Big Unannounced System

[Doobie Dan]

Maybe a short, yellow dropBUS...?

Yes, a short yellow dropship that the Commander can put his most "special" squad 6 marines on.  It will roam the map with them inside, rendering them invunerable from scorpians and vines that attack when ur looken the other way.

[DiscoZombie]

Maybe a short, yellow dropBUS...?

or maybe it's a roflBUS!

[rad4Christ]

http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/in...dpost&p=1042828

It'll include both toruney and pub changes...

[Black Mage]

that means its an ingame thing













is it pai?

[Fewlio]

Damnit joo foo, quit posting these linkies which I lack access too!

[Jefe]

rad4Christ,Apr 28 2004, 04:08 PM] http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/in...dpost&p=1042828

It'll include both toruney and pub changes...

quote and repost please ok

[Diablus]

I bet its an upgrade to let the CC have wheels and Hives to be controlled by players and grow legs and walk

i mean comeon, that will tottaly change the way NS is played, end game marine comm dropps 10 ccs drives into em, turns the engine off and the aliens would never find him!, then on the last 2 ccs he drives away with laughter then falls of a ledge which causes the cc to light on fire from the inside out causing him to be toasted alive, EXTRA...crispy....

[Sydney Carton]

OMG n00b comm left engine idling olo!!11!!!

[Uranium - 235]

And when you lock your keys in the CC, you have to use a coathanger to slimjim the door open

[Dark]

then after you've broken into the cc the police will come and arrest you then feed you to aliens as teh death penalty

[Dirty Harry Potter]

Problem with peoples input is that usually its stuff that wouldn't get put in at all. For every good suggestion there are 100 bad ones......

yes, and i guess this is the reason that the devs doesn't listen to the I&S forum, but that's just my interpretion. Also iirc the only really good suggestions i've seen was suggestions that didn't invovle balance, only nifty additions. But yes, some Balance suggestions are good i suppose.

[BOZO]

XP-Cagey

Wow, that is bitter.

At this point, I'm the only developer actively developing BUS, and all the active developers (myself included) are working on bug and exploit squashing in both Combat and Classic modes for the next beta release.

Flayra's not stupid, and he knows he's got a good thing going with the strength of the NS community, the popularity of the game, and the traditionally positive reaction to his work. He's not about to abandon the game (or the game mode) that generated all of that.

Many of the changelist items--especially balance related ones--are Combat motivated. There's a good reason for that: Combat is a recent addition to the game, and while Classic also needs to be bug free and balanced, Combat has had farther to go recently. Combat's also here to stay--there isn't any chance of that changing.

Most of the high priority items on my list -- a 100% stable building/weapon drop, fixing the shotgun (now-doesn't-spark) bug, fixing the grenade + vent bug -- are going to directly benefit NS Classic. None of the private items on my list (including BUS) are Combat specific.

About half of the non-BUS items I've worked on since becoming an official coder on the project (instead of just a docs guy) have been exploit fixes or other work not shown to the public in Mantis--for obvious reasons, we don't make exploits and bugs that could hurt play public unless they're already widely known about like the problems I specifically mentioned in the last paragraph.

For the record, there are two reasons to withhold information on BUS:
It generates buzz about the development of NS (You're completely right about that, and like I said above, Flayra's not stupid). Would people quickly lose interest if they knew what we were doing? I suppose that depends on the individual, but everbody involved in the project has been excited over what we're doing since its inception--as any programmer can tell you, that's not always the case.
It's a huge system that needs to be introduced piecewise and tested in phases. We don't want to annonce a half-baked project and have people disappointed when it's not working yet--that goes double for me personally, since I'm currently leading the effort. I'd be far more worried about impatience than apathy if Charlie announced the project details tomorrow.

QUOTE (CutterJoe @ Apr 28 2004, 08:14 AM)
I hope it has something to do with both pub and clan play because if not, I, myself will be kind of dissappointed. Not enough to quit or hold a grudge just dissappointed in getting my hopes of for nothing.  


It will have something to do with both.

[Sancho]

So, apparently the BUS is an implementation of the CAL rules PUG that many of you have played, in which the marine team in Combat are the attackers and aliens are the defenders with a time limit.  At least, this is what it appears to be, from what I played tonight.  Is this the BUS or is this just a minor change?

EDIT:  Hmm, read the changelog, guess this isn't the BUS, but rather an old feature being put back in.  Dang!  I lose!

[Geminosity]

It's obvious... it's a real-time nerfing system =D

The more you do cool stuff with anything the more the BUS nerfs it.  That way fades turn to being even worse than just overgrown skulks as people play them... in real-time!!!
The net result is by the end of the game everyone is running about huffing and puffing like geriatrics feebly whacking each other with their canes and collapsing dead at the slightest breeze; just how flayra envisioned it!!! ^^

[Niteowl]

The net result is by the end of the game everyone is running about huffing and puffing like geriatrics feebly whacking each other with their canes and collapsing dead at the slightest breeze; just how flayra envisioned it!!! ^^

HEY NOW!!!

[BobTheJanitor]

^^^  :huh:

Finally, a clan (OMG ADVERTISING!) will own EVERYONE!!!!1111!!111!2!

[Satiagraha]

[OMGCLAN] !!!! wooo!

we will roxorz j00 boxorz! :ph34r:

[rad4Christ]

When the dust has settled, [mmi] will stand on the top. Mark my words.

[Niteowl]

rad4Christ,May 5 2004, 04:21 AM] When the dust has settled, [mmi] will stand on the top. Mark my words.

oh PLEASE!! we all know that's ONLY because mmi is so freaking huge!! they recruit ANYONE!!

[Venmoch]

Even Me?

Mr "I've got no skills at all?"