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Article #35760Re: TFTD remake
From: Morgane
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 00:44
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 00:44
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David Johnston <rgormannospam@telusplanet.net> wrote in article <40a683ae.256101@news.telusplanet.net>... > >Subwar 2050, Sub Culture and Archimedean Dynasty are probably exactly > >the kind of games you are looking for. They're a bit like underwater > >space sims. Also Submarine Titans. > >TFTD did not implement underwater combat very well. oops On the plus side, an effective Gauss/railgun weapon would inherently generate the velocity required to produce cavitation. >A TFTD remake should > >use that super oxygenated liquid stuff along with pressurised armour > >advances to allow missions at greater depths. The liquid stuff is already in the TFTD myth. >It should also be darker > >the further down you go. Yeah! >There should be propeller driven "flying" > >armour from the start like in Apocalypse. Check > And just try to throw a grenade for any kind of distance underwater, > I dare ya! Underwater explosions are not modelled correctly in TFTD either. A frag grenade would have an extremely small shrapnel radius, while a demo charge would affect everything on the map, but with about half the power. But it's a great game anyway : ) Morgane
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!internal1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feed3.newsreader.com!newsreader.com!yellow.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!newshosting.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!news-feed01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net!nntp.frontiernet.net!novia.MISMATCH!newscene.com!newscene!novia!novia!sequencer.newscene.com!not-for-mail From: "Morgane" <ziamorg@rogers.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.x-com Subject: Re: TFTD remake Date: 17 May 2004 19:44:11 -0500 Lines: 45 Message-ID: <01c43c70$a7553740$ce007218@cr1001062-a.ym1.on.wave.home.com> References: <521089dc91a3e4934a29b06f1267239c@localhost.talkaboutgaming.com> <b66ca0tjlfdtm6o9ds6539eaniirh2qr9g@4ax.com> <40a683ae.256101@news.telusplanet.net> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1161 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit