thanks to the review in Amiga Future's last issue I decided to try out Flare today at os4depot.net. Since I'm a sucker for good ol top down dungeon crawlers I thought the gameplay and graphics were quite good BUT can someone please tell me how you can attack with the mouse?? or keyboard combo?? i tried a bunch of things but the character does nothing

edit: problem solved with new version v0.16

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@klx300r

I finished it a few weeks ago.
You have just to click left mouse to attack. May be you didn't equipped with a weapon, did you ?

It is good game, a bit slow on SAM 800.

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I am Totally Addicted To Flare, Deaaaauwow, d d d d de deaaaaauwow, Totally addicted to Flare!

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P.S. How many hours gameplay to complete the game for you?

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I was addicted too.
I spent a few hours may be 4 hours to end it and redo some levels for fun.

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@Yescop

How did you do that? Only levelling up from level 4 to 5 or the next ones took me more than 4 hours! And all the level 7/8 cretures within the cavern dungeons made this impossible for me! Now I'm at the 3 or 4 brothers (or sth. like that) but did not play it for weeks.

I used to play it on Peg2 and WinPC. Furthermore I talked a lot by mail with the author of the original game on how he achieved all the things.

@klx300r

Yet another game that won't start without a sound card...

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@sundown

Are you playing this game on your X1000?

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I would try it if I could. I haven't had a great need for a sound card yet & the game refuses to start without sound support. I'm not into games enough to spend money on a sound card. My micro fills my audio needs for now, so depends on when we get the on-board audio driver for the x1000. I still look for a cheap pcie card on ebay though, want to keep 1 pci slot open for an older gfx card. The x can handle 2 gfx cards if each has a driver, seperate monitor for each.

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@amigasociety

I am but it's actually slower on my X1000 than on my sam flex, I get a dsi when starting it on the X1000 which is probably the reason for the slowdown if lots of dsi's are being ignored.

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@Reth

I was thinking a bit more and I underestimate the time, it was more around 10-12 hours, I think. I could not be more accurate as I made some levels a few times for fun.
The question to ask to the authors is not how but when, when does hi plan to achieve this game ? There are some places not used in the game like the bridge to quit the world, may be.
As my level went up, to get rid of strong/numerous ennemies, I used the spell which stopped the enemies ' course, very efficient.
Enjoy the game

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@sundown

I take it your Beta System X1000 does not have the same sound card I do then on the FC system?

I should give it a whirl then and see.

tj

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ya it needs a sound card to run. Try it on your micro as it mighht have enough juice to run it smoothly.

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I only order the board, had the case, drives, & gfx card already, never bothered with the audio card. Maybe this month, or next, I'll see about getting an audio card.

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@klx300r

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ya it needs a sound card to run.

But why? It should just run, there must be an option to turn off sound if ppl want.

I will try it on the micro, but no joystick, so maybe another issue, something else I need to buy.

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@sundown

Flare is (typically) played by mouse, a joystick is pretty useless.

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@Yescop

Hm, seems I took my level points on the wrong strenghts! I levelled up mostly in range weapons to get more power in them. Afterwards I begun to strengthen my magic powers.
So the freeze of lots of enemies for more than 3 seconds I'm not able yet (just nailing them one after each other for 3 seconds with that magical shot).
Which spell did you use and how did you finish all the level 8 creatures in the caves at once?

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@Severin

How does 0.16 run on X1000?.

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@sundown

I played this game on AROS a few months ago when I thought I was having problems with sound (turns out to be my own silly fault). Eventually I got it working simply by setting ahi prefs to void. It started working once I had done so. Thankfully I worked out my sound problem shortly after anyway, but perhaps its something you could check too?
Also you dont need a joystick, its mouse controlled :)

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@Thematic

I've no idea. the version on os4depot is 0.15.

Edit: found it in the upload queue, installing it now...

DO NOT INSTALL OVER V0.15 YOU NEED NEW MOD FILES

Edit: ok, downloaded the linux distro and found a small bug, the saves drawer isn't used (missing /) so saves are in progdir: as savessave1.txt etc.
Runs very slow but I'll try tweaking the settings.

Yet Another Edit: ok. setting hwsurface and doublebuf to 0 really speeds the game up (about twice the speed of 0.15). it runs great on 1024x768 although 800x600 is probably the best resolution to use.

Great work

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