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#40 item pick up limit
Was there a 15 item pickup limit in the original? Been playing with Hammer of Thyrion and noticed the game wouldn't let me pick up more than 15 of each item off the ground, but if they appear inside a backpack, I can get more than 15.
I'm pretty sure I remember being able to get up to 25 items on the ground from the original exe.
This isn't related to the exe, i.e. the engine, it is controlled by the hcode game logic i.e. progs.dat. Looking at the history of changes we did in the hcode, I can't see anything that relates to maximum item count. So think this is invalid, please verify using an older progs.dat. Setting status to 'pending' for now.
How exactly would I go about using an older progs.dat? Like taking the original one off my game cd?
old progs2.dat for testing
old progs.dat for testing
Yes, that's one way of doing it. Remember that the original cd versions of the progs have a lot of bugs etc, so use them only for testing+noting things and restore the ones provided by uhexen2 later for normal play.
The original cd versions are v1.03: the game patched later to v1.11, so a better comparison can be made v1.11 progs against uhexen2's v1.25 progs. So I suggest test with these ones: see the attached files here.
OK I tested myself: With v1.03 progs.dat ("cdrom" version) the limit is 25. With v1.09 or later progs the limit is 15. The official patch changelogs from Raven doesn't seem to mention this change, but it is there nonetheless: the gameplay decision is made by the original developers themselves and there is no bug here and we shall not be changing that limit in uhexen2 either. Therefore closing as invalid.
Oh, as for the backpack-contained items bypassing the pickup limit: IIRC that has always been that way and is a tiny and harmless oversight, not worth fixing.