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We used to kill trolls in Grobb. They had those plain weapons that sold for more than fine steel. I had a big fatass troll on my second account that we would load up with the things and eventually go sell. One day, after a long session, his weight was in the thousands, but he could still...

Shader compilation used to be the culprit. I think they cache that now somehow so you should only hitch badly the first time you enter an area in theory? I'm not really sure how it works.

I actually tried all the classes up to 14, expecting I'd go on to do the Kegger's dorf dungeon, but haven't yet. (usually play in short chunks when I get time) For clothies my fave is probably Psionicist. Sorcerer I honestly thought I had some kind of bug because I could just obliterate...

No I mean like overmining in an area causing troglodytes to come spewing in through a dynamic cave entrance, or a player construction being seen as a "threat" by local gobbos who ring their big bosses for help causing a large attack. Or ecological stuff causing monster migrations. Real on the...

I think games have barely scratched the potential of what they can do running on a database. My guess is they are exploring that, not just treating the data as read only (which it is for most mmos). Think of all the stuff you could do with generative stuff + players capable of modifying bits...

You could go up in the mountains to the oathbreaker caves up near bordinars. Mixed 2 and 3 dot enemy dorfs, some fairly nice loot scattered about, and a couple quests that lead to some really nice shoulder armor.

Well the area near the dam has two decent weapon quests, from the sandland ladies over near the lake. There's one to kill Gorukar or something like that, a big fat turtle, and then you hand the shell to a dorf and he makes another weapon. It's a bit tricksy because you don't really know what...

One thing to keep in mind is that programming is seen as a young person's game. Personally I think this is bullshit, but that attitude is out there. Throughout my career, looking back, it's the old timers that have really been worth their weight in gold (though when I was younger I thought...

That is actually an improvement over what I experience. Mine is the hits just never registering at all. Like an entire clip into back of skull and nothing. I sort of learned to live with it as I have the worst internet connection possible.

Has anyone tried the networking? Curious if it just works or if you need kali or something.

I'd love to see collision work properly, not just for blocking access to the back line, but blocking spells and arrows as well. Would be expensive to develop though.

Garriott sorry, this was back on tabula rasa, a version back from the soldierish one that shipped.

I watched some video, and I was kind of thinking the characters had that turbine look about them. Like the turbine character artist had jumped over. That's not really a bad thing, but guildwars 2 has such amazingly lovely characters, it will be hard to look at new stuff that is not near that...

So I went back to the oathbreaker mines again with a friend, and I saw something I remember being talked about in the various discussions of instancing. Another player was running around near where we were, and one of the quests is to destroy a caster's books. Once destroyed, the caster...

If I remember correctly, the poems are outside. One probably looks like it is inside but you just fly around above it. The dungeon is a group dungeon I think.

Same thing happened to my game, trials didn't work for around 24 hours. Then the next day got bumped to the second page. Also my nephew to this day can't buy the game, gives him an error of some sort (I haven't seen it).

A friend and I found one of those out of the way little medium sized dungeons up in the mountains near Bordinar's, Oathbreaker ... something. Caves? Check out the breastplate, regen! That would have been awesome if you couldn't just use food. Also the cloak was a discovery.

They've had plans for years but they had problems with various people having the rights. They got those back in mid 2011 but no idea what they've done since. Talking about wizards here.

Hey I saw you guys got a pick on indiegames.com, pretty cool!

Off the shelf engines are terrible. I'm admittedly out of the loop but I think this is still the case. In the old days you knew the Quake engine would make you a good fps because it was built to make a fps. Modern middleware was made to create... the demos... that they show to sell the engine...

Here's hoping it won't be another stun festival. If so I'll stick to the low level battlegrounds where I can actually control my character.

I've got a 32 tailor. One of these days I'm going to pop one of those xp potions and just grind the rest out. I've done 2 of the 3 banisher quest lines recently though and they are kind of fun.

I've only read the gama article, but the goal seems to be keeping players interested with wacky unexpected things. Step one is realizing you can't create quest style content faster than it is consumed. The math of it really hit me when working with the designers on tabula rasa back in 2006...

I got an 8, 12, 10, 6, 14, 16 month reward box, most are an xp potion, a set of house furniture, a title, and some fireworks. There's also a one character only bag and horseshoes that improve mount speed.

With many of those onboard chips, it just physically is not possible to make something work on them. The architecture is sort of like a modern console (which is slow) only about 100 - 1000 times slower.

The biggest problem with the launcher is sometimes firing it doesn't register on the server side. It will damage you if you are close, at least on your client, but won't damage anyone else. It's about 50/50 for me.

I think I was around 5 or 6 when playing the 2600 ET game, and I don't really remember it being bad! I do very much remember the indiana jones game on the 2600. Mainly parachuting into a cave underneath a tree branch that took me like 1000 attempts.

Speaking of exploits, have they fixed the c4 / mines through force fields thing yet? I've been reporting people that do that for awhile, but it is a bit of a grey area.

There's an anti air bundle I'm eyeing. For vanu it has A30 Walker, Burster, Hades, G30 Walker. It doesn't really get very specific though. Like there are 3 different A30's in the store, do you get one of them or all of them or a random choice of the 3?

My favorite fights are attacking held biolabs. Light assaults can almost always get out and flank the defenders, who are so focused on shooting at the doors you can often just stab them to death in a nice neat line. There are a few spots where NC maxes can make it impossible, but that rarely...

Any fans of the underbarrel nade launcher? I've noticed some odd behavior lately, just curious if anyone else has seen this: Sometimes when I log in, every other respawn, the game either thinks on the server side that I don't have a launcher, or that I'm out of ammo. I'll see them fire on...

For mine, if you have the .net framework and xna redist installed, it is probably a dx10 problem. If you are on winxp with dx9, I made a "reach" version that should work but I haven't been able to find anyone to test it for me. It is here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/59900676/ReachVersion.zip...

Vanu is really special tonight. My last hour at Allatum, gate up, 20 people standing in the spawn room trying to shoot out the door. Fly out and kill all the badguys waiting for people to leave. Come back in and yell at people to get out. Repeat.

Haha your sound effects are so good. I slept 12 hours, so time to rate a ton of games!

I'm Kharzu on waterson, I shall wave if I see you! I'm usually in a biolab.

I'm terrible with 2D so all my entries have been 3D. It always takes a long time to build levels, and make characters / enemies, but the code side is usually quick. My timelapse is up now.

Finished an hour early this time. I barely barely made it last time. http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum...eview&uid=5649

Hahhaa that is a great idea. I'm still working on mine but totally dead tired. Not sure if I will make it.

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