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News and Announcements / Re: An Important Announcement - Season 4 and Patreon Launch
« Last post by Horus on Today at 14:41 »Awesome! Look forward to it.
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News and Announcements / Re: An Important Announcement - Season 4 and Patreon Launch
« Last post by Wesan on Today at 12:50 »There is no reason to promote the game yet. When it's done, sure. Right now though, hold your horses.
This will be the final wipe. We have to ensure that gameplay and game will be set in stone.
The models are rendered down and pixelated. The animations are constrained to 24 FPS to keep the old school feels.
A good example of what our aim would be pretty much what Factorio did with their own 3d.
https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-146
Same things happen here. We're 'processing' the 3d to give them sprite feel to make them fit.
That's how the original models were developed too, then rendered into a 2d format.
So work with Shaders, Textures, adjustments will get us as close to the original. I think we already have surpassed Fallout 2 models: Myron, Vic, they all have an awkward rubbery 3d look in comparison to Fallout 1, despite being frms.
Down here you can find one of the original topics and screenshots, to see what we begun to work with and compare that to our current result.
https://fodev.net/forum/index.php/topic,29461.msg258961.html#msg258961
And from here we can only get better, the models are okay, thing what makes them feel 'falloutish' is post-processing.
And yes, Pillars of Eternity team does Amazing job of blending 2d and 3d, creating an amazing detail.
The difference is we're not a professional game development team with 30+ people in just art design doing full week shift on graphics. But just 3 guys with some helping hands from time to time, which means redoing 14,000+ art assets for scenery is something that would take too much time and effort compared to gain.
Problem with huge amount of players playing at the same time is that...well game isn't really fit to that. Sure Europe usually has ok ping, but I remember Accosta's unkillable lag storms or Hedron's 500ping TC Sniper times. If game can't support people from other continents we are fucked.What we hope is that the new engine will be able to handle bigger amounts far better, especially with so many things restructured and 64-bit system.
With all this being said. Is there an idea of the time frame the developers believe they will have things prepared for an official wipe date?When it's done! We have open betas and tech demos planned. But the official date will not be announced until we're sure it's done and ready.
This will be the final wipe. We have to ensure that gameplay and game will be set in stone.
3D
The models are rendered down and pixelated. The animations are constrained to 24 FPS to keep the old school feels.
A good example of what our aim would be pretty much what Factorio did with their own 3d.
https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-146
Same things happen here. We're 'processing' the 3d to give them sprite feel to make them fit.
That's how the original models were developed too, then rendered into a 2d format.
So work with Shaders, Textures, adjustments will get us as close to the original. I think we already have surpassed Fallout 2 models: Myron, Vic, they all have an awkward rubbery 3d look in comparison to Fallout 1, despite being frms.
Spoiler
Down here you can find one of the original topics and screenshots, to see what we begun to work with and compare that to our current result.
https://fodev.net/forum/index.php/topic,29461.msg258961.html#msg258961
And from here we can only get better, the models are okay, thing what makes them feel 'falloutish' is post-processing.
And yes, Pillars of Eternity team does Amazing job of blending 2d and 3d, creating an amazing detail.
The difference is we're not a professional game development team with 30+ people in just art design doing full week shift on graphics. But just 3 guys with some helping hands from time to time, which means redoing 14,000+ art assets for scenery is something that would take too much time and effort compared to gain.
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News and Announcements / Re: An Important Announcement - Season 4 and Patreon Launch
« Last post by Alexander on Today at 01:47 »130-180 ping isn't all that bad for North Americans. Latency is another thing. I used to play 220 ping in TF2 and still managed. As long the server doesn't get sent to Luxembourg.
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New California Republic / NCR announcement regarding Talon Company status in Shady Sands
« Last post by Blobfish on June 13, 2019, 18:57 »-NCR town commission report-
Republic Document v003.1
Status: declassified, public release form
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Constitution Paragraph - 1.10.1
Initiative: President of NCR
Involved party: NCR town commission; NCR government independent decision
Review of request: NCR Government, NCR Council, NCR town commission
Matter: Granting safe Shady Sands entrance to Talon Company mercenary group
Rescript: Granted
Bail terms: None
Meeting Summary:
On president's initiative and support of government, town commission voted unanimous on proposition #217 - removing Talon Company from Shady Sands blacklist.
Talon Company members, from now on, have same rights in Shady Sands as any visitor to town's premises.
