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[Takio]

Is Overload like an Electronic Warfare thing?

[skuid]

chris2365 wrote...
I actually re-tried playing it. It seems that playing 10 vs. 10 is too much of a strain on resources. I can play fine on 4 vs. 4 and below. It is actually pretty good. The only thing is that it is pretty hard to pursue a enemy. I am used to playing flying/space games with my joystick. My OS is Vista 32-bit. Hope it helps

Good job

Maybe it is using a lot of video memory, I should decrease the size of the skybox and earth textures.
Actually, the enemies are flying at half of the maximum speed, if you set your speed at 30-35 you should be able to pursue them more easily.

NinthGeorgesw wrote...
This is great. I had some graphical problems until I fiddled around with the options, but it's really impressive.

A friend told me that the shaders didn't work with his ATI card but my two PCs both have NVIDIA so I've been unable to test it and find the problems. Is that the problem you mention?

Takio wrote...
Is Overload like an Electronic Warfare thing?

Is pretty much the same as in Mass Effect, it affect especially the shields and in lesser mesure the integrity of the ship, but I should do that the overload disabled the ship for some time.

[havoc373]

Its a pretty cool idea, that has alot of potential. But I can see it still needs alot of work. Here is a list of my critique's:

-The controls are really stiff and clinical. add something like acceleration when your turning. instead of the stop the moment you release the button.
(This is more of a personal preference but a boost option might be nice, make the ship fly at the default speed when you respawn at 62 at max I believe and then boost to 72 when you press shift or something and decelerate again to 62 when you release shift)

-Also you need an invert Y axis option. it was very had to aim for me using the arrow keys and WASD

-The frame rate tanks quite a few times (especialy when the reaper is in view) and the camera stutters sometimes when you respawn.

-And please get rid of the font for the abilities and the menu, Arial would be an improvement, or even better the mass effect font.

-Also I'd change the background of the menu. The buttons are a little hard to see against the background. (change it to a star field or something else so at least the buttons are clearly visible.

-The target indicators in the flight are way to prominent. make the lines a little thinner and the boxes smaller. so they dont excessivly stand out and distract from the rest of what is going on.
even though the target indicators are very prominent its very difficult to find the occuli on screen.
also there is no way to differentiate between friendly fighters and enemy fighters. all are indicated in red

-The star field is very low res and has stretching issue's at atleast one of the corners of the skybox.get a starfield that is at least 2048x2048 in resolution.

-The reaper has major clipping issue's where you can just fly right through the legs without bouncing off or taking damage.

-The death screen is a little unclear because your fighter doesnt despawn. it just keeps flying till its out of screen. also maybe add a respawn timer.

-The Camera needs to be a little less static than it is right now. the far away camera is a good start but it needs to be tighter than it is now. decrease the camera follow lag. and add it to the closer views aswel but even tighter. the closer the camera is to the ship the shorter follow lag. also if possible a cockpit view would be cool.

-Take a close look at the Rogue Squadron games, they do this really well (
 )

I know its not alot of positive feedback but I think this kind of feedback is more usefull to you than, "Looks great can't wait to see more"

Hope it helps and keep up the good work. "Cant wait to see more" 

Edited by havoc373, 27 July 2012 - 02:39 PM.

[skuid]

[quote]havoc373 wrote...
-The controls are really stiff and clinical. add something like acceleration when your turning. instead of the stop the moment you release the button.
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You can tweak the ship properties and add this feature. Go to the folder "vehiculos" and open the file "alliance.xml" ("cerberus.xml" or "geth.xml" for the other playable ships). Search for the tag "<propShip>" and there you'll find some movement properties for pitch, yaw and roll. The property "maxPitch" indicate the maximum speed for pitch and "pitchIncr" the acceleration. A "pitchIncr" lesser than "maxPitch" will result in a smoother pitch movement and if it is greater or equal the movement will be stiff. The same is applied to yaw and roll.

