muahahaha! 

PQ kicked poor ol' Bal off! But never fear, Scampie was there to catch the young lad and help him back onto his feet at http://bal.spawnpoint.org ! 

I'm considering buying a GameCube. I don't want to spend money on an XBox because there's still nothing on there that interests me. Maybe when Dino Crisis 3 and some others come out...

In the mean time, my PS2 has served me well enough. 

You didn't get it did you?? Nevermind =) 

ditto what Nitin said, except for the inbetween levels and cutscenes...


really, you have to be sort of into star trek to really like them. i liked the star trek movie First Contact, so it was kinda fun going around in the ship itself... but near the end it was annoying because i really wanted to get back into the action.

also, awesome textures, but sometimes there are textures that are of lower quality (ie: almost all of them are scaled 0.5 but you'll see a 1 scale texture somewhere and it really sticks out)

and that industrial mission got annoying at the end...

and personally, i think my favourite level is the very first one on the enterprise, the one where you explore the busted ship. that was so fun and reminded me a lot of avp2 (especially when the aliens started bleeding yellow goo! i swear, i kept jumping over the yellow splats.)

while we're on EF2, anyone know and resources for level editing? i really want to try that one out... 

looks like it's my lucky day... they've just release a devkit for ef2!


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UberRadient ?!?! 0_o 

which one was the industrial one you got annoyed at? The one mission that sort of got me frustrated a bit was on the enterprise when the warp core was overheating.

As for the cutscenes/story, they were fine at the start but the whole love triangle thing was unnecessary. 

forgot the warpcore part. That was REALLY annoying, because i kept shooting the engine accidentally or i'd actually get to the part where you had to fix it and i wouldn't have any time to do it...
stupid engineer: "Warp core overheating!" >:|
it took me quite a few tries to do that part.

the industrial map i'm talking about is the one of the idryll plant that's making the monsters... there were all these jumping puzzles and i got lost in there too...

oh and one more thing. i hated how the ai partners kept leaving me to do something alone. i think even the klingon made ajoke about it, so i guess ritual realised how stupid it was... but in a way, i'm glad the ai stayed away from me for the most part, because they are not very bright...

As for the cutscenes/story, they were fine at the start but the whole love triangle thing was unnecessary.
yes. especially since it hardly influences anything except to get kissed by one of them. if it had actually affected the levels or something, that would have been much cooler.

but i liked the cutscenes of the ship. they were really cool.

also, the map after the one from the derelict ship was really awesome, because when you start, you can look out the hangar and see the whole station and it looks amazing. 

yeah that was a bit annoying too I suppose, but as far as commercial game jump puzzle maps go, it was actually reasonable. 

Bal doesn't need a page, he's not a mapper. 

it hardly influences anything except to get kissed by one of them.

You are underestimating how it 'influences' sales of the game amongst hormonal teenage boys :/ 

yes, I meant source. 

the site is
http://www.planetquake.com/starbuck/

the update is pointless and rambling 

More of a mapper than you'll ever think of being GrindSpire. Now kindly crawl back into your hole. 

Yay for updates!

Now we just need to get Bal to update his site. 

our next speedmapping session will take place soon!

The time
10pm GMT on Friday, 22nd August
that corresponds to 11pm UK time, or 6pm EST

Date differs from normal because me and Scampie are both away over the weekend

The place
on IRC, in #speedq1 on gamesnet.net

The plan
Make a map in 100 minutes or less.
The suggested theme was thought up by Shambler, namely a terrain map with ancient/medieval setting, e.g. 'Swamp'.
You can use any textures you want, and your map can be SP or DM.

You don't have to follow the theme but it's more fun when you do :). I hope to see you there, it'll be fun! 

Okay, so someone recorded a Quake demo for me, but died on the map and then restarted the map, all in the same demo. After he dies, Quake just prints the rest of the events in the console, and then starts the next demo in its loop (demo2.dem).

Does anyone know how to fix this? Or can you point me to where I might find out? 

make some Q1SP speedmaps with starbuck etc, your Cube ones were allways good =) 

I tried that once. The map was small and crappy and the scale was all wrong making it rather amaturish. I can work at a pretty wicked speed in Cube if I need to, but I just can't do the same in GtkRadiant. It becomes frustrating. Sorry. 

Hehe =)

Swamp is just one example though, anything with ancient, historical, decrepit or arcane architecture in terrain is what I was thinking. Ruins, wood, shacks, castle towers, whatever...GL. 

I may be wrong, but I think darkplaces will play multi-level demos without choking. Otherwise, you could use film-at-11 or keygrip to split the demo into two seperate demos. The standard quake engines just won't play demos over a map change/restart, there's no workaround for it. 

I may be able to join tonights sm :D

Also, I'll run another one Saturday evening at the same time (or maybe earlier if people are around) if I end up being home. I'll annouce it a bit beforehand if I do. 

I'll check those out.

BTW, I did try DarkPlaces, but it didn't work. So either my version doesn't support it, or all DarkPlaces don't support it. 

ah sweet scampie :)

heh, i had forgotten that i was going on holiday on saturday

oh, and ta Shambler 

After downloading Keygrip, I decided to get the latest Darkplaces to see if it worked. The new version I got was 1.5 months newer than the old version I had. Well, it worked; although for some reason it would play in slow motion in some spots, even though it ran at normal speed in FitzQuake. Presumably this was related to FPS and that I did not full vis the map.

Thanks again, dude.