[dragonsniper]

I would like to inform those that don't already know, that FreeSpace Close-Quarters, a FPS (First Person Shooter) has come to be at Game-Warden.

You take the roll as a GTA marine during the first Great War. You get to do the usual, escort missions and such, but you mainly have the privileged of attacking and fending off rebel Terran attacks and Vasudan attacks. You may even get to see a Shivan or two.

FS-CQ will be made on the HL2 (Half Life 2) engine, which IMO is one of the best FPS engines out there right now.

If you have any questions, here is the link to the forum:
http://www.game-warden.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=93   

You can also ask questions here, but they may not be answered right away.

[Krelus]

I am following this. Intently.

[Dilmah G]

This'll be interesting, so long as you don't turn it into some kind of comical multiplayer fragfest like 1.6 (thought it has it's place), this'll be good .

[Krelus]

What'd make me squeal in fangirl-esque glee is if you made it some kind of ultra-tactical Republic Commando type game.

[dragonsniper]

This'll be interesting, so long as you don't turn it into some kind of comical multiplayer fragfest

That won't be happening. I'm still not sure if multilayer is going to happen at all.

[Dilmah G]

Well fragfest was what I was really worried about.

[Titan]

i loved republic commando. I played the demo OVER and OVER and OVER. Never got the full game tho.

Will you need to own HL2 to play this?

[BS403]

First republic commando was a great game.
Edit: Second I have been hoping something like FS: CQ would happen for years now.

[Thaeris]

This is off-topic... though it does relate to ground combat...

Has anyone considered using DropTeam as a mod platform for FreeSpace?

Battlefront.com, DropTeam page: http://www.battlefront.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=92&Itemid=137

The game is basically designed to be modded, is by nature multi-platform, etc. It uses an advanced physics engine (despite its looks) and is multiplayer. There is a demo, too. I believe the demo is open enough that it itself can be altered. It also lets you just drop .obj or .3ds files into it with the appropriate flies to go with the model. It will also take straight-up .cob files, meaning existing models for FreeSpace could potentially be used without much conversion.

-Thaeris

[dragonsniper]

Will you need to own HL2 to play this?

Yes you will need HL2 to play this.

A quick update: Currently playing around and learning Hammer, getting familiar with it's interface etc. The screenshots below could possibly be part of a tutorial mission due to it's simplicity.

And finally, here are the screenies.

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[Snail]

Not very FreeSpacey. But it's a good start.

[dragonsniper]

You mean the weapons, the fence in the frikin' middle of nowhere (I felt like putting there for fun) or everything together?

[Dilmah G]

Looks good enough to me .

[Droid803]

As long as you get the characters (ie. Terran Marine, Vasudan, Shivan) to look right, I think it'll be fine.

[dragonsniper]

Do the soldiers in the bottom picture look anything like marines? Opinions?

[Dragon]

My opinion is that this pic is too small to clearly see anything.
Though the mod looks promising.

[dragonsniper]

Here are some pictures of the various people that you can attack in HL2, so some of them may be used. Any of them look like marines/guards or soldiers that you would see on a Terran ship?

Picture1: Police officer/civilian enforcer.
Picture2: Nova soldiers (or something like that.)
Picture3: Combine soldiers (the ones in my last screenshot.)

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[Snail]

Those don't look anything like the marines we saw in Hallfight.


The attached file has what they should look like.

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[headdie]

Snail has a point but i think the blue combine soldiers with "hard material" look Armour materials would make a better all purpose space marine

[dragonsniper]

As much as the combine soldiers don't look like the GTA marines from hallfight, could the look still be pulled off? IMHO, there isn't a huge difference between the combine soldier and the hallfight soldiers. Also, there may be other GTA marine outfits that we never see. I'm sure that the ones from the hallfight couldn't be the only ones.