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Wasteland The Wasteland 2 Beta Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

Discussion in 'inXile Entertainment' started by sea, Dec 12, 2013.

  1. cherry blossom Arcane

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    When the entire party is selected, camera is fixed on and moves with them.
     
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  2. Grunker RPG Codex Ghost Patron

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    That's pretty weak. Initial criticism: "don't worry", release: "HEY, THINGS CHANGE MAN"

    i.e.: initial criticism was spot on, no fucking way around it, chum
     
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  3. sea inXile Entertainment Developer

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    I'm not sure you understand how art production costs work.
     
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  4. cherry blossom Arcane

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    Well, I am sure I do but thank you for voicing your impression anyway.
     
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  5. cherry blossom Arcane

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    Writing so far is okay and keywords work well in my opinion. Too early to see quests and reactivity.
     
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  6. Surf Solar cannot into womynz

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    That's hardly a workaround.
     
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  7. cherry blossom Arcane

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    Perhaps I didn't understand the problem. Were you complaining about the obstruction of player's LOS due to 3D environment and having to move the camera to overcome that?
     
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  8. made Arcane

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    WTF is this? An Anorexia simulator? Not touching this POS until they bring female character models up to industry standard.
     
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  9. Surf Solar cannot into womynz

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    Yes. Rotating, tilting and such. It's tedious for me.
     
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  10. sea inXile Entertainment Developer

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    The low-res, low-poly character models in Wasteland 2 look ugly... because you never see them up-close except during character creation (and in the inventory, but that might change), and therefore it's a waste of resources to go make high-quality versions you will see for all of 5 seconds, even though the low-quality ones would actually be used in-game (because even modern games use extreme LOD scaling on any characters even just 10-20 feet away to maintain performance). In other words I highly doubt budget is to blame.

    inXile have about 3 million dollars to spend on the game, plus some extra from outside funding if I recall correctly (could be wrong). Would you rather they spend that money on high-res stubble tech featuring TressFX, or on building a better RPG?

    Yes, because food is plentiful in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
     
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  11. Sensuki Arcane Cuck

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    That's two :P
     
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  12. Brother None inXile Entertainment Developer

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    We'll be sure to add a female body models DLC.
     
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  13. Jedi Master Radek Arcane

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    People whinning about graphic should be stoned. I watched it on stream. It looks really decent, improvments over last video are big and noticable. Areas also are designed with taste. It looks far better than expected, 100 % satisfaction. Allocating any more resources in graphic department would be a waste.


    Brother None, Markland-> Could You please tell us about implementing more reactivity ,quest solutions etc? Are they already written and just need implementation or You just going to make them on players demands, using feedback? I know that both is true, but I am curious to what extend reactivity is written without implementation yet.
     
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  14. AN4RCHID Arcane

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    So for those who are playing the demo, how disappointing is it on a scale of 7 - 10?
     
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  15. sea inXile Entertainment Developer

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  16. Jim the Dinosaur Arcane

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    In AoD it's actually kind of bearable because gameplay's usually about teleporting from one set-piece battle/conversation to another, go figure. It only becomes a nightmare when you make the mistake of trying to explore anything.
     
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  17. Echo Mirage Arcane

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    For 49.99 ? Got to fund Wasteland 3 somehow.
     
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  18. Cyberarmy Love fool Patron

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    Show Spoiler

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  19. hiver Guest

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    Whats even the point of showing characters zoomed that much close?
     
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  20. Sensuki Arcane Cuck

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    Uploading my camera video, will take about an hour.
     
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  21. AstroZombie Arcane

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    I did not know dial-up was still a thing :-P
     
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  22. Sensuki Arcane Cuck

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    Codex 2014 Serpent in the Staglands Shadorwun: Hong Kong A Beautifully Desolate Campaign
    Australia man. Mongolia has faster upload than us.

    Mongolia - average upload speed - 11mbps

    Australia - average upload speed - 2.92mbps

    My upload speed is 1mbit.
     
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  23. AstroZombie Arcane

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    They probably raped and pillaged for those upload speeds.
     
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  24. hiver Guest

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    less talking about retarded upside down country, more talking about how well the quests are constructed and how varied and diverse are the solutions and their consequences.

    Heaps of simple binary choices or is there anything more to it all?
     
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  25. Lhynn Arcane

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    hiver, my man, not gonna play it?
     
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