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I'm not sure having a disable toggle on the laser sight is a good thing - the extra visibility of it is the penalty for the benefits of using it.

If you want to stop the beam without dropping the sight you can change to a non-lasersighted weapon (such as shotgun/knives) at the cost of having to weaponchange back to your uber-accurate pistol.

Also why add an extra keybind for such a minor thing?

fanatic Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 136 Location: Germany

Did a brief playtest and this is what I found, might already be known.

- Cannot stand up properly or not at all after a dive onto a non-planar surface
- Also cannot roll on non-planar surfaces
- MP5 and Beretta do not display the fire mode on change
- When joining you see a model spawn and die
- Cannot stand up or roll when landing near a wall after a dive still there (performed an update before joining the server)
- Load-out screen saves the weapons previously selected but you have to select them again to be able to press the action button
- Every few shots from any pistol the screen flips 180 degrees on the Y axis for a frame - got a screenshot of that if needed

And that recoil effect when shooting is a bit annoying since the screen tilts up and down for about two frames - but that might be just my taste.

fanatic Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 611

fanatic Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 611

fanatic Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 136 Location: Germany

fanatic Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 136 Location: Germany

Since there is hardly anyone on the AHL2_OrangeBox server whenever I check I thought it would be cool if I could be notified when there is actually someone playing. As the Steam server browser cannot do this I wrote my own server browser and thought I'd share it with you if anyone's interested.

What the tool does:
- Check the registry to find out where steam is installed
- Check for and parse the masterservers.vdf file to know where to query
- Check for and parse any found gameinfo.txt and liblist.gam files below the steam install directory
- Display every valid filtering option including a dropdown list of all games found in your steam directory
- Query the master servers for games fitting your filtering options and subsequently every game server found
- Display the results in a table
- Show a notification (balloon tip on the trayicon) if there is any active player
- Do the above every x minutes (default is 5 minutes, can be changed in the trayicon context menu)
- Can be minimized to the system tray to not eat up taskbar/superbar space

What you should know:
- If either Steam is not installed or the masterservers.vdf file is not found it will notify you about that and just close
- You need the .NET Framework 2.0
- Since this is the first version there might be unhandled exceptions

To download just click this link: http://maennertechnik.net/sgsq.zip

fanatic Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 611

Nice, I was thinking of adding this kind of funtionality to the updater tool. Make it into more of a launcher.

fanatic Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 136 Location: Germany

fanatic Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 611

All this next yr stuff. Now share me the source code!

Site Admin Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 519

if all the testers joined a steam group.. wouldnt you see them come and go out of the test server ? via friends?!

just an idea? but awesome idea on server browser

hlsw rules also

keener Joined: 04 Oct 2009 Posts: 65

The 31st build was pretty buggy, we had a lot of the following:

Major issues:
Intermittent exception crashes
Stealth slippers not working
Silencer didn't intermittently work
With all pistols, shooting near enemies makes bullets pass right thru (major!)
Collision issues with player models (passthroughs, models-within-models, knives go thru etc)

Minor qualms:
Stunt has a violent yank feel to it
The sniper has lost quite a bit of ground to other weapons with the smaller ROF and the violent, slow zoom effect, not sure if it's nerfed but it's getting there
No visual feedback in the player model selection menu

Pluses (!):
Getting up is smooth and nice
Stunt-stucking fixed, excellent!
Menus look very cool and work
OB you so purdy

fanatic Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 611

Thanks for the detailed report. Obviously something wrong with the new hit and bounding boxes. Or with the dlls

keener Joined: 04 Oct 2009 Posts: 65

I've got a suggestion for KetchUpdater, actually.

How about the inclusion of simple changelog-like messages, like, "tried to fix collision issues in build 2015", "added more sauce". One sentence if something's worth mentioning type stuff.

That way you'd know what you're getting when you update. I know it's more work for you guys and I don't expect verbose changelogs or anything, but it'd be helpful to know, broadly, what's going on when you update your files. Would also know what to look for if there are outstanding issues.

fanatic Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 684 Location: Finland

If you dive in an online server, the view jumps for a fraction of a second. Distracting until you can get used to it. Can anyone confirm this?

Also, the handcannon blast is powerful enough to shove around those wrecked cars on Corrugated. Not necessarily a bad thing, just pointing out.

keener Joined: 04 Oct 2009 Posts: 65

fanatic Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 136 Location: Germany

fanatic Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 684 Location: Finland

fanatic Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 611

fanatic Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 136 Location: Germany

About the server browser I mentioned 14 posts above: get the new version at http://maennertechnik.net/sgsq.zip - by double-clicking a game in the list you'll directly launch into that game. And you don't even have to start Steam beforehand.

keener Joined: 04 Oct 2009 Posts: 65

Hahaha, really?

Yeah, you can only pick up weapons and ammo if you crouch atm. Thought it was by design!

fanatic Joined: 03 Jan 2005 Posts: 684 Location: Finland

I thought it was intentional too

I think I have suggested such a thing before. Mainly after picking up too many berettas from dead people when I was trying to save room for akimbo colts.

fanatic Joined: 18 May 2005 Posts: 611

For that I'd like a setting, allowing you to choose between auto pickup and manual pickup. Leave it at auto to spare the newbies.
Seriously though, unless one of the other devs has done something, I dont think we changed anything about weapon pickup, and I havent noticed it when playing either.