Wednesday, July 15, 2015

lazy bugfix update

So, the bugfix is out:
http://mdqp.nachtwolf.at/Tales%20of%20the%20Drunken%20Cowboy%20-%20Chapter%201%200.92.rag

This should fix all the issues that have been reported to me (unless I goofed up and forgot about some of them :p ). It also adds an action to "reset" the last puzzle on Darenzia's side quest, which should be useful if RAGS is acting bonkers as it does at times when saving/reloading and layered images get mixed up.

I also fixed a few bugs that weren't reported, and now you'll never know about, since they are gone! I also added 2 random events and 1 non-random event related to Celeste's new... Career choice (make sure you do all the jobs, if you want to see the new events, 2 on Europa 4 and 1 on Kantor). Two of those feature something new to the game: gifs! You all know the deal with gifs (lower fidelity, but you get some animation). I had to use a workaround, because RAGS is stupid (you need to use pause in order to display pictures, space out commands and text, etc, but if you use pause, it also seems to pause the gifs themselves. If you use the overlay menu to input choices, though, the game waits for you to pick an option, while the gifs run happily in the background). I'd like to hear what people think about them, if the quality is too low or whatever other issue there might be (since RAGS really, REALLY don't like gifs, it also bugged on me completely once, so I can only hope it didn't fuck up anything, as I can't test the entire game).

Another thing that is kind of new, is that I had to convert all sound/music files in mp3s, because someone is helping me to make the web version work (it will take more time, but it will work when eventually it will come out), and it ensured compatibility, so let me know if any sounds/musics are missing or any other issues with sound in general. Well, that's about it, hopefully everything goes just fine, and no more bugs are found. I'll update the links everywhere whenever I can, have fun. ^_^

13 comments:

  1. Ho trovato due bug.

    Il primo è su Europa 4, se lavori come spogliarellista nel quartiere a luci rosse e appare Blackthorn e decidi di picchiarlo vieni cacciato dal locale ma se ci ritorni lui rimane li e hai di nuovo la possibilità di interagire con lui.

    Il secondo bug è su Maltik nella nuova quest di Darenzia. uso il remora per accedere al pc e risolvo il puzzle (quello simile al sudoku) mi dice di aspettare un giorno ma il giorno dopo non riesco comuqnue ad accedere al pc e mi chiede di risolvere il puzzle un'altra votla.

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    1. Risolto il primo bug (una volta non potevi tornare nel nightclub, se lo picchiavi, evidentemente dopo averlo cambiato ho dimenticato di rimuovere Blackthorne).

      Il secondo bug non riesco a riprodurlo. Hai usato un salvataggio dalla versione precedente, o hai usato la travel sphere? Stai usando RAGS 2.4.14, giusto?

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    2. Si sto usando quella versione di rags e non ho caricato un salvataggio vecchio. Forse sto sbagliando qualcosa io. Entro nello studio di Matt forzando la serratura, poi connetto il remora sul pc e risolvo il puzzle. Dopo le scene di Celeste ed essere tornato in controllo di Darenzia ritorno nello studio e riconnetto il remora al pc e devo fare tutto daccapo. Anche esaminando il pc non mi da nessuna opzione per usarlo. L'unico modo che ho per accedere al pc è fare amicizia con Aletta e trovare la usb.

      Scusami se scrivo in italiano ma non mi andava di scirvere un testo così lungo in ignlese :-D

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    3. Forse ho capito il problema (forse ;p): per caso quando risolvi il puzzle inserisci i numeri lasciando degli spazi tra un numero e l' altro (1 4 2 invece di 142)? Ho commesso una svista ed ho dimenticato di attivare il PC se usi gli spazi.

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    4. Centrato in pieno! Ho provato ad inserire i numeri senza spazi e funziona perfettamente! Ottimo lavoro :-D

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    5. Eh, sarebbe stato meglio se avesse funzionato fin dal principio, però. XD

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  2. Is the "new career" a reference to the photo shoot or did I miss something? And if it is, how do I get the third job? I got the initial one, and the followup on kantor, but I don't think I've seen anything else.

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    1. Did you try Darenzia's side quest? If you fail, but have been "nice" enough with Matt, you might get the new career I am talking about... ;)

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  3. Hey, I found some bugs, and I'm not sure where to post about them.

    When I try to hack the "metal box" with the Nividium gotten from the warehouse the HTML version of the game freezes completely.

    Same thing when I go to the police station on Europa 4 on mission, and the "stealth map" of the upper floor appears, complete freeze.

    I use RAGS 2.4.0.0 and the game immediately crashes on loadup, its why I'm using the html version.

    Any tips? Thanks :)

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    1. To play the normal version, you need the 2.4.14 version of RAGS (you can find a link to download it in the sidebar of the blog). This should allow you to play the game without any issues (well, there is still a bug, but it involves just a few extranet entries, so it's not a big deal).

      I personally have no idea on how to fix the HTML version, but I can try to pass on this info to the guy who helped me to get the web version to work in the first place, maybe he can figure something out.

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    2. The nvidium one is a problem with the rags file, i will mail mdqp the details. RAGS seems to once more simply ignore any logic error it encounters...

      How can I quickly get to the second error? Additionally what browser are you using and can you post the last error from the error console (ctrl-shift-j in firefox f12 in ie and then select console)

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    3. If you have a save game shortly before the police station freeze you may want to export the game and copy the displayed text (please all of it) to a site like pastebin.com (private/unlisted)

      provide the link and steps to recreate here

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  4. If you have a save game shortly before the police station freeze you may want to export the game and copy the displayed text (please all of it) to a site like pastebin.com (private/unlisted)

    provide the link and steps to recreate here

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