The Energon Pub

[Omega Sentinel]

On the one hand, I'm excited for V2. It sounds epic. It sounds awesome. It sounds fun.

On the other hand, I'm absolutely dreading it. Not because of it being different and changed. Change is good. Lack of change made Craplo 3 and Glitches of War 2 be so dull and bad online. I'm dreading it because not everything ends up being as epic or awesome as promised. The quest games advertised on this site are an example. An even bigger one is Gaia's ZOMG game.

You need to approach it with apprehension. The last thing I want is for it to be over hyped. Here is what I can promise:

1. It has many more features than the current game.
2. Things that don't work in the current game (ie: intelligence, tactics) will work in the new game.
3. The new game will be modernized and have many of the features you guys have been begging for for years.
4. I have designed systems for multi million dollar companies and 2 government agencies. This new game is being developed professionally and properly.

By all means DON'T get your hopes up too incredibly high. Expect something different but better than the current game and you'll be safe.

The trailer next week will go into some detail how the alt modes and weapons will work. If you approach it with an open mind I think you will like it. Those that have seen it so far do.

I have been a Transformers fanatic since 1984 and am doing this for the love of my hobby and every other fan out there. I want this to succeed as much if not more than everyone else.

[Name_Violation]

On the one hand, I'm excited for V2. It sounds epic. It sounds awesome. It sounds fun.

On the other hand, I'm absolutely dreading it. Not because of it being different and changed. Change is good. Lack of change made Craplo 3 and Glitches of War 2 be so dull and bad online. I'm dreading it because not everything ends up being as epic or awesome as promised. The quest games advertised on this site are an example. An even bigger one is Gaia's ZOMG game.

You need to approach it with apprehension. The last thing I want is for it to be over hyped. Here is what I can promise:

1. It has many more features than the current game.
2. Things that don't work in the current game (ie: intelligence, tactics) will work in the new game.
3. The new game will be modernized and have many of the features you guys have been begging for for years.
4. I have designed systems for multi million dollar companies and 2 government agencies. This new game is being developed professionally and properly.

By all means DON'T get your hopes up too incredibly high. Expect something different but better than the current game and you'll be safe.

The trailer next week will go into some detail how the alt modes and weapons will work. If you approach it with an open mind I think you will like it. Those that have seen it so far do.

I have been a Transformers fanatic since 1984 and am doing this for the love of my hobby and every other fan out there. I want this to succeed as much if not more than everyone else.

Awesome. keep up the hard work

[Venomous Prime]

Thought I'd throw in my cent.

So, OS, is that meaning the my main character will no longer be usable by me? I know I haven't played much of late but that's a little harsh (for lack of a better word).

I can understand some of the uses of the names but people such as EP and myself have had these characters for years. It's not like we just made them on a whim - well recently anyways.

Just curious about the situation is all

Its possible I can make exceptions for your own name but it will need to be done on a case by case basis. In you and EP's case I could manually setup a character for you with your name since you technically aren't canon names.

*hoping for same treatment*

[Name_Violation]

do we really need "everyone gets a prime". I mean Name Violation Prime wouldn't work. Prime is a title for the matrix holder, not every tom, dick, and harry, or jane, jill, and jenny

[The Chronic]

While I sypatise (like sympathising but different ) with you if you've had the name for years and that, I still think there should be only one Prime or it at the very least it should be a title you have to earn, after all the word itself means First in excellence, quality, or valuem, First in degree or rank; chief, Of the highest U.S. government grade of meat ect

[Name_Violation]

do we really need "everyone gets a prime". I mean Name Violation Prime wouldn't work. Prime is a title for the matrix holder, not every tom, dick, and harry, or jane, jill, and jenny

On second thought I renamed all of my team Primes. Now i'm unique, just like everyone else.

Primes #1-6 go do missions, Prime #7 make me a sammich

[The Chronic]

LOL- you idiot, you did it aswell. I re-named Hammerstein - Hammerprime

[Absolute Zero]

do we really need "everyone gets a prime". I mean Name Violation Prime wouldn't work. Prime is a title for the matrix holder, not every tom, dick, and harry, or jane, jill, and jenny

Apparently you forgot about Transformers Animated which has at least two Primes active at the same time for the Autobots, and would seem to be the rank handed out to a unit commander, but since I don't watch that show very much, I can't say for sure.

On the one hand, I'm excited for V2. It sounds epic. It sounds awesome. It sounds fun.

On the other hand, I'm absolutely dreading it. Not because of it being different and changed. Change is good. Lack of change made Craplo 3 and Glitches of War 2 be so dull and bad online. I'm dreading it because not everything ends up being as epic or awesome as promised. The quest games advertised on this site are an example. An even bigger one is Gaia's ZOMG game.

You need to approach it with apprehension. The last thing I want is for it to be over hyped. Here is what I can promise:

1. It has many more features than the current game.
2. Things that don't work in the current game (ie: intelligence, tactics) will work in the new game.
3. The new game will be modernized and have many of the features you guys have been begging for for years.
4. I have designed systems for multi million dollar companies and 2 government agencies. This new game is being developed professionally and properly.

