If the level was not the most recently played, a save is forced so that
it can be marked as most recently played. However, the logic to force
the save also forced an update of the highest-level field, even if that
reduced it.
- Rename the parameter to clarify its meaning.
- Add comments explaining the logic to force the save.
- Only update the highest-level field when the update would increase the saved value
The highest-level tracking code assumed filenames would always fit in a
char[9]. This was true on DOS, but has not been true in Rebirth for
many years. Builds without fortification caused silent memory
corruption in this case.
Refuse to create highest-level entries if they would cause corruption.
Log a diagnostic telling the user that this happened.
Commit f4b21088a0 ("Track vulcan ammo explicitly") fixed an original
retail bug that prevented the thief from stealing energy weapons,
because the thief could only steal weapons for which the player had ammo
and energy weapons never have ammo. This went unremarked for several
years, until a recent report of the new semantics as a game-breaking
regression because the thief is now "ridiculously potent".
Address this report, as well as an intermittently raised issue from
various users over time, by adding two new knobs to both the single
player "Gameplay" menu and the multiplayer setup screen: "Remove Thief
at level start" and "Prevent Thief Stealing Energy Weapons".
"Remove Thief" deletes the thief object during level load. It has no
impact on save games, and changing it after entering a level has no
effect on any thief already in the level.
"Prevent Thief Stealing" is checked at the moment of theft and, when
enabled, prevents stealing primary weapons other than Vulcan/Gauss.
This can be changed at will in single player and is immediately
effective. In multiplayer, this option can only be changed by the game
host in the pre-game setup.
For both knobs, there is one pair of checkboxes to control this as a
player preference, which applies in single player games. There is a
second pair of checkboxes in the multiplayer setup, which applies only
to multiplayer games. Therefore, in multiplayer, the host chooses thief
settings and all clients use the host's choice. The host may configure
the thief differently in multiplayer from how the host plays in single
player.
For users who wanted to remove the thief, no specific tally has been
kept for who requested it or when. Now that the code is being updated,
this is thrown in as an easy addition.
Reported-by: MegaDescent <http://forum.dxx-rebirth.com/showthread.php?tid=980> (for the thief stealing energy weapons as a game-breaking regression)
Mako88 reports that some users want not to autoselect while firing, but
do not notice when a new weapon is added to the HUD, and end up never
activating a preferred weapon. Add a new autoselect mode that remembers
what would be selected and switches to it once the player ceases firing.
Changes since Mako88's proposed version:
- Use `enum class` for autoselection mode and a radio button to
represent the decision of Immediate/Never/Delayed.
- Handle delayed autoselect for vulcan ammo.
- Set Delayed_primary == Primary_weapon to indicate no change is needed,
rather than Delayed_primary==-1. This lets some paths use
Delayed_primary without checking for a magic value.
- Likewise Delayed_secondary / Secondary_weapon.
- Update Delayed_primary/Delayed_secondary when changing active
primary/secondary weapon, so that a player who changes weapons while
firing will automatically clear any deferred change.
Requested-by: Mako88 <https://github.com/dxx-rebirth/dxx-rebirth/issues/97>
Based-on-patch-by: Mako88 <https://github.com/dxx-rebirth/dxx-rebirth/pull/147>
C++ does not require this pattern.
import re, fileinput
to = re.compile(r'^typedef struct ([a-z_A-Z]+)\s*{')
tc = re.compile(r'^}(.*?)\s*([a-z_A-Z]+);$')
osn = None
for line in fileinput.input(inplace=True):
m = to.match(line)
if m:
osn = m.group(1)
print 'struct %s\n{' % osn
continue
if osn:
m = tc.match(line)
if m:
csn = m.group(2)
if osn == csn:
print '}%s;' % m.group(1)
osn = None
continue
else:
osn = None
print line,
