shinyquagsire23
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7 months ago heya,
I'll attempt to confirm some of these, though fair warning I ~generally don't fix some bugs depending on where they reside. Crashes/regressions always get top priority, but the saber width inconsistency for example is a save serialization bug that exists in the OG game, so fixing it requires breaking backwards compatibility. At some point I do want to fix a few save bugs though, but I need to plan it out I guess. But also, some bugs are just bugs in the JKLs/COGs, so they can't be fixed engine-side without a lot of hacks
tl;dr, if it exists in the original game I'm probably keeping it, if it doesn't exist in the original it's fair game though.
Anyway,
- light/dark side bugs have unfortunately come up a lot so I'll probably check those first
- no idea on lv4/lv19, though actually thank you for documenting that yellow text is even possible because it explains some code I didn't understand (slightly concerning that it even happened though??)
- lv5 bacta, LEC map bug/can't fix engine-side
- frozen enemies, there is an LEC bug I found related to this on lv5 hard difficulty where the incorrect AI was assigned to some grenader grans, so they'd just sit and stare. If you have specifics I'd be curious to add them to my documented LEC bugs
- Yun/Sariss shouldn't have reduced HP, not totally sure what would cause that either because that'd be COG stuff (could be framerate related, in which case I'd have to decide whether it's an original bug or not, would lean not)
- lv19, yeah I've heard about it, need to dig into it because it does kinda seem like it could be a COG edge case I need to solve (related: did you enable keeping corpses?)
- cutscene audio is supposed to have its own slider now, might need to double check that it's not getting secretly reset. The intro cutscene causes some weird crossover with the profile settings and the registry settings.
- I suspect the Boc bug is original AI weirdness but I'm not 100%, but I feel like I've heard that behavior in speedruns/playthroughs.
- SSAO -- I'm not a graphics programmer unfortunately, it's been on my bucket list. If you know any graphics programmers who can point me the right direction let me know though lol
- Yeah crosshair is funky, it's kinda in the same category as GPU-accelerated TAB-map rendering. The original rect/line code doesn't do subpixels.
- Lightsaber tip is an LEC bug, but that one I might attempt to make a hack fix and an option tickbox for.
randvecabsolutely should exist. There's some MOTS scripts which use non-existent cog verbs, but that one is a genuine bug I think, unless a mod COG messed something up.- I think the weird text might be a mod bug? Currently
hud_scaleimpacts all aspects of the HUD including text, maybe at some point I can separate things out. For the vanilla HUD it's fine, for "HD" mod packs that crank the text size it gets kinda silly looking unfortunately. I also render the HUD in paletted mode for GPU bandwidth reasons but a lot of those mods only optimized for 16bpp.
Also wrt the last bullets,
- AA stuff also kinda falls under I'm Bad At Graphics Programming, but also on my TODO list I guess
- I'm tentatively planning on making an engine feature to allow overriding menu graphics with PNGs (and also overriding placement), but specific tweaks I'm very hesitant on because who knows wtf mods are doing with the menus (and I don't want to break them lol)
TheNipperOfFigs
MarcoWanke
LadyEebs
First, thanks for a great mod that makes the game worth playing again. There are however a bunch of bugs that I have come across in the game.
1) When playing the light side, the force power Protection is useable despite having neutral powers, but Deadly Sight in not when playing the dark side with neutral powers (how it should be).
2) Upon completion of the game on the dark side, the light side video plays instead.
3) On levels 4 and 19, sometimes the objectives aren't marked as complete even when meeting the criteria. On level 19, the first objective is marked in yellow text upon completion, rather than green. Not sure if this is a bug, or it's supposed to be like that for some reason (it turns out this has been brought up before).
4) On level 5, when walking alongside the canal near the beginning, a med kit is placed upside down on the ground.
5) Sometimes enemies appear frozen on the spot, not firing at the PC even when nearby or shooting next to them. This seems especially prevalent with stormtroopers in the later levels.
6) Did the Dark Jedi from Yun to Sariss/Yun (2nd time) receive reductions to HP? They seem somewhat weaker compared to the original game, hence quite easy to defeat even on Hard difficulty.
7) On level 19, sometimes the final door before the AT-ST doesn't open, yet the PC can destroy the AT-ST by firing at the door or swinging the lightsaber, and then the door opens. I think this has been brought up previously by other people.
8) The cutscene audio plays very quietly compared to the effects and music.
9) Sometimes when fighting Boc on the light side, after using Persuade (when it wears off), he jumps up and down on the spot, not doing anything else except that, not reacting to the PC.
10) The implementation of SSAO is not good, at it results in faint dark outlines around the weapons and enemies, and around Kyle if using third person camera. It is best used off, and unless it can be fixed, removed altogether from the game.
11) The cross-hair on values lower than 1.0 is not symmetrical, with the vertical line slightly shifted to the left rather than perfectly centred.
12) The tip of the lightsaber is malformed and needs fixing. Also, the light glow is too wide.
13) In the CMD, this message often occurs, though I'm not sure what it means or does: "OpenJKDF2: Script
weap_strifle.cogattempted to callrandvec, which doesn't exist..."14) The text messages at the top of the screen such as "Rail Charges", "Entered Secret Area", etc. are way oversized, poor quality and in white, compared to the much smaller yellow text of the original game.
There are probably more bugs/errors, but this is what I can recall right now.
Some notes:
1) It's unfortunate the game was severely unbalanced against the dark side. Persuade makes the game trivial, even on Hard difficulty, while dark side powers are mostly pathetic, such as Lightning and Deadly Sight.
2) The best anti-aliasing is enforced through GPU drivers (FXAA) rather than in-game by raising SSAA or using ReShade. I find the combination of FXAA and SSAA of 2.0 to be the best combination to improve graphics.
3) Is it possible to reduce the brightness of the green light side stars in the Jedi Powers screen? They lose some of their detail compared to the blue neutral power stars (the red dark side stars are somewhere in between).
Again, thanks for a great mod.