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As the second of my 'I should have written about this ages ago but couldn't be arsed' articles today, I bring you health inhalers. The overlooked counterpart of health pills, it seems that nobody uses them anymore. Still, tell me what's wrong with this picture?

Heals 90 damage every 2.5 seconds, right? Ok, now tell me what you see in my system chat. Exactly. These inhalers are healing a little over a quarter of what they should be healing. This happens regardless of what resistances you're wearing, so I'm presuming this is a bug.

I get an average of three sweeps per inhaler, which amounts to a grand total of 69 health. I believe that someone might have mis-read the description, presumed there were four sweeps spaced 2.5 seconds apart (it lasts for approximatly 10 seconds) and hence make a useful little thing that repairs 90 damage (or 69 accounting for the lost sweep) over a period of time, rather than every 2.5 seconds.

So, yeah. Especially if this doesn't get fixed, don't go wasted 44,000 info on even one of these things :/

This is an animation bug that I, and several dozen other people I suppose, have known about for a long time. However due to the ... err ... frequency which I am coming across it lately, I thought it was about time to make a post about it. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: The Arse Boner:

Only reproducable when you're naked and the buttocks near the floor. All I can think is that there's a fixed point from which most animations are drawn, and that clothing normally disables showing the line from this point to the actual animation body. If so, I suppose that's something that will never get 'fixed', but I'm whining about it anyway SMILEY

Bonus points to anyone who can figure out where the screenies were taken SMILEY

I know the forums are going down soon, but hopefully this
message will get across. Just a repost of a PM that I found the
response to rather interesting:

Interesting NPC in Zion 1.2.15

In
the Zion mission 1.2.15 I've just had an NPC buff me with Efficiency,
Bolster health 2.0, Movement accelerator 3.0, Combat Enhancement 1.0,
Dodge Bullets (Or something like that) and several sweeps.

What's the likelyhood that you could take a look at the code routines that governed that and stick it on the Patch Daemon

Oh, and the Rarebit response SMILEY

Re: Interesting NPC in Zion 1.2.15

It will take a bit of engineering work, but it looks like the team is down with making this happen.

How ... interesting. Rarebit, care to explain how this latest little
tidbit managed to slip into live? Looting an assasin's mask from an
Elite Guard just ain't right, even if it is one use only and decays as
soon as you look at it.

*Remembers Rarebit talking about fighting the assasin with normal attacks, thinks of archives and boss loot*

Hmm.

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present to you ...

The Unlimit Reactors. Note the green code falling from the eyes, and the description:

'This Redpill oozes unnatural power'

Going to look at the news on Data Node One today, to see if Walrus had
sneakily sneaked a looking glass without making a post about it, I was
confronted by this:

On every single sub-page from that news page. It's like all the content
has been eradicated. Anyone know what's going on? The news archive
seems to work still, but 'latest news' doesn't.

Hmm, now this is interesting:

Comments anyone? I know Karate GM buff is the first
to go when someone uses delete upgrades on you and you're not running
any buff buffs. It doesn't actually get removed, for reference. But I
don't think a Karate Move should really be doing this.

I felt sorry for you losing your Architect sig due to legal issues, so
despite my utter lack of talent, I made you a new one. Who says you
need Photoshop? MsPaint works just as well!

Storyline-Related World Changes

The Machines have taken the Morrell helipad from the General's commandos

Well ... I hadn't seen a LET post on it, so I just had to SMILEY

Well, it's about time that something was done about this
sorely neglected tree. But, as my further analysis is setting out to
prove, the changes are nowhere near enough.

Basic Info:

Level 50 Character
Maxed Data Siphon and Locate Data Node. Nothing else from that tree other than those two abilities.
This
analysis will be done on info rather than XP, because the level 50 is
at Max XP and hence any other XP earned does not show. However in
general Datanode XP payout is 1/5th as much again as info.

