Mafia_Jabba Posted August 11, 2001 Posted August 11, 2001 Has anyone else played this awesome game! Man this is going to bring some awesome mods to the industry woohoo!
Guest Krayt Tion Posted August 11, 2001 Posted August 11, 2001 How fun is the Geo-Mod system? Enjoy blowing walls to chunks?
Wilhuf Posted August 11, 2001 Posted August 11, 2001 I'm looking forward to blowing holes in walls. DLing demo. Will comment later.
Red_XIIII Posted August 11, 2001 Posted August 11, 2001 yo if anyone else trys to download it off those slow sites it was posted on orginaly try here, 3dfiles has it mirrored finaly Redfaction demo
Mafia_Jabba Posted August 11, 2001 Author Posted August 11, 2001 It was fun as hell..but what disappointed me was like...I tested it out and I blew the floor out of this house thingy on their extra stuff and it didn't fall with the ground. So it was "floating" in mid air...They should change the physics and stuff to match geo-blow stuff up if they are going to have it. [ August 11, 2001: Message edited by: Mafia_Jabba ]
Red_XIIII Posted August 11, 2001 Posted August 11, 2001 yah that was cool blowin the floor out and stuff, heh u know this is a leaked demo as it isn't even mentioned on thier main site.
Wilhuf Posted August 12, 2001 Posted August 12, 2001 Actually, on the level where you pilot the submarine you can blast chunks out of the stalagmites and they will then collapse to the floor. Very cool. Pity this demo doesnt have multiplayer. Lot of fun.
Guest Krayt Tion Posted August 13, 2001 Posted August 13, 2001 I was fairly impressed with the geo-mod system... tried to dig to china, but was only allowed a certain number of missing chunks in a general given area.
OnlyOneCanoli Posted August 13, 2001 Posted August 13, 2001 128MB's? Oh. My. God. This an overnight download, no doubt.
OnlyOneCanoli Posted August 13, 2001 Posted August 13, 2001 There is no broadband in the swamps of south florida. Actually there is, but I'm about 42 inchesout of the Bellsouth DSL range and Adelphia is doing what they do best. Not helping.
Darth Simpson Posted August 13, 2001 Posted August 13, 2001 I'll get my new system within the week, and hopefully DSL shortly after. I'll probably get this demo on a CD. PC Gamer has promised it for next issue. I just bought Max Payne, so I can't wait to put my new mahine together.
Wilhuf Posted August 13, 2001 Posted August 13, 2001 I believe you can allocate memory to geomod support. Increasing the allocation will allow you to dig more chunks out of the game environment, until the memory buffer is full. This game badly needs a multiplayer demo. CTF with geomod should be a blast!
Guest Krayt Tion Posted August 13, 2001 Posted August 13, 2001 Ah yes I think I remember seeing that in the options before I went in game. I checked and it is officially called Geometry Cache (set to 8MB by default on my machine) in the out of game setup options. I wonder if that is the Video Card's RAM? Most newish cards today 'only' have 64 Megs of it... if so how much of your video card's RAM could you safely dedicate to the Geo-Mod system without taking a hit in FPS? ...This should depend on your other specs of course. It would be awesome if you could dedicate your real RAM to the Geometry Cache, for those of us with oodles of it that never gets used... but it does not look like this is the case. If you enter a number like 256 and it accepts it I would assume that this must your system's actual RAM you can dedicate to it, unless they failed to take this into account. This option is under Video settings and it deals with Geometry so I still think it must be your Vid Card RAM. Someone do some research on this if you are bored Simpson what are your new machine's specs? [ August 13, 2001: Message edited by: Krayt Tion ]
OnlyOneCanoli Posted August 13, 2001 Posted August 13, 2001 Hahahaha... I downloaded that demo last night. Tops the previous DoD 1.2 download by about 50MB's. Simpson, I'll put it on that CD if there's room. And I'll try that out Krayt. I have 512MB's of RAM in here... it'd be nice if I could actually do something with it.
Wilhuf Posted August 13, 2001 Posted August 13, 2001 Another question about the Geometry cache. I wonder how multiplayer handles different cache settings for different players? Will the lowest memory setting be used? The highest? How would the game reconcile differences. For instance, if I want to blast a lot of holes and have the memory for it, I can. But will the other player with less memory not actually see or be affected by them? I'm sure that wouldnt be the case, but how would it be resolved? Probably the cache is set to a standard amount in multi and that is the end of it. Definitely looking forward to blasting holes in walls to fish out campin' fools. Or in ctf, blasting holes in escape routes to cover my egress with the flag. Or how about blasting an instant foxhole for defense? Or maybe blast a trench into the floor to hamper incoming flag cappers. Or blast a hole through the deck to attack the guy on the floor below or above you. Gotta love the concept. Will be interesting to see if it delivers.
OnlyOneCanoli Posted August 13, 2001 Posted August 13, 2001 This game is pretty cool. Very arcadish to me. Not that that bothers me. I didn't like the death animations, but I guess I'm spoiled after Max Payne. I'll probably pick this up if enough people get it... the geo mod thing works really well, and like Wilhuf said the possibilities are endless.
OnlyOneCanoli Posted August 14, 2001 Posted August 14, 2001 You can range the geo mod thing from 2 to 32. 32 makes a significant change-in the "EXTRAS" mode they included in the demo, I used all my remote charges and rocket things, and still was not completed with my creative hole. Still more blasts available.
Mafia_Jabba Posted August 14, 2001 Author Posted August 14, 2001 It will probably be a standard in MP..but didn't they promise like water to flow into the new holes if it came from a different source too? -Also..I think they should really fix the physics like how that building didn't fall even if you knocked everything out from under it... -And how to they expect to keep newbies from blasting everything to hell in MP?
Darth Simpson Posted August 14, 2001 Posted August 14, 2001 My specs are as follows : AMD T-bird 1.33Ghz 512 MB RAM Asus A7M266 Motherboard Asus GeForce3 Pioneer DVD 16x/40x IBM Deskstar 60GB HDD Soundblaster Live 5.1 The parts will probably arrive tomorrow or Thursday. The wait is a pain!
Red_XIIII Posted August 14, 2001 Posted August 14, 2001 Din't Play the SP lvl with it? some areas can't be chiped away, and thas probably how it will be IN MP
matt-- Posted August 15, 2001 Posted August 15, 2001 It runs decently on an old pentium 233. I loved tunneling up through the walls, ending up above the ceiling and then blasting down through the roof. I was trying to land on the glass structure, but...
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