Aliens mod: Release

Huh. Fascinating.

Coming from you, someone I've seen for years (over a decade!) as something of an EDGE ambassador, this carries much weight. I'll be splitting EDGE and 3DGE into their own entries on my Target list.

yeah. the new EDGE has alot of new features, but the userbase is very small, and it's hard to debug the engine. i mean, devs cannot play everything by themselves, we need people to report bugs. either a lot of people, or very dedicated testers (hi! ;-). and time, a lot of free time. also, adding new features is fun, fixing bugs is boring. ;-)

so, we have "old and stable" engine, and "new features, but unstable" kind. of course, it is easier (and more safe) to target the stable engine for now. maybe even fork it, fix some small bugs, but don't add a lot of new features to not break things. that doesn't mean that the new engine is worthless, they simply have two different goals.

something like that, i think. ;-)

So far i didn't experience any other bug.
I have a little lag when i look directly down to the floor when the handgun with flashlight is equiped, and thats mostly because of my low pc specs, but aside from that, nothing bad.
Seeing this mod made me realise the really low exposure EDGE has in the community.
And i wonder why is it?

I have seen some developers talk, with ketmar here to verify, on the dsdehacked unlimited, and something there made me kinda laugh.
Graf saying that port especific or locked down to port mods are a bad thing.
Ok, one may say that with GZDoom having soo much port especific mods is kinda an stupid statement, but then i realise how wrong i was when i remembered that k8vavoom also supports decorate, and probably most gameplay mods for gzdoom. And probably there are other source-ports that i don't know that probably support it, too.

So has EDGE some port especific functions not shared with other source ports?
I'm asking from a total ignorance of the matter as, if Lobo has't made this excellent Alien Mod, i would probably didn't downloaded EDGE to play and get amazed.
One of the things that totally blowed my mind is how smooth and totally able to play it with full settings on my low end non hardware graphic card AMD10 with just an integrate graphic card of 1gb.

I remember trying Total Chaos low graphic version and it totally stalled all my PC functions.
So it would be possible to port it to EDGE, for example, since the performance is soo good on lower end PCs?

ketmar thanks for the easily grasping explanation for illiterate people like me.
Hope you can achieve adding it to k8vavoom.

I wonder how Total Chaos would have worked on k8vavoom on my low spec pc (or if it is even fully compatible).
I only have 3gb of HD space, so i'm not downloading TC to try for myself.
Shame that i didn't knew about other ports that suported decorate when i downloaded that total space eater that Total Chaos is :/

So getting back on topic: has anyone actually finished AEM yet? 😀

The sentries can take some punishment but they are destroyable. Otherwise boss fights are too easy. You can even destroy them yourself with grenade fire.

I am going to update some of the maps sooner or later.

Also, what do you mean "spawner things"? Like an ambush were enemies appear? There are plenty of those already.

Glad you liked it.

Did you notice the marine corpses that where lying face-up and twitching? If you shoot them a chestburster bursts out of their chest

I'll check the map 10 save crash. I thought I fixed those: are you sure you're playing the latest version?

If the white armoured androids were shooting tracer bullets, then you've got the latest.
I'll check later just in case.