Epic back in production.

[AHadley]

I thought he had too, until FS2.

[Lizard]

don't get too excited folks, I'm just sorting out a bit of unfinished business.

[Lizard]

thanks for all the replies everyone ,


once we have the beta a little more stable I'll start adding people to the beta team, this will probably take a couple of weeks or more, as things stand there's not a great deal to test just yet.

[TheJamsh]

Sounds good. i saw plenty of screenshots of EPIC stuff but could never figure out what was epic and what was other games... mainly the HUD images.

Im REALLY looking forward to this. Ive been anticipating this more than ANYTHING else released or in the making so far...

[Slaor]

i saw plenty of screenshots of EPIC stuff but could never figure out what was epic and what was other games... mainly the HUD images

Huh?

[TheJamsh]

well i saw this... odd blue HUD covering the bottom of the screen. I wasn't sure if that was epic, or another game... couldn't be sure.

[Lizard]

the epic HUD is no different from the standard BZ2 one.

[TheJamsh]

http://www.bzcomplex.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=45&pos=3

That image there, its definately ISDF-like units (re-done missile scouts from what i can make out), but what that HUD is i have no idea.

[Lizard]

so you've never played homeworld 2 then ?

[Slaor]

Ah LOL soz that's right - TS was putting the Epic ships into HW2. My bad please continue

[General BlackDragon]

Hahaha HW2 is awsome.

[TheJamsh]

and out the door go my hopes for a shiny new hud

[AHadley]

And in comes Slaor :O

[Lizard]

and out the door go my hopes for a shiny new hud

I'd go for shiny new gameplay over a shiny new HUD anyday.

By definition a HUD should be non intrusive and quite minimalist or it gets in the way of the game itself which is counter productive to say the least, as it stands the current HUD is perfectly suited to it's needs, why fix what isn't broke ?


There's not really much point wasting valuable time on creating pointless bling that adds nothing to the game itself, especially when considering the enormity of the task of creating the assets which are far more important.

[TheJamsh]

i was only being sarcy , but yeh the HUD in stock BZ2 does actually look a little nicer than the one i saw in the screenshots, i just wondered what new fancy features it 'may' have had.