FearMonkey
Vault Senior Citizen
dONALD42 said:
Not to mention repeat play-throughs. :p
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Not to mention repeat play-throughs. :p
AnotherZaphod
First time out of the vault
Tagaziel said:
The dev's mentioned before that there are approximately 15 major zones like the Agricultural centre, Highpool, Damonta etc. Just speculating but each of these could consist of an exterior map, an interior map, an underground map and it would fit the 40-50 number mentioned. In the same post they mention that there will be random encounters while travelling between major zones. There is lots of juicy info in the 'Ask a Dev' threads.
InXile Dev said:
http://wasteland.inxile-entertainment.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=3061
in the end, what really matters is what you can do with those locations. Less is sometimes more here.
Yeh. Hearing "we have 150 locations!" turns me off a little more than "we have 15 locations." Because the first one tells me, that the quality probably won't be very high.
aenemic
Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
Brian Fargo did say in a recent update that the game is huge, probably the biggest rpg he had worked on and that people will likely be surprised by the scope of it. Exactly what he means by this is hard to tell, but judging from this and the talk about the large amounts of conversation I think it's fair to say that there will be a lot to do in the game and it won't be very linear.
Also, 20 hours only for the main storyline is a lot.
Also, 20 hours only for the main storyline is a lot.
it could be even shorter, like 10 hours, I don't care if I am honest, what I care about, is the quality, the impression the story has on me. Even a long story, can feel very rushed for example, because the speed with which the story is advancing feels unnatural for example.
Maybe I am getting old, no clue, but I have the feeling today, that quite often games don't give you time to "breath" anymore, to give you time to actually get sucked in. Its hard to describe what I mean. I mean if one arc of suspense simply follows the other one, then you have the risk to getting burned out, either because its always the same, or similar stuff you experience over and over again (oh the main bad guy escaped AGAIN while leaving you with one of his henchmen to kill ... *yawn*!) then it becomes dull.
The same is true for side quests which feel like they don't fit the game or at least in to the part you are playing at the moment.
If the main quest tries to build some kind of stress or pressure, like giving you the target to save someone from some kind of attack, how much sense does it make then to let the player wander of for 2 weeks in to the wilderness to do something else like collecting ingredients? Games should make a bit more use from limitations, as long they are realistic and fit the setting. For example, if the guy that told you about the attack has the informations that the raiders prepare to attack the position and he believes it might take them 2 or 3 days, and if you are to late with the defences the village is simply destroyed.
Of course that was just only some example.
Maybe I am getting old, no clue, but I have the feeling today, that quite often games don't give you time to "breath" anymore, to give you time to actually get sucked in. Its hard to describe what I mean. I mean if one arc of suspense simply follows the other one, then you have the risk to getting burned out, either because its always the same, or similar stuff you experience over and over again (oh the main bad guy escaped AGAIN while leaving you with one of his henchmen to kill ... *yawn*!) then it becomes dull.
The same is true for side quests which feel like they don't fit the game or at least in to the part you are playing at the moment.
If the main quest tries to build some kind of stress or pressure, like giving you the target to save someone from some kind of attack, how much sense does it make then to let the player wander of for 2 weeks in to the wilderness to do something else like collecting ingredients? Games should make a bit more use from limitations, as long they are realistic and fit the setting. For example, if the guy that told you about the attack has the informations that the raiders prepare to attack the position and he believes it might take them 2 or 3 days, and if you are to late with the defences the village is simply destroyed.
Of course that was just only some example.
valcik
So Old I'm Losing Radiation Signs
What's wrong with it, Kyuu? With a various types of titanium/vanadium covered killing machines appearing thorough the game, the kinetic weaponry becoming useless was common thing to see even in the original Wasteland.
It doesn't say that kinetic weapons become increasingly marginal against tougher types of metal armor. That would make sense. It says energy weapons do more damage against armor with higher metal content, which doesn't make sense.valcik said:
Why would a person wearing metal armor get hurt more from a plasma bolt or a laser? It might make sense for some type of electricity-based "zap" gun, but that's it.
The nonsensical nature of it would be fine it if served a useful gameplay purpose, but simply making a binary system of use kinetic weapons against enemies without metal armor and energy weapons against enemies with metal armor doesn't seem terribly compelling.
Stanislao Moulinsky
Vault Fossil
Kyuu said:
They heat the metal and "cook" the person inside, could be an explanation.
A plasma bolt IS elecricity-based, it's a cloud of ionized gas. A plasma bolt hitting metal armor would indeed involve a current through the target.Kyuu said:
And, as Stanislao Moulinsky said it, heat.
lets say your arm gets hit by it, the shirt you have vaporizes, probably with the part of your arm that was hit.Kyuu said:
Now lets say you wear something that is made totally of metal, like some kind of medieval armor. The metal gets molten, runing down all over your chest, armor, shoulders, maybe even hit your face. Now you not only have a vaporized arm to deal with, but a chest, face and shoulder that looks like a pizza in the stove.
Thats how I imagine it at least.
A tasty visualization.
Guiltyofbeingtrite
Vault Dweller
Tagaziel said:
Wow, at a bar in washington, DC I'd be lucky to get one beer for 3.5USD