Posts by D3ads

  • Quake 4 - Method's Hideout (WIP)

    Hi Method, good to see you!

    What happened to RUST? I stopped by there the other day and the forums are gone, overrun with spambots I guess?

    The map looks amazing, your love of Kingpin really shines through here, it's especially impressive because people rarely take the time to try out something new with the Doom 3 engine and Prey has shown that it works with urban environments very well and this is no exception.

    Some crits:

    - Add some misc trash on the floor, remember that Kingpin had a lot of detail when it came to stuff like that, lots of beer bottles and newspapers littering the alleyways, you can always push the level of detail here too.

    - The lighting looks a bit too white in some areas, try to add some subtle colours in there.

    - I only see a light source in a couple of pictures, so add some light props, make some of them broken and leave sparking wires hanging down.

    - The bottom of the staircase on the fourth picture would suit something like a shopping trolley, milk crates and some boxes well..

    Hope that helps, welcome back to the Core

  • h4xx0r..

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    His forum profile says he is a 22 year old Russian.

    Well that explains everything :roll:

    Can't say I'm surprised I'm afraid, this sort of thing was bound to happen, one of the reasons why I was always sceptical about using Steam for purchases and now I'm so glad I didn't bother.

  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    Heh, I'm working on a horror mod inspired by Hellraiser, Silent Hill, F.E.A.R, Jacob's Ladder among others, it's an old project revisted and enhanced (and given more meat to it other than 'special forces vs demons').

    The jungle thing is just a single map now, I still haven't worked on it for ages, I might just release the assets for public use if I don't get the motivation to carry on with it.

  • Gunman kills 32 on campus!

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    Jack should be shot for taking the opportunity to leech off a tragedy to push his own agenda

    QFT, fucking moron.

    I was shocked at the bodycount but unsurprised as well. It made me laugh on the news whereby the police wondered how he managed to evade them for the second attack, you've only got to look at the size of the campas and layout to see that anyone could have got past them undetected.

    Heard on the radio today that a few exchange students from England were also caught up in the chaos, tragic. Of course you'd think that as a result of such a horrendous incident that the authorities would finally question and debate America's rights to bare arms, but I doubt very much that anything will change in that respect.

  • The 300 movie trailer:

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    What version did you see? Since I only saw 2 sex scenes and 2-3 other scenes of bare breasted chicks

    One sex scene between Leonidas and his wife, the rape scene with her and Theron (well I'd class it as rape) and the topless girls.

  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

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    Looking very good for HL1 d3ads. I might have some models you can use that would fit that theme (if you're willing to wait a few weeks )

    Totally!

    Btw I don't mean to be a bitch, but can we have a new rule in this thread whereby people have to comment on other people's work before posting their own? I think it is only manners to make some critics about someone else's art just in the same way others would make about your own. It's just I posted my own screenshot and then aevirex posted his own screenshots and mostly distracted away from my own

    Looking very good anyway aevirex, I love snow themed stuff

  • The toughest game levels/missions

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    But the Cradle... Oh man. That level is sheer genius. In my opinion, every other level in Thief 3 exists to build up momentum towards the Cradle. I think a guy on PC Gamer wrote an essay about how great this level is, but he kind of glazed over the design aspects in favor of the narrative. There are few levels that I would elevate to the pedestal of "masterpiece" - but this is definitely one of them.

    I've read that article, I didn't really understand it much since I've never played the game (or the others for that matter). On that note I can pick up both Thief1/2 for £5, worth my time I suppose?

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    AvP before they introduced the save game in the patch.

    Oh fuck yes.. Especially hard during the alien missions because the marines and turrets can cut you to pieces in no time if you don't make your moves fast.

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    The racing in mafia is hard but theres a shortcut in the track that allows you to win easy. After that there is a chase against some super fast limo style car I couldn't get past. Then the game broke on me. hehe.

    Yeah that's the 'cheat' that I was talking about, I tried it yesterday and it works a charm

    Quote from Thrik

    There're quite a few more, but this subject is so great I think I'm going to think of some more and make it a blog post on my superb blog.

    Who says I never make good threads?

  • The toughest game levels/missions

    I'm playing through Mafia at the moment, a title about 1930's American gangsters that despite it's age still stands the test of time and manages to beat the shit out of many modern games imho.

    Anyway, one of the missions involves your character racing and it is so damn hard because you have to go past 5 laps and come first place. I literally spent an hour trying to do it before finally giving up and looking for some walkthroughs/cheats on the web. Funny thing is, upon returning to the mission ready to give up and cheat I decided to try it one last time and I won! The handling on the cars is terrible, unless you slow down on the corners you are dogmeat and if you manage to hit sand or grass your car spins and it's extremely hard to get back into the race again.

    I think this is definately one of the hardest missions I've ever had to get through and it is notoriously known to Mafia players to be the mission where everyone gives up and stops playing. Stupid thing is, with the patch you can set the difficulty to easy and the cars always crash so you have plenty of time to get into the lead :roll:

    Another one that springs to mind is one of the last missions on GTA3, you have to drive an armoured truck from one island to another with a full wanted level, also there's another one where you must race from Staunton to Shoreside Vale Airport to collect some packages being dropped by a plane at a certain time and by collecting them you get a full wanted level again.. that pissed me off so much.

    System Shock 2's 'Body Of The Many' also induced massive headaches several times.

    Share your frustrating gaming stories here!