[pecenipicek]

By some of those numerical arguments, the ideal engine to use for such a game would be that of Serious Sam.

i see no problem there?

serious sam 2 engine might be better as its relatively recent still

[SPARTAN-367]

Yeah would be cool but i mean we got to increase the Amount of COOP to 8 or something.. I find 4 is just too little for starship troopers.

[SpardaSon21]

Can't we have a full squad of 10 that lost its NCO?  Of course, the number of bugs needed to overwhelm 10 power-armored M.I. would make anything short of a supercomputer cry.

[pecenipicek]

lod's, extended model and texture optimisations and the like would be vastly helpfull.

[SpardaSon21]

It would still end up having several hundred Bugs at a time though.

[pecenipicek]

ever tried the director_panic_forever 1 cvar in l4d? its really fun XD

[BloodEagle]

I'm reminded of Walkover. Shame that that game is pretty much dead, now.

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It seems to me that you'd need to make an engine designed solely for producing a low-impact (processor-wise) AI that immediately halts upon death and respawns just out of sight. Otherwise even a high-end system will quickly choke. Physics would have to be non-existant, save for scripted events. And bodies would probably need to disappear fairly quickly.

So many steps backward for massive battles. :/

[Aardwolf]

That game looks familiar... There was this one game I saw some people playing in middle school but never found out the name of, and haven't seen since. Not sure if that's it though. It's been so long.

[Fineus]

It seems to me that you'd need to make an engine designed solely for producing a low-impact (processor-wise) AI that immediately halts upon death and respawns just out of sight. Otherwise even a high-end system will quickly choke. Physics would have to be non-existant, save for scripted events. And bodies would probably need to disappear fairly quickly.

That's the problem, I'd want physics for grenade lobbing etc. etc. and for bodies to remain and pile up as they might in reality, so that the living bugs can climb over / onto / up their own dead.

[Narvi]

It seems to me that you'd need to make an engine designed solely for producing a low-impact (processor-wise) AI that immediately halts upon death and respawns just out of sight. Otherwise even a high-end system will quickly choke. Physics would have to be non-existant, save for scripted events. And bodies would probably need to disappear fairly quickly.

That's the problem, I'd want physics for grenade lobbing etc. etc. and for bodies to remain and pile up as they might in reality, so that the living bugs can climb over / onto / up their own dead.

There is no engine that awesome in the current market.

[redsniper]

I'm sure it could be done with today's technology. It would just take some creativity. Like, say physics are only calculated for the top 'layer' of bug bodies. Once you have a small pile, the game could treat it as stationary and then once a few more bugs are there it becomes a bigger stationary pile and so on.

[Aardwolf]

I'm sure it could be done with today's technology. It would just take some creativity. Like, say physics are only calculated for the top 'layer' of bug bodies. Once you have a small pile, the game could treat it as stationary and then once a few more bugs are there it becomes a bigger stationary pile and so on.

Some atomics go off. What happens to the pile?

[Scotty]

The same thing that happens in any other game with a destructible environment .  Just have the game treat it like a destroyable object.

[azile0]

I think this would be awesome. Give me those huge friggin' guns, a swarm of bugs, and a hilly map, and I'll have hours of fun. Imagine finding a nice little valley to defend, and you're blasting the bugs that come through the bottleneck, when they start dropping in from above you. That would be so freaking badass.

[colecampbell666]

There's a Starship Troopers survival map for Garry's Mod.

http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=69650

It's great fun, put the turrets in the corners under the walk and watch the bugs pile up. Just don't go onto the ramparts.

[chief1983]

I agree with the earlier post that Cube has no sequels.  And I think the Director would fit in just right with Starship Troopers.  The movie was good.

[Aardwolf]

So, a topic that hasn't been discussed, related to this: jump jets...

[azile0]

There's a Starship Troopers survival map for Garry's Mod.

http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=69650

It's great fun, put the turrets in the corners under the walk and watch the bugs pile up. Just don't go onto the ramparts.

I have that map. It is thrilling and epic when you're getting swarmed. I find that the SMG is the best weapon here, but ammo goes fast.

[Unknown Target]

It seems to me that you'd need to make an engine designed solely for producing a low-impact (processor-wise) AI that immediately halts upon death and respawns just out of sight. Otherwise even a high-end system will quickly choke. Physics would have to be non-existant, save for scripted events. And bodies would probably need to disappear fairly quickly.

That's the problem, I'd want physics for grenade lobbing etc. etc. and for bodies to remain and pile up as they might in reality, so that the living bugs can climb over / onto / up their own dead.

You'd need to make the engine switch the dead body over to a box-shaped collision object upon death, otherwise an accurate collision model would really bog down the system.