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« Reply #15 on: May 11, 2008, 05:05:28 PM » |
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Haven't checked in for a while, but this is awesome news. Can't wait to try the next release out!
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« Reply #16 on: May 11, 2008, 07:59:06 PM » |
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But still... there is one thing. Fights look a bit odd as all ships just stand there and fire. I wouldn't mind if ships moved around while fyring on a cube or so just to make it a bit more dynamic and eye candy. Some fleet orders we saw in vanilla A2 would be very nice.
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« Reply #17 on: May 11, 2008, 08:08:01 PM » |
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Yeah I agree... it always did look odd when the ships just sit there and shoot without maneuvering and what not ... but I guess it's up to the player to move the ships?  I remember the cloverleaf formation... mmmm  Anyway... how many beams were each cube firing? It looked like 2 per each... and I didn't see any gravtorps but...  |
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« Reply #18 on: May 11, 2008, 09:58:42 PM » |
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depends how much they bothered to upgrade the cubes before attacking, remember its all slot based now?
anyway as for dog fighting, cant you bring back 'Directors Cut' from Armada 1 which allowed the ships to automatically circle each other?
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« Reply #19 on: May 11, 2008, 10:00:26 PM » |
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I fear I may have to boycott playing as the Federation (or even playing multi-player at all) unless that stoned sounding Arm II computer voice is replaced with its Arm I counterpart. I can put up with the other Arm II voice-sets (though I'd prefer it if all Arm II construction ship, mining ship and scout ship voice-sets were repalced with their Arm I counterparts as well), but the stoned computer voice REALLY pisses me off and almost completely wrecks my enjoyment of playing as the Federation, because I have to constantly listen to it... Please Fleet Ops team, do me a favour and at least fix the computer voice, I'm begging you...  |
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« Reply #20 on: May 12, 2008, 01:55:37 AM » |
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Yep, we are still working on some advanced fleet movement, but the way it is done in vanilla a2 is not such a good start. we might probably start something on our own for v4. You will find many more interesting feature in v3 to bring you more action - more about them in the next news posts  The number of vessels a cube can attack simultaniously depends on which models are installed. the tactical cube for example was configured with many defensive upgrades (like the tactical armor which is just a module itself) and only attacks one target. the "normal" cube can attack 2. A sphere for example - the best multi-targeting vessel for the Borg - can attack up to 4 individual targets. More about the module system can be read here. We just take a small look at the sound files for the old a1 voice. We will see what we can do  |
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« Reply #21 on: May 12, 2008, 03:18:17 AM » |
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Holy... That was, I do believe, the first official confirmation that, life allowing, you guys are going to stick around for another version. Probably to be released by 2012.  |
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« Reply #22 on: May 12, 2008, 04:11:14 AM » |
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...every four years: not bad at all . Starcraft II took/is taking/will possibly/might take 10 years...  |
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« Reply #23 on: May 12, 2008, 11:09:07 AM » |
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Well Real Life throws in stones in our way from time to time but we have no intentions to stop fleet operations before all features and all 8 races are up and running
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« Reply #24 on: May 12, 2008, 12:58:44 PM » |
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*Gushes* Thankyou so much for taking my begging into consideration, guys! |
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« Reply #25 on: May 12, 2008, 06:08:20 PM » |
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Wait... what is the other one?
Borg, Feds, Romies, Klingons, Iconian, Ciadan, Dominion.... Noxtar?
Posted on: May 12, 2008, 05:43:54 PM
Just had an idea... what about rotatable structures? Is it even possible (useful for yards especially)?
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« Reply #26 on: May 12, 2008, 06:36:21 PM » |
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yep
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« Reply #27 on: May 12, 2008, 07:13:05 PM » |
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« Reply #28 on: May 12, 2008, 08:02:06 PM » |
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Wait... what is the other one?
Borg, Feds, Romies, Klingons, Iconian, Ciadan, Dominion.... Noxtar?
Posted on: May 12, 2008, 05:43:54 PM
Just had an idea... what about rotatable structures? Is it even possible (useful for yards especially)?
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« Reply #29 on: May 12, 2008, 09:57:11 PM » |
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I hope that screenshaking still allows me to issue orders without troubles; other then that; wahoo!
@Tick; your assumption is correct
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