yes I have realised it while playtesting my first map (Coma). I had to redesign the level a bit, otherwise the player could escape a deadly trap with the use of the biosuit. Without it he just has to die (no that he wasn't warned :). 

But because you never see a biosuit and lava in the same map on any ID1 level, you'd never know this. Quoting from the Quake manual: "Biosuit: Lets you breathe underwater and swim through slime without harm. Does not protect against lava." 

Yeah, i first discovered that when playing Prodigy 4, which requires you to swim through some lava to proceed, and gives you a biosuit to accomplish this.

Reminds me, i should replay Prodigy SE. 

Yeah, I was just thinking of that. Problem was, no player could have been expected to know that biosuits half protected you from lava, given the aforementioned manual quote and distribution throughout the id maps, and Casali did nothing to inform the player either. Twat.

I found out about the biosuit lava sort-of-protection from necros, when we were working on the cross of deflection. Glad I made the decision not to include any in Contract.

The biosuit has some additional benefits in quoth2 btw. We will be telling you about them though, cause we don't treat our players like idiots ;) 

Yeah, I was just thinking of that. Problem was, no player could have been expected to know that biosuits half protected you from lava, given the aforementioned manual quote and distribution throughout the id maps, and Casali did nothing to inform the player either. Twat.


LOL. A fair point, Kell. 

The, erm, umlouts (?) are working now (a "o" with two small dots above)

So thanks for that!! 

...i didn't actually do anything :P 

I always find that to be the best way to actually get something done. 

when you have somethng to compute that takes a while (say, years), it's actually faster to wait two years (and use the hw available then) until you start the computation. 

since you can throw such a computation into a black hole and get the results of an infinite time computation back in finite time; to retrieve the results you need only to read the planck-scale symbols that are encoded on to the surface of the black hole. 

B^U 

 

...are you sure your not just messing with my head?
(like you'd all tell me if you were)
Having said that, I see no obvious motive 

http://woodgears.ca/marbleadd/

Watch the video: it is awesome :) 

 

the first ever created computer - by konrad zuse,
in 1936 in berlin, with mechanical transistors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z1_(computer)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuse_Z1
http://www.epemag.com/zuse/part3a.htm 

That missed 'Pirate baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006' as I apparantly did:

http://probertson.livejournal.com/18096.html 

snap so needs to die. 

just block http://shots.snap.com/* 

I hadn't seen that either, wow that looked like a lot of work. Pretty cool though, the special moves are what made it great... I'd play anything that let me summon up a monster truck, a guy that shoots dead naked girls out of a huge gun, john goodman's character from the big lebowski and a fridge. 

His name is Walter Sobchak, but you can't summon him on the Shabbos. he doesn't roll on the Shabbos. 

Arnie + Pals from Predator 1 as well. 

Haha, that's the one. I need to rewatch that asap, great film. 

What's the texture theme from Crypt of Decay, Underearth, and most of Ebon Fortress called?

Or does it have no label, since nobody ever uses it ;-)

I'm just wondering, since there are idbase, runic, copper aka windtunnels, elder world... what's this? 

http://bwl.hl2files.com/catlife/index.php
http://www.moddb.com/mods/1945/cat-life

This looks like a proper Half-Life mod for a change. They are looking for mappers btw.