[fixed] WTF? Invisible NPC in prision lev???

nwbeeman · Post by **nwbeeman** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 16:12

I was playing through the prision level. I have a save game at the exact location the "bug" occours. Load the game WTF and press use. You will get a dialog from a prisioner. Do you see one? I shure as hell don't. (Latest version I downloaded is .20 I think, its the latest in the forum thread as of this post date.

It appears that you have to step around a bit in that area, keep turning and moving and hitting use rapidly. Eventually, you will get the dialog of a prisioner. He is in the area less then 1 foot from you. Try it and see the maricle of an invisible prisioner. Now, if all the other prisioners could turn invisible, they just could have walked out!

Also another bug. I have autoexec's for all games, saving doom saves in a dir, saving heretic saves in another dir, etc...

If you type save WTF, as I did at this point in the bug, the save is GZDOOM folder, not the strife folder. The autosaves are in the right folder though. Strangly enough, the program knows WTF is in the saved game list.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 18:36

Nice find. THat's a design error in ZDoom's use traversal code. It only checks lines up to 64 units but usable actors up to 128 units. Any line beyond 64 units is never checked even though it is closed you can talk to the prisoner behind the door.

nwbeeman · Post by **nwbeeman** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 23:28

Graf Zahl wrote:Nice find. THat's a design error in ZDoom's use traversal code. It only checks lines up to 64 units but usable actors up to 128 units. Any line beyond 64 units is never checked even though it is closed you can talk to the prisoner behind the door.

Not to mention, you can shoot the prisioers behind the forcefields, but i think thats intented behaviour.

/me runs and kills all the prisioners and sees if i can still pass mission

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 23:51

You can. There is nothing connected to any prisoner that may screw up the game.

nwbeeman · Post by **nwbeeman** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 6:10

Graf Zahl wrote:You can. There is nothing connected to any prisoner that may screw up the game.

Teh prisioners are going to die a thousand deaths!

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 10:44

Strife may be a nice game - but it severely suffering from lack of a decent scripting language. I wonder what might have been possible if they had had ACS to work with...