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Ramrider wrote:

Tammuz wrote:actually i'm against no stat weapons; in, order to balance the game they's have to be shite, so shite infact that they'd not be worth having, and i'd rather keep the game free of booby weapons, weapons should actually mean something in my book.

So you reckon everyone should be forced to fight hand-to-hand till they've earned enough experience to use a weapon? I'd've thought you'd at least be able to choose a basic weapon, like a laser pistol or sword...

Tammuz has put together an equation that will insure all weapons made using it will be fairly balanced.

If you put 0 in both the Skill and Firepower slots of the equation though, you get pretty much nada. 0Fp/0Skl Weapons would be aesthetic at best, a liability at worst.

So it's not that Tammuz thinks "everyone should be forced to fight hand-to-hand till they've earned enough experience to use a weapon", it's that this is the best way for the weapons to be balanced and consistent.

Caelus wrote:

Ramrider wrote:

Tammuz wrote:actually i'm against no stat weapons; in, order to balance the game they's have to be shite, so shite infact that they'd not be worth having, and i'd rather keep the game free of booby weapons, weapons should actually mean something in my book.

So you reckon everyone should be forced to fight hand-to-hand till they've earned enough experience to use a weapon? I'd've thought you'd at least be able to choose a basic weapon, like a laser pistol or sword...

Tammuz has put together an equation that will insure all weapons made using it will be fairly balanced.

If you put 0 in both the Skill and Firepower slots of the equation though, you get pretty much nada. 0Fp/0Skl Weapons would be aesthetic at best, a liability at worst.

So it's not that Tammuz thinks "everyone should be forced to fight hand-to-hand till they've earned enough experience to use a weapon", it's that this is the best way for the weapons to be balanced and consistent.

Will they be able to do anything in the opening week of HMW2? or am I gonna have a very happy Sentinel Prime?

Firstly I'd like to apologise for my whining some time ago about wanting a bull alt.form, I clearly hadn't read up and understood a darned thing about version 2.

Secondly?

Yay!

Loving the premise and ideas thus far, bring it on!

Primus C-00 wrote:Firstly I'd like to apologise for my whining some time ago about wanting a bull alt.form, I clearly hadn't read up and understood a darned thing about version 2.

Secondly?

Yay!

Loving the premise and ideas thus far, bring it on!

You wont see any of this in this year atleast! lol

What I would like to see is in the arena you fight the next person there. Con vs. con or bot vs. bot. And the other two groups. It is an arena, a place to show off. No matter who it is. Just as long as you’re not fighting you’re own team.
And every now and then have a “king of the arena” match (per level) and given a special title until the next tournament.

What I would like to see is in the arena you fight the next person there. Con vs. con or bot vs. bot. And the other two groups. It is an arena, a place to show off. No matter who it is. Just as long as you’re not fighting you’re own team.
And every now and then have a “king of the arena” match (per level) and given a special title until the next tournament.

IconJade wrote:What I would like to see is in the arena you fight the next person there. Con vs. con or bot vs. bot. And the other two groups. It is an arena, a place to show off. No matter who it is. Just as long as you’re not fighting you’re own team.
And every now and then have a “king of the arena” match (per level) and given a special title until the next tournament.

First the bad news: There is no arena in V2.

Now the good news: There is a way to challenge other players to battles, and I don't think it has any faction limits.

Maxie-Astrotrain wrote:You wont see any of this in this year atleast! lol

4 real?

See, I've decided to leave my team alone for the time being as there didn't seem much point playing with them with the imminence of v2, but if it's going to be a while?

Well...

Primus C-00 wrote:

Maxie-Astrotrain wrote:You wont see any of this in this year atleast! lol

4 real?

See, I've decided to leave my team alone for the time being as there didn't seem much point playing with them with the imminence of v2, but if it's going to be a while?

Well...

I can pretty much guarantee that it will be here by the end of the year, hopefully a lot sooner barring any major contracts on OS's end of course.

what the ^&%$! No arena in v2 Just going to be missions and the pit. Well that just flattens my tires I just thought of a cool end of v1 tournament for the levels. A kinda free for all 1 vs everyone. The winner would be the sole surviver of that level. have it on the day before v2 starts.

