We already did like I stated, and its actually just a script command and some numbers rather then damage effects.



You can refer to your edited chat logs for those answers!

gaiz, please chill about that

Yeah, of course, but for INgame you would want a damage effect to shake the screen.

Nope.

For weapons or something yeah, but for a piece like a longsword or cruiser flying by, or distant explosion, your going to want to use a script command.

Oh yeah, I forgot about the convulsion command thing. At first I was thinking you were just shaking the camera between a couple camera points, and I was like, that only works in camera control 1. So I get it now.

Are you still going to change the Wraith at the beginning to an AA Wraith?

That is still the plan yes, and that's not the only vehicle that will get "replacement".

Oh and I have also made a new teaser-trailer myself, enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U9nhv4D56o
Edited by TM_updates on Oct 5, 2011 at 02:21 AM

I'ma glad I didn't have my headphones on there.

Feel free to ignore below here:



Why hasn't anyone showed me what I "edited"? Why doesn't someone show the "original" one eh? L0d3x?

most of us don't keep our chatlogs :/

Because I simply don't have "save chatlogs" enabled.
Now drop it for the love of Dennis. PM if you feel the need to let off steam, but I probably won't read it.

Consider your self PM'd. I would love to settle this on xfire if you would accept the request.

awkwardly enters.... sooooo.... just a quick gameplay related query; so from the looks of trailers and such you guys seem to be going for a more grandiose, vehicle and generally larger scale battles? is that just what i am seeing or was that your aim? also um how many ai can we expect you to rock per average encounter (tricky to answer i understand but what im getting at is will the larger scale battles lag an older cpu?) from a personal standpoint my favorite "style" of gameplay is a sniper one.. for example i can play levels like "nightfall" from reach or "truth and reconciliation" from CE over and over and over... so what i was interested in knowing is will ep 2 have much if any sniper combat? i like what you did in ep 1 with the sniper lying out for you to use but quite frankly that had really limited shots and i ended up turning on bottomless clip. so... sniper based combat? or atleast more ammo for them if they are in ep2? great progress btw :)

We have indeed aimed for more grandiose battles. Whereas Episode 1 was more of a behind enemy lines battle to recover, well, Dennis...Episode 2 sees a larger scale UNSC involvement.
As for how this will affect performance it's hard to say as we only have our own PC's and those of the few trusted testers to judge on. If you have a normal modern day PC or laptop you shouldn't have any problems. However if you had problems running episode 1 then you will have similar issues with episode 2 (and frankly if you can't run episode 1 well you might want to consider upgrading your PC since that is a sign your PC is pretty old/low-tech, but that is another topic entirely).

You will also have plenty of opportunities to wield a sniper rifle. We're trying to make this episode have a larger less linear sandbox available to the players.
Edited by TM_updates on Oct 6, 2011 at 05:43 AM

its all good MY pc is fine i just have crappy comps at my schule... (and i play it on them during opens :D ) and also since there are more vehicles what are the chances of you guys making the sniper more like the reach sniper? (where it does damage to vehicles)

I think if we did that many people would end up not even bothering taking the rocket launcher or fuel rod cannon. Personally I prefer power-weapons to have a very distinct role rather than overlapping abilities.

Understandable, sorry if its annoying that I'm askin all of this stuff but this mod has got a lot of potential so I just have a few more questions; first of all brutes. Nobody likes them cuz they are bassically ammo wasting damage sponges but I really appreciate how you have managed to tie this in so that it is remotly possible in the halo universe. So with that being said will there be ANY brute encounters? I only ask because you added in drones so I'm wondering if ep2 will feature other enemies.. also will you have any dogfighting? And lastly I love rockin camo in halo 1 but ya never placed any powerups in your games firstly was that for a reason? Cuz since your fine tuning ep1 I think you should add that in atleast once. I'd say add it ep2 but that doesn't make sense using active camo in larger scale engagement soo...


To make this easier for ya;

1.brutes or other new enemies? (that you can tell us about without spoiling it)
2.aerial combat?
3.camo? (Atleast in ep 1)

The rifle featured in Combat Evolved is supposed to use anti-matériel rounds (the AM in SRS99C-S2 AM). So maybe, rather than directly damaging the vehicles, it's strongpoint would lie in penetration, letting players punch through the cockpit to deal damage directly to the operator.

I fix dropships

1. No brutes nor flood!
2. It's certainly a possibility due to the sandboxy nature of episode 2.
3. Ep1 actually had an overshield near the boss battle, ep2 currently has a few powerups placed in it including a camo!

Oh and on a sidenote, thanks to Dratt we managed to fix the dropships using custom animations. Before they would "clip" out (aka go "invisible" at certain angles and stuff) and grenades and bullets would fly through them...but not anymore!
Edited by TM_updates on Oct 7, 2011 at 07:02 PM

I like sandboxxy.

Fixed dropships finally eh?

This was the soonest anyone we knew came up with a fix and told us about it. Even many established mappers could not fix it until now. If for some reason you or some other kid knew a fix and kept it behind then that is not our fault and your snidy remark is rendered idiotic.

On a sidenote, I added in a camo to episode 1 specially for you roviet!
Edited by TM_updates on Oct 8, 2011 at 07:57 PM

i lol'd

That's about all I got on that subject right now TBQH.

u no wut, nvm -.-


lod3x pretty much made my question stupid
Edited by Delicon20 on Oct 8, 2011 at 08:15 PM

Those were recorded animations, we use custom animations.
You could just use that recorded animation's recorder which works 100% for some people (including Matt and Kirby that I know of) and simply redo any "corrupted" recordings perhaps.

Bro, you really just have to let go of the butthurt, its not worth trying to cause drama in the thread.

Thank you very much its always nice to see a team that listens to community feedbad :] may the completion gods smile upon you

I knew about the dropship fix before I came in TM. I asked Higuy if he wanted me to fix the ones in Ep1 and he said no, then I told him how to fix the tags for Ep2 but he never did. :P

What'd you do set render radius to 3e+8 ? That's what the problem sounds like. Since the animation isn't actually moving the scenery unless your looking at the the render sphere it wouldn't be visible. Same thing if the dropshop isn't in the sphere of the scenery nothing is going to collide with it. Can't remember if scenery's sphere affects spawning.
Edited by Sprinkle on Oct 9, 2011 at 01:19 AM

You also have to use flag points so it won't flicker as well as that. If you just do that it will be completely invisible

For the interested, the exact setting is now:
Bounding radius = 360

And after you create the dropship via script (object_create_anew dropship) just teleport them to a flag which isn't visible to the player but near the battle area (object_teleport dropship flag). Then you can run your custom animation.

lodex get on xfire nao

Thanks for the publicity.

Yes, but nothing to talk about yet.
However, check out this AMAZING new MP map I made!!!!!!!!!!!