9 October 2014 - 22:03 EDT
CDT states that they abandoned the engine and there is no way to convince anybody to look at it's corpse for even minor improvements. But since we have referees that check matches for hacking anyway, can we enable things like multi-pov demos, aka demos that save the data of the entire match and not a single client, and stuff like that? I mean, it's a wonderful graphics engine in spite of it's flaws and being on life support with frag movies is a lot funner than without.
Here are some recent videos of several dead games, but none of the players have fear investing more time in the game because the prospect of glory is still there even without tournaments, so you end up with displays of skill from people who've been playing for 10+ years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUCtMIjL-Z4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOyoHpT6KyY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZuOzcUUm1o&t=00m15s
Considering ns2 has a better graphics engine than arguably any competitive fps, there is a lot of potential for some amazing community fragmovies.
I wouldn't argue for pushing development of this before season 5, but if we could enable multi pov demos before season 5 so that we could use the demos in the future, that'd be great.
Here are some recent videos of several dead games, but none of the players have fear investing more time in the game because the prospect of glory is still there even without tournaments, so you end up with displays of skill from people who've been playing for 10+ years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUCtMIjL-Z4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOyoHpT6KyY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZuOzcUUm1o&t=00m15s
Considering ns2 has a better graphics engine than arguably any competitive fps, there is a lot of potential for some amazing community fragmovies.
I wouldn't argue for pushing development of this before season 5, but if we could enable multi pov demos before season 5 so that we could use the demos in the future, that'd be great.
Bias towards aliens, as their champion.