Screenshot thread

[Denim Destroyer]

My tactic of pelting enemies with suicide bombers is surprisingly effective.

 

[Kev Inkline]

Blasphemous 2 + Sea of Stars

Nice to see Prosper making getting his graphics into a game, even if it's the giant statues in the background.

 

[HansDampf]

I'm done with Arcane Dimensions and played through every map on Nightmare except the test maps. Some screens of my favorites:

ad_mountain

Equip the ring!

ad_swampy

Insanely complex village thing.

Of course, you only get the RL after you've reached the rooftops. It's a shame, many of the maps won't give you the most fun weapon in the game until the map is almost over. Or I missed the secrets.

Grendel's Blade

Spoiler

Cool vertical map built around a giant sword. If you find all the runes you can destroy the blade. But the following battle is kinda lame.

The Realm of Enceladus

Too bad the lighting doesn't look that good with the soft shadows.

Terror Fuma

Base with spider infestation.

The Forgotten Sepulcher

Yeah, fuck that! I swear, this map changes over time. I kept finding secrets in places I was sure I'd already checked before.

Nyarlathoteps Sand Castle

Secret!

These enemies should have been used more often.

Ak-Alakha

This is basically just one complex arena that you slowly progress through upwards. But this was also the only time I found the combat to be somewhat challenging with nasty monster placement.

Sir!

The end.

But my initial excitement has now almost vanished. I just happened to have randomly picked the most impressive map first (Tears of the False God), and then continued with the other maps in chronological order, oldest first. Most of them are also pretty good. There are only two that I disliked, ad_magna and ad_lavatomb, made by Noel Lacaillade. Both have rather boring combat and progression, and lavatomb is also outright prosper.
I don't know what it is, but after I was halfway through AD's maps, it started to feel more like "going through the motions".

 

[Vyadhis]

I'm done with Arcane Dimensions and played through every map on Nightmare except the test maps. Some screens of my favorites:

ad_mountain

Equip the ring!

ad_swampy

Insanely complex village thing.

Of course, you only get the RL after you've reached the rooftops. It's a shame, many of the maps won't give you the most fun weapon in the game until the map is almost over. Or I missed the secrets.

Grendel's Blade

Spoiler

Cool vertical map built around a giant sword. If you find all the runes you can destroy the blade. But the following battle is kinda lame.

The Realm of Enceladus

Too bad the lighting doesn't look that good with the soft shadows.

Terror Fuma

Base with spider infestation.

The Forgotten Sepulcher

Yeah, fuck that! I swear, this map changes over time. I kept finding secrets in places I was sure I'd already checked before.

Nyarlathoteps Sand Castle

Secret!

These enemies should have been used more often.

Ak-Alakha

This is basically just one complex arena that you slowly progress through upwards. But this was also the only time I found the combat to be somewhat challenging with nasty monster placement.

Sir!

The end.

But my initial excitement has now almost vanished. I just happened to have randomly picked the most impressive map first (Tears of the False God), and then continued with the other maps in chronological order, oldest first. Most of them are also pretty good. There are only two that I disliked, ad_magna and ad_lavatomb, made by Noel Lacaillade. Both have rather boring combat and progression, and lavatomb is also outright prosper.
I don't know what it is, but after I was halfway through AD's maps, it started to feel more like "going through the motions".

Is this what the mod looks like out of the box or did you have to add more stuff to get those graphics?

 

[Fargus]

Some Sons of the Bitches Forest ea screenshots

 

[Zariusz]

From the Give Credit Where It's Due Dept.:

This does look almost Moria-like.

Underdark is the best part of the game.

 

[potatojohn]

After suffering the retarded edgelord writing in bg3, Bethesda's writing is like coming to your comfy home from a winter rain

 

[Darth Roxor]

we tomb raider now?