Mkall wrote:

Primus C-00 wrote:

Maxie-Astrotrain wrote:You wont see any of this in this year atleast! lol

4 real?

See, I've decided to leave my team alone for the time being as there didn't seem much point playing with them with the imminence of v2, but if it's going to be a while?

Well...

I can pretty much guarantee that it will be here by the end of the year, hopefully a lot sooner barring any major contracts on OS's end of course.

AN UPDATE!!!

I know this question has been asked before. But is there any new info regarding being able to add more characters to your team? I know that it won't be feasible for the start of V.2, due to the fact it takes quite a bit of energon to create a new bot. What I mean is, will it be added sometime after the start of the new game? Or will it even be implemented at all? And if it is, what would the limit be? 20? 30? or 40? I know it has to have a limit somewhere due to the fact it might strain the server quite a bit. Heck, would 20 be enough of a strain as it is? I'm just currious, esspecially since I've got some new characters I'd like to bring in, and even bring out an old character I had to retire after the addition of an alt mode that simply didn't fit his personality.

Also, I have another question regarding the alt rotator. Due to the fact I'm going Maximal in V.2, I'm wondering, will all the alts be seen by each side at some point? I.E., would all the Pred alts be on the Maximal alt list at some point on a rare occasion (Obviously not all of them at the same time) and vice-versa, sort of like how it is right now with the exception that core alts never see another faction?

I'll add more questions as I think of them.

Revimus wrote:Also, I have another question regarding the alt rotator. Due to the fact I'm going Maximal in V.2, I'm wondering, will all the alts be seen by each side at some point? I.E., would all the Pred alts be on the Maximal alt list at some point on a rare occasion (Obviously not all of them at the same time) and vice-versa, sort of like how it is right now with the exception that core alts never see another faction?

I have my doubts on this, if only because Maximals and Predacons, on the whole, have pretty tightly themed alts (Maximals get mammals and birds, Predacons get reptiles and arthropods). On the other hand, I guess there is some room for overlap (especially in the casee of things like sharks, which should obviously be Pred, but generally seem to wind up Max), and Dinobot threw the themes out from the beginning when he defected. So I wouldn't be at all surprised if I turn out to be wrong (not that I often am... surprised when I'm wrong, that is... ).

Question time...
Is there any potential for Challenge matches? Where a bot can sign up and actually challenge a specific opponent to fight? The opponent could easily decline if he wants, but considering the wealth of rivalries we have between players and even particular characters, it seems a shame that Arena (and presumably, by extension, Pit) battles are selected on a queue basis.

I'm sure I missed this somewhere but could not locate it. Will Maximals only fight Preds in missions, as well as Bots vs Cons or will there be times when Maximals will fight Cons and Bot fight Preds?

Galvatron Prime wrote:I'm sure I missed this somewhere but could not locate it. Will Maximals only fight Preds in missions, as well as Bots vs Cons or will there be times when Maximals will fight Cons and Bot fight Preds?

If I remember correctly eeveryone will fight everyone so Maximals will fight cons,Preds,and bots but there is a chance to form alliances to fight together.

Symbiote Spiderman14 wrote:

Galvatron Prime wrote:I'm sure I missed this somewhere but could not locate it. Will Maximals only fight Preds in missions, as well as Bots vs Cons or will there be times when Maximals will fight Cons and Bot fight Preds?

If I remember correctly eeveryone will fight everyone so Maximals will fight cons,Preds,and bots but there is a chance to form alliances to fight together.

Meaning what exactly? Maximals and Autobots can team up against Predacons? Maximals and Preds teaming up against Cons? or some variation of that.

Galvatron Prime wrote:

Symbiote Spiderman14 wrote:

Galvatron Prime wrote:I'm sure I missed this somewhere but could not locate it. Will Maximals only fight Preds in missions, as well as Bots vs Cons or will there be times when Maximals will fight Cons and Bot fight Preds?

If I remember correctly eeveryone will fight everyone so Maximals will fight cons,Preds,and bots but there is a chance to form alliances to fight together.

