Jean-Luc Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Level Designer rounded the first corner in the lead but has stumbled at the first hedge and Indoor Missions is practically alongside him into the second corner. Soviet Town is a couple of lengths behind, a nose in front of Military Base. Still in touch but trailing a little behind the front four is Female Soldiers, fighting it out with Reaper Hive.Blaster Bombs / Human Psionics has taken a tumble at the first and is limping badly. His owner didn't want to him to race; judging from the noise from the crowd it seems like they don't either... C'mon military base, stretch those legs! I've 20$ riding on ya. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted May 12, 2012 Author Share Posted May 12, 2012 Military Base has an average score of 9.39 and Soviet Town has 9.40 (694 votes cast). I don't think we'll be able to add three tilesets to the game given we've already got two to do, so I think we might have to discount the bottom one of the three. Reaper Hive, if it stays like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thothkins Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 alas.. possibly the most fun being sacrificed for the more functional and potentially useful. At least, that's what I thought as the other villagers led me up to the alter. But enough about me, back to the races... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar Pancakes Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 ...why do I think someone's just going to set up a betting pool for this and give 50% of winnings to Christ at the end...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thothkins Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 give 50% of winnings to Christ at the end... You'd have really thought he'd be against that sort of thing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilrathi Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 You'd have really thought he'd be against that sort of thing... Clearly you don't watch Sunday morning fundamentalist religious TV shows in America... they'd prefer you'd give 100% of everything you've got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellstormer Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Don't even get me started on the misapplied theology in those shows Kilrathi. It's my field so I could blather on for... a while. I didn't even include Linux in my voting because there were 15 things to vote on but only 14 places to actually mark to vote for. So... it was a null I guess? I did consistently vote for more content (tilesets, missions etc) over everything else thought. Variety = more replayability and all that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corporal Hicks Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Come on folks, what's wrong with you?? Female portraits almost winning over Reaper Hive?? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thothkins Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 I have thought you'd be the last person to want to see another alien hive Corporal Hicks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shima Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Naah, I think he'd like more to stay away from cryochambers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
targetbsp Posted May 12, 2012 Share Posted May 12, 2012 Somewhat unsurprisingly, the Mac / Linux port is coming up in dead last. It has a whole bunch of votes at "14" and a bunch of votes at "1" and not a lot in between.Guess we might have to pay for that one ourselves then Out of sympathy for our Mac/Linux owning friends I actually voted other things I wasn't interested in below that but I guess it hasn;t helped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorzahg Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Do you need a level designer? I thought maps semi randomly generated? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashman Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 They have to build the submaps... building blocks from which the maps generate first. It is a seriously time consuming process and currently done when Chris has spare time. He hasn't even started building 2 more tile variants. You dont just want a warehouse, you need it to have maybe 6 variants, then your map, might choose between the 6 warehouses or it might be grass, a carpark, or a field.. etc A level designer could be kept busy for 6months building this stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorzahg Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Thanks. I was getting worried that we were gonna get hand crafted maps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The New Romance Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Come on folks, what's wrong with you?? Female portraits almost winning over Reaper Hive?? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I guess the question's more like "What is wrong with people who prefer slimy aliens over gun-toting girls?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knightpt Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 All my favorites seem to be on the top 5 so i'm happy they'll be surely implemented if the funding keeps the pace Extra level designer so that missions are not too repetitive in art, indoor missions will definately give the game an extra claustrophobic mission type. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corporal Hicks Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 I have thought you'd be the last person to want to see another alien hive Corporal Hicks LOL That's a good one!