Project Neocron

[Setlec]

NC must be burned to ashes and remake from scratch. it would be a new Neocron.

Why you guys are doing the mod for HL2? could you switch to ET:QW? it would be nice to play on linux...

Cheers

[Hell-demon]

I doubt we'll get a new neocron made with a top notch engine. For one KK have their hands full and secondly you would have to buy the IP to necoron which I doubt KK will give up for a handjob, but rather a crap-ton of money.

[Setlec]

yeah i know that KK won't sell the NC IP for sure . The game engine that they could use is the id tech 4 (Doom 3/ ET:QW/ Wolfenstein) or the yet to be released id tech 5 (rage/ doom 4).

[Hell-demon]

Technically they have a top notch engine with BP.

They could make a new neocron. But why would they want to?

[Setlec]

I'm not sure about the licensing of gamebryo, so i won't say this for sure isn't a license only usable once for a game engine? i mean, i get a license of gamebryo is it limited to one final product (game) or i can use it for many games for a period of time? If it says that the license can only be used for one game then i don't think so that KK would use to remake/patch/whatever NC...

[Hell-demon]

Even then isntead of making BP with that engine they could of initially made neocron 3 or whatever instead. But they didn't.

They decided to make something new. Why make a game based on one that commercially recieved bad reviews and little success?

[Biglines]

didn't they write a new engine for BP?

[Hell-demon]

I doubt it. Most likely they out sourced like most thing KK do. Some things in neocron were not designed by the reakktor team.


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Notice another KK game on there?

[Archtemplar]

Interesting, was it rocket box or intulo who made all the sexy character models?

[Hell-demon]

Half and half.

Interesting is how rocketbox are making the player models for BP but not the heads. So...who's making the heads?

[Biglines]

maybe they are customizable?

for that matter... I thought there weren't gonna be player models walking n stuff?

[Hell-demon]

I think it's just to use as an avatar. I hope KK mention these guys in the credits.

[mystery8]

Long time ago I made a little HL1 map based off my dream apartment in Neocron.

http://www.enter.net/~dsnyder66/vrs/

Tried porting it to HL2 once, but lost interest shortly after.

It'd be pretty cool to see how far your project gets.

[Trilaac]

i've had to take a little bit of a break from the project atm due to work and importing issues and having to run around organising my month in Mongolia.

mystery8: that looks pretty sweet.. do you still have the original files? mind if i grab a copy? i can rework some of the stuff and credit you if this thing ever gets going properly.

[Whitestuff]

I have been working on a HL2 project as well. I started with the most obvious place in my head: Plaza 1, medicare. In the BETA and beyond, that's where people hung out and traded.... so why not.

NC3 Plaza 1 Medicare

I was wondering if Trilaac wanted some help making maps for the thing. I've got a very limited amount of spare time, but I can pump out a few rooms a week until each map is done.

The concept I'm going for is compressing entire city sectors together into one map, so like Plaza 1-4 would be one BSP, etc. The great thing about Source is that you can use all sorts of things (that aren't hard to do) to make the world look a lot better, with low resource cost. The HUD can be coded in LUA and look amazing, models can be 10x more detailed, etc. The only problem I have run into conceptually is the networking bit, but I know Source can be used for an MMO (i.e. Twilight War) I just don't know how they structured it.

Anyway, in the interest of keeping things legal, I would like to state that I'm just screwing around with the idea and would love to hear what you guys think about my little bit of work. I am in no way wanting to take anything away from KK, merely fantasizing about a better Neocron.