but CMT has access to personnel who are wildly talented in all those areas, and I'm sure people would be disappointed if flood infections weren't implemented.

Flood infections are at the core of what we are doing with the flood. I can say with pretty much 100% certainly everything will be infectable, including Brutes, Grunts, Jackals, Skirmishers, and Sentinels. Hunters and Enforcers are the only thing that aren't currently planned, although we have ideas for what we could do for Hunter Flood forms. Yes we realize the biomass of the hunter worm colony doesn't support normal flood infections, but we have an idea to work around that.

I don't understand the sentinel and enforcer part. Do you mean that they are corruptible by the flood, just like how gravemind corrupted mendicant bias? Or am I missing something?

In regards to Hunters and the Flood, I think a good approach would be to simply have a Flood form (possibly similar to the Tank) that uses salvaged Hunter armor, rather than trying to explain infected Hunters.

That's kind of the idea, as far as Sentinels go, Flood have always been able to control technology, specifically ships and space stations. They do the same thing to the sentinels, just on a smaller scale.

But ships and space stations also have control interfaces that the Flood can slap a wad of biomass onto and interact with. They're not automatons like Sentinels, and it seems odd that the primary anti-Flood unt of the Forerunners would be as prone to infection as a biological entity. Even in the event that they could be controlled by the Flood, I'm not sure why the Flood would want to commandeer them, unless they were so starved for biomass that they couldn't scrape a combat form together (which could equipped with a salvaged Sentinel beam. Or a rocke launcher. Or anything, really, whereas a Sentinel's weapon is integral).
Edited by Echo77 on Jun 10, 2014 at 03:03 PM

July is going to be a good month for Halo PC players. Evolved should provide a fresh take on TSC, and hold us off until the first half of SPV3 is released. I wonder when Kornman will update Open Sauce for version 1.10. I already have the regular PC edition updated to 1.10, but, left CE at 1.09 until the new version of Open Sauce is released. Two questions, though. First, will TSCE work with UUI? Second, does the regular PC edition of Halo have to be installed in order to play Custom Edition (I have a legit version and key, by the way)? I keep it installed because I sometimes want to play the stock campaign. Once all of the SPV3 levels come out, I will be able to install all of the stock campaign maps to CE, and would like to uninstall the regular PC edition afterwards, if possible.

@Echo: the idea is they use biomass to interface with the sentinels.

@austen1000: There is no pure campaign for HCE, the "stock" maps that are out there suffer from some problems with AI movement and grenades. You don't need PC installed to play CE. There is a new version of the UUI coming out with support for TSC:E.

All you need is the CD Key from Halo PC to install Custom Edition.

How bad are these issues with the ported stock maps? Enough to warrant not playing them? Maybe I should keep Halo PC installed.

So TSC: Evolved is going to be released pretty soon now. Did you guys change the spartan and elite model? Or is it still pretty much still just the same ones that you guys used in the released A50 level with maybe updated shaders or textures or whatever? Will the new grunts, ( if there is one ready ) be in TSC: Evolved? Do you guys have new marine models, and are they going to be in TSC: Evolved? Have you guys remade most, if not all of the covenant and UNSC units that are going to be used, or are there still going to be placeholders?

If you guys answer these, you guys would make my day.

I can guarantee (at least) one of those things: we will use new and very attractive Grunt models
Edited by Ifafudafi on Jun 10, 2014 at 05:19 PM

For SPV3 there is "updated" MC shaders and there will be new marines. I am going to try to get some alternate permutations for our elites too, but no promises.

You've said that we may have a new ViDoc for some time now. Just wonderin', will we be expecting one very soon?

Working with 2 people outside the team to start doing videos for us. Hopefully we'll have something fairly soon. We can't currently film until the new grunts are in, which will be soon, and until we can fix some AA bugs that were caused by our recent internal script changes to prevent overflowing.

That dissappointed me... :(

How about TSC: Evolved?

They will be using their own shaders for their Chief. I am still pretty happy with the SPV2 model, even if/when we change it in the future, the design is likely to not change significantly.

congratulations, nobody cares

okno

Yeah, but at least it would be different. I can't really describe it, but something just seems off or weird about the SPV2 model. Something about it doesn't seem very UNSC like. To me, it has sort of an alien feel. :l

I dunno, I kinda care. Mainly because I'm jealous.

I want to be 300 so I can post the "This. Is. SPARTAAAAAAAA!!!" kick from the movie 300. :l

300 bottles of BLOOD.

I think I missed that one.

It's looking great guys. Keep up the excellent work!

this page is proof that evolution can go backwards

What if you just experience time backwards?


Edited by WWLinkMasterX on Jun 11, 2014 at 04:13 PM

That photoshop is amazing.

masterz should make masterchief have a mustache, or make robots with mustaches, or make everyone have mustaches, with each one you collect giving u more and more points and superpowazz

You mine as well request fedoras.

While you are at it, add some shades too.
Edited by Dumb AI on Jun 12, 2014 at 12:56 AM

make the reload anims fedora tips

One thing I am really interested in is the CMT SPV3 version of the Maw. I wonder, will it be even better than it's predecessor?

I agree, now that there is vehicle boosting, maybe there could be some interesting engine overcharge or something akin to cross giant gaps of the PoA!
Just tossing ideas around