/vr/ - Retro Games

Almost done with Mjolnir and I'm really not sure how to feel about it. The scope and scale is impressive, but the quality seems to vary wildly even within the same level. Texture scaling, and geometric detail for stuff like arches, rocks, and columns is all over the place. You have MDL statues that look like they should be the player's height at most scaled up to like 20 meters. You've also got custom weapon models like that mace that are somehow fuglier than the morningstar that was cut from DOE (which looks even more hilariously bad when switch between it and the Violent Rumble Mjolnir with its corrected UVs and added detail). The heavy use of MDL props had also lead to extremely inconsistent collision.

Gameplay is kinda all over the place too. Splitting the DOE ammo types into fully separate weapons seems really dumb with how many other weapons have already been added. A lot of the powerups are weird, incomprehensible, or outright redundant (this was a Drake problem too). I don't see why I would use any melee weapon other than the vampiric mace, which you can take from the start level. The flak gun is ironically pretty bad unless you hit an enemy directly. There are random swarms of murderous bees sitting on the ground in a couple levels that you aren't supposed to kill if you want Thor's blessing... which itself isn't explained (I guess it just saves you from dying once?). Gremlins move faster without their animation actually being sped up, which looks dumb and makes them walk into walls since they can't turn as often. A few enemy variants aren't visually distinct enough to warrant how different their attacks are (i.e. the Wrath that attacks like an Archvile).

I like it overall, but the smaller, more focused levels are so much more fun than the fuckhuge ones that they hyped up.

Rumble niggurs, how goes the maps? Just want to check in because I'm literally (figuratively) dying from a sinus infection and might fuck off and just sleep for a few days straight.