Half-Life Decay

[Hoaxer]

Current list of possible fixes to be included with the international release of Decay is as follows:

[Gurluas]

A button to make the elevator in dy_accident1 return.
If a new player joins/leaves you cant continue because the elevator is gone.

[Hoaxer]

[Vit_amiN]

hoaxer, as I said on www.hl-inside.ru,

- Add "developer" and "size" params to "liblist.gam";
- Move "game" in liblist.gam to 1st position (important!);
- Add game.ico to "decay" folder (just copy decay.ico)*;
- Fix ScoreBoard Panel (#LATENCY etc.) - titles.txt.
Please And thank you.

*it's needed because when MOD hasn't it's own game.ico, GoldSrc
engine loads default icon.ico from "valve" folder (it's just a cosmetic
fix).
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[extr@ctioN-p0int]

First of all, congrats on the release!!!

I can finally play Decay

Haven't completed it yet - I'm taking my time, but I have a few suggestions for improvement so far, though I suppose some of these problems may have existed in the original Decay (if so, feel free to ignore these suggestions - you've done great work already by porting the game!)

1) I'm playing through Steam, and when I start a new game, it defaults to random maps - kinda silly when playing a linear game, especially as the missions are locked at first, but I guess it's part of the SDK, and possibly cannot be removed. But if possible, maybe it should be.

2) The map names are the internal names, not mission names and thus not in the order in which the missions should be played. (I remember there is a similar problem with map names appearing instead of mission titles in Opposing Force and possibly Blue Shift, too, when a new chapter begins and in the saved games list).

Is it possible to at least get the maps listed according to mission order?

I guess the easiest way to do this is to rename each map and add a mission number at the beginning of each name: 01_accident_1, 02_accident_2... or something like that.

It'd be best if there's a way to have list showing which missions have been unlocked when starting a new game, similar to the chapters list when starting a new game in Half-Life 2... But from what you wrote before, Hoaxer, I guess the SDK might not support that

3) When I switch players in game, it seems to be adding weapons again each time - not giving extra ammo, just giving the notification of weapon being collected. It of-course does that in the beginning of each mission as well, along with announcing the addition of energy to the HEV. This can be annoying if NPC's are talking as it makes it hard to hear the dialogue. I suppose this problem may have existed in the original PS2 version, but either way, could be nice if this could be somehow circumvented.

4) It seems the flashlight is not being assigned with a default key - should be set to 'F'.

5) Speaking of flashlights, turning it on seems to slow down the game sometimes. The game sometimes slow down when there's a lot of action (many NPCs). I know my ancient 3Ghz P4 with X1600 wasn't much for gaming even when the hardware was brand new, but the Half-Life Gold-Source engine is 10 years old and this should be enough for this game to run smoothly. Or is it?

In "uplink" map, when Rosenberg reaches the locked door, if I'm trailing behind him, when approaching him, the game hangs for a few seconds, every time.

Not sure what causes this hang and those slow downs. I guess it should be tested on other machines. So far it wasn't too much of a problem, but it might be on the more advanced missions.

(and maybe it's just time for me to get a new PC...)


That's all I remember for now. But still, the game is amazing - Thank You!

[Litude]

[Barnz]

-There should be "clip brushes" next to complex brushes (i.e. the valve at the beginning of "dy_focus").

[iocator]

I'd like to see a change with the AI, either with it's weapon priorities (on dy_fubar it tries to kill the vortiguants with the rpg) or make it so that the bot only uses whatever weapon it's currently holding.

[extr@ctioN-p0int]

[Hoaxer]

[vs49688]

At least make the bot have a "follow you" code like barney and the scientists have. when you press 'e' it follows you and when you press it again it stops following you. This would make life a lot easier.

[franky200]

[Gurluas]

[HunterInHunt]

the only bugs i found so far:

In dy_accident 1 one of the three posters near the startpoint has a graphic issue.

It seems the revolver has no reloading sound. I never heard it just once.

The Ambience sounds in many maps aren't working sometimes. Sometimes they work sometimes not.

The ventilator in dy_dorms plays no sound at all.

sometimes the scripts are not working probably.

Security guards, keller , rosenberg etc... don't talk sometimes but i know they should talk in that specific moment to 100%. I know that of a previous round i played.
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Long life the HL Universe!

[Hoaxer]