Czech RepublicSince there's been a lot of activity recently, here's a discord channel for Postal games :)
hypnoshark, could you please NOT accept every NFS run that is in verification? There have been several cases, when other mods had to reject a run accepted by you, because it either didn't follow the rules, or the video was incomplete, or some other reason.
Thank you.
Hey guys,
Don't know if you already have your own channel, but in case you don't, I've created global Tomb Raider channel couple weeks ago, so if you wanna have a chat, come visit ;)
So, I did some tests on PSX version and it seems like some emulators perform better than others.
The Bank Job:
ePSX - 2:51-2:55 Mednafen - 3:05-3:10
ePSX runs much smoother, therefore it's faster. Omega does it around 3:10 on PS2, so Mednafen seems to be on the spot. The question is if we should ban certain emulators.
Also, has anyone tested performance on different PS systems?
There are already several runs waiting to be verified, unfortunately JustShanz and aimlezz seem to be inactive, other mods are for classics Tomb Raiders and my knowledge about this game is limited, so if any of the active runners here is willing to be a mod, let me know.
OK, after I streamed today, I noticed one thing I didn't notice before. High FPS (100+) screws up the respawns, which may result in two things:
- Monsters getting stuck - very annoying.
- If you watch my Kwongo IL run, you can notice there are no enemy spawns and I manage to finish him off without defending the catapults. This is due to high FPS. I just tested this with V-Sync on and it works correctly.
So I think we should all use 60fps limit. Hopefully it won't affect some of the shortcuts.
OK, so... I'm not gonna be doing a run soon (but I will one day, I love this game), but I think the rules needs some work. Since TDU doesn't have any real end, "any%" category is kinda misleading since you have to win all races, so it should be more like "All races". Also, do you have to complete all races on gold?
Btw, IL table might be quite interesting, especially the one hour race (can't recall the name) around the whole island.
Some guys told me about LE they're working on, which changes some gameplay aspects. They also need betatesters. Maybe a new category coming? :)
Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pdykcsnrj4v0jgu/NFS%20Carbon%201.5%20Patch%20Alpha%202.exe?dl=1
So, I was going through the game files and found out that every in-game sound is specified in a script. It looks like this:
audio\sounds\wetrainloop.wav /2D /LOOP /FREQ=22050 /VOL=-900
If I change the VOL to lower values, it fixes the annoyingly loud rain sound on PC version, which probably cannot be fixed in any other way (apart from modifying the audio file itself, but modifying in script is way easier). I'm aware this is modifying the game files, but it doesn't change anything gameplaywise, only volume of certain sounds like rain or "Loose the tail, man" voices.
Are you guys okay with it?
So apparently the polish version doesn't have glass, even with maxed out graphics.
speedrun.com now allows subcategories, and I was thinking it would be a good idea to create subcategory that would include RTA and segmented type of runs, instead of having them as separate categories. The board would look a bit cleaner imo.
What do you guys think?
I'm pretty sure his run is segmented, not SS. He did the same with all of his Serious Sam runs, because apparently he misinterpreted what "single-segment" means.
You can clearly notice several segments in Hell.
