man, in this video game where i play a supersoldier using retro-rockets to curbstomp other supersoldiers in a giant multicolored toybox-esque arena as my teammates prattle on regarding which irrelevant weapons they've picked up, the visual acuity of player alignment just takes me out of it
The lack of likes on this post leads me to believe that either you people have never had the pleasure or reading Time Knife or you have forgotten how amazing it is. To correct this travisty I have included a couple links below. Act 1 Spoiler FROM: BRUCE LIVINGSTONE TO: SOFIA AMARAL DATE: MAY 4, 2016 – 11:35am SUBJECT: MY SCREENPLAY Hey Dr. Amaral, We haven't talked too much but I'm one of Serene's guys from Reaper Squad. Working around all this time tech stuff (or chronon tech you call it I guess?) got me real inspired so I started writing a screenplay. There's a lot of science talk in here so I want a scientist to check it and make sure it kind of makes sense. Would you mind taking a look? Thanks! Here is the first half: TIME KNIFE Written By Bruce Livingstone ACT ONE INT. OFFICE – NIGHT BRUCE SAVAGE stands in his office. He is sexually attractive. Somebody knocks on Bruce's door and he opens it. It's a SCIENTIST LADY. She looks like a librarian with glasses but she is actually a scientist. You can tell because she has a lab coat. LADY SCIENTIST: Help Me. BRUCE: Okay. LADY SCIENTIST: Take this knife because some bad apples are trying to steal it and it is very important. BRUCE: Okay. LADY SCIENTIST: What is your name handsome? BRUCE: I'm Bruce. Let's shake hands. Bruce and Lady Scientist shake hands. LADY SCIENTIST: Wow. You almost broke my hand with that handshake. You are definitely a tough guy. She is impressed with Bruce's strength. She looks at his large biceps like they are delicious pieces of ham but she doesn't want to eat them. LADY SCIENTIST: Here is the knife. The Lady Scientist hands Bruce the knife. It looks mostly like a knife but also like a time machine because it is both a knife and a time machine but Bruce doesn't know that yet. GOONS break through the windows and shoot the scientist lady. She dies. SCIENTIST LADY: Avenge me. BRUCE: Okay. Bruce kills the goons with his legs by doing lots of kicking at them. They are dead real quick. BRUCE: Looks like I got a LEG UP on you guys. The audience probably laughs here so Bruce waits to deliver his next line for around five seconds so that everybody has calmed down. BRUCE: What is so special about this knife? Bruce stabs the knife into his chair. The chair disappears. BRUCE: The chair disappeared. He looks at a picture on his wall which is a big photograph from 1932 with lots of people from 1932 in it. Bruce's chair is in the picture. BRUCE: Interesting. My chair traveled back in time to 1932 when I stabbed it. When I stab things they travel through time. That explains why this knife looks like a knife but also like a time machine, because it is both. Bruce's real goofy friend from across the hall runs into the room. He trips on something on the floor. His name is SLOBBO. He isn't as fat as his name sounds. SLOBBO: Awwww yyyeah! That is Slobo's catch phrase and he says it in a real funny way. SCIENTIST LADY: Bruce, you saved my life. The Scientist Lady was only faking being dead. SCIENTIST LADY: Are you married? BRUCE: Only to my job. SCIENTIST LADY: I find that attractive but also respectable. She kisses Bruce's cheek. SLOBBO: What about MY cheek? Awwww maaaan. That is Slobo's other catch phrase, which he says in a different but equally funny way. Bruce waits a few seconds for the audience to stop laughing before speaking. BRUCE: Wait. Those lips were man lips not woman lips. Bruce pulls off the Scientist Lady's wig. She is actually Bruce's boss, PAUL MARINE. Paul Marine is a douche. BRUCE: My boss. But why? PAUL MARINE: I wanted you to kill those guys because they wanted me dead. I knew you were real tough so you could kill them easy but I don't respect you as an employee so I always make you do the shitty jobs even though you've been working at my company more than most of the other guys and are real smart. Also I don't like you because my girlfriend finds you sexually attractive. BRUCE: Now I understand. PAUL MARINE: Give me my time knife back. Paul Marine snaps his fingers and seventy-three goons surround Bruce. PAUL MARINE: You can't kill seventy-three goons so just give up. BRUCE: I don't have TIME for this. Bruce stabs himself with the time knife and disappears. SLOBBO: He time traveled using the time knife. Bruce