The DCUG Back on Track!

[kkhohoho]

Hey, Benton. I think It'd be cool if you set all the characters to "campaign only". That way, the characters list'd be more organized, and you also wouldn't have to worry so much about the invulnerability levels, since the heroes would be inflicting more damage. The only con I can think off is that characters without invulnerability would be REALLY screwed in most situations.

Benton has already stated that the characters will be non-campaign because of technical issues.  Look up in the thread a bit.

[Blitzgott]

Oh... I see.

Sorry about it.

[BentonGrey]

Yeah guys, it's really killing me, I went through and 'campaign only-ed' all of 'em, and it was so nice.......BUT since everyone's powers were pumped up (espeically their passive defences) everything was wonky, balance wise.  I played a game as the Aqua-foes against 'ol Arthur, and he DESTROYED me, because nothing I had could get past his PD's.

Ohh, and Blitzgott, thanks so much for making up that FX list for me, now I know I've got quite a lot of work ahead of me in that department, I can go ahead and take care of it.  Thanks man!

:EDIT:  Another updates, Serifan, Longshadow and Infinity Man are now all added in.  That means that the Forever People and the Ultimen are complete!

[BentonGrey]

Hey guys, just another quick update for those following along, I've now updated about half of the characters that use flying melee with TaskmasterX's hexed kf's, and I have now finished the swimming versions of all of my underwater characters.  Plus, Queen Mera has been added, along with Aquagirl (Tula), and Tempest.  Mera could honestly use a bit more work, and I'm debating giving Tempest the spellcaster attribute.  Just how powerful of a sorceror is he?  Another concern is I don't want him to overshadow 'ol Arthur, and he's already pretty powerful.  I could use some suggestions on how to implement Mera's hard water powers as well.  So far she's got an area 'tidal wave' attack, physical guardian, a high knockback water beam, and a bubble trap.

[BentonGrey]

Howdy guys, I'm still trying to come up with ways to expand Mera's powers, so I'm open to suggestions!

On another note, I'm alsmost done with the first couple of issues of the Batman 'comic.'  I'm just trying to iron out a couple different problems, but after that I'll have at least SOMETHING that can ship with the final version.

Related to that, I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how to go about setting up the comics for the loading screens in between levels.  I have some idea from looking at the mods I have, but I'd really love it if someone could point me in the direction of a walkthrough.

[Blitzgott]

I don't know much about Mera. From what I've read and heard about her, tho, I believe she could have most green lantern powers.


Good to know you're already working on the EZ Script missions, Benton. Looking forward to it!

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

Why would Aquaman's wife have Green Lantern's powers?

[BentonGrey]

I think that he means she can create hard water constructs similar to GL's hard light constructs.  Hmm...maybe I should talk to some of the artists who have been helping me about making some 'water' skins for some summonable minions?

I'm glad you're excited about the comics Blitz, I'm pretty excited with making them.  I'm honestly having a blast....provided things work.... :wacko:

[BentonGrey]

Alright guys, I'm back in town and I'll be back to work on DCU asap!  After KS finishes the last of those skins, I will be just about done.

[Dreaded Porcupine]

Awesome BG. Looking forward to your mod especially the underwater parts of it. It sounds like it's going to be a great mod. Thanks for all your hard work. It keeps interest in the game going.

[Cyber Burn]

Is there any way that I could get a copy of the DC mod to check out?   I've been following this thread for quite a while and I'd love to see how it's going.

[BentonGrey]

Hey man, I'm pretty close to a public beta release pretty soon, I've decided to skip the second round of testing.  I'm just waiting on a few more things from some of my contributors.

[Cyber Burn]

That's awesome Benton, from what I've read, I'm really enthusiastic about getting to play this one.   Good Luck.

[Mystik]

ooo I just can't wait

hey benton send me a pm (lost all my pc data)

[UnkoMan]

If one of them is me... Ohznoez! I'll get a bunch done on Friday, probably.

I'm going to PM you with a question about this though.

