He was never happy with that decision and had Tim Cain tell us about his lousy idea well in advance so they could cut it early.
Sorry infi, Roguey is right here. In formspring Josh answered a question about if he would add a feature that he considered very good, that improves the game and the backers would like, if it would require 1 month additional time to ship. And his answer was, more or less, he would save it for the DLC/expansion. He would push for more time only for polish, if the game needed it.
Then adding new features would cut time from QA. Unless the game is completely stable and Obsidian actualy finishes the game sooner than they excpected(fat chance that), i don't see how they can add more features without affecting their timetable.
I'm expecting inXile's internal beta to be content complete and as far as I know it is. I'm also expecting it to be feature complete but apparently it isn't and they are also considering adding a crouch stance for some reason. I was expecting this to be released within a few months but it looks like there's no way that's happening. It's troubling that Fargo doesn't have a target release date.
Pre-alpha.
Stances, especially crouching, are a precious and important part of immurshun when it comes to tactical rpgs set in a technologically advanced world, it makes a lot of sense there, the game would feel incomplete without it.
Eh, as long as the combat animations look decent relative to the environment, I'll be perfectly immersed. I won't be jolted out of the game because the system won't let me spend 2 AP to get a +15% to hit and defense bonus.
Fucking missing the point... it will when you are in front of a (indestructible, non explosive) barrel and your chest gets filled with lead.
Um, cover mechanics are in the game.
now where the fuck did i say you were by the stupid barrel?
It's not " a certain defense bonus", bonus for standing behind cover should be there regardless, it's the difference between standing behind on obstacle and crouching behind an obstacle. One leads to you getting filled with lead, one doesn't. Let's look at another
as an example. In GoW, even before you're actually in cover, you can crouch run to get behind it, doing so is infinitely superior to walking/normal running because if the obstacle is high enough, the enemy can't shoot you.
Yes, SRR does that; in fact, it is a cumulative bonus/malus. It also applies to both parties except for the cover object that one of them is directly using. So if A was behind a med cover object and there was a heavy cover object between A and B, B would have a cumulative 'heavy+medium cover' penalty when shooting at A, and A would have a 'heavy cover' penalty when shooting at B. You can also set objects to break LOS and shots separately (e.g. unbreakable window wouldn't block LOS but would block shots; very thick foliage would block LOS but not block shots).
Feel the same way, I couldn't care less if they add it in or not. I was just trying to "illustrate" Lhynn's point a little better, they say a picture's worth a thousand words.(That one had two panels so it was worth 2 thousand.) I'm perfectly fine with them doing what Shadowrun returns allegedly did, what with the bonus defense simply by being behind(Not in) cover. I also agree with Roguey that the beta should be feature complete, and adding more shit would just delay the release and add untested, potentially bug riddled features.
