[QueenHolley]

So not only are you behind on your ever increasing bloated and feature creeping campaign, but now you're making spin-offs?

Yeah, this is going to go reeeeall well...

_{The world will never know of my Oscar-winning performances...}

[Oddgrim]

Good stuff. A half hour plus campaign where you blow up (my?) ships

edit:I can't spell.

[Axem]

Oh no, that's being saved for the main campaign.

[Spoon]

So not only are you behind on your ever increasing bloated and feature creeping campaign, but now you're making spin-offs?

Yeah, this is going to go reeeeall well...

_{The world will never know of my Oscar-winning performances...}

Delta 1's performance was better.
I'm just sayin'

[woutersmits]

axem i wanna be a tester for that i like boss modes
i will help you with bugs
etc
count me in
ive Always free time
use my xfire username: wssmits

[Colonol Dekker]

That was written like
an off beat haiku type thing
I like pie toot toot.

[Axem]

Sorry, I missed your post before wouter. I don't think I'll need any more help right now, I bagged a few testers. I'll let you know if that changes!

[Axem]

Let's keep this semi-regularly updated.

JAD: Extreme Arcade Preview 1
The Hub



Welcome to the hub! If you've played War in Heaven Act 3, it's kind of like the dreamscape, only not as creepy. And much less chanting. Its here in the hub that you can get familiar with things. You can't fire weapons, but you can fly all you want around the place. What good is there in flying if you can't shoot anything?

Well for one, selecting certain objects will give you a little popup giving a quick description about things.



Ah, like here! We have Holley's Ezechiel fighter (right next to a berserked version). By hitting spacebar (or button 2) you'll change into the fighter to see how the handling changes. But I feel we need to go deeper. I need stats! What am I really getting into with this fighter?! And what is that scan mode thing in the directives?



Now here we go. We get a nice rotating model of the ship, plus a bunch of stats that allow me to research the different fighters I can play with for JAD:XA. (Also Holley has taken on the large task of rewriting every single tech room description. Thanks.... I think.)



The scan mode is a lua script that takes the information from the in game stats. It's sort of a slimmer version of what FelixJim made awhile ago (but I did build it by hand, it was just easier that way). By pointing this at the berserk version, we can see how the stats upgrade when Holley goes berserk. (These values have been rebalanced a bit since JAD2.21!)



And by pointing it at other ships, we can see why we should NOT be flying them.



Looking over here, we see the mission ships. These four ships are our gateway to the exciting missions: Drone Turkey Shoot, Boss Duel, Space Race and Endless Gauntlet.



To bring us to the mission, all we need to do is select a ship and hit okay. Also note we can see real quick our past high scores for the mission. For Boss Duel, the options are Time Attack and Score Attack. Time attack challenges you to defeat the boss as fast as you can, while Score Attack challenges you to defeat as many boss waves as possible.

In a week or two, I'll show you a preview of the Boss Duel mission!

[niffiwan]

that is looking very cool 

So... I presume that new "cheating bastard" sexp is lurking in the background so we can post screenies of our high scores in order to compete for... hmm... bragging rights?

[Rodo]

Wow nice use of scripting, loving the menus.
*feels he's being watched
And the descriptions are awesome, written by a real ace.
Yes, that should get me in the clear.

[Boomer20]

The red trim on the Berzerked Ezechiel. Is that a new feature?
I don't recall seeing it in JAD 2.1.

[QueenHolley]

that is looking very cool 

So... I presume that new "cheating bastard" sexp is lurking in the background so we can post screenies of our high scores in order to compete for... hmm... bragging rights?

I keep telling him to tie is-player-cheating with a self-destruct sexp, but he thinks its a little harsh! I don't get it, cheaters are SCUM!

And the descriptions are awesome, written by a real ace.

The red trim on the Berzerked Ezechiel. Is that a new feature?
I don't recall seeing it in JAD 2.1.

Very perceptive! Even Delta 1's fighter now has some yellow glows on his ship when he goes into his overdrive mode. All in the name of trying to blind the player with bright colors!

[QueenHolley]

'Kay, so Axem is "busy" being a hopeless undead castaway trying to regain his humanity...

So I guess its up to me to satisfy you all with previews! What mission did he say he was going to preview? Boss Duel? No problem! No problem at all.

First lets choose our fighter... No brainer there.


Then lets choose our weapons! Bosses are tough nuts to crack, so we better bring some heavy weapons!


Okay, now we got two modes we can choose! I'm gonna go with... Time Attack. 54 seconds? Psh, I'm sure I can do it in half that!


Here we go, about to start! Got a nifty boss health bar up top, a giant timer in my face to let me be annoyed by, and a presently empty bar just below that.


So this boss can be annoying to kill, on account of it being able to teleport around the place. (I'm not sure that's canon, Axem!)




So anyway you get that empty bar filled when you kill enemies, and let me tell you, that's what you want! Why?


BERSERK MODE IS AWESOME.


LET'S GO KILL THAT BOSS!


Easy peasy! 2:31 huh? I'm just a bit rusty, that's all... I haven't played in a long time!


Lame! I bet I can do it faster. All you need is better weapons. Weapons that your lame excuse for a fighter cannot carry.




THAT's how you do it.

Even with all that overkill weaponry, you STILL couldn't get a better time than the high score? Lame! _{(And get your own account)}

Why didn't you just go for the weakpoint?

The what?

Oh... THAT weakpoint... Too late for that now!

Next time maybe we'll get Mr Know-it-all there to putter-put through a dangerous obstacle course full of beams and pain.

[SpardaSon21]

"Not Heaven's Fire"
Axem, we all see what you did there.

[Rodo]

I want to play this.

[MatthTheGeek]

Streched HUD and non-HTL Arcadia ? You can do better than this Axem.

[Black Wolf]

Streched HUD and non-HTL Arcadia ? You can do better than this Axem.

Forget the mind blowing FREDding that's going into this project - let's jump straight onto the tinyest flaws we can find? Yep, that's a great attitude in a volunteer driven community. And what are you talking about WRT the Arcadia? That is the high poly model.

[MatthTheGeek]

Forget the mind blowing FREDding that's going into this project - let's jump straight onto the tinyest flaws we can find? Yep, that's a great attitude in a volunteer driven community.

ಠ_ಠ

You tell that to my face when you've given even a tenth of the praise I've showed to Axem before, young man.

And what are you talking about WRT the Arcadia? That is the high poly model.

****. You're right. Didn't recognize it under the interface.

Just goes to show how faithful to the original it is. Or how used to it I already am !

[Axem]

Calm down you twos. I do testing with both the mediavp svn with all the latest bells and whistles and the 3.6.12 mediavps to make sure there's nothing forgotten and its forwards compatible. The hub preview was done with the mediavp svn (with a properly scaled hud) and I guess Holley was using the 3.6.12 mediavps for the Boss Duel. Only a modified version of the new Rakshasa will come with JAD:XA because of some subsystem tweaking.

[Misuzu Stella]

With scores like that, how will you ever defeat the beta tester menace!?


Lo and behold, childeren.