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Battlefleet Gothic

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I don't know if any of you guys are a fan of the mini's genera. Did anyone here ever play games workshops short lived Battlefleet Gothic.

That game was pretty fun.

Some of the stuff I liked from there.

1. Massive torpedoes

Were talking about ship killers that you had to move the ship out of the way from and could use to move other guys ships out of areas that you wanted to go into.

2. Boarding action

You could fire "boarding torpedoes" and basically take over a ship or failing at that sabotage large sections of it.

3. Ramming / Fire Ships

Some ships could ram it was pretty sweet some could also function like a big torpedo.... that was awesome.

4. The ships had sections you could knock out an engine ... that was pretty cool.

5. Ships could really blow up

As in they would implode and take down anyone who happened to be near them that was pretty awesome.

6. Some ships as i recall could use gravitic and solar wind effects

modding
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Reply #926 from Sins Forums Top
Slowing down the speed of every ship might be a BFGish bonus lol.
Reply #927 from Sins Forums Top
Umm Calvaynada, those models really have nothing to do with BFG :P

But if those are just random examples of your modeling experience, X you might want to think about asking to make a ship as an example. AND HE SAID HE CAN MAKE SKINS!!!!
Star Control: Origins
Reply #928 from Sins Forums Top

i think rolls would be a good idea, but you should maybe have techtree options, with different ships that fit the same role, and you can only make one of the researches, and make each ship slightly different, like more damage, or more shileds, or faster, so that it becomes a tactical choice based on what you want your fleet to do, or is that a bit to complicated
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Nah, it's not that complicated except for the mutually exclusive bit. We've already got ships seperated into roles by their armament, but I'm still trying to get a feel for how good the differentiation is.
Reply #929 from Sins Forums Top
I think more on the lines of aesthetics, i think you should give the cruisers capital ship explosions or "large building" explosions....the measly escorts ones look stupid lol...
Reply #930 from Sins Forums Top
Hey just had a thought guys, what about in the FINAL version, there be a modification to debrees, so that when you destroy a capital ship, it is replaced with a hulk that slowly drifts off the map. Would look great if you sent a scout into a system that just hosted a MASSIVE battle to find a graveyard of ships floating around. I dont think they should affect gameplay though.... It would be too hard to implement. Also, have this as an option that can be turned on/off so that people with slower computers dont feel the pain. If you were really clever, maybe you could find a way to get them to bump off of each other, and maybe get caught in gravity wells..... but thats a little advanced. I know nothing about programming or modding, but maybe if you replaced the chunks of debrees that normally float around with a model of that ship...
Reply #931 from Sins Forums Top
Well, explosions are a way for the game to get rid of needing to render models. There's no model to render if its shrapnel. The more models Sins has to render, the harder it has to work.
Reply #932 from Sins Forums Top
Also, have this as an option that can be turned on/off so that people with slower computers dont feel the pain.
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Reply #933 from Sins Forums Top
Ehh i still say just make then splode.
Reply #934 from Sins Forums Top
lol, splosions
Reply #935 from Sins Forums Top
From the first post, cool thing about BFG #5: Ships could really blow up.
Reply #936 from Sins Forums Top
I really wish we had a limitless number of hidden effects to play around with...
Reply #937 from Sins Forums Top
this game seems to have many limits *peers at danman's limit list*
Reply #939 from Sins Forums Top
How far off is the first release?
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First public release? Who knows? :3
Reply #940 from Sins Forums Top
Eventually. yeah, college hit, and I'm still being dutiful, so give it a while. I'm actually ahead of my work, so yeah.
Reply #941 from Sins Forums Top
Well, once Chaos has been finished, you can have a vacation ^^ Cant wait for PK And Iconos to get in there, and cant wait for structures and tech as well.
Reply #942 from Sins Forums Top
lol, I'll try, but that's the easy part of getting it working. If it was just chaos, I'd be mostly done, and sleeping in this weekend. It's also the vast majority of the gameplay. Still, it's going well.
Reply #943 from Sins Forums Top
Nids were just announced for DoW II

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/warhammer40kdawnofwar2/news.html?sid=6196260
http://pc.ign.com/articles/900/900039p1.html
Reply #944 from Sins Forums Top
Hells yeah!

OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM!

Okay, in other news, I just got into the history course I really wanted (Air Power and Modern Warfare and the teacher's awesome too), so that's:

a) awesome (and a funny story too, I just don't have the patience to type it)
and
b) the closest to a blog entry I'll ever write in my entire life.
Reply #945 from Sins Forums Top
Air power and modern warfare? Sounds like my cup of tea! Only ill be joinging the army, so I dont just have to study it from a book, ill actually be there, flying around in some form of gunship.... Or troop ship, im not fussed.
Reply #946 from Sins Forums Top
Nids????? NOOOOOO....... Its going to completly ruin the 'squad based' combat system...... Damn.
Reply #947 from Sins Forums Top
ahh guys i'm realy sorry but...

after buying mass effect and playing it for 5 days straight i have burnt out my video card and so am runing on my (very) old one so i probbly cant even run sins anymore

so i cant test, i might be able to import, but i wont have any time to because i will (after i recover from my withdrawrel brakedown) be spending every spare moment i'm not impressing my parents ,to get into their wallets, working my little ass off to buy a new vid card card

realy sorry guys but i have prety much fallen off the face of the planet now
Reply #948 from Sins Forums Top
after buying mass effect and playing it for 5 days straight i have burnt out my video card and so am runing on my (very) old one so i probbly cant even run sins anymore
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...lol.

Did you atleast beat ME? :P
Reply #949 from Sins Forums Top
after buying mass effect and playing it for 5 days straight i have burnt out my video card and so am runing on my (very) old one so i probbly cant even run sins anymore
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That sucks terribly. I hope they get you a new one soon, the last time I broke a video card, I had to replace it. Granted, running oblivion on ATI's version of the FX or 4 series from nvidia was pretty bloody stupid.

Did you atleast beat ME?
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Is there a competition on? If so, I may be in the running ;) .
Reply #950 from Sins Forums Top
good god just stop trying to make it like the table top for the first release, its taking forever.

just change the models, edit to tooltips, and release a beta.

a the nids will just have rediculous amounts of meatshields, so no worries.