Space Engineers

[Tleno]

Hey, I don't mean that you'll have ships limited for newbies. Those four times when you get more and more ships, and finally ability to create your own ships, but see, by unlocking achievements, you get new Protoss hulls for your own ship designs.

 

[M0RT]

TheWorldIsFlat: That's basically what I meant, it's exactly the same as SC1 (maybe I will figure out how to handle the low-on-energy situation, it was pretty bad)

Achievements: That's what I meant. The problem is that every time I play a map with this system, it works the same stupid way, newbies are allowed to play only the weakest heroes, while experienced players can have overpowered heroes, and you need hundreds of games to unlock them. That is what I find very discouraging. But if it was just a graphics upgrade (like every hull type had a protoss version that you could unlock with different achievements), it could work.

 

[Tleno]

Yes, yes! Like Phoenix can be same as Viking, Scout same as Banshee, Warp Prism instead of Science vessel... well you got the point. Of course you could give players some other unlockable content that doesn't ruin the balance of newbies and experts. Like decals. Yes, you can change thm no mater what is original player's decal.

 

[The World Is Flat]

Plus its so easy to hack a bank file.

 

[M0RT]

I think 1.2 patch adds some bank security, it shouldn't be hackeable then (at least not as easily). I hope it comes out soon...
I have made quite some progress, custom ship creation is half done, now I added some simple missiles to try out space fights... I'll soon make another video and add propably publish the map on b.net.

 

[Tleno]

Two words: Need testers?

 

[M0RT]

Well there isn't that much to test right now, there are very little game features. Still, I'll propably launch a test or two to try out the dialogs, but I think they should work this time.

EDIT: It is up as "Space Engineers II" on EU (anybody knows how to set up NA account? I think it should be possible by now), so feel free to try it out

 

[Tleno]

Yay! Space Engies! Now, I'm gonna post about this map on forums and hope it will become popular enough and then maybe even featured.... but maybe I should wait until you add more features....

And about NA, you should like ask someone who's already in NA to host it on NA for you. Lost of maps are done like that...

 

[M0RT]

Well I am planning on making some thread dedicated to SE2 soon, here and on sc2mapster. I hope that if it will be on forums, there is a chance that someone will play it.

NA: I think at some point it was possible for EU players to set up NA account without buying SC2 again.

 

[Tleno]

I know. One of my best B.net buddies did it... Oh BuuGhost, when are you gonna come back... Oh sorry, got carried away...
Dude, you can ask SC2 Blizz guys to make your map new featured map...

 

[M0RT]

Ok the new version is up, there isn't that much new stuff, but the device tab works (not fully, but it gives an idea on how the devices will work in full game).
Also, guided missiles can be launched with R, it's the first version that doesn't calculate with relative speed of the target, so sometimes it misses and then starts obiting around target

 

[Tleno]

Awesome. Orbiting rockets... that's just so awesome you should make an orbiter missle. I mean the one that would like erm... follow the target and... keep orbitinhg around him and exploding after some time? Or orbiting around you to protect you?

 

[The World Is Flat]

I can host your map on NA M0RT. Its possible because i did it, but its temporary, you still have to have a full account to host maps like that.

I'll test it on eu now!

(I have copies of both game, so i can localize my maps myself.)

 

[M0RT]

As the original warcraft SE ares sadly no longer developed, I released unprotected version (in the first post) for anyone to look. It is more an engine than a game right now, so if anyone wanted to use the engine and build some game around it, go ahead (just credit me and put the name SE somewhere visible).

If someone wanted to use the physics engine only, then go ahead, but credit me and, if possible, use the starcraft version, it is much more optimized (it's like 30 lines of code alltogether )

 

[Miss_Foxy]

This game is awesome! I hope I could test with you guys too

 

[Tleno]

Too late, WC3 version is abandoned because of it's immpracticalness, and Starcraft 2 version is shall we say halted.

 

[M0RT]

Well yeah, the warcraft engine couldn't handle the game, it had problems with 60 asteroids at once. The unprotected version release was however on a request, so maybe we'll see a playable version once.