thekbob wrote:
I'm going to attempt this tomorrow. Thanks for the help. I got an itch for HL2 mods and this one seemed top billing across a lot of places. I was enjoying it until this, now famous, hallway lock-up.
I thought it was my drivers. I spent good time reinstalling them, too.
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RE: Minerva Metastasis seemed top billing across a lot of places. I was enjoying it until this, now famous, hallway lock-up. I thought it was my drivers. I spent good time reinstalling them, too.I've wasted more hours than I care to admit -that's why I'm sort of miffed (displeased) with no roll-back feature. Valve should be ashamed of themselves, the game keeps a log of how many times it has crashed.
After a MAJOR engine re-write-after so may crashes it should prompt the user with the question:
Do you want to revert to a previously working state? /revert to previous software revision?, Click here and select from the list. (In situations in which the game is not crashing enough to make this error message pop up, but the customer has noticed that the game is all of the sudden not running correctly, when it previously was running
P-E-R-F-E-C-T there should be a way to manually revert to a previously working state.
There should be a tab within Steam? that when clicked shows the update history (Major updates especially) that you could click and it shows the history along with options to
"ROLL-BACK" to a previous date and time.)
Valve knows damm well that the new engine re-write screwed up a bunch of mods. While it is true mods are not official Valve products, it's the mods that keep people interested in the product. (For us single player persons). Valve has profited (yes profited) from mods over the years, it's sort of a kick in the teeth for them to release a update that has sustained interest in the series over the years.
Additionally I think that it's a heck of a note that the Creator of Minerva Metastasis has not posted info on the website for Minerva about the problems the
May-2010 Macintosh Friendly, PC Unfriendly, screw your existing customer base engine "update" has caused along with status reports on how the Creator Created patch is progressing.
Scouring the net there are only tidbits from him about the issues caused by the May-2010 engine re-write.
This info should be posted on the
Minerva Metastasis website,
http://www.hylobatidae.org/minerva/ and be posted in the
news section of Minerva Metastasis pages for the mod on Moddb.com, and PlanetPhillp.
Seems like if Minerva was good enough to land the author a job with Valve... Some info would be posted about the status of the patch Mr Foster stated he was working on.
BTW: There's no info about any kind of "problems" on the SteamPowered page for Metastasis- That page should be updated to reflect there HAS been a major engine re-write...and people are having problems. The lack of such is very unprofessional.
(Noticed that the SteamPowered page does have info about BUYING the needed host game to make the mod run)
On the SteamPowered Page it's business as usual, come on in the water is fine...Click HERE to send us your money NOW!*********
Now some may say, Adam is busy (which I don't doubt) but how long does it take to post such info?
I bet it would take far less time for him to post this info, than you or I, or the thousands upon untold thousands of persons have spent trying to get Minerva Metastasis working again, post May-2010.
*On the patch itself, with the insider info MrFoster has on the mod, and with direct contacts at Valve that he can tap into since he works for Valve now I would think the time to make a official patch would be much less than persons without such insider info / contacts. Considering how good Minerva Metastasis is it deserves nothing less.
One last thing, those here are like those "in-the box", they are like people within a company that are privy to insider info, to them these issues are common knowledge
(Example= The people that re-wrote the engine to make it Macintosh compatible KNEW that the engine operated differently, they KNEW it would break mods).....
Persons outside the box (EG the common customer) who does NOT know everything Valve, does NOT follow which engine is being used and know all the various nuances , and workaround to get the mods working again is not privy to this info and has to spend hours, upon hours of time to get xyz mod working again.
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