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Offline terran_emperor

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Player controlled Drop ship - feasable?
on: January 22, 2010, 01:34:58 pm
Is a player controlled Dropship/Troop Transport feasible?

Like the time used in Dropship: United Peace Force - A Brilliant PS2 game that flopped due to poor sales

By that i mean that the Player controls what is esentially a VERY LARGE bomber with a fighterbay/loading bay large enough for a troop Squad  (Hades Combine's Spaceman Model) or 2 Fighters?

video of what i mean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnhodk6Bz38&feature=related

Basically--
To summerise: Is it possible to put a fighter bay on a ship that the player controls?
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Re: Player controlled Drop ship - feasable?
Reply #1 on: January 22, 2010, 01:49:20 pm
Yes. Don't see why not.
 

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Re: Player controlled Drop ship - feasable?
Reply #2 on: January 22, 2010, 01:51:12 pm
That actually looked like a really cool game! You don't see too many console flight sims...
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Re: Player controlled Drop ship - feasable?
Reply #3 on: January 22, 2010, 01:54:03 pm
Yeah, Dropship 1 and 2 were pretty cool.
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Re: Player controlled Drop ship - feasable?
Reply #4 on: January 22, 2010, 05:24:39 pm
to be honest if you adapt the glide feature in the 3.6.11 nightlys to mimic hover mode and you could probably recreate the games
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Re: Player controlled Drop ship - feasable?
Reply #5 on: January 22, 2010, 06:46:14 pm
Well, there are several atmospheric mods currently WIP, and nuke is apparently working on a very comprehensive atmospheric flight dynamics script, so yeah. It could probably be done.
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Re: Player controlled Drop ship - feasable?
Reply #6 on: January 22, 2010, 09:12:30 pm
Dosen't the AI still have issues with ground though?
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Re: Player controlled Drop ship - feasable?
Reply #7 on: January 23, 2010, 12:07:02 am
Well even real fighter sims cheat (and sometimes big time) with ai controlled crafts.
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Re: Player controlled Drop ship - feasable?
Reply #8 on: January 23, 2010, 01:06:21 pm
Well, i'm not so much asking about atmospheric ships at the moment. But if it's possible then COOL!

The sort of situation i was thinking was - The play has to carry a squad of Space Marines (Shut it you Warhammer fanboys) and drop them off a waypoint by the enemy ship


Also I doubt you could perfectly recreate Dropship: UPF as some levels had you manning Turrets or Driving Tanks or APCs
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Re: Player controlled Drop ship - feasable?
Reply #9 on: January 23, 2010, 01:23:09 pm
Driving tanks and APCs is possible on a flat terrain, manning turrets is one of the things Nuke's working on and flying the dropship may be doable, bu difficult.
 

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Re: Player controlled Drop ship - feasable?
Reply #10 on: January 23, 2010, 03:01:22 pm
I love that Dropship game, i never got around to buying it but i borrowed it for a weekend from my very good frined from school...
I intend to finish what i started and am scouring the net for it now...

to buy of course.

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Also theres a Dropship in TBP isn't there?
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Re: Player controlled Drop ship - feasable?
Reply #11 on: January 24, 2010, 09:54:59 am
Yes tbp has one but it handled like a fighter
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Re: Player controlled Drop ship - feasable?
Reply #12 on: January 24, 2010, 12:53:05 pm
Quote from: Colonol Dekker on January 23, 2010, 03:01:22 pm
btw Terran Emperor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fb5H01tv5Q&NR=1

Also theres a Dropship in TBP isn't there?

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I was wondering how long before someone referenced Aliens or Starship Troopers

The EA Valkyrie is more of a Gunship than Dropship, based on what i saw in Canon.

B5 universe Dropships are more likely the Boomer Troop Carriers. (Those big space Planes seen along side that Nova in "GROPOS")
http://themadgoner.com/B5/B5Scrolls/Ship-1-13.jpg

or the Cougar Long Range Transport from "Crusade - Patters of the Soul"
http://themadgoner.com/B5/B5Scrolls/Ship-15.jpg

Neither included in TBP. But it is my ambition as a rabid fanboy an admirer of the Earth Force ships to get them in game

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Re: Player controlled Drop ship - feasable?
Reply #13 on: January 24, 2010, 02:02:12 pm
I'm curious... Did those ever get put into TBP? I tried looking for them but never found them...
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Re: Player controlled Drop ship - feasable?
Reply #14 on: January 25, 2010, 11:20:21 am
I believe this answers your question...

Quote from: terran_emperor on January 24, 2010, 12:53:05 pm
Neither included in TBP. But it is my ambition as a rabid fanboy an admirer of the Earth Force ships to get them in game
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Re: Player controlled Drop ship - feasable?
Reply #15 on: January 25, 2010, 09:42:28 pm
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Hmmm... I should have spent just a tad longer reading that post...
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