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-Also you need a invert Y axis for you mouse option. it was very had to aim for me using the arrow keys and WASD
[/quote]
Totally agree with that, I forgot to add that option.

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-The frame rate tanks quite a few times (especialy when the reaper is in view)
And please get rid of the font for the abilities Arial would be an improvement, or even better the mass effect font.
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You should try disabling the v-sync in your graphics card configuration panel, maybe that help a bit.
I didn't find the mass effect font in the game files so I used a free font, for what I know arial isn't free.
The text for the powers is provisional, I will include icons like Mass Effect.

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-Also I'd change the background of the menu. The buttons are a little hard to see against the background. (change it to a star field or something else so at least the buttons are clearly visible.
[/quote]
Yes, sometime the background made difficult to see the letters that's why I put the blue rectangle but it didn't help much.

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-The target indicators in the flight are way to prominent. make the lines a little thinner and the boxes smaller. so they dont excessivly stand out and distract from the rest of what is going on.
even though the target indicators are very prominent its very difficult to find the occuli on screen.
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Agree, the target cross should be thinner but the boxes I think they are ok, maybe in blue color will distract less.

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-The star field is very low res and has stretching issue's at atleast one of the corners of the skybox.get a starfield that is at least 2048x2048 in resolution.
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I screwed one of the corners when I made the skybox, but the resolution isn't a problem because it is composed by 6 faces each of 1024x1024

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-The reaper has major clipping issue's where you can just fly right through the legs without bouncing off or taking damage.
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The collision model of the reaper is only the body, the legs didn't produce collisions.

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-The death screen is a little unclear because your fighter doesnt despawn. it just keeps flying till its out of screen. also maybe add a respawn timer.
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There is a respawn timer every 10s, the problem is that there is no indication of such thing, but every 10s enemy and ally forces respawn including your ship. I should include a counter on screen when your ship is destroy indicating the time remaining for respawn.

[quote]
-The Camera needs to be a little less static than it is right now. the far away camera is a good start but it needs to be tighter than it is now. decrease the camera follow lag. and add it to the closer views aswel but even tighter. the closer the camera is to the ship the shorter follow lag. also if possible a cockpit view would be cool.
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I'll include the option to control this feature in the next releases. Unfortunately, the cockpit view would be a bit difficult because the models didn't include it.

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-Take a close look at the Rogue Squadron games, they do this really well (
 )
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I used to play that game :happy:

[quote]
I know its not alot of positive feedback but I think this kind of feedback is more usefull to you than, "Looks great can't wait to see more"

Hope it helps and keep up the good work. "Cant wait to see more" 
[/quote]
Actually this is the kind of feedback that can help me improve the game.
Thanks a lot for your feedback.

[skuid]

As I said before, I'm working in an editor which allow to create new ships and add them in game:

I'll release it as soon as it is finished, but still need a lot of work.

[skuid]

I've been working on the vehicle editor and it is almost ready to be released. Also I have the first screenshots of the vehicle customization:


And I fixed some bugs and improved some things that will be included in the next version:
-Fixed the reaper legs stuttering.
-The ship's movement is now set by default to half the maximum speed and you can go faster or slower when you hold the respective key but the speed will return to half the maximum speed when the key is released. This allow to follow enemies more easily.
-The reaper laser now have a laser sound instead of the reaper horn sound.

[Aerenko]

Fantastic Proyect!

I offer myself to help with Main Menu design, HD Starfield, and even perhaps working on models. I made a SSV Normandy SR-2 (High Quality) and constantly upgrade my models.

I'll await for your response and hope to be able to work with you!

[sliverofamoon]

Can't wait to get home from work and give this a try! This looks seriously fun!

[Aerenko]

There goes some pics.

[skuid]

Aerenko wrote...

Fantastic Proyect!

I offer myself to help with Main Menu design, HD Starfield, and even perhaps working on models. I made a SSV Normandy SR-2 (High Quality) and constantly upgrade my models.

