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NecroLord · Dec 10, 2023

Kabas said:
More SW

Switched to a full HUD. Brief HUD doesn't show you your keys for some reason which is a bother considering how maze-like the later levels are.
At least sprites look slighly less blurry like this. Slightly.

Glad to see you play a fucking classic shooter, but it does seem to look a bit "off", as if something's not quite right.
Oh, you're playing the remaster, right?
I never get tired of "remasters"...

Kabas · Dec 10, 2023

NecroLord said:
Oh, you're playing the remaster, right?

Heard that other sourceports have some technical issues.
Do admit however that i am getting tired of these washed colours. Just checked the VoidSW.

Looks and plays a lot better. No technical issues in sight so far.
Yep, switching to this one.

HansDampf · Dec 10, 2023

No more texture filtering. :obviously:

Doctor Gong · Dec 11, 2023

This is one of the few jokes in games that I look forward to in replaying a game.

schru · Dec 11, 2023

NecroLord said:
Kabas said:

More SW

Switched to a full HUD. Brief HUD doesn't show you your keys for some reason which is a bother considering how maze-like the later levels are.
At least sprites look slighly less blurry like this. Slightly.

Click to expand...

Glad to see you play a fucking classic shooter, but it does seem to look a bit "off", as if something's not quite right.
Oh, you're playing the remaster, right?
I never get tired of "remasters"...

Kabas said:
NecroLord said:

Oh, you're playing the remaster, right?

Click to expand...

Heard that other sourceports have some technical issues.
Do admit however that i am getting tired of these washed colours. Just checked the VoidSW.

Looks and plays a lot better. No technical issues in sight so far.
Yep, switching to this one.

HansDampf said:
No more texture filtering.

Technically, Shadow Warrior Classic Redux, which is what's on Steam, is based on Ken Silverman's (the author of the Build Engine) own Polymost renderer, which introduced full 3-D rendering to the engine, but instead of being official, it was just something he did as a personal project. I don't think the later versions of Redux had this kind of washed-out look, unless the brightness was increased.

The main problem with full 3-D renderers in Build is that the sky backgrounds just don't look very good in them—they don't shift up or down together with view point to reveal a bit more and there may be a solid colour above them to fill in for the extended view range. Polymer's solution in Duke didn't look that good either.

As for texture filtering, that was actually introduced in Blood and Shadow Warrior officially in collaboration with 3dfx in optional patches meant to be used with Voodoo cards. I have never set them up in DOSBox to see them for myself, but the technique was probably a bit better than the standard bilinear filter. However, those patches also broke some things to do with lighting and maybe other things too, so they were more of a curiosity.

https://legacy.3drealms.com/sw/

I'm not sure about the state of various source ports, so the best version to play to ensure that everything is working as it's supposed to is the original DOS version. However, VoidSW seemed quite complete when I tried it and it should have a software renderer.

Kabas · Dec 11, 2023

Just completed the orginal Shadow Warrior.

Zilla was weak as a baby fart. He flew away to live in fear in the end.
Directly climbing an active volcano is a pretty rad idea for a final level.
Now onto the next episode, Twin Dragon.

Lo Wang got a pretty comfy house.

Ninja Destroyer · Dec 11, 2023

e-mailio estevez · Dec 11, 2023

Ninja Destroyer said:

Man, I only played through this one once but I remember being pleasantly surprised back in the day. It had some pretty gnarly set pieces and level design.

Ninja Destroyer · Dec 11, 2023

e-mailio estevez said:
Man, I only played through this one once but I remember being pleasantly surprised back in the day. It had some pretty gnarly set pieces and level design.

I think so as well. But it feels really short - it took me 4 hours with some extra minutes to finish the whole game. Just like Sin Episodes, it ends with a cliffhanger. It's a shame, because while combat isn't very complicated, it's really fun, and most of the platform sections are relatively balanced. The two weapon system took me a while to adapt - the electric sword plus turtle shield are very good for most of the enemies - especially if you have very high water level. Last, but not least - using Julie Strain (R.I.P) as an inspiration and voice actress for the main heroine was an excellent move from Ritual.

Baron Dupek · Dec 11, 2023

slavmagik

btw
Dusk HD just dropped

Blutwurstritter · Dec 11, 2023

DoW I still needs a worthy sequel.

Sigourn · Dec 12, 2023

Frank Capicoli said:
Damn those are some really big hands.

SOUUUUUUUUUUUURCE

Baron Dupek said:
slavmagik

btw
Dusk HD just dropped

Source for all.

Frank Capicoli · Dec 12, 2023

Sigourn said:
SOUUUUUUUUUUUURCE

Blood West.

AlphaYellow · Dec 12, 2023

Been playing Eternal War: Shadows of Light, it's a Quake 1 total conversion mod that came out in 2002, and released as freeware in 2008 by the developers, including source code and art assets. It's a Christian-themed medieval fantasy FPS.