Posts by Vilham

Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus

Valve don't make games anymore, this shouldn't surprise anyone. They merely maintain their current popular games.

Just broke my phone screen this morning

Only yesterday what about the rest of your life?

Deus Ex and Hitman so far, have high expectations.

I mean they are literally pixels regardless....

Quote from BJA

13 hours ago, BJA said: Gauss cannon jumps are the new rocket jumps I'm always impressed by those speed runs, I have no idea how people can find all those shortcuts.

Hes doing some other jump thing though, at this point he just jumps about a mile, doesn't have the gauss cannon yet.

Quote from Buddy

43 minutes ago, Buddy said: Because one person was from the management and the other a regular employee?

Haha, well yeah basically but if its true the regulars should still notice they havent been paid

Quote from Sprony

2 hours ago, Sprony said: Crytek once again in Crisis

If all true, which sounds rather plausible, it really sucks for all the employees. I don't think we have any Mapcore people left there right?

Have talked with some people and they say its true, others say its not. Really strange...

Little Felix shot at 4 mins, going to be interesting to see how many people you know in the background shots

Quote from blackdog

On 28/11/2016 at 2:14 PM, blackdog said: So you're saying there's not really any book that is fundamental more specifically for game/level design?

I mean I know it's a craft that brings several disciples together, and you get better only by practicing, but from the different talks I've seen or articles I've read, I thought there was starting to be some sort of literature, especially now that they do uni game dev courses.

Dont get me wrong, I know I would enjoy reading what you linked

Unfortunately pretty much all those books are written by people that have never made a game. Complete and utter theory crafting. There might be a few useful books but tbh in general level design resources are pretty poor, the best thing are all the GDC talks etc.

Quote from text_fish

5 hours ago, text_fish said: @Vilham said:

I think where we disagree is in the nature of Quake 2's gameplay. A straight port of The Edge to Q3A or most other modern shooters (arena or otherwise) would indeed suffer because there's been a slow and determined move away from map control in DM/Arena FPS's. This change can be seen in its extreme in DooM4, with its loadout system. For me, playing Q2 in the late 90's map control was a hugely rewarding aspect of the game, which rewarded players equally (if not sometimes more) to twitch-reflexes or aim. These days if you jump in to most dm/arena shooters you spawn with your finger on "foward" and don't let go until you die because everybody just bounces around at a million miles an hour trying to pwn the fastest and not worrying at all about playing defensively or learning the overall layout of the map.

Yeah my only experience of quake multiplayer is quake 3.

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3 hours ago, text_fish said: Quake 2's The Edge already won best map ever. Everything afterwards just has to strive for second place.

So I played that map a little recently and hated it, just watching a video of it right now and can see multiple huge issues with it compared with the gameplay of the game. Has a bunch of weapons down dead ends totally messing with the flow of movement, also making it easy to stop someone getting to those weapons if you already have them. Has a few areas where it goes from nice and open to allow for the fast paced movement of quake to 1 character wide stair ways. Can you explain to me why its considered a good quake map, because I would have thought the opposite.

Looks fantastic guys. Amazing job. Hope it plays well too.

Quote from blackdog

15 hours ago, blackdog said: Bumping this.

Xmas is close, and as a person that doesn't care at all but has people asking what I would like to get, is there any good game dev/game design/level design book you would suggest? I have a couple in my wishlist: http://amzn.eu/aEZ2Q75 but I'm not sure if they are (still) relevant, good/worth the money.

Suggestions welcome

Basically there is only one good design book I have read/seen.

https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid…3IqAR7ro-QrAAAA

Quote from Corwin

56 minutes ago, Corwin said: In the last couple months I sold my house, quit my job in Germany and moved back to France to try to solve my couple/family issues, am divorcing my wife after all and joining a game-dev startup, buying a car as my old one died after the drive back home, and searching for a flat to buy in my hometown. Lots of changes, I think for the better, looking forward to having more time for myself!

Shit, sorry to hear that Clem. Good luck in the flat search.

Quote from Beck

4 hours ago, Beck said: Yeah, I expect games like Fallout and Elder Scrolls to be a little buggy on release (Although, I've never really had any problems!) since the games are so vast.

Skyrim: Special Edition probably shouldn't have shipped with some of the game breaking bugs which were in the original version though. If they were making the special edition you'd think they'd reopen all of the bugs which were closed as won't fix (due to time constraints) when Skyrim first released and fix those since they had the chance. Money I guess.

Nah mate, money.

Oi Dice people, when the hell are you going to fix this god damn medal bug where it shows you last weeks medals.

Looks like it might be fixed, MIGHT.

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