Apothacary Alpha Patch

[Dark Marine]

Whats the point to give the veteran class a inferno pistol? If I want this type of weapon then I take the special weapon marine. Specially the special weapon marine will get more ammo. For the veteran I see a bad future.
Now he have to assert with two other tier 2 classes. The aphotacary is a more usefull class for the team and has a chainssword too.
The special weapon marine is good against all Tyranid classes.
The veteran is a close combat class and have the same problem like the terminator before. Give him a close combat damage reduction like the terminator. The chainsword is otherwise useless.
But the only one reason I pick some times the veteran is because of his fast movement speed to reach a objectives so fast I can. For the battle the other classes have proven themselve better.

[Stahlhagel]

veteran is useless atm, but have patience. im working at sergeant weapons atm, including stuff like combat shields, power weapons and such. at a point ill remake the marine models anyway, and then there will be stuff lie stern and vanguards to choose from, theyll have much more useful options than a weaker melta and a unplayable plasma pistol

[Stahlhagel]

new models need bump maps, (height maps ? ); specular, especially lenses lack a reflective layer

[Wiese]

the new particle effects look simply great

[Valvatorez Jr.Commissar]

Pictures of the melta particle bugs that linger when you change class, I'm also pretty sure it's the cause of most crashes.

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/1154297601698320423/DAE8F10F57C65B60E3FE0CB97603F56135E5106D/
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/1154297601698322694/4061D4B608CC4DC69430052E876C49E22F2FC500/
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/1154297601698325114/4C51E869B177AA4CD5177787A75CCC1C9FE84984/

[ChromeAngel]

6.30 After Action Report

Mainly mucking about with the effects weapons during this test.  Pity Stahl and the VMan couldn't be there to hear the compliments.

Bugs

• Missiles are flying backwards
• Melta beams are not showing up in 3rd person
• First person Melta beams are remaining after switching to another weapon
• Intermittent crashes while using melta weapon
• Hero banners aren't showing up at all

• Blood FX appear large to the player hit and small to the attacker.   Can we get  a second, larger effect for use in the world view?
• Plasma bolts starting from inside the player rather than the weapon's muzzle

The Carnifex plasma scream looks particularly poor compared to the new plasma pistol effect.  I hope VMan will have time to make a new effect for the fex.

[ChromeAngel]

6.31 After Action Report
We had an unscheduled pre-test resulting in the following:

Bugs

• Placeholder biovore weapon models need replacing.
• fix textures on vore (mostly the tail) eyes need to be more sharp.
• Explosion sound is missing for the frag grenade.
• Explosion sound is missing for the missiles.
• plasma projectile spawn, its still not spawning on the weapon muzzle.
• Fex particles aren't visible in 3rd person.

Requests

• buff GREATLY plasma pistol projectile travelling speed.
• add explode on impact fire mode for the biovore.
• tweak the spore mine launcher to shoot at a MUCH flatter trajectory, making it possible to actually aim it
• add 3rd person muzzle flashes for all weapons.
• add smoke trails for bolts.

[Dark Marine]

Iam very impressed by the new particle effects. Great work.

The biovore class is fun to play. Its looks funny if a whole floor is full of spore mines. But the Space Marines should be able to kill them.

I notice that the biovore has a problem on city conflict to shoot his mines high in the sky from the Tyranid fire prosition at the generator. This is so, because I builded an invisible brush in the sky to limit the joyous leaps stealers. I have to fix this and therfore you will see an unpated version 3 on sunday.

[Stahlhagel]

there are spore mine props and i made a forcefield pylon which needs to be textured, i think it will look good on the map