DOS SW movement bug

06-19-2006, 04:38 PM

I discovered a movement bug in the DOS version of SW (compiled from the source code): when I press the move forward/backward and the strafe left/right key together, the player moves much faster than the normal running speed.

Does anyone noticed this bug? Is there any way to fix it?

TerminX · 06-19-2006, 04:39 PM

That's not a bug.

avatar_58 · 06-19-2006, 04:51 PM

You'll actually find many older FPS games do this. Hell, some newer ones still do it....

06-19-2006, 05:00 PM

Hmmm... Really. I checked out Duke3D and Blood, and both games do this.

avatar_58 · 06-19-2006, 05:08 PM

Its not a 'feature' its just how they happened to do the movement. Just like how in certain games 'bunny hopping' isn't really an intended feature, but they just didn't bother to change it.

Retodon8 · 08-14-2006, 03:10 AM

It's not so much something they couldn't be bothered to do something about, as it is pretty much the most basic part of the movement programming, and fixing it would mean redoing all that programming completely.
It's just an unforeseen consequence of the way things are programmed.
It works in Doom as well, so I somewhat doubt Ken didn't know about it when he made Build, but this is probably just the simplest way of programming it.

06-19-2006, 04:38 PM	#1
Escorter Guest	DOS SW movement bug I discovered a movement bug in the DOS version of SW (compiled from the source code): when I press the move forward/backward and the strafe left/right key together, the player moves much faster than the normal running speed. Does anyone noticed this bug? Is there any way to fix it?

06-19-2006, 05:00 PM	#4
Escorter Guest	Re: DOS SW movement bug Hmmm... Really. I checked out Duke3D and Blood, and both games do this. Last edited by Escorter; 06-19-2006 at 05:08 PM.

06-19-2006, 04:39 PM	#2
TerminX	Re: DOS SW movement bug That's not a bug. __________________ EDuke32 \| Duke4.net forums, the largest Duke Nukem 3D community on the Internet Visit #eduke32 on irc.freenode.net!

06-19-2006, 04:51 PM	#3
avatar_58	Re: DOS SW movement bug You'll actually find many older FPS games do this. Hell, some newer ones still do it....

06-19-2006, 05:08 PM	#5
avatar_58	Re: DOS SW movement bug Its not a 'feature' its just how they happened to do the movement. Just like how in certain games 'bunny hopping' isn't really an intended feature, but they just didn't bother to change it.

08-14-2006, 03:10 AM	#6
Retodon8	Re: DOS SW movement bug It's not so much something they couldn't be bothered to do something about, as it is pretty much the most basic part of the movement programming, and fixing it would mean redoing all that programming completely. It's just an unforeseen consequence of the way things are programmed. It works in Doom as well, so I somewhat doubt Ken didn't know about it when he made Build, but this is probably just the simplest way of programming it. __________________ Retodon8 Sheep happens!