#BLACK SQUAD GAME ENGINE MOD#
#BLACK SQUAD GAME ENGINE UPDATE#

It's clearly not an isolated problem, even if CC allegedly can't reproduce it - so getting a list of hardware setups afflicted by the crash would be useful in determining how widespread it really is. As mentioned, I've had reports - from PluM themself, my co-developer, and another user - of crashing happening on Intel/non-AMD machines. I've forwarded PluM's findings to them on their Discord server, as well as the fact that I've heard three different accounts of the crash - which is allegedly AMD-exclusive - happen on non-AMD hardware, and they have yet to acknowledge it (which, frankly, I'm not surprised by, unfortunately). That leaves me with one option I can think of, and it's simultaneously the most obvious, straightforward option, but also the one I have the least faith in, frankly: getting CC to acknowledge the problem and fix it. There's also the matter of distribution, since I'm not sure the Workshop would allow for uploading that kind of plugin either. That's really not something I want to be held liable for.Ĭould a Sourcemod plugin fix the issue? I doubt it, and I'm not well-versed enough in C++ to make a standalone server plugin to fix the issue on my own (though this is a route I'm investigating).

dll's being a surefire way to get VAC-banned if you happen to connect to a VAC-secured server by mistake. I'm not a lawyer, but I feel fairly confident in saying that distributing a modified server.dll file would be legally grey at best, and there's the matter of modified. I'd very, very much like to use Xorts, both for the smoothness of the end result and for convenience on my part - but there's no good way to distribute this patch. Being able to just use Xorts without having to worry about stability would be a much nicer option. It's slapdash and buggy, and while I'm reasonably happy with how well it works, there are still some issues with it that I'm not happy with.

#BLACK SQUAD GAME ENGINE MOD#

I'd pretty much resigned myself to having to use the workaround mod as a base for BMSC Interloper - which, while it kinda sorta gets the job done, really wasn't something I was very keen on. I can't overstate how blown away I am by this. (here are some screenshots from one of the xen museum maps to satisfy ModDB's 2-image requirement and to demonstrate how stable this fix is - note all the electric scorch marks on the ground)

To my eternal amazement, within just a few days they not only managed to track down the cause of the crash, they even managed to put together a hex-edit for Black Mesa's server binary that fixes it! At least, in my testing, it does - I have not been able to get the game to crash due to Xorts a single time since they sent me the details and I gave it a shot. Keep an eye out for that!Īnyway, the main reason I'm making this article.Īfter the last article about the Interloper Xort crash and the workaround mod I made for it, the amazing PluMGMK reached out to me to inquire about the issue and the investigating I'd done. Rebalancing, bugfixes, adjustments and additions, and so on.

#BLACK SQUAD GAME ENGINE UPDATE#

Xen hasn't gotten much further since last update - chances are pretty good we're going to go back and refine some of the Earthbound chapters a bit first. Not much to report on BMSC specifically, I'm afraid.

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