Mouselook + WASD patch

[Tijn]

#12276

I thought there was a thread about this already, but I don’t see it, so I’m making it now: there’s a mouselook + wasd patch for both Under A Killing Moon and Pandora Directive (Tex Murphy 3 and 4 respectively). You can find it here: https://moralrecordings.itch.io/tex3-mouselook

Patching your executable through this tool will replace the bizarre default movement controls with a more conventional setup.

Seems worth it. I haven’t tried it yet, but I definitely will!

[Tijn]

#12278

Oh I now see the patch was posted in this thread earlier: https://www.dosgameclub.com/forums/topic/the-series/

I knew I had seen it somewhere!

[Katsumoto]

#12286

Great, thanks – lifesaver already after just 5 minutes of testing it out. I was worried the crazy control scheme might test my patience too far!

[jan0sch]

#12326

OMG a life saver this thing. 🙂

[red.hexapus]

#12335

Thanks for this @Tijn, this patch is a godsend.

[firefyte]

#12336

After playing with the OG controls on dosbox, the patch fixes issues I had with movement, so it’s always worth it.

[Loomattic90]

#12370

After 5 days I have just noticed we can increase or decrease height with SHIFT & CTRL… who reads the manual ? :/

[watchful]

#12373

Mouse patch also maps ‘C’ to crouch

[Loomattic90]

#12375

I would like to test the ZQSD patch for a second run in difficulty “Game Players mode”… currently I am still using the crazy “VR” mouse movements mode, (even if this gave me nausea during the first 5 minutes)
…until I had to “reach up on tippytoes” to pick some items in a drawer… which was not possible with the mouse only 😉 … still good to know we need this function

Mouse – Look around
[W] – forwards
[A] – strafe left
[S] – backwards
[D] – strafe right
[C] – crouch (while held)
[R] – reach up on tippytoes (while held)
[L-Shift] – run (while held)

[moralrecordings]

#12384

Hello. A new version of the mouselook patch is available. You will probably want this for The Pandora Directive, as it makes the Alien Abductor controls much less clunky.

https://moralrecordings.itch.io/tex3-mouselook

[Tijn]

#12385

Thanks for your work, moralrecordings! Truly wouldn’t know if I could have made it to the end without this.

I was planning a 2nd playthrough anyway, but now with the new patch I’m especially keen to see what changed 🙂

[Loomattic90]

#12387

This is the second spoil of the day about “Alien Abductor”, as i saw it on kikuupo stream by mistake as well

[watchful]

#12388

Anyone else seen this glitch? It happened on Day 5 after I’d degaussed the NSA CD in the evidence room.

I tried restoring TEX4.exe then applying latest patch and reloading. Still showing only vertical view like in attached screenshot.

EDIT: It was the cat stepping on ‘0’ key that changed it to an odd resolution. Pressing ‘7’ fixed.

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[firefyte]

#12390

This is ‘intended’ the number keys change the size of the viewport.