Posts by Puddy

  • Prometheus

    Quote from dux

    Generic? How are hudson, hicks, vasquez and apone generic?

    Quote from SpronyvanJohnson

    I'm with Dux here. There's nothing generic about them. It's because they are vastly different that we remember them so fondly.

    I dunno, I just felt their characters were smothered in army-lingo and badassness and I did not find them very memorable. I'm not saying they were ALL bad or terrible; I'm mainly saying I preferred the cast of the first film.

  • Am I on the right track?

    Hey,

    You've come to the right place; you'll probably get some good answers from the people here. I'm far, far from being one of the more experienced persons on this forum (in fact, I have not work with games professionally as of yet), but I'll write down a few things I reckon are good to keep in mind.


    • [*:284j38u2] Remember to present your work in a good way on your actual portfolio site later on. Don't hold your work back by having a poorly layed out folio. Get feedback from the Portfolio subforum.
      [*:284j38u2] Post all your finished works here. We've got a lot of Crytek and ex-Crytek folks who'll be able to deconstruct your map by snapping their fingers and they'll be able to give you good pointers on what to improve.
      [*:284j38u2] Definitely decide if you are going to be a level designer or a level artist and focus heavily on the areas relevant for that position (lighting, texturing/modelling etc vs scripting, encounter design, pacing etc).
      [*:284j38u2] When creating these maps, don't ever try to "churn them out" to fill out your folio. Always aim to drastically improve the quality of your next project by using the experience of the previous one so that employer's can see an improvement curve (which you can point out as well when applying; that you are always eager to, and can, improve). Also, be sure not to call maps finished too early. Make time for follow-up and iteration. A few tweaks here and there can drastically improve the quality of your map.
      [*:284j38u2]I don't think it's necessary to branch out and learn another tool straight way (it's not bad either). Given your timeframe, you'll generally not be able to produce as much, or as high-quality, content if you branch out. It's perhaps a good idea to stick to one engine for now and make the best damn maps possible.

  • DayZ Mod for ARMA II

    Quote from Chimeray

    I think the strafing is just a bit unfair, gameplay needs to be somewhat predictable to be fun. Cause and effect. I need to know where I'm supposed to aim to avert the danger. Now I'm just waiting until they start hitting me otherwise I just end up wasting ammo, at least for those crazy runner types.

    Yup same, I wait until they are really close unless they happen to be running in a straight line (very rare).

  • DayZ Mod for ARMA II

    I think they should run a bit slower but be able to take more damage (atleast that is what I thought the last time I played). If they just ran more slowly they would lose some danger.

    Will probably give this a go again soon to see what's been changed.

  • Prometheus

    Quote from Youme

    Fifield and the biologist reaaallly don't change character at all like everyone is complaining about. Fifield is always a pussy, he still got lost even though HE made the map but I can easily attribute that to the state of panic he was in. The biologist is quite understandably more ok with a small snake thing that a huge dead person shaped thing (presumably he also knows if they run from the living biology, it may well chase them, so attempts to make nice with it).

    I partially agree. Anyone can get spooked by huge, twisted and decaying beings. But getting lost and getting all social with those creatures just felt a bit odd.

    Quote from Youme

    The whole vikers as weyland's daughter gives the whole trio (inc. david) a whole load more reason, she's a bitch because weyland loves david and ignores her, weyland's character is instantly deamonized as we realise he's shunned his daughter in favour of a robot (understandable) and David suddenly has the parallel between him and his "sister" both wanting their parent dead.

    It wasn't so much that she was his daughter but the way it was revealed; I felt really bad when she uttered that f word.

    Quote from Youme

    Lots of people complained about Janek's sudden "it's all weapons" spiel and shaw changing her actions based on it, but she said the engineers weren't what they thought they were and that they had to leave before Janek says anything to her, so that whole issue is removed, she'd already made up her mind.

    For me, that comment seemed to be a way for the writers to get everyone, including dimwitted yanks ( ), aboard the plot-train. You knew it was a weapons/general evilness facility and Janek had to yell that at viewers who weren't paying attention. But I have no problem with him drawing that conclusion. He saw what the crew saw via live-feed and it was pretty obvious for anyone to know what kind of place it was.

    Quote from Youme

    Another criticism is the two co-pilots give up their lives without anyone explaining to them the stakes, however it's not hard to assume Janek filled them in after talking with Shaw, and then they already know their options are explode in taking down the engineer ship, or suffer two years in the crashed lifeboat with vickers-bitch-face before starving to death or suffocating. NOT a hard choice!

    It's never shown or indicated and even if they had discussed it, you'd probably not accept that fate as readily.

    Quote from Youme

    Then there's the "Why do they want to kill us" question, it's pretty clear from the start that the invitation isn't "Hey come party with us" it's actually "Hey, come worship us". and when they get there, even if the engineers hadn't already decided to go kill humanity that the first contact scene soon changed that. The Engineer gets out of his pod and looks at the ensemble in front of him, he then bows down and waits for them to do the same. None of them do. Not until one of the lackies hits Shaw in the stomach does anyone drop to their knees. (Comments about her running around fine with a stomach full of staples are also BS as she'd falling all over the place). The engineer then rises and david tells them why they're there "We're greedy little humans that want to serve ourselves only and live forever" totally at odds to the way of life of the engineer (a life of self sacrifice) and then he kills them all. When he sees Shaw running he chooses not to pursue, presumably because she alone had the respect to bow when he did.

    Come worship us at our weapons facility?

    A few things are really good in this movie. The dialogue with the engineer and the surgery scene are among them. If you want to go all-in conspiracy theory, David programmed the star map in the pilot room to earth and provoked the engineer to bring doom to us.

    Quote from Youme

    I can't reconcile what was going through David's mind as he poisoned holloway, but I can at least see it as an act well within David's character, he's a tinkerer. He touches and plays with everything he can to understand it. I can set aside my confusion because I know that David read the text on the door to the vase chamber, so I can believe (quite within reason too) that he understands the purpose of the vases and the black goo without telling anyone.

    I didn't have any problems with the posioning; it is something David could do imho. Perhaps some emotions are dawning within David and since Holloway was a total dick earlier, this came as a weird form of "revenge". And, as you say, David is curious and probably does not see morality in the same light as us humans. He was a kid with a new toy and wanted to play with it, basically.

    Quote from Youme

    Most of Redlettermedia's questions are either asinine (Why do some Earth lifeforms not share DNA with us, weeeell pretty much everything shares some level of genetic code with us), answered by stringing a few slightly subtle things together or just answerable with "Eh sometimes movies are dumb" (like running in a straight line instead of sideways).

    While I agree some questions are really dumb, most of them have a point.

  • Battlefield 3

    I agree with Jenn0 that you are generally better off playing on servers with fewer players. I think that Operation 925 and Donya Fortress work pretty well with 24 players though.