First Strike Forums — Speeder Bike Stance.

Re: Speeder Bike Stance.

null@example.com (ArcAngel227) — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:58:59 +0000

WoW?! Ahh! Scary! Make it go away!

Re: Speeder Bike Stance.

null@example.com (Demonic) — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:15:01 +0000

There are certain differences between a stylized (Quite shoddily made in parts) MMO and a FPS mod - the fact its first person is quite a major one (and WoW's 'first person' really isn't the same thing). The other biggy is that an MMO focuses on making the whole world somewhat believable and entertaining - whereas an FPS has only a single map and its contents at any one time.

And WoW is still a minority of gamers in general

Re: Speeder Bike Stance.

null@example.com (BigBadChewy) — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:20:53 +0000

Oh I'm sure they think it, they're just too **** addicted to complain. Sad little people...

Re: Speeder Bike Stance.

null@example.com (3-dee) — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:05:10 +0000

Oh by the way....
Everyone who has seen World of Warcraft, you know the biggest game ever.
In this game u can level ur character up to a maximum of 60 (or 70 in the new burning crusade)!
The higher in level u go, the more things u get. A friend of mine is a level 62 elf warlock and rides about for hours and hours on the back of a large sabre toothed tiger!
NICE!! But what am I rattling on about????

There are NO animations at all from the rider of the Tiger, but only from the tiger itself!
So is it rally that important to make these tiny chnages to the rider of the speeder bikes' position???
In World of Warcraft, about 9 million people who play the game think not!

Re: Speeder Bike Stance.

null@example.com (TY2D2) — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 03:42:27 +0000

yea... or move the view forward so you only see the fingers on them....

Re: Speeder Bike Stance.

null@example.com (BigBadChewy) — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:59:05 +0000

If you can't/don't have the time to do the glove thing, you could push the center of view forward a bit so that it isn't so obvious that there are no arms.

Re: Speeder Bike Stance.

null@example.com (generalandrew) — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:15:36 +0000

For everyone who thinks that this is a final piece of work, just remember that it was a W.I.P. and that things can change, or at least that's what I was told. Anyway, I am also for the idea of generic gloves because I honestly found it a bit surprising with nothing between the view and the handle bars.

But either way, it looks great.

Re: Speeder Bike Stance.

null@example.com (3-dee) — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:54:51 +0000

hey guys nice job with the bike.
I love the 1st person view. I do think also that it would be nice to add some anims to the scout.
Especially some looking around, some bouncing and some lower leg movement, possibly even leaving the saddle!
But I dont think its really that necessary, maybe later on when the build is released u could tweak
some stuff up. I would like to see some more stuff to do with the handling. Such as Air-sliding stops,
a bit like doing a hand break turn and maybe a moment of gravity when going over large hills?

I dont know if it was in that You tube vid as it was a little unclear from the 3rd person view what was goin on. To be honest I am really happy that harry and ryans bike is in and working! It looks great! Good luck and keep it coming.

Re: Speeder Bike Stance.

null@example.com (Bandu) — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:38:05 +0000

The speederbikes in SWBF1 were done pretty well as far as handling was concerned...if a little OTT.
They completely wrecked them in SWBF2.

Re: Speeder Bike Stance.

null@example.com (wingtip) — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:21:53 +0000

or sounds of an actual speeder bike and not the attack aircraft of 2142 lol..but im sure it'll be there in the final version... i'd like to see the rider push his foot forward like in RoJ like he's shifting it into gears but we're nit picking now...i just wanna play the dam thing hahahaha

Re: Speeder Bike Stance.

null@example.com (mechag2) — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:41:49 +0000

THX-1138 wrote:

Gotta say that seeing the guy on the bike move would be nice....
as for the vid released I have nothing but praise. If there's ONE thing I could say I hated the most about SWBF1 It was how bad the speeder bikes were. Especially from 1st person. They tried to give it a sense of speed, but instead blurred the vision so you can't see anything, then made the bike so fast you couldn't control it, then made the physics so bad that hitting a shrub would blow you up. Bikes were instant suicide in that game.
These on the other hand, look freakin' sweet!

So very true. Almost everything in both BF games were half-@ssed. Damn you Pandemic! It's this very type of reason why I wish I knew how to mod.

Re: Speeder Bike Stance.

null@example.com (mechag2) — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:39:23 +0000

Wow. Very impressive test vid, guys. Leaning and working the control handles accordingly would be awesome if possible, but the question I specifically have is... will the 74-Z have a limited flight ceiling (25 meters if I remember correctly) like in the films and is that even possible?

Re: Speeder Bike Stance.

null@example.com (TY2D2) — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:34:58 +0000

Its a placeholder Talon... Just like the map icon is.

Dee Dee DEE.....

Re: Speeder Bike Stance.

null@example.com (Talon1579) — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:39:11 +0000

Sorry to be negative (as always) but I assume you are going to remove the gunship HUD? It looks a little out of place.

Re: Speeder Bike Stance.

null@example.com (MaxMayhem) — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:56:53 +0000

BigBadChewy wrote:

ArcAngel227 wrote:
Though I kinda like the idea of some 'riding gloves' that any rider would 'put on'. I see no reason why they couldn't be 'stored' in the glove compartment on the back.
Good point. Kind of reminds me of the hands in the Forgotten Hope mod when you were flying a plane. They were generic enough to look either Axis or Allies. I'm sure something like that could be implimented.

Agreed, some black/grey gloves could pass for both Rebel and Imperial without the average player noticing anything was a miss. From the cockpit view it looks like hands are pretty much all you would see anyway.

However, personally I've never really been bothered by the lack of visible hands in the BF series. I guess I've just become accustomed to maneuvering things with the power of the mind

Oh and Markus, I'm not sure about all soldiers looking the same inside the buggies

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/7945 … 023du9.jpg

notice the different helmets? I'm not sure if thats to do with the driver postion or different classes though