By all means DON'T get your hopes up too incredibly high. Expect something different but better than the current game and you'll be safe.

The trailer next week will go into some detail how the alt modes and weapons will work. If you approach it with an open mind I think you will like it. Those that have seen it so far do.

I have been a Transformers fanatic since 1984 and am doing this for the love of my hobby and every other fan out there. I want this to succeed as much if not more than everyone else.

Please don't take this as me speaking out against you, but I will believe it when I see it. The programmers that worked on Halo 3 had plenty of experience, so did the ones on Gears, and Bourne Conspiracy, and the worst game to come out in the last three years (Vampire Rain). The only game I'm not sure how much experience the programmers have is ZOMG, but I've been watching Gaia get run into the ground since it was sold to a major company.

Personally, there's only a couple of things I'm good at, playing and selling games I excel at, combined with my love of transformers, well robots in general, I'm looking forward to the game. Understanding that it's going to be different doesn't change that, and I can't not be. It's transformers. How can you be playing HMW and not be excited about the potential for v2? I would probably give my first born to just be able to play the beta. But I also use HMW as a depression treatment, so I might be biased.

[Name_Violation]

do we really need "everyone gets a prime". I mean Name Violation Prime wouldn't work. Prime is a title for the matrix holder, not every tom, dick, and harry, or jane, jill, and jenny

Apparently you forgot about Transformers Animated which has at least two Primes active at the same time for the Autobots, and would seem to be the rank handed out to a unit commander, but since I don't watch that show very much, I can't say for sure

True, but i don't hold that show in the highest reguards. It's got some good story, mixed with sub-par animation, and bad alt-modes(*cough* Laserbeak).

ORIGINALLY the name stood for something, but now it stands for over used gimick.

[Absolute Zero]

do we really need "everyone gets a prime". I mean Name Violation Prime wouldn't work. Prime is a title for the matrix holder, not every tom, dick, and harry, or jane, jill, and jenny

Apparently you forgot about Transformers Animated which has at least two Primes active at the same time for the Autobots, and would seem to be the rank handed out to a unit commander, but since I don't watch that show very much, I can't say for sure

True, but i don't hold that show in the highest reguards. It's got some good story, mixed with sub-par animation, and bad alt-modes(*cough* Laserbeak).

ORIGINALLY the name stood for something, but now it stands for over used gimick.

Soundwave's guitar? So? What's wrong with that alt mode? I actually like the alt modes for Animated, it's the animation style I don't like.

[The Chronic]

Not one of the altmodes from animated are better than G1
although I do like Lazerbeak as a guitar if only so I can put him with MP3 soundwave

[Name_Violation]

I'm a stickler for G1. I actually liked the truck mode, but laserbeak as a car sized guitar? some are actually good, like wreck-gar as a dump truck i accept. i don't like the constructicons or bulk head. IDK why they didn't use iron hide as a main character.

[Raphael Prime]

do we really need "everyone gets a prime". I mean Name Violation Prime wouldn't work. Prime is a title for the matrix holder, not every tom, dick, and harry, or jane, jill, and jenny

I can tell you the Prime in my name is basically just to pay tribute to one of my two my favorite franchises. I guess it was done on a whim, but it was the only thing that sounded decent for what i was going for...I mean to me, Leonardo Magnus, Donatellotron just don't have the same ring to them.

[The Chronic]

I'll give you Wreck-garr and also Omega Supreme - They must make a toy of him

[Absolute Zero]

The same reason Bumblebee in it should be named Hot Rod is why there's no Ironhide. I'd like to see Springer get into something, or get a new toy that actually has three alts. Kup too.

[Name_Violation]

do we really need "everyone gets a prime". I mean Name Violation Prime wouldn't work. Prime is a title for the matrix holder, not every tom, dick, and harry, or jane, jill, and jenny

I can tell you the Prime in my name is basically just to pay tribute to one of my two my favorite franchises. I guess it was done on a whim, but it was the only thing that sounded decent for what i was going for...I mean to me, Leonardo Magnus, Donatellotron just don't have the same ring to them.

Commander names are one thing, but bots are a whole nother subject. Too many primes for people's bots. And yes I get the "i play my bot in a rp way" thing, but as a whole bots-named-prime has been as over done as chuck norris jokes and the rick roll. it an epidemic.

I'll give you Wreck-garr and also Omega Supreme - They must make a toy of him

I also like omega supreme, he looks enough like the g1.

The same reason Bumblebee in it should be named Hot Rod is why there's no Ironhide.

bumblebee should be hot rod? elaborate

[Editor]

The only game I'm not sure how much experience the programmers have is ZOMG, but I've been watching Gaia get run into the ground since it was sold to a major company.

ZOMG was under development for so long there was no way that it was going to live up to the hype. The finished product is better than I personally thought it would be, but it's still not going to win any massive awards.

