[Rayne Mercury]

I started a couple of gamemode projects but never finished any. I'm still a beginner with Lua but plan on improving. Keep in mind that at no point in this post am I asking anyone to make anything for me.

That said, I want to start a new project, this time similar in concept to modern-day stealth games, primarily Metal Gear Solid.

My first question is: has it been done before? I haven't seen anything like it since I've been a member here, but I haven't delved too far into past threads.

Second: Nothing about it seems particularly difficult, except for some specific features: grappling, stun (shorter KO) and sleep (tranquilizer, longer KO). I would use a variable for stamina, which non-lethal attacks would deplete. How difficult do you think it would be to allow players to grab and hold others stationary? Animations are not a priority right now, just the code. I'm thinking of using a sort of competitive mini-game in these situations, like the first player to enter a key combination wins the struggle. The attacker would be able to quickly choke out or throw, or the defender would break out of the hold.

[LEETNOOB]

Rayne Mercury posted:

I started a couple of gamemode projects but never finished any. I'm still a beginner with Lua but plan on improving. Keep in mind that at no point in this post am I asking anyone to make anything for me.

That said, I want to start a new project, this time similar in concept to modern-day stealth games, primarily Metal Gear Solid.

My first question is: has it been done before? I haven't seen anything like it since I've been a member here, but I haven't delved too far into past threads.

Second: Nothing about it seems particularly difficult, except for some specific features: grappling, stun (shorter KO) and sleep (tranquilizer, longer KO). I would use a variable for stamina, which non-lethal attacks would deplete. How difficult do you think it would be to allow players to grab and hold others stationary? Animations are not a priority right now, just the code. I'm thinking of using a sort of competitive mini-game in these situations, like the first player to enter a key combination wins the struggle. The attacker would be able to quickly choke out or throw, or the defender would break out of the hold.

I worked on a project like that, but then I stopped working on it. Unlike your project, it was based on Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory's Versus multiplayer.

Right now I'm re-making it from scratch, but I say - go for it, make your gamemode, because it's always good to have a variety of gamemodes.

[Rayne Mercury]

I want to do it, yes, but I wanted to know how difficult my ideas sounded. In terms of coding. I'm not able to get started at this very moment, so I am throwing this out there for feedback.

[Cushie]

The coding itself isnt really that difficult when you understand basic logic, can do some math, and search the wiki/codebase. The hard part is structuring and organising it all in a way that it works together seamlessly and flows well rather than having messy inflexible code that will have to be rewritten when you want to change/add something down the line.

The specifics can be worried about later, a good framework needs to be put in place that covers the mechanics of the gamemode, like how players are set up, teams, scoring, objectives etc.

[sam6420]

LEETNOOB posted:

I worked on a project like that, but then I stopped working on it. Unlike your project, it was based on Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory's Versus multiplayer.

Right now I'm re-making it from scratch, but I say - go for it, make your gamemode, because it's always good to have a variety of gamemodes.

Oh god, that was so hard. Yet incredibly entertaining.

@op even if something is out/done, it's always nice to have variation. Do it how you'd liket o play it. And as far as I know LEETNOOB's gamemode is the only one similar that I've heard of.

[Rayne Mercury]

Thanks for the feedback. I might have something to show sometime in the near future, I might not.