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      Final Assault

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      • • • wildh0rse
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      The very last mission is challenging. My refined strategy is to press directly west from the starting point once the base has been established (smelter & a few scavengers to continue building Judas' and warlords/commandants with healing ability) with a Judas and capture as you go, killing reapers and saving anything you can capture. I send vortex singularity units to the smelter because they often kill my own units.

      Once you press West, you attack the civilian factories and have a few captured units hang out there to kill any constructors that try to rebuild them. Soon all constructors will be destroyed, making it impossible for the enemy to replenish any destroyed factories.

      Once the constructor population withers, I send in a strike team that destroys the four light infantry factories directly North-North-East of the starting point. This is usually done with a first person Gorilla that I capture, and the strike is done by masterfully toggling between the different weapons systems by pressing Tab and hitting one building with missiles while punching another. That will severely reduce the amount of pressure the main area experiences.

      From that point on, if the Gorilla survives, I'll continue north and start destroying bases until he is killed.

      Then I switch to the southeast front and press north in a clockwise fashion, capturing units as they are built from factories and using them to attack the factories while I press on in my Judas.

      It takes a while and a lot of micromanaging using the Pause button, but I believe this strategy is one of the most effective.

    • AvionArisA

      Voice-acting

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      • yay.gorilla gorilla • • AvionAris
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      @Encrypted I thought echos were a reverberation taking longer to return to your ear.
      A reverberation is perceived when the reflected sound wave reaches your ear in less than 0.1 second after the original sound wave.

      Yea Machines unit voices (i've been looking them up) just sound like they are either filtered through an autotune (like soundwave from transformers), or have that radio effect over them.
      Give this SITE an experiment for autotuned filters ^ ,^ heaps of fun.

      Very starcraft that game sound. Adun'twain-us

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      AVAILABLE FOR MULTIPLAYER GAME ON GAMERANGER TONIGHT

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      thanks good game

    • AvionArisA

      Special OM gamemode: An Army of One

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      • yay.gorilla openmachines gamemode • • AvionAris
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      @Encrypted said:

      @Pisarz I'd say, the first comparision was actually way more accurate, as we don't really know how big those machines are. I mean, I'd say a Scout is the size of a car, but I'm not really sure because it was never mentioned how big they were.

      Well, they were modified industrial robots, so maybe this scale could be used:
      http://s1.ibtimes.com/sites/www.ibtimes.com/files/styles/v2_article_large/public/2014/07/22/kuka-robots.jpg?itok=8GpBzZPv

      And this one for the dozer:
      http://www.deere.com/common/media/images/product/crawler_dozers/1050j/446160_1050j_642x462.png

      I don't know what to say about the second one, though, discounting this: that human is too big for me.

      Ok. Got it.

      By the way, the "broadsword-like" arms would be its legs, but also, I thought about putting some hidden retractile blades in them, for close combat:
      http://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/US7140110B2/US07140110-20061128-D00001.png
      http://www.carrycasesplus.com/images/detailed/1/Utility_Knife.jpg

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      Original Forum founder is back!

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    • AvionArisA

      Another discussion! I iz smart.

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      AvionArisA

      Wait, did that discussion/topic/whatever... well, it's got a total of 300+ views! Is that good?

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      Modding Maps

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      @M123
      Well that is a shame. I checked your version and there's no mistakes on my end. I also got the black textures on the DirectX Viewer, but when I turn it so its almost completely vertical or horizontal, then its colours appear. I also fiddled around with the settings and turned off an option, something to do with shadows, and the colour came back (more or less). I might try going through the tutorial again, hopefully it was a small typing error that I missed. Thanks all the same.

    • bilalB

      Damage Reduction of Armor?

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      @Mahmoud

      See edits

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      20 years

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      @M123 said:

      @Wholan If we're really lucky, maybe we'll hear something about it after Forsaken EX is released (no date announced yet) - otherwise we might be stuck waiting until they've finished the System Shock remake...

      Forsaken EX release date announced: 31st July 2018.
      System Shock remake coming "late 2019/2020".

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      Got it working on Windows 10!

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      @yash Explain what version have you installed and have you applied the XP patch, dgVoodoo (what version) and other fixes people have mentioned here ? It is hard to help if you don't give any useful information yourself.

    • bilalB

      Slack Team (Webchat)

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      @Pisarz
      Hm, don't know why @xenfinity.net was in there, but you should just be able to sign up with a desired username and password.

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      Can't start Machines on a Windows 10 machine

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      I believe that I tried without and with the patch. It didn't help. I also spun up a Windows 2000 virtual machine in VirtualBox, but that didn't work because the virtual adapter didn't support enough colors.

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      Question regarding sounds (voicelines)

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      @DemonHunter
      Compatibility mode might be causing your problem. Have you tried running without it?

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      Story

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      @bilal
      Yeah. I will present this concept sometime in the future after doing the pending portfolios that I promised. Then we would develop it.
      Don't worry pal, I'm in a similar situation.

    • PisarzP

      MACHINES on mobile devices?

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      • • • Pisarz
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      bilalB

      @Byrgius
      Yup, we could do the unit cap warnings based on averages of user spec performance.

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      Menu not loading bug.

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      Cross posting from the "getting up and running thread".
      Dll fixer didnt work. halp

    • bilalB

      Logo

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      @bilal
      Ok!
      The gear logo could be used for modding or for a developers' section.

      I did some things in trello. It looks nice!

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      Mods: Machines Loader

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      keeping music and videos....???
      how do i get the music to play o.o

    • antradA

      Machines just had its 20th anniversay

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      I started playing when I was 4 years old, with the demo, so although English is my native language I was limited by the fact that I couldn't really read! You could definitely say I grew up with this game. I also tried out a demo of Starcraft around the same time, but I preferred Machines due to the advanced graphics and interesting plot. The Gorilla in that campaign mission was not easy to take down! I ultimately wound up needing to mass reapers to defeat it. Later on, my dad got me the full game after a time, and have I continued to play it even on XP and Windows 7, although lately I had not been able to get it working on recent builds of Windows 10 (I will try again with the new installer after I get some unrelated driver issues sorted out). By the way, I still have my original game disks and box, and the Micron PC I first played it on (I also use Macs heavily, although it has been a while since I used the vintage Mac Plus that I have).

    • bilalB

      Minimum Viable Product

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      @Radler Details? Screenshot? What message does it tell you when you try to open it?