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenoMask Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 (edited) If I remember correctly, I voted reaper hive highest, then soviet towns, then indoor missions, then military base, then pilot callsigns, female soldiers, memorial, then level designer and tall grass. I don't care about new items ones, so they are bottom of the vote. Though I included linux port and excluded psionics and blaster bombs completely because 1) Just a mod, that can be probably added later anyway 2) I don't really have nostalgia for blaster bombs as I have nostalgia for apocalypse 3) Mind control completely screwed up balance of first game, its pretty hard thing to balance right so it would end up making game too easy once you get it. But yeah, I hope all new map ones gets added in game(at least reaper hive over the military base ) even though it might require so much work that you would have to delay game or something. Well, hopefully you just happen to get that much donations that you feel obliged to do it But yeah, how well are memorial screen(I hope that screen includes picture of one of those memorial stones with names written in it, or that memorial screen IS such stone) and pilot portraits doing currently? I guess they are over the item ones at least? I personally am not sure about female soldiers actually, I mean it would be cool but I don't think there were much female soldiers during time game is set in so it needs some explanation I guess... BTW, will you guys add even more stretch goals if somehow ALL of these gets enough funding?(or if you reach million or something ) Well, if you do add ones, add feature for countries being able to use alien technology you have sold them in military missions/sometimes actually manage to shot down ufos and not always resulting in small text about ufos destroying local air forces. BTW, could you at some point post picture of reapers? I mean, its kind of hard to imagine hive(which I think would be awesome) without seeing the creature. And might make some people interested in kickstarter page if they see cool looking aliens in the thing. Edited May 13, 2012 by XenoMask Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeromanicus Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 I voted Military Base, Reaper hive, then level designer. Reaper Hive+motion trackers+panicked soldier wielding flamerthrower is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shima Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 BTW, could you at some point post picture of reapers? I mean, its kind of hard to imagine hive(which I think would be awesome) without seeing the creature. And might make some people interested in kickstarter page if they see cool looking aliens in the thing. There is a way to get a glimpse of more aliens etc. That is, if you have the game installed via desura. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenoMask Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Which is?... If you know the way, just say it and don't wait till I have time to reply If you are talking about sprites in game files, then I can say that there aren't those for non revealed aliens. Unless you are talking about alien names in sound effect files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingdisc Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 This is my proposal for the stretch goals. If people like them, they'll go up in a couple of hours along with a survey that allows you to vote for them in order of preference. Thoughts? I think they are great. Good to see some of the early indications of the runners. A couple of thoughts. I didn't appreciate how much tilesets cost. Great to get a feel for this and it makes a lot of sense to space out these stretch targets to account for this. I wonder though if you could compensate by adding in a couple of shorter goals? Things that do not cost you much in resources but add a bit of spice. Adding a sound effects at a certain level (e.g. bit of background xenonaut chatter, such as 'I'm pinned down here' when under supression fire)? Its nice to think that if we could stretch it to $100,000, then at $108,000 we hit the additional sound effects (or some such smaller target). Ogre KS did this really well (a few short ones around $100,000, two at $500,000 ($500,000 and $501,000) which gererates a bit of existment we we get close to these bigger targets) The other thought was that given the iconic nature of women solder portraits, it might be worth getting this out early, as it puts to bed what in reality is a non-issue but is perhaps seen by a number of people as one. If a few people are jumping to these conclusions in forum posts, then it is likely to reflect that there is a much large number of people who will have taken the same impression but were never engaged enough to post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shima Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 (edited) Which is?... If you know the way, just say it and don't wait till I have time to reply If you are talking about sprites in game files, then I can say that there aren't those for non revealed aliens. Unless you are talking about alien names in sound effect files. Sorry for teasing, I don't want to spoil too much Check the <redacted> folder. Though the files I have there might be remnant of some previous build. Edited May 13, 2012 by Chris censorship! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazz Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 - Pilot Portraits and Callsigns – These pilots will not level up with experience. I don't get this one. Implement pilots that have absolutely no functionality in the game? When having pilots ingame, isn't it implied that they have some kind of purpose? Any at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashman Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 I don't get this one.Implement pilots that have absolutely no functionality in the game? When having pilots ingame, isn't it implied that they have some kind of purpose? Any at all? If it, like female portraits were chosen, then it gives Chris a new way to get players images into the game. Despite the lack of functionality. This could re-galvanize kickstarter interest by allowing for a new pledge level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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