First of, let me say THANKS! and GREAT JOB! to everyone involved in getting OA to version 0.8.8! We at MeTaLNET are have been runnning and playing version 0.8.8 almost immediately since it was released, and in general everything looks and works great, and everyone is enjoying it! :-) :-) :-)
Now, about Liz....
While I was downloading the new version so that I could load it on a box and try it out myself for the very first time, I was reading through the description and was overjoyed to see a mention of the Liz animation glitch being fixed - one of my fellow server admins uses that as his regular player model, and I can't tell you how irritating it has always been while playing with him (and anyone else using Liz in-game), watching the constant popping up/down, or "going flat" as I often call it. I'm not into using forcemodel, or any other game tweaks to assist myself in gaining as much advantage as possible while playing - I'm not that kind of player. I LIKE pumping up all the gaudy graphics as much as possible and enjoy all the ambience as part of my escape from reality while I game. But, damn, that Liz model always makes its users annoyingly hard to target....
So, I was so excited to hear it was fixed, LOL, that this is the FIRST thing I immediately wanted to see first-hand. I asked a fellow player in-game to put on his Liz suit so I could experience it immediately. We were the only two on our server, and both the server and ourselves are running version 0.8.
and everything seemed tasty and good. But wait, WTF? Liz was still popping?!?!?! SAY IT AIN'T SO! LOL/sigh....
We noodled around a bit, to see just when Liz flips, and what actions cause it. Seemed to us that, yeah, maybe SOMETHING is a little different than before, but not really noticeably so. Interestingly, though, my cohort in-game discovered what we believe might be a NEW glitch with Liz - every time you switch weapons while using the Liz character, you hear and see TWO very fast weapon switches!
Anyways, just curious - what has or is supposed to have changed between 0.8.5 Liz and that of 0.8.8? And, sorry to dump the piddly new issue into the pot, but figured you'd rather know than not. :-)
None of these are big issues at all, of course - believe me when I say I'm just happy the game is here for us to play and enjoy, and I appreciate that there are people in the world putting out a product like this for free. But, dang, I'll send someone a six-pack of some fine microbrew, or even one of the MeTaLNET T-Shirts that I have promised to make for my server admins, if that damn "going flat" issue truly does get fixed! :-)
-- TwEeK!