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y'know, I think you'll have to write a tribute to us B12ers somewhere in the game, given the number of ideas and bug reporting we've done
Downloaded .2c, still cannot proceed past loading screen. Forced to ctrl-alt-delete close the program. Windows 7 laptop.
Hm, well I downloaded it and made a soldier character. Then a dragon came and I poked it until it died (it didn't attack), then I left the map and the game crashed when I tried to leave the current chunk (By heading east, not via "t"ravel.). No error log.
Edit: Tried again, started a warrior and got mauled by wolves.
I notice even with skill level 30 in heavy weapon aim I still kept attack their legs even though I was aiming at their heads.
Oh, this time I *did* get an error message when I pressed "J" to quit.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
. That's because the skills aren't well implemented and are getting a major change for 0.2.0; and lastly, the bug you mention has been fixed!Any plans on a forum soon? We could definitely use a place to discuss the game and such.
Hey, URR, you said you were in the UK. Anywhere near Exeter?
P.S. I have a couple of busy days and when I finally get some time on the forums, I find you've released!? Damnit!
URRO-1-2c.zip gives me this error when I try to unzip it.
'The archive is either in unknown format or damaged'
I will try version b.
edit: Older version aren't downloadable apparently. I guess I'll just wait until you have a new version which hopefully works for me
It sounds like you just have a bad download, try again maybe?
When approaching the sea I got the following message:Code: [Select]Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime LibraryThe game then crashed when I selected "Retry".
Assertion Failed!
Program: [directory]\URR0-1-2c.exe
File: src/console_c.c
Line: 220
Expression: dat != ((void *)0 && (unsigned)(x) < (unsigned)dat->w &&
(unsigned)(y) < (unsigned)dat->h
Also, I can't get the options to save. Are they meant to?
'Aha, as always i tend to find exploits ...
Go to your skill selection at char-gen.
Spend points.
Go back (backspace)
Spend more points
-Repeat.
I've been following this pretty closely since you started the thread here, and I have to say you're off to an awesome start. I like the aesthetics of the travel mode, the fact that the world is not filling up the whole screen makes it feel like you're navigating a map.
Some UI things:
On the ground, it might be useful to let people know when they're approaching a loading area so they can avoid it if they wish. On the same note, the quotes that pop up are nice, but it obscures the view around your character. If you were in the middle of a fight, I might use that loading time to analyze the tactical situation.
For me personally, it is kind of awkward to use backspace as the "go back" key. I instinctively press "escape" if I want to exit something. You could always enable both.
In the skill select screen, you might want to allow people to hold shift + left/right arrows to increase/decrease skill points by 5 or 10 at a time. In general, the 1000 skill points to begin with is huge. I like that things could be fine tailored so much, but I need to sink a lot of time into customizing the character, and frankly the amount of options are overwhelming. The presets are a godsend though.
Anyway, congrats again on your first release.
. A few people have commented on the skills page, and that, combined with the fact that skills of that type have no choices between a or b, or better/worse routes, or specialities or anything else, makes it rather less interesting than the kind of skill tree I'm imagining.
Just downloaded this and got owned by Cyclops. UI is excellent, I can't say much else that hasn't already been said however. It's great to finally be able to play around with this, alpha or no.
I find it odd that I can slash an ogre's leg to the bone and he still can stand. I think the damage model is a little too generous to the injured. Then I broke his bone, and he still stood and attacked. It's pretty much necessary to break both legs before they fall.
Nope, the chunk messsage stayed for most of the lag. It started when the message appeared.
I didn't cut back to the early menu, it was sort of like the menu options overlayed the regular game. It was after I attempted mashing the X button so that I could get rid of it.
By lag, I meant the game was not reacting to anything I would do and my entire computer was slowing down to the point of near stopping.
It wasn't until I was able to hit quit in the menu that I was able to open task manager to kill it.
I would like to try, but this sort of lag is dangerous for my computer. My only way of shutting off my laptop if it freezes is pulling out it's battery and I don't exactly have a way to get it fixed if it breaks again.
