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Lived Through the Heat Death
In order to update the Fallout3 section here at NMA NCR_Ranger thought of us making a F.A.Q. to Van Buren, the project name for Fallout3. Here it is a template showing how it would look like, made with material gathered by NCR_Ranger:
Van Buren FAQ
What’s the ESBR rating?
<blockquote>We're making Van Buren as an M game.</blockquote>
I was just wondering what the time table is for our promising VB. Greyhawk
mentioned the 10 month production time period for Icewind Dale 2 and
frankly, it scared me. Will VB be under the gun as well?
<blockquote>We have longer than the IWD2 cycle, even after it was postponed.</blockquote>
What about a Fixed isometric camera perspective like the originals?
<blockquote>The camera is locked at an angle. Moving the mouse to the edges of the
screen results in panning. Right and left arrow rotate the camera around its
focus on the terrain by 45 degrees. Up and down arrow go to directly
overhead and back down to 38.5 (IIRC) degrees, respectively.</blockquote>
What about a zoom function?
<blockquote>Yes, you can zoom in and out within constraints. It can be as close as NWN
or almost as far out as an RTS like Age of Mythology.</blockquote>
What about fog of war?
<blockquote>I am hoping that we will not have a fog of war, but a "dim haze of war" --
areas slightly dimmed where your character does not have line/extent of
sight. The haze of war would hide NPCs, but that's about it. So, you can
always zoom out to the same distance, but what characters you see is always
limited by the haze of war.</blockquote>
So based on real replies from the developers we would set up things as if they were replying to questions we could ask.
I`ll only have the time to really work on that in a couple of weeks from now, but i`m gathering material already, as NCR_Ranger.
We could use some help, so if you`re interested just mail us or put something here on the comments section.
Van Buren FAQ
What’s the ESBR rating?
<blockquote>We're making Van Buren as an M game.</blockquote>
I was just wondering what the time table is for our promising VB. Greyhawk
mentioned the 10 month production time period for Icewind Dale 2 and
frankly, it scared me. Will VB be under the gun as well?
<blockquote>We have longer than the IWD2 cycle, even after it was postponed.</blockquote>
What about a Fixed isometric camera perspective like the originals?
<blockquote>The camera is locked at an angle. Moving the mouse to the edges of the
screen results in panning. Right and left arrow rotate the camera around its
focus on the terrain by 45 degrees. Up and down arrow go to directly
overhead and back down to 38.5 (IIRC) degrees, respectively.</blockquote>
What about a zoom function?
<blockquote>Yes, you can zoom in and out within constraints. It can be as close as NWN
or almost as far out as an RTS like Age of Mythology.</blockquote>
What about fog of war?
<blockquote>I am hoping that we will not have a fog of war, but a "dim haze of war" --
areas slightly dimmed where your character does not have line/extent of
sight. The haze of war would hide NPCs, but that's about it. So, you can
always zoom out to the same distance, but what characters you see is always
limited by the haze of war.</blockquote>
So based on real replies from the developers we would set up things as if they were replying to questions we could ask.
I`ll only have the time to really work on that in a couple of weeks from now, but i`m gathering material already, as NCR_Ranger.
We could use some help, so if you`re interested just mail us or put something here on the comments section.