Special Edition Public Test Update - Page 3

Warborn · 2004-09-09, 08:31 AM

Different bases have different layouts. The way it was positioned at Cetan was good. Lot's of room and so forth. I didn't check any other bases but I imagine they'll put it wherever there is room for it.

And I'm not overreacting. I'm just telling you that you're complaining about nothing. You saw it for a very brief period of time and already it "looks weird" and there's "no room" with it in there. Just give it a chance before you start listing off ways that it sucks.

ChemicalHex · 2004-09-09, 09:51 AM

Errr, is there any way somebody can post that movie on planetsidemovies.com? I, ah, can't see it at work...

EDIT: Gah, nevermind, by the time it appears on planetsidemovies I'll have watched it at home.

hazzer2007 · 2004-09-09, 01:45 PM

Looks great, but too me, it looked as if alot of people were attacking that TR BFR, but it kept going longer than i throught, must have alot of armour

Any pics of the event?

Warborn · 2004-09-09, 03:38 PM

Originally Posted by hazzer2007

Looks great, but too me, it looked as if alot of people were attacking that TR BFR, but it kept going longer than i throught, must have alot of armour

The SOE guys were recharging the armor on the BFRs quite a bit. I'd always see the health bar on the colossus go down, then lower, almost dead, then poof, back to full. They can normally take a fair bit of punishment anyway though.

Cauldron Borne · 2004-09-09, 08:44 PM

One of the devs let us just sit there and pound away on a VS BFR.. it took us about two minutes of non stop pounding from 40+ people to kill it. If that ain't tuough, i don't know what is.

Hoza · 2004-09-10, 05:15 AM

Wasn't the change to allow them to make bases easier to redesign due around the end of September? Maybe that's been rolled in with the BFR's so we get a slightly different base layout and the Shed's won't be in the way quite so much?

Lartnev · 2004-09-10, 05:53 AM

Nah, it's after BFRs afaik.

Warborn · 2004-09-10, 05:57 AM

Originally Posted by Hoza

Wasn't the change to allow them to make bases easier to redesign due around the end of September? Maybe that's been rolled in with the BFR's so we get a slightly different base layout and the Shed's won't be in the way quite so much?

We'd have heard about it by now if a redesign were planned in the short term. We know they want to do it, of course, but it's not an imminent change.

Hoza · 2004-09-10, 06:03 AM

Sorry I meant the coding change that allows them to make the changes easily, not the whole base redesign. I was just thinking that perhaps they would be keeping the physical base lay out internally, while they work on new designs, but might be able to extend the CY wall 10 or 20 metres so the Sheds could fit properly.

But thinking about it and as you say this would probably have been mentioned in a Dev letter / work in progress.

Warborn · 2004-09-10, 07:11 AM

The sheds aren't actually that big. The BFRs themselves aren't huge to begin with. I remember reading somewhere that the BFRs were 10 or 20 meters. Well, they're not. They're more like 20 feet tall. The aphelion is probably the tallest, and it can fit under the existing gates, though just barely.

Lartnev · 2004-09-10, 09:21 AM

They are 20 feet tall and were always announced as being so. Some idiot probably thought feet = metres or something

Piuslxix · 2004-09-10, 02:01 PM

Just like the mars probe...

Warborn · 2004-09-10, 03:54 PM

Originally Posted by Lartnev

They are 20 feet tall and were always announced as being so. Some idiot probably thought feet = metres or something

I think it was the magazine that ran the preview which said that they were 20 meters tall.

YEAH THAT'S RIGHT STOP GIVING ME THAT LOOK JERK

Lartnev · 2004-09-10, 03:56 PM

PC Zone had 20 feet, so it musta been CGW

TotalFusionOne · 2004-09-10, 05:53 PM

Awesome video.. Too bad I have to watch it with the sound off 'cause of that damn song.