Duck and Cover

I mostly agree with OTB. When failure occurs in real life, one either finds an alternate way of attacking a problem or abandons the whole matter and moves on to something else. In neither case do you get a "game over" message and an opportunity to reload. I think a well thought-out plot, w...

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. It sounds interesting enough that I'll install it and give it a whirl. Even if it turns out to be not very entertaining, since I only paid two bucks for it I'm not going to be out anything except a little bit of my time.


Endocore

Is anyone familiar with this game? I picked it up in a bargain bin today for $2 (how could I resist when the back of the box proclaimed "Combines Fallout and X-Com with great looking results"?) and did a quick google search before installing it to see if any patches had ever been released,...

I haven't yet looked at or played Revenge 2 (sorry, MV), but I thought this was a fairly interesting discussion. Requiem For a Starfury and Max-Violence both bring up interesting issues. While Requiem has a good point that there's an expectation of some sort of Fallout-ish convention, sentiment, or ...

This problem is easily solved of course by making new .ents for the offending medical kits and ammo types, but for posterity here's what I've found the problem to be: Unpatched .ent files in question work fine in game (except for the medical kits, which don't seem to work during TB combat but are fi...

I'm on my way to dl these new tiles, but I wanted to commend you first on the original set of new tiles. They're all quite good, and I particularly liked the stoneworks from the "tribals" group and the old FO tanker trucks. The junked half-vehicles will also no doubt be put to good use. I ...

I've been dilligently looking around but still haven't found anywhere where requiem's new tiles are available for download. Where can I get them?

P.S. to JJ86, I looked at the new tiles you made on your mapping site, and they're quite nice, particularly the dead brahmin.


Endocore

I found both girls in the bowling alley (plus the suicide), wiped out the cult (including the two upstairs), then returned to the sheriff, but he won't say anything. What'd I miss? Thanks for the compliment about the map, but I have some bad news in regard to your question. I'm assuming you downloa...

Endocore, I've tried capping mountains and I've got the bald spots to prove it, I realised the map was built either via clips or copy & paste but you've still got to put the sections together and then line them up so hats off to you mate. You're right, mountains are a real pain to build. Lots o...

NMA Sprite Page I have never ever been able to download anything from the NMA site no matter how many browser settings I activate while viewing NMA. I was just over there again looking at these sprites and some of them are quite nice, but alas I was unable to DL any of them. Does anyone know if the...

I've been playing "The Shrine" recently and commend Forty-Six and Two on his excellent mission. I usually like to privately e-mail map reviews to the mapper, but since Forty-Six & Two didn't include his e-mail in the Shrine readme I guess he wanted public posting of comments. Anyway, h...

First off Endocore deserves a medal for map making above and beyond the call of duty, Quagmire is a beauty to look at. I must give Endocore a round of applause for the river, you must have the patience of a saint to cap all those mountain tiles, well done sir, jolly good show. Thanks for the compli...

To OTB: Your comments about weapons and armor modding are very interesting. I'm not all that concerned myself about "realism" either (I think we've had other threads before about the futility of realistic representations of simulated fantasy environments). What does interest me is gameplay...

Thanks for the compliment about my maps. There's another thread in the mapping forum by Max-Violence called "Donations for the Please Let This Map Render Fund" that addresses the issue of making the minimaps that appear in-game on your PIP Boy. Basically the whole process is just a lot of ...

Hey there, any big projects in the oven over at Max-Violence Studios? If I had any time (which I don't), I'd also like to make some mini-campaigns someday that I don't think I could post for downloading due to trademark violations, but others are welcome to take the idea and run with it: would anybo...

Watch Lawrence of Arabia sometime Oddly enough (the war film genre is one of my favorites), I've never seen Lawrence of Arabia, but I'll definitely check it out. Is it just me or is the young Peter O'Toole an extremely creepy looking guy? I'll be very interested in seeing what you finally come up w...

I'm not abandoning DaC, nor am I quitting FoT mapping. OTB Whew, I was concerned for a moment there, but given the enormous investement of time required for mapping it's quite understandable that you can't be all things to all people. You've done an outstanding job as moderator all this time, but I...

I've been playing a bit of Quartz lately, and wanted to congratulate JJ86 on his fine map. The tilework is good, and the detailed storyline with many quests is very interesting. I'm guessing the map was made for CTB play, as the encounters I've been through so far are good in this mode but are a bit...

I just bought JA2 this weekend at COMPUSA and had to start playing it. Not bad although I end up being pretty hard on my mercs. It's a decent game, and although it has a lot of interesting aspects (building defensive militias, controlling mines for income, etc) I think the combat elements leave som...

Learning how to script your maps can be tough, especially since many of the triggers just don't work at all and it's often a process of trial and error to find a way to make things happen as you desire. Since many of the Map Rats' works now available go way beyond anything MF ever implemented in the...