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Subject: Invasion: ODST development thread (live streaming!)

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Posted by: Wumpa Warrior

Posted by: Gyarados121996
Except RL is better.

I don't see reason to have either. Especially in the closer quarters of an ODST style map.


The Fuel Rod was for the Scorpion Tank, but you're right that it's too powerful for the map. The tank already is an EMP waiting to happen.

So FRG is a no go.


Posted by: Mr Extremer22
What's up with the guy on your right named "A Talking Sheep"?


My brother's GT

[Edited on 01.18.2012 6:26 PM PST]

  • 01.18.2012 6:24 PM PDT

I want my elephant back.
Give it to me now!
(Please?)

Me.

lol


Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat
Posted by: Mr Extremer22
What's up with the guy on your right named "A Talking Sheep"?


My brother's GT


I see. I'm watching right now, and don't have an account.

Seems interesting and has a bit better quality than most streamings.

Mai god, it has changed.

  • 01.18.2012 6:28 PM PDT

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Posted by: Mr Extremer22
Mai god, it has changed.


Lots has and will continue to change. I gotta work on a more budget friendly design because this one used up half of the walls in Phase 1. That's not good at all.

  • 01.18.2012 6:30 PM PDT

I want my elephant back.
Give it to me now!
(Please?)

Me.

lol


Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat

Posted by: Mr Extremer22
Mai god, it has changed.


Lots has and will continue to change. I gotta work on a more budget friendly design because this one used up half of the walls in Phase 1. That's not good at all.


Yeah, I get your vibe.

And ROBOT ARMS FTW! TELL IT TO THE WORLD!

  • 01.18.2012 6:31 PM PDT

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Posted by: Mr Extremer22

Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat

Posted by: Mr Extremer22
Mai god, it has changed.


Lots has and will continue to change. I gotta work on a more budget friendly design because this one used up half of the walls in Phase 1. That's not good at all.


Yeah, I get your vibe.

And ROBOT ARMS FTW! TELL IT TO THE WORLD!


<3 robot arm

See the grid? To the right of it is phase 1. WAY TOO MANY WALLS USED!!!

I have to downsize it.

  • 01.18.2012 6:32 PM PDT

I want my elephant back.
Give it to me now!
(Please?)

Me.

lol


Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat

Posted by: Mr Extremer22

Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat

Posted by: Mr Extremer22
Mai god, it has changed.


Lots has and will continue to change. I gotta work on a more budget friendly design because this one used up half of the walls in Phase 1. That's not good at all.


Yeah, I get your vibe.

And ROBOT ARMS FTW! TELL IT TO THE WORLD!


<3 robot arm

See the grid? To the right of it is phase 1. WAY TOO MANY WALLS USED!!!

I have to downsize it.

I know.

And also, this is outside the force barrier? IT won't make it into Matchmaking if it is.

  • 01.18.2012 6:34 PM PDT

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Posted by: Mr Extremer22

Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat

Posted by: Mr Extremer22

Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat

Posted by: Mr Extremer22
Mai god, it has changed.


Lots has and will continue to change. I gotta work on a more budget friendly design because this one used up half of the walls in Phase 1. That's not good at all.


Yeah, I get your vibe.

And ROBOT ARMS FTW! TELL IT TO THE WORLD!


<3 robot arm

See the grid? To the right of it is phase 1. WAY TOO MANY WALLS USED!!!

I have to downsize it.

I know.

And also, this is outside the force barrier? IT won't make it into Matchmaking if it is.


Think Twice is built in the skybox and it's in matchmaking.

As long as the map isn't modded.

  • 01.18.2012 6:37 PM PDT

I like how it looks right now. Is there a chance this could be a final design?

  • 01.18.2012 7:51 PM PDT

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Posted by: Wumpa Warrior
I like how it looks right now. Is there a chance this could be a final design?


I love how it looks right now. Just wish it was more budget friendly.

I gonna keep trying but IDK if I'll be able to keep this section I've built. I keep watching the wall limit and being down in the 20s is bad when half the map isn't even done yet.

  • 01.18.2012 7:54 PM PDT

Yeah, also, will any FX be present on the map?

  • 01.18.2012 7:56 PM PDT

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Posted by: Wumpa Warrior
Yeah, also, will any FX be present on the map?


Nah it's just budget busting at that point. No FX or Lights.

  • 01.18.2012 7:58 PM PDT


Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat

Posted by: Wumpa Warrior
Yeah, also, will any FX be present on the map?


Nah it's just budget busting at that point. No FX or Lights.

I figured.. Also, lost platoon is my idea! I've had a lost platoon map in the works for awhile :)

  • 01.18.2012 8:01 PM PDT

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Posted by: Wumpa Warrior

Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat

Posted by: Wumpa Warrior
Yeah, also, will any FX be present on the map?


Nah it's just budget busting at that point. No FX or Lights.

