Comments on: Avert Fate

By: Ixtab

Ixtab — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:10:34 +0000

I enjoyed the sense of impending doom when the giant robot appears and you know this is going to be a tough battle… actually it was quite disappointing.

I ran about it for a bit shooting at it with the little peashooter thing because I’d used all my other ammo.
Then it explodes.
And I’m still not sure if it exploded because I just shot it lots, or if there was something special I did accidentally in order to blow it up.

By: LoTekK

LoTekK — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:23:58 +0000

That was… underwhelming, to say the least. Combat felt meh, and the mouse smoothing/accel helped not one iota. Lack of any audio or visual feedback when hitting enemies hurts it pretty badly, too. Also, it kept bugging out on me, with my main weapon refusing to fire every so often, and a secondary weapon I picked up from a fallen enemy refusing to fire at all.

So aside from it looking pretty good, the overall experience was decidedly meh.

By: Esha

Esha — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:22:26 +0000

I managed to break it within fourty seconds of playing.

Wahey, water! Sploosh! … No sploosh? Sky? There is sky beneath water? Am I in Oz now? …how do I get down? Yes, run around little ships, for I am now your inanimate hominid God. …this is fun and all, but seriously, how do I get down?

After restarting the game, I had a cracking time and it really is a grand engine, it has all the graphical effects and whatnot down pat and it runs beautifully even on the highest of its settings, which shows its developers cared enough to optimise. So I quite enjoyed myself.

I admit though that big robot baffled me for a few minutes too.

My roomie wasn’t of much help either…

“His fingernails are his weak point obviously, they’re so flimsy. Shoot the fingernails!”

By: Senethro

Senethro — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:45:21 +0000

sbs: high sens for twitch aim, low sens for tracking aim.

But sadly, what games require tracking aim in this day and age?

By: Nero

Nero — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:35:44 +0000

While the tech was nice and I made it to the end, man that mouse acceleration has got to go.

By: MasterBoo

MasterBoo — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:32:35 +0000

Booooo!

By: sbs

sbs — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:22:54 +0000

Will: With today’s Mice, mouse accel is pretty much useless. You can be much more precise and be able to turn around fast with a high sens. mouse accel is just too inconsistent to allow for steady aim, and reliable flickshots are almost impossible. The muscle memory doesn’t seem very adaptive when you add a certain speed of movement to the equation.
At least that’s what I gathered from my experience. So yeah. Boo to mouseaccel.

By: Torin

Torin — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:03:06 +0000

I developed on the Unity engine for a course. It’s quite the cracking engine and development is absurdly simple.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:08:35 +0000

And, just like the shitty Doom 3 Engine, the frames-per-second is smooth and high, but there is up to two seconds of lag between mouse+keyboard and movement in game.

Also: I don’t notice the mouse acceleration. I decided the other day that it would be to my advantage if I could play with it on, so I could turn faster to react to people behind me. So I loaded up UT1, set the frag limit to 999, turned on mouse acceleration and set speed to 120% and just zoned out for the afternoon.

By: RiptoR

RiptoR — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:02:29 +0000

How in earth do you floor the big guy?

By: Senethro

Senethro — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:47:54 +0000

Mouse acceleration in an FPS is a sin against nature.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:55:24 +0000

Oh yay Unity. I hope they’ll get off their arses and make the SDK Windows-compatible soon.