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By 2short2care,
Posted on: 2012-09-03 10:10 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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I just...

don't have the words.

Thanks


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Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
I need to make sure I kill the right guy.
I wonder if that's one of those lessons you can only learn through firsthand experience, the hard way.

Still hate the visit Winscott mission- make it dropable, have it give actual exp or remove it altogether. PS- Down knows who you are.
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Boyfriend: Agggh!!
Me: !?!?
Bf: Dr. Aeon just rick-rolled me!



The cutscenes look so intense. it's so disappointing that we likely won't see them as they are intended to be, unless we are lucky and another studio takes over production. The capabilities of the LUA engine sound so awesome as well!

 

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
.... LUA would have made this a whole different game. It would have been a larger leap in functionality than Ultra Mode was in graphical fidelity, than Power Customization was to the character creator, than the invention system was to build meta-gaming. The difference between the I24 engine with LUA and the I22 engine without LUA is like the difference between a giant crate of LEGOs and a giant castle made out of LEGOs that is glued together.
Cool.

Could it have given us a new base system?

*sigh*

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Originally Posted by Impish Kat View Post
Cool.

Could it have given us a new base system?

*sigh*

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Not immediately because the base system was written in COBOL by two chimpanzees and an IT grad student, but eventually if the resources became available to redo the base system from scratch, it could have made incredibly interesting base functionality.

The notion that they could have one day opened a limited subset of the scripting to us for the AE - and possibly bases one day - is another one of those what-if things that will haunt me.

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Wait, so you're saying the base system was actually supposed to be their accounting software???
NCSoft store can't tell you everything you already bought so they moved to the Paragon Store that can't tell you what you already bought but added the new feature that it can't always tell you what you can't buy either.

It seems one area Paragon Studios had issues with was contract programming. Since apparently one of the type-R programmers they contracted to update the physics engine had a questionable understanding of gravity. My guess is that Paragon couldn't ask him to fix it because he tried to fly off his roof one day.

The irony is that if Paragon Studios contracted someone to write their accounting software, the game would probably still be live. Because I don't think NCSoft would terminate a title that was earning them sixty-eight trillion dollars a month.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
NCSoft store can't tell you everything you already bought so they moved to the Paragon Store that can't tell you what you already bought but added the new feature that it can't always tell you what you can't buy either.

It seems one area Paragon Studios had issues with was contract programming. Since apparently one of the type-R programmers they contracted to update the physics engine had a questionable understanding of gravity. My guess is that Paragon couldn't ask him to fix it because he tried to fly off his roof one day.

The irony is that if Paragon Studios contracted someone to write their accounting software, the game would probably still be live. Because I don't think NCSoft would terminate a title that was earning them sixty-eight trillion dollars a month.
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Arcanaville, you now have me wavering as to whether I should refer to you as the Doyenne of Digits or the Snark Knight.
I kind of like that.

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The third link shows off a bit of everything, it is also a bit SPOILER HEAVY, so please be warned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGS8r...eature=related
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Just watched these now.

You Magnificent *******!

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That, that, that...... WAS EVILLL!!!!!

You tricked me, tricked us!
YOU MANIAC YOU WICKED EVIL CRAZY MAD SCIENTIST!!!!!!!!!

 

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post

The notion that they could have one day opened a limited subset of the scripting to us for the AE - and possibly bases one day - is another one of those what-if things that will haunt me.
Oh gawd if we could have made Arena maps that would have been incredibly epic.

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Ever since the game went FREEDOM last year, I have been facing difficulty in posting in the COH forums. Strangely I am never able to log on to the forums from my home, my PC or my mom's either. Though I could login to the forums and post on my work PC.

I hate to do non-work related stuff on my work PC but this is probably my only chance to say it now before the game finally closes up.

A lot of people have already said it before and said it better than me. COH has become one of my favorite games which I play every night and it is really depressing to find out that it will be gone. Just like that.

I guess what I'm saying is I'm taking this time to thank and appreciate the hardwork that the devs have put in. There is an incredible amount of lore & story in the game that is so much better compared to a whole lot of MMOs out there.
There is also the wonderful community in Virtue, full of helpful and like-minded people for roleplaying storylines/heroes etc..

Gosh, its so hard not to become emotional and its even more hearbreaking to find out that there are so many cool stuff that is coming to us in I24 which will now never come to pass.

It is almost like saying goodbye to a relationship, except that it isn't with a person but with a game/community. There is so much more I have to say but I will stop here or I end up crying and attracting unwanted attention from my colleagues.

Farewell COH and thanks for all the fun that you have provided us.


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Hey gang,

So, I've been updating the portfolio for my work and I wanted to share some videos with you all.

The first one is a video montage I had made for the studio to present the new Issue 24 cutscenes. This is SPOILER HEAVY, if you dare to watch it. The video also shows off new cutscene technology implemented by Black Scorpion, which is Depth of Field.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjTAI_ozpZY

The second link shows off LUA scripting. This was implemented by our brilliant programming team for Issue 24. The video only shows off a small portion of what we did with it; for example, Arbiter Hawk implemented the new Paladin event in Kings Row entirely through LUA. This scripting language is incredibly powerful and, the best for us, very easy to iterate upon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knCvNsPERlQ

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