Friday, July 26, 2013

New update, bugfixes, easy mode, you know the drill

New version is up:

http://mdqp.nachtwolf.at/Tales%20of%20the%20Drunken%20Cowboy%20-%20Chapter%201%200.72.rag

It still needs the 2.4.14 version, which you can find here:

http://www.ragsgame.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=894&start=20


If the forum is down (it seems to happen from time to time), try this link:

http://mdqp.nachtwolf.at/RagsSetup.2.4.14.msi


There is an easy mode and a "I just want to use the travel sphere" mode (if you aren't into cheating, but thought the fights were too hard, and it took too little time to get enslaved by ALICE, try easy mode, and let me know if things improved for you);

ALICE can't enslave you as long as your mental resistance is higher than 3 (this is true even for the normal difficulty);

Changed some parts of the text, to improve (you probably won't notice it, it's fairly minor, right now);

Fixed all reported bugs and typos;

I probably did some other changes, but I can't remember what right now (small stuff, nothing to worry about).

Other than this, I have to report a 10 € donations by C. S. (thanks a lot! ^_^).

It's been a pretty calm period, since I am not developing new stuff for the moment, so this should be pretty much about it. Once the web version is uploaded, I will update the link for that one, too.


Since I left you guys for too long without a video, I think it's about time I take care of your "anime (poor) review" addiction. Enter "Full Metal Alchemist"!

It just so happens that a pervy image is the one shown when the video isn't going...

 It's the story of two brothers who are trying to find the philosopher's stone, after their attempt to resurrect their mother through alchemy backfired, destroying part of their bodies as a result (one of the two got actually completely destroyed, and has his soul attached to an armor now). The story clearly has a lot of dark elements to it, but it also manages to be quite fun. I can't speak for the finale, because I read the manga, and didn't watch all the anime's episodes because of that, and I know that they start to differ halfway. The manga ending was a bit underwhelming, in my opinion, so here's hoping they did a better job with the anime.

This is is for this week, see you next time. ^_^

25 comments:

  1. give me the straight dope. is Tony the one doing all this?

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    1. I shouldn't answer, because I don't want to give any hints as to where this is going... But he is innocent, I don't want crazy theories to start about him! XD

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    2. So he *IS* the one!!!
      I bloody knew it! ;)

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    3. Well, feel free to believe what you want, but don't get disappointed when you find out the truth! XD XD XD

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    4. Bah truth comes and goes, this is forever:
      >>> http://belarr.com/bakercat/ <<<
      :P

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    5. -.- -.- -.- -.- -.- -.- -.- -.- -.- -.-

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  2. Apparently FMA Brotherhood is more faithful and actually better than the normal FMA anime. Still gotta check that out, only watched like the first season or two on dvd that I borrowed from a friend. It was ok but I thought it really shone when it got all serious and didn't pull its punches with its dark tones. I mean man I nearly cried at the dog part (not giving too much away but suffice to say Fu*k the dad).

    But back to Tales, its awesome so far :D I like the references to other things with the images and the story is surprisingly well done. Keep up the good work and look forward to checking out this version.

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    1. I mean I watched the first season or two of the original FMA anime.

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    2. Yeah, the dark tones are executed better. Never saw FMAB, so I can't say if it's any better. Once I finished reading the manga, I was kind of done with the story, so I doubt I'll ever watch the anime again, but if you end up watching them both, let me know how they compare to each other! ;)


      Happy to know you like it! References were more abundant in the early development, now they are dwindling a little, but I like to know people get them, although I don't know how many remain undiscovered (some are a bit obscure ^_^).

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    3. Brotherhood is on YouTube somewhere.

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    4. Thanks for the info, but as I said "Once I finished reading the manga, I doubt I'll ever watch the anime again", so if your comment was directed at me, I am not interested.

      P.S. Did you watch both? Can you tell me which one is better? Even if I won't watch them, I am kind of curious. ^_^

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    5. I've watched both - they do go in different directions - might be worth your time to finish the original FMA anime, just because the twists are different. The Homonuli have a different origin, for example (Sloth and Wrath are entirely different). It ends rather differently, as well.

      I liked FMAB a little better - the fights got a little more epic and clever, though FMA hit on a cute bit of philosophy, and ups the horror in an existential way. Twice, actually, but one's sort of blink and you missed it until it comes back to roost at the end.

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    6. There are already so many things I plan to watch, so I have to trim the list down a little, and since I already read the manga, I decided not to watch the anime again, but I see, it sounds like there is some interesting stuff there.

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  3. Hmmm... just re-downloaded rags and totdc, been half a year, and the original computer I played this on is... toast. With a clean install of 2.4.14, and the link you provided, I'm getting a "Sorry, this rags game file is unreadable" error. Re-downloaded both in case of corruption with the same result. Grabbed blanked to test, which works fine. Any thoughts?

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    1. You have no other version of RAGS installed, right? I know this sounds weird, but could you try downloading the game one more time? I get a lot of reports for corrupted files, (I don't know if it's a problem with RAGS).

      If it doesn't work, let me know. I'll put a quick test-game, to see if the issue lies with the game file or the RAGS player.

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    2. I also had this problem. Uninstalled/reinstalled several times.

      Then I installed using the .exe instead of the .msi, and then it worked. From what I could tell the .exe appears to contain the .msi but also installs something else before it installs the .msi. Not sure what, but it seems to have done the trick.

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  4. So how do you do the easy mode, anyhow? When I start up, the travel sphere/cheat menu isn't in the inventory, like it was before.

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    1. When you start the game, you get the option between easy mode, normal mode, and getting the travel sphere. I assume you don't need easy mode with the travel sphere anyway (I mean, with the travel sphere you are already invincible, basically), so they are separated right now.

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  5. Well, your game really nice, Celeste is very cute but i think she forget to wear boobs. Didn't like flat-chested girls.

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    1. Well, since I am not a plastic surgeon (and I am not good at manipulating pictures), I am afraid there is nothing I can do about it. ^_^

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  6. 2.4.14 version, eh? *click*
    "404 - File or directory not found.
    The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable."
    ... well fuk

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    1. Try this link:

      http://mdqp.nachtwolf.at/RagsSetup.2.4.14.msi

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  7. Some of the fights were indeed very hard, so thanks for the ez-mode, hated having to spend all the creds into weapon mods, medkits and shieldboosters. :P

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    1. The idea was to make it less of a chore, for those who aren't really into the combat system, so I hope it works fine. :)

      Are you having no problems so far? The easy mode hasn't been tested yet, so it might still need some tweaks (I didn't go overboard with it, so some fights should still have some difficulty to them).

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