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Sounds and Music / More Music (Creative commons)

« on: April 24, 2007, 09:29:43 pm »

I like open track 2 a lot. Starts like a soviet era workers song with some pitch bends on the vocals, then goes metal.

track 1 is good. i think one of the instrument sounds (metallic hiss) isnt quite right. the one that comes in first after the phasering throb. i can't think quite what would make the sound better.

its nice to hear a longer snatch of real instrument. you can hear the frets on the real guitar.

it would have been nice to get the option of just dowloading the compressed versions.

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Sounds and Music / Soldier Voices (English) / Music (Metal/Rock) Offer

« on: April 24, 2007, 05:37:25 pm »

I reckon it would be best if different accents could be done by people actually representing the different nationalities. if radio-type distortion is going to be applied anyway, then it does not matter if the original recording is high quality. any cheap microphone and a computer should do. it would be good if the radio noise was applied consistently, perhaps one person could do that to all of the samples.

i'd have a go at putting on a posh english english voice.

destructavator: if i did would you be ok to normalize the volume and apply distortion?

alex: you seem to be a leading sound contributor, do you have any thoughts?

coders: would this be worth coding in your opinion? i guess you would have to add a field describing the nationality of each soldier. it would be no good if the same soldier spoke with a Polish accent one round and an American the next.

363

Feature Requests / Melee Attack Suggestions

« on: April 24, 2007, 09:33:56 am »

#1 great idea. it is frustrating to sneak up behind someone and not be able to finish them off.

#2. melee reaction: another top suggestion. (note to devs - if you implement this, make sure there is no reaction fire with the medikit - that would put a dampener on one's day).

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Feature Requests / Feature request: Cycle through targets

« on: April 24, 2007, 09:30:14 am »

who is blondelady? .... :?

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Discussion / rearraging the team

« on: April 24, 2007, 09:18:38 am »

Zenerka,

when this code gets rewritten, how hard will it be to allow more than 8 actors per team?

if its just a question of the number of keys, you could easily go up to 10 by using 9 and 0 too. perhaps add another 10 by having [shift]-1 selecting soldier number 11 etc.

anyway, what are the chances of getting a bigger squad to play with?

I think that in UFO:EU you could have 14 soldiers in a big elerium-powered troop transporting plane, and I always enjoyed the big missions. [comes over misty-eyed] great days...

366

Feature Requests / Iconic base menu

« on: April 23, 2007, 04:41:46 pm »

i think i'm right in saying that currently the only way to use a hospital is to click on it.

the GUI should go all one way or the other.

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Feature Requests / Feature request: Cycle through targets

« on: April 23, 2007, 04:39:19 pm »

[1] cycle target for current. i agree this would be a nice feature. i have got into using v for this sort of thing.

the system you suggest might cause problems if relied on two heavily. for example, a soldier can kill an alien that he/she can't actually see with a grenade.

[2] e. oops, sounds like a good suggestion.

[3] i think the devs are working hard on this issue now. (selling more stuff quicker etc).

368

Feature Requests / Testing request: 2.1.1 testinstaller.

« on: April 22, 2007, 02:52:09 pm »

I am using 2.1.1 with updated binaries from this morning 22 April.

I have got through quite a few missions, with no broken saves

marvelous work.

369

Sounds and Music / Some menu sounds

« on: April 21, 2007, 08:31:10 pm »

They are excellent effects. Crisp and electronic: the perfect accompaniment to any HUD.

my favourite is 1. with perhaps a lower pitched sound (i think 4 is best) for menus closing.

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Feature Requests / Testing request: 2.1.1 testinstaller.

« on: April 21, 2007, 07:31:07 pm »

just to confirm.

The second broken sav I reported in this thread happenned when
-I had no aircraft out
-I had one base and one dropship.

So I think there are more critters out there to be eliminated.

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Feature Requests / Testing request: 2.1.1 testinstaller.

« on: April 21, 2007, 03:23:03 pm »

i've got a new one. win xp sp2. did the first mission, waited til the dropship was home. saved...

