Iffy was wrong to classify this as a "brute weapon". It's a covenant grenade that it exclusively used by the Brutes. Or at least that's how it was discussed when the idea came up. There was no intention for this to be a piece of "brute tech"

so it's in the same category as a brute plasma rifle you're saying?


I can roll with that

still, it is very opaque and lingers for a long time, in which the AI can act like it's not even there while the player would struggle seeing through a massive white blob.

Honestly, it works very well during gameplay. Don't let the video fool you.

looks awesome, personally i think the power-drain in h3 had too greater radius, but the radius of that nade looks great. does it stick to, and demobilise, vehicles?
in the emp nade video there were 4 grenade icons, im guessing frag, sticky, the third was emp, but what was the last one? spike nade?
Edited by Ubergoober on Dec 18, 2012 at 07:39 AM

It currently doesn't disable vehicles, or stick, but those are both things we can experiment with. The 4th grenade, we had a lot of ideas, from auto turrets to proximity grenades, but we're going to try to use OS to do something new, very similar in fact to one of the cut pieces of H3 equipment.

will there still be charged plasma pistol vehicle disabling? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSU8nL-mmAg

Yep. a few other weapons may also be able to disable vehicles as well.

I also have a question will you guys be lowering the amount of damage you take from being rammed by a vehicle or will it still be a instant kill when being hit by the slightest touch?because it would make it harder to highjack if you died instantly from being rammed.I think the damage last time I checked was 10000.
Edited by Spark on Dec 21, 2012 at 02:58 AM

I think (not programmer speaking here) that since the vehicle speed is binary (you cannot adjust the going speed) the damage counts as when you are moving the fastest you can. Not sure, but common sense dictates that that would be it.

Nope. Binary is a notation system that has 2 rather than 10 as a base.

Erherm...


Thought the newest version of OS was only supposed to allow you to have 4 grenade types.

The number is obviously telling you how many grenades you have of the one you have selected.

Right click, open image in new tab. You can clearly see that I've circled 5 different grenade symbols and labeled them each by number in bright red. I'm not talking about the number of grenades, i'm talking about the number of options to choose from, bro.

There's 4 grenades and the number 3.

Perhaps you need glasses?

*cough*NUMBERS*cough*

You can clearly see that the plasma grenade is selected, with THREE of them left. It's only 4 grenades.

Yeah, it's only 4 grenades, plus the number to signify how many grenades you have of the type selected.

Can't say I'm a fan of the grenade indicator.

Design us a new one that's better and we'll use that :).

Ill think about it.

Edited by Scott on Dec 23, 2012 at 11:52 AM

Wow, just wow guys, this is why I don't even try to post much on here or upload anything. Because when I do try something you just throw it out the window, I tried to make the design work with the rest of the HUD while still making it work with how it was intended to work.

Haters gun hate, bro. Not much you can do about it.

If you and your team enjoys it (Btw, I ALSO think it looks good, and I am not alone) then that's all that matters right? Take it for what it's worth :P

I think it's a good design.

Are you referring to CMT throwing your design out the window or critics criticising your design?

Imo the HUD looks awesome except for the grenade count. The number shouldn't be in a circle of it's own. It should just be left as a number on the overall background of the grenade selection.

Thats exactly how it is.

I'm obligated to agree with Jaz on this one. It just doesn't fit on its own circle.

we likes it, we just trying to make grunt eater feel better :P

It would be too clunky, and were leaving it as is.

It would be less clunky...

I am happy to announce that based on the latest tests conducted, SPV3A10 gets similar FPS to that of of SPV2's A10 public beta, if the player disables OS graphics in their shortcut. The FPS is likely to only improve, as we continue to optimize our content.

You're on to optimizing now? Goodie! So we can expect a release sometime January?

haha... no. Everything hangs on B30:Evolved. When that is done, then the goodies will flow.

The most optmizing I bet CMT will ever do is just downsize their textures....

edit: I meant to actually say, what arte you doing to the content that is optmizing it? Can we get some real examples of what you have been doing that have caused massive optmization.
Edited by il Duce Primo on Dec 23, 2012 at 07:56 PM

I do need glasses, i just wasn't wearing them XD