Meaning what exactly? Maximals and Autobots can team up against Predacons? Maximals and Preds teaming up against Cons? or some variation of that.

For the most part it will be "all against all" but occasionally the Factions will be given the opportunity to form alliances for story purposes is my understanding.

Ya im not sure about who can allaince with who this is the only thing I can find about them


9. Will the Maximals/Predacons have their own forums?
Of course they will, if official alliances are made, then there may even be temporary neutral-zone forums for the allied factions to commune with. Though once the treaty is broken, these forums go bye bye.

Galvatron Prime wrote:I'm sure I missed this somewhere but could not locate it. Will Maximals only fight Preds in missions, as well as Bots vs Cons or will there be times when Maximals will fight Cons and Bot fight Preds?

Some of the time it'll be a 4-way free for all. However there will be times when sides ally up to face either one side that has grown too powerful, or an external threat. This doesn't always mean that the max's will ally with the bots. At times, the preds may ally with the bots if the situation is dire enough.

Ramrider wrote:Question time...
Is there any potential for Challenge matches? Where a bot can sign up and actually challenge a specific opponent to fight? The opponent could easily decline if he wants, but considering the wealth of rivalries we have between players and even particular characters, it seems a shame that Arena (and presumably, by extension, Pit) battles are selected on a queue basis.

Actually the pit will be the challenge arena. I'm not sure whether or not it'll replace the arena though

Oh, I get that the Pit will be more or less what the Arena is now, whether it's a replacement or an addition.

But the way it currently functions is that you enter the arena, and the computer decides who your characters fight (basically whoever's first in line).

What I'm suggesting is the facility to instigate combat against a specific character or commander, rather than leaving all match-ups to chance. It'd be a nice way to back up all the trash talk in the forums - if you've got two commanders discussing their rivalries on the boards, one could challenge the other to a duel.

Offhand, I'm thinking that the challenger would activate their mech and head into the Pit area, but rather than joining the queue, they could select an opponent's name (probably from a dropdown). This would probably put an alert into the defender's Registry area or something, so that when they logged on, they'd see the challenge, and could decide whether to accept or not.

Maybe it'd be too complicated to program, maybe it's already been dismissed, or maybe there's a better way to go about it, but I just thought I'd throw the idea in the pot...

MKALL, OS, the new alts for V2 look great. I might be jumping the gun, but how many bot modes (melee, etc) are there going to be and when will we get to see the complete list?

Here's kinda a request, how about a challenge pit teambattle?

So let's say player A has 3 bot challenges for player B, could all 3 of those challenges take place in one battle?

Stormwolf wrote:Here's kinda a request, how about a challenge pit teambattle?

So let's say player A has 3 bot challenges for player B, could all 3 of those challenges take place in one battle?

Why stop there? We could have 12 on 12 team battles!!! Or maybe 6 on 6 if we can only have 6 active at once. Mega xp,energon and bragging rights right there.
Now that would be awesome.

Omega Charge wrote:

Stormwolf wrote:Here's kinda a request, how about a challenge pit teambattle?

So let's say player A has 3 bot challenges for player B, could all 3 of those challenges take place in one battle?

Why stop there? We could have 12 on 12 team battles!!! Or maybe 6 on 6 if we can only have 6 active at once. Mega xp,energon and bragging rights right there.
Now that would be awesome.

I wouldn't mind that at all ctually. And I hope it is an evolution of the Pit.

quetzalcoatl wrote:MKALL, OS, the new alts for V2 look great. I might be jumping the gun, but how many bot modes (melee, etc) are there going to be and when will we get to see the complete list?

Thanks, don't know and don't know.

Cheers

Question for Mkall, will any attention be paid to wireless devices in V2? I know that currently, it's extremely difficult to enter a mission from a Blackberry. For some reason, only Furtimus Maximus can enter missions and the other 11 members of my team cannot. (When I click on a character to enter, the "Don't Join" will remain highlighted, keeping me out of the mission). Also, when passwords were required, the game would not accept my password when it was entered from my Blackberry. What I'm trying to figure out is if V2 has been designed with these devices in mind?