The Locations:

Area | Level | Info Received

Uriah: Level 1: Average: 50 info

Eshean Projects: Level 14: Average: 750 info

Shinjuku: Level 21: Average: 1,000 info

Bathary Row: Level 26: Average: 1,400 info

Morell: Level 36: Average: 1,800 info

Stratford Campus/Creston Heights: Level Highest I could Think of: Average: 2,100 info

The Comparisons:

Killing Lt. Morales and Co. Approx 300k info over 4 minutes (240 seconds)

An optimal level 50 Assasination Mission; 2 'kill a 3 chev level 51' stages over 6 minutes (320 seconds) (615k)

The time to perform a single tap is being taken as 15 seconds, to account for transit time and possible failed attemps.

2,100 info * 2 = 8,400 info per 15 seconds.

300,000/8,400 = 35.7 = 36

240/15 = 16

In
order to equal the info output of killing Lt. Morales, you would need
to perform 36 taps. This, however, would take 540 seconds. As it is,
you can only get 16 taps, or 134,400 info in this time.

175 + 2*220 = 615,000

615,000 / 8,400 = 73.2

320 / 15 = 21.33..r

This
is even worse. To equal the mission payout, you'd need 73 taps in the
same amount of time. However it is only actually possible to do 21. And
that's assuming that a mission takes the full 6 minutes, which at level
50 it normally doesn't.

As for Pandora's box GPS mission ... I'm not even going to start.

Conclusion:

So, what do we have so far? Even WITH
the proposed changes, Data Miner will still suck. Big time. Not to
mention that 3/4 of the abilities under that branch no longer do
anything. Going all the way back to beta, maybe the 'advanced data
goggles' ability meant something. But when the system was changed just
before live, they became useless. And remain so to this day. All I need
to load my advanced data goggles is Siphon Data Node, not the specific
ability which is supposed to control them.

Solution?

As
I've stated before, we need at least an 8-10 times boost in the info
output of Data Miner for it to become a viable tree again. Plus,
obviously the abilities themselves need a revamp. Hopefully this'll
make some interesting reading for a certain Dev who's thinking about
working on the abilities SMILEY

RockyB: Hmm, I think I know what you're getting at. Enlighten me.
Nymbril: Pace wouldn't tell me. Gray's to hard to get to.
Nymbril: Maybe you could help me out then? Only if you'll say yes.
RockyB: That depends entirely on what you're asking
Nymbril: Not too smart though...
RockyB: Irregardless of looks or demeanour, I'm always suspicious of random strangers phoning up
Nymbril: Yeah. Sorry if I'm coming off too mysterious. I've got friends that are sort of rubbing off on me with all their trends.
Nymbril: It's just that... We all sort of know this man.

