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Server down until after Valentines Day.
I got my gfx card back from RMA, and stuck it in, but due to complications and lack of proper unisntaller/cleaners for the Intel GMA3000 drivers - I had to reinstall Windows.
This would be no big deal, but apparently I can't use the restore system settings wizard with the archive of my original system's settings, as I had already done that the last time I reinstalled Windows (about two weeks ago) - and I guess it marks it as invalid once used for security reasons, thus you cannot restore the from the same system settings files twice.
Thus I have to build my windows totally from scratch this time 'round. Will take quite some time to get me back up to par. The alien queen seems to think I'm not allowed to be in the house tomorrow, so I won't be able to get at even starting this until late the 15th or 16th. ><
At least there are plenty of servers up lately. :/
I got my gfx card back from RMA, and stuck it in, but due to complications and lack of proper unisntaller/cleaners for the Intel GMA3000 drivers - I had to reinstall Windows.
This would be no big deal, but apparently I can't use the restore system settings wizard with the archive of my original system's settings, as I had already done that the last time I reinstalled Windows (about two weeks ago) - and I guess it marks it as invalid once used for security reasons, thus you cannot restore the from the same system settings files twice.
Thus I have to build my windows totally from scratch this time 'round. Will take quite some time to get me back up to par. The alien queen seems to think I'm not allowed to be in the house tomorrow, so I won't be able to get at even starting this until late the 15th or 16th. ><
At least there are plenty of servers up lately. :/
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It's almost done damnit! It's still Feb 28th SOMEWHERE! 
Trying to cram in Vomica's glowing dwarves and some sort of hard-code anti-spam system to cut down on these edict crashes before release.
I'll edit this post with da changelog upon completion.
Trying to cram in Vomica's glowing dwarves and some sort of hard-code anti-spam system to cut down on these edict crashes before release.
I'll edit this post with da changelog upon completion.
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I would like to think it's still Febuary somewhere... But I'm GMT -8:00 - err... Better late than never.
MAR2007a PUBLIC CHANGELOG:
- SC.DLL Changes: -
New Stuffz
⢠You can kick!
- Starting at MA level 5 you can kick
- At level 10+ your kicks will have increasing knockback
- At level 20+ your kicks will also stun with increasing duration
⢠New client cvar: ms_lildude [0|1] - default 1
- You can now get rid of the little red rendered bastard on your hud with ms_lildude 0.
- This is a genuine cvar, thus it can be set in your userconfig.cfg, or whatnot.
⢠New server cvar: ms_fxlimit [0-9999] - default 0 (disabled)
- This is the highly experimental MS.DLL based spam control.
- Hope is that this should put an end to NO FREE EDICT errors
- However, at the moment, the method it uses to work is very screwy, as it tracks all spam on the #1 indexed player's script
- (If said player leaves, I do not know if the next player in line will become the spam tracker, or if it simply will no longer track spam)
- Reason for this is, I can't figure how to store the count var on a global script from the places it executes atm.
- If it causes issues, set it to 0 to disable. (Most likely issue: no fx display)
- If you wish to try it out, I recommend setting it to 20
New Beasties
⢠monsters/skeleton_stone2 - Stone Mason. Tough stone skeleton with dual weilded hammers. Stun attacks, summons rocks.
⢠monsters/skeleton_stone3 - Petrified Blademaster. V. Tough stone skeleton with a big sword. Throws peeps a lot (dangerous around hazards).
⢠monsters/skeleton_gstone1 - Greater Stone Mason (uses huge skeleton model). VERY mean. Creates storms of boulders that float around his head then fly at you.
