I rahter not have TGC spent time on ragdoll or any other new addition, I rather them working on a stable, solid working FPSC version. I'm waiting for that for over a year now and others even longer then that.
I love the new DarkLights,but even though it looks awesome, it hasn't brought FPSC closer to a solid version at all. Instead of adding all kinds of gimmicks, please do give us a working version where all of the features stated in the manual do work.
The whole thing that bothers me most about the updates is this. The updates should make levels I've worked on V1 run solid and stable, but instead half of my levels don't run anymore.
Lee..... by now I've figured out the problem with the new Commander Josh not running on RC8/9. It seems like that some of the new features like double guns, DarkLights are putting such a demand on my system that it just can't run half of the stuff it used. I've taken out a good number entites in the game and it runs now, but I'm walking through empty rooms now. If I do add to many entities (even static ones) the engine will crash. If I keep it to a bare minimum, the game will run, but doesn't look to good.
This is the case with most of my levels. They run fine on RC6 and below, but cause crashes on RC7 and above. When taking out a good number of static and dynamic entities, the level runs fine again. BUT..... walking through empty rooms isn't fun at all, is it? RC8/9 are for some reason a huge demand to my system, it's so bad that I can't test larger games at all, they do crash. When I do choose build some of the games will build into a stand-alone version, but not all of them do.
Honestly, as much as I do like the DarkLights, perhaps it's better to go back to the way it was at RC6 and get us a stable version that can be used, before adding more gimmicks. I know DarkLights was being looked upon as a solution, but looking at all the problems it's creating, it doesn't look like the best solution yet.
Please do not ADD any more stuff to FPSC, but make it work stable. It's cool to have addition, but if they only add to the problems it's not worth it for me. I know the TGC computers can handle all of FPSC's new additions without a problem, but most of us don't have systems like that.
I'm all for going back to RC6 and getting that one solid and once that's been achieved, add new additions like DarkLight and DarkAI. The shine new toys are cool, but I do prefer a working toy, instead of a broken one with all kinds of shiny bells and whistles
