[Baldo_the_Don]

So, my continuing adventures in WiQ modding went like this today:

Played the mission 'Fallen Angels,' and as soon as I got in the dune buggy, the game crashed. Skipping the details of two hours of troubleshooting, in the game.lwf I edited, there was a single space in a spot where it should not have been.

A single out of place space in a single file was all it took to crash the game. How does anything remain functioning on this planet?

Attached a screenshot of a reticle I drew for the MSG90SD. Illuminated cross, 5 and 10 mrad hashes, 5x mag., bullet drop compensator, and a grid of holds for moving targets, 'cause I made the ammo for this rifle subsonic, and it's hard to hit runners with bullets so slow.

Yes, the BDC functions correctly. Yes, the holds are a bit much, but they do help. Yes, the elevation is adjustable every 100m between 100m and 600m, if that's what you prefer.

And wow, I've been making new gun sounds. I mean taking a bit of generated white noise (pink noise actually works best) in Audacity and using tools and filters to turn it into gun bangs. I can't believe that it not only works, but it works well. The sounds aren't perfect, but they're very good, and tons better than what RadonX19 had scrounged up (that's not criticism of Radon, it's a lament for the lack of good sounds to find).

At least I think they're good sounds. My hearing's been bad for a long time, and legend has it that mixing on headphones is a path to madness, but, y'know, I had to try.

Also, I've been editing the .lwfs as stated above, tweaking volumes on things like the breathing while running, making the reload and recoil sounds not quite so loud, and just trying to balance things a bit.

Editing .wavs, too. Christsicles, what a nightmare of a slog.

But that reticle... If I can hit a dude running perpendicular to my LOS at 500m with a round moving 340m a second, I can only conclude I did something right.