Yeah. The general concensus is that 1.2 rocks in the most rocking of ways. It's not the same, no--but it IS good, and it feels EVEN MORE like DBZ now. For that I am grateful.
Also, to Ultima2Freeze: If you download my userconfig.cfg fix (
http://home.comcast.net/~rockerforcexv/hostedfiles/userconfig.cfg), and put it in your esf folder, you will have the mp3 player on by default, as well as max graphics settings. If the max graphics are undesirable for you, just open the file and delete everything but the mp3 player command.
Additionally...I have hundreds of posts and everyone I know who has their stuff set up right, doesn't have a ripped off copy of half-life, or a busted computer setup is in DBZ heaven right now with this mod.
Steam is tough to get set up optimally, it's true. But barring that--the bugs aren't with the game, they are entirely with the users. I posted the fix for the only real error with the game. Besides that--the guy who started this thread has STILL yet to leave his specs or any specifics.
You know why? Simple.
Because as soon as he goes, "I use a Compaq PentiumII 333mhz with 16mb RAM and an 8 meg voodoo2 through AOL dialup on my dad's 28.8 modem from an island off the coast of Japan where we mostly communicate with drums and smoke signals because the communications network is made up entirely of tin cans and strings," then his complaints about the team doing a bad job are no longer valid.
On MY machine, the game looks like a Quake III mod, for crying out loud. My framerate is a SOLID 99, THE ENTIRE TIME I PLAY. It has not crashed on me; it loads faster than all my other steam mods; the only problem I had was the advanced menu problems, and I fixed those. So I stand by my point of view that the fellow's complaints are largely unfounded. 90% of the problems he's having sound like computer issues of his own...like I said, if you have "lag" (he probably meant a miserable-ass framerate, probably thanks to something weak in the system, like an 8meg HP onboard card) in ANY half-life mod, your machine is behind the times. Half-Life should run, on any computer in the last two to three years, at its absolute maximum capability.
Until this guy posts specs and specific problems, we can't help him, and he's stuck blaming his computer's craptacularity on the team's "shoddy handiwork."
I don't like the team getting crapped on after all of their hard work. I have been playing ESF for YEARS and YEARS...this is by far my favorite game, always has been. I like it because of it's great ingenuity, masterful design, professionalism of its development team, and most importantly, the fact that it is essentially the only GOOD DBZ game ever conceived. They bust their humps for months and months and years and years--do you realize they have been committed to this for FIVE YEARS!? With not a dime to be had for them!!? They deserve praise for perserverence and professionalism if nothing else.
So I don't appreciate people telling them their product sucks. If everyone did that, we wouldn't have even seen past Alpha. I think it is HIGHLY important to show them the respect they have earned, respect they rightfully deserve.
I mean, seriously. Does this guy think they built a crappy version of the game, put it out crappy, and it just works so good for all of them, and for others like myself, by some dumb coincidence? Computer programs--especially complex ones such as this mod--don't work like that.
Our friend who started this thread either needs to ask for help, or ask for the proverbial bus ticket back to Florida (for all you Metallica fans out there--see if you catch that reference. hehe). I'd have been glad to help him, at least he wasn't outright flaming or being disrespectful (intentionally, anyway). He was just voicing his dissatisfaction. He has a right to that. But don't say everyone is saying 1.2 is bad...the reason why you only see "1.2 sucks" threads is because the rest of us are too busy PLAYING IT and screaming at the top of our lungs in joy and happiness to type spammy threads saying how much it rules, only to get cornholed by people like this guy, who can't control his limewire spyware from devouring his computer.