@NeXoSE Did actually spot your post as we were setting this up! I think @Laz had it watchlisted though

@Crazy I think this may be off the table due to the work involved and how different the DM system is for NodeBB, but I think the plan is to bring the old version of the site back on a subdomain for a short time when we can talk to @w0dk4 next so folks can grab things like DMs and forum avatars they might no longer have handy.

@Venemon Great work man! Really cool to see you putting more of these out. I’m going to hold off posting these on the wiki for a little bit as we’re currently redoing the formatting of it a bit to allow better categorization and filtering.

For those interested, we’ll be generating the page from a json payload, much like the crash offsets page. Here’s a few samples of what’s included. I want to try and link out to the post the offset was noted in for context, as well as including a date where we can find it:

A simple byte swap:

{
        "moduleName": [
            "freelancer.exe"
        ],
        "original": [
            "E8 04 95 FD FF"
        ],
        "replacement": [
            "90 90 90 90 90"
        ],
        "offset": [
            "0x18B147"
        ],
        "author": "BC46",
        "description": "Disables the UI character typing text sounds completely.",
        "dateAdded": 0,
        "categories": [
            "audio"
        ]
    },

A multipart offset:

{
        "moduleName": [
            "common.dll",
            "common.dll"
        ],
        "original": [
            "DD 05 D0 E2 39 06 D9 FF",
            "C7 44 24 24 00 00 00 00 C7 44 24 2C 00 00 00 00 C7 44 24 30 00 00 80 3F C7 44 24 34 00 00 00 00 C7 44 24 3C 00 00 00 00 DD 05 D0 E2 39 06 D9 FE D9 C1 D9 5C 24 20 D9 54 24 28"
        ],
        "replacement": [
            "D9 E8 D9 E0 D9 EE D9 C1",
            "D9 54 24 20 D9 5C 24 30 D9 54 24 24 D9 54 24 28 D9 54 24 2C D9 54 24 34 D9 54 24 3C D9 44 24 54 D9 E0 D9 5C 24 54 D9 44 24 60 D9 E0 D9 5C 24 60 D9 44 24 48 D9 E0 D9 5C 24 48"
        ],
        "offset": [
            "0x06191E",
            "0x061941"
        ],
        "author": "Gold_Sear",
        "description": "Swap vertical component of trade lane travel in previous direction. This fixes issues with vertically oriented trade lanes.",
        "dateAdded": 1254560320,
        "categories": [
            "tradelanes"
        ],
        "url": "https://the-starport.com/forums/topic/396/dev-s-limit-breaking-101-techniques/986?_=1706522670775"
    },

A value adjustment

{
        "moduleName": [
            "common.dll"
        ],
        "original": [
            "1.2f"
        ],
        "offset": [
            "0x07637F"
        ],
        "author": "Cannon",
        "description": "Formation catch up cruise speed multiplier. Outside of trail range common.dll 0x075B36; values above variable located at 0x1407A0 will be ignored.",
        "dateAdded": 0,
        "categories": [
            "cruise"
        ]
    },

Converting these across by hand in bulk is a bit soul-destroying, so if someone wants to pitch in and take a page to convert to json, it’d be much appreciated! otherwise you can expect an update to the page structure at some point in the next few months.

@Gold_Sear said in Dev's Limit Breaking 101 Techniques:

I could help with that, especially since I know the history of many of these offsets in the list.

That would be excellent! I’d say just pick a page or pages, and I’ll skip over them. I’m planning to put a bit of work into ‘Damage, Repair and Collision Offsets’ and ‘Docking and Jumping Offsets’ tomorrow, hopefully finishing them.

I also accidentally uploaded the partly-done json to the repository here, and will likely keep updating it, so do feel free to put a PR in with the section you pick in the commit message, and I’ll handle any merges.

I’ve powered through and completed the HUD section on the new limit breaking in it’s entirety, may get another chunk done this afternoon. I think I may also do a pass of this thread again and ensure any new offsets are added to the new page if they’re not already present.

Heyo! Thought I’d start out here by posting a few of the bits and pieces we’ve been working on for Better Modernised Combat! The mod is mostly focused on gameplay adjustments, but there’s a bit of obvious visual spectacle to show off as well:

Fancy new solar panel models from Nighthawk/Ashes:

A kitbashed Liberty Battleship wreck solar:

What could have happened to Houston?

I also wanted to show off our UI adjustments, complete with colourful icons and a hook to provide additional relevant information in the dynamic part of the equipment infocard (Huge thanks to @Laz for that one!)

We don’t have YouTube embeds yet, but it’s something that’s coming to the forum soon. I thought I’d post these in the mean time though:

The rather fancy repair mine effect:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Njt9gFb7CI

Weapon FX (With bonus flares!) for Liberty Battleship Solars:
https://youtu.be/sIDuj88DXNE

I’ll post more fun/interesting visuals as development goes on!

It’s taken a while, but @Laz and @Raikkonen have done a ton of work to get the database moved over and the new forum looking nice. There’s still quite a bit to do as mentioned in the post, and I suspect we’ll be ironing out little things with the forum over the next few weeks, but the bulk of the work is more or less done so we can focus on getting stuff running as smoothly as possible here.

The next big thing from my perspective is getting the download archive cleaned up. There’s a ton of content for Dungeon Siege(?) in there and nothing is really labelled clearly. Would love to change that and make it easier to use and browse.

Worth noting (I don’t think this was mentioned in the post). We currently have the registration queue active to deter spammers. If your forum account is taking a while to get authorized, give us a prod on the Discord, or shoot an email to [email protected] to get it cleared quickly.

@Venemon Damn dude, these are great! I’ve added them to the relevant Limit Breaking categories. Thanks a ton for finding these, I will likely get quite a bit of use out of the group navmap one.

@XxSARGExX huge, huge thanks for running Regulancer and coordinating all these streams and events. You’ve done an amazing job this year and I don’t think we’d be where we are today without you. Keep up the good work

@Venemon Nice find! I’ve added this one to the list

@Venemon said in Dev's Limit Breaking 101 Techniques:

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Amazing work man! I’ll get these and your new offsets added to the wiki once again

@Gold_Sear Apologies, I’ve been away for a week, your PR is now merged in!

I want to do a pass on the tags, I’ll take a look at this and do a cleanup on them.

It’s possible that the build for the page failed which is why it’s out of sync? I’ll take a look at that as well EDIT: Looks like there was some invalid json, which caused the page generation to fail. I’ve updated this and the page should sync again in about 20 minutes time.

@Gold_Sear Accepted your PR! I’ll update my list of what’s done. Hoping to get a bit of work done on this today

@Venemon I think with these adding an adjustment to the post with a disclaimer saying that these crash and recommending the alternative offset might be the way to go, as these addresses are potentially useful for additional reverse engineering!

@Venemon Can’t stay away huh? Thanks for the contributions, I’ve added these to the crash offsets page.

@josbyte Added to the wiki, thanks for the addition

@josbyte I’ve amended both of these offsets in the wiki. 8381a was actually already present as I had this when we had a file generator write ‘nan’ into the price field, so it’s any sort of invalid value here. Have updated it to make it clear that 0 isn’t an option for prices!