I set the polling interval to never but I still get notifications for some reason. I know I can disable the notifications at the system level, but I would rather the app doesn't do the polling at all currently. Android 14, Pixel 7a.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.mods4ever.com/post/284

I found this cool old website for The 7th Guest, The 11th Hour, and T7G3: The Collector. The author is "Bones the Caretaker". The section of the website for The Collector says "Copyright site-design and written content by Paul van der Meer 2003".

Wait a minute, I know that name! Paul van der Meer is the director of The 7th Guest VR and Project Lead at Vertigo Games!

I don't know how old this website is, but it doesn't exist anymore. Luckily the Wayback Machine captured most of it (missing a bunch of images).

Unfortunately the Wayback Machine is a little slow, so navigating around the house in this way is a bit of a pain, and the split screen isn't sized properly for modern screens.

So I made this tweaked version that can be easily self-hosted or downloaded, and it runs much faster.

Viewable on http://t7g.mods4ever.com/

If you're lazy, the easiest way to see the whole site is to go to the map page and middle click every link. T7G Map and T11H Map

Source code at https://github.com/Die4Ever/bones-7guesthomepage

If you have any improvements to contribute you can make a pull request.

Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20041127023227/http://uk.geocities.com/veluan2002/

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/13618989

Vanilla Fixer: automatically applies compatibility fixes without changing the game at all.

Zero Rando mode: features many quality of life improvements and bug fixes. Based on Deus Ex Randomizer but without the randomization.

Randomizer Lite mode: keeps the randomization subtle, without moving anything or breaking immersion. Similarly there is a Randomizer Medium mode which enables a bunch more randomization features without getting too crazy.

All with good Steam Deck support!

Lots of things not shown in this video because I tried to keep it under 3 minutes. Features such as the integrated bingo board, support for Crowd Control, brightness boost adjustment, and looting improvements, which are all available options even in Zero Rando mode!

Vanilla Fixer: automatically applies compatibility fixes without changing the game at all.

Zero Rando mode: features many quality of life improvements and bug fixes. Based on Deus Ex Randomizer but without the randomization.

Randomizer Lite mode: keeps the randomization subtle, without moving anything or breaking immersion. Similarly there is a Randomizer Medium mode which enables a bunch more randomization features without getting too crazy.

All with good Steam Deck support!

Lots of things not shown in this video because I tried to keep it under 3 minutes. Features such as the integrated bingo board, support for Crowd Control, brightness boost adjustment, and looting improvements, which are all available options even in Zero Rando mode!

Download DXRandoInstaller.exe in the Assets section under the changelog or download from Mods4Ever.com. It is safe to update in the middle of a playthrough.

Use vanilla (optionally with Lay D Denton) to get all of the Randomizer's features, best QoL improvements, and the most polished experience. Our installer has an option to install Lay D Denton for you automatically.

Trailers

See the full README here. Also check out our Discord and Mods4Ever.com

Major Changes

• Simplified barrels to combine multiple variants that did the same thing. Also added optional new textures to make it even clearer (look in the Rando menu).
• Weapons that fall out of enemy hands due to damage now have ammo
• M14 Silo: Howard radio room closer to window, and added computer in machine shop
• Added option to automatically put away in-hand items when trying to pick up decorations
• Nerfed automatic power recirculator slightly
• Gas colliding with enemies is now more consistent
• You now start with 6575 skill points, and Zero Rando defaults to Trained pistol with 5000 points remaining like vanilla does (except without the exploit/bug with untraining pistol)
• More goal locations mutual exclusions, to reduce the difference between best seed and worst seed for each mission
  • M02 subway vents start and subway ambrosia because of easy skill points
  • M02 warehouse alley generator and sewer jock, this combo was too easy
  • M08 the 2 bar locations, bar is still the best place to check but now you can't get both Harley and Vinny in the bar at the same time
  • M12 starting front gate and exiting at front gate, because that's too much walking back and forth, also slightly moved front gate start forwards where Tong normally is

Minor Changes

FROM unravels the mystery of a nightmarish town that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest – including the terrifying creatures that come out when the sun goes down.

