Official Going Rogue Discussion

Okay, found what I was looking for. And I think it puts it into perspective better.

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Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler Well that and the 'stabbing-head-with-shield' factor. FYI, we have seven combat modes: Combat - unarmed combat mode, used by most powers Weapon - weapon in right hand. Broadsword, Mace, Axe, Arachnos Mace, etc. Dual Wield - Dual Blades, Dual Pistols *Lefthand - used by lefthand weapons. Archery and Katana *Claws - used by...hang on a sec...oh right, Claws. Shield - Shield and Shield Weapon combat mode Gun - two handed rifles. Assault Rifle and Robotics Mastermind *Lefthand and Claws are a subset of Dual Wield. They generally share animations with Dual combat mode. So really looking at 12-16 animations per power, counting the varients for Male, Female, and Huge for Gun combat mode and doubling everything for Flight. To put that in perspective, that's basically a powerset. That's also not counting the massive bloat that would happen to our sequencers from having 5-7 versions of every power animation. I've actually looked at getting rid of weapon draw entirely, but even that is problematic. The system is very inflexible as far as different combat modes goes.

Yes, he was talking specifically about weapon draw/redraw, but he does enumerate fairly well all of the combat animation stances, etc.

Which is why I used the exampe of Episode I - the Gungan city is an underwater zone, but the only action involving water is to swim to it - so an underwater zone in CoH could be, for example, a city built into a giant coarl reef, and we'd just use the swimming animation we already have for getting to it - the entrances would be like the CoT map portals - just pass through it and you get a mini-tp to the other side.

And, using another bit of existing tech, think of an AE building - a large, mostly glass structure that lets us see what's happening outside.
Now, take the one in, say, Atlas Park and expand and reshape it until it's several huge glass domes covering all of central Atlas Plaza area, and change the clickable entry doors into CoT style portals.
Then progam all the zone outside the domes to be like the underwater area in that Cimeroran cave map, and switch the cars, civilians and blimp into fish and other sea creatures, and adjust their routes so they're "walking" in the "sky".

If they're going to do underwater they should do it like BioShock. Have lots of glass windows around to see what's going on outside. Maybe a few scripted events, possibly some water leakage. They could give everyone a Temp Breathing power to swim there or even an unlockable Dive Helmet from a Mission Arc or something.

Of course, doing the MoonBase would probably be easier



**I just saw what Golden Girl posted earlier. Yeah, what she said :P**

I agree with the episode 1 thingy.

I would be more than happy to see something like an underwater base that doesn't actually involve any underwater travel. If you could stand next to the window and watch fish, sharks, wales, rays etc swimming past in a nice vibrant coral reef i would be very very satisfied =)

So, in other words, no word on when this is going to even hit Test Center??

Why does Atlantis have to be an under water zone? I don't think it will be.

There was a time when Atlantis WASN'T under water, right? And the whole Fifth Column thing involves TIME TRAVEL right?

I think we'll see "Pre-Sunk" Atlantis. And/or the continent/island of Mu as well.

It's all part of the CoH/V history already, isn't it?

Two-fold, I would guess:

1) The Well of the Furies is magical in nature.

2) We may not be getting an Incarnate Origin in the near future (or ever) and so they don't want to even have to deal with the "hey look, Tyrant is an Incarnate too... maybe we will get that in GR."

It's not going to be part of the end-game system. Just think about it. You don't become Incarnate. You are Incarnate.

I would love the game even more if the game lore around Atlantis would revolve around the Primordial Coralax? As for the zone design, Atlantis can be one large island with small floating islands in a spiral.

The Devs could add a Coralax AV or EB and maybe a Atlantis SF...:rool::