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Great writeup! Vividly remember this being a thing especially in multiplayer. What was that janky match matching service, MSN something? Also a really underrated game, the mechanics (line of sight over the horizon stuff) and isometric graphics were pretty cool for the time and it had a well developed story/campaign mode.
Dear god I loved this game when it came out. It was hard .
Dear god I loved this game when it came out. It was hard .
I remember it taking me ages to complete the demo missions. And once I had, there being tons of replay value just in the demo missions.
This is cool, maybe "target left arm" implies that it's your left, when targetting them and you're facing each other. So, their right arm.
Btw, I recently did my first patches with ghidra. Is there any way to avoid jumping into a code cave by shifting all the instructions up then updating any statements referring to those memory locations? Seems like it should be simple enoigh in theory, but I didn't find an implementation on a cursory search. Could probably code up a plugin pretty easily.
References are under no obligation to be presented in a sensible, decompiler-friendly way.
Which is why "jump out into the patch, jump back in" is such a staple of patching. The other way is the hard way, full of pitfalls and potential issues.
(original Mechcommander is still the best of the series, even if mission 5 broke my soul for awhile).
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I remember it taking me ages to complete the demo missions. And once I had, there being tons of replay value just in the demo missions.
That damned Vulture in the base in the second demo mission was rough. I hit a serious wall in the campaign in Op1M5 when you had to defend the farm. It’s almost a shame that MC2 is so easy in comparison
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That damned Vulture in the base in the second demo mission was rough. I hit a serious wall in the campaign in Op1M5 when you had to defend the farm. It’s almost a shame that MC2 is so easy in comparison
Op1M5 was scarring the first (dozen) time around! Thank you minelayers
Great writeup! Vividly remember this being a thing especially in multiplayer. What was that janky match matching service, MSN something? Also a really underrated game, the mechanics (line of sight over the horizon stuff) and isometric graphics were pretty cool for the time and it had a well developed story/campaign mode.
So in one of my first piece of software that I wrote for real money I had two functions. One called create_scene_left(), the other called create_scene_rght().
I was very pleased with myself for sneaking in creating_a_scene, but the left and right versions did the opposite of what their names indicated. Users of the software had no problems, but I am sure it would confuse any maintainer.
It even took me an year to even realize that the names were wrong.
Great writeup! Vividly remember this being a thing especially in multiplayer. What was that janky match matching service, MSN something? Also a really underrated game, the mechanics (line of sight over the horizon stuff) and isometric graphics were pretty cool for the time and it had a well developed story/campaign mode.