This bail does not include safe pass for members of Talon Company on territory of NCR activity and interests outside of Shady Sands.
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This document guarantees every Talon Company member safe entrance and stay in Shady Sands as long as he is not violating NCR Constitution.
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Отчет НКР о статусе Talon Company в Шейди Сэндс.
-Отчет городской комиссии НКР.-
Документ v003.1
Статус: расскречено, публичный доступ.
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Параграф 1.10.1 конституции НКР.
Иницитатор: президент НКР.
Вовлеченные стороны: городская комиссия НКР, независимое решение правительства НКР.
Рассмотрение запроса: правительство НКР, совет НКР, городская комиссия НКР.
Запрос: предоставление безопасного доступа в Шейди Сэндс для группы наемников Talon Company.
Рескрипт: предоставлен.
Условия поручительства: отсутсвуют.
Итоги собрания:
По инициативе президента и поддержке правительства, городская комиссия единогласно проголосовала за предложение № 217 - исключить группу наемников Talon Company из черного списка Шейди Сэндс.
Отныне члены Talon Company имеют равные с любыми посетителями города права в Шейди Сэндс.
Этот документ не включает безопасный пропуск для членов Talon Company на территории деятельности НКР за пределами Шейди Сэндс.
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Этот документ гарантирует каждому члену Talon Company безопасный въезд и пребывание в Шейди Сэндс, если он не нарушает Конституцию Республики.
(Thanks to Xero for doing the lector's job
and thanks to Nero for russian translation)
Signature:
NCR government
President of NCR:
Knight Shift
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News and Announcements / Re: An Important Announcement - Season 4 and Patreon Launch
« Last post by Rascal on June 13, 2019, 17:09 »Well guys when its gona come to game promo every helping hand is extremely welcome so together we can build new epic start for all of us.
About ping, cant workaround things we cannot overcome, server is location in Europe and it will be, sadly nothing else can be done, but you know this for sure already.
Only good thing is that our current server has some better performance than previous one, maybe it will have some positive impact.
About ping, cant workaround things we cannot overcome, server is location in Europe and it will be, sadly nothing else can be done, but you know this for sure already.
Only good thing is that our current server has some better performance than previous one, maybe it will have some positive impact.
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News and Announcements / Re: An Important Announcement - Season 4 and Patreon Launch
« Last post by wazzaup on June 13, 2019, 15:25 »I remember BlueDrake42 at one point playing fallout online. He has a pretty big community and one that likes more hardcore games as well.
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News and Announcements / Re: An Important Announcement - Season 4 and Patreon Launch
« Last post by xsarq on June 13, 2019, 15:19 »Problem with huge amount of players playing at the same time is that...well game isn't really fit to that. Sure Europe usually has ok ping, but I remember Accosta's unkillable lag storms or Hedron's 500ping TC Sniper times. If game can't support people from other continents we are fucked.
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News and Announcements / Re: An Important Announcement - Season 4 and Patreon Launch
« Last post by Rascal on June 12, 2019, 20:19 »about advertising - we are open for any cooperation and yes we are planing to put as much effort in advertising as it is possible, last session we broke every fonline game record with 550+ players playing at the same time, we are hoping to beat it.
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News and Announcements / Re: An Important Announcement - Season 4 and Patreon Launch
« Last post by Alaestor on June 12, 2019, 00:48 »With all this being said. Is there an idea of the time frame the developers believe they will have things prepared for an official wipe date?
Do the Developers intend to advertise Season 4 with the intent to bring many new players? If yes, can those ideas be shared? I know that with enough money summed up it is possible to sponsor a small time youtubers with 100-200k subscribers to advertise it for a minute.
Share your thoughts?
Do the Developers intend to advertise Season 4 with the intent to bring many new players? If yes, can those ideas be shared? I know that with enough money summed up it is possible to sponsor a small time youtubers with 100-200k subscribers to advertise it for a minute.
Share your thoughts?
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News and Announcements / Re: An Important Announcement - Season 4 and Patreon Launch
« Last post by Rascal on June 10, 2019, 22:19 »about 3d in season 4...
:D:D
KUDOS TO KARPOV and other ppl involved
You all may be sure we are aiming to make it the most original sprite-like falloutish as it is possible, the results are great
:D:DKUDOS TO KARPOV and other ppl involved
You all may be sure we are aiming to make it the most original sprite-like falloutish as it is possible, the results are great