Morning Discussion
There's no doubt that Call of Duty: Black Ops is a big game--according to sales it's one of the biggest single titles in entertainment history. But, who really cares about all that? I only bought one copy. The point, when I pitched these features, was to focus on specific concepts of the game. Was the PC version solid? We examined that. Are new players prepared for online play? We handled that yesterday.
On the other side of the coin, I just want to do some content specific to the PC platform--and Call of Duty: Black Ops (whether you agree or not) is the biggest PC game out at the moment. The 3D thing is interesting for a few reasons, primarily because PC gamers are wondering what the fuss is about. The tech has existed on PC for a while. But, does the 3D push from developers on consoles make the experience better overall? We'll have to wait and see.
If there's a game you want me to compare Black Ops' 3D experience to, let me know.
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Thursday Evening Minecraft Thread!
Bland Edition!!!
Nothing exciting planned for today!
Multiplayer Servers!
MercFox1 : shackeast.sytes.net / se.shkn.ws / shackeast.shkn.ws
Shadowdane : shadowdane.shacknet.nu / sd.shkn.ws / shadowdane.shkn.ws
Chicken Fur : 69.169.149.253 / cf.shkn.ws / chickenfur.shkn.ws
m0rfus (PvP/Mobs on) : morfus.dyndns.org / morfus.shkn.ws
Haxim (TNT Server) : asplode.dyndns.org / haxim.shkn.ws
Teamspeak : ts.shackbattles.com:9987-
Server Renders!
MercFox1
Bird's Eye View: http://box.nevernet.com/~djr/mc/render.png
Angled: http://box.nevernet.com/~djr/mc/angle.png
Shadowdane
(updated every hour!)
Bird's Eye View: http://shadowdane.shackspace.com/Minecraft/shackdc-birdseye-current.png
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Guides and Utilities
- Oizomapper! Map your single player or multiplayer levels! By mroizo40
http://www.digitized-e.com/mroizo/OizoMapper.zip
- Shackwiki Minecraft page!
http://shackwiki.com/wiki/Minecraft
Video Guides!
- (Series) X's Adventures in Minecraft! Linked by zuff!
http://tinyurl.com/2ah7sex
Lots of useful info in here!
- (Series) Minecraft Minecart Tutorials! Boosters! Track switches! Et cetera!
http://tinyurl.com/2udl2lt
- Water Physics Tutorial by Arctic Fox!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24127669#itemanchor_24127669
Written Guides!
- Beginner’s Guides to Minecraft, originally linked by at0micgarden!
(Work in Progress) Guide to Alpha: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=17021
How to Survive Your First Night: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=19065
Shacker Help!
- Things I Wish I’d Known, a retrospective by Ebu!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23608826#itemanchor_23608826
- Linkmania! By zuff!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23514788#itemanchor_23514788
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23533536#itemanchor_23533536
- Ores, and How to Find Them, by Fooldozer and CodeRedBeard!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23582115#itemanchor_23582115
- Multiplayer Tips from BlackCat9
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=23641449#itemanchor_23641449
- Circle guides! More useful than they sound!
http://www.agentpothead.com/minecraft/sphere.html linked/hosted by AgentPothead!
http://www.shackpics.com/files/radii_even_to_100_pgzh2n77iabkgcmee93q.png hosted by Arctic Fox!
- Beginner’s Guide to Redstone, links by The Grolar Bear!
http://www.shacknews.com/laryn.x?id=24044649#itemanchor_24044649
- And some generally useful keys to press!
F11 - full screen!
F3 (hold) - CPU/ memory usage bar! Spikes for CPU/ red box for memory, I think!
F5 - third person mode! -
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Copy Uh oh, we have uh oh
http://www.gametrailers.com/user-movie/sealab-2021-uh-oh/328059
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The office of a modern millionaire:
http://yfrog.com/1g49225323j
At least notch is conservative with his money, he should be set for years just with what Minecraft made already.-
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I wish http://m00d.net/minecraft/sales/ was still up.
