Adam's Story - Extended - v1.2 - Playlist Added

[Largamon]

Somebody dissing Alien Disco? It's great, I love it.

[Largamon]

Largamon wrote:
Man, it really makes a difference with whom you play with! I completed Adam's Story using Mr. X on Very Hard with 6 lives left (No continues used of course, I took the crazy press room ending and actually lost most of my 9+ lives there). I visited all rooms in office building, too. It's been awhile since I've played with Mr. X, but he's absolute beast even with simple move list and keep everyone at bay even when there's huge crowd surrounding him.

Oops, I just noticed I was playing with Hard difficulty, not Very Hard. No wonder that run went so well, even with Mr. X.

And erm... That's all I wanted to say.

I just had to get this of my chest. My conscience would never leave alone after claiming such wild atrocities. This is serious business, playing.

And also sorry about the double post. Let it stand as proof of my failure as human being and decent gamer. I know this will be all over the headlines tomorrow, reporters shadowing my every move and trying to get any sort of comment from me, eager to twist the knife in the wound. So, let me now bow my head down in shame and retire to mountains, where I shall do penance in a cave for the rest of my days.

Carry on, everybody.

[CajNatalie]

Don't worry, IIRC I made the biggest difference in Hard mode with enemy placement, and a rather small change in placement for Very Hard (since the AI changes drastically between those modes).

Beating all the minions of Hard mode is generally a good achievement in this mod anyway.

[smashfreak]

This looks fun I can't wait to play.

[CajNatalie]

After seeing how disappointing it can be when 'one part' of an otherwise awesome mod shows up, it can actually all be ruined, making it very difficult to salvage the fun in continuing the mod or will to replay it... I have taken the worst part of this... Stage 4... slammed it down in restraints on my modding surgical table, loaded it with anaesthetics, and have my scalpel running through it right now.

Stay tuned... v1.2 is on its way. Stage 4 will feel less like hell for those of you who can't stand platforming, or those who somehow can't jump on that damn plank.

Update: Patch for Stage 4!
-No more of that stupid yellow (the plank jump).
-3 platforms have been reduced to 2.
-Fight at the end of scene 2 (which is now scene 3) isn't awkward as hell anymore.

4shared: http://www.4shared.com/rar/HI8J-IYE/Ada ... h_v12.html
MediaFire: http://www.mediafire.com/?hatz6556ltcq088
RapidShare: https://rapidshare.com/files/805248324/ ... h_v1.2.rar


Full v1.2 mod is going to be re-uploaded soon so only people with v1.1 need to patch.

[graylandertagger]

I finally managed to download and play. After getting through the game I gotta say that i'm quite impressed. The only downside was that I was hoping for some more new enemy palletes like you said in the palletes topic awhile back.

Now that the penultimate beta of Adam's Story is out, all the extra palettes and names are being added/tweaked.
I've already got stuff covered with improvising more factions/enemies but... spoilers... XD

There's a few new ones, but just not as much as I had hoped. Still good work and I wish you best of luck in the future.

[CajNatalie]

Glad you enjoyed it. =3


About Palettes, lol...
It's not about quantity.

Palettes for a certain route of Stage 6 (and some little tweaks for the other route - especially some names there)... certain rooms in Stage 3... Stage 4 and a certain route of Stage 5... and the special press room madness in Stage 7.
Also some version switches in Stage 7 using the SoR3 palettes depending on route/difficulty.
This is plenty of use of new palettes to convey new enemies/factions without going overboard doing palettes for the sake of palettes. =P

[Don Vecta]

I'm so glad I still have the back ups of the WIP... I honestly prefer the old stage 4 as I designed it but yeah, if there's people complaining about the platforming then the patch it's for you. If you like a good challenge with the 3 platforms then keep the old version.

[CajNatalie]

Lol, Vecta, it's a shit scene... I tried to defend it and improve collision, but the only solution was to cleanse it with fire.
This is in fact the very reason the two guys who do epic survival hated Adam's Story on their first beta. Instead of trying to salvage it with making the collision 'nicer' I should've just done what I did now.

[graylandertagger]

About the fake cops that you encounter on the third level. Are you able to make special pallate for the SOR3 handgunners. I'm sure you can paint the ties that they wear on their necks white to make it look invisible. The pocket on their jack also can be colored(like in H.U.N.T.E.R.) to look like a badge. I figured it'd be a nice replacement for the Cody's and Nora's if your interested.

[CajNatalie]

It's possible, but there are issues with the suit palettes.

Their suit's main colour is also their outline and the shading in their hair... part of their gun... their sunglasses.
Changing the colour of a suit to be anything other than 'black' or 'a very dark colour with or without shiny bits' is an awkward business, as I discovered for a certain suit palette a number of people may have become acquainted with by now.

[graylandertagger]

Well. If you could make such a pallete i'm sure it would lead to the inspiration to various other mods. If not. It's still an excellant mod nevertheless. I LOVED that pop culture referances in stage 3.

[Largamon]

Don Vecta wrote:
I'm so glad I still have the back ups of the WIP... I honestly prefer the old stage 4 as I designed it but yeah, if there's people complaining about the platforming then the patch it's for you. If you like a good challenge with the 3 platforms then keep the old version.

I had no problem with three platforms, I liked the platforming part, but jumping on that first plank from the roof was a nightmare... It sucked... big time. So, I thought that little fixing would be in place. But when I tried the 1.2 version (downloaded the full mod again, not the patch), the mod crashed right there on the first plank. System informed me that "SorR.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

Yeah. It's easy to be sorry. Except that machines don't have emotions. So the system is not really sorry about anything. Nice. And the computer programmers who wrote that text... Well, like I said, it's easy to be sorry. And they're not there, that's just an automatic text.

I haven't experienced that crash with SORR before so I don't know what's up with that. I have yet to try the mod again, but I believe that was only one-time crash. Decided to share it anyway.

But to round things up, I think the best solution would have been a combination of CajNatalie's and Don Vecta's design: 1) Automatic jump to first plank. & 2) Three platforms.

[Don Vecta]

SORR crashes when you don't have the right scrips in the folder. In the update did you put the new script files?

[Largamon]

No, I didn't do anything. Caj wrote that she'll upload the full patched 1.2 mod again (it wasn't immediately available when patch came up, but I waited and downloaded the full patched version).

CajNatalie wrote:
Full v1.2 mod is going to be re-uploaded soon so only people with v1.1 need to patch.

I think that crash was just random thing. They happen sometimes for no apparent reason, and when you try later again, things work again.