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Project Valkyrie -source- metroid influenced (previously 3 month mod)
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GeneralIroh
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From that one concept art of the valkeyre, it looks like she has a beam blade.
It would be cool if you added some kind of locked on melee attacks like in ZOE2 when you're upclose. A mix of ZOE2 and Metroid Prime would be really fun.
An upgrade/armor buying system would be great for the mp. Since you're playing as bounty hunters, you should be able to collect some money after defeating an opponent to buy upgrades.
Players should start with basics. They need to earn money to get the upgrades.
Basics: Beam cannon, double jump, morph ball, and beam blade.
upgrades: Charge shot, sniper zoom module, morph ball explosives, speedboost, grapple beam, and extra armor.
Pick up: Missles, Super Missle, Ice missles, Hacking program, zero shift (teleports players to where they look), hyper mode(shoots beam really fast), stealth and health.
This would mix things up instead of having a death match mp where everyone is the same the whole time. It would also give the player an incentive to play longer.
It would be great if you added these in the future updates.
GeneralIroh said:
From that one concept art of the valkeyre, it looks like she has a beam blade.
It would be cool if you added some kind of locked on melee attacks like in ZOE2 when you're upclose. A mix of ZOE2 and Metroid Prime would be really fun.
You caught us. That *is* a melee energy blade that she can use up close. Works similar to bashing your gun in CoD, MoH... it's a seperate key, so you don't have to switch to a melee weapon. For balance it depletes part of your energy stores, so you can't run around like a retard spamming the key.
EDIT: Also, we have a new concept artist who came onboard today who is working on a male variant.
As soon as google video decides to finish laundering my video, it's here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6580229260297982256&hl=en
OliveJuice
Member
Zanboo said:
As soon as google video decides to finish laundering my video, it's here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6580229260297982256&hl=en
That looks hot. What are the other weapons and morphball skills?
OliveJuice said:
Morphball -> bomb, bomb jumping, boost, and there's a charge combo when you charge energy beam and morph it shits out 5 bombs in a radius around you
Bah, fuck google vid -
http://www.blackened-interactive.com/threemonthmod/media/dropin.wmv
boutrosinit
Street Fighter IV World Champion
Impressive stuff in such a small time. I'd suggest some kind of 'sticky push' mechanic so the ball can push itself further along if it goes up a ramp and is a short space from hitting a platform edge.
GeneralIroh
Member
That looks really nice. Kinda reminds me of Ninja olga x federation trooper.Zanboo said:Here's a WIP of our second suit design. Hopefully we'll be able to get it complete and ingame in time.
Drinky Crow
Banned
potential titles
Meat-roid: A Waggle-Free Future
Metoroidu: Next-Gen Graphics At Last
Mouse-troid
Meat-roid: A Waggle-Free Future
Metoroidu: Next-Gen Graphics At Last
Mouse-troid
GamerSoul said:Sweet character designs. The armor looks pretty solid, especially on that girl.
I wish I could draw like that.
Yeah, Jordan did the male design in about 2 hours today when he joined the team, it's going to go through a lot of revisions. I know that the tubing is one thing he wants to accentuate in both the character and the morph ball to set it apart from the Valkyrie suit. While it's still a powered mechanical suit, the tubes help to convey an organic look.
Here's our latest news post, copy and pasted, to give you an idea where we're at:
On the mapping front, Vic "Woe Kitten" has been hammering away on his spaceport map for release. Jordan "Captain N. Tenneal" has been providing concept work that rivals retail quality work. As you can see below, it is a match made in heaven.
Of course, Jordan doesn't just limit himself to environmental work. Here you can see his work for the view model that will be seen from the first person perspective, and the incredible work from Rashad "Chasarsis" in what is almost a 100% replication.
We're quickly approaching the three month deadline, and everything is looking good to release on time.
We're currently planning a staggered release. A smaller 'community' beta release with some help from our good friends at NeoGAF (that's you guys) which will last for two weeks to work out kinks, balancing issues, etc., followed by a full release two weeks later.
In regards to support after release, we do plan on working on a content patch immediately after release, depending on community reaction to our first outing.
We look forward to getting this mod out to you guys and letting you enjoy our hard work!
On the mapping front, Vic "Woe Kitten" has been hammering away on his spaceport map for release. Jordan "Captain N. Tenneal" has been providing concept work that rivals retail quality work. As you can see below, it is a match made in heaven.
Of course, Jordan doesn't just limit himself to environmental work. Here you can see his work for the view model that will be seen from the first person perspective, and the incredible work from Rashad "Chasarsis" in what is almost a 100% replication.
We're quickly approaching the three month deadline, and everything is looking good to release on time.