I'll await for your response and hope to be able to work with you!

Many thanks!
Actually I really could use your help with the main menu, skyboxes and models.
Your Normandy looks awesome, but I already extracted that model from the mass effect files. If you have other ships models that doesn't appear in the game files, like cerberus frigates or asari dreadnoughts I could use them. There are a lot of ships models in the game files but most of them are just a very low res model (ships models from the captain cabin).

[WarGriffin]

Have you considered a Wingman/Squadron building mechinics?

[skuid]

WarGriffin wrote...

Have you considered a Wingman/Squadron building mechinics?

Yes, I thought about that but I simply implemented two orders for the squadron: attack my target and attack my pursuer.
I want to implement the tactic pause to be able to give orders more easily, but it's a work in progress.

[Aerenko]

skuid wrote...

Aerenko wrote...

Fantastic Proyect!

I offer myself to help with Main Menu design, HD Starfield, and even perhaps working on models. I made a SSV Normandy SR-2 (High Quality) and constantly upgrade my models.

I'll await for your response and hope to be able to work with you!

Many thanks!
Actually I really could use your help with the main menu, skyboxes and models.
Your Normandy looks awesome, but I already extracted that model from the mass effect files. If you have other ships models that doesn't appear in the game files, like cerberus frigates or asari dreadnoughts I could use them. There are a lot of ships models in the game files but most of them are just a very low res model (ships models from the captain cabin).

Hey,

First of all, the Normandy model is not the game one but a custom made one. However If you don't need it its ok.

The other things:

The Models: If you haven't been able to find the Cerberus Frigate, I can photoshop it for you. The Asari Cruiser however is not in the ME3 files(that I know of) However, I got it from the ME1 files, and I'm willing to tell you where it is later.

The Menu: I'll start working on the menu, however I'd like to ask you, do you prefer the buttons like "Game" and "Options" to be an Icon or you'll make it as font? If the case is that you want them to be Icons, you'll have to give me a list of the buttons and also what you wish for me to do as the main menu theme. I thought several things:

- A Console, like the ME3, and ME2 menus.
- A Showdown of the Normandy(A camera showing the SR2 from different perspectives)
- A Space Battle
- Earth rotating with a flickering lens flare

I can make all the backgrounds be a .bik file if you use something related to that video format.

[Aerenko]

skuid wrote...

Aerenko wrote...

Fantastic Proyect!

I offer myself to help with Main Menu design, HD Starfield, and even perhaps working on models. I made a SSV Normandy SR-2 (High Quality) and constantly upgrade my models.

I'll await for your response and hope to be able to work with you!

Many thanks!
Actually I really could use your help with the main menu, skyboxes and models.
Your Normandy looks awesome, but I already extracted that model from the mass effect files. If you have other ships models that doesn't appear in the game files, like cerberus frigates or asari dreadnoughts I could use them. There are a lot of ships models in the game files but most of them are just a very low res model (ships models from the captain cabin).

Hell, I forgot about the Skybox. Before doing anything related to the skybox I must ask you, is it a Hi-Res Image that is used as a texture, or is it a small repeated texture of stars?

If it is a HR Image I would be able to give it a lot of detail.

[Sweawm]

May I just ask what programs are you using?

[Severyx]

This is coming along nicely. I'll continue to keep my eye on it. I haven't tried the download yet, but do you have plans for dialog/wingman banter, since they're AI controlled?

[skuid]

Aerenko wrote...

Hey,

First of all, the Normandy model is not the game one but a custom made one. However If you don't need it its ok.

Yes, I noticed that your normandy is much more detailed than the one in
the game and that is a problem to be able to run in real time, the
models have to be optimized with low polygon count.

Aerenko wrote...
The Models: If you haven't been able to find the Cerberus Frigate, I can photoshop it for you. The Asari Cruiser however is not in the ME3 files(that I know of) However, I got it from the ME1 files, and I'm willing to tell you where it is later.

