A few questions
Carbon14
Join Date: 2002-07-29 Member: 1025Members, Retired Developer
Join Date: 2002-07-29 Member: 1025Members, Retired Developer
<div class="IPBDescription">Just three</div>1. Will there deffinately be a marine vs marine mode in version 2?
2. Will the textures from all the maps be compiled into one giant NS WAD, or will it be like CS with them all split up?
3. If there is a Marine Vs Marine mode what will the opposition of the TSA take the form of?
Thanks in advance
2. Will the textures from all the maps be compiled into one giant NS WAD, or will it be like CS with them all split up?
3. If there is a Marine Vs Marine mode what will the opposition of the TSA take the form of?
Thanks in advance
Comments
1. No. Yes. STC. It's really too early to give a definite answer, but I'd say it's pretty likely.
2. There *is* a main NS.wad, which mappers are encouraged to use as exclusively as possible. If a mapper uses custom textures, these custom textures will be included with the map install. I couldn't tell you if Flay will be compiling these; something in me says no, as the textures are technically the personal work of the mapper.
3. I doubt even Flayra knows the answer to this question right now... let's wait till V.2, eh? <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo--> Just trust that when it *is* answered, it'll be a good answer with a kick-@$$ backstory to explain it.
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But that's me. ^^;;
Alien vs. alien = Pure DEATHMATCH! o.@
Marines vs. Marines = Overly zealous tactician clan mode.
Alien vs. alien = Pure DEATHMATCH! o.@
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Exactly. And that way, NS gets even <b>more</b> people playing.
How this will work for aliens i can't imagine...
thats alot of work!!! it'll be like having 3 races. They could even remodel an other marine team, but give them a more space pirate type style, tsa vs intergalactik drug dealers. 4 races!!, maybe by v4.7... <!--emo&:D--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'><!--endemo-->
I think it would be possible to reskin them. At the momment they have a pink, fleashy like skin, they could have the same models but be more reptile like with a greenish skin with scales or something.
... Mmmm! Binary!
Maybe, maybe not, it could end up with 10 servers and not one playing the mode you like. I personally don't like the idea, I'd rather have one really good mode of play that they could continue working on and making better rather than a jack of all trades and master of none(I'm not saying they could'nt make all the gameplay modes fun, it just seems a bit doubtful) I'm probably in the minority on this, considering we're living in a post counter-strike age and RTS buffs are probably yearning for some Marine Vs. Marine action, but this is just my opinion.
1. I hope there is a Marine Vs Marine mode, although I would worry about it becoming more popular than Marine Vs alien. I wanted to know this because I missed out on this mapping deadline, and I thought about starting a marine Vs marine map.
2. I hope the NS WAD is one large WAD, I hate trying to map for CS when you have to search through all the WADs to find one texture, it would make mapping easier to have every NS texture in one WAD. However, I suppose there could be problems with attributing textures to artists.
3. It would be awsome to have a rebel type force. Maybe miners or something.
When I started reading your post I was thinking 'The Opera'.
I downloaded that, played it for like a day, and deleted it. Sure the site looked good, sure the idea sounded neat, sure the community was huge, sure it was in development for years, but when it came out everyone played it and went back to mods they liked.
It is stupid to think the same couldn't happen to NS.. the game *looks* great, but you might play it and think 'this is retarded, I am going back to a fun mod like Kannonball' and delete it. It doesn't matter what people say about the game.. you have to play it to make your own conclusions. The mod community has to give it a spin before it is a success. You can't judge a book by it's cover even if it is bound in gold.
Edit: Changed wouldn't with couldn't.. sounded like I was saying it WOULD be a failure.
neways... i thought of something to diffrenciate the teams if its MvM or AvA (dunno if its good tho). for each team, they have sorta little coloured sign above their heads, so ppl could tell the diff. but i'd b cheap if u could just see some1 in a dark corner becuz of the little sign above their heads, so i dunno. just think about it. or u could do somethin like tfc and colour code the ppl. just think about my ideas.
DEATH FROM ABOVE!!!
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Quake 3 was like that. The teams had colored shapes over their heads, and I swear everyone looked like Teletubbies. All the more reason to shoot.