⢠monsters/skeleton_gstone1_noxp - Same thing, but worth no XP, nor gold. (For Foamy's Trap)
Not so much "new" as "polished":
⢠Fixed up Undead Fire Giants and setup new scripts:
monsters/firegiantghoul1 - lesser undead fire giant
monsters/firegiantghoul2 - undead fire giant
monsters/firegiantghoul3 - greater undead fire giant
monsters/firegiantghoul1_turret - lesser undead fire giant, acts as turret (no wander)
monsters/firegiantghoul2_turret - undead fire giant, acts as turret (no wander)
monsters/firegiantghoul3_turret - greater undead fire giant, acts as turret (no wander)
⢠monsters/bludgeon - got an update and is actually pretty mean, and thus now worth some xp/gold. (Still funny as hell though, and no, we don't have a model from Gazomica yet)
New Mapper Toys
Skeleton Control
⢠monsters/skels_sleep
- Spawn this monster, and all subsequently spawned skeletons will spawn "playing dead" and not get up until a player comes near them (128 units).
- Stone skeletons will pose as statues instead
- Skeletons are invunerable while in this state, and their names/status are not visible.
- Killtarget this and subsequently spawned skeletons will not be affected
- (The skeletons in the first cave of Thornlands are now set to always have this affect, if you want to see it in action.)
⢠monsters/skels_deep_sleep
- Spawn this monster, and all subsequently spawned skeletons will spawn "playing dead" and not get up for anythying, save for monsters/skels_wakeup below:
- Stone skeletons will pose as statues instead
- Skeletons are invunerable while in this state, and their names/status are not visible.
- Killtarget this and subsequently spawned skeletons will not be affected
⢠monsters/skels_wakeup
- All sleeping and deep sleeping skeletons will get up, and resume normal behavior. (Stone skeletons will simply animate)
- This is a temporary entity. It removes itself on spawn, and maybe trigger-spawned repeatedly.
- (See weather tower tutorial for how to repeatedly spawn temporary entities as monsters)
⢠You can awaken individual skeletons by applying the ms_npcscript eventname " skeleton_wakeup_call " (see ms_npcscript tutorial)
⢠The following skeletons are unaffected by Skeleton Control:
- The following minions: Bloodreaver's, Flesheater's, Maldora's
- All bosses, minibosses, and red skeles: Calrian, Lord BS, Ice Lord, Sir Geric, Bloodreaver, Flesheater, Fire Giants, Keledros II
NOTE TO FOAMY: Be sure to killtarget any skels_deep_sleep you use before Slithar shows up, or his summoned skeletons will be affected as well!
⢠XYZ console command change: XYZ now returns the height of the ground you are standing on the Z coordinate, instead of your center. (Easier monster placement)
⢠Slithar has been moved to slithar/slithar ( monsters/snake_lord will be used for a generic version later)
- Slithar has a whole SLEW of commands, and is now officially our most complicated script, evah, thus his own script folder.
- For a detailing of his control commands, see the Slithar Command Reference document. (Hopefully Foamy is the only one who really needs to worry about this, but it gives you an idea of what we can do.)
⢠NPCs/dwarf_lantern and NPCs/default_dwarf_still
- Thse are for Vomica. Each is a dwarf that glows (_still doesn't roam unless struck). Note the new model in models/npcs/dwarf_lantern.mdl, this is the model used by the script. The script assumes you are adding the lantern as a fifth submodel in weapon group (if you add it to the model that way, the script will use it). I made it a seperate model from the standard dwarf so you may change the animations, if you so choose.
- MS.DLL Changes: -
⢠People attempting to memorize more than 8 spells will no longer crash servers
- BUT THEY WILL LOSE THE SCROLL THEY TRY TO MEMORIZE!
- I've not figured a way around this yet. Can't seem to figure a way to pull the # of spells up before the learn function takes place.
⢠Players now recieve messages when gaining experience showing the number of points gained.
⢠Players receive a warning message when carrying more than 50 items
⢠Players will not be allowed to pick up items if they already have 100 or more
- There's also an item and weight counter in console when you pick up items, if you care to look
⢠Eliminated "size" element regarding items due to it being buggard (no more "too big" errors - just too heavy)
⢠Fixed the ramp with Strength vs. Weight Allowance (those with 30-60 str can carry more now, those under 30 maybe able to carry a tad less)
⢠Changes to Mana/HP calculation (You now get some HP for spellcasting, and more mana for spellcasting than for parry)
- CLIENT.DLL Changes: -
Yes, ye dreaded client update is finally here. A copy of the FEB2007b client dll is provided in case you want to play on an older server. If you try to play on an older server with the new client, you will get a "client.dll does not match server's" error.
