The Energon Pub

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 6:33 am

Wow...

Initial disclaimer: We = The Mods and testing staff, not OS. He will always know better then us and will chip in if i'm mistaken, but ill try and answer these as best I can from what I know.

neliz wrote:Keys.
Chance of X in Y of lost, what are the chances you can FIND them? how does the "scanning" work for alt-modes? only those you can find in your team or those that can be "purchased" (maybe during field trips?

All that stuff is found in battles, mostly looted from corpses, and can then be converted directly to energon or sold/traded/used at a shop.

The alt scanning has yet to be explained, but I would hypothesise think you will have a list relevant to the bot mode you chose, and you would gain access to more the same way as loot would be gained. (i.e. pried from your opponents cold dead fingers)

neliz wrote:Weapons cost will that be (slightly) related to "recharge"? since weapons can be free etc. Is recharge rate (say 180) timed or is that influenced but the bot.

Weapons will cost to purchase and require energon per shot. I'm not involved the weapons balancing/scripting so ill leave that to them to explain.

neliz wrote:Will only "melee" weapons be based on strength?

Yeah, that will finally be f1XXX0rz.

neliz wrote:Does a blast radius affect "strafe"?

"Strafe" will be totally different and wont exist as it does in the current game, but there do seem to be varying AoE (area of effect, explosions), DoT (damage over time, poisons) and Nuke (single target insta-damage) weapons and tactics in HMW2 to blow **** up with.

neliz wrote:when you create missions, can you set the numbers or is that decided on your xp? just as factions able to enter the missions (fight)?

Until the map is revealed, I cant really answer that.

neliz wrote:Does a triple changer effectively reduce the amount of bots you can have? (robot points?)

Robot points are earned by scoring craploads of XP, and I believe there will be other ways to use then as well as the keys (not 100% sure though) so no, it shouldn't. All it will do is mean you burn through them faster.

neliz wrote:Are Counter attacks purely based on when a bot gets attacked or is it able to counter for a teammate?

The full list of tactics may well include that, there have been around 20 tactics discussed so far and im sure there will be more.

neliz wrote:How do faction points work?

They give you the ability to join and gain rank and bonuses within a faction. They are earned through fighting for the faction you wish to earn them for, I would assume that you can only gain points for one faction at a time but that has yet to be discussed.

neliz wrote:Health and Spark are seperate.. Health and Energon? or is spark used in say, Combining?

Health, energon and spark are 3 very different things with very different functions.
Unfortunately, I'm cant tell you what spark does as there needs to be some mystery to unravel, scooby.

neliz wrote:How can we move bots from one area to another? will we be able to "guard" areas?

This will be announced as we get closer to releasing the map module of the game, and is yet to be discussed.

neliz wrote:Are tactics (alt. mode abilities) trained or earned?

A little from column A, a little from column B...

neliz wrote:will the loot option influence your standing within a faction? as in, when you keep al loot to yourself?

That, I dont know. Its possible there may be a form of tax to dodge but the economy is Burns turf so I cant really comment.

And some of the questions from the others whilst I have a moment...

Chronic wrote:Another thought I've been having for a while is that you should be able fight your own faction in the arena, or even pit your own bots against each other, even better would be if you were able to issue challenges to speicific targets rather than joining a queue

There will be many types of battle in HMW2, both against players and against Mobs in varying styles, it will be much less limiting that it was, and certainly better then it is now.

Nickolai wrote:I think a great addition to this game would be some McGuffins. Rare collectibles that have an insanely low % chance of appearing whenever you do something like enter a mision, win a mission, go to an area, etc.

Such as keys that allow you to create triplechangers and ultra rare altmodes to find?
Its pretty likely, after all, most Transformer fans are collectors in one way or another...

Hope that helps.
Keep the question coming, we'll answer them as best we can...

by **neliz** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:04 am

thanks psych.

by **The Chronic** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:17 am

neliz wrote:thanks psych.

Yeah thanks, were getting a lot more info than I expected,
could some of this be mis-information

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:26 am

You're welcome guys.

Chronic wrote:could some of this be mis-information

I'm sure I have no idea what you could mean by that... :WHISTLE:

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:30 am

So if you can "Loot corpses", does this mean special items can be taken from you if you bot falls in battle?

by **Mogwai Prime** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:33 am

Psychout wrote:You're welcome guys.
Chronic wrote:could some of this be mis-information

I'm sure I have no idea what you could mean by that...

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:wink:

News Credits: 2 · by **Wingspan** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:58 am

Editor wrote:So if you can "Loot corpses", does this mean special items can be taken from you if you bot falls in battle?

That 1/2000 chance to lose the Gestalt key is low, but if a big-bad gets dropped and loses its combining ability I would imagine the commander would spend quite a few hours in tears.

Omega - you don't want to make us cry, do you?

by **Mogwai Prime** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:09 am

Editor wrote:So if you can "Loot corpses", does this mean special items can be taken from you if you bot falls in battle?

All loot will come from a loot table and not from player's bots. All loot will have a chance x/x to drop.

