LP Update/Comment Thread

[ArcCain]

Have you considered making a Warcraft 3 LP?

Btw, why are you not found of Hunters in WoW?

[IskatuMesk]

Hunters op.

If I do wc3 it won't be for a very long time.

Additionally, we're apparently having massive construction in my dead-end street to replace 60 year old pipes and the entire road. This may end up effecting my internet connectivity; at the least, it'll make me very mad (and probably sick from tar fumes). So, this may effect my future productions for a while.

[ArcCain]

Okay, stay safe.

[IskatuMesk]

I am in the process of verifying Demon's Souls (re-verifying my old files as well) and I foresee a pre-December release. While I need to decide how I'll handle Dark Souls, the first thing I plan to do when I mop up this mess is clean out the remaining junk from my drives if I haven't yet (including the unfinished XXE, even if I can't make it that long). There's the matter of the BW videos that remains to be solved. If I could, I would just stash the uncompressed videos on an external for the later time, but the indefinite hold of the 3tb drive put a major strain on all of my storage logistics. I need to muster the willpower to dive back into that mess, and soon, to determine if it's able to be recovered and either reformat or recover it ASAP.

/update

The recovery process for the HD is under way. So far, 0/60 mkv's are functional. However, it has recovered about a dozen working mp3's (out of some 1.1 million files), so not all hope is entirely lost. It's most likely, though, that the files are unrecoverable. Probably due to fragmentation or the MFT rolling over.

We're looking at a very short XXE release in the near future, primarily to help clean my drives. Demon's Souls verification is progressing at a slow but steady pace.

/update 2

XXE 9 is up and the recovery process continues very, very slowly. More DS segments rolling out internally. About 30% done internal verification.

[ArcCain]

Keep up the good work.

[IskatuMesk]

The recovery is finished and sorting has begun. I didn't think getting rid of 20 million txts (the remains of fragmented or mangled data from the drive) would be so time consuming. Geez.

But there may be good news. Out of 6 mkv's I quickly tested, 3 were fully functional segments (two of Exigo and one of something else) with no distortions.

Once I have cleaned the gunk out of gogney's gap, I'll begin going through the several thousand mkvs that the recovery spewed out and see if what I'm after is there.

If I can recover either Hunted or Space Marine (even though I never planned to edit/release it), I'll back those files up for future editing and verification as I had originally planned.

My edits for Demon's Souls are coming along nicely and I am probably over 50% done now.

As for Dark Souls, I've decided that I will probably run the PC version with some kind of patch or hack to fix the aspect ratio scaling that butchers its quality. I will then figure out if I can get my controller to work on it (I do NOT want to play this with a keyboard, fucking console ports). The only thing left to decide is if I'll do networking or not. I'm erring on the side of not, namely because I don't want phantom messages to carry me through stuff or whatever.

But we'll see. I already own the console version, and I'd love to see the horrible performance it will have, so...

[Mr.]

As for Dark Souls, I've decided that I will probably run the PC version with some kind of patch or hack to fix the aspect ratio scaling that butchers its quality.

http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?tag=dsfix

This fixes the graphics. Check out the .ini settings, and change things around, and turn off AA in-game. There's also a fix out there to get 60 fps, but it supposedly causes a few glitches here and there, and will possibly get you banned from GFWL.

I will then figure out if I can get my controller to work on it (I do NOT want to play this with a keyboard, fucking console ports).

http://www.motioninjoy.com/

They keyboard and mouse controls are abysmal for this port. Like, not even playable. There are apparently some mods out there that attempt to remedy the awful mouse controls, but if you've got a controller there's no point. While experimenting with it, I actually found it easier to use the keyboard by itself, not even touching the mouse at all.

But anyway, motioninjoy works for emulating a XBox controller with a PS3 controller, or for directly assigning buttons to it. Just a warning, I had some issues with it screwing up my wireless mouse and keyboard previously, but I was able to sort it out, and I'm still using that software. This is assuming, based on your wording, that you don't have an XBox360 controller. If you do, it supports it by default.



With the graphics fix, and controller support, the PC version is essentially a nicer looking version of the console release, however, the networking seems to be worse on PC. If you're not playing online, then that's not much of a problem. If you do, that just means that you may notice people trying to invade you 42 times unsuccessfully before one person finally manages it. Or that summoning someone takes like 20 tries.

[UntamedLoli]

Way ahead of you Bill. The 60 fps fix is also part of dsfix now but still buggy from what I've read.

I also haven't had any issues using KBM with dsfix and dsmfix. I would be doing myself a favour if I modded the UI to show my bindings instead of the 360 controller.

[IskatuMesk]

I have set up Dark Souls on the PC. I won't be doing networking, but everything else including my character is ready to rumble as soon as I'm up to casting.

Release of Demon's Souls is < a week now. Probably in 2-3 days.

[ArcCain]

Me and my bro will enjoy Demon´s Souls, but I would like to ask, will you maybe play Mother 3, (Earthbound 2), in the future?

[IskatuMesk]

Absolutely. I will do the fan translation of Mother 3 when I switch back to PC/emulated titles.

Demon's Souls is coming out tonight. Keep an eye on the OP.

[IskatuMesk]

Take upon the mantle of the all-American hero, Professor Snape, and fly the flags of political correctness in a demented and agonizing journey through Demon's Souls. This 50+ hour LP takes me through the deepest pits of gogney's gap to the greatest heights of Goff's rod, available now! I also released a third and final GW video in content extras.

I also need to fix the bbcode to spoilerify the DS segment listing but I don't know why it isn't working. Time to harass Lavachu.

The review will be up shortly, vegas is a bit tied up right now.

/edit

The review is up now.

[Pr0nogo]

I'm laughing my ass off, hahaha. Great stuff.

I'll listen to the review after I'm done viewing the whole LP. Just out of curiosity, and laziness, what was that third RTS you mentioned in the Armies of Exigo review? StarCraft, Armies of Exigo, and ___. I forgot what it was and I'd like to see if I can't find it.

[IskatuMesk]

Conquest: Frontier Wars?

Been a while, just a totally wild guess.

[Pr0nogo]

I don't know. It was the third on the list of top 3 RTS games.