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Offline Phasics

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Gah Hate arriving late to a Party !
« on: December 19, 2008, 12:01:47 AM »
MWLL where have you been all my life  ;D

Now instead of making 50 different posts with question suggestion ideas I figure I'll be a good newb and put everything I want to say into one post and go from there ;) . And yes I did at least read the FAQ ;)

Questions:
1) The 32 player cap , which is more a crysis restriction , any chance of getting around that in the future ? And assuming rights could be obtained major sever clusters paid for some sort of subscription etc, would the dream end game be a persistent world map zoned into the 60km action zones having thousands of people going at it across multiple battlefields each affecting the other. With a big world map picture where you can see in real time territory won and lost. With plenty of random events to shift the tides of battle and keep the zones fresh and interesting.

2) Short of a persistent world are there any plans for a pesudo persistent world and by that I mean each 32 player 60km battlezone is considier a territory under dispute and could be track as such on an out of game map, at the conclusion of that fight the map would be won/lost and be reflected on the out of game map. there would be a unique map for each territory which could be contested. Any map could still be played unofficially by anyone but there would be an official MWLL World game with rules on starting territory factions leaders etc etc.

3) As I read in the FAQ no AI and no single player, any plans to introduce AI extra into multi player and have limited control over their actions (maybe somthing gained at a higher rank). Think the oldschool Battlezone style of game where you buid a tank and can send it to the front of your base to defend while your doing other things, and jump into it should you lose the veh your in or require a different set of tools, e.g. Gauss Sniping from a ridge in a tank and then jump into a CC mech you have parked behind it to run in for the kill.

4) Combat Engineering in ? i.e. ability to deploy static defenses, easiest implementation I can think of would be drive said static turret out of base as a tank reach spot deploy and exit veh and have it autofire on enemies again there an AI component here but there not movement involved with this one only targeting.

5) I assume the download is going to be quite large does this mean I finally get to download a LEGAL Torrent !!!!

And well thats all I can think of right now ;) but if I have any more I'll put them in this thread until I've been around a bit longer  8)

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Re: Gah Hate arriving late to a Party !
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2008, 01:12:28 AM »
A1) Maximum number of players on a map depends on the amount of bandwidth everyone is likely to have, plus the Crysis engine.

A2) Nothing like that has been planned i dont think.

A3) AI is a long way off, its made more difficult because tactics are so varied for a game like this plus you need different AI routines for the elementals, mechs, aircraft, tanks and then choosing to leave or enter vehicles at their own will. Thats alot of work.

A4) Nothing like that has been planned i dont think.

A5) Roughly 2 gigabytes - i think.

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Re: Gah Hate arriving late to a Party !
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2008, 01:14:06 AM »
2) Closest thing you are going to see to a persistent environment is going to be Leagues for the time being.

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Re: Gah Hate arriving late to a Party !
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2008, 01:47:00 AM »
2 GB IIRC was the quoted figure for the current working size or something like that ... the distributable, at least for the beta, will likely be a lot smaller.

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Re: Gah Hate arriving late to a Party !
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2008, 01:50:11 AM »
No, 2 gb will be roughly the final size. Our current working build is over 13gb.


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Re: Gah Hate arriving late to a Party !
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2008, 03:43:36 AM »
I would LOVE to play a MMO based on the Battletech/Mechwarrior universe.
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Re: Gah Hate arriving late to a Party !
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2008, 06:02:17 AM »
Man, if there  was a MMO Mechwarrior game, Id retire from the Navy.  It would be such an awesome game, especially if they could incorporate more then just Mechs. 

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Re: Gah Hate arriving late to a Party !
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2008, 02:09:07 PM »
i love the idea about the big map with the territories ect. if they made a battletech game like that i would call them and force them to let me preorder before its up for that or else i would send in the giant chickens with bigfoots riding them  ;D

oh and your not late to the party, its a party when the games out  :P a big gun blasting, tank driving, mech piloting, jet flying party.

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« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2008, 05:41:40 PM »
will this take the same ram and stuff as crysis or will it take more?

some time or another someone should make a howetzer gun the can be towed into the feild

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Re: Gah Hate arriving late to a Party !
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2008, 09:25:54 PM »
Man, if there  was a MMO Mechwarrior game, Id retire from the Navy.  It would be such an awesome game, especially if they could incorporate more then just Mechs. 

FLYNAVY!

I would die a very happy man.


Just think of a Mechwarrior  MMOFPS.. with a Planetary setup. 

OMG I just got a boner.

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Re: Gah Hate arriving late to a Party !
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2008, 09:29:50 PM »
3) As I read in the FAQ no AI and no single player, any plans to introduce AI extra into multi player and have limited control over their actions (maybe somthing gained at a higher rank). Think the oldschool Battlezone style of game where you buid a tank and can send it to the front of your base to defend while your doing other things, and jump into it should you lose the veh your in or require a different set of tools, e.g. Gauss Sniping from a ridge in a tank and then jump into a CC mech you have parked behind it to run in for the kill.

I think this has been answered in detail somewhere else but it's basically because the stock AI will have no idea how to control the added custom vehicles added to MWLL. In order for an AI to work they would have to write it from scratch. So if you are into AI programming and have some spare time apply within! :D
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Re: Gah Hate arriving late to a Party !
« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2008, 08:05:23 AM »
Heh If i go go back in time and change a few things, learning how to write a solid code in my youth would def be on the list  ;)

Ah well if ya gonna think about a game might as well think big I say  ;)

anyway whats coming looks awesome as is and I'll def be helping test out the beta  ;D

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Re: Gah Hate arriving late to a Party !
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2008, 08:10:50 AM »
Man, if there  was a MMO Mechwarrior game, Id retire from the Navy.  It would be such an awesome game, especially if they could incorporate more then just Mechs. 

FLYNAVY!

I would die a very happy man.


Just think of a Mechwarrior  MMOFPS.. with a Planetary setup. 

OMG I just got a boner.


If someone made a battletech game like planetside and without the pay 2 play i would never play another game again. ;D


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Re: Gah Hate arriving late to a Party !
« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2008, 11:09:09 AM »
Heh, certainly not too late, I've only been here since the start of December in any actual capacity - I found the original trailer months ago, thought "Damn, this looks awesome", didn't find any further information and forgot about it for a year or so xD

Butyes, I was considering running some sort of persistent "Galaxy", using a galaxy map with a few dozen planets. Players (organised into factions) could capture planets based on the outcome of MWLL matches, planets would give benefits like being able to field more equipment and so on...
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Re: Gah Hate arriving late to a Party !
« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2008, 11:33:04 AM »
Man, if there  was a MMO Mechwarrior game, Id retire from the Navy.  It would be such an awesome game, especially if they could incorporate more then just Mechs. 

FLYNAVY!

I would die a very happy man.


Just think of a Mechwarrior  MMOFPS.. with a Planetary setup. 

OMG I just got a boner.


If someone made a battletech game like planetside and without the pay 2 play i would never play another game again. ;D

Been thinking this ever since I first play'd Planetside, 24/7 PvP Mech v Mech how could you go wrong , oh right BFR's trust SOE to monumentally screw up Mechs  >:( , maybe they'll sell thew rights to Planetside 2 to someone that has a clue ;) still thinking why the hell hasn't someone made another proper persistent FPS MMO without NPC's ?