Curveball

Added it to the costume issues thread. Thanks!

Another DP issue - When I save a costume to file that has selected one of the new gun models (specifically Praetorian Resistance pistol) and then try to load that costume into costume creator, I get a message that there is corruption in the file and it can't be applied. This hadn't been something I'd run into prior to using the new style.

Thank you, that worked! It's obvious in hindsight, but I never would have thought to try it. 😄

So in the latest patch it changed the default left mouse button behavior - pre-patch it would behave as a "Quick Look", you could drag the mouse to pan your view and then when you released it would snap back. Post-patch, it is a permanent rotate camera setting and when you release the mouse button the camera angle stays where you put it. I know why the change was made because it threw me when page 7 was released, but after a while I got to like it, so I want to change the behavior back. Unfortunately it looks like I can't do it on the Keymapping panel... I can click on the Quick Look entry to bind a key, but it won't accept LMB as a key to bind. That's sensible, since you can wind up really screwing up your mouse, but it means there's no simple way to do what I want. (I already have the middle mouse button remapped to something else). Is there a bind of quicklook? i.e., could I /bind lbutton quicklook and take care of it? Or is 'left button drag" an action that needs to be called out on its own (never used it back in the day). So maybe /bind lbuttondrag quicklook or /bind lbutton+drag quicklook ...or something like that?

So I've noticed that any time I go into the costume creator, my DP/WP Sentinel's weapon choice (which is supposed to be using the Praetorian Resistance pistol model) resets to .45 automatic. This occurs regardless of whether or not I even make changes to the costume page. Last time it happened all I did was change the character movement stance. I've further noticed that when I save the costume and try to re-apply it from the text file I get a message that the weapon choice is incorrectly configured and it won't let me apply the saved costume. Is there something I have to do to make the weapon choice permanent? When I deliberately select the weapon model it stays put until I access the costume selector again, even when I log out and log back in, so I don't think I'm doing something wrong, but I can't be sure...

Update! It looks like it happens when I turn on cell shading. Turning it off appears to have solved the issue.

Renaming the cache folder didn't work, so I guess it's not cache corruption.

Character Texture Quality is set to "Very High" and Character Detail is set to 100%. Are there any other settings I should also be looking at?

I've noticed this issue more and more: Is this a problem other people have been having, or is it some random graphics glitch on my end? It's not just faceless people, sometimes the portraits don't show NPC hair or other facial details. It's weird. It's obviously not game-breaking, but I do wonder if there's a way to fix it.

DP is rough before you get swap ammo. Also, the animations can also be a little awkward - they don't really flow into each other (or if they do I haven't figured out the correct order yet) so it can sometimes feel like there are pauses between each attack, which is psychologically frustrating even if it isn't actually affecting your overall performance.

I keep trying to dodge roll.... o_O

Thanks for the tip! I'd completely forgotten about /netgraph... After messing around a bit it's pretty clear latency isn't the issue. I *think* it's user error. When hovering over the chat window, the mouse pointer turns into a tiny blue hand (VERY tiny on my ultrawide monitor) and I'm pretty sure it's the end of the finger that determines what you click instead of the fist, and apparently I insist on using the first as a guide instead. 😄

God I missed this game so much! OK, with that out of the way... I've noticed that there seems to be a weird issue with mouse clicks, primarily on contact and dialog windows. Specifically, it seems like the mouse isn't recognizing that you're clicking a dialog choice/link unless I do it 2-3 times. Has anyone else experienced this? I was wondering if it might be some kind of weird latency issue OR if it could just be that the game was designed when screen resolutions were significantly lower than they are now and the higher resolution means the game doesn't consider the mouse pointer hovering over the link on a click even when it appears to be from my perspective, OR if it's another reason entirely.

Also you'll find there's a lot more in-game support for keybind settings than I remember there being in the old game! You used to have to /bind everything in chat, but a lot of the basic stuff can now be done through settings.