⢠Aformentioned ms_lildude cvar
⢠Synced aformentioned Strength Ramp change
⢠Synced aformentioned Mana/HP calculation change
⢠Summoning and Protection no longer appear in spell stat list
⢠Released version optimized for speed instead of debuggary (although no SSE2 or anything proc specific)
BugZ Squashed + Odder stuffz
⢠Golden Axe tickets are now available (use them wisely)
⢠Clearsky command works, but affects all clients
⢠Jagged arrows ramped to par with other arrows
⢠Poison Guardians now using proper models / framerates
⢠Odd mace no longer costs 30 gold to remove from chest
⢠Golden Axe swings proper
⢠Erkhold and Rocks bleed proper colors (ie. red, and not at all, respectively)
⢠Fixed issue with some old AI creatures not going agro until struck
⢠Fixed X/Y flip on Freezing Sphere
⢠Fixed some bugs with Forsuth (not being able to open store while beasts outside door)
⢠Summons will no longer attack guards unless you specifically target them (via "kill")
⢠Summons now return to defend mode after sucsesful slaying of targets specified via "kill" (more guard friendly)
⢠Vadrel (FOutpost) can no longer be slain before or after orc invasion
⢠Much faster spell scroll return (people shouldn't lose scrolls so often)
- Sadly, this bit will have to be revisted. Instead we have "somewhat" faster scroll return.
⢠Removed the last sticky client bit on the summons that was causing t3h l4gs!
- Sadly, I'm thinking there are several similarly affected monsters; I'll have to track them down. Apparently it is bad to have a monster call itself as a client-side effect as said effect never goes away, even if the monster dies, is deleted, or attempts to remove the effect to upon its death.
- You'll get a message every 10 secs a monster uses a client command on you (so if all the mons are dead, you know one of them is an evil lagger)
...and...
⢠New Backpack Model (barely under the wire)
- AMX Changes -
...Darn, none. Although I've setup a possible way to have individual clients start map votes when touching a trans, just not worked out the details.
- MAP Updates -
⢠Increased spawn rate in gatecity x4 (also 150% quest req.)
⢠Reduced push brush speed on secondary to-boss teleporter on WW3D in effort to fix.
- Installer Changes -
⢠Tweaked Fuznet auto-configurator to add a carriage return to server/listenserver.cfg before adding "exec fuznet.cfg"
- In otherwords, using the 'configure for fuznet' option should work for everyone now.
AND LOTS AND LOTS OF MODEL CONSOLIDATION - So maybe we can get some of those new weapons in now. (Many of the models are technically already in.)
...and the usual 10,000 minor changes I'm not bothering to list...
Sorry: Shad 2.0 and the new weapons didn't make it in this month (but we got enough consolidation done to allow a bunch). If there's a B patch, I'll toss in somethin. :\
Health readout bars will also have to wait until I get the spam control perfected, as I realized they create a new entity each time they are used (even though, it's only supposed to be 1 bar that just relocs, damnit).
Ye Download
WE'RE GOOOD TO GO: But if you got this before 10AM ( GMT-8) and you host a server, ye may want to download it again. (Not changing the revision# since caught it in under an hour, but the issue was that scrolls returns so fast, you couldn't get the spell up.)
MAR2007a PUBLIC CHANGELOG:
- SC.DLL Changes: -
New Stuffz
⢠You can kick!
- Starting at MA level 5 you can kick
- At level 10+ your kicks will have increasing knockback
- At level 20+ your kicks will also stun with increasing duration
⢠New client cvar: ms_lildude [0|1] - default 1
- You can now get rid of the little red rendered bastard on your hud with ms_lildude 0.
- This is a genuine cvar, thus it can be set in your userconfig.cfg, or whatnot.
