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Requests For Features / Special level availability: let player decide!
« on: September 02, 2011, 14:41 »
Greetings!
We all know the frustration about not having the Wall just because it has a 100% chance to appear yet it appears 39% of the time... because it gets overwritten by another special! However, solving this by making every special level appear always takes the "special" away...
My suggestion is simple. Let the player decide which special level he takes!
All special levels that chose a level to appear would appear on it. Player would have to make sure he discovered all stairs and chose the stair he wants. This would make it less frustrating and allow you to choose a level you rarely see because something else you wish less overwrites it.
We all know the frustration about not having the Wall just because it has a 100% chance to appear yet it appears 39% of the time... because it gets overwritten by another special! However, solving this by making every special level appear always takes the "special" away...
My suggestion is simple. Let the player decide which special level he takes!
All special levels that chose a level to appear would appear on it. Player would have to make sure he discovered all stairs and chose the stair he wants. This would make it less frustrating and allow you to choose a level you rarely see because something else you wish less overwrites it.
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Requests For Features / Request for simple usability and comfort features
« on: September 02, 2011, 14:37 »
Greetings.
DoomRL is surely a great masterpiece, but playing it i keep finding frustrating, tiring, annoying or just complicated moments for that a fix is very simple and would, without changing game balance, provide for a much better experience IMHO.
1) Running.
Like it is now, running has basically two modes - stop or not on items, and even that is buried in config.lua (and isn't even close to other run options which makes it even more complicated...)
May i propose numerous run options (like different keys for different run modes) or possibly a run modification (like you can press RUN then direction, or you can press RUN then CAUTIOUS then direction) or toggle (you can press "run mode toggle" to scroll between run modes, and run key does the currently chosen run mode).
- CAREFUL - should stop when encountering enemy OR enemy blip if you have intuition OR door OR item
- NORMAL - stop when encountering enemy OR enemy blip if you have intuition OR door
- CARELESS - only stop when encountering an enemy OR enemy blip if you have intuition
Really, being able to stop when encountering enemy blip with intuition is probably the most important. Also, not requiring to go to config to change if you want to walk over items would be a huge plus, as an option to ignore doors ON DEMAND - you know, like when Jericho went off, and your guy keeps stopping near doors...
2) Being able to continue shooting somewhere you don't see.
DoomRL is A LOT about shooting at something you cannot see. Yet, game penaltises you for that, requiring you to re-aim every shot! Of course sometimes you can shoot at visible tile and bullet will go on and hit, but you cant always rely and sometimes it just wont. In such cases, having an option (config, or ingame key) to continue firing if you didnt move would GREATLY save time and frustration. It really hurts to keep re-aiming at a bruiser brother or an arch pack with a shrapshooter build...
Saves time and removes annoyance!
3) Option to automatically scroll to the end of the message text instead of having to click for more.
Currently there are often situations that require you to read walls of text. It happens for example if in one turn you get shot 10 times and you shoot 10 times... You keep pressing [more] and this is really annoying. Not to mention i think if you play for a fast achivement it is a REAL problem! A simple option to show the last of the messages, and an indication that the message was bigger than the screen, would suffice! It would greatly help in those situations when you KNOW what happened (you saw those 3 A firing at you and you know your TH FS Assault Cannon fires ALOT of bullets and you saw it kill two enemies in a volley). This could be a config option for simplicity.
4) Easy way to determine item or any object ID.
A lot of people have a lot of preferences. Changing color is one of the matter of preferences, and currently, you have to go to a non-existant wiki page (by google caching it) to get the item or enemy id's you want to recolor (and still new packs and stuff isnt there obviously). Game itself should know this very well and could easilly display it on demand. A debug option/cheat/something that would show ID of the thing you look at would greatly help customizing the game experience!
5) "Sticky" fire option
Currently the message about killing yourself takes you out of firing mode. This VERY MUCH helps you get killed when you are repeatedly firing something outside your vision range. You do fire-aim-fire-listen for death-repeat. If you make a slight mistake and press f twice in a row and instead of doing fire - go to aiming mode you do go to firing mode-fire at yourself you will move instead of aiming.
This would be VERY easy to fix - just make it so only escape takes you out of firing mode, attempt at firing on yourself should just show a message and continue aiming.
Also this would be much better than current "require enter when attempting to fire an empty weapon" - instead it could go to firing mode but refuse to fire. This would both solve "moving instead of aiming" problem and remove the need to press enter.
6) Very long item names
Often some modified assembly item would have a too long name. This makes its most important part - stats and mod lists - go off the screen. Obviously, the mod list and current status (ammo/armor) is THE thing that interests you more than "modified" prefix! If there would be an option to align very long item names to the right border of the screen, hiding the prefixes or item name start. Probably even add some "short" versions like M. instead of Modified. Everything, but the item status should be clearly visible on the screen.
Thanks. I hope at least some of my ideas prove useful...
DoomRL is surely a great masterpiece, but playing it i keep finding frustrating, tiring, annoying or just complicated moments for that a fix is very simple and would, without changing game balance, provide for a much better experience IMHO.
1) Running.
Like it is now, running has basically two modes - stop or not on items, and even that is buried in config.lua (and isn't even close to other run options which makes it even more complicated...)
May i propose numerous run options (like different keys for different run modes) or possibly a run modification (like you can press RUN then direction, or you can press RUN then CAUTIOUS then direction) or toggle (you can press "run mode toggle" to scroll between run modes, and run key does the currently chosen run mode).
