Reinar
First time out of the vault
Few weeks back, when I was finishing FT: Crusade and watching Battlestar Galactica, I had an idea of moving Fallout Tactics into space. Then I realized the Firefly setting is perfect for this. A lot of planets of different terrain types, mostly arid, which is good considering what tilesets are available. Space combat is rare and unimportant. Adventurers wear "ragged" clothes (no uniforms, except the Feds), there's almost no armor or it's concealed (I remember Zoë had something when she got shot on Athens, but I don't think it was ever explained). The overall feel of a smuggler from the border sector is similar to a postapo survivor.
There are enough vanilla tiles to create several various biomes of the "wild west" theme, as well as tiles for industrial areas. I think it would be possible to somehow create a core planet city (Ariel, Londinium and such) as well. There are already some weapon sprites that would fit into the universe. With a short campaign in mind, you only need 8 - 15 firearms (Crusade has 21 I think and that's too much already).
The more I think about it, the more doable it is in my opinion.
So I had a first shot at it. Few minutes of work + some new UI I downloaded from Nexusmods (it fits well) and voilá:
I know something for sure: I don't want to do it all alone. I can do the design work, mapping, creating entities, scripting it, smashing it into a campaign, but I don't want to write the dialogues again (also playtesting was getting on my nerve lately).
I don't want the original Serenity crew from the series to play any part in this (except mentions or easter eggs). I'd like to create a new story with original crew with their own Firefly-class ship. With their own story. With their own train heist and reaver boarding and Alliance patrol and street duel and smuggling operations.
So if anybody wants to join me in my insanity, let me know.
There are enough vanilla tiles to create several various biomes of the "wild west" theme, as well as tiles for industrial areas. I think it would be possible to somehow create a core planet city (Ariel, Londinium and such) as well. There are already some weapon sprites that would fit into the universe. With a short campaign in mind, you only need 8 - 15 firearms (Crusade has 21 I think and that's too much already).
The more I think about it, the more doable it is in my opinion.
So I had a first shot at it. Few minutes of work + some new UI I downloaded from Nexusmods (it fits well) and voilá:
I know something for sure: I don't want to do it all alone. I can do the design work, mapping, creating entities, scripting it, smashing it into a campaign, but I don't want to write the dialogues again (also playtesting was getting on my nerve lately).
I don't want the original Serenity crew from the series to play any part in this (except mentions or easter eggs). I'd like to create a new story with original crew with their own Firefly-class ship. With their own story. With their own train heist and reaver boarding and Alliance patrol and street duel and smuggling operations.
So if anybody wants to join me in my insanity, let me know.