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I didn't know where to put this so I figured GA would do:
My system isn't very stable lately and I'm experiencing random crashes, not sure why. It happened while I was playing ad_sepulcher. I was around 2/3 through the map, having spent a few hours in it (I'm a slow player, especially when there's so much to look at). The problem is that the crash seems to have corrupted my quicksave. When I try to reload it I get the following message: Host_Error: ED_ParseEntity: EOF without closing brace Is there a way to somehow repair my save or is all the time invested in this map gone for good? on quakeone or my email if you know it. I'll try to fix it for you.
Weird.. though if your system crashed part way through writing the
I did change the QS/QS-Spike There's no F12 for an IPA! ;)
https://goo.gl/photos/cGKy6ijqPg3KqPo28 Trying to finish "The End of Solace" before jumping into Mapjam 9999. That list on the right has laundry and dishes. Guess what didn't happen tonight? Download save file here. Thanks guys!
@dumptruck_ds Is "The End of Solace" the map you're currently working on? Why not finishing it after the jam? I don't see how there could be that many nulls generated by fprintf, and without valid trailing data, looks to me like the corruption is happening outside of quake.
Checking the return value of fclose might show whether the system actually saved it properly without any bus errors, but really that's only useful for testing if the disk was full. any other issue is much more serious such that it wouldn't really be practical to recover from. That save doesn't look salvagable, unfortunately, 75% of the file is filled with null bytes. :(
Might be worth running prime95 overnight to check system stability? Alright, so restart it is, then... Thanks anyway.
Oh, BTW Eric: I think MarkV has a multi-quicksave feature which prevents just that. If one save fails to work, at least you can go back to a previous one. Could be borrowed for QS. quoth has the "trigger_command" entity, I know you can change gravity with it, you might also be able to "save auto" with it.
maybe worth trying About difficulty levels. What exactly changes with each ramp up in difficulty? I know most mappers have additional enemies they flag in for each difficulty, but what else? I also know nightmare makes ogres and shamblers attack faster, but that's about it. Do most people add enemies from hard -> nightmare too?
What exactly changes with each ramp up in difficulty?
Basically what you put in your map: that's up to the mapper to put extra monsters/items for each skill, which is why balancing skill levels is tricky. AFAIK, nightmare doesn’t add monsters, only makes them more aggressive. If you want tougher enemies per skill level, make maps for AD: Sock has designed his mod so that enemies aim better, shoot faster and do more damage (and possibly have more health but I'm not sure about that) in higher skill levels.
monsters attack faster on nightmare (the exact mechanism+magnitude differs per monster type).
monsters don't respond to pain so often (once per 5 secs max), this also increases their fire rate. cthon has a measly 1 health on easy, and 3 on all other skills. cthon uses different aim logic on hard. vore projectiles travel faster than you're meant to be able to run on nightmare. so no, skill does not affect health, except for cthon who's a special case - he's the ONLY monster that acts differently between easy+medium+hard skills. The other monsters only change for nightmare, with the other skill levels being handled exclusively via spawnflags (ie: count and types). Thanks for the specifics. So between easy -> hard, the only thing that changes is the monster count?
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