What makes TTR TTR?

[delerium10101]

w00p Wrote:I\'ve thought of a co-op style gametype. (FYI I know I\'m not the first to think of it in human history) All players are on the same team, nation decided by the mapper.
Spawn patrolling a base or stronghold or whatever and then an alarm goes off, everybody has about 30-60 seconds to man a gun or set himself strategically, and then loads and then bots come storming in.

This could mean like a beach landing massacre, a long-range field raid, an air raid (a wave of small planes dropping a few bombs and riddling the ground with machine gunnery and you can take them down with AA turrets or so and after that paracommando\'s dropping in by \'chute) or even a plain city/warehouse CQB, where a spawning machine is placed right behind the warehouse main gates or at the town entrance or so...

The AI may be a problem there. Programming them to want to get the an ultimate objective via bot waypoints. (Like getting inside a control tower with atleast 5 men and the mission is lost)

The goal for the players would be to stand ground and defend the facility until there aren\'t gonna come any more bots... (out of stock lol )
This also makes for an easy addition to make the gameplay scalable to the playercount. For every player 30 bots or something.

Oh, and, try not to make them TOO high-poly.

That does sound interesting. Probably not suitable for 128 players, but around 8-12 I could see that being fun. As for AI... umm.. don\'t worry, I\'ve got that pretty well covered too, though not exactly for TTR.

Don\'t be afraid to toss out crazy ideas. Don\'t worry about technical feasability. You\'re talking to a couple of coders who took some of the most complex problems in game development today and absolutely owned them, while still learning their way around the engine and in my case the language.