Quote from: Yutani on Jun 28, 2009, 02:41:41 PM
The first avp (jaguar) use a powered verion of the doom1 engine, its hilarious to talk about a feature in that game.
On the contrary, it's useful to refer back to games from the late eighties and early nineties, when in discussions about features which are supposedly radical or have never been thought of.
Just look at all the stuff on '
Chuck Yeager's Air Combat'. It was packed full of all kinds of stuff in one package, which
should have immediately become standard for combat flight simulators, yet only ever became so in a piecemeal fashion. Same goes for talking about stuff like '
TIE Fighter', when a new space combat simulator shows up.
These titles were considered classics for very good reasons.
And, since the Jaguar game is made by the same developers and revolves around the same subject, as the game we're now discussing, it's even more relevant.
QuoteSo Alien cycle + cocoon means new gameplay mechanic. No matter what.
Going by previous games, the human faction won't really be going into territory the Aliens have retaken earlier in the story. You'll find humans, have the option of immobilising them, then do the 'cocoon' option. This will either allow you to do that where you want or simply trigger a cut scene, where they're at the closest potential designated nesting point on the map. Gestation periods won't be taken into account: Whenever you die, you simply emerge as the new chestburster (either at the infant or matured stage).
Which makes it pretty much the same as the Jaguar version, not a "new gameplay mechanic".
It's creative, because it basically lets you choose how many extra 'lives' you get, but it's not new.
Quote from: kvon17 on Jun 29, 2009, 04:21:57 PM
No. Not saying the cocooned human turns into an egg. The cocoon human gets facehugged by a hugger from an egg the queen has laid. That is what I was proposing.
As I understand it, if this is going to remain a feature, that's how it'll be implemented. A supply of eggs won't be the problem. By the time the other factions get there, the colony's already been invaded and taken over (confirmed in the videos and so on). A full-blown nest situation shall already be in operation.
All an Alien will have to do is take its new immobilised prey over to the cocoon point and let a facehugger do what it's best at, like with Newt. Then you just go about the rest of your assigned task.