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MINEo{CRAFT}o Quiz, courtesy of the newest addition to Mojang Productions
http://beta.planeto.com/#lb=d9c70d03-9165-4db1-b580-0cebc44c0097&uref=mcqs -
YAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!
http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1619400201/status-of-smp-health-
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We don't know the reason for that bug. It's easy to assume that he just needs to set it back to how it was and it's done. But the old netcode was very incomplete, and I suspect that this bug was caused by him working on improving the server validation and it wasn't all working quite right yet, but he didn't want to go backwards. Maybe from a development perspective it makes more sense for him to do damage first before implementing the fix for the blocks. You guys need to quite micromanaging his work based on tiny scraps of information and just sit back and take a chill pill.
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In SMP. And he's fixing it. The question is if it was wrong of him not to immediately prioritize that bug and release a patch, and I'm saying there's no way for us to know the circumstances. It's possible that the bug was caused by an incomplete implementation of the fully functional netcode(rather than the hack that was in before), and that the only two ways to fix it would be to revert the previous patch or to go all the way. People would cry bloody murder if he did the former. And for the latter, maybe it made more sense to develop damage first before revisiting the block issue. Software development is a lot more complicated than just picking which task is more important and fixing it.
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Let's take a magical journey together Nighthawk! Below is a simulated view into Notch's brain:
"Ok, got the block-reappearing bug... yeah, I think I know where that is. Not really worried about it, shouldn't take long to fix. I'd rather work on this SMP health thing right now, its been hanging over my head since forever. "
<notch works and time passes>
"Ok, made some good progress on the huge unknowns for me, and I think I can post an update of my progress and what I think I will get out next week. *reviews list* Oh, the block-reappearing bug, holy fuck will they crucify me if I don't acknowledge it on my blog, so I will note it as on my TODO list."
<minecraft fans read his post and blindly interpret that his priorities are fucked up when they have no clue about how software dev works out sometimes>
I mean seriously, in light of the shit hes gotten done according to that post, the block-reappearing bug is trivial.-
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i don't see any reason to believe everyone else isn't seeing the same thing we are. like i said, it's the game, it's not our community. i was hoping for a quick hotfix on the block reappearing issue, just like he did with the skybox bug in the last big patch. the skybox bug pretty much made the game unplayable but he fixed it quickly and pushed out a release, which i give him credit for handling appropriately.
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I'm assuming that because it's a netcode thing, it's actually related to the refactoring he's doing for server-side damage, and thus is being worked on at the same time as server-side damage. You've got to apply the 'Notch is a terrible communicator with English as a second language' filter to all of this.
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Yes, also I asked him the question directly: http://twitter.com/notch/status/4899588016181248
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how is that relevant? i said that this bug is extremely important and that it has killed minecraft. unless you're extremely daft it should be clear that i'm not saying there are absolutely zero remaining players, i'm saying that the momentum is shot. people have stopped playing the game specifically because of this bug. it is serious enough to warrant #1 priority after the last botched patch to get things operational again before going ahead and implementing all of server-side health and such features.
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By this i mean, he clearly loves to add features, and dislikes working on bugs. (even though some of the "bugs" are technically features) I bet there is a shitload of coders that are minecraft fans out there who would love to just bugfix part-time for a pittance. Of course, if his code were open source a bunch would do it for free, but that makes selling the game a bit more difficult if anyone could just start up a free version.
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Look at all you negative Nancys up in here. He posts these, which you fucks have been whining my ear off about:
* <SMP health>
* Fix leaves. Again: DONE
* Make players riding carts or boats a long way receive terrain updates: DONE
and you guys are whining about the thing he hasn't done yet? Take a fucking pill.
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http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=76184
Biome mod
and
http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=67683
Minecart(I use it for the gold brick accelerator and obsidian launcher/stopper)
The biome one takes a little tinkering with to get the results you want but its very worth it.
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Merc or Foo
I know this is a lot to ask but the logic structure at
-677, 71,-477 facing north
Basically I screwed up in the planning by a bit.
Is it to much to ask to get it moved 1 block to the east so the middle of the buttons line up with my building? And if your really adventrurous send it 5 blocks north.
If you do this for me I will give 2 very very shitty blowjobs for you.
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