/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3919219
Not really, no. I just have Very Strong Opinions about backwards compatibility in newer versions, and I was in a bad mood due to IRL stuff so I loudly argued about it at great length with some of my modder bros. No harm, no foul, not the first time this has happened. :)

In reality, there'll be some growing pains due to parts of the engine being converted from hardcoded to external scripts, and some pieces of the scripting language are not ideal for various reasons (usually relating to weird stuff Randi did with the VM or psychological scarring Graf picked up from dealing with bad code when working on other games) but ultimately it should give modders more options on ways to do things that may be less hacky or horrifying to work with than current solutions.

The existing options like DECORATE will still remain, and ideally they'll still work the same as they always have. Since there's a lot of stuff moving around under the hood, though, some behaviour may unintentionally change without Graf noticing. And that's basically what the whole argument was about - I really REALLY want people to report such changes because a.) they're considered bugs and b.) having mods suddenly be locked behind an old version of a source port - whether that be ZDoom or Zandro or EDGE or whatever - is awful and makes it a real pain to revisit old mods for fun and inspiration.