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[Irate]

@Lamsey

Please to be checking the last few seconds of the official trailer.

Shrike: what sort of destruction do you mean for the scorchmarks/destruction “in other places” for tau cannon overcharges? Physics effects, scorch decals on the ground, that sort of thing? Seems like a reasonable idea, but I’m not sure if it’s as easy to implement as it sounds (could maybe apply the physics effects of a grenade going off, without the damage?).

“2009” is a bit vague, methinks.

So you’re saying that you would rather play an unfinished game than wait another few months and play a kickass game?

No, but without a firm deadline this whole thing will just drag on and on.

[Lamsey]

@Brother Shrike

EDIT: Damn. Ninja’d. I was thinking mostly just scorch marks, but that grenade idea is awesome. I don’t think that it would be too hard to implement the overcharge as a grenade effect. Also having it injure people around you might be cool. But then again maybe not.

I remember this being discussed before, but I can’t remember the conclusion (if any).

Scorch marks might be difficult to do without looking crappy - that being said, I guess that could make use of grenade effects too?

[Brother_Shrike]

They have a firm deadline. 12/31/09 at 11:59 PM. If it is released earlier, great. And again, I would rather play the finished mod the way the devs envisioned it than play it before it’s ready.

All of these posts are going to be deleted, by the way.

DAMN! NINJA’d again.

I think that the grenade effects would be fine, personally.

[Medevilae]

@Brother Shrike

They have a firm deadline. 12/31/09 at 11:59 PM. If it is released earlier, great. And again, I would rather play the finished mod the way the devs envisioned it than play it before it’s ready.

All of these posts are going to be deleted, by the way.

DAMN! NINJA’d again.

I think that the grenade effects would be fine, personally.

Yeah. Plus the grenade acting as a phys prop and going up into barnacles.

[Brother_Shrike]

@Medevilae

Yeah. Especially the grenade acting as a phys prop and going up into barnacles.

Wait what?

[Lamsey]

He’s talking about this, from the first page (answer: probably yes):

@Spidey300

Okay, a bit strict, then how about this. The grenade should act like other Phys props and get stuck on a Barnacles Tongue when thrown. Its didn’t happen in HL2 and it annoyed me.

[Medevilae]

@Lamsey

He’s talking about this, from the first page (answer: probably yes):

Yup.

[Brother_Shrike]

So basically he was saying yes to all of my posts so far in this thread? Which is why he quoted my most recent one?

[Medevilae]

@Brother Shrike

So basically he was saying yes to all of my posts so far in this thread? Which is why he quoted my most recent one?

Yeah, it was a bit hard to understand what I was saying. I was agreeing with what all that you said, and what was said a long time ago.

[Greyfox]

Now im confused…

[Brother_Shrike]

He is agreeing with everything I’ve said. Now I feel good.

[iKy]

how 'bout , if you secondary mouse the machinegun where the grenade is supposed to come out , and you’re aming close enought to hurt you , it bounces?

[JeffMOD]

The Tau cannon overcharge would probably leave cracks in any solid surface nearby, especially in concrete, just because of the massive amounts of energy. Any physics props would either fly back or be destroyed, depending on how high their health is, and NPCs standing close by would be injured or gibbed. Of course, the trade-off to the damage caused to NPCs is ofset by the larger amount of health the player would lose, considering they’re at the centre of the energy surge. BTW, is the alt fire on the Gluon gun going to do anything useful in Black Mesa, or just have freeman’s hand turn the thingy/do nothing?

[Mont_Blanc]

Nothing like before if I recall

[Brother_Shrike]

@JeffMOD

The Tau cannon overcharge would probably leave cracks in any solid surface nearby, especially in concrete, just because of the massive amounts of energy. Any physics props would either fly back or be destroyed, depending on how high their health is, and NPCs standing close by would be injured or gibbed. Of course, the trade-off to the damage caused to NPCs is ofset by the larger amount of health the player would lose, considering they’re at the centre of the energy surge. BTW, is the alt fire on the Gluon gun going to do anything useful in Black Mesa, or just have freeman’s hand turn the thingy/do nothing?

What if it behaves like a grenade explosion, except that the decal that goes on the ground represents cracked ground or something? Unfortunately, that would probably be really hard to make the texture look good on any surface. Oh well.

[SteveUK]

@Brother Shrike

What if it behaves like a grenade explosion, except that the decal that goes on the ground represents cracked ground or something? Unfortunately, that would probably be really hard to make the texture look good on any surface. Oh well.

You can have different impact materials solely depending on the surface it hits, for instance you can have a different effect hitting wood and a different one for concrete. Though, the only question would be if something like this would take to do all the textures for and make them work for the different surfaces - or, if it’s even worth the effort

[Brother_Shrike]

@SteveUK

You can have different impact materials solely depending on the surface it hits, for instance you can have a different effect hitting wood and a different one for concrete. Though, the only question would be if something like this would take to do all the textures for and make them work for the different surfaces - or, if it’s even worth the effort

Yeah, sounds like a lot of work. I don’t think it’s really worth it when a generic scorch mark would work… :[

[iKy]

or a message on the ground saying " boom happend here "

[raw_bean]

@Irate

I’m sure they’re doing a very good job, but the assertion that they don’t want to be tied down to a release date translates as they don’t want to keep saying “release date postponed”. Of course they have priorities about BM: S, but unless they set a deadline they’re never going to release it.

I’m not saying you should care, but maybe the dev team should.

The dev team have internal schedules, milestones, and deadlines, they just aren’t telling us them because they don’t want to get hopes up on a release date they might miss. If the site hadn’t gotten nuked I could link you to where Carlos the project head told us this.

[Keresh]

This, you mean:

@cman2k

We implemented milestones.
We are no longer working on the whole game at once. We focus on small milestones that are major accomplishments in and of themselves, before moving onto the next milestone. This has included a change in development where multiple level designers, modelers, and texture artists will tackle a chapter together to push it forward to completion on a much smaller timescale than in the past. In actuality this has been a huge boon our development, and I’ve never been more proud of our developers for banding together to get shit done when it needs to be, as much as in recent months.