⢠New server cvar: ms_fxlimit [0-9999] - default 0 (disabled)
- This is the highly experimental MS.DLL based spam control.
- Hope is that this should put an end to NO FREE EDICT errors
- However, at the moment, the method it uses to work is very screwy, as it tracks all spam on the #1 indexed player's script
- (If said player leaves, I do not know if the next player in line will become the spam tracker, or if it simply will no longer track spam)
- Reason for this is, I can't figure how to store the count var on a global script from the places it executes atm.
- If it causes issues, set it to 0 to disable. (Most likely issue: no fx display)
- If you wish to try it out, I recommend setting it to 20
New Beasties
⢠monsters/skeleton_stone2 - Stone Mason. Tough stone skeleton with dual weilded hammers. Stun attacks, summons rocks.
⢠monsters/skeleton_stone3 - Petrified Blademaster. V. Tough stone skeleton with a big sword. Throws peeps a lot (dangerous around hazards).
⢠monsters/skeleton_gstone1 - Greater Stone Mason (uses huge skeleton model). VERY mean. Creates storms of boulders that float around his head then fly at you.
⢠monsters/skeleton_gstone1_noxp - Same thing, but worth no XP, nor gold. (For Foamy's Trap)
Not so much "new" as "polished":
⢠Fixed up Undead Fire Giants and setup new scripts:
monsters/firegiantghoul1 - lesser undead fire giant
monsters/firegiantghoul2 - undead fire giant
monsters/firegiantghoul3 - greater undead fire giant
monsters/firegiantghoul1_turret - lesser undead fire giant, acts as turret (no wander)
monsters/firegiantghoul2_turret - undead fire giant, acts as turret (no wander)
monsters/firegiantghoul3_turret - greater undead fire giant, acts as turret (no wander)
⢠monsters/bludgeon - got an update and is actually pretty mean, and thus now worth some xp/gold. (Still funny as hell though, and no, we don't have a model from Gazomica yet)
New Mapper Toys
Skeleton Control
⢠monsters/skels_sleep
- Spawn this monster, and all subsequently spawned skeletons will spawn "playing dead" and not get up until a player comes near them (128 units).
- Stone skeletons will pose as statues instead
- Skeletons are invunerable while in this state, and their names/status are not visible.
- Killtarget this and subsequently spawned skeletons will not be affected
- (The skeletons in the first cave of Thornlands are now set to always have this affect, if you want to see it in action.)
⢠monsters/skels_deep_sleep
- Spawn this monster, and all subsequently spawned skeletons will spawn "playing dead" and not get up for anythying, save for monsters/skels_wakeup below:
- Stone skeletons will pose as statues instead
- Skeletons are invunerable while in this state, and their names/status are not visible.
- Killtarget this and subsequently spawned skeletons will not be affected
⢠monsters/skels_wakeup
- All sleeping and deep sleeping skeletons will get up, and resume normal behavior. (Stone skeletons will simply animate)
- This is a temporary entity. It removes itself on spawn, and maybe trigger-spawned repeatedly.
- (See weather tower tutorial for how to repeatedly spawn temporary entities as monsters)
⢠You can awaken individual skeletons by applying the ms_npcscript eventname " skeleton_wakeup_call " (see ms_npcscript tutorial)
⢠The following skeletons are unaffected by Skeleton Control:
- The following minions: Bloodreaver's, Flesheater's, Maldora's
- All bosses, minibosses, and red skeles: Calrian, Lord BS, Ice Lord, Sir Geric, Bloodreaver, Flesheater, Fire Giants, Keledros II
NOTE TO FOAMY: Be sure to killtarget any skels_deep_sleep you use before Slithar shows up, or his summoned skeletons will be affected as well!
⢠XYZ console command change: XYZ now returns the height of the ground you are standing on the Z coordinate, instead of your center. (Easier monster placement)
⢠Slithar has been moved to slithar/slithar ( monsters/snake_lord will be used for a generic version later)
- Slithar has a whole SLEW of commands, and is now officially our most complicated script, evah, thus his own script folder.
