Posts by Beck

Quote from FrieChamp

1 hour ago, FrieChamp said: Glad to see this seeing the light of day finally!

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/pre-order/deluxe

Regarding the business model: what exactly do I get if I buy the "Rare Starter Hero Pack"? Rare skins for the heroes or the ability to play 8 heroes from the start (otherwise they would need to be unlocked by XP) or...?

Yeah this is what confuses me. Also the pinata packs. I take it they give cards which you can combine to make new skins/weapons/heroes?

Launch trailer and release date announced (25th July)

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/pre-order

No, I'm not working on this but have played it and given feedback.

I see a lot of the levels as I walk around the office and some of them give me a real Goonies vibe.

Quote from AlexM

1 hour ago, AlexM said: My teams face when hiding behind reins shield and he suddenly decides to charge into the other team leaving everyone unprotected.

Followed by them dying pretty quickly and shouting "Where were you all???" "Heals??" "Facking nub team cancer"

Cheers, Paul!

And yeah, the xray kills can be seen in coop this time around. They're a lot quicker than in SP as you don't see the bullet travel. You just see the impact and the damage it's done real quick. They're about a second long.

Some examples here from 0:41 onwards

Once or twice? Been stuck in platinum for 2 seasons (climbing now though!) and it seems I get a few of these a week!

The start of this seasons has been a good start though, got 7 wins in my placement and then have been winning more often afterwards. Managed a new personal best last night and only 200SR away from Diamond now.

We've had another free update drop in the last couple of days. A new multiplayer mode "Survival" pits you and some friends against against waves of AI opponents. Complete all 12 waves and you get a free character skin for multiplayer too!

Along with this is a couple of new maps - Winter Market

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Fortress

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I'll be live streaming the new mode with some fellow developers in about 30 minutes from this post too! Drop by and say hi! https://www.twitch.tv/rebellion_official

Not seen a thread for this yet and they've just released the announcement trailer:

Previous 2 were good fun. Glad to hear we're getting a third!

Quote from FrieChamp

4 minutes ago, FrieChamp said: Yea but you better pull it off within 3 years

What I'm seeing right now I've seen and played a dozen times before, so I think I'll pass. But I am sure they will sell a lot of copies.

Yeah I bet the crunch at these studios and some other AAA studios (Rockstar, Naughty Dog etc) is unreal.

I have to say, this does look sick. I do get jealous of studios who have these unlimited budgets and teams who can pull this kind of stuff off.

If the game play is right it might be the first CoD I'll pick up since MW2.

Part two of our three part DLC campaign comes out today:

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Cheers!

Never been big on Quake but I thought it was meant to be a level playing field between everyone? No special skills or differences between players. Just pure movement and aim?

My old tutor is complaining on Facebook about the classes and such, he's a pretty hardcore fan as far as I can tell too!

Quote from Sprony

15 hours ago, Sprony said: They are working on something 'better'. That's me quoting them. They said that feedback on the previous one made it clear that the season pass didn't work out and that they heard the cries for more content, progression, etc. So maybe they'll take the Titanfall 2 route? All the maps and modes are free, but you have micro-transactions for cosmetics.

Quote from Dark

7 hours ago, Dark said: I don't have any details regardless if I could share them or not. There will for sure be something in place of it no doubt. I am just happy we can get away with one of the largest flaws that has been separating every game player base.

I'm all for losing the splintering of the community so if this is the route they're going then that's great. Hopefully other games follow suit!

Quote from Dark

On 15/04/2017 at 7:51 PM, Dark said: no season pass*

Forgot to reply to this earlier, but what is the star for? What's the catch?

Is it just going to be cosmetics which need paying for? I'm sure they could create loads of different suits of armour and all that from the entire star wars universe and people love cosmetics so I'm sure they'd make a pretty penny for it.

BF1 was the first Battlefield I didn't buy the season pass for. Mostly due to a tight budget but also due to being let down by other season passes in previous BF's. I always found the player numbers dwindled more and more with each DLC release with the community becoming more splintered. It'd be nice to keep all the players on all the maps and just put the cosmetics behind the pay walls.

Anyone read/listened to the books? They're awesome.

Currently listening through them all on my commute (in the wrong order, started with Blood of Elves - Which is the first of the novels. Rather than the short stories books - Listening to those now before I move back onto the novels)

The games really nailed it, they're just like the books. Recommend them if you're a fan of the Witcher games.

Whilst I'm here, are there any mods you guys recommend?

Interesting thread!

Not sure it counts as an environmental hazard but in L4D2 they had the "uncommon commons" infected. Basically, zombies which had some kind of immunities to what you would normally find in the environment they're placed in. So if there was a lot of fire around they'd have the zombies in hazmat suits so they wouldn't burn. Or in construction sites with a lot of noise they'd have the construction work zombies with ear protectors so they wouldn't be distracted by your pipe bombs etc.

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Was a great way for Valve to address things like molotov's and pipe bombs which just made you immune from the zombies if you used them. You'd always have some zombies harassing you with them around.

Can't think of any traditional environment hazards off the top of my head that I liked. Can't wait to see what others post!

New event has launched:

https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/events/uprising/

Stay safe Vivi.