JAN2008a Bug Reports

[HumanSteak]

It could also be fire themed so we can enjoy Hoarfrost pwnage, with the non used fire elementals and stuff... ANYWAY WE NEED MOAR NITEMAERZ!

 

[Shurik3n]

And nightmares should be good XP for us higher levels :roll: . We'd even let you get away with not putting loot in them if that was the case .

 

[Durak]

And nightmares should be good XP for us higher levels :roll: . We'd even let you get away with not putting loot in them if that was the case .

"Just make a farm map, we can rape the later chests easier then."

 

[Thraxis]

Edited due to potential (and confirmed) exploit.

 

[Jelly]

Why does it have to be ice themed?

Hell froze over?

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

And nightmares should be good XP for us higher levels :roll: . We'd even let you get away with not putting loot in them if that was the case .

"Just make a farm map, we can rape the later chests easier then."

Yeah, why not...?

 

[Thothie]

We have that map, I believe it's called "EasyLevels2" or "Level50Fast"

...may also be Test4 - this guy isn't on FN, but he's nuts.

 

[Durak]

We have that map, I believe it's called "EasyLevels2" or "Level50Fast"

...may also be Test4 - this guy isn't on FN, but he's nuts.

I remember when everyone just played custom maps. There was the farm map where every good monster was in a cage and the map with the chests/monsters/tree. Let's hope that never happens again.

 

[HumanSteak]

All monsters at old_helena still giving half exp on the ultra-beta... I sure hope that won't be so for everyone with FEB2008a because the map will just die.

 

[CrazyMonkeyDude]

Truly, this is the talk of someone that does not have, 15 ATHLONS!!!

 

[HumanSteak]

A map with an Atholo without pits and annoying minions would rock, Maybe nightmare Sfor?

 

[Shurik3n]

Only once parry is removed, though.

 

[PBarnum]

Nightmare_Sfor should be the craziest nightmare ever (because it's right next to you know who's castle).

Which I think Thothie should recompile Sfor and open that door ^_^

 

[HumanSteak]

The orcs spawning in Ara's forest are somewhat ramped, they have more hp than the other "identical" orcs.
And YES! MOAR NIGHTMARE MAPS!1!

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

We have that map, I believe it's called "EasyLevels2" or "Level50Fast"

Are you implying that a new nightmare map with monsters that give decent XP (this would be new) would be a cheatmap, or am I misunderstanding you?

I remember when everyone just played custom maps. There was the farm map where every good monster was in a cage and the map with the chests/monsters/tree. Let's hope that never happens again.

Was it called jm_styxtemple2, which somebody by the name of J-M v2.5.5 made?

 

[J]

The orcs spawning in Ara's forest are somewhat ramped, they have more hp than the other "identical" orcs.

You are right. I checked. The first wave has the damage and health multipliers set to 1.5, and the second one 1.25, looks like I got them mixed up. I think I'll have to drop them a bit, especially since they don't affect XP. The skeletons in the cellar also use multipliers, which explains the low XP/difficulty ratio some have pointed out. I'll have to do a recompile some time.

 

[J-M v2.5.5]

To be honest, I greatly discourage everybody to use monster ramping until ramped monsters give at least good XP.

 

[Durak]

I remember when everyone just played custom maps. There was the farm map where every good monster was in a cage and the map with the chests/monsters/tree. Let's hope that never happens again.

Was it called jm_styxtemple2, which somebody by the name of J-M v2.5.5 made?

No, that was definitely not the map. There were a couple main ones that all appeared around the same time (that I remember). One had chests in a big open area next to a tree which sometimes spawned an ESS (was the best weapon...) and I think it also had a monster area on the same map. The other I distinctly remember had some teleporters to different areas with caged monsters. The maps had simple names.

 

[FER]

That comment about NIghtmare maps being the same as cheat maps is just plain stupid. Following that logic nightmare_thornlands shouldnt be [FN] approved.

 

[HumanSteak]

"Just make a farm map, we can rape the later chests easier then."

I think he was just answering for this comment, at least I hope.

 

[FER]

Oh, sorry. Forgot about that post.

 

[Zen]

I fired up MSC for the first time and here's the result:

A big white sprite covering my screen, apparently a GUI sprite of some sort. Also, the thing in the pink circle appears to be a map bug. It looks like a reflection of an NPC in another room? Just guessing.

 

[Thothie]

Serves ya right for supporting ATI / Vista / not reading stickies:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3283&start=0

...and that's not a map bug - that's a reflection - just can't see what it's reflecting because your OS and/or graphics card do not support OpenGL proper.

 

[Zen]

Vista is terrible, and I happen to be on XP Pro SP2... So, thats why I didn't read that sticky. Maybe I should've included my specs:

Fresh XP Pro SP2 install (less than 2 weeks)
HL running in OpenGL (D3D gives lots of malloc errors and dealloc errors, woohoo)
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro w/ Catalyst 8.442
DirectX 9.0c

And... err, nothing else is really pertinent I can think of.

 

[CrazyMonkeyDude]

Did you fix the bug? Even if you don't have Vista, it seems that you could do the exact same thing to fix it.