Are boats still planned?

Omnicast · 2014-04-13T19:04:00.000Z

Really? What’s next? Nether Sea Cucumbers? Zombie Dolphins… Nether Dolphins…? Lighthouse Temples? Underwater Portals surrounded by underwater volcanoes? What are we gonna have ships large enough to carry their own tiny submersible? I guess we can salvage wrecks too while we’re at it. How about hunting down Atlantis and fighting off nether Atlanteans too? I guess those would be Cephalopods… from the nether realm.

system · 2014-04-13T19:08:24.000Z

I’d imagine all the fucking ships ever jumped land as soon as this shit started, we could have massive oil rigs or tankers filled with zombies and clear them out.

Darkfirephoenix · 2014-04-13T19:11:47.000Z

Boats aye? Hrmm sounds nice! And Omni: Don’t forget an Island wich got transferred through the mother of all portals and you can visit it! There are so many world wich could connect through the Portal, so we could really find some unholy-amphibous-sea-dwellig-creature-of-death! (Do I hear ppl yell: “Where is Cthulu?” )
Bermuda Triangle! I highly suspect an Portal there already! Maybe you find Boats, Planes etc. wich “vanished” in there too!

Omnicast · 2014-04-13T19:12:27.000Z

I’d imagine that to be very easy… 1 M72 Law and the entire tanker blows… +400 zombie kills with one shot!

@Darkfirepheonix Hmm I did think of Cthulu, but I didn’t know how I’d write it into my post… I guess I know how now… Nether Zombie Cthulu… ya… by the way… now that I think about it how the heck would an underwater portal even work? I mean wouldn’t the water get sucked into the other realm thus… you know what I’m not gonna think about it.

Hibou · 2014-04-13T19:28:05.000Z

Zombie sharks, the zombears of the sea.

Omnicast · 2014-04-13T19:39:37.000Z

Zombie Sharks needs Frickin lasers to cook their food with. SOMEONE GET THEM SOME FRICKIN LASERS!

If that doesn’t work… we could always have… Zombie Carp… the bane of every dwarf in existence… mostly the fisher dwarfs… poor poor fisher dwarfs…

Darkfirephoenix · 2014-04-13T19:47:26.000Z

An underwater Portal could work if the other side is underwater too and I think that portals prefer to “spawn” in the same environment as their counterparts do in the other world. And yes the poor dwarfs… We should get them lasers and stuff! But zombie sharks with lasers is a bit far stretched unless ofc some scientists in Cataclysm had already implanted lasers onto sharks wich then got turned into zombies… It could be a real threat if you drive with your boat near an lab in wich sealife was researched (and improved. This was an Heavily Conservative America before the Cataclysm and I could imagine they would be happy about every new weapon they could get… To spread “Freedom”… Their Freedom that is )

Omnicast · 2014-04-13T21:15:54.000Z

Wait I’m pretty sure CataDDA takes place in England… cause if it was America… you’d find a gun in every house… maybe more… well whatever.

Anyways small boats are doable, but what about them cruiser, cruise liners, cargo ships, battleships, submarines, oil tankers, and whatever else I’m missing. Those seem impossible to implement. Not to mention the fact that once their hull is breached they start taking in water and I’m pretty sure a single person isn’t able to patch that him/herself. Not to mention the ocean is extremely dynamic and well water in CataDDA isn’t. It’s rigid… like a rock.

How would you work waves into the game? O for calm ocean and W for waves? Lower case w for small wave capital W for large waves?

Darkfirephoenix · 2014-04-13T21:39:21.000Z

This game takes place in the US of A in “New-England” and don’t forget that 1/2 may have weapons but that is calculated for the whole population, wich means that some areas have nearly no guns while in others you have 3+ guns per house.

The problem with the Ocean and such: That is a thing the devs have to figure out, or at least how they want to solve it.

About the bigger ships: I think that you would need an “crew”, but that would take a better NPC programming, wich would in the end lead to factions wich could help you

Goombah · 2014-04-14T04:29:16.000Z

Omnicast:

How would you work waves into the game? O for calm ocean and W for waves? Lower case w for small wave capital W for large waves?

Dynamic? What are you talking about? Bill O’reilly says that the tide goes in, and the tide goes out. Never a miscommunication! You can’t explain that!

(Nevermind that we actually can.)

Anyways, yeah. New England without the New England coast is a bad thing. So much of New England /is/ it’s coastal character.

FunsizeNinja123 · 2014-04-14T12:49:15.000Z

Omnicast:

How would you work waves into the game? O for calm ocean and W for waves? Lower case w for small wave capital W for large waves?

I liek.

Lorknis · 2014-04-14T13:25:58.000Z

I was thinking ~ for calm water and the lower and upper case W’s for waves.

dovla · 2014-04-14T15:56:38.000Z

This thread is making my mouth water.

Moddan · 2014-04-14T16:41:10.000Z

Make Omni lead designer please. His ideas are great.

GlyphGryph · 2014-04-14T18:34:03.000Z

Boats doesn’t necessarily mean “big ocean” has to be interesting - coastal and river exploration, as well as near-shore or lake island mechanics are all much easier to make fun.

Also, zombie seagulls and zombie whales totally need to be a thing, along with terrifying squidlike nether-creatures.

RAM · 2014-04-15T22:51:36.000Z

Perhaps an additional faction of high-density, non-respirating critters that do not do so well outside of water. Aquatic threats could be rare but highly resilient, and the really bad ones are too heavy to swim… Expect them to be attempting to increase surface density with varying success, menacing from the sea-floor, and invading oceanic facilities wearing pressurised armour. They could be at war with the zombie water-life and enthusiastically replacing the local environment, as opposed to most others who seem more interested in coopting the locals or, umm, some of them seem more like tourists with tentacles and are probably only going to take over accidentally by innately warping their surroundings…

Coyote · 2014-04-15T22:58:11.000Z

Omnicast:

Wait I’m pretty sure CataDDA takes place in England… cause if it was America… you’d find a gun in every house… maybe more… well whatever.

New England. Cataclysm takes place in America. Spend less time on reddit.

Blackopsman9999 · 2014-04-15T23:26:06.000Z

Perhaps small islands and tankers being a high risk high reward thing? Maybe EXTREME numbers of zombies, and in turn you get a large amount of gas, that would require a boat to haul to land of course
What about ocean tides? If you swim too far with too low swimming skill you suddenly sink or get pulled a direction?

Kazymir · 2014-04-16T01:03:06.000Z

[quote=“Blackopsman9999, post:26, topic:5823”]Perhaps small islands and tankers being a high risk high reward thing? Maybe EXTREME numbers of zombies, and in turn you get a large amount of gas, that would require a boat to haul to land of course
What about ocean tides? If you swim too far with too low swimming skill you suddenly sink or get pulled a direction?[/quote]
Let’s not forget the hilarity of riptides and rogue waves.

RAM · 2014-04-16T02:48:47.000Z

How long does it take to build the Titanic?