Nymbril: And we failed him, in a way. Not that we failed him directly. But we failed him when we failed ourselves.
Nymbril: Confused yet?
RockyB: Oh, getting there. Various thoughts whirling through my head. Names popping up and disappearing.
Nymbril: A regular HAL 9000 then? Cute.
Nymbril: You Machinists are just so... I dunno.
Nymbril: But that's the main reason you interest me.
RockyB: Straight Laced? I've heard it all before.
Nymbril: You've seen things that others haven't.
RockyB: To some degree, perhaps
Nymbril: What can you tell me about DifferenceEngine? And the corruption within Gray?
RockyB: Ah ... now we get to the crux of the matter. DifferenceEngine ...
RockyB: Well, we know that he was infected. Grey however?
Nymbril: Yeah. Something like that.
RockyB: We've heard rumours. Some strange missions we've been sent on
Nymbril: Both seemed to have problems.
RockyB: What being, man or machine, doesn't?
RockyB: DifferenceEngine's code was corrupted beyond recognition. How, we do do not know
Nymbril: Gotcha. Go on...
RockyB: Forgive me for not saying more. With no idea of your alleigence, I have no idea what how much to disclose
Nymbril: Oh, I understand.
Nymbril: In that case, let me try and explain.
Nymbril: I'm sticking with the innocent Zion-y types. Fresh from the goo.
Nymbril: Though you look like a guy that can see past innocence, eh?
RockyB:
Oh, I don't know. A twinkle in the eye and a guileless look can often
deceive me. Although I would like to think I can perceive more than
most.
RockyB: However I must admit, your motives are a sore test of my skills.
Nymbril:
Me and a couple of... Groupies... Took it upon ourselves to try and
help out this great man. A very intricate thinker. Sexy... In that
antique philosopher kind-of-way.
Nymbril: Now we're at the point where we think we're not much use anymore.
Nymbril: He's sort of on his own, now. We'll give him 10 days.
Nymbril: This man would be gravely missed... But I'm afraid there's nothing more we can do, like I said.
Nymbril: His... Problem... Is a lot like your buddy Gray's, if what I think is correct.
Nymbril: I've been out of the loop, is all.
RockyB: Interesting. Very much so.
RockyB: How long, exactly, have you been aware of this?
Nymbril: Aware of what? Of Gray's little secret?
RockyB: Aware of your mentor's problem
RockyB: It seems to me that it isn't something that could be lightly overlooked
Nymbril: It wasn't noticable at first. Hell, all of us were like gullible rabbits staring into headlights.
RockyB: Waiting for the truck to mow you down, to continue your analogy?
Nymbril: Then, the more we got to know the surface, and the more we got to look underground... We started to see connections.
Nymbril: "It is purpose that created us."
RockyB: Purpose that drives us?
RockyB: We all know the mantra
Nymbril: Yeah... Whatever.
Nymbril: Something like that. Only we were only trying to help.
Nymbril: Soon he won't be able to tell the difference, I fear.
RockyB: And something tells me your attempt backfired, right?
Nymbril: Hah. Did I just say that?
Nymbril: Yeah. I am afraid.
Nymbril: Confinement doesn't make a disease go away.
RockyB: No, confinement merely incubates it.
Nymbril:
I guess I just wanted you to tell me more about this... Smith. Almost
half of the Machinists I know are deadly frightened of his name... Or
worship it like some American Idol.
Nymbril: Which are you, Mr. Robson?
RockyB: Neither, I would hope.
Nymbril: That's interesting.

Nymbril: Well, it's raining again.
RockyB: I would not worship anything that threatened the stability of the simulation, and those humans who connect it.
RockyB: And afraid ... well, maybe a little
RockyB: If we do not fear that which is stronger than us, we are not truly human. It is overcoming that fear which makes us stronger.
Nymbril:
Those who purge the innocent will be condemned. But how can there be
innocence with justice? How can there be fear with innocence.
*Nymbril crosses her arms.*
Nymbril: I was just trying to make things right for my "savior."
RockyB: Those who are innocent need not fear justice, for the judjement shall pass over them without pause.
Nymbril: Mr. Robson. I guess it's time for me to go. Thanks for the drink.
*Nymbril kisses you.*
RockyB: A pleasure that was all mine
*You bow formally at Nymbril.*
Nymbril: Nobody's innocent, dearie.
Nymbril: Just forgive me and the rest when the time comes.
RockyB: No, I guess not. Life, in shades of Grey
Nymbril: Hah.
Nymbril: You Machinists...
RockyB: Goodnight, Mrs. Alansmoore
*You target [Bar Stool]*
*Nymbril is offline.*
*You target [Door]*
*You have entered Magog.*
*You target [Bench]*

Fileplanet Banner has been taken down. Just under 25,000 downloads.
With all the people who took an extra trial key I believe that means we
have now handed out all 25k trial keys.

Congratulations guys. Now I want to see video of that guy who promised he'd do a backflop SMILEY

You would have though that after one broken DOT gun was found, the devs
would check for the rest. Apparantly not. Let's take a look at the
stats for the Q-Gun shall we?

Q-Gun (Revolver)

Reuse time: 4.5secs

Base Damage 4-4pts

Range: 16m

Damage (20% Chance) Causes 160 Damage over 20 seconds

Ballistic Accuracy (-2pts)

Min Level 7

Now, what's the issue here. The fact that a level 5- has just used a
level 7 gun on me in PvP. Because it causes 160 damage PER SECOND with
a 20% hit chance. This is far, far worse than the boosted shotgun. I
didn't CCR the person who did it, but anyone I catch using this in the
future is certainly going to be getting one. There is no excuse that
you 'accidentally' used a lvl 7 gun in lvl 50 PvP.

