and armour to make it to the end with that kind of damage linkie comming soon

I have a friend who used to do QA for Avalanche and "Just Cause" had approximately 14 000 bugs reported, whereof they managed to fix about half

MMO's are more work than play, I dont like them.

Looks good, but can it fundamentally change the way MMO's work and thus actually making them enjoyable to play?

I really feel for the designers, it must have been sheer hell to try and work with the toolset in the state it was before release. Unless the corruption issues came with one of the patches.

Degrading weapons and armour is a really annoying feature, its good that its so easy to remove. Ive modified my game to get a more R6/GRAW type gameplay where everything is extremely lethal, its just a matter of editing files in notepad

Backups wont help if you have no way to accurately verify that your files arent corrupted. We didnt notice that one modfile has been corrupted until three weeks after it was finished and we tried a different script on it, so all our backups were corrupt aswell. Ive heard some rumours that its gotten much better with 1.05, but I havent noticed

What happened to 1.2?

I think they have the classic reverse-Midas syndrome. Everything GPG touches turns to human feces.