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Title: What do you /really/ want?
Post by: Turnsky on May 25, 2004, 08:30:57 am
to come out of the SCP?

I'm actually awaiting skybox implementation to be perfected, and that somebody makes more complex city models (that are destructable to a point) for use in various missions.. think rogue squadron with freespace;)

one such case in point would be the fall of vasuda, imagine flying a horus interceptor through a city dodging lucifer beams?:nod:

this is one side, that has, sadly been neglected in some circumstances due to the shinemapping, etc..

this could show so much potential, imagine following an orion destroyer during planet fall.. pure eyecandy, i know, but imagine..
Title: Re: What do you /really/ want?
Post by: Black Wolf on May 25, 2004, 09:46:55 am
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Originally posted by Turnsky


one such case in point would be the fall of vasuda, imagine flying a horus interceptor through a city dodging lucifer beams?:nod:



Yes... Imagine that. ;7

Erm, as a final grand completed thing, well I'm not sure. I guess more focus on enhancing FS2s gameplay and the potential for unique missions. More support for atmospherics would go a long way towards this, as would a few other features, like tertiary weapons support.

I'd also like a bit more ambience and immersion added. FS2 does this well, but there's stuff it falls down in, especially with practically unmodifyable huds and, admit it, relatively little differentiatioin between the fighters. It's hard, for example, to distinguish/rank various interceptors or Space superiorities until you've been playing long enough to have a feel for their strengths and weaknesses.

Ultimately though, I think a bigger community is what we all want to see from the SCP, and that's going to require a lot of stuff, starting with the graphical enhancements that we're already developing and the multiplayer ones that we soon will be.
Title: What do you /really/ want?
Post by: Flaser on May 25, 2004, 11:56:51 am
I read Bobbau and the rest of the team (Sticks, Kazaan and anyone else sorry for not listing all of you) already plan to upgrade the HUD code - it will become fully modable.
Title: What do you /really/ want?
Post by: Hollewanderer on May 25, 2004, 12:46:25 pm
I am waiting for better support for atmospheric combat. That's kind of necressary for Red Tide campaign, including the prequel one.

Imagine that: a destroyer hovering above the city trying to protect it along with it's on-board figher wings, and player with friendly fighters blasting most of it's engines and navigation subsystem to bits, causing it to fall on the city and explode, completly annihilating it in a massive explosion... and all over the battlefield Zero-G soldiers are duking it out, and few cruisers support the destroyer, only to get blasted to bits. And that's not counting the aforementioned fighter wings.
Wouldn't that be cool?

That, and AI upgrades to make it navigate better. It would be *very* useful in, for example, above mission, or a mission that shows an attack on a asteroid fleet base. Currently, AI would crash itself to death.
Title: What do you /really/ want?
Post by: karajorma on May 25, 2004, 01:46:24 pm
Better/more uses for persistant variables.

In fact more ability to use variables everywhere. The amount of things I could do with that!
Title: What do you /really/ want?
Post by: Unknown Target on May 25, 2004, 02:26:31 pm
*chants*

Better AI...Better AI...Better AI.
Title: What do you /really/ want?
Post by: Lightspeed on May 25, 2004, 04:19:42 pm
Bug fixes!!!

Oh, and a gravitation system would be so cooool.