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Quarex posted:Yeah, so, funny story, that is the thing I mentioned the other day about something crazy and big going on behind the scenes that I could not talk about yet. Classy as all get-out. Bravo good sir 
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Man, Quarex, you sure go over and beyond the call of duty in this. Good show!
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Seriously man. When are you expected to launch the "Watch Quarex get poo poo done!" subforum?
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Jul 25, 2012 00:15
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Just sent payment for two belt buckles. Yes, I am really that excited about WL2.
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Alright, sent in my $26 for a belt buckle.
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Quarex posted:Yeah, so, funny story, that is the thing I mentioned the other day about something crazy and big going on behind the scenes that I could not talk about yet. Nice. Does WL2 have a community manager already?
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I feel that we are seeing the start of some kind of Wasteland based religion here. Fargo is the one true God, and Quarex is his prophet.
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draper13 posted:I feel that we are seeing the start of some kind of Wasteland based religion here. I don't know what the Wasteland-equivalent of ululating would be, but sign me up.
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draper13 posted:I feel that we are seeing the start of some kind of Wasteland based religion here. And the Scorpitrons are the Archangels. Man, Wasteland heaven would be the best thing ever  Seriously though, Quarex, way to shoot above the average! At this point, when Wasteland 2 is released we might as well call it the Quarex Subforum :golflap:
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draper13 posted:I feel that we are seeing the start of some kind of Wasteland based religion here. And I sell indulgences! "Can't get into heaven without your Desert Ranger belt buckle!"
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Jul 25, 2012 15:38
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People were joking as to which ambient artist will be ripped off for the soundtrack. Some of Steve Roaches pieces fit pretty well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbh8g8Oyzug
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White Phosphorus posted:People were joking as to which ambient artist will be ripped off for the soundtrack. As does a lot of Robert Rich's stuff, including his collaborations with Roach (Rich is kinda the godfather of that style of ambient and many artists working in the style have done collabs with him). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ct_JV_LvDA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aIfqjvnEXo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ffnlio0UaU Also, Robert Rich and Lustmord have done some good collabs too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7qNsz6ZagA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XwJ40iuogM
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I do not know how to respond to all the nice things  Perhaps I can demonstrate my appreciation for all of you through the fine art of Smiley Assembly:        Thanks everybody. It has been pretty awesome to see how excited this news has made people here and elsewhere. I think the related posts on the Facebook group about him acquiring The Goods had in the range of 500 likes, which is normally reserved for inspirational pictures of Jesus or women in bikinis. Hopefully they go through with their plan to make lithographs of both pieces of art, because seriously, why would anyone not want both of those on display?!?! The Wasteland equivalent of ululating is burning through an entire clip of ammunition with your assault weapon. Through PC Speaker. Tarquinn posted:Nice. Does WL2 have a community manager already?
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RagingBoner posted:And I sell indulgences! That's just for admittance. If you really want to enjoy heaven you're going to need the buckle, shirt, "Desert Rangers #1" foam finger, and the limited edition Quarex mask.
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Jonny Retro posted:That's just for admittance. If you really want to enjoy heaven you're going to need the buckle, shirt, "Desert Rangers #1" foam finger, and the limited edition Quarex mask. And apparently a signed litho TBD
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Quarex posted:I think the related posts on the Facebook group about him acquiring The Goods had in the range of 500 likes, which is normally reserved for inspirational pictures of Jesus or women in bikinis. I was one of those likes! Hahaha. That's amazing you were able to instrument that. I agree with HotCanadianChick, you really are the best fan ever! I'm glad you made this thread and I'm glad it introduced me to Wasteland.
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Jonny Retro posted:and the limited edition Quarex mask. This should not be distributed until after the release party.
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crashdome posted:This should not be distributed until after the release party. I want my Limited Edition Quarex Death Mask drat it! And if I can get it earlier, well. That would be excellent wouldn't it?
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FauxGateau posted:I want my Limited Edition Quarex Death Mask drat it! And if I can get it earlier, well. That would be excellent wouldn't it? 1,000 Quarex-clad goons showing up at the party WOULD be excellent but,...
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crashdome posted:1,000 Quarex-clad goons showing up at the party WOULD be excellent but,... But it could turn into the Goon version of Eyes Wide Shut. I can understand the concern.
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Thanks for going the Eyes Wide Shut direction with that instead of the V For Vendetta direction. Not, you know, that Quorgy is much of an improvement over Querrorism. C'mon everybody! Buy those Wasteland 2 belt buckles! Edit: I was just thinking about Barry Jackson (the Wasteland box/interior artist) communicating with me and then later seeing that Brian Fargo had bought the art ... yet another person who has reason to believe I am secretly Brian Fargo. I could never be this convincing if I were doing it on purpose. Dr. Quarex fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Jul 28, 2012 |
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This just went up on the Wasteland 2 Facebook page. I'm pretty much the least firearms savvy type in the thread probably, but the way he's holding that rifle looks odd to me.
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I definately like the new look of the background. There's actual vegetation instead of just dusty ruins. I know they spoke about that and why. I agree and I like it. ^^ the gun position looks ok to me too. Slung on the back would imply too much safety. This gives me the feeling of awareness of possible danger.
