Psychout wrote:Im not scared of a gender confused minibot!
Glyph wrote: - what is YOUR favourite feature from HMW past that you'd love to see return and/or get fixed up?
Ooh, that's interesting. I've thought about those a few times but didn't know they ever made it into the game. I'm guessing it was things like humanoid, feline (Ravage), avian (Laserbeak)? Was it just cosmetic or did it have game impact with hardpoints or anything like that?Bad Wolf wrote:robot modes
You may be, I built that thing and was never really happy with it or used it! It's nice between-games candy, was pretty sure the novelty would wear off quickly though. Still, glad someone enjoyed itBad Wolf wrote:..and i'm really the only one lol, Battle Beast Gambling.
Psychout wrote:Im not scared of a gender confused minibot!
Glyph wrote:I hear you on the emptiness... The game really could use some form of PvE or NPC battles for when there's hardly anyone about.Ooh, that's interesting. I've thought about those a few times but didn't know they ever made it into the game. I'm guessing it was things like humanoid, feline (Ravage), avian (Laserbeak)? Was it just cosmetic or did it have game impact with hardpoints or anything like that?Bad Wolf wrote:robot modesYou may be, I built that thing and was never really happy with it or used it! It's nice between-games candy, was pretty sure the novelty would wear off quickly though. Still, glad someone enjoyed itBad Wolf wrote:..and i'm really the only one lol, Battle Beast Gambling.
Thanks, looks like some interesting and, uh, slightly random stuff there! I missed the whole OS era and everything that happened there - hadn't dug back far enough in the forums to find those threads, but it sounds like quite a few things got brought in (and also that the forums argued about it as much as ever!).Bad Wolf wrote:{bot modes, mini-cons, Kremzeek lists}
For sure. The community was always the best part of the game, and it's the hardest thing to rebuild, isn't it? Always amazed me how much people got out of (or more accurately, poured into) what's really a pretty bland set of options. It's probably the biggest reason this daft little game has lived rent-free in my head for 15 years even when I spent most of that time locked out of it! (well, that and the nagging itch of its unfulfilled potential)Burn wrote:The community, it brought friends, rivalries, it unleashed creativity.
And Steve.
Psychout wrote:Im not scared of a gender confused minibot!
Glyph wrote:.. more options for characters and a lot more flavour in battle reports; in-game goals to aim for (the Cybertron map, trophies, achievements, whatevs); community integration (rivals, challenges, etc); ...
Psychout wrote:Im not scared of a gender confused minibot!
Glyph wrote:Also, my bots would like to... vigorously shake the hand of whoever designed those Reaver-Obliteration Orbital Platforms that keep one-shotting them.
Bun-Bun wrote:And now there's a bunch of OP weapons out there and a bunch of lulzy but functionally boring ones out there (Rusty Shovel, Dysentery, Water Pistol)
Bun-Bun wrote:They were supposed to be slight OP for flavor reasons and were going to be a prelude to a sweeping repowering of all the weapons that we had in mind (at which time the Reaver weapons would have been largely underpowered comparatively to other weapons with their stat requirements)Glyph wrote:Also, my bots would like to... vigorously shake the hand of whoever designed those Reaver-Obliteration Orbital Platforms that keep one-shotting them.
Psychout wrote:Im not scared of a gender confused minibot!
Burn wrote:Bun-Bun wrote:And now there's a bunch of OP weapons out there and a bunch of lulzy but functionally boring ones out there (Rusty Shovel, Dysentery, Water Pistol)
I think that happened because some hallowed jackoff chucked a wobbly over them and we had to depower them.
I know there were Armada-style minicons (that were basically stat upgrades for the character - Bad Wolf gave a list upthread) but 'minion' mini-cons would be hella fun to implement. They'd be a bugger to balance, I suspect, as an 'extra something' that some characters can get and others can't. But a lot of fun. (Dammit, threads like this make me wish I could still scratch that particular itch.)Venomous Prime wrote:Would love to see minicons being implemented. I don't quite remember what they did in their brief existence, but minicon partner or similar partners, like Soundwave and his cassettes would be a lot of fun.
That's something I've thought about a lot... The game definitely needs some kind of PvE options IMO for when there aren't enough players online - or at all! - and I don't think it would be particularly difficult to add if you're smart about it. Has it ever had something like that?* Aside from filling up missions, how cool would it be to have raids, or a tournament where you work up to fighting some big boss NPC at the end? Plus, NPCs would let you test out new tactics and upgrades before just throwing them out to the playerbase and hoping they don't screw everything upashe5k wrote:Honestly, I'd have loved something like 'Generic Con' and 'Generic Bot' to fill out missions, kind of like we got to fill out the ranks in War For Cybertron, where they have the bare minimum of the missions and at least give your people something to target if it's empty. Or if the mission is lopsided you get some help.
Psychout wrote:Im not scared of a gender confused minibot!
Psychout wrote:Im not scared of a gender confused minibot!
Glyph wrote:Ah, I see. I caught a bit of that scrolling back through the forums - looked like the big missions table got reset (could it really have hit 2 billion missions generated? Or perhaps just 'cos it would have had a huge filesize by then) and whoever did it didn't realise that the the mission_characters table needed to be cleared down at the same time. Result: new mission generated with a 'recycled' ID, and the old mission_characters entries for that ID got picked up along with the new ones when it was processed.
Missed opportunity to declare a Time Wars event, IMO
Glyph wrote:That's something I've thought about a lot... The game definitely needs some kind of PvE options IMO for when there aren't enough players online - or at all! - and I don't think it would be particularly difficult to add if you're smart about it. Has it ever had something like that?*ashe5k wrote:Honestly, I'd have loved something like 'Generic Con' and 'Generic Bot' to fill out missions
Bun-Bun wrote:Glyph wrote:Also, my bots would like to... vigorously shake the hand of whoever designed those Reaver-Obliteration Orbital Platforms that keep one-shotting them.
LOL
I think that was mostly Psych & Myself.
They were part of an event that Psych ran years back. They were supposed to be slight OP for flavor reasons and were going to be a prelude to a sweeping repowering of all the weapons that we had in mind (at which time the Reaver weapons would have been largely underpowered comparatively to other weapons with their stat requirements)
It was going to be a lovely rebalance that made weapons relevant again at higher levels (or at least tried)
But as is usually the case around here, life happened, Psych & others trying to make it happen had to drop away for a while and the event never had a proper finish.
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