Driftmoon Adventure RPG

TNN17 12 years ago

So it's making you paranoid?

.... Awesome. Then it's definitely staying in, I love a good dose of paranoia.

INFERNUS said:
If you use your knife with big brown alien corpse it will give you only vulcanic sac but if you drop corpse near fire it will turn to meat. do you think it should be like blue alien (gives you meat and hide)

The two aliens are intentionally different.

- Blue Alien should only give you the hide if you use it with ingenuity, but should give meat if you cut it open, since it's shell is too tough to get the meat without tools.

- Brown Aliens don't have the tough shell, so you don't need to get the meat with a knife, but do contain specialised organs for making their electrical attacks. Meanwhile, their meat is poisonous and needs to be cooked. If you tear them open for the sacs, you ruin all the meat, if you cook them, you destroy the sacs.

It's Your Call time folks.

Working on Sandbag barricades, there are two different ways I could go about this.

#1: I can treat them the same way as I treat turrets.

This means that:
- Once deployed, you will be able to use the Z-key to disable them to pick them up and drop them in another place.

- They will not be on the player's "side", and will stop the player's bullets accordingly.

- To fire past your own barricade, you will need to fire between the sandbags, whilst you can throw grenades "over" them without restriction. Since the computer is a halfwit, they would have sandbags on the same side, and would be able to fire over them, since otherwise they'd tear up their own barricades. But grenades would still bypass these as well.

- Turrets probably *will* be able to fire over your barricades. - If they can't do that easily, then as a consolation prize, I can make it that enemies will ignore sandbags, rather than mindlessly attack them and ignore you. Possibly both, though it means more work for me.

As an alternative to this, they can just not stop any of the major long range weapon types, which should allow such weapons to fly over them accordingly, but means they offer no protection against ballistics.

#2: I can treat them almost the same way as Default does.

This means that:
- Once deployed I'll have to figure out how to use the Z-Key to disable them despite their sharing a side with you.

- Your barricade can never be used against you, since it will never stop your bullets and would always stop your enemies. This is slightly easier on the player, since you don't have to worry about positioning.

- You'll see "Stand Still, Right Click to Change" every time you mouse over one of them.

- Turrets definitely *will not* be able to fire past your barricades.

In either case, Wooden Barricades will be walls - these will stop all fire, so they'll be handled like turrets and the field emitter, the Sandbags are unique in that they'll have both enemy and friendly varieties, and possibly allow fire to pass back and forth between them.

So yeah, I personally prefer having to position them with gaps, since I think that would be better overall, but I'm happy to go either way, so lemme know and I'll make the code happen. So it's making you paranoid? .... Awesome. Then it's definitely staying in, I love a good dose of paranoia. [quote=postid_406016]If you use your knife with big brown alien corpse it will give you only vulcanic sac but if you drop corpse near fire it will turn to meat. do you think it should be like blue alien (gives you meat and hide)[/quote] The two aliens are intentionally different. - Blue Alien should only give you the hide if you use it with ingenuity, but should give meat if you cut it open, since it's shell is too tough to get the meat without tools. - Brown Aliens don't have the tough shell, so you don't need to get the meat with a knife, but do contain specialised organs for making their electrical attacks. Meanwhile, their meat is poisonous and needs to be cooked. If you tear them open for the sacs, you ruin all the meat, if you cook them, you destroy the sacs. [i]It's Your Call[/i] time folks. Working on Sandbag barricades, there are two different ways I could go about this. #1: I can treat them the same way as I treat turrets. This means that: - Once deployed, you will be able to use the Z-key to disable them to pick them up and drop them in another place. - They will not be on the player's "side", and will stop the player's bullets accordingly. - To fire past your own barricade, you will need to fire between the sandbags, whilst you can throw grenades "over" them without restriction. Since the computer is a halfwit, they would have sandbags on the same side, and would be able to fire over them, since otherwise they'd tear up their own barricades. But grenades would still bypass these as well. - Turrets probably *will* be able to fire over your barricades. - If they can't do that easily, then as a consolation prize, I can make it that enemies will ignore sandbags, rather than mindlessly attack them and ignore you. Possibly both, though it means more work for me. As an alternative to this, they can just not stop any of the major long range weapon types, which should allow such weapons to fly over them accordingly, but means they offer no protection against ballistics. #2: I can treat them almost the same way as Default does. This means that: - Once deployed I'll have to figure out how to use the Z-Key to disable them despite their sharing a side with you. - Your barricade can never be used against you, since it will never stop your bullets and would always stop your enemies. This is slightly easier on the player, since you don't have to worry about positioning. - You'll see "Stand Still, Right Click to Change" every time you mouse over one of them. - Turrets definitely *will not* be able to fire past your barricades. In either case, Wooden Barricades will be walls - these will stop all fire, so they'll be handled like turrets and the field emitter, the Sandbags are unique in that they'll have both enemy and friendly varieties, and possibly allow fire to pass back and forth between them. So yeah, I personally prefer having to position them with gaps, since I think that would be better overall, but I'm happy to go either way, so lemme know and I'll make the code happen.
Edited 12 years ago

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