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December 1, 2014, 7:58am
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Thanks guys, appreciate the compliments and of course the feedback.
I’ll say to cover all the crits about the boss character, he is actually far from complete, so that’s why some stuff might look… well… not complete…
@Crocopede :- Yeah, I generally try and keep things plausible considering that it’s a huge lava monster to begin with… :rolleyes: and for that I basically just thought that he’d actually be a bit tired after all the rock throwing and ground pounding. I’ve considered actually some various things to do to cause the pause on there, even the fist getting stuck, which wasn’t really plausible to me, but really what made sense to me overall there is he’d simply get a bit tired. Keeps it simple, valid explanation without a real impact on having to set up any extra systems just to get to this state. The animation could also do a better job in showing the fact that he gets tired there. Even though it sound silly for such a creature to get tired like that, it show he can be vulnerable, of course creating a small window of opportunity for the player.
I can go on for much longer on all my considerations and theories on the boss, why certain things are the way they are or will be the way they will be, but it comes down to actual implementation of features, plausibility and clarity for the player and real game play impact or visual impact. So even a technically small thing like a rock hitting him, has impact across the board there. I feel like an actual event like that to cause something needs to be clearly visible to the player otherwise it’s a load of wasted time on it and in all the chaos, I’m not sure it will be. So game play impact, is “0”, visual impact is minimal and implementation is actually quite a bit of work.
But, anyway, before I ramble on even more, I’ll say that hopefully in the end the boss will mostly make some sense… I think…
@brunogruber :- Thanks man, hhmmm, not sure about the AA thing, it’s all UE4 standard. Maybe your editor quality settings are set lower?.. I don’t know.
Oh didnt realize he gets tired.