Mercenaries - progress? suuuuure ...

[Torr Samaho]

For the 10th time, it's a Zandronum bug and I can't fix it until the "keep full quantity" flag is backported from ZDoom.

I'd rather say that this is a missing feature and not a bug. If the behavior wasn't intended, ZDoom would have changed it instead of adding a flag for it. Of course I'm aware that this is just splitting hairs ;).

[Valherran]

For the 10th time, it's a Zandronum bug and I can't fix it until the "keep full quantity" flag is backported from ZDoom.

I'd rather say that this is a missing feature and not a bug. If the behavior wasn't intended, ZDoom would have changed it instead of adding a flag for it. Of course I'm aware that this is just splitting hairs ;).

LOL, didn't know or see it mentioned here, tis why I asked.

[Ivan]

Are the inventory items supposed to reset to 1 after every level when you got more than one?

For the 10th time, it's a Zandronum bug and I can't fix it until the "keep full quantity" flag is backported from ZDoom. I'm sorry. :/

You can work around that by saving all the items into global variables during an UNLOADING script and giving -1 of it to the players at an ENTER script, such is the way the sns-statsaver works, or the items in ZBlood X.

[Capt.J3]

Aenime, you have posted an old version of the L85.

I'm still working on it.

[Ænima]

My bad. I've been really busy lately IRL and i likely missed something you sent me.

Those light green areas still need to be smoothed out just a liiiiiiittle. 3:

[Capt.J3]

My bad. I've been really busy lately IRL and i likely missed something you sent me.

Those light green areas still need to be smoothed out just a liiiiiiittle. 3:

smoothing? What you mean? Add more contrast between the green colors?

[Ænima]

It looks "scratchy", if you know what i mean. Try the blur tool.

[Capt.J3]

It looks "scratchy", if you know what i mean. Try the blur tool.

Well...ok...




How about now?
Also, I really believe we should add Hece's Scorpion, and MAYBE the sten, but don't know about the others. :P

[Llewellyn]

How about now?

To be honest it doesn't look like it matches any of the rest of the guns... its way too smooth (lines are not straight and transitions are not sharp) whereas the other guns are "pixely."
It would look good in a set of similarly designed guns, but not mixed with the current ones.

[Capt.J3]

Well, that's up for Aenime to decide if the weapon is welcomed into Merc2.0.

Anyways here's a little treat for you guys!
The gates of the Merc 2.0's HQ!



>:3

[Valherran]

Neat.

What other guns are coming in your next version?

[Ænima]

Not sure yet.

- L85
- Skorpion
- Flamethrower?
- Minigun?
- M32 grenade launcher

Other ideas?

[Medicris]

While I'm not against a Skorpion, I'm wondering: what role would it fill that the Uzi already doesn't? An Uzi's 9x19mm Parabellum rounds won't be any different (gameplay wise) from whatever a Skorpion's capable of firing, be it a Makarov, Parabellum, or .32 ACP round.

As for other ideas, there wouldn't be a "BFG" type weapon (extremely limited ammo)? Something like... a Panzerfaust 3, or even something like a PTRD or PTRS (not in the way Cawadoody depicted it, though). Unless you choose not to include weapons like that to keep strong/boss enemies from being "cheapened".

[Capt.J3]

Honestly, Its up to the person. For me, I'll perfer the Skorpion over the uzi because I like how the skorpion looks. lol You see? That's why we should add more weapons so the player can chose what's fitting for him or her self. The whole point of this wad is to give the player the freedom of picking the weapons and items they perfer. We even should add the flash grenade with the earslitter, so we choose whether we want to blind them or stings them.

Hey, aemine I have a cool idea for the hq! :P I'm planninh of adding an alley in which you can buy iligel weapons and powerups. lol BTW, do you have sprites that we can use for the store's sellers?

[Ænima]

LOL. I was actually considering making drug-dealers and prostitutes in the city.

The "drugs" you buy are really just powerups.
cocaine = haste
weed = HP and AP regen
steroids = portable berserk
PCP = resistance


Paying for a hooker would unlock a "hot coffee" minigame. At the end of the sex, you'd basically get a megasphere. Not sure if I'd get in trouble for this.

[TerminusEst13]

I'm fairly sure there isn't an ESRB equivalent for Doom mods, but just a quick header at the top saying "Yo, this contains sex and drugs--if you disagree with such things, please consider looking elsewhere" might cover any potential trouble.

[Avi]

Hot Coffee? Oh God, my sides. XD --Also, throwing that in as a third party addon (ala Brutal Doom's photorealistic gore... something I don't think I'd download TBH) is an easy way to let people chose without compromising anyone's tastes.

Except when they join a server with it, but that's the fun of servers. --Oh wow, now I'm gonna feel weird playing this online.

[Ænima]

I'm fairly sure there isn't an ESRB equivalent for Doom mods, but just a quick header at the top saying "Yo, this contains sex and drugs--if you disagree with such things, please consider looking elsewhere" might cover any potential trouble.

Yeah there's probably gonna be a disclaimer somewhere.

Hot Coffee? Oh God, my sides. XD --Also, throwing that in as a third party addon (ala Brutal Doom's photorealistic gore... something I don't think I'd download TBH) is an easy way to let people chose without compromising anyone's tastes.

Yeah it's gonna be optional. The Hot Coffee stuff will be in a separate PK3 which is optional. Hosts/players don't have to load it if they don't want to. I'm not forcing players to download several megabytes of NSFW content if they don't care to view it. (like Striker's room in the SMHQ...)

[Llewellyn]

(like Striker's room in the SMHQ...)

LOL.

But yea I don't download doom mods for porn.

[DR_FUZZY]

You going to be using the flame thrower I sent?