- For a detailing of his control commands, see the Slithar Command Reference document. (Hopefully Foamy is the only one who really needs to worry about this, but it gives you an idea of what we can do.)
⢠NPCs/dwarf_lantern and NPCs/default_dwarf_still
- Thse are for Vomica. Each is a dwarf that glows (_still doesn't roam unless struck). Note the new model in models/npcs/dwarf_lantern.mdl, this is the model used by the script. The script assumes you are adding the lantern as a fifth submodel in weapon group (if you add it to the model that way, the script will use it). I made it a seperate model from the standard dwarf so you may change the animations, if you so choose.
- MS.DLL Changes: -
⢠People attempting to memorize more than 8 spells will no longer crash servers
- BUT THEY WILL LOSE THE SCROLL THEY TRY TO MEMORIZE!
- I've not figured a way around this yet. Can't seem to figure a way to pull the # of spells up before the learn function takes place.
⢠Players now recieve messages when gaining experience showing the number of points gained.
⢠Players receive a warning message when carrying more than 50 items
⢠Players will not be allowed to pick up items if they already have 100 or more
- There's also an item and weight counter in console when you pick up items, if you care to look
⢠Eliminated "size" element regarding items due to it being buggard (no more "too big" errors - just too heavy)
⢠Fixed the ramp with Strength vs. Weight Allowance (those with 30-60 str can carry more now, those under 30 maybe able to carry a tad less)
⢠Changes to Mana/HP calculation (You now get some HP for spellcasting, and more mana for spellcasting than for parry)
- CLIENT.DLL Changes: -
Yes, ye dreaded client update is finally here. A copy of the FEB2007b client dll is provided in case you want to play on an older server. If you try to play on an older server with the new client, you will get a "client.dll does not match server's" error.
⢠Aformentioned ms_lildude cvar
⢠Synced aformentioned Strength Ramp change
⢠Synced aformentioned Mana/HP calculation change
⢠Summoning and Protection no longer appear in spell stat list
⢠Released version optimized for speed instead of debuggary (although no SSE2 or anything proc specific)
BugZ Squashed + Odder stuffz
⢠Golden Axe tickets are now available (use them wisely)
⢠Clearsky command works, but affects all clients
⢠Jagged arrows ramped to par with other arrows
⢠Poison Guardians now using proper models / framerates
⢠Odd mace no longer costs 30 gold to remove from chest
⢠Golden Axe swings proper
⢠Erkhold and Rocks bleed proper colors (ie. red, and not at all, respectively)
⢠Fixed issue with some old AI creatures not going agro until struck
⢠Fixed X/Y flip on Freezing Sphere
⢠Fixed some bugs with Forsuth (not being able to open store while beasts outside door)
⢠Summons will no longer attack guards unless you specifically target them (via "kill")
⢠Summons now return to defend mode after sucsesful slaying of targets specified via "kill" (more guard friendly)
⢠Vadrel (FOutpost) can no longer be slain before or after orc invasion
⢠Much faster spell scroll return (people shouldn't lose scrolls so often)
- Sadly, this bit will have to be revisted. Instead we have "somewhat" faster scroll return.
⢠Removed the last sticky client bit on the summons that was causing t3h l4gs!
- Sadly, I'm thinking there are several similarly affected monsters; I'll have to track them down. Apparently it is bad to have a monster call itself as a client-side effect as said effect never goes away, even if the monster dies, is deleted, or attempts to remove the effect to upon its death.
- You'll get a message every 10 secs a monster uses a client command on you (so if all the mons are dead, you know one of them is an evil lagger)
...and...
⢠New Backpack Model (barely under the wire)
- AMX Changes -
...Darn, none. Although I've setup a possible way to have individual clients start map votes when touching a trans, just not worked out the details.
- MAP Updates -
⢠Increased spawn rate in gatecity x4 (also 150% quest req.)
⢠Reduced push brush speed on secondary to-boss teleporter on WW3D in effort to fix.
