First Strike Forums — Suggestion for Space Battles

Re: Suggestion for Space Battles

2007-09-08T15:39:07Z

hehehe.... this is gonna be awesome

Re: Suggestion for Space Battles

2007-09-08T14:03:06Z

intresting .....

Re: Suggestion for Space Battles

2007-09-08T10:42:06Z

ShinjiKoon wrote:

i dont care too much about titan mode for space battles, thats battlefront, i just wanna space battles with a ton of ships. since everybody would have to take an ship, imagine a 64 player server, . I just hope there will be destroyers in the near future.

Nearer than you think.

Re: Suggestion for Space Battles

2007-09-08T06:30:38Z

i dont care too much about titan mode for space battles, thats battlefront, i just wanna space battles with a ton of ships. since everybody would have to take an ship, imagine a 64 player server, . I just hope there will be destroyers in the near future.

Re: Suggestion for Space Battles

2007-09-08T01:04:57Z

yeah, there is no teleporting in the bf engine, at best you can make them move at incredible speeds, but if there are any statics in the way say... walls for instance, you would end up going splat.

Re: Suggestion for Space Battles

2007-09-07T17:02:31Z

ages ago maybe like a year and a half when warp was still around we were going to use teleports

Re: Suggestion for Space Battles

2007-09-07T05:43:41Z

Unfortunately teleporting isn't possible in the bf2 engine, woody attempted this some time ago.

Re: Suggestion for Space Battles

2007-09-07T02:06:14Z

Its been considered but not fully tested i dont think

Re: Suggestion for Space Battles

2007-09-07T01:17:42Z

that's the hl2 engine.. it seems that the bf2/2142 engine is like a blind quadraplegic child trying to climb the steps of the eiffel tower... but i don't know enuf about it to say this with any authority.

Suggestion for Space Battles

2007-09-06T21:48:37Z

So, I hear that you don't want to use the "titan" game play style for fear of lag. Sounds fine.
I have a suggestion for fixing that:
In some games, the resources required to draw what you can see would be far too big, so those devs simply shunted it to another place.

Quite simply, why not teleport? For example: In some HL2:DM maps, you walk into a "trigger area" and are teleported with no effects or indication, below the level, into your building of choice. One map brought to mind is dm_twoships. The "below-decks" fighting takes place out of sight (When you "noclip" you can go behind the moon and see the interior of the ships) When you "leave" you are teleported back to the moving ships.

This produces VERY little lag, because most of the action takes place on a stationary part of the map, not the moving ships. Essentially you are fighting on a solid map, not a moving object.

I don't know if the BF2142 engine can do this, but it seemed smart to mention it, just in case.

Post here if you don't get it, I'll try to find some screenshots.