UK_John: Funny how GOG still says this problem is solved when it's not based on posts after the 'solved' post.
I took have the problem with walking in the riss, and it certainly makes fighting really hard as the soldiers can run in it!
I agree that GOG should re-look at this game as it's patently not fixed for the latest OS's - which is one of GOG's promises.
It worries me though, that once a thread is marked 'solved', they do not seem to come back to it.
wierzbowski: There is a community developed patch that fixes both the mud walking and Twon-Ha issues here: [url=]http://www.planet-adelpha.net/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=121&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0[/url]
UK_John: When I use this I get file/size mismatch - so it doesn't work with the GOG version, did it fix you're non GOG version and then you posted this?
Sweetz: I may be completely mistaken on this, but I'm pretty sure I recall being able to
run in the mud back in the day.
I don't think the animation is determined by being the mud, I think the game has a adaptive system for the run/walk animation and that being slower in the mud due to the bug simply alters the displayed animation to match - not that the animation is indicative of being slow in the mud as normal.
---Update---
Found an old gameplay vid someone uploaded and they were
running in the mud.
Skip to 5:00:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nA2WZbsPcc I'm pretty sure that's how I remember it. However, upon reading through the linked patched thread - they say that walking in the mud is how the game was intended, and that you can run in the mud with an alternate version of the fix but that's not how it originally was. Perhaps that alternate version of the patch is applied in the above video.
It seems that the mud movement speed is based on framerate - with lower framerates actually letting you move faster. Perhaps the game just ran slowly on my machine back in the day that's why I could run.
UK_John: Thats wrong. I remember when i bought outcast those days when it was released. i play with my 350Mhz pc and i run through the mud with no problems. Iam really disappointed that this version did not work. But iam happy to be able to run this game in win7.