Fire Fighting Mod Thread

This is the place for new mod idea's so i thought I would post mine....

How would a mod where you fight fires be? The basic premise of the game would be that you and your team are fire fighters trying to accomplish a mission. It would be multiplayer and a first person "extinguisher."

There could be like 3 different classes
1) Hose men that operate big heavy hoses and turrets (like an HW guy)
2) Men with extinquishers they can go inside the fire to try and stop it
3) Guys with hammers/shovels to demolish things to try and get the fire out.

Then the missions could be as simple as extinguish a factory fire, or rescue Timmy from the house, or maybe put out a forest fire.

Again these are just some ideas I'm throwing out for a radically different mod.

What do you think?

There is a game like that that just came out for console... see if it does good there then try and make a mod here

Well it'll be pretty hard to simulate a fire Those things are unpredictable.

- Edited By CheapAlert On Mon 22nd, Mar 2004 @ 6:48:03pm

Like I said, see how good it does on console. Maybe buy the game to get some ideas your self.

I don't have any console's, but I wiill rent it at a friends.

Do you know what the game is called?

Also for multiplayer you could have one guy control the fire and how it spreads. He could have an over head strategy view.

Teh name is Fire fighter F.D. 18.

the game is all forms of natural disasters.. gonna flop.. all games that have no relevancy or are too repetitive.. such as holding down fire with a waterhose to douse the "how-realistic-can-it-be" fire..

dont do it..

wheres the fun at man? i dont want to sit there hosing fires down when i can be killin people!

rgr that!

You two are simple minded j/k

I like the idea, but I agree somewhat on where all the fun is going to be.

You will definitly need that one guy who controls the fire...and the game is going to be pretty fun for him. But you need to make sure that the game is equally as fun for the people on the other end of the blaze. If it is just repeditive shooting fire with a hose...it will get pretty boring fast. If you can add more of a sense of danger for the people going into the fire then there might be more of a game...

Im really sorry I havent got anything more contructive to say about it...I dont really know how to solve the problem that was addressed...but I would like to see this mod released at some point.

You could also just think of making it an actual modification instead of a total conversion. Like...make it exist with a few missions and what not...then leave the project like that. It would be a nice addition to the finished modifications list. It seems like one of those games that would be more fun if at a LAN party with a group of friends.

Good luck with it, if you plan to pursue it.

its not being simple minded.. its just the genre of 1st person shooter is not picking flowers mmkay?

- Edited By carni On Mon 22nd, Mar 2004 @ 8:41:35pm

True...but it is important to think outside the box and not always go with what is up front and present.

Like...look at the Bumpercars mod for example, or High Octane. HL is an engine, what you do with it is up to you.

I guess it would be pretty fun with the classes and all. Getting the guy with the axe to break down the door. There could be NPCs you have to save and carry out of the fire. That would be pretty fun. Random locations that NPCs could be trapped in the building. Just some ideas I added. You could always go for it. Doesn't hurt to try.

no outside box.. any game with goals ive seen except the exclusion of classes and experience has never lifted off the ground.. seriousely.. name one that doesnt have weapons and is popular.. i rest my case...

Thats because no one is willing to work on those modifications. Once someone has a good idea...everyone turns a blind eye. I have noticed people feel they have a need to kill and destroy all the time.

There are very few open-minded people who are will to play something different for a change. Thats where the limitations lay.

Remember a game doesnt have to be popular to be good.

ill play different when i see fun and good.. until then.. burn.

Well....if you like to burn things...then you really have no reason not to like this mod idea.

You could light cities ablaze while watching the little firemen run around and attempt to stop the oncoming destruction that is you!

no no no.. your not thinking outside of the box!! you hypocrite.. any flamethrower can do that! any napalm can cause fiery destruction.. your a deciever.. a liar.. and worst of all!...

i dont like your tone.

Chill out.

I really hope you arent getting mad on the other end of the wire. Im just saying we need to have more creative ideas like this in the community. The mod community is really hurting for good games.

It seems like everyone has a plan and there are hundreds of people who can help those plans get along...just no one does. Really...so many mods fail these days that it is really just waisting resources.

If people were working harder to move on and advance things just a bit, then this whole community would be much better off. I think we need to pick up the pace and start acting like an actual community.

lmao. I'm not mad, i just express my opinion like that. i think any community that is truly interwoven will work.. but no one is going to trust someone they've never met in person before for any real work.. believe me ive tried.. there just too risque.. oooo.. lol

Lol. I see where you are coming from...what are we going to do with this HL community lol. Well..any community...I forgot this board isnt just HL lol.

Anywya...I hope something good starts surfacing soon.

yea.. ill leave a floater near cheapy.. itll surface for sure.. actually i think we should have a forum wide mod contest .. a speed mod.. for games like q1 a2 hl ya know? and whoever makes the best gets something.. like i dunno.. all i know is if someone gave me goals to have not just work whenever you feel like it ill get alot more doen faster.. and alot better quality knowing people will actually judge it not glance at it for like 2 seconds.

Read my idea you jackasses! It's greatm fresh, origianal, and not to mention the storie is action packed.

where?

someone needs to make a SPEED mod based on the movie with that main guy from the matrix befor ehe was big time! no SPEED2 though.. that sucked.. f***in cruises.. neva liked em..

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