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  1. I believe that there is one more option to be considered. It goes somewhere between "remove the maps" and "just don't have maps in rotation":

    Remove the maps from game, but still keep files available somewhere on the internet, so that Renegade X is not bloated but the maps are not lost to time. So if someone decides to check out or even host a server with unpopular maps, they still have ability to do so.

  2. Personally I would be fine with not having freedom to switch teams.

    In regards to mid-game switching, one way of compensating players for being moved to losing team would be to give them a lot of whatever counts towards being MVP. I assume that could help with keeping morale up.

    This thread reminds me of this GIF:
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  3. 20 minutes ago, R E A P E R said:

    Common: 
    Free Rep tool
    Free submachine gun (as those found in Hourglass)

    I think those are good.
    Poses risk of replacing what you already have, which is already an existing concept (getting a different unit when you already bought a unit), so it doesn't introduce new metagame.

    22 minutes ago, R E A P E R said:

    Uncommon:
    Free Airstrike (Binoculars)
    15% Slowdown crate (Opposit of speedup crate)

    Free airstrike maybe.
    Slowdown sounds bad. Doesn't damage resistance crate already slow you down? That at least has pro and con at the same time.
     

    24 minutes ago, R E A P E R said:

    Rare:
    Become stealth (SBH Style - does not affect vehicles)
    Free Nuke / Ion beacon
    Free rank upgrade (example: Elite to Heroic)
    Airstrike crate (getting airstriked like the Nuke crate)

    Becoming invisible completely breaks metagame. SBH spy already insanely changes balance, getting some other advanced unit invisible would be completely OP.
    Free beacon may be fine.
    Free rank upgrade already exists AFAIK (makes you require 1 veterancy point to rank up each rank), but is insanely rare.
    Airstrike crate could be easily escaped from, even on foot. Doesn't sound that good of an idea IMHO.

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  4. On 8/9/2019 at 11:14 AM, SonnyX said:

    However I need some of the linux users to help me systematically test what dependencies are actually required...

    Did someone say TEST???
    Awww yisss.
    Will go do it when I get some time.

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  5. >upwards to 15 minutes
    my dude, have you ever played 2+ hour stalemate?

    Also, I would argue that there are two game mechanics in current Renegade X that vastly improve the situation compared to early RenX builds or oldRen:
    - veterency
    - building permadamage
    The fact that building can not be healed back to full health once it recieved permanent damage helps a lot with shortening matches
    And veterancy is the mechanic that is supposed to resolve the issue with "too many repairs", since decently ranked up team can easily melt buildings that have many heals on them. And well used commander buffs can make things even easier.

    So tl;dr: tools to solve the issue that you are describing are already provided. How your team will use them, that is another issue.

  6. @maciozo Yo. I noticed that as well, but I was unable to find the solution as of now.
    I would be happy to hear some suggestions and/or advice.

    When we were making the Lutris installer for the first time, target dotnet was 452, not 472. I don't know if that's related to issue or not.
    In fact, I have very bad experience with dotnet overall. Ever since I started using winetricks, installing dotnet was always painful, as winetricks offers to install dotnet452, then it fails installing, and then it complains "I can't install this again because it conflicts with dotnet40".
    And at first I was thinking to myself "who told you to install dotnet40 you bloody piece of code", but only recently I realised that dotnet releases are INCREMENTAL, that they are one giant stack of Microsoft's spaghetti code, you need all the previous versions in order to also have the one you want.Or at least I believe that's the case.
    Problems started for me when I updated from Fedora 29 to Fedora 30, but even now on fully clean install of Fedora 30 I still can't get RenX to one-click-install in Lutris. Like I said, help wanted, pls halp.
    @Sho-kun @SonnyX your advice here would be welcome as well.

    Also one more thing. Since we can't use the power of DXVK due to no DX11 stuff in RenX, can we try to see if this new D9VK hotness can do something for us?
    I had my eyes on VK9 project for some time, but that seems to have lost a lot of momentum, but instead we got D9VK, which is DirectX 9 -> Vulkan thing as well, but it's a fork of DXVK instead of being made from-scratch.
    My GPU isn't insanely powerful, but it is able to process Vulkan, and I would be very grateful for every additional frame per second that I get.
    Maybe then I will be able to git gud at PUGs instead of failing to land remote C4 on MCT in the very high-risk-high-reward situations :/

     

  7. @rm5248 Thank you very much for giving it a try. I'm happy that you found Lutris install useful. And thank you for reporting back with your findings.

    I have never seen this issue with bad Z-ordering, so I can't say much.
    The white spots on the map in second screenshot. They are black for me 😄

    Also, I am not sure that DXVK actually does anything in this case, as DXVK translates DX11 to Vulkan, while Renegade X is completely DX9. (I tried running it with -dx11 switch and got black screen)
    So you can try disabling DXVK to see if that changes anything.
    VK9 still has a long way to go, but DXUP looks promising, I still need to test that.

    Regarding your findings, do feel free to expand the wiki article to include the things you found out and also feel free to improve the Lutris install script to make process more automated.

    Again, thank you for giving this a try 👍

  8. I am interested to know, how did you come to these results?
    Is it subjective or is it based on some data (like leaderboard)?

    Because I like it. In my opinion such classification gives better insight into player than leaderboard currently does.
    It would be very nice if stat-tracking (and therefore leaderboard) was modified / extended to also display this kind of classification.
    And it would also allow for more by-the-numbers team balancing, if it was ever needed.

  9. 13 hours ago, Madkill40 said:

    An 'Quick donate' option would be nice. "/d <name> <amount>" or hold Q on a friendly player for 2 seconds so the console opens up with "/donate <name>" already filled out.

    Hold Q on an enemy player to do the same to make an rival into an "Priority Target" (Bounty)

    I see a lot of potential for such mechanic that changes context based on your current highlighted target.
    It could make sending PMs easier. Pressing (or holding) U while having another player highlighted would bring up the line with player's name already entered in, for example.

  10. @SonnyX Thank you for testing it further.

    I'm not sure if you are aware, but the article about getting Renegade X was created on the wiki:
    https://wiki.renegade-x.com/wiki/Linux_Guide

    Could you read through it and check if there are any incorrect information in there and add any improvements that you think could be useful.
     

    1 hour ago, SonnyX said:

    `mono` or `mono-complete` are not needed as this is provided by dotnet40/dotnet45

    While I would agree that this is true on Fedora (28, 29), I still needed to install mono-complete on Ubuntu and Lubuntu in order to get Renegade X to start. Or was it maybe one of the dependencies that mono-complete brought with it that made RenX start, not sure.

    I also encountered the "all volumes are at maximum" as if there is no such thing as proximity. You either hear the sound at full volume or you don't. Solution, like you already described, was setting xaudio2_7 to native only.

    And I also encounter the "re-rendering", a strange artifact on some surfaces when you get close to them. But I personally am not too bothered with that, and I have no idea how to make that stop happening.

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