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Woebin posted:This just went up on the Wasteland 2 Facebook page. Woebin posted:I'm pretty much the least firearms savvy type in the thread probably, but the way he's holding that rifle looks odd to me. Edit: Just realized it was his stance that bothered you, not the gun. That's pretty much a combat ready stance (except his trigger discipline is lacking...). RagingBoner fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Jul 30, 2012 |
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RagingBoner posted:(except his trigger discipline is lacking...). No, it's not. That's proper. besides what's really awesome about that photo is the skyscrapers in the background being covered in vegetation.
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RagingBoner posted:Edit: Just realized it was his stance that bothered you, not the gun. That's pretty much a combat ready stance (except his trigger discipline is lacking...). The "nature takes over" take on the post-apocalyptic cityscape is sweet, regardless.
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Woebin posted:Yeah, see, the thing that looks weird to me is his right hand. It looks like he's attached some sort of handle with just a couple of straps or something, and is holding on to that. But again, that's probably just me being clueless about guns and how to handle them. It's a vertical foregrip. If you know it's there, it makes a lot more sense. http://webyshops.com/ns/images/Crimson-Trace/CRIMSON-TRACE-Modular-Vertical-Foregrip-Laser-with-RED-Light-MVF-515-Pic1.jpg (ignore the whole laser stuff, just found this on GIS)
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There's over-analysing, and then there's SA.  For concept art, it looks amazing, finger placement be damned!
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Woebin posted:This just went up on the Wasteland 2 Facebook page. "Son I'm going to need you to start explainin' or start walkin'." 
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Woebin posted:This just went up on the Wasteland 2 Facebook page. He's holding it left handed, which is fairly unusual since it ejects from the right-side of the weapon (although this is not much of a problem with ARs). Everything else (ready stance, trigger safety, etc.) looks fairly proper. Edit: Here's what it looks in real life   Edit 2: Looking at it again, he doesn't have the rifle in his shoulder, which is why you would carry it in that position. It so you can bring your rifle up quickly and engage targets while on patrol. Young Freud fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Jul 30, 2012 |
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I have a question for the experienced Rangers in the thread. Is there any point in WL1 in which it uses a text display mode larger than the little bottom-of-the-screen display, like a full-screen text mode? In short, does it have any provision for displaying large blocks of text? Or is that handled entirely by the paragraphs book? If it does, what triggers it?
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Even the intro and the end-of-game animation/text scroll divides the screen into graphics on top and text on the bottom, so I am going to say "no," other than of course the loot screen pops up as an overlay and the combat scroll is in some ways easier to read than the text at the bottom ... but the upper-left is always graphical, certainly. And the exposition in the upper-right corner is always minimal. Also that picture is awesome, I love that we have seen that character twice now, so clearly we get to declare that it is, indeed, Snake Vargas. Probably not. Hell Razor. Thrasher. Definitely Angela Deth.
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ToxicFrog posted:I have a question for the experienced Rangers in the thread. In short, no. However, there's some places where the text is larger than the text display, where it pauses the text and asks the player to hit "enter" to continue to the next "page". The thing with the paragraphs books is that it was an early form of copy protection, since you needed the book for some passwords, but it was also because of memory issues involving the game. Throwing huge blocks of text ate up a lot of storage memory at the time.
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^^ mainly I was just wondering if it had a fullscreen text mode I could invoke because that would be easier to read than paging through it a few lines at a time.Quarex posted:Even the intro and the end-of-game animation/text scroll divides the screen into graphics on top and text on the bottom, so I am going to say "no," other than of course the loot screen pops up as an overlay and the combat scroll is in some ways easier to read than the text at the bottom ... but the upper-left is always graphical, certainly. And the exposition in the upper-right corner is always minimal. Ok, this insert-the-paragraph-text-into-Wasteland project is turning out to be harder than expected. Firstly, inserting new text into the map changes the corresponding MSQ offsets, which must then be patched in wl.exe. The wasteland editing suite claims to be able to do that automatically, but it turns out that - despite what the manual says - it will only handle pixmap and tileset offsets, not map offsets. I'd have to patch that in myself. Fortunately, it looks like it's already partly implemented, and the hard part (figuring out where the offsets are stored in the file) is already done. Unfortunately, it's written in Java. Secondly, and much more worryingly, the amount of storage allocated for each data file is fixed, and if you exceed the original size by too much (and the paragraphs, at ~70k of text, almost certainly qualify), the game will cheerfully run off the end of that buffer, overwrite something important, and shortly thereafter crash - assuming it loads the file at all, which it may not. And fixing that requires a degree of reverse-engineering of wl.exe that, as far as I know, no-one has yet done.
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RagingBoner posted:I see he bought a belt buckle! (btw they are ordered and are being made right now) Can you add to the order? I haven't been paying attention to the thread the past few weeks. Can send you the cash asap.
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Young Freud posted:Looking at it again, he doesn't have the rifle in his shoulder, which is why you would carry it in that position. It so you can bring your rifle up quickly and engage targets while on patrol. It's not really wrong, even if you have it on you're shoulder you'll still have to reposition it a bit when you bring it up. That's a fairly comfortable way to carry a gun when you want it ready in case you need it but you aren't immediately in danger.
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RagingBoner posted:I see he bought a belt buckle! (btw they are ordered and are being made right now) After a pretty lovely day at work, coming home to news like this is great.
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Sir Tonk posted:Can you add to the order? I haven't been paying attention to the thread the past few weeks. Can send you the cash asap. Add another one if you can, RB. My paycheck's in, so if you have room for two more...
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