Sentinals Feedback on Nival Forums

Sentinels Need Your Opinion - by Zak 03/12/2003 @ 22:16

Greetings, gaming people. We have posted a short poll on the most sensitive features of our add-on to Silent Storm at the forum. We'd apprecite it very much if you'd >>step in and vote<<. This will help us make the game much better. Thank you.

http://forum.nival.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=132

** Editor's Note: This is a great opportunity for fans of Silent Storm to provide some meaningful feedback on the new add-on, and to perhaps influence the game it will be! **

Editing materials

Well I found something intersting when I did my PK mod.

I edited the values of PK Armour in the RPG Materials. I was intendimng to make the armour weaker, but as a side effect metal walkways started to collapse by themselves!

It seems the PK Armor material was used for the Ai Material 'Middle Armour' which it turns out is actually the material applied to metal walkways. All structural elements need certain strengths to be able to hold themselves up. Weaken them to much liek I did and you'll find buildings start to self destruct!

So I created a copy of PK Armor, called it 'Metal Walkway' and put the riginal values back in. I then told Middle Armour to use Metal Walkway instead of PK armor and the problem was fixed!

I'll test it a bit more, but I should have an updated mod available shortly.

DOH!

Sorry folks... there WAS a topic called "Where did you first hear about S2?"

But some daft admin (me) went to delete a post from it and managed to delete the entire topic.

Sorry about that

ohh... and post's concerning warez of S2 will not be tolerated.

A bug in the PK mod

I've just been informed that my PK mod has a serious bug.

Evidently, any metal walkways collapse when you move a unit on them!

This could be a side affect of weakeneing the material used for pK armour But I'd really like soem other people to tell me if it's happening to them!

If it is.. I may have to work out a way to create a NEW material for PK armour instead of altering the current one.

The Manual

Ok, not sure if I can tell you guys. but i've seen the editor manual.

It's over 60 pages of detailed instruction on using the editor, it doesn't get as deep as some may like, but it certainly has a lot to offer.

Sorry, I can't share my sneak preview, but be assured, Nival are giving us the goods here!