Boats

Discussion in 'Feedback' started by CobaltBlue, Feb 18, 2010.

  1. CobaltBlue

    CobaltBlue Member

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    There were too many past threads about turning APCs into ducks, and doing boats instead of aircraft and such that I thought it would make more sense to start a new thread listing them than to bump any specific one.

    http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=6846
    http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=8697
    http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=10789
    http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=4242
    http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=6984
    http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=5884
    http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=11538
    http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=9259
    http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=2305
    http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=2589
    http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=5302
    http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=2379
    http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=9299
    http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=7819

    Those are in fact not the only threads wanting boats, but they are the most prominent ones. The second one in that list has a poll associated with it, if you haven't voted yet.

    Many people believe aircraft was near a good idea to begin with, and now that no one actually believes it will get into the game, a much simpler and balanced idea like boats might have a chance to move up the todo list...

    P.S. anyone who thinks,
    hasn't played that one game... What's it called?.. HalfLife 2. :rolleyes:
     
  2. Deadpool

    Deadpool SVETLANNNAAAAAA

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    would you have to make maps with areas that are half flat and half water for boat vf's to be placed?

    )D
    ) = water D = flat

    and yes, boats would be hella cool, and who knows, maybe easier than air vehicles? as long as there's a clone of the hover boat thingy from half life 2 as the 'light speedboat' version then i would be happy
     
  3. blizzerd

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    id say IF boats the vf would be a land based building that has a long slide
     
  4. -=]Kane[=-

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    So you had boats in HL2? Well, I only found hover crafts, but k ... if you're able to prove me wrong go ahead ... if not ... HL2+boats=fail ... becasue:
    either the water would have to be low or the models would be half filled with water ...
    ofc you could do models which have a unaccesable huge lower half or something but i don't know if that wouldnt bug and it would be ... well huge ... /me stares at nf heavy ... ummm ...
     
  5. blizzerd

    blizzerd Member

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    i haven't seen a single hover craft in the entire hl2

    all i saw was a propeller operated raft, also ships in source is very doable, ive had mods do it quite well and if you take the flat bottom approach you can make them be usable on most maps with over 20% surface is water

    then again we shouldn't hope on fancy things like this since its not the mods direction
     
  6. pickled_heretic

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    Sorry, but I never saw any hover craft in HL2. I did see a boat though.
     
  7. -=]Kane[=-

    -=]Kane[=- Member

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    That raft works like a hover craft ... just wrong name for it ...
     
  8. blizzerd

    blizzerd Member

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    no, it works like a raft

    the floaters keep it upright and floating, the propeller propels it

    the fact that its a propeller for a small aircraft of some sort (or one of those swamp rafts) does not change the fact that its a raft

    just as one of those swamp rafts stay rafts even because they have about the same propellers to them


    i wanted to explain how a hovercraft works but this picture does more then a thousand words from me

    [​IMG]
     
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  9. Hygrom

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  10. -=]Kane[=-

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    It does not depend on how it actual works, but where it works, if you make boats which can drive on land ... well ... then they are amphibious right?
    the HL2 raft is like a hover craft amphibious, a boat is normally not amphibious ... (Rafts in RL are not that amphibious either)
     
  11. Ikalx

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    Krenzo had a concept somewhere that he showed on an interview...but for the life of me...

    *scratches head*
     
  12. zenarion

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    This is stupid. Aircraft before boats.
     

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