Messages posted by: TheDruidXpawX

Thanks Greg, they're different people and they're not on the server anymore

Containing Szlat's latest changes to RPG. I'm sure he'll provide more information below.

The ordering of the rpg mutators is highly important (and probably shouldn't be)

Buster_n_Brandi wrote:

Meet Jonathan David

My prediction? Meet [DC]BigJD

Congratulations!

Added the Ability HardCore for players that simply want a brutal game. This ability presently makes it so you cannot be helped by other players (shields, healing, artifacts)

We also decided to give you a 5% cumulative damage bonus for the skill.

Sparky, this skill is (mainly) for you!

Now we could add a weapon that prevents healing, and then add a monster that fires no heal shots at you.

Greetings all,

This morning Szlat, Shantara, and I rolled out the latest changes to the RPG which added subclasses which should be considered "in beta"

There are two threads for discussion of issues related to this beta:

Balance related issues: http://www.disastrousconsequences.com/dcforum/posts/list/4676.page

Bugs: http://www.disastrousconsequences.com/dcforum/posts/list/4677.page

There are a list of changes here: http://www.disastrousconsequences.com/dcforum/posts/list/4581.page

We'd love your feedback, and a big thanks goes out to Szlat for his gentle persistence in rolling this out.

Thè-Hättêr wrote:

not a bug but please change monsters halos...

Please stay on topic in this thread, and start a new thread for information like this.

Thanks

I just checked in a new ability, AbilityHardcore

This ability currently disables shield healing and weapon based healing, but I was a bit nervous of changing the Sphere code. If anyone has a chance, will you tweak that code to prevent healing if they have HardCoreInv in the pawn's inventory?

Thanks!

Dru

Shantara made the changes as requested this evening.

We found that some of you had played the characters you had requested the name changes for. We have merged your stats, so you may find some additional levels on your old characters, and the new characters with the same names have been deleted.

Sorry, we didn't get it done over the weekend. We're going to try to wrap up the two players that sent in information tomorrow evening.

The problem is that certain Japanese characters that some people love to use in their names cause the UT2004RPG.ini file to convert from ISO8859-1 to UTF-16LE

ISO8859-1 uses one byte per character. UTF16-LE uses 4 bytes per character. The result is that the RPG file quadruples in size, and every time it is saved, which is frequently, the server now has to handle saving 4 times the data.

In the past, when I've down converted the file, it hasn't caused anyone any issues, however apparently there were some more interesting characters inserted this time.

Finding people with high ascii in their names has always been an issue. It's almost impossible to search the file by name when you have these characters in your name.

For those of you having this issue, we will do a one time name swap for you. You must follow the instructions for how to obtain your cd key hash here: http://www.disastrousconsequences.com/wiki/index.php/CDKey_hash

Then give us a rough guess of what your character names were, and what you'd like them to be without any unusual ascii characters.

You can then email unreal@disastrousconsequences.com and we'll endeavor to change your names this following weekend.

The script has been removed from our pages and the people at earthexpeditions.org have been notified.

Originally there wasn't a medic class at all. We added in healing so you could keep your monsters alive.

Would there really be a purpose to a monster only class? Would you really have enough skills to buy as just a medic?

At the moment we're working out some balancing issues in the classes. I'd say if we can get that nailed down, we'll do a release.

RoadKill v3.4 wrote:

1: how about eng link that only has secondary fire ,this would eliminate link spam
2:make Medic weapons with resupply instead of truly infinite , this would prevent constant firing of Medic weapons
3:reduce damage done to monsters by say 25% and increase healing value by say 25% , this would make the medic weapons more effective as healing tool and less effective as a offensive weapon
4:I like the idea of no adren bonus for killing sprees while using these particular weapons ,but am not sure how easy the coding would be

All good suggestions. These are on the short list of ways to deal with this