Anyone who knows me knows that I'm not a graphics kid. I suck at
anything beyond basic manipulation tasks. Also, until I downloaded a
mod for HL2 today I had no idea that X-Fire could take screenshots.
Then I saw this :smileysurprised::

The only thing I've done to this is resize it so it
doesn't break the forums. I don't have a clue how it came about, or why
on earth it was even taken in the first place (maybe I hit some random
key by mistake?)

But, yeah. Just thought I'd share this grainy, broken security camera type image with you.

EDIT: Ooh, I've just realised when this must have been. The Agent Zerg back on Syntax a few months back SMILEY

Message Edited by RockyB on 04-27-2006 11:48 AM

The Time: 11PM GMT (5 PST?), Tuesday
The Place: Government Building Lobby
The Protagonists: The Blue rank
The Antogonists: The Trannie Scum

All things are fleeting, and never is that more evident than on the QA server. In four short days the server will become a ghost town as the combat revision goes live. We do NOT intend to go out without a bang.

At 22:45 GMT the two sides will square up in the lobby. Trannie scum by the elevator, The Blue Rank by the metal detectors. At 23:00 I and whoever the Trannies believe can best me shall engange in single combat. After the duel, irregardless of who won, we shall let slip the dogs of war and the battle for dominance of the QA server shall be joined. The violence shall sweep through the streets, and all shall be subsumed by its rage.

Trannies, we await your response.

RockyB, The Blue Order.

(( In the year I've been here I've oly ever once PvPed inside a building. I think it's time to change that. Enclosed space, no hyperjumping and no admin superpowers ... I wonder why it hasn't been done before SMILEY

If the devs would like to contact me in order to co-ordinate this with whatever trickery you may already have lined up, that would be excellent. Think about it, 'The servers aare going down in 15 minutes.' 'The Servers are going down in 5 minutes...'. It'll add a little bit of an edge to the PvP. And of course if the devs do get involved, there may be some other occurances alopng the way SMILEY

Times may be changed to make them more manageable. Your opinions? ))

Quite simple really ... you shouldn't be able to hyperjump while in combat state. This will remove one heck of a lot of grief from PvP. Of course people can still run away but they won't be able to go for that instant get-out-of-near-death-situation-free card when they're fighting players. PvE won't be affected overly much because, to be frank, any player can outrun an NPC. That's why Hypersprint exists.

It makes sese to me. When you're jumping you have to concentrate on warping the fabric of the matrix. Surely you can't do that while being shot at the same time?

PLEASE allow us to see where the Proxy is on the Mini-Map. If you do I'll love you forever. I've lost count of the number o times where I've lsot track of the sim and it's impossible to find it again.

You can add blips for team-members, would simulcra be that much extra work?

You can take our Lives, but you can never take our Tacos! Blue Rank Forever!

We have taken back Mara C from our feeble Transcedent overlords, and are in the process of grinding thir faces into the dirt. Controllers of the world unite, and show your true colours!

Don't let the Trannie Scum Succeed!

Help us kill the opressive transcendent overlords!

I wasn't sure whether to put this here or in the EP discussion, but here seems slightly more appropriate. Is there any possible way that you could give a simulcra a command to either enter and stay in, or leave interlock altogether?

This is the one main issue I have with this tree at the moment. Nuker sims going into interlock when I want them staying out, and Akido sims staying out when they should really be in. Just a simple 'interlock', 'don't interlock' toggle on the Simulcra command panel and I feel a lot of the problems, especially with the Akido sims, would be solved. I can quote HCFrog saying that Akido not entering IL is a deep rooted AI problem ... so why not take that decision away from the computer?

This is particularly important to me because once my sim has interlocked, which I often don't want it to do, I'm reduced to spicking away from the outside with a gun and the occasional heal, negating the Utilit Master's strengths.