Yeah Im on a laptop and the game actually goes off screen a bit so I cant see the newest messages within the game thats why I tried going into fullscreen in the first place(well I also like it too) and there is no black screen it just disappers like it's about to go to the black screen then show the game but it just stays gone till I Start the game agian.
Ok for the answers to your Questions Ultima
1. No there was no log for that one the log I showed you was all of my logs after my screen crashed the second time maybe if I explain what happened it would help you find the problem. I was exploring the map for a few mins. When I pasted this kind of wierd looking symbol that looked alot like a volcanoe so I travel to it hit the button to go to the area map where it seemed it was good because it show me the map and all that stuff but before I could even try to move around the area my computer informed me that the game had stoped working and I needed to close it.
2. For the fullscreen thing I have just tried to go to fullscreen in the title menu and it disappers that makes me thing it's about to go into fullscreen when it never does ever it just disappers.
Note this is all in 0.1.0.
Also Wow I never type this much
Yep. It was the second time I had encountered that chunk message, that session. I'm not sure when the lag appeared. The lag started when the message showed up. I kinda was able to move after the chunks message, but the game just repeated my panicked movement I did when I noticed it started lagging, then showed the menu you see when you press the "X" button. I was able to navigate to "Quit" and enter it. It gave an error when quitting and stopped responding. A minute or two later, task manager finally opened and I was able to end the process.Spoiler: Quit error (click to show/hide)
I hope this information is good.
Will damaging certain parts of an animal's body enable you to get at others?
Something like lopping off a Cyclops' leg, causing it to fall over so you can behead it, or slashing open something's chest to stab at it's heart/lungs or any other vital organs.
also, it had better have the ability to spill guts (Like DF) because I love spilling guts and having all my enemies chasing me with their intestines dangling out behind them.
. Guts, well... guts might appear. Guts definitely might appear.
Two times has my game crashed one was when I decided to check out a small dormant volcanoe the other was when after I chopped off a Cyclop's leg and taking out the head when it crashed so I checked the log file.Also I can't seem to be able to get it into fullscreen.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Crash as a dragon appeared.
i also had a crash in 1.0 where i examined the spear i picked up in my inventory.
.Played it, quite fun. Was first killed by a cyclops with a naginata that snuck up behind me, and later got a crash checking informational about humans.Spoiler: errorlog (click to show/hide)
Congratulations on your first release! Looking awesome indeed
Broke a wolf's leg, and then turned to try and get some distance.
It crashed.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I managed to survive a fight with a Cyclops even though it managed to trick me by sneaking up on me and me and spending 3 turns getting hit looking for where that damned thing was (really need sound or some kind of awareness of a few squares behind you), luckily all it managed to do was bruise my armour and lightly damage my leg, then a bit of exploring and I find two wolves , kill one quite easily after poking out an eye and the other one kills me quite easily
Next game I get a message about a Cyclops climbing but I can't see it anywhere, then I find it (trying to sneak up on me again!) and hah I damage it, then it hits my head twice to kill me >.< ahh once I get my bow I will dedicate a character to just blinding every Cyclops I see and leave it stumbling about.
it seems to close when you put it in 12 by 12 and fullscreen.
Downloaded .1.1 and it doesn't work. Specifically, I can load the first screen and see text like "new game, load game, quit, etc." However, I can only scroll up and down the list. I can't move to the next screen or even quit the game. I'm forced to CTRL-ALT-DELETE to get out of game.
I'm running Windows 7 on a wide screen laptop 1366x768. I wonder if the resolution is a problem, because I can't resize the screen either. Can someone tell me what the "normal" key to select new game is?
Played 0.1.0 and during the "Saving/Loading chunks" (I think) message, the game started lagging a lot. My computer nearly crashed and I was unable to get task manager open. It took about 5 minutes for it to stop lagging and instead opted to not respond. I was able to close it then using task manager.
I was running from dragons who were destroying trees everywhere. In the middle of the lag, the game proceed to run for a moment to move me around a bit and open the menu. I tried to go to quit using the menu, since the X button didn't work. When attempting to quit, the game stopped responding and that was when I was able to close it.
.No, i was just randomly pressing on every keys ingame to test
