What If?

Hida_Tsuzua

<div class="IPBDescription">NS2</div> This is totally "in your own dreams," not "OMG this has to be done!"

What if after HL2 comes out, an Incan Monkey God runs into Flayra and grants him ultimate programmer powers (and lots of money)? Using these powers, NS2 comes out for HL2. What would you look forward to in NS2? Real NS RTS? Maps that let you interact with all parts of the map giving the welder a whole new lease on life? A top-of-the-line physics engine? Or simple better graphics?

Dirty_Harry_Potter

i'd really like to new features with the welder and the psychics engine.....since more features = better atmosphere, and the better graphics would be nice too.....

TychoCelchuuu

Soft serve machines on Bast and other maps. I remember they were going to be added but software mode didn't support sprinkles and hot fudge, so Flay just scrapped the thing.

Salty

An alien that slithers like a snake. Omg that would be kewl.

The acid and corrosive gas actually like reacting with walls and stuff when in contact. Like lets say acid rocket hits a wall and oozes out and creates some sorta violent reacation maybe even lights up a little creating dynamic light.

When some heavy armor guy or an onos storms by it would make dents in softer metal floors and walls and may also make the ground rattle a little. Like in Jerassic Park where that T-rex makes that glass of water do all that kewl stuff.

Siege cannons kinda suck stuff up then shoot it out.

Be0w

one word!

<span style='color:red'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Vehicles!</span></span>

mmm drive around in a heavy tank and take down row after row of fades untill an onos comes and shoves me over cliff <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

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JediYoshi

Skulks would be kind of weird if they evantually hit the end of the map and started to climb up the sky. Sieges wouldn't be as effective since by the time you get them, fades would be around and they would probably own any kind of outdoor map anyway. Lerks would be about more useless than they already are because there wouldn't be much cover at all, depending on what kind of setting the map is.

Anyhoo, in the tech demo of the HL2 vid, you could see how the earth was dynamically moving and all. But the smoke, which were 2D sprites, around it wasn't reacting to the ground/level itself good, just going through at as would normal HL would. Now if this particle system as you could call it is so good, then how come they had that whole sprite code still in place? I don't think that was worth that.

Long story short, the flamethrower could finally be a reality, and the explosion from a nade could actually make sense.

Liku

Blockable doors with objects in the room.

Wires that can be cut/repaired to turn on/off the power (Lights, Elevators).

More weapons.

Vehicles.

Powersuites like the Aliens Powerloader.

Bigger Maps

More outdoor type maps.

A Gravity gun.

More interactive things in the maps.

Maybe more alien classes that won't make the game more bias than it is now.

Smoke_Nova

<span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'>MORE GUNS</span>


cuz no more 32 weapon limit!

Liku

32 Weapon limit? What are you talking about? I don't know about this.

X_Stickman

marines desperatly running away from a thundering menace, an onos. The marines, seeing their one last hope, dive behind some barrels for cover. The onos, seeing an emtpy room, starts tearing apart anything there, knocking tables and chairs flying. At last, there's only barrels left, and the onos burts trough them, trapping a marine beneath a barrel, forcing him to watch what happens to his comrade.


Pretty cool, imagine what an Onos would look like on that engine

Smoke_Nova

Half-Life has a 32 weapon limit, any more and it becomes unstable. That's why we don't have a few more guns for marines.

voogru

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Not exactly true.

Half-Life supports as many weapons as you want, However, you need to have a different way to store the weapons. If you go over 32, by default the weapons are stored in a integer, which is 4 bytes. 4 * 8 = 32.

dr_d

You could always code an indestructble hover-bin that follows you everwhere and stores tons and tons of weapons.








mmmmm hover-bin

Insane

A scorpian that hovars without flapping!

Infinitum

Greater map interactivity.

Welding off a ladder and watching that fade fall to it's death as the ladder falls back to the floor....
Blowing up walls with the grenade launcher
Shooting the roof with a HMG and it collapses and out pops some tubing and whatnot.

It could easily be the greatest engine the world has seen thus far @_0

Pulse

Shadows.

Legionnaired

Better map interactivity, explosives.