Happy New Year and 2007 Roadmap Update for Project Reality - Page 3

PhiR · 01-04-2007, 04:43 AM

I've been playing online games for 7 years now and I can say PR has the most dedicated dev team I've seen. Kudos to them all.

As for the player base, we've now reached the critical mass: it's possible to join a nearly full server at any time of the day. This was not the case a year ago when I first tried PR, and it makes all the difference to anyone who wants to try this mod.

luizinhuu · 01-04-2007, 06:08 AM

oh man, pr is pure bliss
i'll follow you to whichever platform you guys move to

LiquidSnake · 01-04-2007, 07:57 AM

And I have to translate this -.-

Good news thx to devs

$kelet0r · 01-04-2007, 09:34 AM

great news

AIR_CAV · 01-04-2007, 09:45 AM

Ive been playing since your first release and I have to say you guys are doing a great job!!!

Aljen · 01-04-2007, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by LiquidSnake

And I have to translate this -.-

Me too

Happy new year to all of you!

Thank you devs for this fantastic mod which brought me back to BF2 world.

luizinhuu · 01-04-2007, 11:06 AM

just one thing..
will the score be unavaible during the round? pleeease, this will improve a lot and i was hoping 0.4 would come with this

[R-DEV]eggman · 01-04-2007, 12:15 PM

at some point we'll remove the scoreboard visibility for personal scores.

2Slick is our HUD genius and he's been very busy and is wrapping up a major mod task. Hopefully he'll give some HUD love when his time frees up.

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wrt the ABR stuff.. again just some ideas.. we might not ever get around to is cuz it's not really that high a priority.

and we'd design it such that if the server is not running ABR the functions would simply be disabled.

But we'd probably encourage PR server to run ABR (as well as Punkbusted .. we need better guidelines for server admins imo).

Also keep in mind that ABR has some other really nice possibilities... we can deliver certain types of updates to ABR enabled PR servers without requiring a new server install.

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But the example kurtmax_0 gave as to why NOT to do it... is actually an example of why we SHOULD do it.

Why should a guy who has primarily played support in a suppressing fire role all of a sudden be given access to a sniper kit?

Yeah .. I get it.. it's a game.... but there are a couple of things that are relevant:
1. If you've not shown proficiency with a limited availability weapon system, you probably should not get access to that weapon system.
2. It helps retain players over the long term to give them areas of "specialization". Players might want to focus on each area and eventually become specialized in everything.

A better example is this:
You just spawned into Project Reality for the first time. You are a rare case who read a bit of the player guide first and know there are limited kits and how to access them.

An enemy tank comes rolling up. You sprint toward your parked tank, request the Crewman kit and jump into the tank. You have no clue of the different characteristics of armor in PR and trundle toward the enemy tank and get your team's last tank blown up.

The "PR Veteran" who happens to be one of the best tankers in the game, didn't quite make it to the tank in time before you drove off in it. He watches this happen and knows that it's the last friendly tank your team is going to see for a while.

That's annoying and, over the long haul, is not good for game play.

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And wrt what kind of stats we'd use to determine these things... it would probably be more like the "badges" system from BF2. Meaning you have to achieve something like a "basic rifleman" badge to get access to a marksman kit and a "basic marksman" badge to get access to a Sniper kit.

But again they are just ideas and low priority ones at that.

But I do hope we get the stats stuff integrated nicely into the website and use ABR as a stats tracking tool at the very least.

I really, really, really, really HATE what the ranking system did to the player base in BF2 so we'll be pretty cautious about changes there.

Stuff like removing access to personal scores inside the game would be a precursor to making those scores more meaningful (sounds a bit backwards, but hopefully you get what I mean).

DivS-konti · 01-04-2007, 01:59 PM

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