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Offline Thor

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just cause I'm the paranoid type and actually wanna play it before the apocalypse comes.  Seriously though, I'm all for voice acting and would love to play it with it, but I think its purely an extra when it comes to a user mod.  I seem to recall talking about voice acting in BWO years ago.   I'm not one to stand in the way of the designers desires to make their project the way they want.  So I'll wait, lurking in the background like the usual, waiting for them to complete this epic.  Hope it goes smoothly
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Offline BlackDove

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I doubt voice acting will be that much of an obstacle once we get it started, but I can say for sure that after playing this near-finished (in terms of script and missions) campaign, voices are not really a feature, they're more of a necessity.

It would be sub-par to release it without voices.

 

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It would be sub-par to release it without voices.



Amen to that.
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Offline BlackDove

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Aside from Voices which will take a while, I'd say...

Music (few more tracks missing)
HTL and fixed versions of some (and by "some", I mean, quite a few of them) models. The major ones have been worked on and are being worked on currently so that's good news.
Cutscenes (though these will most likely be optional - depending on how fast the other stuff goes... it would really be good if we could get someone to do them proper though, it would... complete the picture)

Ace is finishing up the Skyboxes I think and we're almost done with the complete rebuild of the missions (that was one behemoth job both for Ace and myself, kv pitched in a lot as well), just a few left, waiting for me to get my computer operational again. (maybe I should put a PayPal "donate for BD's new computer so BWO will be released faster" fund hah).

That's more or less it. The rest are kinks and assembly. There is really no time estimate. It all depends on when it's all finished. If everyone dropped their lives and commited to BWO solely (everyone we need), we could be done in three weeks. But since that's not realistic, I think it'll be a while. People have lives and other things to do.
« Last Edit: January 01, 2006, 08:46:46 am by BlackDove »

 

Offline Gloriano

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Well atleast bwo is released before MT ;) but can't wait to see finished bwo it's going to be great:)
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Offline Crazy_Ivan80

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it only needs to be as good as Derelict to be excellent :p
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Offline Ace

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Considering the fact that we don't have any bugs that prevent progress through the campaign, and we have a ton more plot-heavy dialog, we're already doing better than it ;)

Of course it helps that half of the missions were designed by IceFire and the people behind Derelict.
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Offline Flaser

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But both of them vanished into the ultimate void...

Icefire - wanished? I don't think so...

It's true about Agatheron and Dark though AFAIK, though there's still a 'hardcore' to build on.
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Offline BlackDove

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Kellan also dissapeared.

Ace and IceFire are the only VW staff remnants, though I'm really no spring chicken either - I've been around as long as they have. Just never a part of the creative community.

 
But both of them vanished into the ultimate void...

Icefire - wanished? I don't think so...

It's true about Agatheron and Dark though AFAIK, though there's still a 'hardcore' to build on.

I was talking about Agatheron and Kellan. Except for Ace and Icefire all VW staff is gone. Remora, Orange, Zarathud, Xanadu, Chucker, Wedge, Dark, Dynamo, Wildwolf etc.
Hm, Xanadu may have vanished before VW, I'm not sure... and Zarathud once popped in at an old HLP discussion, I think.

 

Offline BlackDove

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Actually I know where OrNage ;) still is. He just doesn't have much to do with us now anymore that VW was closed.

 

Offline Genoism

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you guys are scaring me, yur making it sound like you might drop it...
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Offline Selectah

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Just noticed this...

mp3 this time around, WAV = inferior

Are you guys for real?

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Offline BlackDove

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Read Ace's post below that.

  

Offline Genoism

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what makes ogg better then mp3?
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what makes ogg better then mp3?

Ogg sounds like food, and I havn't eaten since yesterday mid-morning, so it sounds ALOT better to me.

I'd just like to note that for about a two year period the only reason I'd visit HLP was to see if this was done yet so If it ever does get finished it'd be kind of like losing an old friend...
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Quote from: BlackDove
Read Ace's post below that.

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You mean "OGG", not "mp3", right?

Excuse me, what does this has to do with the astonishing 'WAV = inferior' ?

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Well, if one must really use WAV, one might as well use FLAC.  But I guess SCP doesn't support FLAC.