Everything old is new again

[GSH]

http://kotaku.com/5326494/atari-founder-returns-to-development-with-battleswarm
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=100532

Note: they're not calling anything Battlezone 3. Which is what I've said that future titles like this would almost certainly have to do.

-- GSH

[TheJamsh]

Interesting...

[Rocket]

Well, it's good to see that the Atari company leader is going back to the BZ types of game. It might bring BattleZone back into consideration.... 

[mrtwosheds]

If you get drunk and try to say Battleswarm fast enough...

[cheesepuffly]

Battleswarm will have nothing on bz2.

[bigbadbogie]

Battleswarm will have nothing on bz2.

It's more like Empires mod for HL2 than BZ.

[cheesepuffly]

It's more like Empires mod for HL2 than BZ.

Either way.

Hell no game has anything on bz2's awesomeness.

[TheJamsh]

Totally off-topic: TwoSheds that avatar is awesome.

Returning to topic: I think the whole idea of having one 'race' that can only fight in FPS mode, and another that can only fight in 'RTS' mode is going to spark a bit of friction when/if modders turn to it.

BZ2's modability is what has made it last so long, that and the great atmosphere it gives when you play it, so i highly doubt any other game will last as long, before the 'next biggest thing' comes out.

[Nielk1]

Former 1.2ers would like the FPS one and 1.3s would mostly like the RTS one. It's no secret.

[Red Devil]

Just saw this.  Maybe it will help spark more interest.

[Rocket]

BZ2's modability is what has made it last so long, that and the great atmosphere it gives when you play it, so i highly doubt any other game will last as long, before the 'next biggest thing' comes out.

the "next biggest thing" would have to be BZ3

[mrtwosheds]

Totally off-topic: TwoSheds that avatar is awesome.

Totally off-topic: That is a dvtank, I'm quite happy with its skin now. It looks quite metallic, I have 2 team colours that cause it to appear either brass or steel.

[bigbadbogie]

Christ... I want that mod MTS!!

[mrtwosheds]

I am not going to make the mistake of announcing a release date, But I am getting there slowly. Most of the models are finalised, I have been doing allot of file polishing this week trying to get things just right, soon its back to the Aip's, even with them in there currently neglected state, the mpi battles are furiously violent, when I am happy with the dd set I may make a test release, then I will need to do the isdf and scions recy variants... once the strat/mpi side of things is complete, I will start thinking about missions.

[bigbadbogie]