4704. Max (qu-advlan110.quinnipiac.edu) – 20 Jun 2006 10:52:30 [ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]

Cool, thanks!

4703. Tom 7 (h-68-166-177-57.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 20 Jun 2006 10:43:18 [ Quake 3 Done! ]

I agree with Kalypso... the #1 priority is to stay hidden when he has the railgun. There's no point in dodging because it won't confuse his aim and the railgun is a hitscan (instant) weapon. The only exception I'd say is that if you hear him bouncing up for the BFG, which he'll do if he can't find you, you can hit the sky target with the machinegun and he'll almost always die with a -1. He might rail you in the air, but it's worth it.

4702. Zientman (80.51.226.138) – 20 Jun 2006 09:00:02 [ Quake 3 Done! ]

Thank you... I tried also to hide off pillar ( it seems wide black stripe on this pillar ) and rail or dodge him with R.Launcher. Is it good idea?

4701. Kalypso (cpe-68-173-146-35.nyc.res.rr.com) – 20 Jun 2006 03:55:41 [ Quake 3 Done! ]

This is the same explanation as above, Tom 7 pretty much nailed it, but I already wrote this before realizing that.

you have to frag him the moment he touches the ground after he lands from the jump pad. listen to the sound of the jump pad launching and shoot only when his feet are just about to touch the next platform. right from your hiding spot, and then if hes alive shoot again at the same spot Immediately,

when he is jumping up from the lower platform, unto the main one with all the pillars is when you shoot. he is most vulnerable the moment he lands, cause his feet always touch the same spot and he cant kill you effectivelty if you shoot your rocket and hide before even seeing if it hits him.

its easy if you focus on not being visible and concentrating on shooting where he lands, the moment he gets there.

4700. Eric119 (c-24-8-102-243.hsd1.co.comcast.net) – 20 Jun 2006 01:09:52 [ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]

Oh, OK.

4699. Tom 7 (h-68-166-177-57.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 20 Jun 2006 00:09:32 [ Self-antonyms ]

Well, I actually needed something more like an adjective, so I went with "minor league." Thank you for the suggestions!

4698. Tom 7 (h-68-166-177-57.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 19 Jun 2006 23:50:08 [ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]

They're not in the sophomoric directory; I made a whole new collection ("minor leagues") for anything that's automatically filtered out. You have to subscribe to it from the update screen.

4697. Eric119 (c-24-8-102-243.hsd1.co.comcast.net) – 19 Jun 2006 22:03:59 [ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]

Eh, Tom? Those levels seem to have been removed entirely, not moved to the sophomoric directory. They're not even in the graveyard.

4696. Tom...6? (c-71-235-60-185.hsd1.ct.comcast.net) – 19 Jun 2006 21:50:58 [ Self-antonyms ]

I nominate "missed the mark," "struck out,"..."missed the field goal,"

or for a completely different focus,




"relished her looks".


Then again there's always, "didn't cut the mustard."

4695. Max (c-71-235-198-237.hsd1.ma.comcast.net) – 19 Jun 2006 21:21:02 [ Self-antonyms ]

How about "bandage the mustard"?

4694. Tom 7 (gs82.sp.cs.cmu.edu) – 19 Jun 2006 18:25:51 [ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]

Actually, it's pretty easy for me to do that right now, so I did it. (Only I used a cutoff of 25.5 and 5 days and 5 votes.)

4693. Tom 7 (gs82.sp.cs.cmu.edu) – 19 Jun 2006 17:30:24 [ Self-antonyms ]

"No entry found for thin the herd.

Did you mean thin the herd?"

urghhh

4692. Tom 7 (gs82.sp.cs.cmu.edu) – 19 Jun 2006 16:08:57 [ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]

There's no way currently, but something like that will definitely be in the rewrite of the level browser.

4691. Max (qu-advlan110.quinnipiac.edu) – 19 Jun 2006 14:30:41 [ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]

I've been away from Escape for awhile but I might start getting back into the swing a bit. One annoying side effect is the huge amount of, uh, "simple" levels that have been uploaded since I left. Is there a way to automatically move a level into the "Sophomoric" directory if after, say, 5 votes, it has an average of below 30.0 or so for both style and difficulty?

