Hi
Well, i feel like posting...
NT, nothing has changed between you and me, you're on crack
i still consider you an INF buddy.. your preference to ra286 is irrelevant in that matter.. and if i left the server that one night abruptly, it was because i was tired (finding bugs in the code online pisses me off), not because i was ignoring you..
At first, the idea spawned as just the gunsight view to compensate for 90 degree FOV "fish-eyed syndrome". i did try to make this for the public and see how people would like it. i found out quickly.. i read some of the RA history in the forums, yurch went thru hell it seemed; so i decided not to go there. From that point, Toad and I just started to implement extra stuff as it came for ****s and giggles. i never really expected people to like what i'd put in simply because i think i've held the title of Most Hated Player for a while.. and whatever you may think, your preference will always be biased in a sense to the way you feel about the person. But i don't mind the rants i've seen so far; it was expected. Besides, i've gotten to know most of you that way
...No, the real reason i've been away coding is because Bunnie doesn't play anymore and i got bored. i got to know the scripting a lot more to my benefit and it was just for fun.. not realism. PR1 has been testing this because Bushie is a good friend of mine and he likes what i've changed. Aside from the fact that i've been getting value tweaks from Bushie and Toad (who actually have real life military experience with REAL guns..you know the ones that go *BANG* really loud and dig your own grave?), the theme was taking a turn for the surreal and just plain goofie
For instance, you drop the Robar if you hip shoot it now, but originally i wanted to make it knock you out flat on your ass if you so happen to shoot it while standing! but i got lazy..and was warded off that suggestion by Taque whom i officially deem the RA Robar Whore
There are features that are not so off the top though.. like the blood physics and bleeding (which btw is no longer so detrimental that it kills you fast, and which you can stop by the help of a teammate). Ricocheting bullets work quite nicely now as well--
But back to the surreal...how can you not have fun blowing away someone with a gamma bomb, hearing him scream the long extended cry, and having him reduced to a "bucket of uncooked KFC" ('gibbed' for those who don't understand)? Yes people, the phaser frag mode option is the most ambitious addition to the mutator. i don't know, but i have fun playing that, i need a change every now and then..
Anyhow, i haven't been following up on the posts and comments about ra286 because you should know that it's not my way to visit the forums often, and i don't really play INF anymore
As yurch adequately put, there are other priorities in order, even for me.. BTW yurch, it's great working with your scripts--you have the most hilarious documentation lol
i've enjoyed playing INF with you guys this past year and I salute the RA community.. and have it know that i still consider its members a bunch of pissants intent on breaking my balls
P.S. I don't have 20 hours to code.. I have a motherphuckin' 8-hour job as a SARS screener in a hospital Monday-Friday.. and I sleep too