Kinda proof that Orbital Stations are going to be implemented

Dharkbayne · 2003-10-28, 12:57 AM

SmokeJumperPS
Developer posted 10-07-2003 10:25 AM user search report post
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You think there are no orbital stations? Really?
heh. Ye of little faith. You'll see...

Linkage
http://boards.station.sony.com/ubb/p...ML/008507.html

Hamma · 2003-10-28, 12:58 AM

Dharkbayne · 2003-10-28, 01:00 AM

SmokeJumper
Station Admin posted 10-07-2003 04:33 PM user search report post
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heh. If you want to be really annoyed with me, consider this tidbit...
The Orbital Stations are in the build you have right now. They have been since we launched. We're just waiting for a certain feature to be ready before activating them.

SmokeJumper
Station Admin posted 10-07-2003 04:35 PM user search report post
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And yes...before anyone starts calling me a cheat and liar..."SmokeJumper" is still me. I have two login accounts. Sue me.
"SmokeJumperPS" and "SmokeJumper" are both me. I'll get Blackbird to "blue" this account also so you can see the pretty dev tag so you don't doubt me.

Hamma · 2003-10-28, 01:10 AM

Yea, I've known they were in all along

There are sounds for them in the bigass file

Dharkbayne · 2003-10-28, 01:12 AM

Sure, ruin all my fun...

BTW, were you in the really early beta?

Hamma · 2003-10-28, 02:08 AM

Yes, space platforms were never in when I played however. I played an alpha version of PS way back last december. The respawn screen didnt even have a map, it came up with this little menu and listed the bases and AMS's nearby but you had no idea where they were

Dharkbayne · 2003-10-28, 02:10 AM

damn, any weps or anything that were in that got kicked out??

Hamma · 2003-10-28, 02:10 AM

Not when I played.

Edit: There was a flamethrower WAAAAY back when PS was announced, but they realised it was too much of an FPS issue

bryan25 · 2003-10-28, 02:21 AM

It would be cool if we could have little space battle with lil' star fighters or sumtin.

Thrik · 2003-10-28, 07:15 AM

I've been pretty certain they've been there all along. When I first got into beta I was expecting them, instead I just got the HART centre. When I went looking around in the PS directory however I did notice the music for the HART centre is called "orbital_platform" which is kind of a hint towards that being the original music for the orbital stations - and that they quickly removed that part for whatever reasons.

It'll be interesting to see them though, as long as we're not expected to pay for them. >:

Diddy Mao · 2003-10-28, 08:42 AM

Originally Posted by Hamma

There was a flamethrower WAAAAY back when PS was announced, but they realised it was too much of an FPS issue

Gee Now They wouldn't want us to have FPS issue's? Right?

Trebor95 · 2003-10-28, 08:49 AM

Woner what they have planned

control of an orbital station? controling the Orbital Srtike platforms?

sounds interesting

DramaticFanatic · 2003-10-28, 09:01 AM

What did orbital stations do?

SilverLord · 2003-10-28, 09:09 AM

Originally Posted by DramaticFanatic

What did orbital stations do?

I want to know too!!

Thrik · 2003-10-28, 09:36 AM

Originally the process was that you'd go up into the orbital station in the HART, then you'd be on a physical space station and go into the drop pods manually, then select where to drop. But they went with just skipping the orbital station and going right to the map.

I expect if they're reimplementing them there'll be more uses for them. For example, maybe there could be huge drop pods which support a squad and a vehicle (like a Galaxy). I'd love to see things like that.