Pardon Our Dust.

[Amit]

He's going to have to ride it down into the ground. When that happens either the banshee will explode from the impact, the player will fall out of the seat and the script will cause the banshee to explode, or the player will still be in the seat and when he jumps off it it will explode. That 3rd scenario is unlikely to actually happen.

Riding it to the ground would be cooler and more practical realistically. Is it possible that you could have MC ejected maybe 5-10 meters from the ground? It'd give a better sense of what would happen in real life: You better get the fuck off at a safe distance before that thing hits the ground and blows up with you on it.

[Masterz1337]

I don't think so. Even if I can get the player to "drive", we'd have to figure a way for it to lose altitude as soon as the player gained control.

Riding it to the ground would be cooler and more practical realistically. Is it possible that you could have MC ejected maybe 5-10 meters from the ground? It'd give a better sense of what would happen in real life: You better get the fuck off at a safe distance before that thing hits the ground and blows up with you on it.

That'll have to be the players choice. If you see your banshee is smoking and know it's taken heavy damage, you will have to jump in order to survive because it's not good when you in a seat of a vehicle that explodes.

[AAA]

...Why not just kick the person, damaging them a lot (due to the fact that it sounds like the kick fucked their back up), they fall out and would most likely die anyway due to the impact such heights along with the combined damage taken after the kick,

1. and you go on with life taking control of that banshee totally being god.

or

2. Do something for them that gives them the option to jump off or take control

or

3. Just ditch the shit after all is done.

But hey, it's all up to you.

[jcap]

Oh, so you can bail out at any time?

[Masterz1337]

That would break the gameplay, since there's many missions where your not suppose to be able to be in the air. Also, the only way for us to make an AI exit a boardable vehicle now is to either kill or flip them, the exit animations had to be removed.

Oh, so you can bail out at any time?

It's just a seat, not that different from a hog passenger seat.

[Reaper Man]

Well this is what I was considering in one of my first posts in this debate.

I was saying that we can release an installer to simplify installation. What if we just provide a gigantic installer with options on what maps they'd like to install (all by default) and it installs the update with the game (along with hijacking and all that shit). That would be the main download. Individual map files could be hosted on rapidshit or some other gay-ass filesharing site so they have the option to be a faggot.

THIS, OR, instead of a massive installer, do it H2CE style (I'm sure some of you remember this) where you download a relatively small program that connects to a server and downloads everything for you - this would be much easier as you could start the process of obtaining the maps much sooner than waiting for a massive file to be downloaded, otherwise the same concept as jcap suggested applies.

[Advancebo]

Make him snap off some parts of the banshee as boarding animations

[n00b1n8R]

So there's no reduced fall damage or anything? (does getting out of the seat remove any momentum you had in the vehicle? I can't remember).

Also, couldn't you just increase the size of the banshee's "press E to enter" getting-in-the-vehicle thing? (There's probably a few reasons this would be a bad idea, but I'm just putting it out there for levels where the player shouldn't be able to fly).

[Heathen]

...Why not just kick the person, damaging them a lot (due to the fact that it sounds like the kick fucked their back up), they fall out and would most likely die anyway due to the impact such heights along with the combined damage taken after the kick,

1. and you go on with life taking control of that banshee totally being god.

or

2. Do something for them that gives them the option to jump off or take control

or

3. Just ditch the shit after all is done.

But hey, it's all up to you.

Read back, that would mean you would have flying abilities on a30. Then you could bypass a lot of shit that way.

[jcap]

THIS, OR, instead of a massive installer, do it H2CE style (I'm sure some of you remember this) where you download a relatively small program that connects to a server and downloads everything for you - this would be much easier as you could start the process of obtaining the maps much sooner than waiting for a massive file to be downloaded, otherwise the same concept as jcap suggested applies.

Yeah, I've been giving this some more thought, and that's what I was beginning to lean more towards. The installer would be like a 1 MB file that would just contain the instructions for installing the mod. The installer could be configured so it would detect if CE is installed, then detect if it is up date, download any files necessary (whether you need HCE, the update, or just the maps), and then put the maps and the UI in the game.