opens the door. Now he is twice as jacked. PAUL MARINE: You're even more sexually attractive. How is this possible? BRUCE: I stabbed myself and traveled back to the past, then trained in all kinds of martial arts to become even stronger. I also strapped explosives into everybody's boots in the past so that when I press this detonator you will all explode. SLOBBO: Awwwww yyyyeah. BRUCE: I'm glad I have stocks in this company. PAUL MARINE: Why? BRUCE: Because business... is booming. Bruce presses the detonator. All seventy-three goons blow up like eggs in a microwave. Paul Marine doesn't explode. PAUL MARINE: Luckily I used my metal detector this morning and found the explosives. So I switched boots with somebody else. Say, Slobbo, whose boots are you wearing? SLOBBO: NOOOOOO!! Slobbo explodes. BRUCE: My best friend. You'll pay for this. PAUL MARINE: You don't want to stab me with that time knife. BRUCE: Why not? PAUL MARINE: Because I am actually you from the future. BRUCE: That doesn't make sense. PAUL MARINE: Yes it does. Remember that the time knife is also a time machine. I am you from the future but I stabbed myself with the time knife in order to come back here and do all of this. BRUCE: But we don't look the same. PAUL MARINE: That is a good point and I am glad you brought it up. First I time travelled 700 years into the future to a time where humans have created advanced technology that allows surgeries that completely change people's faces and bodies. I had this surgery performed so that you wouldn't be able to recognize me, but I am actually you in disguise. I can prove it because I know many things about you. BRUCE: Like what? PAUL MARINE: You have a birth mark on your left ankle. BRUCE: I do have a birth mark on my left ankle. I am starting to believe you now. PAUL MARINE: You should, because even though I have a new body I kept that birth mark on my ankle so that when I met you I could prove that I was actually you from the future. I will show you. Paul lifts up the left leg of his pants but there is no birth mark. Instead there is an ankle holster for a gun. Paul pulls out the gun and aims it at Bruce. PAUL MARINE: I was lying this whole time. I'm not actually you. I was just saying all of that so that I could get my gun. BRUCE: Son of a *****. PAUL MARINE: Also in the future I melted the time knife and turned it into bullets. Those bullets are now in this gun, which means that I can shoot you but also send you through time all at once. Finally you will be out of my way so that I can marry my girlfriend Sofine later today before you are able to tell her that I'm a real shitty guy. BRUCE: I didn't know you were getting married today. PAUL MARINE: I know. My girlfriend Sofine made an invitation for you because she admires you and thinks you're sexually attractive but I destroyed the invitation and then lied to her and said I gave it to you at work. But now I am here to give you a different invitation. To your funeral. Paul Marine shoots at Bruce. Slobbo jumps in front of Bruce. SLOBBO: NOOOOOO!! Slobbo wasn't actually dead. He jumps in front of the bullets and is shot several times. Now he's actually dying. SLOBBO: Avenge me. BRUCE: Okay. Bruce goes to attack Paul Marine, but now Paul Marine has disappeared. BRUCE: He's gone. Slobbo is dying on the ground covered in blood. His body is red like a hotdog covered in lots of ketchup. SLOBBO: You must... stop the wedding. You are... totally a better guy and clearly more attractive than Paul. You should be... dating his girlfriend Sofine. Slobbo dies. Bruce just sits there next to Slobbo for a while because many people will be crying at this point. He eventually gets up. BRUCE: Looks like I'm going to a wedding. After all... He holds out the time knife. BRUCE: Somebody's gotta cut the cake. "Cut the cake" means he's going to kill Paul. The audience will understand because of the way the actor says it. It's a real intense moment. Bruce puts on his shades. END OF ACT ONE For those that hate reading or just prefer to be read to, here is a reading of the whole screenplay by some of the staff. You're welcome
I enjoy environment design due to the accessibility of Forge. Forge is a creative outlet for me at the end of the day; game design doesn't appeal to me enough to the extent that I would pursue it in external software. While that may allow me to more easily reach my vision, the things I appreciate about Forge collaboration and lobbies will be lost. Therefore, I begrudgingly put up with an ugly and boring game.