Obviously by default the setting would be normal AI, as it is at the moment. But would it be overly hard to add a few lines (gross oversimplification, I know) to the AI scripting to enable this behaviour?

(P.S - Stopping 9mmFu meatwadding my sims would be helpful too SMILEY

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Message Edited by RockyB on 03-21-200604:16 PM

It's not often that I promote the halfwit game reviews on this board, but **bleep**, this deserves it. Baron von Puttygnton versus the cancerous M.C Escher Maze ... OF CHEESE ... the title alone says it all SMILEY

http://www.shock-therapy.org/baron.htm

Accusing 9mmFu of smelling like rancid cheese, and having a voice which sounds like a cats whose intestines are being fed slowly into a mincer often results in a PB4 being dropped on your head. Ouch.

Also, what the hell was that admin recall for? SMILEY

Another cause for the dreaded bench breaking: /loadlo

I realised today that sitting on a bench and typing /loadlo X breaks the bench. No idea why, but you can blame me fro breaking the benches at Mara C on the EP server for 'testing' purposes now SMILEY

I'm sure quite a few of you remember the Walrus video which was released before christmas that gave us our first glimpse of the Combat Revision. Well, that was over three months ago, and a lot has changed in that time. So I've inexpertly hacked a load of combat scenes together to try to give those without an EP installation an idea of what the new combat system is like. It showcases a lot of good stuff, although it does showcase one or two minor bugs still as well SMILEY

Due to not wanting my web server to grind to a schreeching halt I've uploaded it to filefront at this following address:

http://files.filefront.com/CombatRevisionzip/;4889952;;/fileinfo.html

Please note, this is my first ever video, so It's likely to look rather amaturish. However hopefully the bullet-time headshots will make up for that SMILEY

After all that: Running Time - 12 minutes
File Size - 270MB.

And now no-one will download it SMILEY

Great idea, good implementation. I presume I'm only on the first one of a series, but it's pitched at just about the right arduousness. Seraph = good, dragging a level one bluepill over 1.5 Kilometers in-game ... ouch SMILEY

EDIT: This is the point where sims really come in useful, you can send them ahead to kill the mobs while you stay back with the bluepill

Message Edited by RockyB on 03-15-200611:40 PM

I've just seen this, and I can't recall any mention of it anywhere. But apparantly my attributes are costing me 1 IS per level? :smileyindifferent:

Anyone like to put forward an explanation of this?

Just what the title says really. These guys have the ability to heal themselves perpetually, and the 'Hostile Code 3.0' ability still does around 3-500 damage a pop. With all the buffs and everything else activated these guys can tank far, far better than any MA. Hopefully Revolt will come on and tell us exactly what he did to avoid dying once over a three hour period flagged for PvP; but I'm not too hopeful on that score SMILEY

I'm sure that there's weaknesses, but from what I've seen even two MAs, and MA and a Hacker, and an MA and a gunman can't take one Utility Master Combo down. And that seems rather unbalanced to me.

Using the new 'Detonate Proxy' ability you stand around, unflagged, and blow up your sim. And while the sim will do damage to PvPers around it when it is immolated, it won't flip your flag.

Picture the scene: Z/M/Machin/erg assaulting Mara C. They think they've got everyone. Then 15 unflagged utility masters show up. Each creates a simulcra, each blows it up. Rinse and repeat until every PvPer has been wiped from the face of he earth, with the Utility Masters never once getting flagged. Its like a hacker could take a potshot at you without going into PvP themselves.

This really needs to be fixed before live, especially with the apparant 'pwnage' aspect of the Anniversary event.

I've bugged all of these but the toughness, which I'm awaiting clarification for. But first the minor oversights SMILEY

Awakened glasses still buff Combat Tactics when used, and sitting down still brings up -200 Dodge Ranged in the status screens. Just a little bit of a left over from the last system. And now for the important part:

Toughness

What the heck is going on with it? I've seen no information on how it works, or even if it works anymore. I've got two things that can boost my toughness, Tiger Master's Gi and Prison Mastery Device. However I don't see toughness actually having any effect on any of my resistances. Is this an overlooked element of the game, or are there some changes there that aren't reflected in the item descriptions?