News Credits: 2 · by **Wingspan** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:11 am

Can we "purchase" loot (read - Triple Changer Key) rather than waiting for it to drop?

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:12 am

Sweet.

The more I hear the more I want the new game to start.

by **Mogwai Prime** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:15 am

Wingspan wrote:Can we "purchase" loot (read - Triple Changer Key) rather than waiting for it to drop?

You will not be able to purchase keys. The will be very rare drops.

by **Sharpwing** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:29 am

Mogwai Prime wrote:
Psychout wrote:You're welcome guys.
Chronic wrote:could some of this be mis-information

I'm sure I have no idea what you could mean by that...

Psychout has most honesty, integrity and utmost standards of truth
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of anyone I know!!
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I see what you did there.

by **Mogwai Prime** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:47 am

I was wondering how long it would take :grin:

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:01 pm

You know me too well Moggy. :lol:

News Credits: 1 · by **Venomous Prime** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 2:16 pm

Mogwai Prime wrote:
Psychout wrote:You're welcome guys.
Chronic wrote:could some of this be mis-information

I'm sure I have no idea what you could mean by that...

Psychout has the most honesty, integrity and utmost standards of truth
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of anyone I know!!
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News Credits: 97 · by **Savage** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 5:14 pm

Some folks may hate it, but I am not going to be one of them. This is shaping up to be exactly what I wished HMW was when I started playing last year. A thousand thankyous, OS, I dont care what anybody says, you rock hardcore.

News Credits: 1 · by **Redimus** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:26 pm

In all honesty, I think people who say they are gonna love it or they are gonna loath it are gettign a little ahead of themselves at this juncture. I mean, there's no way at all that a youtube teaser will ever really give us an idea of how fun it will be to play, and no dropped information at this juncture can really tell us about the overall experiance (no matter how much I have wanted some of this in the current version).

It is however possible to be very excited and or unexcited about it.

I'd say Im looking foward to it. I've got some reservations, I've not liked everything I've heard, but I'm lookign foward to it.

News Credits: 1 · by **Venomous Prime** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:07 pm

Fearless Echoes wrote:In all honesty, I think people who say they are gonna love it or they are gonna loath it are gettign a little ahead of themselves at this juncture. I mean, there's no way at all that a youtube teaser will ever really give us an idea of how fun it will be to play, and no dropped information at this juncture can really tell us about the overall experiance (no matter how much I have wanted some of this in the current version).

It is however possible to be very excited and or unexcited about it.

I'd say Im looking foward to it. I've got some reservations, I've not liked everything I've heard, but I'm lookign foward to it.

People don't understand that logic. If you don't believe me go look in the Movie forum or at any message board when a new comic book movie or remake gets announced :lol:

News Credits: 1 · by **Redimus** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:10 pm

Oh, I beleive you. There arnt many people who've spent more than a year on the internet who havnt seen this behaviour, and yet are powerless to do anything about it, thus prooving that, on the internet at least, knoladge is not power, ignorence is!

by **Mogwai Prime** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:19 pm

Actually the nice thing about v2 is going to be that it's modular. It may or may not have everything implemented on first release but adding, changing and expanding the game is going the seamless.

And, for all of you that doubt what has been released I can personally confirm that about 95% has been the truth and the other 5% is partially true. ♠ :twisted:

News Credits: 2 · by **Wingspan** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 2:08 pm

Psychout's evil is wearing off on the fuzz-butt.

News Credits: 1 · by **Redimus** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 2:30 pm

Mogwai Prime wrote:Actually the nice thing about v2 is going to be that it's modular. It may or may not have everything implemented on first release but adding, changing and expanding the game is going the seamless.

And, for all of you that doubt what has been released I can personally confirm that about 95% has been the truth and the other 5% is partially true. ♠

Oh, I dont doubt anything that has been stated. Frankly I think none of you are stupid enough to promis things that you dotn think you can inpliment. What Im saying is most of theings you are promising are fluff around the edges, things that enhance, not make the gaming experiance. The thing Im most interested in, the actual gaming experiance, you cant big up really, you can only let us decide once it has started.

I hope it will be awesome. I also hope it wont diverge too far form HMW's orignal premis. Im looking foward to it, but for me to say it will be awesome or it will be rubbish is compelty unfounded speculation.

Like Me, Grimlock! on Facebook · by **Me, Grimlock!** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 5:45 pm

Fearless Echoes wrote:It is however possible to be very excited and or unexcited about it.

You can be excited and unexcited about it?

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 7:32 pm

Me, Grimlock! wrote:
Fearless Echoes wrote:It is however possible to be very excited and or unexcited about it.

You can be excited and unexcited about it?

Only with Red-- er-- Fearless Echo can such a state of mind be possible.

News Credits: 1 · by **Redimus** » Sat Dec 27, 2008 2:58 pm

Mkall wrote:
Me, Grimlock! wrote:
Fearless Echoes wrote:It is however possible to be very excited and or unexcited about it.

You can be excited and unexcited about it?

Only with Red-- er-- Fearless Echo can such a state of mind be possible.

My ego is so huge it covers multiple timezones, so why cant it cover oposing emotions to?