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[Gredinus]

Well he cant be good at everything...
take some good screenshots and post them, then someone will make a good one or we can have a contest for the best one.

[CPT.TIKER]

make 1 of Plane vs plane
Chinese planes vs Falcon

[Pendaelose]

Well he cant be good at everything...
take some good screenshots and post them, then someone will make a good one or we can have a contest for the best one.

Hey! I like my loading screen!

Anyhow, a screenshot contest exactly what I asked for a few months ago. The ONLY background sent to me was one by Drake, and even though it was very nice, it wasn't quite what I was looking for.

I'm still open to loading screen suggestsions. If I get a few good ones I'll open up a voting poll to see which is best.

[Pendaelose]

A taste of things to come...

I hand sketched a concept picture for the new Assault GLA Superweapon. Instead of the standard tech building methods, Asault GLA will have a huge cannon that replaces the Palace. 3-5 minute reload, fires one shell anywhere on the map. After Escalation2, the Cannon can be upgraded to a duel revolver style artillery. 12 shells total. At escalation3 the cannon can be upgraded for a larger bore to do far more damage.




The current Palace of the Jihad will be moved to Chem GLA.

[Ubermedic]

An artist.
A modder.
And he even drew the peasant.
(It's kinda hard to see but it made me laugh)
Wonderful.

[Gredinus]

Altrught i like it it isnt GLAish enught ;P

Ou and the new alpha freezes randomly and defreezes after a while (everywhere: in the menu, in a battle,...).

[CPT.TIKER]

how big is it in the game because in the drawing it is huge

[Pendaelose]

Altrught i like it it isnt GLAish enught ;P

Thats only becaues my artistic arn't up to snuff... it will have a very GLA look. Or, the other way of looking at it, it will very much so have the look I want the GLA to have. I've mentioned a few times I'd like to change the overall look of Asault GLA.

But it will still be far more GLA than china looking.

Ou and the new alpha freezes randomly and defreezes after a while (everywhere: in the menu, in a battle,...).

Not really noticed it, but I'll run it through the script debugger to test it.

how big is it in the game because in the drawing it is huge

Its not in game yet. there is only the drawing. In game the barrles will be about as big around and long as the IC nuke cannon... and it will have some extras surrounding it like some cammo netting over ammo and maybe a little building and some sandbags.... all togeather it should have a base size about as big as a scud storm... give or take.

[Gredinus]

And the freezing happens so frequantly that i can play.

[Pendaelose]

And the freezing happens so frequantly that i can play.

I've not had that problem at all.... I'll still check out the AI scripts, but it doesn't sound like a problem I've seen.... Try replacing your skermishscripts.scb with an older copy.


Has anyone else had this problem?

[CPT.TIKER]

maybe crappy PC?
my PC is crappy so i have some freezes and in a second or 2 it clears up(this happens alot when A:alot of things get destroyed at the same time. B:When there is 2 much units on the map)

[Gredinus]

No not that kind of freeze, it freezes every few seconds nomather what im doing.
I have a medicore PC and changeing the graphic setings dosent affect eanything.
And it isnt the scripts fault, something else has to triger the bug. Ill try if its on my side by reinstailing the old alpha.

Edited by Gredinus, 13 September 2006 - 06:00 AM.

[Pendaelose]

No not that kind of freeze, it freezes every few seconds nomather what im doing.
I have a medicore PC and changeing the graphic setings dosent affect eanything.
And it isnt the scripts fault, something else has to triger the bug. Ill try if its on my side by reinstailing the old alpha.

its for sure something in the AI scripts, I'm 99% certain. For now try rolling back to an older AI file, maybe the Contra.04 AI. I have some ideas on how to streamline the AI scripts, but will take time.

[Capt.Drake]

Ok, I made up that loading screen idea, and Pend finished it, I'll upload my own version of that thing soon.

A Plane Plane is very difficult if you want to have it in the way the idea was.

That cannon thing sounds evil, but great.I've found map where the game gets fucking slow after some time!

But nothing randomly by now!

[CPT.TIKER]

for the shell map maybe u can do D day with US coming up the shore and the Chinese on the hills overlooking the beach

[Capt.Drake]

Ok, I'll try to map this weekend, because school has started and I'm in 10th grade now it's becoming harder no, only three more years to come!

[Pendaelose]

1. An option for Full Shared Unit Control a la Warcraft 3.

I don't think the engine supports this.

2. A way to transfer funds to your allies- maybe a Diplomacy button like other RTS games or a building that can be used to send money to your allies like it was with ZH:Reborn's Oil Derricks. It could be called anything, maybe an "Embassy" or Trade Center(LOL, no offense though!).

This is already being worked on for the next release. I've wanted to add Tribute trucks for a long time. A direct cash transfer has txt labels in the .CSF file from EA, but I don't think it was a finished feature. So instead I'm building units that can suiicide and createa a pile of money.

3. A special function added to all buildings called "Evacuate" which leaves the building free for capture by anyone through the Capture Building of standard infantry- this way allies can gain control of each others' tech- interesting combos would come out of this..

Interesting... ...but I don't think there is a way to kill the crew in buildings. It would have to use the same logic as the neutron weapons, but the engine is so very hardcoded... I tink neutron behavior works on vehicles.

4. A similar function called "Abandon Vehicle" added to all vehicles, leaving them empty(like when the driver's sniped by Jarmen Kell) so that friendly infantry can get in and capture them if needed.

This is possible, but I'm not sure it would be very useful.

5. A way for allied infantry and vehicles to enter someone's own bunkers, transports and so on to elevate cooperation between allies during assualts(much fun in that really).

I don't think it can descriminate allies/enemies. Again, so many of the engine features are hard coded... they just can't be workd around the ways that we would all like.

Maybe make dozers be able to finish buildings under construction of other armies! I hate it when my ally has a dozer or worker in front of a half-finished building of mine and they can't build it up when my dozer dies.

Even dozer behavior is hard coded.




While all the suggestions are good, almost all of them invole changing basic behaviors, and this isn't possible within the limits of the game engine. Maybe If I got a exe De-compiler and reverse engeneered the core game code it could be done.... but honestly thats not a very viable option.