[EDIT]: Move to Troubleshooting, or Suggestions? Guess it makes more sense to be there.
I was curious about things I've personally experienced with the game's behavior, and wanted to see if anyone else has experienced them as well. Note: I'm not starting a complaint thread, I merely want to see if other people experience the same thing, or if there's some settings I have to tweak or just live with. I'll add some more as I think of them, and I also had a couple ideas I'll list at the bottom.
- Weapon jams. No, I'm not trying to play MS:C with guns... although they'd come in handy for certain areas
But once every three days or so, +attack/+uber will either stop responding entirely, or will continue to fire, until I restart MS:C (-attack/-uber does nothing).
- Lingering echo (from audio effects). The two biggest culprits that instantly come to mind are calruin2's disco room and ... lostcastle_msc (the one before skycastle... forgot the name), in the maze room. I'm not sure what the desired audio effect was, but it sounds like running on glass, I guess. The problem, however, is that the audio effect doesn't go away (even with stopsound or a map change) without restarting MS:C, and interferes with other sound effects as well. I'm wondering if there's an easier way to kill the sound effect?
- Single-Player character loading. It's like a crap shoot: No matter if I select to have characters stored client-side or on the server, about 50% of the time after entering a map, it tries to load saved characters from the other location (yes, it's a Single-Player LAN, but the naming conventions of the files are different). It's not that big of a deal, a quick map change usually fixes the problem, but it's still weird.
- Texture errors. I know, everyone gets them, but they happen rather frequently (and usually in the same places of a map). How frequent do they occur for other people, and is the simplest resolution just to get a new gfx card or reinstall the game? Or just ignore it... or am I missing a setting somewhere?
- Map crashes. This is a suggestion, actually, but is there an EASY way to store certain map entity states, like after triggering a trigger_once or even possibly a multi_manager or something, in an encrypted dat file? So after reloading from a crash, players can resume from where they left off? I say EASY because if it's not easy, or if it would use too many resources, don't bother... it's not that much of a hassle to run a map again, it was just an idea for the sake of a small convenience.
- Wiki spam. I haven't created an account on the wiki, so I don't know if there's Captcha before adding/editing an article, but... There's some nice wiki spam (and forum spam!) blacklists out there for public use. i-blocklist.com comes to mind... can't think of others I've used off the top of my head though.
Also I apologize in advance, even in my old internet age, my Search Fu is still imperfect. So sorry if these have come up a lot before.
I was curious about things I've personally experienced with the game's behavior, and wanted to see if anyone else has experienced them as well. Note: I'm not starting a complaint thread, I merely want to see if other people experience the same thing, or if there's some settings I have to tweak or just live with. I'll add some more as I think of them, and I also had a couple ideas I'll list at the bottom.
- Weapon jams. No, I'm not trying to play MS:C with guns... although they'd come in handy for certain areas
But once every three days or so, +attack/+uber will either stop responding entirely, or will continue to fire, until I restart MS:C (-attack/-uber does nothing).- Lingering echo (from audio effects). The two biggest culprits that instantly come to mind are calruin2's disco room and ... lostcastle_msc (the one before skycastle... forgot the name), in the maze room. I'm not sure what the desired audio effect was, but it sounds like running on glass, I guess. The problem, however, is that the audio effect doesn't go away (even with stopsound or a map change) without restarting MS:C, and interferes with other sound effects as well. I'm wondering if there's an easier way to kill the sound effect?
- Single-Player character loading. It's like a crap shoot: No matter if I select to have characters stored client-side or on the server, about 50% of the time after entering a map, it tries to load saved characters from the other location (yes, it's a Single-Player LAN, but the naming conventions of the files are different). It's not that big of a deal, a quick map change usually fixes the problem, but it's still weird.
- Texture errors. I know, everyone gets them, but they happen rather frequently (and usually in the same places of a map). How frequent do they occur for other people, and is the simplest resolution just to get a new gfx card or reinstall the game? Or just ignore it... or am I missing a setting somewhere?
- Map crashes. This is a suggestion, actually, but is there an EASY way to store certain map entity states, like after triggering a trigger_once or even possibly a multi_manager or something, in an encrypted dat file? So after reloading from a crash, players can resume from where they left off? I say EASY because if it's not easy, or if it would use too many resources, don't bother... it's not that much of a hassle to run a map again, it was just an idea for the sake of a small convenience.
- Wiki spam. I haven't created an account on the wiki, so I don't know if there's Captcha before adding/editing an article, but... There's some nice wiki spam (and forum spam!) blacklists out there for public use. i-blocklist.com comes to mind... can't think of others I've used off the top of my head though.
Also I apologize in advance, even in my old internet age, my Search Fu is still imperfect. So sorry if these have come up a lot before.
And yeah, I've tried dropping the weapon once, but I don't think it fixed the problem (that and I'm always nervous about dropping weapons on the ground, especially when weird glitches start happening). Even switching weapons did nothing, but I'll try the drop solution next time it occurs and see what happens.