                                   
images
Starting the game...
(player 0) It's team 1's round
Team 1 ended round, team 7's round started!
Team 7 ended round, team 0's round started!
Team 0 ended round, team 1's round started!
Team 1 ended round, team 7's round started!
Team 7 ended round, team 0's round started!
Team 0 ended round, team 1's round started!
==== ShutdownGame ====
CL_UpdateHireVar()... aircraft idx: 0, homebase: PHALANX HQ
Save 'slot1'
...subsystem 'base' - saved 5927 bytes
...subsystem 'campaign' - saved 212 bytes
...subsystem 'hospital' - saved 2 bytes
...subsystem 'market' - saved 2176 bytes
...subsystem 'research' - saved 6331 bytes
...subsystem 'employee' - saved 8663 bytes
...subsystem 'aliencont' - saved 0 bytes
...subsystem 'production' - saved 9 bytes
...subsystem 'aircraft' - saved 1 bytes
...subsystem 'messagesystem' - saved 1106 bytes
...subsystem 'stats' - saved 28 bytes
...subsystem 'nations' - saved 32 bytes
Campaign '' saved.
Save user settings to C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner\Application Data\UFOAI/2.1.1/base/config.cfg
Shutting down win api sound system

then loaded. i got chucked back to the desktop with the standard annoying bill gates p-ping noise. no error dialog. here's the log excerpt

Shared Client/Server Info loaded
...precaching 67 menus
====== UFO Initialized ======

Loading savegame
...version: 1
...game version: 2.1.1
Global data loaded - size (null)u bytes
...techs: 132
...buildings: 18
...ranks: 8
...nations: 8

Load 'slot1'
...subsystem 'base' - loaded 5927 bytes
Initializing aircraft and aircraft-items ...
...aircraft and aircraft-items inited
Activate stage intro
...subsystem 'campaign' - loaded 212 bytes
...subsystem 'hospital' - loaded 2 bytes
...subsystem 'market' - loaded 2176 bytes
...subsystem 'research' - loaded 6331 bytes
...subsystem 'employee' - loaded 8663 bytes
...subsystem 'aliencont' - loaded 0 bytes
...subsystem 'production' - loaded 9 bytes
...subsystem 'aircraft' - loaded 1 bytes
...subsystem 'messagesystem' - loaded 1106 bytes
...subsystem 'stats' - loaded 28 bytes
...subsystem 'nations' - loaded 32 bytes
File 'slot1' loaded.
Changing to Singleplayer
Save user settings to C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner\Application Data\UFOAI/2.1.1/base/config.cfg
Shutting down win api sound system

let me know if slot1.sav would be useful to you.

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Feature Requests / Testing request: 2.1.1 testinstaller.

« on: April 21, 2007, 01:59:23 pm »

my dropship was in the air for that broken save.

i got another broken savegame, but i don't have the log for when i saved it. i will start from the last good save and see how things go.

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Feature Requests / Testing request: 2.1.1 testinstaller.

« on: April 21, 2007, 01:21:19 pm »

playing on win xp sp2 using supplied 2.1.1 installer. got  a broken savegame after first mission. snip from log on saving.

Team 0 ended round, team 1's round started!
Team 1 ended round, team 7's round started!
InvAdd: message ignored... LE 16 not found (type: 0)
InvAdd: ignoring:
Item: plaspistol_ammo
... name          -> Plasma Pistol Charger
... type          -> ammo
... category      -> 48
... weapon        -> 0
... holdtwohanded -> 0
... firetwohanded -> 0
... twohanded     -> 0
... thrown        -> 0
... usable for weapon (if type is ammo):
    ... Plasma Pistol

InvAdd: ignoring:
Item: plaspistol
... name          -> Plasma Pistol
... type          -> pistol
... category      -> 50
... weapon        -> 1
... holdtwohanded -> 0
... firetwohanded -> 1
... twohanded     -> 0
... thrown        -> 0
... usable for weapon (if type is ammo):

InvAdd: message ignored... LE 21 not found (type: 0)
InvAdd: ignoring:
Item: plaspistol_ammo
... name          -> Plasma Pistol Charger
... type          -> ammo
... category      -> 48
... weapon        -> 0
... holdtwohanded -> 0
... firetwohanded -> 0
... twohanded     -> 0
... thrown        -> 0
... usable for weapon (if type is ammo):
    ... Plasma Pistol

