Posts by blackdog

Quote from JorisCeoen

On 11/3/2019 at 12:09 PM, JorisCeoen said: Could you specify what purpose color coding serves? I'm new to this term, hadn't heard of it before in Level Design... interested to hear what's it used for!

What @Radu said is correct, I want to add another example that is a common sore point in (community) CS maps: doors.

It’s important to colour code doors to allow players to ignore doors that are there for decoration/realism VS interactive doors.

On top of that you might want to make things very clear by removing door knobs/handles from non-interactive doors, even put an obstacle in front.

Colour coding is definitely a good thing in level design, great to try implement from draft.

What texture set you are using?

Quote from Tisky

2 hours ago, Tisky said: To be fair, it probably has to do with people paying money to go to the actual convention , if it streamed free at home why would anyone visit? Its pretty expensive tho!

Apple WWDC costs $1600 to participate, sells out in a matter of hours if not minutes, yet the keynote stream is live and free. The workshop sessions are also available after the event.

E3 costs $250 and is covered by different websites in real time, plus publishers have their own streams.

Even Star Citizen, the most heavily monetised legal rip-off joke of a game, has tickets for $140 but a free stream.

Have you ever been to a concert? You don’t pay just for the content of the presentation when you decide to attend, there’s a suite of other benefits from networking, to trying the products presented etc.

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Quote from Tisky

On 10/30/2019 at 4:28 PM, Tisky said: One thing is for sure, I can't wait! Might even buy a Virtual Ticket for this one. Can't be as bad as last year right?

Is this actually a thing?? Pay to watch a stream? Greediness has no limits.

Also a class doesn’t seem to make that long time, compared to a map. So you’d expect that part of production would have been wrapped well before maps are finished.

Quote from PaulH

4 hours ago, PaulH said: As a disclaimer, my opinion is only based on the 6 or so TDM maps I've played, as none of the others are coming up in the rotation currently (only Azhir Cave, Hackney Yard, Gun Runner, Piccadily, Rammaza and St Petrograd come up regularly. The Palace one has appeared once in the last few days. I have yet to play any of the night time maps, or any other mode outside of TDM).

Interesting stuff.

By the way I saw en-passant that they have disabled night time maps before launch

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/call-…g/1100-6470866/

not sure if they ever returned in the playlist as stated there.

What strikes me, from what you saying, is that they offer a very weird experience in terms of map rotation. Are maps voted? It just sounds broken or the way you’d expect servers to work on a P2P hosted system

a bit surprised this non-checking common lurk corners still happens in pro matches. Anyway USP one-taps ?

I followed the marketing since announcement, the first trailer looked solid to me right away

basically a revenge the show with heaps of dark humor

just watched the season 1 finale and I can only recommend, this serie will go unnoticed being on Prime, but totally worth it! The different take on super heroes is great to see.

There’s a post-credit/tease for season 2

And theories

Many peeps and pros are saying the MP maps of the new game suck. Thought would be interesting hear what designers think

i didn’t finish watching the video they reference, when that one came out, it was pretty boring as design videos go. Didn’t offer the usual walkthrough of maps I enjoy watching to keep up on the latest COD offering.

Rosik ??

Uh oh, can I get my Titanfall 2 on Steam now?! ?

Quote from Beck

8 minutes ago, Beck said: The timing of the announcement is quite surprising. You'd think they'd wait until after the PS4 release so everyone rushes to buy PS4's and the game before announcing the PC version. I'm probably going to wait for the PC version now since I don't have a PS4 Pro.

Is it looking like it will have perf problems on normal PS4?

I used to really like cobble across different iterations. In casual was fine. It left or was perma banned in pro rotation when I started following the pro tournaments.

I do like the changes seen there judging by what you posted.

Then I can agree with Vaya about making core changes to Cobble… just as well as other maps like D2. They’ve been around for so long it’s just boring to see them, I’ve played D2 a handful since was remastered.

Im really curious to find out if Valve has been working on rebuilding Cobble for competitive, given they did some radical changes last time.

Death Stranding is coming to PC as well

since this was retweeted by Remedy, complimenting their publisher 505, have the feeling this will end up Epic Store exclusive

@FMPONE?

Quote from Zarsky

7 hours ago, Zarsky said: Yeah sure. But Ubi decided to delay 3 games at once.

Good to see that all these projects recieve the additional time to make them great. Happy to see that long term brand quality is prioritised.

Sometimes I wonder if that’s actually the truth, or if behind the quality of the game, or quality of life of the devs, they are mostly thinking that the game will do better in a different window. That maybe they don’t need the release when announced, because other games are doing alright. Maybe they just need the announcement to drive the stock up… and the quality is a byproduct.

Quote from H1PP0P0T4MU5

On 10/18/2019 at 12:11 PM, H1PP0P0T4MU5 said: Would there still be time to start a map from scratch.

I lost my map files somehow, and dont really have anything right now.

Would there be any point of starting to make a map this late into this competition? (Detailing in this short time will be hard).

There’s 4 months still! I don’t see why not. If you have started a map you must remember the layout so will be queasy and quick to create it.

The problem might be the detailing, but if the layout is tested then it’s just work and so it all hinges on your patience and proficiency. But having worked in the past months you know where you are headed.

You could always fall back to default assets or find royalty free ones or even license something that you only need to convert to the right format… there are so many ready-made kits on the different 3D marketplaces that would allow to keep your style consistent. I’m no artist and we are talking about stuff made by professionals, so I wouldn’t hesitate one minute to buy something like that, considering how much longer it would take me to get to produce that amount of assets (to a much lower quality).

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