Race Game Mode page 1

Mandrad

01-15-2010, 02:29 PM

2 teams racing, with health powerups always present at the pit, and other powerups in the track.
Everytime you die >> spawn at the pit stop.

Objective:
Team game; 1st player completing established number of laps; or first 3 players completing laps give team the victory.

Seems like, this might be easy programming but... i was never good at it!!
Please help improving this idea... or just kill it!

*The attach is a poor nascar type of track draw just to sketch the idea. If aproved im sure loads of awesome (and competitive) tracks can come up!

Tx,
Mandrad

Flyngbanana

01-15-2010, 02:43 PM

This idea could work :)
They already have the rings you have to fly through in the tutorials.
First team to complete 10 laps wins :)

Unfortunately theres a lot of stuff on the to do list so this may be near the bottom of that list.

Scythrop

01-15-2010, 04:10 PM

Sounds like it could be hilarious.

Air racing has a long history and fits in with the retro theme of Altitude.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_racing

Mandrad

01-15-2010, 04:26 PM

Yep, that is the thing, but mixed with guns we get rollerball spirit and blood!
:)

Zombi

01-15-2010, 05:27 PM

Sounds great but -> Loopyfest (one more time:()

wolf'j'max

01-15-2010, 05:41 PM

one thing. niko0olas made some race maps already. he had race asteroids and some others. ask him.

Beagle

01-15-2010, 05:48 PM

Yesss, please make this happen bo. Flying's the one thing I'm best at.

Mandrad

01-15-2010, 06:25 PM

Tx wolf, i will search for Nichoolas posts.

About the loopy fest, i dont see it going that way! Not at all!!! If team organizes itself, passing though a "block" of planes wont be easy. Choke points can be created to. You dont want to get speed of light and face the other team alone, will u?
Alot can develop from this, this aint about how fast... i see team work! - maybe im wrong!

tgleaf

01-15-2010, 07:01 PM

I've been thinking this would be fun for a long time. It needs obstacles, though, to really challenge us. I guess the race_asteroids map -- if it still exists -- might work.

[Y]

01-15-2010, 07:15 PM

Are you allowed to shoot if there are powerups at the pit stops? Or are you not allowed to shoot and powerups are only walls? What about randas? Are they not allowed since they'll probably kill people as they're warping?

Tank

01-15-2010, 08:24 PM

IT could work. It would be hard to determine when to stop using energy to boost, and use it to kill.

Herodadotus

01-16-2010, 01:24 AM

I like the idea, and, with good strategy, I can see a very balanced game that would have all five planes have a use. Explodet and miranda especially.

Nikon

01-19-2010, 04:59 PM

This is a very funny and awesome idea! this could also work with a super hard track and the weapons are disabled. great Idea man!

Seiseki

01-19-2010, 10:39 PM

Great idea, dodging stuff at high speed in loopy is great fun!
Doing it while racing others around a vertical track sounds awesome!

Perhaps like in Mario Cart, when you pick up a power-up it's selects based on which place you're in the race.
In last place you get a lot of speed boosts or something to make you invincible against crashing, and the guy in first place gets some kind of simple mines or something.

Edit: sorry, must have missed the part about this being team based.. Oh well, I guess my suggestion still works..

A doughnut

01-23-2010, 08:31 PM

The only way I see this moderately working is if the planes can bump/crash into eachother. With them going on top of eachother it will just be who can get their first with the occasional shot. In all alti game modes planes go over eachother-but racing with planes that don't just fly over another would be insanely fun.

mled

01-23-2010, 08:50 PM

Sounds great but -> Loopyfest (one more time:()

not really.. is there like a 2v2 type thing or more people then many would pick expo to slow down loopy speed or bomber with strong primary and secondary weapons of course this all depends on how many play.

i really want to see this :D

Tank

01-23-2010, 09:05 PM

of course, now that whale cant mine hop (I am EXTREMELY pissed off about that by the way) it would have almost no use.

Corvus Crypt

01-24-2010, 01:45 AM

Definately a neat idea:
-more obstacles would be nice, but a narrow track with 5 v 5 could prove just as tough (maybe even frustrating). it would allow players to create large blockages with whale mines (not to hate whales) that would be very hard to break through.

-I agree with the Doughnut. If the planes could crash into each other, this would create some real plane smashin' fun.

-In a team match, would one person have to make the laps, or would more of the team have to make laps?*

-Definately smaller numbers of players would be good for the racing (ie.4 v 4) or it would be a spamfest.

Anyway, cool idea. I look forward to seeing it implemented (hopefully).

Edit:*I read the original post again and it clarified this :)

A doughnut

01-24-2010, 04:16 PM

yeah um if u get 2 whales flying side by side and dropping mines its an impenetrable barrier.

chihuahua

01-25-2010, 11:06 AM

It's a fantastic idea. Can see alot of tactics with this mode having runners and blockers similar to ball.

Uhm 2 whales dropping mines is far from impenetrable if you have a shield powerup on (mines hit by a shield change sides), in fact they will likely kill themselves if you follow them closely. Also maps could have dangerous shotcuts etc for avoiding player laid blockades.

Mandrad

01-25-2010, 12:21 PM

Tx u all for comments

I will draw and put something on by the end of the week just to help us thinking this game mode chances/pros/cons.
Of course, lap counting is something i cant solve!

Fatknacker

01-25-2010, 12:50 PM

If you had plane specific spawn points a Loopy could be on an outer longer circuit and a Whale on an inner shorter loop.
Perhaps this over complicates the idea though :o

Beagle

01-25-2010, 07:08 PM

Mandrad, your new ballpark map felt beautiful for a rev plane - the many obstacles and the race-track feel made me think how perfect it would be for training people to Rev.

If you're making a map for this race mode, I'm sure we're in very good hands if it turns out anything like Ballpark!

Mandrad

01-25-2010, 08:01 PM

I'm sure we're in very good hands if it turns out anything like Ballpark!
As i wrote in the ball_planepark thread, i blame Maimer for the quality of the map and credits on how good that turned to be.

The race; i will post something as simple as the oval image in this thread. My intention for now is to get people discussing it, get owners/programers attention, to find a solution if this prove to be "alot of fun"!
Without lap counting it will be some sort of team deathmatch... but might be a good test for the pitstop, and powerups issues!

Niko0olas

01-25-2010, 08:48 PM

As i wrote in the ball_planepark thread, i blame Maimer for the quality of the map and credits on how good that turned to be.

The race; i will post something as simple as the oval image in this thread. My intention for now is to get people discussing it, get owners/programers attention, to find a solution if this prove to be "alot of fun"!
Without lap counting it will be some sort of team deathmatch... but might be a good test for the pitstop, and powerups issues!

i was personally asking lamster that 3 months ago...
thx for bringing it back...
i have couple of maps ready...
;)

djdigga

01-26-2010, 02:20 AM

ive already made like different racing maps that play as if its mario kart (with you being shot down of course). Mayhem, maze, grotto, snow, cave and asteroids

EDIT: nice looking map mandrad. :D

Jacques Strap

01-26-2010, 04:43 AM

This would be a loopyfest. No questions asked. It would still be fun though :P