I figured.. Also, lost platoon is my idea! I've had a lost platoon map in the works for awhile :)


Would be interesting to see a map with lost platoons dynamic.

I think I'm going to have to keep this area I've built as a concept. I'll definitely spotlight it in the ViDoc, but IDK if this design is going to be used. Too much budget on Phase 1 =/

  • 01.18.2012 8:10 PM PDT

Yeah.. Worst part about invasion maps is that if you start out with too much budget usage in P1, you have to scrap it. I've moved on to BTB maps. I still develop concepts for invasion when bored, but I can't ever finish one with the budget ://

  • 01.18.2012 8:14 PM PDT

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Posted by: Wumpa Warrior
Yeah.. Worst part about invasion maps is that if you start out with too much budget usage in P1, you have to scrap it. I've moved on to BTB maps. I still develop concepts for invasion when bored, but I can't ever finish one with the budget ://


Welcome to the club. It's very difficult. I hate seeing the wall limit drop under 30 during the first phase.

I'm gonna keep drafting up designs to see if I can at least keep this section of the map. Perhaps I simply need to tone down my ambitions. But if I do so I increase the risk of one team spawn killing the other =/

[Edited on 01.18.2012 8:16 PM PST]

  • 01.18.2012 8:15 PM PDT


Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat

I would trade every single incline for just 25 extra wall coliseums..

  • 01.18.2012 8:58 PM PDT

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Posted by: Wumpa Warrior

Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat

I would trade every single incline for just 25 extra wall coliseums..


I've grown to like the inclines. I've built some rather interesting buildings with them.

With that said, I'd give 'em up for more walls as well. Hell, I wouldn't mind the resolution of all the pieces being downgraded if it meant 100 walls. 50 just simply isn't going to build the ODST map no matter what I try. Unless I somehow incorporate the quarry or some other terrain into the map.

  • 01.18.2012 10:24 PM PDT

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UPDATE:

This was originally part of the design but I'm afraid it's going to have to be cut. The blueprint it was linked to unfortunately used up a significant portion of the budget in just the phase 1 area.

As I'm sure you are aware, designing the blueprint is the most difficult part of making the map. Things get scrapped all the time because they aren't budget-friendly. There were many more awesome replicas like the linked one above, but it looks like more simpler designs are going to need to be developed in order to make things work.

So as much as I'd love to keep this, it pains me to say (for the upteenth time) back to the drawing board. I cannot simply recreate ODST spaces, but rather I have to develop my own to serve their own unique purpose. With that said, the gate that you see in that image will be the link between phase 1 and phase 2/3. That aesthetic still remains :)


Stream will resume later today. I'll update the thread with a time once I have one. Also, if you've been keeping tabs on me like a vulture waiting for prey, know that I extended the deadline because I've had several real life events interrupt my design period. Rest assured, the map is and will continue to be worked on.


  • 01.19.2012 12:22 PM PDT
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Banned just for calling someone retarded? lolBnet mods
Duardo = retard

So you think Reach is an actual Halo game, huh? LOL
Jesus! There's a BoB in ma Falcon!

I can haz?

  • 01.19.2012 12:25 PM PDT

Just curious, but what would you do if there was a terrain editor? I'm guessing you would approve.

  • 01.19.2012 7:18 PM PDT

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Posted by: Wumpa Warrior
Just curious, but what would you do if there was a terrain editor? I'm guessing you would approve.


I'd have been done last year. Right now my biggest problem is scaling down my ambitions to a budget-friendly layout. That wouldn't be an issue if I could edit the whole damn environment.

  • 01.19.2012 7:19 PM PDT

I'm going to invade your heart like a barn swallow high on milk chocolate and grandma love.

Fairness is only possible within the limited powers of man. Elsewhere, there is only chance.

Thus I refute thee.

Good luck then Goat.

I'll be sending you a friend request as well, I hope to test the map for you when you deem it ready.

  • 01.19.2012 7:19 PM PDT

Haha, yeah.. The more and more I design, I'm beginning to realize that if one wants to build a map from scratch, it almost has to be a city/urban environment, because it's difficult to make a simulated terrain from forge pieces. Idk, I was playing Battle for Middle Earth II Worldbuilder yesterday, and it was soooooo much easier.

  • 01.19.2012 7:23 PM PDT

I'm going to invade your heart like a barn swallow high on milk chocolate and grandma love.

Fairness is only possible within the limited powers of man. Elsewhere, there is only chance.

Thus I refute thee.

Omg I love BFME2. But my laptop runs so slowly with Worldbuilder, I never could build a [good] map.

  • 01.19.2012 7:26 PM PDT


Posted by: ElementalRunner
Omg I love BFME2. But my laptop runs so slowly with Worldbuilder, I never could build a [good] map.

I have actually done a few concepts just in worldbuilder, it makes me sad that the terrain editing can't transfer over :(

  • 01.19.2012 7:28 PM PDT