Section 8

Scherzo · Joined: 10 Sep 2008 Posts: 177

Has anyone checked out this game? I haven't had a chance yet but the word I'm hearing (mostly at Tactical Gamer) is that it's very Tribes-like.
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Firestormm · Officer Level 80 Mage Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 25

Never heard of it, guess I'll check it out.

Scherzo · Joined: 10 Sep 2008 Posts: 177

No Linux dedicated server, so I'm skipping this one. Too bad.

http://forums.timegate.com/showthread.php?t=15260
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deadhead · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:00 am Post subject:

lame! When will these developers get with the program? Mad

Its not like it would be that difficult if they would start out with that goal in mind... they wouldn't need a separate code tree.
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Scherzo · Joined: 10 Sep 2008 Posts: 177

Indeed. Check out this cross-platform 3D library that fafhrd is dabbling with:

http://www.ogre3d.org/

And for a dedicated server, you don't need rendering code. You need collision detection and a reasonable library to abstract things like networking and maybe concurrency. Boost can do the latter. (I'm integrating it now into an app where I carefully walled off the OS-dependent stuff in a small set of classes. Boost is considered a testing ground for stuff that might enter the next C++ standard.)
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Firestormm · Officer Level 80 Mage Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 25

Sorry to hear you passing on Section 8 Scratch I'm finding it pretty cool. The jet pack are short duration best for jumping up on buildings or over objects to gun down the enemy hiding there, they also add another dimension to reduce your dammage taken (move left, right and up). I'm still working on the training missions and the instant action bot maps to get a feel for the keys and options it's been a while since I played a FPS, but oh baby Multi-player PvP soon. I haven't tried any vehicles but read they were difficult to operate but so was the Shrike in T2. The heavy tank has 4 positions all have guns, once I master driving that puppy look out. The game isn't overly complicated kinda like tribes was so it's been quick to pick up. There are really only 16 keys plus maps and chat keys so it's pretty straight foward.

Well if you change your mind see you on the battlefield I'll keep you posted on how it plays in real PvP.

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Scherzo · Joined: 10 Sep 2008 Posts: 177

The game was designed for Xbox, and with MS backing, it's no surprise they're hostile to a Linux server. As it's targeted at a console, they have to simplify the controls.
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deadhead · Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 4:32 pm Post subject:

I didn't know about the MS backing part... Its as if a shade has been lifted and now I can see! Wink

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Firestormm · Officer Level 80 Mage Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 25

I'm superised MS hasn't put out a version of Linux considering they built a company based on another open source OS with there MS-DOS. I remember I useed GW-DOS until MS-DOS came out.

Targeted for XBox or not I like the simplified controls. There are actually 37 different keys including chat, maps & misc.

The game does allow for hosting a server either a LAN or and Internet server, however, I know less that nothing about hosting on a Linux server.

Scratch please don't try to explain the conversion to a Linux server, you might as well explain it to your trash can it would understand it better than me.

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Scherzo · Joined: 10 Sep 2008 Posts: 177

Firestormm · Officer Level 80 Mage Joined: 28 May 2009 Posts: 25

Yep your right Scratch in July 1981, Microsoft bought all rights to the DOS from Seattle Computer, and the name MS-DOS was adopted. Shortly afterward, IBM announced the Personal Computer, using as its operating system what was essentially Seattle Computer's 86-DOS 1.14. Microsoft has been continuously improving the DOS, providing version 1.24 to IBM (as IBM's version 1.1) with MS-DOS version 1.25 as the general release to all MS-DOS customers in March 1982. version 2.0, released in February 1983, had been announced with IBM's new XT computer.

But I do specifically remember back in the 80s using a version called GW-DOS I could be wrong.

Believe it or not but back in the early 80s I was the first one in the laboratory to request a IBM PC it took me 3 years to get one, little did I know I was opening the flood gates.

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Scherzo · Joined: 10 Sep 2008 Posts: 177

That was about the time I was one of the "elite" with a Commodore Amiga, looking down at all the poor PC people who didn't realize what crap they owned. Wink

(Commodore was worse at marketing the Amiga than IBM was at OS/2, so it never had a chance against Big Blue and the many hungry clone makers.)
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eeyore · Joined: 22 Aug 2008 Posts: 68 Location: NH

I loved my Amiga 500. My favorite thing was when the PC owners would say: "Your computer can do that?"
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