Supreme Cmdr

They canned it

quote: Originally posted by Remo Williams: What was it you were going to say about those posts Wolferz you forgot to include your comment. Yeah, he has a habit of posting incorrectly formatted posts and then not correcting them. With the new forum software, I'm not sure that he can edit it after some period anyway. Wolf, edit that damn post!

quote: Originally posted by Zorro67: So does this mean you've made up your mind & won't be releasing the MP component for BCM? No, I have not made up my mind. The poll doesn't end until 01/15 and I will make a decision thereafter. What I meant by I will not change my stance above, is in regard to my decision to not release a free mp component for BCM if in the end I choose to do so

quote: Originally posted by Duncan Idaho: Woo... Been away for a bit, just noticed the infamous Sygan Triangle's been fixed. The mystery was fun while it lasted. Now I'll have to load up and go try to find the ships I lost there. Good work, SC. Idaho Hey where've you been?!?! You missed out on a lot of fun.....and as usual, controversy Yeah, that Sygan Triangle problem was a real problem. It was as difficult to reproduce reliably as it was to fix. Had to implement a whole new camera system (from BCG) to solve it.

New trailer is up. Whoa!!!!

30 m/s = 67.1 mph

quote: Originally posted by Wolferz: will ther be an animation for that finger thing? Yes. It will be a new gesture in BCG In fact BCM has several mp gesturing animations. See for example the character .INI files in the modelsanimate folder to see the list. quote: Originally posted by Serondal: How large is the sphere of protection? Not sure yet, but it would be large enough to cover the entire MFB as well as leave area around it for units (personnel or whatever) that happen to be outside on the terrain. So, imagine being chased by a bunch of hostile goons and you're hightailing it back to the MFB. All you'd need to do is enter its ADS area of protection and you'll be safe. quote: Can you shoot out of it from inside?No. Except from that ramp portion you see. Entering the MFB is the same as entering a station/base (ALT+D to dock). There is no fp view because no internal levels are supported in BCG. [ 01-10-2003, 04:50 PM: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

There was a discussion over in this other thread about the MFB. Here is it from concept to completion and in-game integration. I will release some higher res shots next week when Jason completes the Intruder gunship. The MFB is mobile (as you might have gathered) and can be driven and parked anywhere - including under water. It serves the same function as a regular station or base in that it has cargo space, units, repair, rearm, medical facilities (like the supply stations) etc. It has a built-in regenerating Area Defense Shield (ADS) which protects anything within its sphere of protection (when activated). This means that you can pretty much be within the sphere (will post shots when the fx are implemented) and give the hostiles standing outside it (and probably firing at you) the finger. .....until they breach it. hehe Only shuttles and the Marauder gunship can tow it It cannot be stored in the cargo hold because its too big, measuring 15.0m H x 23.16m W x 55.71m L And to prevent that problem of crazy gamers grabbing this baby and running all over the planet with it, each side only has one - and you can't drive it unless you have the prrequisite rank (from EPs and kills). I suspect that you'd be playing on a server for about an hour or so before you even come close to gaining enough rank (via EPs and kills) to drive it. This means that whereever I place it on the map, is where its likely to remain for sometime. Of course devs/testers with proper server access can override this and take control of it. So, gamers are going to have to defend it even thought its twin turret guns and missile launchers are AI controlled. It has no shield (except for the ADS which does the same thing I guess), only 15000 units of armor protection and goes at a slow pace of 30 mps with a PRY rating of 1,1,25 deg/sec This unit does NOT rebuild. So, lose it and you'll have to wait until an engineer (personnel or marine) player repairs it. Oh? there are no engineers on the server? Well then, I guess someone is going to be committing suicide and respawn as an engineer class then. MFB 1 MFB 2 MFB 3 MFB 4 MFB 5 MFB 6 MFB 7 MFB 8 MFB 9

quote: Originally posted by ToxicFrog: But...has the hyperdrive been modified? The hyper transit time for the Firestorm appears to have been increased to 180s, and rather than hyping to 999999... m/s it accelerates smoothly until the midpoint, at which point it decelerates at the same rate. Did you see any such entry in the VCF?

