Alright..

-if you need me someone to crit you about your ideas, help with the scenario script or beta test again, when you get there, I'd be happy to help as always~

so is there a release date for portent?

check first, ask later. it will be posted when it is posted.

Edited by master noob on Jul 22, 2013 at 01:04 AM

@MatthewDratt

I played both the intro and Project Lawson together, and enjoyed it, 9.5/10
Suggestions:

1: I noticed in the intro, the gauss warthog you are on that drives on a landmine magically becomes a blown up chaingun hog in the cinematic, though I didnt look during gameplay to see if it was when you traverse the minefield.

2: The main boss brute guy (I know his name starts with a P but I couldn't spell it for the life of me) seems to have an unrealistic shield. I understand it is meant to be boosted because -hey, it's a boss fight, but I found the fight impossible to do on Normal, since I'm not friggen MLG. Maybe the shield should be more like 70% of what it is, and the health stays the same before he runs (I had to do deathless_player to do that fight, unfortunately).

3. I also had some lag issues with the water part of the campaign, where it slowed down to about 7fps for me. But I'm sure thats my crappy laptop more than anything.

Overall, enjoyable though. The voice acting was decent all round, so no complaints there from me =)

fps drop happened with me too

and voice acting had such life! except for a couple moments with lawson
Edited by rcghalohell on Jul 22, 2013 at 01:30 AM

Regarding the boss fight, it is far easier to battle him if you run up the tunnel in the room.

The thing is, you shouldn't have to run and hide in the tunnel, it should be an almost even fight, except with the boss having the advantage of bruteshot and stronger shields. I put 3 whole clips of AR into him, and did nothing, and he blows me up over and over, which is painful especially in a small room where AOE with the bruteshot is an issue, it's a smidge too much.

played it just then... it was purdy good.






Just kidding, it was AMAZINGLY MAJEStICALLY EPiC! :D






Good job here.

Yo, I'm here to beta test your map for bugs, bro. Am I still in time?
























































:)

I've just finished playing it, and all I have to say is that... it is just too awesome. Really. After playing CMT SP this is by far the best Single Player mod I've ever played.
The first part is just something unique (a great reference to Mass Effect), and I love the efforts that you made for the cinematics. And, most of all, the encounters were not frustrating like in most maps, and the missions were really original. No problems found (except some lag issues, but it could just be my PC). 10/10 to this project for the epicness and the originality!

P.S. I love you for have used "Revival" and my favourite Mass Effect songs <3

I'm in the middle of playing it and I have some bugs to report.

- Oh wait, no, I don't.

Awesome work! The use and modification of vanilla bsps is exceptional and the campaign's story is very intriguing.

Now I'm going to get back to finishing the campaign...

great job on the bsp matt, though i would have suggested using recorded animations with your map though, it would make the made the dropships move a little smoother, not to mention not land so low, i kept clipping through them. otherwise great job on the story and gameplay :p you should have asked someone to do the brutes voice though.

Liked it, though, the 3rd person animations are Halo 1 and need to be Halo 3 style like the H3 foundry map. But anyway, thanks for the map, MatthewDratt.

Because, who wants the halo 1 3rd person animations when you can use a halo 3 styled one?.

It was awesome, good work Matt.

I am looking for help on Takedown: Extermination.

Any 3p animators... no... okay.

Next up for help, writers for side characters. I'm expanding Lawson's base (SURPRISE) and need ideas for side chracters. New one pleases. I wrote the previous ones and I continue to write for them, but if you want to write an entirely new character in, depending on how good the script/idea turns out to be, I might put that in. Just PM me with a draft/script/idea, ect.

ALSO I'm looking for a shader-artist person whatever. I will use OS 3.1 + for TD:E, and so I'm looking for someone who can take full advantage of this and make me pretty tags. :D
Edited by MatthewDratt on Jul 22, 2013 at 10:27 PM

Does it have to be a serious kind of idea? I could think of some real wacky ideas for side characters...

Side characters. Any characteristics. Start by writing how there scene would be in like a Rally Point Alpha and if they turn out good I might give you snippets about somethings that happen in TD:E and you can write your characters parts.

Otherwise, if you just have ideas, hit me up. That works too lol

i can definitely help with opensauce shaders now that i have an understanding of them. 3p animations i can do but i'm not to good a characters which im assuming is what your looking for, i can do vehicles and other assorted animations though.

Nice! I've been waiting for this. Going to play it to see how the voice acting sounds

Don't expect every one of the characters to sound great. Just a heads up.

Most of them do, though.
Edited by Dumb AI on Jul 23, 2013 at 12:18 AM

Maybe he just has the ability to be calm in very dangerous situations like Chief. He is a spartan after all.

A little too calm.

minus the humor from halo 1 2 or 3

is the map out yet ?

Yes: http://haloce3.com/matthewdratt/maps_tdpl.html

I really want to improve the look/graphics for TD:E (which is one of the reasons TD:E is being made primary in OS), but I'm not a shader/texture person. I hope to improve the BSPs models and gameplay but I for sure can use any shadering help

Make sure to not put too much visual goodness in the map version.

I'm making the OS first. So I'll make that as visual heavy as I want. I can't say exactly how much since I haven't done really anything yet, but if you haven't got a PC that can run an OS Visual-Heavy map, then you should get one.

I could try toning it down for the MAPs version but that'd take a long time and depending how fast I punch out the sequel the MAPs version might be delayed a week or two if I'm going to reduce a lot of the visual heavy-ness

just played takedown for my first time and did it on legendary,had a 0-death run until I got to the boss.
Edited by Guilty_spark on Jul 25, 2013 at 12:35 AM

the boss really isn't that hard once you know what to do imo.Once I figured it out it was almost a breeze.

You made me happy today, if you need help or suggestions PM me.

I might use OS to give players equipment like in Halo 3. So instead of holding that health pack, and instead of having to find reasons why there are health packs placed all over a place you've never visited, I might give you a health pack as an equipment type along with a few others.

On Firefight Descent you always had a bubbleshield on spawn that used the flashlght button. I suppose you could do similar...

Avoid boss fight. Halo 2 did it (with three characters) and both were dull (in hindsight, the one where you punch the Prophet of Regret was quite nice). Halo 3 did it and it was dull. Lumoria did it and it was dull (but then again, that teleporting trick was really impressive).

Make objectives unique, ala Halo 1 style (i.e. Destroy PoA's engines to destroy Halo. Press this panel to activate bridge, doors lock so we need to go back and deactivate security panel to get it unlock...). Those kind of objectives are, what I think, essential to the Halo formula.
Edited by subtank on Jul 25, 2013 at 07:18 AM