"Super-Easy" isn't a particularly problematic name, but "Assisted"
is more descriptive of what the difficulty mode is for (to assist
players who have trouble playing on easy mode).
This causes these mission targets to always appear the first time
the player enters an interception, and every time after they fail
to appear (so that you never have two time-wasting interceptions in
a row). In the case of the rescue slaves mission, this takes the
form of forcing the first ship to be a slave ship, and in the case
of the cloak fighter, it simply forces the cloak fighter to appear.
In each case, the variable controlling whether or not the condition
is forced gets set to 0 if the mission target spawned, ensuring that
time-waster interceptions can still occur as long as they both are
preceded and followed by worthwhile interceptions.
I decided this was important when I was playing and noticed that I
wasn't getting slaves to rescue several times in a row. This
situation would be confusing to new players and possibly make them
think they were doing something wrong. It can also be very annoying
to just not get any chances to make progress because of bad RNG.
Forcing them to appear the first time allows the player to be
immediately introduced to the targets, and forcing them to appear if
they didn't last time limits the frustration of bad RNG by ensuring
that even with the worst RNG, some amount of progress can be made.
This is meant to help connect RE to something. I figured that by
using a similar kind of music for both it and the game over screen,
it would create a bit of a connection there and musically communicate
that it's game over, except for Kline instead of you.
We can't distribute the original music, but adding support for it in
as a compile-time option will enable modding the game to look and
feel like the original without having to edit the source code.
There was a period of time just after the defeat of Kline that the
game wasn't responding to input, causing the OS to panic. Corrected
this, and also made it so that resizing the window adjusts the
positioning of the credits appropriately.
Should be harmless since empty strings are ignored in
radio_getRandomMessage, but it's still supposed to be in a form
that uses \n only as necessary; the trailing newline was a mistake.
This makes mines much less frequent and spreads the asteroids out
much more. The other super-easy mode nerfs don't work on Mars, so
these custom nerfs are necessary to keep the difficulty consistent.
This is something I've been thinking of doing for awhile. The
automatic leaving can be frustrating if you were trying to collect
the money dropped by the enemy and you're suddenly forced out of
the mission. This prevents that by simply waiting to do the exit
sequence until no worthwhile collectables are left in the area.
Ellesh and Mars are excluded since this won't really work in those
areas. Also excluded by Classic and Nightmare difficulties.
I reduced the chance of smoke happening a given frame from 1/5 to 1/10,
and removed the check that stopped adding the "engine" effect to the
player if low on shield, so it now shows both when damaged.
At first I just went in to fix some places that were missing gettext
translations, but on the way as I was doing that, I noticed some
places where ngettext should be used, a bug in the fallback legacy
text rendering, and some things that could be structured better in
the Autoconf / Automake setup. Fixed those.
No, really, just added the whole thing. This took literally the
entire day. I'm soooo glad it's working now!
Also includes tons of other small fixes I didn't bother to keep
track of.
The fix is simpl to make blitTextInPlace center text to the
screen rather than the text creation doing it. That way you don't
get weird behavior with screen_blitText (which already handles centering).
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Layla Marchant