an update would be nice :)

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It's going to be a long year if you're waiting for him all year long.

Just posting to say I'm still around from time to time. Progress on the mod is still being made, albeit slowly.

Some pictures as proof:









I've also done some other changes to the level population-wise, and in the sounds/dialogue/music department.

StKft is more-or-less 90% complete, just some further optimisation in reducing lag, adding the dialogue for the cutscenes, and it's finished.

Note: For those of you who don't know what the last picture is, it's a Sentinel Constructor Facility, and will be featured in the Library level, possibly another too.

Have you got Gravemind moment type things in?
Also i like the new Sentinels, But are they firing the default beam or a place holder?

The Gravemind moments are just dialogue that explains your objective, we plan on making the screen shake like Halo 3, but we may not be able to get around to it.

The Marauders are firing the default beam, but it's edited to be shorter, faster firing, and weaker than the normal sentinel beam. I may make some changes visually to it though (thinner beam maybe).

Maybe if you made it brighter, but thinner. As it is now, it looks like it'd do the same damage as the original.
Do you have any plans for a Heavy Sentinel that fires some kind of laser that causes splash damage and possibly stun? (Think the Halo Wars Sentinels)

Also for the Gravemind moments, you could use a damage effect or something of the sort that has the shake values turned up.
Just my two cents.
Edited by olly12345 on Mar 27, 2011 at 06:27 AM

I love the new pictures.

No plans for a Heavy Sentinel I'm afraid.

The Gravemind moments will consist of game speed being halved, and a small damage affect used.

I'm working on the healthpack now, and perhaps something else. If I can get the healthpack done tonight, I'll upload a picture. The "something else" probably wont be done until the end of this weekend if I can get around to it.



Thank you :).

Edited by Lone Warrior on Mar 29, 2011 at 07:11 PM

You might have posted this already, but will you add the Enforcers?

Yes, he will. Last I checked, anyway heh. They won't pick up your vehicles and crush them though.

I never understood why the Enforcers in Halo 2 shot rockets, Especially ones that looked so human like.

They do, but the cluster bomb you're thinking of is more like a mortar.

Credit to CMT for the Enforcer of course.



There's links to the beta on the front page. It's kinda outdated, so don't expect any of the new stuff we're showing to be in it. It's basically a foundation for what we're building the level and mod off of.

As for a trailer, I'm not sure. Depends on the progress we make. I'm thinking we may have one ready for CE3, but no promises.

Make sure they don't supercombine and explode. I don't think they did that in Halo 2 at least.

I kinda remember the CMT Enforcers looking more crappy, did you fix the textures?

hey, i played your stkft beta map, and its awesome! when do you plan to finish and release the maps?

"Soon" -Copyright Blizzard
When it's Done - Valve

I remember it being more buggy
http://www.xfire.com/video/2d83a0/

Never had an issue with it... :S

Only problem I've had with it is that the shield likes to disappear alot.



They don't thankfully.



I remember some minor edits being made, but nothing that really affected it hugely.



As Dwood said. Soon.


And now some info on what's going currently:



WIP Covenant Mortar Turret. One of the many new things that'll eventually be landing itself in this mod.

A few things:

The mortar will 'float' much like the Shade does when activated. The 'rings' will have the same type of shielding the deployable shield generators do. These shields will be in the centre of each ring. And the nodes are in the wrong placement.

This is early WIP, but I figured I needed to show something in my post. I'm not entirely happy with the design currently, so any ideas/suggestions are welcome.

It seems like an awful lot of shielding for such a small emplacement. Removing them might not be such a bad idea, in terms of balancing firepower with vulnerability.

make it a biped, give it grunt anim's and make it a robot

I think the rings on the oustide are too big and bulky, you could make it so the top of the shield wasn't a big thick structure, but a floating reciever for the shield itself.

Other than that, i think the front is a bit bulky, could we get a few more dimensions so we can see the height, length etc?

Gonna play this repeatedly when this is released.

Looks like a whole new fun story, excellent job,

New swarm sentinels!
Edited by darknesssamurai on May 2, 2011 at 11:01 PM

sentinel constructors

The Beta I played (Stfkt) was really fun and generally fluid. A few notes though:
-The Flood, I thought, didn't swarm enough with Infection Forms and stuff.
-I still felt like I was the MC, but on the Flood's side. I should need to feel like the rest of the Flood are just as ruthless as I am (look at Halo 3's Flood for instance).
-Needs a shield bar and obviously FP arms.

A lot of fun though. I hope those notes help.

Shield Bar? On Flood?
Wouldn't you feel more like MC then?

I think the feel less like MC you should have the combat form you control die in various cutscenes, and the control switching to a different combat form. One of the main things about being MC is that you are one, indisposable unit pitted against countless others. As the flood, you'd want this frequent dying and changing control to emphasis the way the flood rely on sheer numbers of cheap units to win.

should be fine,lone warrior posted the thread your just asking for an update.
no harm done.

so anyway while it's being asked,any updates?

that was my idea.
then again, if you do that, you'd feel inclined to keep the other form in top condition because you'll be using it later. and flood isn't like that, they only care about themslves.

Lone's doing exams ATM. No updates for a bit, i should think.

For the creators, which floods will be used for this monumental project?
BELOW>>>

H3 FL ELT
H3 Style FL ELT
Koo and LoneWarrior FL ELT armored



FL ELT Halo 1
BLUE FL ELT Armored
REG FL ELT Armored



FL HUM Halo 1
FL HUM Armored
FL HUM Armored CMT




The poppers and flood carriers don't matter as much. Their only
real variance is shaders and Koo and LoneWarrior's floodcarrier biodriver (no legs, explodes).

Edited by darknesssamurai on Jul 12, 2011 at 08:23 PM
Edited by darknesssamurai on Jul 14, 2011 at 09:47 PM

The Flood is a collective entity. There is no "self," there is only the horde. o_o

The tentacle bitmap for the center Elite in the top picture needs to have its alpha channel corrected.