Pulp Adventures Mod Released!

[earl of bronze]

I was having fun up until mission 17 then Oh my God. I have spent hours with different heroes combinations trying to beat it with no success.(on normal) I finally gave up and used the god cheat but the cut scenes would not play so I read the text file. The mission is terribly broken. Starting in a shooting gallery with the minions having explosive attacks puts you behind the 8 ball to start with and those blasted robots there are too many and too hard to put down.

[BentonGrey]

Yikes EoB, that sounds really rough!  I'm sorry man.  Once again, did you ever reinstall the latest version that I uploaded after your first post?  There should be an AI tweak that makes them use their grenades much less often.

As for the golems, they are pretty tough, but there are ways around them.  Characters that can reverse resistances are really handy, like Mandrake.  I had them set up as metal, which meant that the Hornet was super effective against them with his electrical attack, but I changed that because it seemed cheap.  Perhaps I should change them back.  I'll give this some thought.

[earl of bronze]

I have not reinstalled since I do not want to start over. And I would have taken any cheap way I could to beat those damn robots.

[BentonGrey]

Haha!  Well, you wouldn't have to start over.  This should be save game compatible.  I'll do some more testing and look at weakening the warbots.

[earl of bronze]

Ok, well I will check back every day or two until you are done.

[BentonGrey]

I'll probably have something in a few weeks.  We're heading out for Christmas tomorrow, and I'll be traveling for a week.

[cmdrkoenig67]

BG, I noticed in the 1st Green Hornet mission (where GH and Kato are trying to find info about the criminal gang) none of the street lights are on.  The whole city map is darkened.  It's not a really big deal, it just looks odd.

Dana

[BentonGrey]

Leave it to the map-master to notice my weak map-fu.    I'm assuming that it wasn't a night map, but I set the lighting to night with EZScript.  I have no idea how to make the streetlights come on.

[Deaths Jester]

...it was a blackout that only affects streetlights which the villians caused...

[spydermann93]

...it was a blackout that only affects streetlights which the villians caused...

THOSE FIENDS!!!

[cmdrkoenig67]

Hahaha!

[BentonGrey]

Haha!  Yes, that's the ticket!    There actually was such a device in a Doc Savage book, I'm pretty sure...

[daglob]

...The Haunted Ocean... The Shadow had one too...

[Lunati]

So here is my feedback on Pulp Adventures for  , please note that I have found a BUG that stops the story, so I can not continue to finish the mod. Please read more in the Spoilers link below (I finally understand what Bentongrey meant by 'the spoiler functionality' , didn't see that before).

Spoiler

I have numbered the levels with each hero, since I do know know if there will be more with the same hero / heroes.

Indiana Jones 01: Well, nice puzzle design with the riddles. Nice mission to start on.

The Shadow 01: The power 'The Shadow knows' , where the Shadow starts laughing is a Pink cilinder around him. Even after a complete PC reboot.

Bug that stops the story in fist the level when confronting Mr. X (01). In the level where I have to confront Mr. X. I walked around the right side of the compound, to sneak up behind Mr. X. (the first decoy). Then when I defeated that one quite easily, another Mr. X. appeared. Also defeated that one (on easy) quite easily with the help of Doc Savage Sr. Then the interrogation happened, but seemed to got cut short suddenly. And then I did the objective and interrogated Mr. X, but the game was remaining in the level and did not continue. Any help?

[BentonGrey]

Howdy Lunati!  Thanks again for taking the time to give bug reports. 

Shadow: Sounds like you're missing a texture.  I'll check that.

Mr. X: I'll have to try this out, as I'm not sure what the issue would be.

[UnkoMan]

Generally, Bent, there should be a streetlight mesh for day and one for night. Night would have the lights attached. At least this is how it is with FFvsTR assets.
I actually just played that mission a little while ago and noticed the street lights, too... Then I started mining the map for what I'm assuming are FF1 assets? Water tower, old signs, etc?
If you want I could go try going through and replacing all the street lights. Easy job, just time consuming.

[BentonGrey]

Unko, thanks for the explanation.  That makes sense, and now that I think about it, I remember seeing those models. 

Thanks even more for the offer!  That is very generous, and I will definitely take you up on it!    Thanks man!

