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Discussion: The Intrepid Informer: Issue #2

Alien51

By Alien51,
Posted on: 2011-02-28 11:27 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion

 

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And the aircraft carrier part would mean the Freaks had welded jet engines and wings onto themselves.
Now I want Jet Freaks with a sniper range Shield Charge analog.

 

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Hrrrm. I suppose it's interesting-looking. It'll depend heavily on the writing, of course.

But excuse me for being cranky? But, well, as far back as when Mission Architect was new, and then repeatedly since then, we keep getting asked what kinds of environmental art assets we'd like added to the game ... and this is not something that anybody, let alone any significant number of us, asked for. I would really have preferred the art department's time had gone into something a little more interesting AND useful, like the long overdue space station and lunar colony and underwater city maps.
1) all three examples you provided required some degree of tech (swim/low gravity, zero g) to make the environment really stand out. ( I guess you could do a bubbled-dome habitat deep undersea & just have the water overhead, or a space station that looks like our tech labs, but with windows showing the vastness of space, but both of those wouldn't satisfy the core demand).

2) Look at the few screenshots carefully. Many of those assets already exist. Those few that ARE new could be scattered into the many port environments in-game for multiple reuse... or serve as a basis for future expansions into an undersea zone. It isn't a vast array of new assets, as a space station or lunar base would be. In those places, most of the existing assets would seem out of place. This gets us something that uses many existing assets while encouraging development of stuff that can be of value to new projects down the line.

 

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something a little more interesting AND useful, like the long overdue space station and lunar colony and underwater city maps.
I see your requests remain in a long-distance relationship with realism and viability.

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Right now, I'm leaning towards something to do with the Destroyers (snip....)
Man, if it is... then my mock prediction was right-- More events/trials with fun abbreviations!



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Now I want Jet Freaks with a sniper range Shield Charge analog.
The power must be called "Oops" and inflict minor damage and a brief -Fly on the Jet Freak in addition to its primary effects.

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An "Aegis Cruiser" would be a Ticonderoga-class. These things look more like Burke-class destroyers, which are also equipped with the Aegis system. The two types of ships look very similar, however. They're based on the same hull.

 

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The power must be called "Oops" and inflict minor damage and a brief -Fly on the Jet Freak in addition to its primary effects.

How about a temp power for "REASON", from Snow Crash.

 

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It reminds me of The Raft from Snow Crash.
That's exactly what I thought when I saw it.

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And the aircraft carrier part would mean the Freaks had welded jet engines and wings onto themselves.
See? Players are not the only ones demanding jetpacks!

...and I find the idea of supersonic freaks startlingly interesting...

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One suggestion to the art team. You should make sure that the ships have individual marking. It would be funny if they all had the same and odd if they didn't have any. If you don't have time to make individual markings thin making it look like the markings have bin scraped off would be a good alternative.

A question would be will there be sharks/see monsters/ a school of sallys?

 

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I, for one, am hoping for Freakshow Pirates.
Lets hope that they short themselves out.

 

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Is it bad that I was expecting "floating" to mean "aerial?" And that I was actually disappointed for a moment?
Not that bad, I thought floating Sky Fortress and after reading 5 pages, I'm still dissapointed its not what it is.

Excited for the prospects of a new zone sure, but its a teeny bit dissapointing to see the bulk of it made from old assets stuck together.

and as others have said, for realistic structural integrity look at the real world, this has been done, and all the ships have to be quite cohesively attached, as if they were a giant catamaran.

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Excited for the prospects of a new zone sure
It might not be a new zone - it could just be the setting for another Incarnate Trial.

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I, for one, am hoping for Freakshow Pirates.
Now that would be FANTASTIC!
They should have a random one spawn with a tri corner hat on.

 

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Very interesting map and I like the idea behind it.
But: a sailing ship never sits idly on a dock under canvas

 

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bringing the interior ship areas of this zone to completion. See you then.
He said zone so im taking it as a zone Looks AWESOME!

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I see your requests remain in a long-distance relationship with realism and viability.
You say that like it is something uncommon around these parts.

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I hope this environment will have new textures and objects.
So far, the ships on the screenshots are the same we had before.
Looks better thanks to the ultra-water, but ships are reclycled... again.
Thats way I love Praetoria so much. Theres lots of new buildings, textures...

 

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And the aircraft carrier part would mean the Freaks had welded jet engines and wings onto themselves.
I imagine they'd look something like this:


Make it happen Devs!

 

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Water World was the first thing that came to mind. :P

It would be nice if they moved around in the water. Heck, even if the whole mess of ships meandered around the map.

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