/vr/ - Retro Games

Play Rise of the Triad you fucking mooks, the first FPS with jump pads.

>"Rise of the Triad was also the first 3D action game to have the ability to play as women or people of color."
-Tom Hall, possibly virtue singalling but also correct about yet another first for FPS in RoTT.

Minorities were not represented again until Lo Wang in Shadow Warrior and Superfly Johnson in Daikatana.

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>200 page players guide
I would fucking kill to have that. I wonder if its even been scanned? I would be eternally grateful if someone could find that but I doubt it

What Tom Hall and his team achieved with the Wolf3D engine is highly impressive. It is more a bastard child to the engine it was changed so much. The finished product is by no means an engineering marvel but had a certain charm to it.

Here are some of the things that are in the ROTT engine:

Multi level orthogonally based levels.
Room over room (sort of).
Transparency.
Textured Floors and Ceilings.
Dynamic Lighting.
FLIC support (although we never had any in the game).
CINEMATIC engine (also never used. The ending sequence is scripted but doesn't utilize the cool shit developed before hand).
11 player network support.
Masked Walls (Textures with holes in them).
Moving Walls.
Stairs (sort of).