Experimental Designs for New Payload Gameplay (aka - How to keep it fresh).

[zpqrei]

me likey.

edit: eh, looks better in motion. here's the VMF if anyone wants to compile and peek at it in action. You'll need to ent_fire hover startforward to get it going.

Niiiice. Will have to download and have a look at that!

 

[TehSeph]

why not go back to the rail concept, and instead give the cart spherical wheels (as to enable turning, again) instead of a clamp?

ps: that lightrail is wicked cool.

 

[The Political Gamer]

The rail bomb kart is in the final stage of pl_Cranetop. Even so I would like to see more pl maps with something other than just a kart on train tracks.

 

[Vigilante212]

Just remember "everything obeys the line", my fav book quote hehe. Props to anyone who know what books.

 

[jpr]

I don't think hovering carts would make that big of a difference, if the gameplay is still the same. I'm making a tc-pl map right now, which is... Well, a tc map with 2 carts. You have to take a certain route in a tc map anyway, so I thought a pl-tc map would work perfectly. I's still too WIP to show screens though, but I'll post some later..

 

[zpqrei]

I don't think hovering carts would make that big of a difference, if the gameplay is still the same. I'm making a tc-pl map right now, which is... Well, a tc map with 2 carts. You have to take a certain route in a tc map anyway, so I thought a pl-tc map would work perfectly. I's still too WIP to show screens though, but I'll post some later..

The problem was that no one knew where to go.

 

[jpr]

The problem was that no one knew where to go.

Hm? What do you mean?

 

[zpqrei]

Hm? What do you mean?

I mean that with a hover cart, no one had the slightest-donkey's-uncle of where to go. Some were going in completely the wrong place. There was no sense of progress (apart from the HUD) and it seemed like I was limiting the players by having the cart bound to a course. That's just what my internal (friends, family) playtests taught me. Maybe it could work, but it'd need tweaking.

 

[Rotab]

I mean that with a hover cart, no one had the slightest-donkey's-uncle of where to go. Some were going in completely the wrong place. There was no sense of progress (apart from the HUD) and it seemed like I was limiting the players by having the cart bound to a course. That's just what my internal (friends, family) playtests taught me. Maybe it could work, but it'd need tweaking.

Yeah, and he said that hover carts wouldnt make "payload fresh".