Teams Keep One, Change One Add One
ChromeAngel
Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 14Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 14Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
<div class="IPBDescription">New Race?</div>NS could be described as Starcraft meets Counter-Strike. If Kharaa are the Zerg and TSA are the Terrans, where are the Protoss?
Just an idea, reproduce one of the teams exactly as it was in NS, and tweak the other, then work on balancing them both against a new third race.
A humanoid alien race with a mixture of advanced technology and/or psychic powers. Style wise i'm thinking gold, coral & crystals.
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As their unique trait perhaps the radio of commanders to foot soldiers could be reversed, giving them much tougher units and structures, with many direct damage attack spells for the "commanders".
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Why would hyper advanced aliens want human nano resources? Perhaps they narrowly avoided a "grey goo" situation on their homeworld and are just trying to clean up this "pollutant", they don't actually use the res they collect they get rewarded for it by their off world sponsors (and for whacking anyone that gets in their way).
Just an idea, reproduce one of the teams exactly as it was in NS, and tweak the other, then work on balancing them both against a new third race.
A humanoid alien race with a mixture of advanced technology and/or psychic powers. Style wise i'm thinking gold, coral & crystals.
[mad]
As their unique trait perhaps the radio of commanders to foot soldiers could be reversed, giving them much tougher units and structures, with many direct damage attack spells for the "commanders".
[/mad]
Why would hyper advanced aliens want human nano resources? Perhaps they narrowly avoided a "grey goo" situation on their homeworld and are just trying to clean up this "pollutant", they don't actually use the res they collect they get rewarded for it by their off world sponsors (and for whacking anyone that gets in their way).
Comments
Yar
but true, ALOT of balancing
would be really original and unique for a fps
It has 3 teams. Humans are like the Marines, Aliens like Kharaa, and Predators are your "protoss" addition.
Interesting points include that the Aliens in AvP2 had rotating view. A decent implementation too, although still very jarring. The Predator team actually had to have fewer players than the other teams since they were designed as stronger than their counterparts.
Anyways, just check it out.
I personally do no like this idea unless each map in itself is a battle between only two of the races. Otherwise, balance will be hell for the designers and for the mappers.
I thought it would be very interesting to see how marines fare against another shooty team as opposed to the melee oriented aliens we had in NS 1.