Is the commander landing going to teleport in, or pop up like it does now? Or like in the trailer of PA is it going to be dropped in?
I'm very much expecting that, when the 'egg' gets implemented, the commander will drop in from space at the start of the game
Tactical Commander Nuke Strikes have a nice ring to them . . . (pssh, who wants to win anyhow. My cybernauts will be insane and homidical)
I think in this case the Pre-Viz gives a fair idea of what to expect long term in this regard, aside from the extra 'Egg' stuff. Mike
I think about this each time i play. How awesome it would be so seem him being launched down in a pod or just himself, that make a huge mark on the ground where he lands.
I'd like an option to crash-land eggs so that I can avoid any AA that may be present (only relevant in GW games if there's in-system persistance).
A pre-visualisation is not a perfect replica of the intended game. It is used as a developer pitch to secure interest, with fine-tuning and specific details reserved for implementation. This is not a huge part of the promised gameplay (i.e. orbital layer, or gas giants or somesuch). This is something they have wriggle room on. Dawn of War II had a fantastic pre-visualisation video that they probably shouldn't have released. It was rendered scene by scene in Maya and featured fancy looking physics and loot mechanics. To this day players take it as an in-engine sequence that Relic removed from the base game to spite them.
Yet Neutrino keeps pointing to it as a reference point for many conversations and with other aspects we do also know about, like the infamous 'Egg' all point to the Commander not going in fully 'solo' and thus being dropped in from orbit. EDIT: Don't forget, PA's Pre-Viz didn't have the same purpose as DoW2, PA's was specifically created to sell a game, not a concept, in that regard Uber put a lot of forethought and planning into it, and as above, they have been using it as an example on multiple occasions. Mike
Of course Uber put a lot of thought into it, but unless there's a specific quote from neutrino on this specific subject, it can be changed. Heck, even if there is a specific quote, it can still be changed. Such details are not absolute at this point, in my opinion.
Of course it CAN be changed, don't get into semantics here. My point was that it's not likely to happen because all available information points to it still happening as displayed in the Pre-Viz. Mike
What available information points towards it still happening as per the pre-visualisation? That's why I said "unless there's a specific quote", because without a specific quote it's just peoples' opinions vs. peoples' opinions.
The is no quote specifically saying that they still aim for that particular aspect as shown in the PRe-Viz. Based on comments of a similar nature for other aspects of the Game I feel it is a very reasonable position to take that the way the Commander with be functionally very similar to what was seen in the Pre-Viz, aside from the modification of the lander to conform to whatever it is the 'Egg' turns out to be. Mike