Oh, and whenever you get hit and the toughness increases the Prison Mastery animation resets itself btw. The 30 second timer is still there, but the actual animation starts afresh each time, meaning you can't actually see how long it's got let to run.

Posted here because it's such a mish-mash of forum areas SMILEY

There is a tactic that the ... less refined PvPers on live like to use, which exploits the rollout timer. And the NPCs from Box 3 seem to have acquired knowledge of this SMILEY

Basically the NPC gets you into interlock and then rolls out straight away, leaving you in a kind of half-way world for a few seconds while the camera withdraws. It also means that you can't interlock that NPC again right away due to the 6 second rollout timer which was implemented a few months back. A few seconds later the NPC pulls you into interlock. And rolls out. Repeat Ad Nauseum.

Basically, if even NPCs are exploiting this, is it maybe time to drop the timer?

Message Edited by RockyB on 03-12-200601:00 AM

You must realize the truth: There is no post. Then you will see it is not the post that has moved, only yourself.

Think about this. Neo defeated Smith. He won. That means he made it out of the matrix alive. He had already negotiated a Truce that let the Machines keep the Matrix running, so they had no reason to kill him. The only people whose power he threatened were the leaders of Zion. Think about it.

(( Gotta love audio recordings. That voice sounds like it belongs to the effectuator, or maybe one of those mad doctors. ))

Simply put ... don't even attempt it.

I challenge one level 50 to start a new PB mission set, do all the missions and do the box solo. Trust me, it ain't gonna happen.

I've just been trying an arc three mission which was already in my inventory, me and L3vity stepped into the room and were instantly dead. 25 x lvl 47 = instagank. I DREAD to think what the actual boxes are gonna be like.

I know that it's still early days, but even after things are balanced I get the feeling PB isn't going to be such a cake walk anymore. Get them in before CU goes live SMILEY

Those of you who have looked into the Utility Master tree on the QA server may know that there've been many changes. If not, you can take a look at the thread here:

http://mxoboards.station.sony.com/matrix/board/message?board.id=epdiscussion&message.id=3444

The one thing that I am slightly disappointed in is the loss of 'Decoy'. While expoloding simulcra and vampirism are pretty cool, nothing beats making a repicant of yourself.

So, I would suggest adding the ability back in. The best place I could see for doing this would be the awakened tree, in a poition similar to Resist comat or the Mbius code, maybe; or alternatly under the basic coder branch.

I LOVE what they've done to Utility Master. Been playing with it for the last hour or so. Just look at there:

Yep, Utility Masters are, from this point on, VAMPIRES SMILEY

You can blow your proxy up (does no damage, I've bugged it), destroy it to regain IS and destroy it to regain health (I'm interpreting that as 400 health for every 1,250 damage done to the sim). Although the loss of decoy and Audio Decoy are a bit annoying (I loved both), I do LOVE the new abilities. Great work.

Oh, here's some examples in action (not very good screenies, I admit):

You must realize the truth: There is no post. Then you will see it is not the post that has moved, only yourself.

(Moved to Ability Feedback forum.)

TGS's two year anniversary party has got off to a swinging start. It's been going less than 45 minutes and we've got some amazing lag. Area chat is scrolling almost too fast for me to read it. We've got 300 million in info and lots and lots of buffed gear to give away, and we'll be going on all night!

Come to Syntax, for a REAL party experiance SMILEY

Please note, TGS takes no responsibility in the event of a server chrash SMILEY

I just couldn't let the opportunity pass me by with the agent ramapage earlier, no matter how **bleep** my MsPaint skills are SMILEY

Testing, basically.

Snowball time SMILEY

Robots have taken over. All forums are being spammed. Please ensure you
DO NOT follow this link,
otherwise their master-plan for world domination will take effect.

This message was sponsered by Shock Therapy Forums SMILEY

Well, now you can SMILEY

Sorry, I just had a lot of fun tonight. Thanks to all the TGS members who made it possible SMILEY