http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/15/14898/AvP_Classic_2010-06-13_14-30-55-56.jpg

Better yet, an icon similar to the one above; the silhouette of a man shown in the array of colors used in thermal imaging.

^thats from AvP LOL, game is good btw.

make the other biped Sgt. Johnson instead of just and ODST :D.
complete with interactive voices eg. "reloading" or when he kills covies or flood :D

If they used Johnson, they'd have to revise all the levels so as to match up to where Johnson was canonically at the time.

...or they could just be oblivious of Canon and just place Johnson where they like.

Thats a quick second job, just remove the johnson perm from the marine biped..

i was thinking about the ODST variant of Johnson.

but in the end, what CMT wants/does is what we get.
Edited by CorpseManTS on Aug 8, 2012 at 02:57 AM

awesome, lovin power ups, reminds me of the good ol' days playing serious sam :)

can i just say though that those packs look a little small compared to the OS and invis
Edited by Ubergoober on Aug 8, 2012 at 03:59 AM

yes because that's why there weren't spartan ai in spv1 -.-

I'm pretty sure cmt isn't that concerned with being canonically accurate

Yeah, I'm not to concerned with cannon. I suppose if tag slots ever becomes an issue, we could more selectively use Johnson. But for now there's no plans.

They've already said they have no progress on The Flood right now.

Yes, the updates are in the big long huge announcement post you didn't read that people have spent the last few pages talking about, including the status on the flood.

Honestly, why give updates when people don't read them? :(

He probably read them, but wants more updates.

just thinking out loud here

wow its been a while since anyone has posted anything whats up with that.

But we're all too dedicated to do something none-cannon.

Or atleast I'm too dedicated to play something that couldn't be canon. I'll make slight exceptions in what I play in that regards (Halo wars was pretty fun)

Well, we have been hard at work these last few days on a lot of important stuff, and we haven't had time recently to put something pretty together for people to look at. Soon you may see some of it.
Edited by teh lag on Aug 24, 2012 at 07:30 PM

I have a question that may have been answered before but I haven't particularly had the time to look through several pages to find out.

Do you have any plans on upgrading the grunt biped? (I used to jokingly say it's because they look cute in low res) because It kind of kills the mood to see all this great work with normal mapping and high res textures and then looking at the poor little grunt.
Edited by Suprememessage on Aug 24, 2012 at 07:33 PM

Personally I would sacrifice Canon for aesthetics and gameplay.

Can't we have both?

I'm pretty sure it has been answered before.

Wasn't there an issue with someone not bothering to send CMT the custom biped they asked him to model?

A guy was in the process of making a high-res Grunt, but then he ran away and has not been heard from in like half a year. We do not have his source files so we can't finish what he started. So for the time being, upgrading the Grunt is on hold since we can use our time on other stuff.
Edited by teh lag on Aug 24, 2012 at 07:47 PM

Man if I was better at modeling I'd do it myself but meh.

Have you tried asking Hunter to model a grunt?
I know he's kinda left Halo modding, but he might take this one request, and being admittedly the best modeller here, he could provide a high quality model.

Well,sir,would you like to show us how it's done?

what makes you say that? we dont see you offering "your" kind of advice

anyways, will CMT let us wield the energy sword? i like me some sword action on the flood.

The day we do a fp energy sword is the day I quit.

Why? D: Do you hate energy swords?

I knew that. But still...

So that explains the unfinished hammer tags on the spv1 tagset. well ok, the hammer is much better than the sword, HAVE AT THEE!!!

you should make an energy sword weapon that explodes when the player tries to pick it up :P

Isn't there some kind of .yelo tagwork that could be done?

They can be def done with OS, there's no question about it.

I do like the sword for mp, but in sp it just encourages the player to rush towards the enemy and ruins the gameplay. Encounters and enemies are based on interesting gameplay, there's nothing interesting about getting in as close as you can and mashing a button. I rarely use swords or hammers unless the encounters call for it in anything h2+.

but isn't it preferable for flood encounters where they combat forms are rushing you anyway? I mean in levels like the library it would definitely make sense to have a powerful melee weapon to combat the flood's melee rushing attacks

an idea to balance the gameplay, why not increase the melee dmg of your enemies and reduce the AoE damage of the hammer. the closer you are, the higher the dmg dealt but when atleast 2.5 world units away, you only ping the attacker with a slight amount of damage + knockback.

you know sometimes other players panic and pops the hammer when the enemy is not even close enough. effin dead space gave me that trauma
Edited by CorpseManTS on Aug 25, 2012 at 01:08 AM

I wouldn't add the Energy Sword in the sense we know now.
I'd be more inclined to add it as a bayonet type thing underneath a weapons such as the Brute Plasma Pistol.

after seeing ff descent, i thought it might be cool to have bubble shields in cmt's next project. i also think the sword and hammer might be a nice addition.