4690. Tom 7 (lolo.wv.cc.cmu.edu) – 19 Jun 2006 10:44:00 [ Quake 3 Done! ]

The most popular strategy that I know if is to hide behind the pillars surrounding the jump pad (so he can't rail you from the other side) and then when you hear him bounce up to your platform, send a rockets to where he will land (and then hit him a few more times before he rails you to death!). When he doesn't have the railgun, you can snipe him with yours.

4689. Zientman (80.51.226.138) – 19 Jun 2006 09:56:32 [ Quake 3 Done! ]

Don't be angry, because I'm from Poland and I'm beginner in english.
If you can, please tell me how is the easiest way to destroy that guy ( Xaero ). I dunno how I can do it, because I tried to hide off pillar, but he came to me and fragged me with railgun or Rocket Launcher.

4688. Tom 7 (pool-70-17-191-79.pitt.east.verizon.net) – 18 Jun 2006 14:12:00 [ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]

Yeah, if you mail the diff I can incorporate it easily; it's on my list...

4687. wowei (p54ae67f7.dip.t-dialin.net) – 18 Jun 2006 13:34:54 [ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]

ah yes, i forgot to mention: a sorting option by date of playing a level would be nice.

4686. wowei (p54ae67f7.dip.t-dialin.net) – 18 Jun 2006 13:27:28 [ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]

oops, i didnt want to stay anonymous in previous msg.

4685. Anonymous (p54ae67f7.dip.t-dialin.net) – 18 Jun 2006 13:24:09 [ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]

hi kirima, freut mich, wenn die Streicheleinheiten ankamen. :)

hi tom, I just updated and I like the del-bookmark option, though I yet didnt understand the <ins>-option with bookmarks.

I suspect deletion to be buggy, but I couldnt reconstruct the conditions yet. when i deleted some elder bookmarks on a level, where there had been more than twenty of them, the dates of the bookmarks rotated in some random way.

still the key-event-handler only looks at the keysym.sym part and so the zooming isnt working for german keyboard-mapping. I changed the sources play.cpp and edit.cpp accordingly again, and it works fine here. shall i mail a diff-file to you?

4684. Kalypso (cpe-68-173-146-35.nyc.res.rr.com) – 18 Jun 2006 02:45:44 [ Quake 3 Done! ]

thanks a lot, best wishes to you, enjoy quake3, and im out!

4683. Tom 7 (pool-70-20-71-126.pitt.east.verizon.net) – 17 Jun 2006 19:31:07 [ You should just have some sort of random title generator for that sort of thing ]

OK, I turned on gravity!

4682. Stephen (cmbg-cache-2.server.ntli.net) – 17 Jun 2006 06:31:18 [ You should just have some sort of random title generator for that sort of thing ]

You should use "MB gravity" to correct the elevation data in MotionBased. It's the best. It looks up the actual elevation at the location on some topographic map and uses that instead of the GPS elevation reading (which is quite inaccurate). You can turn it on in "Activity Options" (or something like that. it's in the upper right-hand corner).

4681. Tom 7 (h-72-244-71-124.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) – 16 Jun 2006 23:45:40 [ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]

Oops, that was dumb.. I always leave that on when I'm developing so I didn't even notice it. I'll turn it off and release a new version.

4680. mjn (pool-71-104-132-152.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net) – 16 Jun 2006 21:02:54 [ UPD: Escape Beta 3 ]

With the new Windows version, I'm getting a console window along with the main program window. The first time I saw it, it was complaining about not having redlight.wav, but it seems to always show up, whether there's any text to report or not. (I created the required files to make the sound warnings go away, and it still appears.) Closing it crashes the program.

Unfortunately Sourceforge isn't behaving right now, or I would've checked this, but are you possibly compiling with MinGW and not using -mwindows? MinGW creates a win32 executable if you have a WinMain(), obviously, but if you don't explicitly specify -mwindows, you'll also get a console window.

P.S. thanks for the N key! Maybe I can finally solve that Minnesota-shaped one now...