Posts by D3adlode

  • Doom III

    Delta Labs 1 was kinda boring and the maintenance bits looked ever so slightly similar to the garages in Com Transfer. It picked up once I got to 2a though, I like the clean design of the labs, reminds me of Shock2's command deck. One thing that annoyed me was when Ian gives you that video before you teleport it's just an audio log with his details on it, he talks about some pictures of a demon found when teams went into the portal another time, they couldn've showed that instead of his boring details constantly, it's only a small thing but it just seems like laziness to me..

    Only 3 more levels till Hell

  • Doom III

    Quote from RD

    there was some tweak u could do to ur cfg file, somthing like changing 64 to 256 which would double ur fps.

    Can't even load the main menu if I do that, just crashes..

  • It's about fucking time...

    Quote from Thrik

    Exactly. ¬¬ What's HL2 without the fancy shaders??Although when I tried it on a ti4200 with similar processor/RAM specs to D3, it certainly didn't run smoothly on full detail.

    There's a fix to add the fancy shaders for DX7/8 cards so you get the cool water effects and everything too, it's on one of the older PCG DVDs and is probably found on Steam as well no doubt.

  • Doom III

    Quote from mike-0

    i havent gotten to hell yet, in fact i havent even met up with the rest of my "delta teamates" or whatever.Anyways, after people were getting posessed and after i started killing zombies, i walked into a bathroom. You look into the mirror and the screen flashes red and the dudes face gets all fucked up. My friend said this is when you get posessed by the devil, is that what you guys think it is?

    I think that's just the demons messing with your head, stuff like that happens several times during the game (ie; chairs flying about, corpses being launched at you, a vision of skeletons and bloodstained hallways..

  • Doom III

    Quote from DaanO

    "One criticism is the item/enemy placement, I was in 'Communications Transfer' and I came into a room that had three Z-sec zombies in it and then two Cacodemons spawned in, followed by five imps after that. I was at 20% health and what is there to patch you up with after that big fight? A measley small med kit, to make matters worse there were like three imps in the next room too.. I just managed to make it.. just."Isn't that a good thing? If you *just* made it, means the game is balanced very well.

    Yeah, but I suck

    If you're having problems running the game then turn the detail down, in all honesty it looks great in all detail modes and medium is a nice balance between good graphics and smooth gameplay oh and turn off 'Antialiasing' it really doesn't make much of a difference if you ask me, plus it costs shitloads of fps.

    Ok I've just reached Delta Labs, the Recyling sectors and the Monorail were really cool, that fight with not one.. not two.. but three fucking mancubi.. christ man, and I was complaining about Com transfer.. Still, they're fucking nicely made and the sounds they make are true to the original doom. Revenants are good too and a bitch to fight with in close combat... ouch!

  • Doom III

    Ok I thought I'd make a new topic rather than piss about with the other thread. Yes, I know just about all of you have already played it to death by now and either loved it or hated it or are somewhere in between, but I'm playing it now for the first time and it's my turn to comment!

    The one word that everyone uses and I'm in total agreement with is 'dark' some areas are so pitch black by the time you realise there's about 5 zombies in a corner you've already had your head ripped off! The enemies are really cool, well animated and modelled and the set pieces are really good. I still can't get over how good this game looks on my system (I'll post my system shots when I'm done), it's only on medium and to be honest I don't think there's really much difference between that and high from the screens I've seen..

    One criticism is the item/enemy placement, I was in 'Communications Transfer' and I came into a room that had three Z-sec zombies in it and then two Cacodemons spawned in, followed by five imps after that. I was at 20% health and what is there to patch you up with after that big fight? A measley small med kit, to make matters worse there were like three imps in the next room too.. I just managed to make it.. just.

    Also it annoys me how just about everytime you pickup some health or ammo, imps spawn in to rain on your parade leaving you with less health than you started with before picking up the medkit!!

    I'm still impressed though, although it's not really scary (although there are some ambient sound effects that made me feel a bit uneasy) I've jumped loads of times, but ultimately the combat becomes predictable so you're prepared for demons to spawn in or for a zombie to break out of a hidden alcove in the dark. The torch/gun thing is a bit annoying but ultimately not life threatening unless you're a complete berk who can't press the 'F' key as quick as possible!

    Still, I'm only at the Monorail Skybridge, so I'm not even half-way through yet, so we'll see how the rest pans out.

  • It's about fucking time...

    Current specs:

    AMD Athlon 1600XP 1.4ghz

    512MB DDR RAM

    GF 4 TI 4200 128MB

    16x CD-ROM

    DVD-ROM

    Sound Blaster Live!

    I'm running Doom 3 on medium settings at 800x600.. not sure how but there really isn't much of a performance difference between that and 640x480 on low.. which is weird seeing as the textures are compressed in that mode and they aren't in medium. A little slowdown when there's too much on screen but nothing to worry about really...

    I think I'll be able to run HL2 to near enough the highest settings in which case.

    This is now going to be 'the games D3 recently completed' thread whereby you'll come across titles you probably played somewhere along the line 4 years ago but I haven't been able to.. so nyeh.

    Of course there will be the definative HL2 Vs D3 section, but I think we both know who's going to win that one... or maybe not.

    Ok, back to the UAC base, I hear something nasty lurking in the darkness ahead...

  • It's about fucking time...

    I asked on this forum if anyone knew what the problem was as well, but no one suggested the RAM being at fault.. you guys suck!

    I would've looked at the motherboard manual but it wouldn't of made any sense back in the day..

    Oh and the RAM was actually in slots 1 and 2 when I got it, I didn't touch the inside at all!

    Yeah yeah Mazzle, I'll move onto VC eventually.. and SA is out soon.. gonna kick total ass!