Questions regarding Retro features

by **karx11erx** » Wed Jul 23, 2014 1:58 am

Drakona, are you able to tell me whether my assumptions are right or wrong?

by **Drakona** » Wed Jul 23, 2014 2:16 am

by **karx11erx** » Wed Jul 23, 2014 2:28 am

Having to acknowledge messages two times during their trip to their final destination means additional potential lag and chance of packet loss on two connections.

Ofc you are right that this doesn't play a role in 1on1 matches.

Anyway, interesting insight, thanks for the explanation.

D2X-XL handles this differently. Important messages aren't routed over the game host. I wouldn't know why that should happen. They are sent directly from the client generating them to the other clients, just as with the original protocol. D2X-XL just adds handshaking to that.

Btw, maybe you are following the D2X-XL Facebook channel, but in case you're not you may have missed that D2X-XL now has an observer mode: You can either freely roam the map or follow other players, watching them from a chase cam perspective. ;-)

by **Jediluke** » Wed Jul 23, 2014 10:21 pm

UMMMM...sure would be nice to have that observer mode...wouldn't it?!

by **Drakona** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 12:34 am

by **karx11erx** » Thu Jul 24, 2014 2:07 am

Well, of course you can make your own attempt. I wish you good luck with that. It took me around two days to add it to D2X-XL. Let me know how long it has taken you once you'll be done, alright?

by **RiTides** » Tue Jul 29, 2014 2:35 pm

by **bahamut** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 1:08 am

Drakona, may I ask why the fusion shake feature was not able to be Implemented?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ahvx493hngrjfeh/d1xfcord.dem

here's demo of it in d1x 1.43, it's a feature that I think needs to be looked at publically perhaps??

Thanks and see you in the mines :mrgreen:

by **Drakona** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 3:57 pm

Oculus Rift . . . buy me one and I'll think about it.

Fusion shake . . . yeah, I haven't taken the time to look at the ship shaking stuff as a group, to be honest. My impression in shaker games is that the ship is shaking WAY too much, and that with fusion, it isn't shaking enough. But I haven't done any research or analysis to back up that intuition, and I agree that ought to be done.

by **Tyranny** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 4:44 pm

Fusion feels fine in Retro and, personally, would prefer it stay as is. The shield consumption at full charge is penalty enough when you consider you're under fire most of the time and taking damage on top of that mechanic. I feel the amount of shaking it already does is sufficient in pushing you off a well timed shot down hallways or in open rooms for the most part. With the speed that the game is played today it lends itself better to the current pacing of the game even if it isn't exactly how it used to be. That's just the way I feel about it.

-Tyr