Topic: New cloak not working as advertised (Read 19031 times)

Lepton1 · « **Reply #140 on:** July 23, 2003, 05:01:22 am »

I have a dumb question. Did this whole PPD-cloak interaction with a CTD happen before this patch? If so, why have I never heard of it and why was it not fixed? If it is just happening with this patch, why is that so?? Is it a graphic error??? It is hard to believe that maybe because somewhere in there the code to deal with possible loss of lock for the PPD being faulty would cause a CTD. It seems as if a number of CTDs have to do with graphics issues. I would be interested in hearing people's thoughts on the issue.

EmeraldEdge · « **Reply #141 on:** July 23, 2003, 07:51:48 am »

Wow, just tried out the Cloak/PPD thing. OUCH! That's bad, once it hit hull, hello desktop.

Mog · « **Reply #142 on:** July 23, 2003, 08:18:10 am »

Hang on a mo, shouldn't the PPD require a lock-on to be able to fire?

EmeraldEdge · « **Reply #143 on:** July 23, 2003, 08:22:08 am »

It's always been able to fire at a cloaked target, as far as I remember. I seem to remember having some really one sided battles against the I-XCB, as it took it's 6 PPD and whittled away at me. Cloak didn't do much to help either. It was a long slow death, I couldn't catch up to him and no plasma would reach, so it was bye-bye Emerald.

Anyhow, this is a bad bug.

TarMinyatur · « **Reply #144 on:** July 23, 2003, 08:48:59 am »

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I have a dumb question. Did this whole PPD-cloak interaction with a CTD happen before this patch?

That is an excellent question. I know that the PPD does not do 500 damage against the hull of cloaked ships in EAW 2.036. I'm not certain what happens in OP 2.5.3.8.

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The PPD also ignores the cloak chart. I've not seen a pulse do less than maximum yet.

EmeraldEdge · « **Reply #146 on:** July 23, 2003, 09:39:55 am »

I do seem to remember the "final" EAW patch had a few showstoppers and they did another to fix them.

Dogmatix! · « **Reply #147 on:** July 23, 2003, 11:00:13 am »

I really hope Dave decides to go ahead and at least take care of the PPD vs cloaked ship CTD issue. That's going to really be a problem in light of the fact that given the new benefits to cloaking, more people will be using it.

A lot of us have been doing a lot of work singing the praises of OP and buying community members free copies to drum up support for and interest in the game. On top of that, the many, many very nice fixes that Dave implemented would seem to be almost for naught if we have a show-stopper bug like this one to contend with.

I could probably learn to live with the PPD DAC issue, but the PPD CTD bug is gonna be tough.

Crosses fingers....

David Ferrell · « **Reply #149 on:** July 23, 2003, 11:38:43 am »

The only thing that could bring me out of retirement is a CTD, and unfortunately
you have found one.

Thanks,

Dave

Ifrit · « **Reply #157 on:** July 23, 2003, 02:30:55 pm »

Dave, any chance we could add a setting for anistropic mipmap filtering, if the patch is going to be patched? That could really improve the appearance of the lightmaps, and it probably requires only one line of code. It might even improve the appearance of, er, cloaked ships?

I had to at least try to keep this on topic... seriously, though, mipmap filtering makes a big difference when rendering light maps.

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