The Death of Digital Anvil

Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:58 pm by blackhole

Hmmm, as long as you guys are on the topic, i am wrestling with the issue of how to meld the control schemes of 2 completely different genres. If any of you have read my Openlancer Design Document, you will know that i plan to make all ships, bases, and planets explorable on foot, as well as the ability to Spacewalk. However, when you are controlling a person, it is significantly different than controlling a ship and thus needs different controls. I have suggested simply changing the behavior of the keys from Accelerate to up, decelerate/reverse to down, strafe left to turn left and strafe right to turn right. However other poeple have suggested a normal FPS key control scheme. The problem is that there would be a large control gap between space and on foot. What should be do?

Mon Dec 05, 2005 4:13 pm by Fred the Dead

perhaps it could be set as a 'toggle' option

Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:15 am by gromit

This reminds me of the ill-fated "Deep Space Legends" project...anyone remember that?

Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:04 am by Chips

The problem is that there would be a large control gap between space and on foot. What should be do?

Hmm, and I was under the impression that near identical key controls are used for both FPS and Freelancer! W = forward, S = back, A= strafe left, D = strafe right...
mouse does the actual look around... hold on, that is both of them!

Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:07 am by gromit

agreed - look at Battlefield 1942 as an example....ground troops, planes, tanks, cars, everything controlled using the same combination of keys and mouse...WSAD and mouse. Its pretty widely accepted nowadays.

Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:50 am by thegreenmonk

This sound like what happened to Freespace. Hard light productions or violition watch before that was going through the same thing. ON HLP now - the mods are keeping the game alive and kicking - i guess its the same here?? Who cares abt the big developers - no this is not a rant - im just saying that the modding community doesnt have to wait around for hope of a sequal when they can make ones themselves - (Dont mention Freespace 3 - its a sore point)

Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:12 am by The Evil Thing

Hiss! Gravedig!

Tsk Tsk!

Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:17 pm by Wolf_Demon

at least he had something to contribute to the threat unlike our last gravediggers

Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:41 pm by H.Q. Victor

On the note of the topic, has anyone heard anymore of DA emplyees all being used by MS in thier gaming department?

Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:37 pm by The Evil Thing

Wolfy, that was why I said it. By 'criticising', everyone automatically moves to stick up for him. At least that was the theory. Threads full of

tend to get rather depressing

Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:33 am by Chips

On the note of the topic, has anyone heard anymore of DA emplyees all being used by MS in thier gaming department?

Eh??

More info please, you can't just post that and not elabourate you know (or however it's spelt, can't be bothered).

Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:22 am by The Evil Thing

I think Final was asking for a source or something. "has anyone heard"? tends to suggest that sort of thing

Wed Jan 18, 2006 3:54 pm by H.Q. Victor

Quite right, I was hopeing some had seen any news following up on the story.

Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:14 am by Chips

The answer lies in the bottom of a cup of coffee. Yesterday I read that DA employees were being SUED by MS, not used! Gah, musta been all those long sensuous locks of golden hair that obscured my view

Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:03 am by Esquilax

The bottom of your coffee cup had an elaborate blonde coiffure? *Shakes head in perplexity* A suggestion for you Chips: stop using the "wacky tobacky"

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