The Hunters Thread

Im currently working on a mod but I had an idea that I wanted to share with everyone...

The mod would be based in the distant future where humans are only a small portion of earths population and giant monster-like animals roam the earth. The humans have all gathered in small groups or "Tribes" that settle in various places throughout the land and set up bases or camps. The point of the game is to survive out in the wild and kill monsters for various foods and minerals (Dunno what else yet)to bring back to your tribe.

In single player mode you would go on various missions to kill different types of beasts, every once and a while getting a chance at a free hunt to impress the tribe with what you can kill. With bigger hunts in the game you would need to team up with AI and take down the monsters using massive machine guns and other futuristic weapons. The farther you go in the game the larger and more deadly the monster become and the higher skill level it takes to kill them. You will be able to set up traps and do large amount of damage on bigger creatures if you are able to lure them into the traps. The farther you go into the game and the more monsters you kill, the larger your tribe grows. Of course an epic story line would need to be added as well as a free mode for players that do eventually beat the SP campaign.

Multiplayer- Multiplayer is basically the same concept as the SP only with a twist. There are two teams (or tribes) that each are searching for a certain monster on the map. The team to first kill the monster wins the round. However a team can set up traps to slow the other team down or the other way around. The players can also kill other members from the team with thier weapons, although ammo is very valuable and should not be wasted. There will also be smaller aggressive animals on the map besides the boss creature, these animals will attack you and your tribe on site so you must be careful when heading into wooded areas.

-Death of a boss monster will be epic- Screen shaking when monster falls.
-An awesome since of teamwork-your team sets up traps and has to work hard as a team to kill the boss monster.
-Futuristic guns and traps
-Various all terrain vehicles for large maps.

This is the idea I had...If its already been thought of im sorry. As I said I am currently working on a mod so if someone likes this idea then u can use it, I dont mind. I will point out that coding, no matter what engine you use, will be tough on this mod. I was going to go with the HL2 engine, but I dont know if that would be the correct engine for it. If you have any thoughts or ideas to add onto this i'd be glad to hear them.

Different, but interesting. Sounds like a good idea. I think another cool multiplayer mode would be being able to group up (in parties, Tribes) and roaming around killing monsters and challenging other Tribes.

You mean... not true PvP, but challenging the other tribes at killing monsters?

Yeah, but also just being able to run around killing monsters too, in case you're not into the whole Tribe vs Tribe thing.

Yea that would be cool. I was thinking about having certain monsters that live in and protect caves that contain minerals needed for the tribes. So that the tribe would have to kill the monster before getting the materials.

Edited by: Blinks

ummmmmmm no offence but if the human race lives in scattered tribes..how do they get crazy futreistic machine guns?....where are these guns made? who makes the ammo? do the scatterd tribes have factories?.....I dunno just a suggestion but maybe incoporate some low tech weapons done wiht a high tech twist...like a bow and arrow with explosive arrows....crazy ass cross bow....stuff that would fit in with the setting

yeah there are rather alot of holes in an otherwise nice idea. also it reminds me of that STALKER game rather alot, certainly in terms of hunting things.
although huge monsters are kindve fun to kill, remeber dear old gargy from HL1?

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*snaps fingers

i have a solution. Revise the story to say that the earth for the most part has been reduced to a dangerous wasteland, with humans cluustered in small defended cities... like fortresses... around natural resource areas like water. The wastelands are inhabited by these giant monsters, who the humans periodically need to leave their cities to hunt for food every few months. This would explain how you could retain the futuristic weaponry, but still have humans fighting giant monsters.

what reduces the planet to this?

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Nuclear War maybe? I mean, it's feasible.

omg i had an idea similar to this u can use all the concepts i did for it if you want .. i was gonna just call it HunTer

Stuffteam.co.uk

You can use anything from there as long as you ask me .. u can also have the model relating to those renders if u want it.

declinsion wrote: Nuclear War maybe? I mean, it's feasible.

perhaps, the monsters could be mutations but its still a little unconvincing....

not that i can really talk, theres a nuclear war in my mod

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Nice concepts . I would start this mod but im already modeling for two other mods... the idea is free for the taking if anyone wants to start a profile.

I like the nuclear war idea also. The SP game could switch from different parts of the world containing different monsters... like russia, US, china, japan(Hmmmm Pickachu!lol).

I might take this on as a side project. Right now, I'm coding for another mod, but this might be something for me to spend my free time on.

Yea if you do tell me and I might be able to model something for it every once and a while. Right now I have other mods to work on and couldnt do much for the project at the moment.