If you have the Dualshock 4, mouse emulation (via programs such as JoyToKey) is not necessary. Installing the Input Mapper virtual driver will allow the touch pad on the controller to function as a track pad, removing the need to calibrate the analog sticks (in order to fine-tune mouse movement). That leaves the rest of the controls for other functions. Pressing the touch pad down even works as a left click, allowing that to be a definable key within swamp itself.

Kai

I wrote this in the redspot topic on audiogames.net so here it is.

i have a problem with swamp though. its not the deseign, movement system, key commands, the costamizability, the way weapons work, the sounds, no, its the hole pay to play online thing. I get it, it helps hackers stay away, but thtat means  either people in some countries can't play the game online, or people who can't buy it at all, either because they are not 18, or their parents won't buy it for them, they can't play online, talk to there friends, level up, and find weapons on different maps.

A friend has just returned to Swamp but cant play as most of the sounds are missing.  He's got the latest patch.
I don't know what to advise so any help welcome.
Mark.

Hi, Phoenix here. I cannot play online for some reason. It says that the server appears to be offline. Does this mean Aprone is working on the big update?

SirBadger you are a star!  And a very kindly one at that!  He had success imediately with the self installer.  His game name is Deadman and he asked me to send his thanks for your help.
Cheers.
Mark.

Just a quick suggestion. What if every time you completed a weapon specific quest, as well as gaining 1 quest credit, it also permanently added 1 skillpoint to the mastery of that weapon category. This makes sense and would give greater meaning to the quests.

Flackers, I like that idea too. very cool! and I hope all is well with Aprone!

hi aprone,

i do get what you mean accept that you can only do x amount of quests per day and as such weapons quests don't always come up. so yes i can see what you're saying from a balance issue but equally if you wanted a weapons quest which is my favourite of them even without this idea, you can keep all your quest slots free but you may not get a weapons quest for a few days. so i don't see how a player could get hundreds of skills in a particular weapon. that is of course assuming that for example each weapons quest you get a shotgun for the next 2 or 3 quests. they are pretty evenly spread out.

Rather than as a permanent bonus (if such a weapon bonus is even to be considered), how about making it last only your daily resets are restored, or until you die? In this way, you could make the bonus a random between +1 and +10, as well as setting an appropriate character flag. At the time the server resets skill points (be it via death or daily reset), the flag is cleared and the bonus is removed. In this way, a person can only ever get one bonus for the day, rather than stacking up +100 to beebee gun mastery, forever.

Kai

Aww, I definitely hope to have our lockers back one day, that was terrific when that was finally set up. But as far as weapon points per death span, that'd work nicely! IMHO! Good thought there.

Don't know if this is significant, but I've only ever seen the crate bug happen on missions involving multiple players. I've done hundreds of missions solo, and dropped thousands of crates, and none has ever failed to drop. As a newb, I never felt comfortable with waiting in the truck, so when I heard someone mention how doable 180 basics or fierce is for a low level player, and how much EXP you get for it, that's all I've been doing since. I've only ever seen the crate bug happen to others on the few multi player missions I've been on. I've noticed other little buggy behaviour on those missions too, such as lag, and my char running slower. I never have any issues when I'm on my own. I wonder if others have had the bug while on solos. I've seen it happen several times on a single 200 crater with multiple players, so I'd have thought it would have happened by now having done loads of 100 craters solo. I used to drop them 10 at a time just in case, but now I collect all 100 in a single go, so I'd be well pissed if they ever didn't drop, but it hasn't happened as yet.