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In an episode set of (say) three maps, would you as players (not mappers) expect to carry all of your weapons from map to map, or would you be happy to start each map with the default weapons, or would you expect to lose maybe one or two weapons and keep one or two?

Normally, expect to keep them, like in id levels.

Having said that, I like if the mapper gives me the option to play each map individually, i.e. put a nailgun or SSG somewhere in the first third of the map, and maybe a GL in a later secret. Or whatever I need to deal with the given monsters; if the map is full of Death Lords, I'd like a PG or an RL plz even if I started from scratch. Remember Doom, there was always a shotgun near the start of the level, it would either just sit there or someone would drop it.

You can get away with it, removing weapons I mean. Both TombRaider 1 and 2 did this, the former very late in the game, the latter a bit earlier. I fondly remember the part where Lara gets captured on the oil rig or whatever it is. She has no weapons, she must do some crate pushing, climbing, switch pressing and escaping through a timed door, and then an alarm goes off. A few thugs come running for her, which she must dodge past and hide away for a bit until she finds most of her stuff again, in the crew quarters I think. It's the same level where she goes diving (The Deep? 40 Fathoms?) in TR2. One of my all-time favourite games.

She gets the weapons back quickly, though.

Lara can do more than Quakeguy, too, like pushing crates, climbing and a pile of other stuff :-/ and the level design is often more creative, probably as a result of this. Like the level which is upside down (sunken ship). More traps, too. Quakeguy can practically only shoot, so once his weapons are gone, it gets a little boring. OK he can bunnyhop, so there. *g* 

I'll clearly need to think through the strategy very carefully. 

Funny Facts: After countless copy'n'pastes the hands start to hurt.


157 new descriptions at Quaddicted, 220 (!) to go.
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anyone tried using DOOMEdit with windows Vista? Does it work ok, any problems etc?

I just ordered a new laptop with Vista and now I'm getting paranoid that I'm going to have problems. 

Cool!! :D :D 

having dreams of the afloor_31 texture
pile up everywhere I watch. 

Someone release some Quake SP maps plz kthx bye. 

...thought... :P 

Just be sure and diable the Aero color scheme with Vista, it tends to br0k the editor display good. 

k. 

"Someone release some Quake SP maps plz kthx bye."

Working on one. Still in the first area though. :P 

roullff i dont even know if i will finish my maya map :\ i might start another... 

Yeah, I suspected that this horrible Aero thing could well bollocks things up.

To be honest when the system arrives I'm probably gonna reformat and do a clean install of XP, assuming I can get hold of a copy, not just for the fact that XP doesn't hog an insane amount of resources compared to Vista, but also to get rid of all the garbage that Dell will no doubt have pre-installed on the machine. 

...sooner than you think, and made to order - you big cuddly you :) 

Cant stand it!!!

Any yeah, just to say I got mine with XP installed. Why half your memory with Vista!!???!?! Why would anybody want to do that to a perfectly good computer? Why is it everytime computer technology gets faster, Windows gets more self indulgent on your machine, and does pretty much what it has been doing right from day one??!!? 

That's why god invented Apple and OSX. :P 

...brings us to the age old debate of:

"I do actually want to play games such as Quake 4 and Doom 3, as well as other new titles on my PC when I get it, so that kinda rules OSX out from the start..." 

 

according to the ID/D3 website, System Requirements lists only Windows 200/XP....

Big surprise, huh? 

I know, I was being a smart ass. Sorry.

Yes, if you want to game on your PC then a Mac is probably not for you. I do pretty much all of my gaming on my consoles (except for Quake).

But I believe czg is correct in this particular case. Hell, wasn't Doom3 originally demoed on a Mac at MacWorld? 

I don't know, but I checked onto Id website, and Mac is not mentioned even in the requirements section... maybe not as up to date as it should ? 

http://www.apple.com/games/articles/2005/02/doom3/

http://www.amazon.com/Aspyr-Quake-4-Mac/dp/B000DZ9YOA

Mac versions are around. However, not ALL games come to Mac so if you want your PC to be your primary gaming platform you're better off sticking to a Windows box. 

I'll never complain about the speed of Vista again!

Still, thinking about it, if Mac games are so poorly advertised then its no wander that the ignorant masses such as myself still think that Macs are for n00bs!

Weird analogy: A friend of mine comes into a Spanish restaurant with a group of people and says when ordering the food that she's allergic to GARLIC (a mac user);
This limits her to, hmmm, NOTHING from the menu, the chef has to cook her a plain, un-seasoned chicken breast fillet!! (true story, crap analogy) 

Where they said Valve had tried to approach Apple with some suggestions on how to make the mac a better development platform for games, but the impression they got was that Apple just didn't care very much about gaming.