Anyone a fan of old-school Drive or Die maps? This is Desert Run, a map I've been touching up and getting ready for a proper Maps posting for a while. What do you guys think? Honestly this map has provided some of the most fun and intense infection moments I've ever had in Halo 5. Basically the map is a big open desert with a "safe" outer track featuring several jumps. The middle area is much more open but easier to be swarmed by zombies if you drive through since all zombies spawn facing the center of the map. The design is inspired by the terrain aesthetics of Sandtrap/Sandbox from Halo 3. Bunch of images: Spoiler
I'm hoping when Halo 6 comes out that my good behavior and non-participation in the big debates and insults is remembered when it's time to fly out some forgers to use the new forge system. Just sayin... Cough @WARHOLIC cough
I've decided I'll exclusively work on weapons until I have a functional sandbox. Also, I can't figure out if I want the Stealth Automatic Rifle, Scout Rifle, or Revolver as the starting weapon. The SAR has the quietest sound signature, the Scout Rifle has a 6x scope, and the Revolver can be fan-fired and dual-wielded. Any suggestions?
lol Zombievillan... You guys should be more active in actually creating maps regardless of how the game "plays"... Whether you are making sketches of maps or just block outs. Also there are a lot of other game variants you can build for... You don't like Halo 5 game play movement? Build maps that don't require the ability's and promote those. You can customize the game mechanics practically anyway you want in this game. Don't like Sprint? Remove it... It isn't a game of humans magically jumping around, floating and dashing somehow... It's a made up spartan armor suit that gives the player superhuman ability's... You can build for the extermination game type, classic Halo style play, 1 vs 1's, 2 vs 2's or just make standard 4 vs 4's map block outs to better your map creation ability. To be honest, really good maps stand the test of time in Halo regardless of what extra ability's the player has. You don't like slayer? Try making something out of your comfort zone like infection or race maps, build a king of the hill specific asym balanced map... Lockout can be argued to be a good or bad map, but it's a classic favorite of the Halo Community as the same can be said for Guardian, Midship, Construct, Narrows (for CTF) and The Pit are a few that come to mind. If you were to play King of the Hill or slayer on most of those maps, most people would be happy playing those over and over. Like Given to Fly mentioned in another thread, you don't become a better map designer by copping out and saying the game is bad so I won't make maps for now... You get better by continuously building consistently. Goat also mentioned, it's more of an artistic creative outlet for people, forge because you enjoy it and want to share your creations, not sit on a high horse whining about "it's not a good game" though... You can tailor this game to play any way you want, so start forging and sharing more content whether or not if you like the base movement of the game...
I don't know yet, but most likely 2v2/3v3 tdm. Edit: Do you guys find dual-rendered scopes annoying or nauseating? I don't personally feel that way, but I know people that don't play games that feature it because of said effect on them.
All 2/3 seconds. SAR: -10+1/15 @ 900 rpm -240 m/s muzzle velocity -no hip spread -no alt-fire -42+1 capacity + 3 spare mag max Scout Rifle: -2+1/7 @ 180 rpm -750 m/s muzzle velocity -2° hip spread/ no aim spread -2/6x scope alt-fire -20+1 capacity + 2 spare mag max Revolver: -1+1/3 @ 90 rpm -or- 300 rpm fanned hammer -340 m/s Muzzle Velocity -0.2° hip spread/2° alt-fire -fanned hammer alt-fire -8 capacity + 4 spare mag max
Scout Rifle mostly because I know how strong fanning the hammer is in close range in other titles. Also, I want to point out a lot of people here really like the idea of 3v3 because games like Destiny and some other stuff. I would like to point out these games are class building games or set classes. This works because everyone has a niche to fill. With an arena/sandbox shooter this can lead to problems because roles are less define and it often leads to one player being picked on or it makes it difficult to spread out and have good positional switches. That is why you have seen mostly even count teams in these games because it allows for team work to be promoted more easily because of the basic buddy system. You don't always split into twos but there is usually at least one teammate you can fall back to. Not saying it can't work but I think it is a little tricky to do right. I think the design of the levels is very important and the spaces need to looked at a little bit differently from say a typical 2v2/4v4 map design.
Not that I disagree wth the concept but Destiny is a pretty bad example since a team of 3 of the same class is generally more lethal than 3 different.
Yeah but in Destiny everyone is a god because of all the strong ass **** in the game and class balance seeming to be an afterthought.
Class choice seems negligible in power compared to your base kit in Destiny to me, minus when Sunbreaker first came out. Classes don't seem to need balancing because they're so secondary to straight weapon usage. Idk