Comments - Karrde

This is where you and many mods are wrong. It should be done as much as possible before a release is conceived. People tend to consider mods and games to be completely different animals, but in truth, mods like Bushido are entirely different games. There will be nothing, repeat, nothing from half life in Bushido. Not even a single texture. Everything is 100% from scratch. Furthermore, aside fromt he awesome maps, textures, moidels and skins which in of themselves take a very long time to make, the animations and code are of an exceptionally difficult nature. What they're doing has never been attempted on this engine. The melee combat isn't going to be simple crowbar fights. Every swing and attack has to be carefully animated with a highly detailed bone system. And each class has to have its own animations, unlike CS which is basically the same anims for everyone, and for the guns, there's mostly just sprites and some first person view anims.

Considering the difficulty of the animations, thjat makes the code much more difficult as well for it has to take into account the sheer number of animations to make everything work.

In short, don't complain about the length, This is how a mod SHOULD be done. And on a side note, if they were to release it now, it'd probably be mostly unplayable.

-Karrde-

Hey, no Digimon bashing :P It's genera;;y speaking different than pokemon and such (though Tamers isn't as up to par with Digimon Adventure.) The worst thing the show has going for it is the cowardice of TV ppl to actually give a decent translation :P For the love of god why don't they release DVDs :P Saa, oh well, I'll just wait for frontier like everyone else. Speaking of which, I wonder what ep the subs are up to (I know one of thwe guys who's been doing some of the subbing and his subs rock :) )

Shameless plus: #Digimon on dalnet :P

-Karrde-

The bottom line though si the Alpha was a POS ;P No offense ;P However, the beta looks, well, damn :P Frickin' aweseome :P Anyway, I haven't played DMZ, only thing I got against them is the models really :P That and from what I've heard it's needlessly complicated.

-Karrde-

The only thing DMZ has on ESF right now is that t has a release that isn't an alpha (the only reason the ESF alpha was released was cuz ppl wanted it that badly, despite the bugs.) Also, it's been around longer.

-Karrde-

I've always thought they were hideous. Not to mention ESF is just more fun. DMZ is going to die a painful death but it will be over quickly.

-Karrde-

Note: This is not PlayingKarrde :P Everyone always confuses me for him, this is the disclaimer :P

Anyway, I was just going to say for the ppl checking this page, why not head over to the forums for BHL and give those a read. Also, there is also an IRC channel on irc.gamesnet.net #Bushido. just figured I'd let ppl know.

-Karrde-

There's been a few. For example, the best one to datye is Gohan powering up (which consists of the new powerup FX and the use of PC Joe's Particle system), jumping into the air and shooting of a Kamehameha which is controleed to circle around some architecture and crashed into a wall.

Some others are some walking and running anims for Gohan, and a couple others. Look around in the news updates, the forum, as well as the dev journals. Read carefully.

-Karrde-

Keep in mind that what you guys are playing is an ALPHA, it's not even beta yet :P Everyone knows about all the weird bugs :P I don't play the alpha anymore, but if you check the site, there are pics of the beat and all I can say is DAMN. It looks very good. And if you check out the various videos (especially the most recent one of Gohan doing the Kamehameha), you'll see ho much better than animations and sound all together is. Not to mention the models and over all graphics.

-Karrde0