ns2_fusion

Mephilles

@Kouji_San from the SCC discord

pSyk0mAn

Even commanders can see them!
You should turn comm invisible on for those blades.

Observation is really turning out great. The theme is great. The gameplay and layout of Alien start seems pretty much perfect to me right now. The pipes on both ends, aiding players to get up on the sides, are a great idea too. Now you just need to work on finetuning the visuals in that room.

.trixX.

Kouji_San wrote: »

Mouse wrote: »

The turbine blades turn!

Seem to be standing still to me

You have to move your head side-to-side, stoobid!

Kouji_San

.trixX. wrote: »

Kouji_San wrote: »

Mouse wrote: »

The turbine blades turn!

Seem to be standing still to me

You have to move your head side-to-side, stoobid!

Mouse

This update is mostly focused on the Observation tech point

- Each end of the tech point now has power monitoring station things to provide some cover
- There are trims!!

Other things
- Storage is now called Power Storage
- A couple of the overhead panels in Servers have been popped out to make them a bit more difficult to hide behind
- The alcoves in exits from Servers have been made slightly deeper to make them easier to hide in

Monitoring stations



Trimmss!



Ceiling panels

Alcoves

Mouse

Transition & Dice updates

-Transition has had a visual update
- Dice has another chamber (this means that the gorge fort vent isn't there any more)

Transition


(you can climb/fly over the top of those support props)
Dice

Mouse

- Observation hive made a bit more alien friendly
- Transition opened up a bit
- Shortcut node moved to Dice
- misc. detailing in Cascade

Dice node



Transition



Observation

Mouse

Updated layout:

- Fortress to Shortcut vent removed
- Power Storage to Cascade vent added (connects to existing Fortress to Power Storage vent)
- Shortcut resource node moved to Slice
- Clutter added to Shortcut
- Added some exterior detail

New Vent



Slice node


Detail

Mouse

New ready room!

Mephilles

ready room = hive room?

I'm dissappointed. Make something new. The RR is the perfect place to go crazy with your creativity without needing to worry about gameplay

Mouse

Mephilles wrote: »

I'm dissappointed.

The_Welsh_Wizard

Maybe the Ready Room is on the other side of the reactor

Mouse

- I've tweaked the lighting & done some detailing in places
- The bottom half of Fortress has been flattened out
- The back fence on the Fortress platform has had its middle section removed
- You can't siege Fortress from the corner between Slice & Shortcut any more

Mouse

- The Fortress to Shortcut vent is back, again
- The Transition node has been moved to Transfer
- Some floor & ceiling cover has been added in Crevice

Layout

It's baaack


Transfer node


Crevice node

Vetinari

Crevice looks much better now.

Mouse

Turnip is finally seeing some love

Layout (Turnip is barely recognizable)


Turnip is now a room full of generators




There's also a view now

Mouse

I think fusion is now in a place where I can ease up on active development. I'll mostly just be doing detailing & balance tweaking from this point. I'd love it if servers could start trying to play a decent number of games on the map so that I can get some thorough balance feedback (ns2_fusion = ns2_veil2).

Oh and I've finally removed the shipping container from Upper Passage. That area is now a "pseudo-vent" which is a bit slower to move through and can be easily bunkered & ambushed from.

Mouse

Layout

Changes
- Vista has some new cover (and the stairs aren't there any more)
- The Supports to Transfer vent now connects to Observation (you can't attack the hive from the vent)
- There's a vent between Unloading & Upper Passage

Vista



Observation vent



Upper Passage vent

Mouse

A collection of small changes and fixes

- The doors in Upper Passage have been raised slightly. exos & onos can move through there now.
- The Upper Passage to Unloading vent has been removed
- A small amount of cover has been added to an arc spot on the Upper Passage side of Unloading.
- It's easier to get into the Crevice to Supports & Transfer vent
- Some of the vents with height changes have been tweaked to allow marines to exit them from all of the entrances
-- Upper Passage to Shortcut
-- Shortcut to Fortress
-- Fortress to Power Storage & Cascade

ARC Cover


New vents

Mouse

- The wall in the middle of Unloading is wider
- There's something resembling cover on the side of the Crevice stairs

Unloading

Crevice

Mouse

- The Crevice stairs have a partial wall on the outer edge. This makes it harder to snipe at cysts & gorges from Cascade

Mouse

I'm trying to prioritise the propification/detailing of fusion.
Which parts of the map need props and/or cover?

Bonus points if you explain why

Mephilles

Always had the feeling the part between upper passage and slice needs some love.

Kasharic

Yeah, I concur, Slice could do with some love, Approach would also be nice, but that is less of a priority imo.

Mouse

There's a new lerk & skulk only vent underneath Slice.
It connects the two chasms the run along the map and also opens into the Shortcut-Fortress vent and the Fortress-Power Storage-Cascade vent

Layout

The_Welsh_Wizard

I would lower the steam opacity massively, I know it is for atmosphere, but it is no fun if you can't see anything in a playable area.

RuneStorm

I already gave some feedback to mouse directly, but I'm gonna post it here too.

I think the vents feel a bit disconnected, they sorta just "end" in a giant cave.
And I'm not sure if I like that the steaming water instantly kills, due to the shape of the cave it's easy to slip off the wall and plummet right into the center of the room, changing it to just cause a ton of damage might be better. (I'm totally fine with the lava instantly killing btw, but at the moment the water doesn't feel menacing and dangerous from a visual point.

(The forum yelled at me to write a post before creating a topic, so here we are )

Mouse

Some updates

- The Sauna water doesn't insta kill you
- The water looks a lot better now, thanks to @RuneStorm
- The steam plume in the middle of the sauna has been replaced with a layer of steam just above the water. (it's at the same height as the top of the damage volume)
- The lava chasms have a layer of smoke at the top of their damage volumes
- The vent/alcove in Slice has been removed
- The corner between Slice and Shortcut has received some pretification

New water

A video: https://imgur.com/a/37hciCt

Smoke layer


Slice/Shortcut corner

Mouse

Update

- Fortress completely rebuilt
- A Fortress - Approach vent added
- Overhead tram line added in Dice, Slice & Fortress
- A Slice - Dice vent added

Layout


Fortress




Dice


Slice

Mouse

Some detailing work
- Observation has been relit
- The path between Passage & Slice has been rebuilt
- Some detailing on the Turnip entrances