Hammer of Thyrion

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	Hammer of Thyrion posted by Anonymous @ 213.178.94.80 on May 18 2006 7:24 AM
The port is really done well, somehow I couldn't play the demo version, but when I got the full game it ran fine. Feels like a native linux game, no complaints at all.   The game itself is good, it's no Quake killer, but quality-wise it's on par with the Quake mission packs and stuff like Malice. It's nice. Of course, being a Quake fan, I have practically NO attention span, so the hub system and the item-collecting gets tedious.   If you're a seasoned FPS player, don't play this on the lowest difficulty setting; you'll wonder where the monsters are :-) And consider reading the walkthrough at raven's site, because it's really more fun without always wondering where the next item is. This lets you turn up the difficulty instead - for more fragging fun. The game is really best when you concentrate more on monster mangling, and less on the "story".   To the HoT people: You should consider bundling a better console font with HoT, because the red-on-brown messages in the game (and the episode-end texts) are badly readable. I think those letters are from the console font. Just get rid of the red text (make it white).
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Re: Hammer of Thyrion posted by Anonymous @ 213.178.94.80 on May 18 2006 7:27 AM   I forgot to mention that it runs fluidly on my Pentium 166 in software X11 mode. I'd love an option to show the fps, either there isn't one or I didn't find it yet.   [Reply]

	Hammer of Thyrion posted by tuppe666 @ 85.210.37.90 on Sep 14 2005 5:43 PM
WOW, I gave up on hexen ii because it was too slow for my machine, Its just lovely I've been playing it for hours :)
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	I can play it again! posted by anarcocatcher @ 201.7.84.161 on Sep 9 2005 6:22 PM
Very good port. run fast on my pc (sis, amd 750, 256mb RAM) and plays all sounds with out bugs. Tanks, i give five stars =) Sorry my English, I'm brazilian.
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	Linux Hexen II - Hammer of Thyrion posted by Anonymous @ 84.0.7.31 on Mar 16 2005 10:32 AM
I just installed hexen2demo-HoT.installer-1.2.4a.run and when I start hexen2demo as a user, I got an "ERROR: Bad surface extents" after choosing the character and the difficulity... The last few lines of the output are these: execing hexen.rc execing default.cfg execing config.cfg FindFile: can't find autoexec.cfg couldn't exec autoexec.cfg execing default.cfg ERROR: Bad surface extents MIDI_Cleanup Shutting down SDL sound $ Does this happen with others also? I will download the true hexen2 (not the demo) and I will check it also...
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Re: Linux Hexen II - Hammer of Thyrion posted by Anonymous @ 160.75.18.200 on Mar 17 2005 12:11 AM   [...] ERROR: Bad surface extents [...] I never ran into this error before either with demo or with retail versions. (Just tried with a freshly downloaded demo installer using boftware and opengl renderers.) Is it reproducible? Does it happen with software rendering or opengl? Are you sure your downloaded file is not corrupted? If this error persists, please send a bug report on the project page with as much deatil as possible.   [Reply]   Re: Linux Hexen II - Hammer of Thyrion posted by Anonymous @ 217.65.98.199 on Mar 17 2005 1:58 AM   Yes it is reproducible, it happen with both OpenGL and software renderer all the time. I will check if the file is corrupted this evening, and send a detailed bugreport if it still happens. Thank you for your response...   [Reply]   Re: Linux Hexen II - Hammer of Thyrion posted by Anonymous @ 217.65.98.199 on Sep 1 2005 5:47 AM   Hi! I had this problem a few months before (and probably still have). I though that it is a game problem, but at the end it looked like I had a very strange pak0.pak file, that changes it's MD5SUM every time (morphing??)... Finally I thoung that I have some bad hardware, and after checking almost everything I gave up (I didn't had time to check other things). Look at the thread here (more detailed infos about my tests): https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1166178&group_id=124987&atid=701006 Please check these tings, and submit additional information if you have any...   [Reply]   Re: Linux Hexen II - Hammer of Thyrion posted by Anonymous @ 217.65.98.199 on Sep 1 2005 5:51 AM   Uhh, I'm so stupid 8-) I responded to my pretty old message thinking that somebody else also had this problem.   [Reply]

	Linux Hexen II - Hammer of Thyrion posted by Anonymous @ 84.128.180.148 on Mar 14 2005 4:46 PM
i played the game under windows, but sadly never till the end. ca 15 % only? it was little boring later, maybe coz its a shootergamer. but who knows one day i play it all:) good idea to make it nicer, the graphic and sound.
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Re: Linux Hexen II - Hammer of Thyrion posted by stevenaaus @ 143.238.165.121 on Nov 27 2006 6:02 PM   Spoiler. It does have a few boring sections, but the bosses and the last hub are all great.   [Reply]

	multiplayer posted by Anonymous @ 213.7.230.76 on Dec 25 2004 2:14 AM
i'm somehow too dumb for multiplayer o_O i've started a coop game but noone can connect to my server :\
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Re: multiplayer posted by Anonymous @ 160.75.18.200 on Dec 28 2004 10:53 PM   Tell us how you started your coop game: - Using hexenworld server (hwsv) ? - or Using the normal game and selecting through the menu system? If the first, then I don't have a clue, because it works here just fine. If the second, then remember: The original 1.11 Wındows-hexen2 binaries and the Linux-Hexen2 1.12+ binaries aren't network-compatible at all! (Original Hexen2 binaries only. The mission-pack binaries don't have this problem). If this is your case, then try hexnworld. O.S.   [Reply]

	Marvelous posted by Pit @ 212.144.172.34 on Dec 25 2004 1:15 AM
This is a really great re-use of the quake engine. With this version, my sound card finally works. Now if I could only somewhere buy the full game - the demo is way too short :-(     Pit
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Re: Marvelous posted by Anonymous @ 24.119.66.30 on Jan 21 2005 11:56 AM   I really wish Id and Ravensoft would release a "just the data files" CDROM or two, especially for games with open-source programs to run them. I actually emailled ID with this suggestion (mentioning that I'd happily pay, say, $50 for a license and copy of just the .wad/.pak/etc. files for DOOM I/II/Etc, Quake 1, Quake 2...[that is, $50 for the set, not each]) and the response I got was a shocked "Oh, we'd never do that!" as though I was asking them to publish pornographic images of the game developes or something, with no explanation as to WHY. I can't imagine they're making a lot of money off of the "pay us $30 and we'll let you download one copy of the Quake 1 for Windows CD" model right now, so I can only assume it's just pig-headedness that keeps them from considering other options. If this Hexen2 port works well, I'd gladly pay, say, $15 for just a copy of the .pak or whatever files for Hexen 2 and license to use them.   [Reply]   Re: Marvelous posted by Pit @ 81.207.48.18 on Jan 22 2005 2:55 AM Actually you can still buy the full CD version on ebay. Mine costed 9 Euro including shipment :-)) Pit   [Reply]   Re: Marvelous posted by Anonymous @ 217.66.123.67 on Mar 18 2005 6:21 PM   yep, buy it on ebay. I got mine for 1 euro !!!! :) There are a lot of theses old games on ebay for almost nothing.   [Reply]   Re: Marvelous posted by Anonymous @ 80.191.123.188 on Nov 2 2006 6:02 AM   /joke Download the stuff from P2P networks and send ID a screenshot containing the files. That ought to show them. /joke   [Reply]

	Exelent! posted by The_Nerd @ 67.168.1.73 on Dec 24 2004 4:51 PM
This is great stuff! Keep up the great work.
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