Game News Wasteland 2 Kickstarter Update #34: Gamescom Demo Video, First Dev Diary Released

That's definitely a good thing in WL2. I wonder if you can "complete" the game if you kill every npc.

 

From what I gather overwatch is an active, not a passive feature. So if it didn't happen this playthrough, but didn't other times then the AI "chose" not to (it probably has drawbacks too, otherwise it'd be a pretty nonsensical feature). I don't understand how you can conclude from that that the AI can't use it at all, especially when it clearly has on other occasions.

 

According to Brother None on the official forums the overwatch ability is in.

http://wasteland.inxile-entertainment.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=4488

 

I'm very confused because a group of armed men, presumably with some training, in what is supposed to be a defensive structure, never used overwatch against an attacking force.

 

I was curious why all the guys got into ambush positions with the sniper up top and then the sniper fires and all the enemies get to go before the rest of the team. Can you have all your dudes shoot at once or something?

 

Infinitron scrambling to defend yet another Kickstarter and desperately calling Brother None for help is so damn hilarious!

 

Yeah, but I think part of the problem might be that we both had the wrong idea about overwatch, namely that it's the guys in the base who do it. Because in the Wasteland forum, BN said that it wasn't used because the wolf didn't have enough AP as the sniper moved through the adjacent space. So maybe it's not something that works over distance? Would be weird (and lame) though.

Also, he says they'll be addressing grid-gate in the next KS update.

 

Maybe he's talking about just melee disengage attack. The wolf would get a free attack if he had enough leftover AP. Maybe the mechanic is the same for melee and ranged like in SRR.

 

Then you must have a pretty lame sense of humor, son. I'd think more of us would be scrambling to give the benefit of the doubt to what may be the last opportunity** for cRPG incline in this severely declined world.

Though I must say I...admittedly...have lost a tiny glimmer of hope and do agree with VD's post. It seems Fargo may have sacrificed A LOT in favor of "Reactivity" his newfound favorite word. It's like the fear of their backers got to him or something. Of course we all want reactivity but not at the cost of contrived retardation. *sigh*




**I'm refering to Kickstarter/Vidjagames and not WL2 specifically

 

I wasn't saying you were unreasonable. Anybody who has ever read my posts knows that "innocent until proven guilty" is like, my whole thing, man.

 

Has anynone mentioned that final demo version of a game and convention demo for press are two different things? One even inevitably coming with tightly controlled playthrough?

Neither may represent the full truth about the final product though.

 

Master of the obvious

 

Both Temple of Elemental Evil and Knights of the Chalice had combat logs and floating damage numbers. My immersion isn't harmed any, so I don't see why I should have to dart my eyes to the corner of the screen with every attack.

What Jim the Dinosaur said plus just because they're opening the beta to backers in October doesn't mean they're not having their own private beta now.

 

Or maybe they're both accurate and game devs just like to call something a beta at the last possible moment so they can always have the "c'mon it's just an alpha" defense! I see a whole realm of possible conspiracies.

 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2/posts/544063

So inEPTile gets to redefine words to suit their purposes.

 

To them. From the same update

Ah yes the "feature complete playable" in-between alpha and beta. A well-known phase and phrase.

 

Everything good is as intended, anything bad is not final.

But really, at this point the only possible changes are minor stuff or balance related things... they ain't gonna change the level design or overall quest design when the game is/will be soon be in beta, unless things go really bad on the open beta and Fargo delays the game.

 

HAHA, ZING!



Every time it gets more and more clever!

 

So what? The fact that you don't defend two questionable elements of the game doesn't make an apologist? And what about everything else? Seriously, getting butthurt about people criticizing W2 and desperately tagging BN and asking (almost demanding) for things to support your points or diminish the points of other people? Pathetic.

The sad thing is that in your mind you "don't defend anything". Delusional too much?