Story and extras Thread - UT40K: The Chosen mod for Unreal Tournament 3

Hi there, I found your site almost by accident perusing the UDK forums, and was immediately intrigued. I could lie to you and say I have somany attempts to make similar objects on my own in the UDK, but I won't.

You see, My laptop is of little use, the videocard is not compatible with UDK, so I am of little use to you in the content development of the game, But I believe I can help you in other ways:
Story:
I can develop a story, possibly even several interlinking ones for a campaign mode. While you are working hard on all the essentials, you will have someone in the background creating Characters, planets, plotlines, and possibly objectives for you.

General Idea bouncing:
I have been dreaming of making a 40K game almost since I heard of the UDK, so I believe I have several useful and interesting ideas you could integrate.
I'll give you this one for free: CQC is essential to the 40K universe, and a one button melee would be very bland. create a multiple attack option, with one key for upward strike, another for downward and so on.

Let me know what you want from me, or don't want.
See you later

(btw when i say free i mean before you have agreed to accept me, not as in i expect to get payed. I'll do anything you want me to concerning this game out of the goodness of my heart.)

sorry missed this post as my graphics card bluw up at weekend so i'm back to my old 7600gs for a few weeks

anyway on subject, everyone is welcome to join in the fun of making UT40k a great game, atm there is no plans for a campain as this would require a lot of coding that i can't do, "Close quarters combat" is a really big part of the warhammer 40,000 tabletop game (been playing it for nearly 20 years) the big problem is getting it to work well in a first person shooter game, it would take multiple keys and a hell of a lot of anims for each player, for the moment we'll try to keep it simple but i know the concern.

while atm we have no plans for special characters/planets/plots i see no harm in doing a bit of prep but it may be a long time till it get used
even with a low-end pc/laptop there is always things you can do

I don't know about that, my graphics card is not even compatible with UDK. I'll try and start learning coding, starting with Python and moving up to C and C++ later, but that will take time. (as for the animation, just have different skins with the same animation in First person, so you would only need to create as many as you would like, but assigning the keys will probably be the hardest part)

Prep work for a campaign is always a good idea, I think, it lets the creator make believable characters, and you don't HAVE to make the campaign right away, I'll just bounce ideas around and see if you like them. I'll try and avoid using well known planets (like Armageddon and Macragge), as would I like to keep the number of copyright infringements down until you want to deal with them(if you want to, of course.)

I want to contribute in any way I can, but this laptop is crap, so I'll have to help you in other ways.

I'll get back to you later.
(p.s. If I give ideas that sound impossible, forgive me, for I have no experience with UDK and no idea how difficult it is to create games and mods with it.)

Edited by: ChaosPersonified

With the mele idea. Why not a one button mele system which randomly picks a mele strike (i.e upwards) and does say a 3 hit combo. Personaly id say that a space marine would have a max of 3 mele attacks, knife (weapon), punch, and stomp so why not just have different attacks for standing and crouching targets. Just an idea.