Slowmo is gonna be in the Matrix mmorpg. Does anyone here know hows that going to be implemented? This really puzzles me. If the feature works well, it will definitely rock!

maybe like in specialist the halflife mod

quote: Original post by johnnyBravo
maybe like in specialist the halflife mod

How did that work?

it didnt. At least not well.

quote: Original post by PaulCesar
it didnt. At least not well.

*cough* troll *cough*

To answer what he didn''t: slow motion in The Specialists is aquired as a powerup, player can use when he/she desires. Effect is to slow down time globally for up to 5 seconds.

Now for an MMO this is oviously not going to work... 100 players at once will keep the game in slo mo forever. Solution: make the effect localised. Simplest method: time slow down tapers. Aka I might be going half speed slo motion where the player is at, 30 feet out going 3/4ths, and 60 feet out is no longer affected. These shouldn''t be hardcoded variables... for an MMORPG the range might depend on skill. This isn''t a "pure" solution... but then again bullet time for both you AND your opponent isn''t either.

in specialist it wasnt the whole place that would slow down, just the general area

Are you sure about that? I''m pretty sure it was the entire level and everyone on it.

Another neat thing they did was lower your mouse sensitivity during slo-mo, which made you turn a lot slower. This effect was exaggerated on everyone else, giving the user of the power-up an advantage.

Wasn''t there also a mode where it slows everyone else except for you? Time-pause or something.

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theres like one that does much slower, but each time you are still slowed down, normal time for you would be nice..except that your gun was still slow...

actually i think it does do something like that....bah..


no its not the whole level, think about it you got 16 people on the server and if they were all constantly using it wouldnt the game not go. When i play, i only get slowed down if i can hear the fighting, or im fighting someone.

Other things in it are if a grenade goes off or something explodes it slows down....im very sur it aint the whole level

does it even matter? this game is going to Blow (with a capital B). there is absolutely no chance that it will live up to even my lowest expectations (figure that one out). this entire franchise went down the drain right around the time that the credits began to roll after the first feature. save for parts -- parts -- of the animatrix, the rest of the series, including enter the matrix, has been one dismal disappointment after another.

I dunno, im starting to get sick of the slow motion thing now...watch equilliberium, a new style of action....