What sort of weapons will there be? Can we look forward to flintlocks, sabers, etc.?

I would stick with using the rowboats. And I am also curious to the weapon set you will be using.

not that its that important but will the map by chance have custom announcer dialog?

You could make some far away land as a scenery object that moves. It wouldn't have to sync since it's just background crap and it'd give more of an illusion of a moving ship

I found this forum, where you might be able to recruit a pirate voice... I dunno.

As for the other ship. I love the idea of having boats, but I'm worried of players being stranded in that situation.
If all of the boats are on one ship (or worse, shot and sunk in between the ships), then players won't be able to go to their opponents' base and back. Just in case this happens, I think you should also find some way where players can just walk (or epicly parkour?) their way to their opponents.

Weapons... Flintlock pistols and cutlasses sound nice. But what about muskets? Can't forget mid-range weapons...


And/or a custom skybox with fast-moving clouds. ... Maybe inside a thunderstorm with rain? :D



Edited by renegade343 on Jul 14, 2013 at 09:25 PM

I like that idea

VAA is a horrible place. I've gotten far better VOs from HaloBungieOrg. So you could always ask there.

Just curious... why's that? Are the people there kinda.. ...?

The wannabe actors with phone call quality mics. Compared to HBO with the amature machinimaers who bought good sounding mics or actual drama teen/adults who never really thought about doing VO so they give it a shot anyway and turn out way better than anything I've ever gotten from VAA.
Edited by MatthewDratt on Jul 14, 2013 at 10:00 PM

Ah. Wow, that's... uh.. shocking.. o.o Nevermind then, thanks.

maybe you should have 1 person pership spawn as the captain with a peg leg a hoc and a parrot on his shoulder

will there be rum?

I think 2 ships could be linked together with multiple climbable ropes like i saw in some movie long time ago... Maybe it could use something like this too:

Needs a flintlock mechanism, rather than a hammer. The flared rim on the barrel might be a bit extreme, as well. [/nitpick]

rum bottle health packs anyone?


But why is the rum gone????

Aye! Drink yourself to better health!

yes every pirate needs his rum, this is setup to be a health pack, very basic i know.


also there is that barrel L28 posted an image of, i need to fix the uv's around the top.
that's just a scenery.


i done a small rowing boat just need to make it a vehicle, no idea if it will stay in the map as there's still no final idea on how to allow getting from 1 ship to the other.
the weapons choice is all up to you guys and L28 to decide on, i'm happy with whatever the turnout is.

yes :)
Edited by ally on Jul 16, 2013 at 06:35 PM
also that dread parrot label texture was made by this guy on deviantart
http://joe6peck.deviantart.com/art/Dread-Pirate-Rum-206677316

Edited by ally on Jul 16, 2013 at 06:44 PM

Perhaps there could be a climbable rope ladder hanging off of either side of the ship that lead down to scenery/BSP rowboats that are still docked with the vessel. These scenery/BSP rowboats could serve as a boarding/disembarking point for players who are using vehicle rowboats.

yes the rope idea could be fine as it was similar to the ladder down the side of the ship idea L28 mentioned to me.

the rowing boats: i was just going to use and alter the ghost physics to have them as a normal vehicle.

after having watched the CE3 you tube recording i liked the way the halo starwars guys had the swinging rope animation added (i voted that best map) and had thought about something like that to use as going from one ship to the the other, but that's not going to work as the ships would need to be too close and that would render the cannons pointless.

Something I just noticed - add some fog underneath the water, it looks pretty bad without it. You should also consider tiling the water bitmap more, as its a bit stretched and big. The ship, however, looks nice. Needs more props on it!

true fog would look way better and the water still needs work too, L28 just added that for the temp image in the main post.

the ship has a few small flaws that are only seen properly when the model is viewed in 3ds max, they are 3 small parts where smoothing needs fixed.
also there are a few different props already done and added to the ship,
there's also a few other things i'd like to do with the main ship bsp but not until i get portals working, they have failed countless times so far.

See! This is the kind of stuff that is cool to see. This game definately needs more fun content. You, sir, deserve a medal of your own choice. Love it.

By the way, Ally/L28, something I noticed in the CE3 screenshot.
I feel like the ship's sunk into the water a lot more than it should, and it's even hiding key parts of the bow (front). Is that on purpose?

Take a look at this picture (the USS Constellation at Baltimore, Maryland, USA -I took this picture last spring) besides your ship on the first post.. This is what I mean:


Edited by renegade343 on Jul 16, 2013 at 09:45 PM

Hey Renegade, you live in Maryland? Pretty cool if you do - so do I. I live down more towards Annapolis, but go up to Batlimore every know and then. Thought I recognized the ship for a minute!

Oh, I meant the water level, not the water itself. -but alright, thanks. I'll be looking forward to those improvements, then :P


Nope, sorry -I live further down south in North Carolina, but I go up around Washington and Baltimore for vacation pretty often. That's really cool though.

RUM!!! lol a pirates life for me

why not have piratey announcer? :P

Awesome idea

Now all we need is a telescope made up of a rolled up bus card.

For those who didn't get the reference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZsB-IncFe8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Don't forget that sail made out of an English essay :P

has had it's ups and downs like my psu blowing out, but has been a bit of fun working on it too, glad you like the idea.

a flintlock was asked about so we have one now, i just added it as a scenery to see what it looked like in hce so will get it tagged up next.