Comments - sarge945

I'm making a GMDX Fork (I'm actually working on the RSD fork, it's no longer on hiatus as of a week ago), and would definitely be interested in adding Lay-D-Denton support. Preferably as an optional extra, without requiring the LDD mod for mine to function, but also perfectly usable without it.

What are the permissions for this mod?

I was looking to make a few gameplay changes here and there, and possibly release it as an alternate balance mod or a gameplay enhancement mod. Would I be able to do that?

I'm trying to set this up, and I get some weird DLL errors which I don't get with a regular HL server. This makes no sense to me.

Console initialized.
Using breakpad crash handler
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 70
Forcing breakpad minidump interfaces to load
dlopen failed trying to load:
/root/.steam/sdk32/steamclient.so
with error:
/root/.steam/sdk32/steamclient.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Looking up breakpad interfaces from steamclient
Calling BreakpadMiniDumpSystemInit
Protocol version 48
Exe version 1.1.2.2/Stdio (valve)
Exe build: 19:52:19 Aug 3 2020 (8684)
STEAM Auth Server
Server IP address 127.0.1.1:27015
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Host_Error: Couldn't get DLL API from ▒ˋ▒▒▒▒0ʋ▒0ʋ▒0ʋ▒0ʋ▒Rʋ▒/▒▒0ʋ▒/▒▒!
FATAL ERROR (shutting down): Host_Error: Couldn't get DLL API from ▒ˋ▒▒▒▒0ʋ▒0ʋ▒0 ʋ▒0ʋ▒Rʋ▒/▒▒0ʋ▒/▒▒!

Veteran System Shock 2 mod user and mod creator here:

PLEASE for the love of god don't use mod packs. I am sure the creator of this pack has good intentions, and isn't trying to blatantly copy the work of others, but even then using a mod pack such as this is VASTLY inferior to simply installing the mods yourself. Yes, it's a few minutes of effort to download them yourself, but then you don't end up with outdated versions of mods, you can enable and disable as many of them as you want, and don't get weird compatibility issues (like the issue with HUD Logs and System Shock Infinite).

If you want a real guide by someone who knows what they are doing, I wrote one a while back, which links to every mod mentioned for easy downloads: Sarge945.xyz

Just a pro tip, you can very easily add the key to the options/controls menu by doing something like this:

addkeysection "Flashlight" FlashlightSection
addmenukey "Toggle Flashlight" toggleflashlight_bind
alias toggleflashlight_bind "pukename ToggleFlashlight"
defaultbind J toggleflashlight_bind

(That was taken from my flashlight mod, you will have to adapt it. The line you want is the "addmenukey" one)

Then nobody will complain about it being bound to A again, they can just go and rebind it in the options menu

Does this mod have anything similar to engimod from FAF? Having to use t! engineers for all your factories is really dumb, wastes the unit cap, and slows the game down

Hey. I haven't worked on this for a while, but still plan on getting back into it before 2022

I now have a discord for discussing my mods

Here's the link

Discord.gg

Linux version please

Does anyone have video of the changes? I know the Pistol went from being two handed to 1 handed (two handed looks way better), but what happened to the others?

1. Please make the martianbuddy.com codes available in the game somewhere. Currently the martianbuddy website is down, and hunting for them in walkthroughs or on the doom wiki is a pain. The martianbuddy codes were always a bit metagamey, and took me out of the experience, so having them work like any other code might be a good thing. Even if it's just adding 1 email to a PDA somewhere.

2. Chainsaw, Grenades and Fists selectable the same way the Flashlight is (press button to take out, press same button to put away).

3. A "Last weapon used" button. Optionally make it ignore the Flashlight, fists, chainsaw and grenades (the weapons that swap by pressing their own buttons again).

I also support this. I like the idea of playing RoE in this mod too, as in, having RoE support

Also, just to add a few ideas to this:

1. Please make the martianbuddy.com codes available in the game somewhere. Currently the martianbuddy website is down, and hunting for them in walkthroughs or on the doom wiki is a pain. The martianbuddy codes were always a bit metagamey, and took me out of the experience, so having them work like any other code might be a good thing. Even if it's just adding 1 email to a PDA somewhere.

2. Chainsaw, Grenades and Fists selectable the same way the Flashlight is (press button to take out, press same button to put away).

3. A "Last weapon used" button. Optionally make it ignore the Flashlight, fists, chainsaw and grenades (the weapons that swap by pressing their own buttons again).

I would do unsightly things for a RoE version of this. Unsightly things.

try changing rescouce to resource

Pretty serious bug in Episode 1 - When entering the Direct Intervention chapter (NOT loading it from the main menu, but actually transitioning to it from the previous map), the camera ***** up and the game becomes unplayable.

