| Re: Anyone remember me? I worked on Renegade and SS at Westwood... [message #326498 is a reply to message #325506] |
Wed, 16 April 2008 19:42   |
LordMot
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KingZeus!
I was hoping to dig up some of the SS folks!
Would love to have you and your people involved in Army of Earth, if you have any time and inclination. The game is in the very early Beta stages but I expect to put out a new version in the next 24 hours. 0.517 will be a good improvement on the first Beta release - with great help from the existing testers, a bunch of whom came from this forum.
I'll follow up when 0.517 is out.
Cheers!
LM / CodeMonkey / Tom
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| Re: Anyone remember me? I worked on Renegade and SS at Westwood... [message #339922 is a reply to message #325506] |
Wed, 09 July 2008 07:27 |
KIRBY-098
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I downloaded it and played for a bit, but to be honest I found it a bit boring.
The bots need to be more aggressive in taking humans down, and I may have missed it, but there needs to be an upgrade system for heavier weapons.
I found it quite frustrating to go three miles, get to the base and ping away without any help and have the lasers shoot all the projectiles down. Also: If I hold the mouse left click down I want it to rapid fire. I don't want to keep clicking.
I'm sure there are probably all these things in-game but if you're going to design a game for easy pick and play you need to make it easy to understand and learn quickly. I don't want to reassign hotkeys, read readmes or do training.
I want to jump in and play well enough to make a difference and if I can get addicted I will learn the finer feautures later.
There are probably things I never even learned about Ren, but it doesn't matter because it's an intuitive interface.
On the positive side I like the terrain mapping as well as the lighting and coloring and the music was fairly good though limited.
All in all: It's a nice freeware distraction for 1/2 hour but I uninstalled it the same day.
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| Re: Anyone remember me? I worked on Renegade and SS at Westwood... [message #340072 is a reply to message #339922] |
Thu, 10 July 2008 02:19 |
LordMot
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Thanks Kirby for the feedback. A few notes:
- Bot toughness varies from server to server as well as the number of bots.
- unit upgrades and new weapons are coming but not yet implemented.
- I agree that there is a problem for new users: difficult to get past lasers and cannons to destroy buildings. I will have to figure out some way that new users can get into the beginner server and accomplish something without being trained by a helpful player.
- The music is live streamed and configurable. I haven't provided any alternative choices yet.
Did you play 0.520 or 0.521? 0.521 has swarming bot AI and a co-op mode.
Cheers,
LM
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