Posts by madgernader

  • MapCore Challenge Discussion (Old)

    Quote from Lunaran

    The Quake1 crowd had a contest about a year ago to design a single player map that was constrained on x and y to 768x768, but not limited in Z. Made for some cramped maps, so maybe 768 was a little low, and it'd be interesting to see maps constrained on 'any two axes', or even any single axis.

    That sounds like it could be really fun, especially with the vertical aspect...

    Otherwise the 1024 contest always seemed like it'd be fun, same with most of these ideas I'm hearing.

  • Duke Nukem Forever

    Quote from FrieChamp

    I'm not sure what you guys expected, maybe it's the long development time, but with me it's quite the opposite: I'm positively surprised that it comes out at all! I think the trailer is hilarious and they are making the best out of a game, whose development can only be described as an epic trainwreck. It doesn't look like it will be the next big leap in fps gaming, more like Duke 3D on steroids. Balls to the walls action coupled with Duke humour.

    This

  • Non-industry employment thread!

    I have the super sweet job of being a cashier for Safeway (a U.S. grocery store) in Washington state. Been working there part time for a couple years and going to college. No killer sentry programming in here, just some rocking customer service and selling stuff...

    It gets me an income and keeps me going so far, guess I cant complain, at least I'm employed...

  • Bloody Good Time

    In the hunt, (the main game-mode) it is separated into rounds, each round you are given a target (the name and portrait on screen).

    Your goal is to kill them before round end using weapons or traps without getting caught in the act. The catch is that you are also being hunted by another player, so you have to watch your own back.

    Each round different point values are assigned to different weapons (ones that got used the previous round drop in points) promoting people to change weapons.

    For killing your target and your hunter, you get points that go towards your overall score.

    Some rounds also have other objectives, I've played a Kill the leader where everyone has to kill the point leader. A regular deathmatch, and a zombie match, where one person is infected and by touching others infects them and you get points for surviving or infecting others.

    You also have a needs system of Eating, Sleeping, and using the restroom. You don't need to worry about these too often (depends on the server) but if you ignore them you start to have negative side effects, (Not sure what happens if they hit bottom) when you are filling these needs you cant move until the actions are complete so it leaves you open for an attack so it makes you plan on when to do them.

    I think I covered everything for the hunt and I hope it makes sense

  • Now playing 2010

    Started playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. ShoC after installing the stalker complete 2009 mod, makes the game look soo much better. hopefully I'll be able to play it all the way through this time. What did you guys think of Clear Sky? is it worth picking up? (I think its $4 on amazon...)

  • Now playing 2010

    Quote from Jetsetlemming

    Somebody on my Steam friend's list gave me Red Orchestra for free and I just tried it and I don't like it. Now I feel bad. But it's super ugly and tanks are apparently invulnerable god vehicles dominating everything while when I drive them suddenly they're paper cars that explode on contact with anything. A tooltip popped up telling me to aim for the "seam between the tank and turret, or driver's window". But the tank models are pretty ugly and there's not much zoom to aiming with the tank, and none at all with the anti-tank rifle, so I couldn't see any of these things at all. Also once I found a Panzerfaust near the enemy team's base, but couldn't find any near my spawn. Also I totally missed with it and it just hit the ground and did nothing ten feet from the tank, which then shot me.

    Made my day

    but seriously, RO takes some getting used to. I never play the vehicle maps, I just load up infantry battles and its a lot of fun, especially with friends... but it is ugly.

  • Buying a new computational device!

    Is the hyperthreading and L3 cache really the only things that the i7 has over the i5? their whole i-series has me confused... I've got a core 2 quad at 2.83Ghz and I'm always just confused when trying to figure out why the i7's are so spendy...

    edit* when did newegg get the website facelift