[Lunati]

Mr. X: I'll have to try this out, as I'm not sure what the issue would be.

Thanks, to me it feels like the level design expects me to follow a linear path, and kill some bad guys I avoided. But that's just a thought, I might be wrong about that.

[Lunati]

Mr. X: I'll have to try this out, as I'm not sure what the issue would be.

Hi Bentongrey,

I tried this Mr. X level again, there doesn't seem to be a problem with it anymore. Maybe just a glitch that might occassionally turn up, best to tell people to try again then. That solved it for me. In the end, I am just more into the X-men and Marvel hero genre. So I will just be waiting when the pinking is fixed for X-Men and the Ironman fix you made is uploaded for Marvel Adventures 2.1 (I think the version would be then).

[BentonGrey]

Great!  Yeah, I think you just out-thought me there, going around when I expected players to go through.   

The good news is, thanks to the always awesome Cyber Burn, I HOPE the pinking issue should be better soon-ish, as soon as I can get time to test and upload.

[Bearded_Jarl]

Sorry for the thread necromancy, but I keep running into this texture problem. I've done a fair amount of googling and while I've seen the issue mentioned a couple times I've never seen a fix offered anywhere, and I'm sorta in love with this mod so far and would really like to see it through the way it was meant to be played. I'm a huge fan of the source material and this is as close as we're getting to the fever dreams I'd have when bashing action figures together. My pulp justice league had Captain America in it, but that's just because I had his toy too.




Both images are from the 1.1 version hosted on ModDB, which seems to be the only source for the mod at this point. I downloaded the additional patches that are supposed to fix the Shadow's fx but that doesn't seem to have worked. I can see the files, they're physically in there, and I can see what appears to be the leafy textures of what I assume are ferns, but those aren't loading either. I notice the offending textures are .tga files, but it's not a universal thing. Also the patch only adds the two files here and they don't seem to be supported by any others? I'm wondering if there's an issue with where the game's looking for textures, and if there's a way to fix it by hand without having to require a lot of futzing around in ffedit.

[BentonGrey]

Howdy Bearded-Jarl!  I think thread necromancy is pretty acceptable in a case like this.  This is the proper place for such a message. 

I'm very glad to hear how much you're enjoying the mod!  Content creators pour a tremendous amount of time and effort into these things, and we send them out into the world where they are mostly met with silence, so it is nice to hear.  I feel the same way about the source material, which is what led to the project's creation.

As for your issue, I'm wondering if it is the classic pink textures issue, where the game uses up too much memory and starts rendering some textures as pink.  Is this always the case, even after a restart?  If so, then there must be some issue with the textures themselves or their datapaths.  I just finished submitting grades for my semester, so your timing is actually excellent.  I'm going to take a few days off, then start working on FF stuff.  I'll check into this and see if I can figure it out.

[Bearded_Jarl]

Yeah, it persists across restarts. PC and game both.

[BentonGrey]

Okay, so it isn't the memory issue.  I'll try to dig into the files soon. 

[Bearded_Jarl]

Aaaah, can't wait.

[BentonGrey]

Well, it took a lot longer than I intended thanks to some rather nasty real life stuff, but I've finally got time to sort this out.  I think I've solved these two issues, but I'd like someone to do a quick test for me before I upload the whole thing.  I'd also like to add a few other minor tweaks and updates while I'm tinkering.

If someone is willing, please:
Unpack this texture and drop it in: PulpAdventures/Art/library/area_specific/_textures
https://www.mediafire.com/file/h1d7o3rijvttli9/ger_grass_fringe.zip/file

Then unpack these and drhttps://www.mediafire.com/file/wyyvzbk4dpd08ar/ShadowLaughTextures.zip/fileop them in: PulpAdventures/Art/library/fx/_textures

[BentonGrey]

Hey folks, I'll be done with the Pulp Adventures update soon.  Anyone out there willing to give it a test run for me?

[BentonGrey]

I just tested the final mission....why did I hate my players so much?  Good grief!  This thing is impossible!  I'm not sure how I ever thought this was a good idea.  I'm definitely rebalancing.  Again.

[Bearded_Jarl]

the difficulty spike so notorious it's even called out on the tv tropes page for the mod

[BentonGrey]

Ha, hopefully the latest build is a lot more manageable and fun.