Check this Trailer Out

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by pivo187, November 13, 2013.

  1. pivo187

    pivo187 Active Member

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    Just came across this PA trailer & noticed a lot of diff things. First around 37sec you can see large canyons big ledges & moutains like in the desert biome concept. Also, at 45sec you can see how fluid & fast the units look & move. Currently these things are missing. The game is choppy & laggy but yet the video says alpha gameplay? Lol in a rush but here it is:
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  3. chronosoul

    chronosoul Well-Known Member

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    What trailer are you referring to? Can you provide the youtube link? *Ninjaed*

    Trailers in general are never a good example of gameplay for any game, or movie, or whatever. They Sample the highlights and make them shine with a little post processing to clean up the images. I'm not sure if you made this thread to address the issue of the game being slower then Alpha or that beta seems slower then this trailer that you mention.

    You have to remember that each beta/Alpha/gamma build is like a jenga building... each build pokes some blocks out while adding layers on top... sometimes it gets more stable sometimes it completely breaks the darn thing. Developers then have to find the bugs(put the blocks back in) and then send it out to the community to see if there is any blocks they might of missed. Currently alot of back end stuff is getting added into the game and it could slow down performance but I bet if you wait a little bit you will have better performance soon.
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  4. tatsujb

    tatsujb Post Master General

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    can I please use this quote as my holy cross to all the PA KS video vampire croonies on the forum? :)

    I would never diss the birth of christ, it's just that there are alot of doctrinists
  5. lokiCML

    lokiCML Post Master General

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    Which trailer?
  6. tatsujb

    tatsujb Post Master General

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    he can't post links. they are removed from the posts of newcomers automatically.
    though you can bypass this same way as bad words, by putting a space inside.
    which the OP probably didn't know about.
  7. stuart98

    stuart98 Post Master General

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    Unless he did 129 posts today, he isn't new.
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  8. maxpowerz

    maxpowerz Post Master General

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    The game trailers you watched are most probably the Kickstarter video's.
    They have "Gameplay Visualization" written on the bottom of the video.
    That means its what the developers want to achive, not what the game is actually going to be.
    The developers are aiming at making the game like the trailer but with extra things from the community's suggestions too.
    So the game is at this point an always evolving version of the original vision :)
  9. tatsujb

    tatsujb Post Master General

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    lol, missed that.

    but no! I'm certain he did 129 posts today!! lol
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  10. lokiCML

    lokiCML Post Master General

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    Ninja'd
    He should have sufficient number of posts? Besides:
    :confused:

    Yeah, if he's talking about the pitch video that's not a trailer. Only there to show the overall direction there were going for and sell people on the concept.
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  11. stuart98

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    He's talking about the alpha trailer AFAIK. Alpha had more terrain features, but they were removed (due to bugs I'm guessing?)
  12. rorschachphoenix

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    What's the point here? Alpha was better than beta?
  13. pivo187

    pivo187 Active Member

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    Seems so Stuart98...Even now the cracks in planets & the metal planet are buggy...
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    Planet curvature in the video is much less then what we currently have, making for a much bigger planet. i would imagine that some of the bigger terrain features would look and feel much better once we can start making humongous worlds without crashing the computer. This will open up the way for more strategic elements like chokepoints, asteroids damaging part of a planet instead of total destruction, and building much bigger ground armies.

    Sorry for the wall of text ;)
  15. pivo187

    pivo187 Active Member

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    Nayzablade that sounds coool! Hopefully its def in the game...
  16. brianpurkiss

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    The game is in beta dude.

    They're working hard on improving the biomes and graphics.

    Same goes for performance. They're working hard on improving performance. Things will get better.
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    That is quite obviously artificially sped up.
  18. pivo187

    pivo187 Active Member

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    It most likely is but my point is will the final game run like that? I miss the fast paced gameplay speed of ta. I had the most fun playing 20n2 sup com battles bc the gameplay was very fast.
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    terrain 01.jpg

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    This.

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