Spoiler

these cute swinging crushing jaws would suggest as much

as would this lava pit under them

actually we quake 2 now

 

[schru]

actually we quake 2 now

As I suspected, you have had the problem with both lightmaps blending and the skies looking wrong all along. It causes the world geometry to look darker than it should, while the layers of the skies just don't combine right. It's an old problem, though, so you may have seen the game like this not long after its release.

Here's the same scene on emulated Voodoo 1 (or Direct3D, or OpenGL without MultiTextures and OneXBlending):

Using Voodoo 2 does make the window on the right more transparent, though. Here's a screenshot from dgVoodoo with the same gamma ramp for comparison:

 

[Strange Fellow]

Here we are, in a situation where my ship's lazorz aren't powerful enough to penetrate the flagship's shields, but all its weapons have been taken down by boarding parties. So now we're just sitting here, neither capable of damaging the other.

If it were any other ship I could jump away, but the flagship has to be destroyed. RIP this run. It was going so well.

 

[Hag]

What game? And is that the Giant's Causeway?

I'm trying to work out if the angle makes sense for that to be Dunluce Castle in the distance

It's TT Isle of Man : Ride on the Edge 2.
The screenshot comes from the free roam mode that is supposed to take place in Ireland, but I think it's a mix of different places. Here is the full map :

 

[Kabas]

Ashes: Afterglow

More Ashes

Nukes were involved last time my bike got stolen, just saying

A quick and simple death is not enough for me, huh?! Rotten muties

It was nice of them to keep all of my upgraded weapon collection in one place tho

You can skip the entire key hunting sequence on this map by using this route.
Cool but why would you want to miss out on a potential loot/junk though?

"Hmm... Fresh victims for the evergrowing army of the undead."

The town ruins are my most favourite locations here. They're all very pretty and are fun to explore.

The next part was a bit painful indeed

Ok, i did not expect this.

 

[Zlaja]

Quake II Remastered (texture smoothing off)

RIP, bros!

Bastards!

Enhanced strogg tits

 

[NecroLord]

Quake II Remastered (texture smoothing off)

RIP, bros!

Bastards!

Enhanced strogg tits

I heard the Berserker has a new incredibly annoying jump attack.
Another "feature" I guess...

 

[Zlaja]

I heard the Berserker has a new incredibly annoying jump attack.

Yeah, the annoying part is that it pushes you backwards when it hits you, sometimes knocking you off ledges.

 

[Dr1f7]

this game rocks

 

[Vincente]

 

[HansDampf]

Is this what the mod looks like out of the box or did you have to add more stuff to get those graphics?

Sorry for the late response, but yes. This is what AD looks like in Quakespasm with mostly these settings plus "gamma = 1.2" and "contrast = 1.4".

 

[schru]

Judging by the screenshots, you've turned off most of the graphical ‘enhancements’, which makes the game look close enough to its original version. Maybe only fires and particles are different, if what I tried (Quakespasm Spiked Multiplayer) is the same as the version you're using. Then there's the missing distortion on the weapon textures which only appears in the software renderer. You can always try Mark V, I think all it needs to run is to be extracted into a base folder with id1 folder in it, and PAK0.pak and PAK1.pak inside the latter.

I've used this blog article as a baseline: https://quake.blog/configuring-quakespasm-for-a-modern-retro-look.html
Also adjusted gamma and contrast.
If I decide to play through Quake again, it will probably be in DOSBox on Nightmare.

Is this what the mod looks like out of the box or did you have to add more stuff to get those graphics?

Sorry for the late response, but yes. This is what AD looks like in Quakespasm with mostly these settings plus "gamma = 1.2" and "contrast = 1.4".

I failed to pick up on it the first time, but do not use the music pack linked at the end of the article. It's a distorted modification made under the assumption that Quake's CD tracks had pre-emphasis, as I mentioned in the other thread. It seems that some pressings with it were issued by auxiliary publishers, but it was most likely a mastering error. The tracks lose detail when a de-emphasis filter is applied to them and Nine Inch Nails' 2020 official remaster of the sound track doesn't use this technique, and the music sounds even more crisp.

