I would like to have propositions about which features to allow and which to inhibit, each with a good rationale.
This option should be distinct from the -pure2D option insofar as it should probably allow certain D2X-XL extensions to be available.
This should not be about what people like or not, but about what really affects gameplay and what doesn't.
Obviously, mouselook and fastpitch will be inhibited.
Weapon effects will be inhibited, too.
What about OpenGL lighting, colored lighting, smoke, shadows?
Colored lighting - potentially makes level darker. No advantage over non D2X-XL here.
Colored gun light - you determine an oponents weapon earlier, but does it make a difference? You can tell laser bolts, spreadfire, plasma, gauss from each other anyway?
Smoke - looks really cool, may make it harder to see. So you can take this as an enhancement requiring additional skill/better tactics, or as a hindrance.
Shadows - that's just eye candy. Personally I thought of inhibiting it.
I think you could shoot for two different directions: No D2X-XL extensions at all (almost like -pureD2, but still allowing the new UI stuff), or allowing some D2X-XL stuff.
I'd like to keep hires models, smoke, OpenGL lighting (with fixed brightness setting), and colored gun light.
No mouselook, fast pitch, shadows, weapon fx, shield spheres, damage explosions, target and damage indicators.
Also no suppression of friendly fire and suicides, no dual missile launch, no fusion bump.
Anything else? Your turn.