The models I mention are from the toy models you collected during the game and are showing in your captain cabin but this models are very low quality.

Aerenko wrote...
The Menu: I'll start working on the menu, however I'd like to ask you, do you prefer the buttons like "Game" and "Options" to be an Icon or you'll make it as font? If the case is that you want them to be Icons, you'll have to give me a list of the buttons and also what you wish for me to do as the main menu theme. I thought several things:

- A Console, like the ME3, and ME2 menus.
- A Showdown of the Normandy(A camera showing the SR2 from different perspectives)
- A Space Battle
- Earth rotating with a flickering lens flare

I can make all the backgrounds be a .bik file if you use something related to that video format.

The buttons for the game menú is better to let the text as font to be able to translate or change it easily, but could be a button image behind.
And for the background, the engine doesn't have support for videos so it has to be a static image. If I have some time, I'll try to add this feature but for now it's not a priority.

Aerenko wrote...
Hell, I forgot about the Skybox. Before doing anything related to the
skybox I must ask you, is it a Hi-Res Image that is used as a texture,
or is it a small repeated texture of stars?

If it is a HR Image I would be able to give it a lot of detail.

The skybox is made of 6 images (1024x1024 each), one for each face of the box so the connected edges must match. Here is a tutorial of how to made one. I followed that tutorial to made it but I screwed some of the corners.

[skuid]

Sweawm wrote...

May I just ask what programs are you using?

I'm using a game engine I made with the help of some friends. It's in visual C++ so I'm using visual studio to code it.

Severyx wrote...
This is coming along nicely. I'll continue to keep my eye on it. I
haven't tried the download yet, but do you have plans for dialog/wingman
banter, since they're AI controlled?

Actually there are some dialogues extracted from the multiplayer,

[skuid]

New video!!!!
Testing 40 ships at the same time with shots and explosions everywhere.
Now all the ships start near the mothership and fly in "formation" to face the enemies.
I added fuzzy logic to control the ships movement and made some optimizations in performance and graphics.

[jmaster888]

Great work I like the idea, although I'm a little bit disappointed that you can't play as a reaper D:

Edited by jmaster888, 23 August 2012 - 11:02 PM.

[Tom1029]

I like it, the camera controls are a bit iffy on my laptop but easily fixed by using an actual mouse mat and not my bed.

[skuid]

jmaster888 wrote...

Great work I like the idea, although I'm a little bit disappointed that you can't play as a reaper D:

You can't yet, but I'm considering a way to play as a reaper:
-Adding the power "Assuming Control" that allows you to control one of the fighters.
-Allow the control of the reaper's legs.
I have nothing of this implemented yet, it's just an idea.

[skuid]

More new features for the next update (I'll release the new version soon):
-New HUD by Aerenko:

-New game mode "Escort the Freighter":
In this game mode, you'll have to escort a freighter in its way to a target location. Allies ships will spawn near the freighter and enemies ships will spawn near their mother ship. The enemy mother ship can be destroyed, in that case it will respawn in its initial location.
Allies will win if the freighter reach the target location without being destroyed, and enemies win if the freighter is destroyed before.
-New ships:
--Cerberus defector fighter
--Reaper controlled geth fighter
--Reaper controlled geth transport

Edited by skuid, 31 August 2012 - 07:02 PM.

[M.C.Tales]

There's a LOT of potential with a game like this. However, I've tried playing it on a laptop with a mouse and found the controls awkward. I don't have a joystick for computer games, but I do have a corded Xbox 360 controller. If there were some way to make the game compatible with Xbox 360 controllers, that would be awesome!

[Aerenko]

Hang on the game isn't even version 1.0, ain't even polished yet, xD. BTW Trailer is coming next week or so Skuid. If there are problems i'll inform you. Game's lookin' good man. GJ!