Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 8:15 pm
Today a serious bug was demonstrated for me on Mazzarin's Demise V which allows you to create unlimited duplicates of any found item. By now I expect the news of how to do it has begun spreading around. Obviously, with the way game-play works on Mazz V, this utterly destroys any balance or challenge to the game.
Just as obviously, I can't simply ask people not to exploit this bug. Though it can make beating Legendary easier than Timid, it's just too fun to resist making two dozen copies of a celestial justice bow, golem crystal, or whatever. Even when a group of players gathers to play seriously, there will always be someone who will ruin it on the team.
While I really hate to release a version 2 of Mazz V, in this case I don't think there is any other option if the plugin is going to "survive". By tomorrow night I hope to have ready a fixed full version as well as patches for Plugin Patcher and Omnipatch applications. The patches should be under 200 KB so no one will have to re-download the whole 49 Megs again if they don't want to. I'll have links to where people can download Plugin Patcher or Omnipatch from uDog's HL and write simple directions for how to use them.
My apologies for this inconvenience. Mazz V certainly received more testing than most maps, but with a map so complex, using so many new 1.5.1 map making features, it's difficult to discover every single weird permutation that can cause problems. I hope everyone will be understanding.
Finally, any Heroic wins using this exploit do not count towards winning the contest. Since no one has posted regarding a win yet anyway, as of the time of this post, winning the contest will require using version 2 of the plugin.
My thanks to everyone who has downloaded and played Mazz V so far, and I hope you've enjoyed it. Again, sorry about this screw-up.
Just as obviously, I can't simply ask people not to exploit this bug. Though it can make beating Legendary easier than Timid, it's just too fun to resist making two dozen copies of a celestial justice bow, golem crystal, or whatever. Even when a group of players gathers to play seriously, there will always be someone who will ruin it on the team.
While I really hate to release a version 2 of Mazz V, in this case I don't think there is any other option if the plugin is going to "survive". By tomorrow night I hope to have ready a fixed full version as well as patches for Plugin Patcher and Omnipatch applications. The patches should be under 200 KB so no one will have to re-download the whole 49 Megs again if they don't want to. I'll have links to where people can download Plugin Patcher or Omnipatch from uDog's HL and write simple directions for how to use them.
My apologies for this inconvenience. Mazz V certainly received more testing than most maps, but with a map so complex, using so many new 1.5.1 map making features, it's difficult to discover every single weird permutation that can cause problems. I hope everyone will be understanding.
Finally, any Heroic wins using this exploit do not count towards winning the contest. Since no one has posted regarding a win yet anyway, as of the time of this post, winning the contest will require using version 2 of the plugin.
My thanks to everyone who has downloaded and played Mazz V so far, and I hope you've enjoyed it. Again, sorry about this screw-up.