FROM unravels the mystery of a nightmarish town that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest – including the terrifying creatures that come out when the sun goes down.

Download DXRandoInstaller.exe in the Assets section at the bottom of the GitHub page (Linux version also available, as well as the Vanilla Fixer tool). It is safe to update in the middle of a playthrough.

Use vanilla (optionally with Lay D Denton) to get all of the Randomizer's features, best QoL improvements, and the most polished experience. Our installer has an option to install Lay D Denton for you automatically.

Trailers

See the full README here. Also check out our Discord and Mods4Ever.com

Major Changes

• Fixed a bug that was causing skill/aug strengths to not be consistent.
  • (Loading older saves will give you different skill/aug strengths from before, but otherwise playable.)
• New WaltonWare starting locations, previously we only had 13, now we have 40 of them!
• Added 14 more bingo goals.
• Vandenberg Silo improvements:
  • Spawn Howard Strong immediately (assuming Helios was born and you downloaded the UC schematics).
    • This allows you to scout for the launch control computer and Howard at the same time.
    • If you kill Howard before redirecting the missile, the infolink dialog will be slightly rearranged to be more appropriate.
  • Fixed Howard and Jock both being able to spawn in the Launch Command room
• Fixed some songs that can get stuck when using Randomized Music.
  • (This will reset your music config so you may need to re-enable Unreal or UT music in the Rando menu.)
• Some fixes for Zero Rando mode, including a fix for the 50% mirrored maps option in Zero Rando mode.
• Removed more balance changes from Zero Rando mode, mostly small map specific tweaks.
• Nerfed power recirculator aug when you have it in automatic mode.
• Fixed advanced settings when playing an alternate game mode (such as tweaking the settings for WaltonWare mode).
• Option for Deus_nsf's tweaked D3D10 shaders, look in the Advanced settings in our Installer program.
• Computer skill Advanced and Master base costs reverted back to the vanilla.
  • Level 1 is the only one that's OP, we rarely saw players get upgrades past that.
  • Previously the base costs were: 1575 for Trained, 3150 for Advanced, and 5250 for Master
  • Now the base costs are: 1575 for Trained, 2250 for Advanced, and 3750 for Master
• Nerfed lower levels of speed aug back to vanilla. Max level is still a little weaker than vanilla.
  • We were a little worried about speedruns and races, but as Nitram has shown, speedrunners can adapt.
• Enabled randomized bot weapons by default.
• OpenAugTree by WCCC (at the bottom of the Keyboard/Mouse settings, bind it to a key).
  • This is great for playing on Steam Deck or on a controller.
• Allow animals to be knocked unconscious.

The Cutscenes are out of order in the Game. Here is the Cutscenes in order as told in the book, The 7th Guest: A Novel by Matthew J. Costello. Cropped the black borders with only a small loss of quality.

This is the fastest time since the release of v2.6 (which had a bunch of additions and changes that slowed down the speedrun for everyone) so we're calling this the new world record speedrun in this post-v2.6 era. This was played on v2.6.3.6 Alpha.

Nitram came on to the scene very quickly getting sub-2 hour runs with a totally different strategy than we've been doing. Previously we were focusing on running past everything as quickly as possible and hacking all computers in our path. But Nitram starts the game with lots of looting, more careful combat with less deaths, and typically not getting the Computer skill until the end of the game or not at all! In this run he got Computer skill right at the very end (1:38:57 in the video) because of Silo. I guess since he found the computer right away he didn't have time to find the datacube before finding the computer.

It is yet to be seen if the minimal, run past everything approach can beat this time in v2.6+, we will have to wait and see if other runners attempt it or follow this strategy. But it is exciting to have such a shakeup in the meta, and it seems the Randomizer is currently balanced enough to allow these completely different strategies to be viable even for the speedrun.

The previous world record was 1:28:02 by Ramisme in v2.5.4, about 5 months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN7GkIGILwk

(And yes, we have our own version of LiveSplit built right into the game’s HUD. It autosplits and removes load times.)