quote: Originally posted by Fractux: However, my question is, how do you compensate BCM buyers who don't see things in the same light and feel that they were "cheated" into buying BCM, being promised multiplayer. I suppose my only question is how you will deal with that? They weren't cheated into buying anything. BCM shipped without multiplayer. Like any other feature that got cut (and some later implemented via patches), it was just another one. If the $10 rebate that Dreamcatcher has generously offered is not good enough for them and they don't believe that all the FREE updates (apart from bug fixes) that have gone into BCM is not worth $19.99, then thats their problem. Not mine. The box and the game EULA are quite clear in this regard and I think my first post in this thread is quite clear too. Why then do I find myself repeating this again? My stance is NEVER going to change, no matter how many variations of the question are posed to me. I didn't release mp into BCM because it wasn't ready nor good enough for what I had planned. Even though BCM internally was designed from the ground up for multiplayer it is a huge game and being my first foray into multiplayer, I didn't like the results. I changed my design and ideas in order to focus on a common solution across my products. This was a design and development decision and I really don't care about what anyone thinks. And even if I had released a Beta of mp in BCM, that would have just caused more harm than good. Lets put it this way, even if BCM Gold was not being released, I would still not have considered releasing BCM multiplayer before BCG is released. And even if I did, it would have been in the BCG demo (which will support multiplayer). The mp in BCM was tagged as a freebie. I have the right to rescind that offer as long as what is in the box and what you paid for is what I delivered. I am under no obligation to abide by anyone's wishes. I don't see anyone *****ing about all the free features that have gone into BCM since it was released in Nov 2001. You can't have it both ways. I made a decision and I'm going to stick to it because I know that it was the right decision to make.

hehe, its getting there - and mp is gonna rock

quote: Originally posted by TheBunny: I was watching G4 today on TV and during the show Filter, they were disgussing the game Robo something Battlecry. And anyway when you see the first person who starts talking he is in an EB store. You look all the way on the left of the screen, you can see a whole bunch of BCM games on the shelf. I think it is really cool that I saw this. I normally dont realize things like that. Anyone else see it? hehe, I'm not surprised (at the units on the shelves), I was just talking to my EB rep about sales the other day and BCM is selling strong and in fact, EB will run out of units later this month I think and that will be the end of the first gen BCM release (since no more will be manufactured).

quote: Originally posted by StarRider: The only other game I am interested in is Eve, but I will believe it when I see it. Freelancer is a joke, they have lost me. I do like to play XTension occasionally, so I may spring for X - The Threat. Has anybody heard anything about Elite 4? uhm, try to stay on topic. This is not the thread to be discussing other space sims.

quote: Originally posted by ToxicFrog: and hex editing the save files broke them - probably a checksum failure or something of the kind. heh, they're MD5 encrypted

quote: Originally posted by Kalshion: Is it a glich? or did you design it that way so that the darn thing didn't cause a hull rupture No, its not a glitch

Deleted Please read my post above and comply accordingly or I will simply delete the thread and forget about it. When I ask for steps, thats exactly what I need, exact steps and that includes jump target, waypoint target etc etc.

btw, the 3DGamer's server has been refreshed with the new patch refresh, even though it still shows yesterday's date on the server page. I've asked them to update the date on the page to today's date.

quote: Originally posted by Wolferz: quote:Originally posted by Kalshion: Ahh ok for a second there I thought I was stuck in some bug.. but SC.. I got there when I collided with the Floating Supply Base *I call it that* the thing that marines go to, to rearm and repair and medical stuff.. So why is it when I collided with that I was sent into Nullspace? bounced off it most like ly Yep. Considering how fast he seemed to have been going

quote: Originally posted by ToxicFrog: "Why is it that a Hyperdyne can aquire a target at 85km while a Starchild needs to be within 55km, despite the fact that the Starchild (presumably) has fewer things to interfere with it (atmosphere, gravity)?" Because a Hyperdyne is an ATS weapon with a better guidance model than the Starchild.

quote: Originally posted by T-WOPR: I'd never actually been directly attacked by a marine before. hehe, then you should really try that stunt in a military base.

Its perfectly legal and its happening because you are trying to use the same system to do two different things - and one is taking precedence. Post the exact steps (no, what you posted above doesn't even compare to what I need) to reproduce this reliably and I'll see if there is a way to prevent you folks from doing such silly things.

Well there goes the neighborhood! Anyone remember the days when you could buy a vinyl album and make a cassette tape to play in your car, steroe etc without fear of the death penalty?

The newly re-designed Dreamcatcher website now has both BC titles. Here is BCG and BCM Gold Pretty cool, huh?

Yep, confirmed bug

quote: Originally posted by IceCold: You have reached the limit of the scripted sector as a result of some game malfunction. To return to the sector you left-enter the flux feild labled "real space" Wrong Nullspace is a perfectly normal place to be. In fact, it works like hyperspace. You only end up in this region of space if you go outside the boundaries of the space region. You can stay in there for as long as you like and can leave whenever you feel like. To enter nullspace, you simply have to fly off any edge of the region i.e. go to tacops and set a wp at the extents of the grid, fly to that waypoint and keep going straight. Since the world is true 3D, you can fly off the edge in any dimension in XYZ space.