- Installer Changes -
⢠Tweaked Fuznet auto-configurator to add a carriage return to server/listenserver.cfg before adding "exec fuznet.cfg"
- In otherwords, using the 'configure for fuznet' option should work for everyone now.
AND LOTS AND LOTS OF MODEL CONSOLIDATION - So maybe we can get some of those new weapons in now. (Many of the models are technically already in.)
...and the usual 10,000 minor changes I'm not bothering to list...
Sorry: Shad 2.0 and the new weapons didn't make it in this month (but we got enough consolidation done to allow a bunch). If there's a B patch, I'll toss in somethin. :\
Health readout bars will also have to wait until I get the spam control perfected, as I realized they create a new entity each time they are used (even though, it's only supposed to be 1 bar that just relocs, damnit).
Ye Download
WE'RE GOOOD TO GO: But if you got this before 10AM ( GMT-8) and you host a server, ye may want to download it again. (Not changing the revision# since caught it in under an hour, but the issue was that scrolls returns so fast, you couldn't get the spell up.)
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OH TEH NOEZ!!!1111 YUO KAN USZE DAT NOQUEBAK 2 EXPOLIT UNREST TOO W/ TEH FAIAR PITZ!oneThothie said:
Nice update!
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OMFG HE R NO CHANJ IT SO DAT WE CNA GET GA BETR IT S WOTHRLSES RITE NOW
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Lol I didn't even read that part - I'm probably missing something, but what does "150% quest req." mean?The Man In Black said:
hey thothie your download site seems to be all buggerd, can't seem to download anything, all I get is http - 404 file not found error. Makes me sad I was actually trying to update my server before 7 pm today
*edit*
nvm its working again, looks like just in time to!
*edit*
nvm its working again, looks like just in time to!
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i guess i'll reply a lil for thoth...
problem with the spell scrolls and the delay for them returning to the inventory... spells are buggard
and 150% req. prolly means that you have to kill 150 zombies?
he's trying to fix stuff with the latest patch so he prolly took it down so he can release a version that doesn't hate spell scrolls.
problem with the spell scrolls and the delay for them returning to the inventory... spells are buggard
and 150% req. prolly means that you have to kill 150 zombies?
he's trying to fix stuff with the latest patch so he prolly took it down so he can release a version that doesn't hate spell scrolls.
Download link works now 
There's nothing like a fresh new msc update ^^
There's nothing like a fresh new msc update ^^got it downloaded, gotta shovel some snow atm - but then i'll join in on the fun too
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lawl... this new update is an incentive to either do all of my assignments really quick and half-assed... ORRR not do them at all...
I can't wait to give those damned Brawlers a taste of my foot of doom!
I can't wait to give those damned Brawlers a taste of my foot of doom!
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Wow, +50 Hp and Mana, fewer weight and the ability to kick - feeling mighty 
What about putting the kick to the second charge of martial arts? So it is more "special" and at least MA will have a second charge then.
All in all it's a great Update, nothing to feel sorry about
What about putting the kick to the second charge of martial arts? So it is more "special" and at least MA will have a second charge then.
All in all it's a great Update, nothing to feel sorry about
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Holy crap guys, my stats! And my weight is at 1/3rd while I'm wearing the golden armor, carrying a rune shield and wielding a golden axe! I can run like turbo! Wow! Awesome update!
We're two steps away from godmode my fellow level thirtiers!! HOO-HA!
Nah, not really
Still so much more content to exploit (meaning, to check out) in-game, all the way up to a level forty character
Nah, not really
Still so much more content to exploit (meaning, to check out) in-game, all the way up to a level forty character
Heh, first thing I do is break my Golden Axe...And I'm prett-y sure that there isn't any Loreldian ore floating around just yet...Guess I'll have to see just how much faster that zombie spawn is.
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it's only a matter of time... someone will find it... then it WILL leak... happy hunting...
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It will leak... in the right place
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what exactly was changed on the bludgeon?
LOL 
Gurluas said:
the script, i presume.
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