Blood

[Shambler234]

This was my favorite game among the build engine, i've heard they're making it in the Quake Engine.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yB8Kuh5l2s]Blood - Gameplay - YouTube[/ame]
Crudex Cruo!

[talisa]

always loved blood since i first got a demo for it on some cdrom with a ton of demos.
loved the humor, the kickass weapons and the awesome b-horror movie theme and baddies of the game.

blood will always have a place in my heart along-side the other great classic shooters from the 90s.
love the original different 'western combined with b-horror-movie' style the game has.

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about the remake you are talking about... you are most likely referrring to transfusion.
which is a partial blood remake in the darkplaces engine. its only multi-player only however, and sadly the project died 6years ago.
but it is still available for download and the official website still exists today:Transfusion > Home

[Shambler234]

Sadly, Transfusion had tons of potential.

[talisa]

yeah it did. looks great and everythng they did very authentic to the game.

just a shame they only made deathmatch part and then the project died. i was looking so much forward to it myself

however, there is light in the darkness!
someone else is remaking blood in the eduke32 engine, and he has quite a bit ready already. the first episode is pretty much done completely and with permission he used the 3d models from transfusion
M210 Projects - Unreal, eDuke32, BloodTC, DoomTC, Serious Sam, Half-Life, maps, mods

[nahuel]

in transfusion only the code is GPL, we can not continue the work using models and stuff

[talisa]

aww that sucks, that work on models and such isnt allowed

otherwise someone else couldve picked up the stuff they made and continued on it perhaps

[Shambler234]

Is there anyone even playing bloodbath?
Or at least transfusion?

[talisa]

i had transfusion years ago myself, but stopped cuz of lack of players, and the fact its only multiplayer deathmatch.

never been much into versus modes, always liked coop and sp more

[talisa]

random... isnt there some way to play online with blood in dosbox?

that would be awesome. got the gog.com edition of blood+ expansion myself, would be cool to be able to play it online. never got to play it online


assume the build-in online options included wont work anymore really nowadays?
or is there some way to make one of them work and be able to play online with someone with blood through dosbox?

[AAA]

The pitchfork in this game reminds me of this, funny as hell!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euYczqpSs68]Iranian army (((Must Watch !!!))) - ????? ???????? - YouTube[/ame]

[Amran]

Really neat to see the eduke32 port, thanks for posting this!

There's also the XL-Engine, a work in progress that intends to eventually include full support for Blood. It's unlikely that this will be completed in the near future however as there's currently a lot of focus on Daggerfall and Dark Forces support.

[Hareton]

I liked this game, but I don't remember if I completed all the levels... Probably not. Is it worth it?

[talisa]

@hareton
totally, blood is epic
pick it up again and go play it

id suggest the gog.com version, and set in-game resolution to 800x600,
and then in dosboxblood.conf and dosboxblood_addon.conf in the installation directory,
set fullresolution=1920x1080 (or whatever res your screen supports at max)

that'll result too in blood playing at high-res, but wont result in slow fps,
which you do get if you set the in-game resolution higher then 800x600.
it looks the exact same that way, but without bad performance

[Hareton]

Setting the high resolution results in smooth look, like in zdoom, or does it still look more like pixelated DOS game?

[talisa]

well, of course the textures are still pixely, since you are using the original engine.

dosbox doesnt filter such textures of 2,5D games. the screen as a whole does get filtered if you change scaler=normal2x to one of the hq filters in the dosbox configs, but there's no filtering of textures itself

implenting fitlers like that would require modifications made to the engine,
and sadly the blood sourcecode was never released to the public so theres no different engines for it