[Jakew]

What sort of download size are you looking at for the beta?

[BentonGrey]

Haha........big, I'm not sure exactly how big, but there are a LOT of meshes.

[BatWing]

wow alot sounds like 13 meshes!!!!
or 14!!!

[Previsionary]

there's more than likely more than 13-14 meshes in this mod. I'd be willing to bet there's over 50...and from my experiences...that's quite a few Megs...40-600 or so depending on the individual sizes (not including skins beyond the standard). That's unzipped of course.

[BatWing]

maybe 30ish? :blink:

[kkhohoho]

maybe 30ish? :blink:

I've tested an older version, which probally has less meshes in it then the later version, and the version I tested had many meshes.  13-14 meshes isn't a lot, especially compared to Benton's mod.  I didn't do a complete count, but I think it for sure has at least 50-60 meshes, and by now, there's probally quite a few more.

[BatWing]

maybe 30ish? :blink:

I've tested an older version, which probally has less meshes in it then the later version, and the version I tested had many meshes.  13-14 meshes isn't a lot, especially compared to Benton's mod.  I didn't do a complete count, but I think it for sure has at least 50-60 meshes, and by now, there's probally quite a few more.

whoa thats alot of megabytes eh?

[BentonGrey]

Yeah, I forget the character count, somewhere over two hundred by now, I would imagine, not counting multiple versions of some characters.  So, count on at least a third as many meshes as characters, probably more.

[BentonGrey]

Well, just another 'I'm not dead' message.  I've finally gotten around to adding in the Deep Six and updating all of my flying characters to Taskmaster X's wonderful hexed KF's (they now look like they are actually swinging, which is pretty awesome) and I'm just about set.  I think I'm only waiting on three things.  Then I've still got to do all that freakin' FX stuff.......but that shouldn't take more than a slow weekend. 

:EDIT: The 1000 Director and his soldiers are also now added in and I've started to work on the whole FX issue.

[BentonGrey]

I somehow managed to forget to add Dr. Polaris, Evil Star, Felix Faust, and Jericho, so they'll be added today.

On another note, I've been mostly working on the EZScript comics, and I've gotten four of the Batman adventures finished (somewhere around halfway through the story) and I've done a couple one-shots with Green Arrow and Hawkman that will probably tie back into their ongoing series when I get around to it.  I'm also trying to work up the will to start my JLA run, but just haven't gotten into it yet.  The lack of maps is killing me!

[kkhohoho]

I somehow managed to forget to add Dr. Polaris, Evil Star, Felix Faust, and Jericho, so they'll be added today.

On another note, I've been mostly working on the EZScript comics, and I've gotten four of the Batman adventures finished (somewhere around halfway through the story) and I've done a couple one-shots with Green Arrow and Hawkman that will probably tie back into their ongoing series when I get around to it.  I'm also trying to work up the will to start my JLA run, but just haven't gotten into it yet.  The lack of maps is killing me!

What EZcomics are you currently planning to work on?

[BentonGrey]

Happy to tell you Kkhohoho.  I think I mentioned this somewhere....but I haven't a clue where.  Aside from an ongoing Batman title, the first story-arc of which I'm somewhere close to half-way through with, my to-do list looks like this:

Hawkman: origin onward (not to put too fine a point on it :D), I'm going to re-tell a lot of Silver Age Hawkman stories, and eventually go into my own version of the Rann/Thanagar war.  One of my prime goals is to start with a clean slate, continuity wise using the Silver Age version as my base.
Brave and the Bold: my catch-all, team up two or more heroes every issue for some fun one shots.  I have a couple of ideas already involving The Atom, the Flash, Batman, and Mr. Miracle
The Question: Uncover a military conspiracy that is setting up puppet politicians and using scare tactics to get them elected, and in a second story arc, he teams up with Blue Beetle to stop a nihilist cult from destroying a museum (taken from a classic story).
The Flash: origin onward (this one's not as important to me as the Hawkman one.
Green Lantern: origin onward (ditto, but a higher priority than Flash 'cause I feel he needs more correction)
Justice League: I'm going to retell the White Martian invasion from JLU, and basically use that as my base.  I'll try and fill in some gaps, make some changes, so on and so-forth.  I want to tell the origin of Red Tornado, do a cross-over with the JSA (strictly Golden Age) where they fight Per Degaton.  I'll do some Earth-2 CSA crossovers too.  As far as I'm concerned, JLU is 85% canon, very little deviation, so I'll just sorta' use this to let us play some of those adventures, re-tell a few, and then just fill in gaps and continue afterward.
Aquaman: origin onward (this is my big one, this is the story that is going to be wildly different from the comics, because I feel that even though some writers have gotten him right, they've had their hands tied by bad story-telling decisions that went before them.)
Mr. Miracle: Just some random adventures where he has to escape from some places.
Blue and Gold: I'd like to do a couple of adventures with these guys, but I don't have any ideas at the moment.
Green Arrow: I'd like to re-tell some of his stories, and right some of those wrongs (especially the atrocities that were those issues in the early 70's).  I want Ollie to be a modern Robin Hood, fighting the fat cats, looking out for the little guy, but not be so ridiculously left wing he can't have a conversation with his best friend.

There are a few others kicking around in my head that I'd like to dabble with (Suicide Squad, Gotham Villains, the Cruel and the Covetous or the Vicious and the Villainous (a villains team-up), Superman, several 'events' where you play through a campaign in multiple 'books,' a Robin solo, New Gods....yeah...so more than a few...)

I'm very open to suggestions, and I love to kick ideas around.  Aquaman is the only character who I have a whole over-arching story laid out for yet (although the Hawks are close), so there is a lot open.

[kkhohoho]

I have an idea.  Some sort of big timespace continuum riff could occur, bringing together heroes and villains from various parts of the continuum.  It could be done in several ways.  Firstly, the characters could be from various places of time in your version of DC continuty, and could give you the opurtunity to explain various past details you might want to cover, or delve into characters that you might not want to make an ongoing issue for, but perhaps focus on at least once, and this setup could allow you to do more then one or two characters at a time.  You could also introduce characters in "The Brave and the Bold", but some characters may have died in the past, so you wouldn't be able to do characters's you've deemed dead by now unless you disrespect the dead like many comicbooks have and bring that character back to life.

Another way is having the characters of your continuty meet with the characters from DC comics, from various times and places, and this would allow you to compare.  For example, your Hawkman and the current comics Hawkman.  Your Aquaman and the current comics Aquaman.  Your Batman and the comics Batman that always said "I've planned for this" whenever danger reared it's ugly head.

I also have another idea.  It's not because I think it would the most interesting thing in the world though.  You see, the Teen Titans had some good stuff back in the 80's, good enough that some of it has been reprinted in the modern era in TPB's.  The new comic used to be all right.  Nowadays, the're not being handled that well, and also, if you want to do a Robin solo, you might as well do this since Batman will probally both have a solo and be in the JLA.  You've also already made TT herofiles as well.

[BentonGrey]

Yeah, I definitely want to do some time traveling stories, and the JSA/JLA crossover is going to be just that.  I should have LOTS of different characters, from Jonah Hex to Booster Gold.  Per Degaton will be the main villain, and I should be able to have tons of fun playing with different characters. 

As for crossing over to the mainstream DC, I don't think I'll do that, as I'm afraid I couldn't be fair in my comparisons...too bitter. ;)

Ahh, I knew I was forgetting something!  Yes, I DEFINITELY plan on doing some stories with the Titans.....eventually.....one day.....maybe......haha, I just feel like, because of the pure awesomeness that was the Teen Titans mod (made by people who know and love the Titans much more than I), they aren't in nearly as much need as a lot of other characters.  My version will be different, however, it won't be the classic team, nor will it be the new team.  It'll be an amalgam of both.

[The Hitman]

Maybe one of the Brave and Bold eps could be with Superman and Ambush Bug. Hilarity will follow.