Was a bug in previous versions too, and it's a major one. Please fix ASAP! It might not be able to wait for V2

Can you please add a feature whereby we can (optionally) make Alyx use the squad system (like we use for regular citizens). With a special icon, like a Citizen with an A above their head.

She often gets in the way and having more control over allowing here to come/stay on command would be very useful.

The same thing would be cool for Barney as well.

Yet another way Linux users get ****** over....

It's not actually Gunships fault though. HL2:Update doesn't have proper Linux support. It's "coming" but that's never coming.

Do the episodic and base-hl2 versions of this mod work with Linux?

Since all HL2 games have been updated from the beta branch to the release branch (along with some fixes like the NPC eyes blink fix), does this mean that this mod should now be run with the mainline branches installed, not the beta branches?

Just a quick bug report. If you gib an enemy with a freeze attack (such as the mages freeze spell in hexen), they will be invisible but still be blocking, then their invisible "frozen" body will shatter and turn into more gibs.

It shouldn't apply gibs to frozen monsters, otherwise you can have problems with phantom invislble blocking enemies.

No. That was the result of the custom Black Mesa gibbing system, and would only happen to ragdolls that had been blown apart.

So when killing metrocops with the emplacement gun (when I walk around with it) I notice a lot of their ragdolls have model errors, such as stretched arms/feet.

I am not sure if this also affects other guns and other enemies, but Gunship should probably look into it.

It also only seems to affect the canals map with the first hunter chopper (the one that you shoot down)

Examples here:
Imgur.com

Good to see the Combine can jump again now.

However, they will "zoom" over cars and stuff, then immediately jump back. And repeat it. It looks really weird. Maybe they should have a timeout before they can jump over things again, so that they don't become jumping ninjas who constantly jump forward, then back, then forward, then back.

you can type all those console commands into a file, save it as "cool.cfg" in your sourcemods/mmod/cfg folder, then in-game type "exec cool.cfg" and you don't have to type them again.

Or you can type

bind w "+forward;exec cool.cfg" and you will never have to do it on-load again

Yeah. You can configure that in the weapon script files

You can tweak the weapons script file to give it a proper ironsight.

There's a second Tau cannon in Kleiner's lab after returning from Nova Prospekt.

But the gun definitely lacks ammo and has the other problems you mentioned

Is anyone else having difficulty getting the steam overlay to work?

Interesting. Maybe the reason I keep missing moving targets is because I suck then.

So after playing the new version, the mod is great and works well! Although I had the "Alyx not using the terminal in Nova Prospekt" issue, which can be fixed by saving and loading.

I have just a couple of feature requests. The mod is already in a great shape, and I would like to see it even better. Please don't consider these as criticism, the mod is great.

1. Please make the Tau cannon fire hitscan like it did in HL1. It was the ultimate sniper, in this it feels like a weird projectile gun, which is odd. Being hitscan makes sense since it shoots super-fast particles at the speed of light IIRC rather than standard projectiles. Also, optionally, it would be amazing to have the ability to tau jump like in the original, but it would be a togglable feature.

2. While it's already in the game, please add a "NPCs stay where you order them" option to the gameplay options section. player_squad_transient_commands does this, and it's a feature I see talked about and requested everywhere online, and almost nobody realizes it's actually already in the game. This would add some much needed visibility to the feature.

3. Please add some more stunsticks in the HL2 campaign. If we load an existing chapter later in the game, the weapon cannot be aquired at all, and we do not start with it. It might help if CPs had a 1 in 3 chance of dropping a stunstick.

4. Please add some form of Tau cannon ammo. If it's too much work to place it manually, maybe each shield battery could also give a small amount of Tau ammo, and for every point of shield that would take us above 100, we instead get double the tau ammo for it. I hope that makes sense.

5. please add a line to the gameinfo.txt file to allow us to use a "custom" folder, like we can with other games. I can't find anywhere to put custom content.

6. How much effort would it be to make an MMod version for HL2: Deathmatch, Year Long Alarm and Transmissions: Element 120?

7. Can we have the option to use the Ep2 style flashlight (flashlight has it's own power source) and the default style flashlight (flashlight uses aux power).

8. Please change the eye color of prison guard combines, as they are hard to distinguish from shotgunners.

Yeah it's both too overpowered (in highway 17) and useless (every other chapter after).

Maybe each battery should also give a small amount of tau ammo (like 10-15) on top of it's normal battery ammount, and if your armor is full or near full, each additional point of armor above the max gets converted into more ammo. The same rule would apply to combine power outlets.

It would give a lot of interesting mechanics to the TAU cannon, without requiring the mod author to place ammo, plus it would be compatible with other mods.

On that note, projectile bullets should probably be disabled for the Tau cannon. Most people remember it fondly from HL1, where it was extremely good at sniping with pinpoint accuracy, and having a relatively slow moving projectile makes it feel really wonky to use. Not to mention it shoots beams of light, not projectiles.