- CAREFUL - should stop when encountering enemy OR enemy blip if you have intuition OR door OR item
- NORMAL - stop when encountering enemy OR enemy blip if you have intuition OR door
- CARELESS - only stop when encountering an enemy OR enemy blip if you have intuition
Really, being able to stop when encountering enemy blip with intuition is probably the most important. Also, not requiring to go to config to change if you want to walk over items would be a huge plus, as an option to ignore doors ON DEMAND - you know, like when Jericho went off, and your guy keeps stopping near doors...
2) Being able to continue shooting somewhere you don't see.
DoomRL is A LOT about shooting at something you cannot see. Yet, game penaltises you for that, requiring you to re-aim every shot! Of course sometimes you can shoot at visible tile and bullet will go on and hit, but you cant always rely and sometimes it just wont. In such cases, having an option (config, or ingame key) to continue firing if you didnt move would GREATLY save time and frustration. It really hurts to keep re-aiming at a bruiser brother or an arch pack with a shrapshooter build...
Saves time and removes annoyance!
3) Option to automatically scroll to the end of the message text instead of having to click for more.
Currently there are often situations that require you to read walls of text. It happens for example if in one turn you get shot 10 times and you shoot 10 times... You keep pressing [more] and this is really annoying. Not to mention i think if you play for a fast achivement it is a REAL problem! A simple option to show the last of the messages, and an indication that the message was bigger than the screen, would suffice! It would greatly help in those situations when you KNOW what happened (you saw those 3 A firing at you and you know your TH FS Assault Cannon fires ALOT of bullets and you saw it kill two enemies in a volley). This could be a config option for simplicity.
4) Easy way to determine item or any object ID.
A lot of people have a lot of preferences. Changing color is one of the matter of preferences, and currently, you have to go to a non-existant wiki page (by google caching it) to get the item or enemy id's you want to recolor (and still new packs and stuff isnt there obviously). Game itself should know this very well and could easilly display it on demand. A debug option/cheat/something that would show ID of the thing you look at would greatly help customizing the game experience!
5) "Sticky" fire option
Currently the message about killing yourself takes you out of firing mode. This VERY MUCH helps you get killed when you are repeatedly firing something outside your vision range. You do fire-aim-fire-listen for death-repeat. If you make a slight mistake and press f twice in a row and instead of doing fire - go to aiming mode you do go to firing mode-fire at yourself you will move instead of aiming.
This would be VERY easy to fix - just make it so only escape takes you out of firing mode, attempt at firing on yourself should just show a message and continue aiming.
Also this would be much better than current "require enter when attempting to fire an empty weapon" - instead it could go to firing mode but refuse to fire. This would both solve "moving instead of aiming" problem and remove the need to press enter.
6) Very long item names
Often some modified assembly item would have a too long name. This makes its most important part - stats and mod lists - go off the screen. Obviously, the mod list and current status (ammo/armor) is THE thing that interests you more than "modified" prefix! If there would be an option to align very long item names to the right border of the screen, hiding the prefixes or item name start. Probably even add some "short" versions like M. instead of Modified. Everything, but the item status should be clearly visible on the screen.
Thanks. I hope at least some of my ideas prove useful...
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Bug Reports / [generic] Not a bug but a VERY annoying windows XP console feature
« on: September 01, 2011, 10:46 »
Greetings.
I hope someone can help me. Every once in a while, my computer screen goes BLACK. That only happens if i'm in full screen console mode! I have checked and disabled both screen saver and monitor off after inactivity. It still happens! This must be some screen saver for dos/cmd windows option or something. Can someone tell me how to remove it?
I hope someone can help me. Every once in a while, my computer screen goes BLACK. That only happens if i'm in full screen console mode! I have checked and disabled both screen saver and monitor off after inactivity. It still happens! This must be some screen saver for dos/cmd windows option or something. Can someone tell me how to remove it?
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Bug Reports / [0.9.9.3 XP] Doomrl occasionally fails to start, and night.monst. missing souns
« on: August 24, 2011, 11:40 »
Greetings
Gah, the topic name isnt long enough :(
I want to report two problems, do not know if they're bugs though or some error on my part.
First of all, and i wasnt able to google anything on the matter, my Doomrl has no sounds for nightmare monsters. Period. Imps, cacodemons, everything nightmare-ish isnt making any shounds except when shooting. This obviously makes it hard to spot them and to know if they're hit, and also, just sucks...
Second, occasionally, like once in 50 launches, DoomRL will complain about something and exit very quick. I wasnt able to copy the log, but it complains about some .pas module not being able to access some sound file.
PS: Also, my friend on another PC (also XP) reports that if he types something with a space into colors.lua file, for example "Berserker pack = CYAN", the game wont start for him, showing ????'s for message. However if i do the same on my PC, game will start all right (just the string itself wont have any effect since there are no item id's with spaces).
Gah, the topic name isnt long enough :(
I want to report two problems, do not know if they're bugs though or some error on my part.
First of all, and i wasnt able to google anything on the matter, my Doomrl has no sounds for nightmare monsters. Period. Imps, cacodemons, everything nightmare-ish isnt making any shounds except when shooting. This obviously makes it hard to spot them and to know if they're hit, and also, just sucks...
Second, occasionally, like once in 50 launches, DoomRL will complain about something and exit very quick. I wasnt able to copy the log, but it complains about some .pas module not being able to access some sound file.
PS: Also, my friend on another PC (also XP) reports that if he types something with a space into colors.lua file, for example "Berserker pack = CYAN", the game wont start for him, showing ????'s for message. However if i do the same on my PC, game will start all right (just the string itself wont have any effect since there are no item id's with spaces).
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