Here you are, I converted the lossless rips I have to MP3 and OGG, they're without a de-emphasis filter. The different titles are because they're named after maps they appear in, as there were no official titles at the time and the ones in the Quakeaddicted link appear to have some titles switched around even with respect to the fan-given names.

https://mega.nz/file/qNNGRAZb#LhieYn32lebkiX0DlfxsZks8CBJzEFyiYJJ1MKxMBIg

 

[potatojohn]

It's interesting that the only realistic gun in Starfield is the Russian VSS Vintorez

 

[Strig]

Enhanced strogg tits

Wait... Zoom! Enhance! These darker pixels... are they breast implant scars?

 

[Vyadhis]

Judging by the screenshots, you've turned off most of the graphical ‘enhancements’, which makes the game look close enough to its original version. Maybe only fires and particles are different, if what I tried (Quakespasm Spiked Multiplayer) is the same as the version you're using. Then there's the missing distortion on the weapon textures which only appears in the software renderer. You can always try Mark V, I think all it needs to run is to be extracted into a base folder with id1 folder in it, and PAK0.pak and PAK1.pak inside the latter.

I've used this blog article as a baseline: https://quake.blog/configuring-quakespasm-for-a-modern-retro-look.html
Also adjusted gamma and contrast.
If I decide to play through Quake again, it will probably be in DOSBox on Nightmare.

Is this what the mod looks like out of the box or did you have to add more stuff to get those graphics?

Sorry for the late response, but yes. This is what AD looks like in Quakespasm with mostly these settings plus "gamma = 1.2" and "contrast = 1.4".

I failed to pick up on it the first time, but do not use the music pack linked at the end of the article. It's a distorted modification made under the assumption that Quake's CD tracks had pre-emphasis, as I mentioned in the other thread. It seems that some pressings with it were issued by auxiliary publishers, but it was most likely a mastering error. The tracks lose detail when a de-emphasis filter is applied to them and Nine Inch Nails' 2020 official remaster of the sound track doesn't use this technique, and the music sounds even more crisp.

Here you are, I converted the lossless rips I have to MP3 and OGG, they're without a de-emphasis filter. The different titles are because they're named after maps they appear in, as there were no official titles at the time and the ones in the Quakeaddicted link appear to have some titles switched around even with respect to the fan-given names.

https://mega.nz/file/qNNGRAZb#LhieYn32lebkiX0DlfxsZks8CBJzEFyiYJJ1MKxMBIg

Thanks, you're awesome!

 

[Be Kind Rewind]

Spoiler

 

[Kruyurk]

Here we are, in a situation where my ship's lazorz aren't powerful enough to penetrate the flagship's shields, but all its weapons have been taken down by boarding parties. So now we're just sitting here, neither capable of damaging the other.

If it were any other ship I could jump away, but the flagship has to be destroyed. RIP this run. It was going so well.

Maybe you could have tried to damage a subsystem far from the enemy healing room, maybe the pilot one since it is only two tiles. If you can eventually damage the subsystem, it will also damage the hull. It would have been a really long and boring process, but if you can damage the subsystem while keeping your guys alive, you can win.

You could also have tried something with the mind control: board on the enemy ship, hurt an enemy crew member, then mind control him when he finally goes to the healing room. I think he would fight there with his crewmates then hopefully gets killed.

Another way would have been to board the shield room and try to damage the subsystem enough to let some laser through, but it is complicated since there are still six enemy crewmembers.

All these tactics could be easily ruined by the enemy cloak.

And probably that the other phases of the fight against the flagship would have been even more complicated. But maybe winnable if you could kill the enemy crew.

 

[Dr1f7]

guys this game's so fucking hype, vs vegeta was intense af

fight took like 20 attempts and i haven't had this much fun since like.. dark souls 1 or something