[IPAndrews]

Good I think our AI is lethal enough. Thanks.

[taylor]

What's this ai_lethality fix Taylor? Just so i know what else we took onboard with this latest fix.

"lethality" is used by the AI pretty much only for turrets at the moment.  It's used as a modifier to determine how dangerous a target is, so that greater priority can be applied to that target as something to be fired at.  It's basically saying that for a capital ship under attack, bombers should be a higher priority target than fighters because the bombs are doing more damage to the capital ship and destroying the bombers is of more importance than just the closest ship.

The fix was to a bit of code that scales damage from weapons.  Weapon damage was being scaled after the lethality was updated, meaning that a hostile ship could end up being more or less of a threat than it really was.

[karajorma]

Yeah, I figured that it was doing something along those lines, but I didn't want to introduce any balancing issues at this late date.

[taylor]

That's fine, I don't plan to commit it until after it's been in a Xt build anyway.  I was just too lazy to remove it from that diff. 

[gerrish]

does it freeze every time (PLEASE TRY BEFORE TELLING ME "YES, IT DOES")

yeah tried it several times and the same thing happens
using a Dell inspiron 2200, intel celeron M processor 1.50GHz, 504 RAM and 20Gb free memory

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Are you running in Direct3D or OpenGL?  I'm not positive on this but I'm thinking it's the Intel video card not being able to handle the program.  If it supports OpenGL you should be using that.  Try getting the latest drivers for the video card. 

[Jeff Vader]

On several occasions I've heard that people with Intel graphics cards have problems getting the game to run under OpenGL. Most likely due to poor drivers by Intel. Usually Direct3D, as terrible as it is, is the only option for them.

[karajorma]

Are you running in Direct3D or OpenGL?  I'm not positive on this but I'm thinking it's the Intel video card not being able to handle the program.  If it supports OpenGL you should be using that.  Try getting the latest drivers for the video card.

He won't be able to run in D3D with the standard BtRL builds that TBP uses. They let you pick D3D in the launcher but they just run OpenGL anyway. I'll have to make up a pair of D3D enabled builds with the latest fixes. I do have this one from December though.

[gerrish]

Thank you for the posting the D3D builds Karajorma, although i tried running Direct 3D with them and the game froze up upon entering the mission. So do you guys think as a guess getting a better video card should solve the problem? I did try up dating the driver but to no avail. 

[rwm]

Please report your experiences with the TBP 3.4b release candidate release here.

The number of maximal respawns (only 20) in the Coop MP-map "Ultimate Gauntlet"(FUBAR-MG02.FS2) and other Coop MP-maps is too low. Is there a way to fix this, so that the host has more freedom to adjust the difficulty?

[IPAndrews]

To adjust the difficulty. Press F2. And adjust the difficulty.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

The number of maximal respawns (only 20) in the Coop MP-map "Ultimate Gauntlet"(FUBAR-MG02.FS2) and other Coop MP-maps is too low. Is there a way to fix this, so that the host has more freedom to adjust the difficulty?

The 20 respawns in Ultimate Gauntlet is more than enough.  Any more and it turns the mission into nothing more than a a way to rack up easy kills.  Since every ship is available I had to balance it against the most lethal fighters.  I personally have gotten over 200 kills on medium.  Besides there is no way to beat the mission so you would still end up dead even with 99 respawns. 

[Vidmaster]

well, at least the Vidmaster's Challenge (not the major one) got rebalanced, but did not make the deadline. It's possible, just difficult.

[rwm]

The number of maximal respawns (only 20) in the Coop MP-map "Ultimate Gauntlet"(FUBAR-MG02.FS2) and other Coop MP-maps is too low. Is there a way to fix this, so that the host has more freedom to adjust the difficulty?

The 20 respawns in Ultimate Gauntlet is more than enough. Any more and it turns the mission into nothing more than a a way to rack up easy kills.  Since every ship is available I had to balance it against the most lethal fighters.  I personally have gotten over 200 kills on medium. 

20 respawns is not enough. We always get killed too fast before we can destroy the Excalibur, because of those Vorlon fighters.
I would like to have the freedom to have 99 respawns like in some other maps. I don't see a problem with that. Those that like 20 respawns can still play with 20, but those who want to play that Gauntlet longer now can't. Is there a way to change this?

Besides there is no way to beat the mission so you would still end up dead even with 99 respawns.

So how can you say that 20 is enough and why there is no way to beat the mission?

[FUBAR-BDHR]

What part of unbeatable didn't you understand.  You can't destroy the Excalibur and the Vorlon fighters are endless.  Hence the and now you die message.

[Vidmaster]

To my mind, the idea of a gauntlet is to constantly improve the pilot's skills and get harder. This means, a gauntlet cannot be finished. It's like building fortesses out of sand on the beach with extremly complex defensive measures. The goal is to survive as long as you can against the sea, not to beat the sea.
And since I made the (first) gauntlet for TBP and the other ones are based on it, there are no FS2 style gauntlets. You get rated instead, based on your progression.

If you don't like that, everybody is free to create more multiplayer missions. I even urge you to do it 

[rwm]

What part of unbeatable didn't you understand.  You can't destroy the Excalibur and the Vorlon fighters are endless.  Hence the and now you die message.

You did not say that you can't destroy the Excalibur and that the Vorlon fighters are endless. That's why I asked "why there is no way to beat the mission".

[PSI-KILLER]

Nice looking installer!!!!!

[Vidmaster]

so, official and inofficial TBP team members:
shall we label this release final ?