100LBSofDogmeat said:
Its at the Guardian of Forever special encounter.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_2_special_encounters#A_Guardian_Portal
Tim Cain interview on Matt Chat, part 3
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Its at the Guardian of Forever special encounter.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_2_special_encounters#A_Guardian_Portal
I kind of expected them to do a different MMORPG than the standart ones. And no wonder if they do it like a good RPG. Especially if they do that unique character thing.
By the way, I wonder how are they going to do PvP? Because PvP should be complicated. I mean, someone who plays the game from a week shouldn't be as good as someone who plays it from 6 months. This was nicely done in WoW, where you had more than 15-20 skills, or not that much, but had to circle your opponent constantly, also you had to use the appropriate skill at the appropriate moment. One really good player could beat two really bad players.
Well, in order to introduce PvP, they would have to introduce some sucky features (how could they otherwise create at least 30 different skills for use in combat - not learnable by a single character, obviously), but they can go for faster combat, this would require less skills. Right now, I can think only of stimpaks and aiming to different parts of the body. If they add certain "special moves" with cooldown, the cooldown wouldn't make sense, but I won't mind anyway.
By the way, I wonder how are they going to do PvP? Because PvP should be complicated. I mean, someone who plays the game from a week shouldn't be as good as someone who plays it from 6 months. This was nicely done in WoW, where you had more than 15-20 skills, or not that much, but had to circle your opponent constantly, also you had to use the appropriate skill at the appropriate moment. One really good player could beat two really bad players.
Well, in order to introduce PvP, they would have to introduce some sucky features (how could they otherwise create at least 30 different skills for use in combat - not learnable by a single character, obviously), but they can go for faster combat, this would require less skills. Right now, I can think only of stimpaks and aiming to different parts of the body. If they add certain "special moves" with cooldown, the cooldown wouldn't make sense, but I won't mind anyway.
100LBSofDogmeat
It Wandered In From the Wastes
dustin542 said:
holy son of a cracker! in all my years playing Fallout 2 i have never seen this.... looks like it's time for round 32934723.
PaladinHeart
Mildly Dipped
Well that explains why I never found the solar scorcher. This is probably one of the rarer special encounters in Fallout 2. I played through several times and had many special random encounters, but never this one.
bonustime
First time out of the vault
The MMO Tim Cain is working on is not Interplay's Fallout MMO. There is not much detail on it but it is set in a setting that they have described as a mixture of sci-fi and fantasy. Already there is evidence of there being aliens and such in it.Blackened said:
That said I wouldn't be surprised if in Tim Cain's MMO there ends up being non-combat PvP as well.
Wretched Flamingo
Sofa King
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Hey, Cain is working on a game. So? It's not Fallout, it's not even oriented with a Fallout game.
Hey, Cain is working on a game. So? It's not Fallout, it's not even oriented with a Fallout game.
Cimmerian Nights
So Old I'm Losing Radiation Signs
Wow, a real live Jets fan on NMA. I'm going to enjoy tormenting you unmercifully.
UniversalWolf
eaten by a grue.
Arcanum combined with Jagged Alliance 2 combat...
Sorry, I drifted off wistfully there for a moment.
Sorry, I drifted off wistfully there for a moment.
Cimmerian Nights
So Old I'm Losing Radiation Signs
Fallout or Arcanum with JA2 or even TOEE combat would be like digital cocaine.
You can't help but play Fallout and JA2 and want to see the two merged into a 2 headed tactical/role-playing beast. They'd complement each other hand-in-glove. They even look the same and play very similarly at points.
I really hate playing the 'what if' game with Troika. I always get the feeling that we are the fucked-up, backwards, bizarro alternate universe to a normal world with a robust RPG industry, where Troika still exists, Warren Spector still has it, and Herve Caen is in jail. And the normal versions of ourselves sit around and joke "Hey imagine the fucking travesty if Todd Howard got his hands on the FO license." "Ahh, fuck off, it'd never happen."
You can't help but play Fallout and JA2 and want to see the two merged into a 2 headed tactical/role-playing beast. They'd complement each other hand-in-glove. They even look the same and play very similarly at points.
I really hate playing the 'what if' game with Troika. I always get the feeling that we are the fucked-up, backwards, bizarro alternate universe to a normal world with a robust RPG industry, where Troika still exists, Warren Spector still has it, and Herve Caen is in jail. And the normal versions of ourselves sit around and joke "Hey imagine the fucking travesty if Todd Howard got his hands on the FO license." "Ahh, fuck off, it'd never happen."
Another interesting interview.
I think he has harsher opinions of Fallout 3 than he's letting on but hey, you don't shit where you eat.
I wish that I had any sort of interest in MMO's becuase a Tim Cain one would probably be rather good, especially with the ammount of time that he's putting. I don't have the time or the inclination however.
Hmm, this has made me want to fire up Arcanum again. It's been years and I imagine that there's a ton of mods for it!
I think he has harsher opinions of Fallout 3 than he's letting on but hey, you don't shit where you eat.
I wish that I had any sort of interest in MMO's becuase a Tim Cain one would probably be rather good, especially with the ammount of time that he's putting. I don't have the time or the inclination however.
Hmm, this has made me want to fire up Arcanum again. It's been years and I imagine that there's a ton of mods for it!