That Pandemonium screen is looking gorgeous.
*makes grabbie hands*
That Pandemonium screen is looking gorgeous.
*makes grabbie hands*
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Sooo.. what new in those screens? grass? where did new lightning/god rays go?
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Great. Just great. Finally get a chance to kick the Omni goons outta my home town only to have the Clanner goons think they can move in and corner OUR turf! Not flamin' likely...
I'm a Froob Neutral Trade Skilling Nanomage Engineer- by definition I hide round corners and let the bot do the fighting.
Honestly, the pande screen looks like a normal pande screen to me. Someone prove me wrong.
No, you're pretty on point there. There's a hint of the new lighting effects in both screenshots, and obviously the grass and water are present in the Longest Road screenshot, but neither are really showing off the new engine in a way that's exciting or even highly noticeable.
The big two things I took away from the screens were:
1) The Longest Road screenshot looks like it has a longer rendering distance for ground textures - Good
2) That same screenshot seems to be lacking water reflections - Bad
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Do we really need god rays - especially with the twin suns? And, TLR isn't exactly the most humid environment on RK so having clearly visible sun rays wouldn't make -too- much sense anyway.
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What do you mean prepare clanners?
Hopefully you mean Prepare Neutrals!
You know, I think I've learned more about the future of AO from this single post than I have in any of the posts from the last 5 or 6 years.
Also, +1 on the screenshots. If those are indicative of the new engine... I'm not sure what we've been waiting for all these years...
Excited about the NPE, though. Been waiting patiently for this before I restart my main toon.
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Now that I'm home I decided to take a trip out to The Longest Road and do a screenshot comparison. The perspective isn't quite the same but the differences should still be a bit more noticeable now.
Like I said above, texture render distance is much improved. You can also see how the ground and trees are affected by the new lighting, particularly the trees at the edge of the far side of the lake. Obviously grass and the new water help as well, but I'm still missing water reflections. What I think is missing most, though, are shadows. I know they're in the engine, and I can see hints of them in the screenshot, but they don't really stand out like they have in previous screens/videos.
It also doesn't help that we still have trees from the old, terraformed-desert-planet version of Rubi-Ka I still hope we'll see those get a priority makeover once the new engine is finished, so we can get rid of that discrepency and have flora that matches the newer, more lush textures. I prefer the old color palette, but considering all the grass that's been implemented, we'd just end up with green grass on a yellowish-green texture and we'd be right back where we started.
Edit: Also, going back to the Pande screenshot, fog distance looks about the same as always, but that could just be me not being in Pande right now to reference it . I was hoping we might be able to see out a bit farther with the new engine, though.
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Straight from the future, a snippet of the Monthly Development Update May 31st, 2018!
"Development on the engine is going well, and this month we reached another internal milestone."
Now back to business, gotta put that sports almanac to good use.
I sure hope you're kidding. Last time I saw an omni attack on our Borealis, this happened:
You hit Drakaan with nanobots for 5520771 points of fire damage.
After a few times, the filthy attacker was nice and dead.
Neutrals may not be an united front, but we are very much capable of dealing with these silly incursions. And if FC intends to rob us of Borealis (be it with omni or clan assailants), they're on the wrong path (again).
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<Lazy>
<Lazy> viva la revolucion
* Dywas decides to walk away from the soon-to-be sexytime
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The attack was from Neutral freedom fighters not Omni-Tek, myself and AF were there defending Bor, the same as you.
It's only after the three freedom fighters died everyone turned on the member of AF i was with, and then attacked all the backup i later called in.
So don't blame us
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Call them what you want. I killed an omni target that effectively killed neutral lowbies in the area. Labels and names are cute and all, but I rather look at the root of things: If you're killing neutrals, you're not helping them much.
Still, my point was to Mastablasta's rather wrong idea, not to anything you may have or have not done to help/hinder the keeping of Borealis' neutrality.
edit: Typo.
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<Aiken> such a cutesy clammer aren't you *cheekpinch*
<Lazy>
<Lazy> viva la revolucion
* Dywas decides to walk away from the soon-to-be sexytime
<Aiken> lol Dywas, Id make a man of him
<Lazy> Dywas, i'd go gay for aiken. no lie
What is this balance of power being talked about? Will clan no longer base swap to ensure they open at Omni's weakest times lol?
new engine never comming... why continue lying to us, just to keep us here? youre what 8 years late on the engine you guys suck youre all caca
Those engine pictures actually look really nice.
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Do you enjoy doing tower wars without seeing defenders? Cause if you do, that's not even close to the concept of "war" or "PvP".
All sides swap bases because nobody likes the random group of nolifers waking up at 4 in the morning to kill tower sites without anyone to defend.
If you do that, you don't deserve towers in the first place.
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Im disappointed to see that Joel had time to write letter for other two games but not for AO..
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