We're currently planning a staggered release. A smaller 'community' beta release with some help from our good friends at NeoGAF (that's you guys) which will last for two weeks to work out kinks, balancing issues, etc., followed by a full release two weeks later.
In regards to support after release, we do plan on working on a content patch immediately after release, depending on community reaction to our first outing.
We look forward to getting this mod out to you guys and letting you enjoy our hard work!
ZombieSupaStar
Member
interesting
GeneralIroh
Member
I'm getting a portal vibe from hangar 04.
It would be really nice if you guys somehow made it cel shaded
and try to preserve the concept art look more.
It would be really nice if you guys somehow made it cel shaded
and try to preserve the concept art look more.
Jaagen said:
Yeah, the beta is going to be only for GAF. We'll release a the client here. (If it spreads, it spreads)
As far as servers, we only plan on supporting 8 player deathmatch, so hosting on a cable connection *is* possible, but I hope to have some people interested in running dedicated servers, as well as approaching some of the server companies to see if they are interested.
monchi-kun
Member
you guys sticking with the orange/grey environment? me likey as is, don't change a thing!
Jaagen said:I see. I would gladly have hosted, but my upspeed is bad.
Anyways, you will be able to choose between male or female when you start the game, right? And can you please update more often
Right now it's just the female model. We're actually rushing to get her full modeled, textured and animated. Male model will be included in the content patch after release. We're looking at one month from release for a content patch with two more weapons, another player model, more maps, etc.
Kamakazie!
Member
Zanboo said:
Finally. it is good to see a mod group willing to iterate with their releases rather than trying to release one big finished mod. Which inevitably gets delayed/cancelled or burns the group out so that no patches or updates are released later to improve the game or fix the bugs.
It also allows us to cater the experience more towards what the player wants. What we are releasing can really be considered the 'base', the core features that will serve as the platform upon which we can add everything else.
I'm sure some people will be disappointed in the release. (not a lot of variety of beams, no grappling hook, etc.) but give us another three months (and hopefully another three content patches)
I'm sure some people will be disappointed in the release. (not a lot of variety of beams, no grappling hook, etc.) but give us another three months (and hopefully another three content patches)
We had an interview with Pariah's Guild about the mod. Worth a read if you're interested.
http://pariahs-guild.com/2007/11/02/interviews-three-month-mod/
http://pariahs-guild.com/2007/11/02/interviews-three-month-mod/
Kaako said:Wow...that's freaking cool.
I'd love to host if I get in the beta. My upload speed is not that bad either(500KB up & 3MB down).
Keep me informed if you want me to host
It's not limited within GAF, all of NeoGAF with Orange Box will be able to try to mod and provide feedback. Smaller groups just don't net the kind of feedback that you need towards the end, especially over the internet, where testers are required to sign up for forums, etc. With the whole 800 or so NeoGAF members in the Steam community with the ability to test, we should be able to get some amazing feedback.
As for hosting, as it gets closer I'll let everyone know exactly what's going on, but we definitely appreciate the offer and I hope to have you running a server when we start beta.
singularity
Member
First screenshot and all I see is "CRATE 64x64". Eric Wolpaw would be proud.
Resurrecting this thread from the grave, but we have a ton of updates:
Map Concepts by Jordan Ratzlaff:
WIP Map by Vic Krengel:
Player Concept by Jordan Ratzlaff:
WIP Suit Model by Rashad Foux:
If you guys are enjoying what we are doing, please give us a vote in the Mod Of the Year Competition going on right now @ ModDB
Map Concepts by Jordan Ratzlaff:
WIP Map by Vic Krengel:
Player Concept by Jordan Ratzlaff:
WIP Suit Model by Rashad Foux:
If you guys are enjoying what we are doing, please give us a vote in the Mod Of the Year Competition going on right now @ ModDB
CajoleJuice
Member
Voting for you dudes. Looks very cool.
Parallax Scroll
Banned
This looks pretty cool. What's the multiplayer going to be like? Team deathmatch, or is there some sort of objective?
YOU ARE FUCKING DUMB.
No offense, of course. It's actually a compliment, because YOU SHOULDN'T BE DOING THIS FOR FREE. I'm serious.
It's cool what you're doing, but I personally wouldn't do this for free. You're too talented to be giving this sorta stuff away for free. I realize that the feeling of people playing your mod is a reward in and of itself, but that doesn't get the bills paid.
No offense, of course. It's actually a compliment, because YOU SHOULDN'T BE DOING THIS FOR FREE. I'm serious.
It's cool what you're doing, but I personally wouldn't do this for free. You're too talented to be giving this sorta stuff away for free. I realize that the feeling of people playing your mod is a reward in and of itself, but that doesn't get the bills paid.
This, of course, is assuming that you don't either a.) already do this for a living or b.) have plenty of cash on-hand already.
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