InvAdd: ignoring:
Item: plaspistol
... name          -> Plasma Pistol
... type          -> pistol
... category      -> 50
... weapon        -> 1
... holdtwohanded -> 0
... firetwohanded -> 1
... twohanded     -> 0
... thrown        -> 0
... usable for weapon (if type is ammo):

Team 7 ended round, team 0's round started!
==== ShutdownGame ====
CL_UpdateHireVar()... aircraft idx: 0, homebase: PHALANX HQ
Save 'slot2'
...subsystem 'base' - saved 5961 bytes
...subsystem 'campaign' - saved 212 bytes
...subsystem 'hospital' - saved 2 bytes
...subsystem 'market' - saved 2176 bytes
...subsystem 'research' - saved 6331 bytes
...subsystem 'employee' - saved 8663 bytes
...subsystem 'aliencont' - saved 0 bytes
...subsystem 'production' - saved 9 bytes
...subsystem 'aircraft' - saved 1 bytes
...subsystem 'messagesystem' - saved 918 bytes
...subsystem 'stats' - saved 28 bytes
...subsystem 'nations' - saved 32 bytes
Campaign '2' saved.
Save user settings to C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner\Application Data\UFOAI/2.1.1/base/config.cfg
Shutting down win api sound system

snip from log on loading. (I got a nice dialog telling me to look at the log).

...precaching 67 menus
====== UFO Initialized ======

Loading savegame
...version: 1
...game version: 2.1.1
Global data loaded - size (null)u bytes
...techs: 132
...buildings: 18
...ranks: 8
...nations: 8

Load 'slot2'
...subsystem 'base' - loaded 34801 bytes
...subsystem 'base' could not be loaded correctly - savegame might be broken (ffffffff)
Unknown command "game_timestop"
Changing to Singleplayer
Save user settings to C:\Documents and Settings\HP_Owner\Application Data\UFOAI/2.1.1/base/config.cfg
Shutting down win api sound system

Thanks for your hard work.

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Feature Requests / Can't load Savegame

« on: April 20, 2007, 07:27:26 pm »

Just wanted to say thanks to mattn (and other contributors) for their hard work.

Out of interest - have you gone all the way an implemented a serializer?

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Sounds and Music / Soldier Voices (English) / Music (Metal/Rock) Offer

« on: April 17, 2007, 09:59:28 pm »

I spent some time listening to Destructavator's work. (which tlh2000 uploaded to the patch tracker on sf). Here's my tuppence.

voices1_1 - they all sound like aliens getting hit to me.
*Choke_Death_1 OK
*Choke_Death_2 OK
*Choke_Death_3 better
*Choke_Death_4 better
*Choke_Death_5 like the drawn out gurgle
*Choke_Death_6 the weakest
voices1_2
*pain_grunt_4 OK
*copy_that_1 good
*found_one not scared enough
*go_ahead OK
*i_copy OK
*i_got_one should be more excited or disbelieving
*oh_yeah_1&2 OK, amusing
*okay OK
*on_my_way sounds like my least favourite sample from civ CTP (sorry)
voices1_3
*out_of_ammo a really useful idea
*ready OK
*ready_for_orders_1 too long
*sir good
*spotted_one not scared enough
*standing_by OK
*target_destroyed good (veteran sounding cool)
*theres_one not scared enough
*yeah_1 OK

all the 2 samples
alien screams don't benefit from the extra distortion
soldiers voices do sound better with the radio effect added

a couple of the samples have crackles on that don't sound like radio noise. all of the speech announcing a new alien has been spotted is too calm - I think it would be better whispered in fear.

all of the deaths and grunts sound like they are aliens getting it. I quite like the death rattle in The Two Towers on PS2, its quite a soft breath as your guy breaths his last.

The game would benefit from some vocals. I don't know how hard this would be to code. I reckon comments from your soldiers should be quite intermittent, otherwise they get too repetitive (hmm, I think that's a tautology).

I would really like to hear voices in a variety of world accents. This would lend a load of style to the game.

good work!