Ns Safari And Other Crazy Ideas
Dunkin_Dynamite
Join Date: 2003-02-08 Member: 13260Members
Join Date: 2003-02-08 Member: 13260Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Onos hunting on the savannah</div> Hey! It's 5am and my mind is blown - but bear with me <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
NS Safari
Consider - would it not be awesome to go big game hunting for aliens in some outdoor environment? Imagine hunting onoses on the African savannah .. a team of marines tracking an onos across the grassland, they find it .. creeping up on an onos, taking cover behind bushes and grasses and trees and in the little dips of the terrain. Then all hell breaks loose. You could have drivable vehicles too - imagine a couple of rines in a jeep driving madly trying to stay alive fighting an onos.
NS Galaxy
Look at the standard maps. They are mostly on spaceships. Imagine that you could pilot one of these ships, revised to be intact and somewhat more sensible, through space. Suppose that some galaxy were set up so that you could jump around star systems, visit planets. You could land on planets, rob people, fight aliens, whatever. It could be massively multiplayer.
You could investigate derelict space vessels, perform boarding actions. Aliens could secretly infest you and you'd have to fight them out of the ship. There could be other ships and you could try to rob them, become space pirates. Obviously this is beyond the realistic scope of current teams working on NS but I see the potential for a future game.
NS Arena
Stage 1 on 1 fights between an alien and a knifing marine. Nerf the alien enough to make it balanced. Or give the marine options, maybe more melee weapons, to balance. Put them together in an arena and let the fun begin! Have spectators to cheer them on - maybe spectators can do other stuff to, vote on whatever, insult, throw tomatos, throw grenades etc
NS Limbo
Recently I've seen games with skillful webbing and mining. In a certain game on tanith I was on the marine team, and we mined up our whole base, with the red laser triggers criss crossing everywhere. We started limbo contests lol and even invited the aliens over, but when the aliens finally got to touch the lasers it was during an attack and they they killed us all <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> with our own mines.
Now what if there was a small mod, that involved limbo contests through hostile obstacles? For instance aliens could web up the marine limbo space and marines could mine up the alien limbo space, and then the two teams can compete
If you touch a web as a rine you lose and get torn apart by rabid skulks, and if you touch a tripwire on the alien team .. KaBoOoM!!
The map could be like on a beach or something and the people can stand together cheering their team, jeering the other, whatever, before their turn.
Course you don't even need a mod for this just a map and have the teams call a truce to limbo <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
NS Safari
Consider - would it not be awesome to go big game hunting for aliens in some outdoor environment? Imagine hunting onoses on the African savannah .. a team of marines tracking an onos across the grassland, they find it .. creeping up on an onos, taking cover behind bushes and grasses and trees and in the little dips of the terrain. Then all hell breaks loose. You could have drivable vehicles too - imagine a couple of rines in a jeep driving madly trying to stay alive fighting an onos.
NS Galaxy
Look at the standard maps. They are mostly on spaceships. Imagine that you could pilot one of these ships, revised to be intact and somewhat more sensible, through space. Suppose that some galaxy were set up so that you could jump around star systems, visit planets. You could land on planets, rob people, fight aliens, whatever. It could be massively multiplayer.
You could investigate derelict space vessels, perform boarding actions. Aliens could secretly infest you and you'd have to fight them out of the ship. There could be other ships and you could try to rob them, become space pirates. Obviously this is beyond the realistic scope of current teams working on NS but I see the potential for a future game.
NS Arena
Stage 1 on 1 fights between an alien and a knifing marine. Nerf the alien enough to make it balanced. Or give the marine options, maybe more melee weapons, to balance. Put them together in an arena and let the fun begin! Have spectators to cheer them on - maybe spectators can do other stuff to, vote on whatever, insult, throw tomatos, throw grenades etc
NS Limbo
Recently I've seen games with skillful webbing and mining. In a certain game on tanith I was on the marine team, and we mined up our whole base, with the red laser triggers criss crossing everywhere. We started limbo contests lol and even invited the aliens over, but when the aliens finally got to touch the lasers it was during an attack and they they killed us all <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> with our own mines.
Now what if there was a small mod, that involved limbo contests through hostile obstacles? For instance aliens could web up the marine limbo space and marines could mine up the alien limbo space, and then the two teams can compete
If you touch a web as a rine you lose and get torn apart by rabid skulks, and if you touch a tripwire on the alien team .. KaBoOoM!!
The map could be like on a beach or something and the people can stand together cheering their team, jeering the other, whatever, before their turn.
Course you don't even need a mod for this just a map and have the teams call a truce to limbo <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Comments
And this should probably go in the mapping forums.
<b>***Phase Gated***</b>
It could basically be a func_train couldn't it? Ok so it wouldn't be the best in the world but it is implementable
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You could do big sort of "kill boxes" with the same sort of shape to the ns_hera secret room with a platform that has multiple / a phase gate on it leading to other areas which have clipped sky brushes.
RhoadsToNowhere all you have to do is be imaginative - I am now alot better and I think I will take on the idea of making the "ns_galaxy" idea.
u cudnt actually make the ship move using a func_train cud you? unless u didnt want any other entities in the level, cus u cant make a func_wall etc a func_train too can you <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
You have shown great imagination and enthusiasm.
Knew I could do it.