free roam

it would be nice to have a free roam map u know no restrictions just flying all over the place seeing npc citizens if u fly over a city see dinos if u fly over a wasteland .if u dont want to i understand so will alot of other people but it would be nice

so your pretty much asking for EVERYONE to wait longer for the game haha

Too much work, too little gain. Does not fit well with the Design goals. Also technically infeasible with the engine, will end up burning everyone's Graphic Cards.

Too much Mordin in blood, sentences kept short to reflect that.

You could just play Dragonball Online. Seeing NPCs in city's and such basically means 3218031132 more models to make ...all those models spawned as bots on a engine that supports 32 players / bots.

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Too much work, too little gain. Does not fit well with the Design goals. Also technically infeasible with the engine, will end up burning everyone's Graphic Cards.

Too much Mordin in blood, sentences kept short to reflect that.

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Lexis said:

You could just play Dragonball Online. Seeing NPCs in city's and such basically means 3218031132 more models to make ...all those models spawned as bots on a engine that supports 32 players / bots.

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Really, the HL1 engine isn't made for that kind of gameplay.

didnt they already said the new maps gonna be huge?? so there u go..........and waiting longer? u really believe this gets released some day?^^

This guy wants to make an RPG out of ESF.

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all those models spawned as bots on a engine that supports 32 players / bots.

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No, as entities, which I believe were limited to 4096 by default in HL engine.

If you really wanted to, you could model such a thing. Making them interactive is a different story, though.

Unless you just want to kill them, then it's easier.

It's a rather trivial idea. The only thing it would require would be a map with said areas and entities. However, it's a fair amount of work for relatively little gain - the map would take a while to construct. Other than looking nice it wouldn't serve much purpose.

The map would be low quality compared to what we have now. Either that or we would need a new system for handling maps.

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You could just play Dragonball Online.

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I agree, if you want a free roaming dragonball game, then DBO is right up your alley. ESF is just not that type of game.