AoD character - light fighter

[RGE]

You mean that you'd get such bonuses without the armour, right? The bare torso combined with other armour would indicate a certain skill, right?

It doesn't make much sense that warriors would dress as gladiators rather than armour themselves for maxiumum effectiveness, but if it looks cool in the game, I'm for it. Entertain me, gladiators! :twisted:
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[Vault Dweller]

[Walks with the Snails]

I'm kinda with the others. If he's wearing a suit of scrap metal, cool, that's an economical way to go and all, but it's not necessarily equivalent to a guy who can splurge on his own set of customized light armor that protects vital areas without sacrificing mobility too much. If the guy's just wearing mishmash light armor because he's too poor to get anything else, that's cool. If he's really worried about mobility rather than price, I'd think along the lines of others that armor should be placed where it's most vital, like the chest, hands, and forearms. Weight can be scrimped on elsewhere, and leaving all the joints bare maintains good mobility. Gladiator armor was more about putting on a good show than maximizing your own chances for survival. Pageantry vs. warfare, like the other end of the spectrum where the most elaborate head to toe plate you see in museums was used strictly for parades rather than warfare, since it was too impractical.

[Major_Blackhart]

Hey hey hey, it's his fucking game. He does what he wants.
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[Vault Dweller]

We've added shields (there were no visible shields in the 2D version due to the animation limit), take a look:

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[spacemoose]

Awesomo. Around when will we be able to purchase this fine product?

[Whipporowill]

[Vault Dweller]

[Jora]

Wonderful. The game gets delayed for more than half a year because of cool animations that will redefine our AoD experience. What other RPG coming in 2006 will have as revolutionary graphics as AoD? NWN 2? Seems unlikely at this point. Gothic 3? I don't think so.

[Vault Dweller]

The game gets delayed because only a handful of people was interested in the 2D version. As one well known developer told me "I saw it before in its 2D incarnation and kind of wrote it off, but the new 3d look is really quite good". That's why.

I'm not sure how much new animations would add to your AoD experience, but there is a difference between the Geneforge combat, for example, and the Fallout combat. I'm not a graphics whore, and I didn't want to lose time by switching but I had to. Once we did, a significant delay was inevitable. Anyway, like I said, my apologies.
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[Tintin]

[Vault Dweller]

Karma is a bitch
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[Jora]

So there's no additional delay resulting from your group wanting to make fancier and fancier animations and your estimation of an early 2006 release was just a miscalculation?

[Vault Dweller]

No. My team wants to do a lot of fancy things, but we actually do less than 50% of what's suggested and what they are capable of. The point is that we switched to 3D for a reason, and going with the same stuff we had before, but in 3D, solves nothing. One weapon per group, one attack animation, etc - that's not enough and wouldn't work. So, now we have all 25 weapons modelled, we have 7 attacks per weapon group: fast attack, power attack, whirlwind, etc. That's what's taking time.

Also, before a town was a typical Spiderweb-like collection of rectangular building boxes and green patches. We are improving that as well.

Lastly, switching to a new, not very well documented engine takes time. A lot of time. Did you really expect us to change an engine and finish everything in 3 weeks?
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[Human Shield]

You need to release a demo. Get the idea and gameplay out there.

Release an arena combat mode. And people will test and help balance everything.

After you have the weapon models and animations, slap together a simple arena and release a demo. Don't be a bitch and sit on it for monthes.
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[Vault Dweller]

I was thinking about it, but it's too early to tell.
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Spazmo: Odds are, something you like very much sucks. Why? Because this is RPG Codex.

[Psilon]

The other reason to put out a tech demo, especially if you're using TSE and not TGE (I don't remember if you are), is hardware compatibility. I speak from experience when I say that debugging weird OpenGL problems on obscure (or ATI) graphics cards is an exercise in frustration. We lost a week's productivity this summer because the ATI Linux drivers start choking if you call glEnable(GL_LINE_SMOOTH) when doing shaders.
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[RGE]