When did they get bought.... Sure they opened themselves up for development money, and Derek has sold out more times than I've kept count of, but as Far as I can see they are still Gaia Interactive???

That said HMW2 is a different game entirely so I wouldn't even look at the programming issues between the two as a point of contention.

[Absolute Zero]

The same reason Bumblebee in it should be named Hot Rod is why there's no Ironhide.

bumblebee should be hot rod? elaborate

The personality Bumblebee displays in Animated is more akin to Hot Rod in the movie then Bumblebee in G1.

The only game I'm not sure how much experience the programmers have is ZOMG, but I've been watching Gaia get run into the ground since it was sold to a major company.

ZOMG was under development for so long there was no way that it was going to live up to the hype. The finished product is better than I personally thought it would be, but it's still not going to win any massive awards.

When did they get bought.... Sure they opened themselves up for development money, and Derek has sold out more times than I've kept count of, but as Far as I can see they are still Gaia Interactive???

That said HMW2 is a different game entirely so I wouldn't even look at the programming issues between the two as a point of contention.

Lanzer sold Gaia 2ish years ago? If I could get my girlfriend to bother with it, she could look up the post for it that the guy who took over posted for the moderators. Lanzer's still an admin, but apparently he's not CEO of the site/company anymore.

The problems with ZOMG are abundant. If they would have stuck with their original plan, it probably would have been good. Flash games are garbage. ZOMG is a garbage dump. The "Give us money to get items, but we're not going to fix the gaia economy even though we now acknowledge it's horrendously broken" is BS, and then there's things like the actual good moderators who are good at dealing with people are quitting because the bad moderators who are more keen on getting people to kiss their arse because their moderators are getting promoted and making all of the moderators look bad when they **** up and ban someone for nothing. Then there's all the bugs which never got fixed with things like Guilds, because the coders were pulled off of those projects to fix the new things that were added without being properly debugged and betaed because they had to add that new feature quickly.

HMW v2 has the one up on anything gaia in that it doesn't have however many coders (moderators aren't allowed to know how many coders there are actually) who mostly couldn't code their way out of Mugen or Quake 2. It has one Coder who, for all appearances (I haven't personally seen anything contrary) is pretty good at what he does.

[The Chronic]

do we really need "everyone gets a prime". I mean Name Violation Prime wouldn't work. Prime is a title for the matrix holder, not every tom, dick, and harry, or jane, jill, and jenny

I can tell you the Prime in my name is basically just to pay tribute to one of my two my favorite franchises. I guess it was done on a whim, but it was the only thing that sounded decent for what i was going for...I mean to me, Leonardo Magnus, Donatellotron just don't have the same ring to them.

Commander names are one thing, but bots are a whole nother subject. Too many primes for people's bots. And yes I get the "i play my bot in a rp way" thing, but as a whole bots-named-prime has been as over done as chuck norris jokes and the rick roll. it an epidemic.

I'll give you Wreck-garr and also Omega Supreme - They must make a toy of him

I also like omega supreme, he looks enough like the g1.

The same reason Bumblebee in it should be named Hot Rod is why there's no Ironhide.

bumblebee should be hot rod? elaborate

Not when you say them like that but how about Leonardomus, Donateltro, Megalangelo and The Raphaelanator or you could call him the Nightwatcher
also just out of curiosity do you have a set of those transforming turtles toys as their HMW selves with the rest of your transformers?

N_V you have to admit ani Omega looks waaaaaay better than G1 specificly his alt mode which is what we were talking about (technically were talking about HMW2 but you know..)

[Name_Violation]

N_V you have to admit ani Omega looks waaaaaay better than G1 specificly his alt mode which is what we were talking about (technically were talking about HMW2 but you know..)

all nostalgia asidewhich is hard to doIt does look nice.

[Venomous Prime]

Munkee>trukk

[Name_Violation]

Munkee>trukk

NEEE NEEE NEEE NEEE NEEE NEEE NEEE

TRUKK NOT MUNKY

[Judge Chuckachu]

Not surprised by the Canon Character name locks, but Megatron has to have the quote from a AMV "You can call me master, but I prefer Megatron!".

[Wingspan]

Munkee>trukk

NEEE NEEE NEEE NEEE NEEE NEEE NEEE

TRUKK NOT MUNKY

I thought the spaz twins left?

They did add a certain Homer Simpson kind of amusement though...

[Omega Sentinel]

The only game I'm not sure how much experience the programmers have is ZOMG, but I've been watching Gaia get run into the ground since it was sold to a major company.

That said HMW2 is a different game entirely so I wouldn't even look at the programming issues between the two as a point of contention.

You also have to consider most of the developers you are referring to get paid (alot) for what they do. Even though I have only been developing this in my free time, for an absolutely free game, HMW2 will be the most professionally developed free one out there. I'm doing this for the love of the hobby so I want to see it succeed as much as anyone.