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Build cookin’…
Posted by Data in Cortex Command - December 14th, 2006

hovercraft sketchSorry there’s been a bit of a delay in the next build. Some of the reason is that this bad boy is taking some time to perfect.

Also, rockets now have AI which lands them gracefully and dropping off things for you so you don’t have to worry about waiting for them and landing them manually anymore. They can also deliver enemy troops, and those guys try to use their jetpack to soften the landing, as well. That’s fortunate for them, because they will now gib if they hit something hard enough!

There’s numerous other improvements, like reloading mechanic, audio improvements (distance attenuation, more mixing chnnels), and a few other cool surprises.

Stay tuned, this weekend should be fun.

UPDATE: We’re working hard to get the build out today (Sunday). Just FYI

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52 Responses to “Build cookin’…”

  1. switch - # December 15th, 2006 at 12:18 am

    sounds great. The transient spawn point will add an interesting twist to defense stratigies in the game.

  2. Arturion - # December 15th, 2006 at 1:14 am

    Hey guys, looking good. One question: with the automatic landing of rockets, will you still be able to pilot them manually if you choose? I tend to enjoy flying them over the terrain and torching the enemy before I land. :)

  3. Data - # December 15th, 2006 at 1:36 am

    Oh, totally. You can switch manual control to them at any time, just like before. And when you switch away, the AI will take over again and either land it and dump out if there’s anyhting inside, or fly of the top to get your refund.

  4. Giant.Metal.Idiot - # December 15th, 2006 at 1:53 am

    Will you fix the bug where some sounds stop playing? And will you try and implement my idea of an undead mode?

  5. Data - # December 15th, 2006 at 1:59 am

    The sound playback has been improved a lot.
    Undead mode?

  6. Juggz - # December 15th, 2006 at 3:59 am

    Will the controls be fixed, e.g. pressing inventory reloads…

  7. SAH - # December 15th, 2006 at 4:53 am

    Good to hear that enemies finally get dropships. Will they be landing perfectly or crashing headlong into the ground? The latter sounds like a good idea to me- have enemy robots bombarding the base with rockets and the like.

  8. Crushyerbones - # December 15th, 2006 at 5:39 am

    Will the new mobile spawn ship be able to be shot down? just curious…

  9. luke-15 - # December 15th, 2006 at 5:44 am

    Cant wait to play, im already spending more time on cortex than i do on my 360!

  10. The Punisher - # December 15th, 2006 at 5:46 am

    If the enemy just crash into your base it would be totall chaos the rockets would go trough the concrete smasing your brain make it fall, it loses health a robot comes in trough one of the holes in your base and destroys your brain! Fun game!!! NOT…

  11. ToonyMan - # December 15th, 2006 at 6:24 am

    I want to control my rocket too.

    And make the Concrtte stronger and thicker.:D

  12. Luke-15 - # December 15th, 2006 at 8:25 am

    Reply to punisher and toonyman, you can control the rocket, you can switch to manual like data said. Stop your complaining,the game is amazing!!

  13. I am Drunkman - # December 15th, 2006 at 10:47 am

    will the mods we have made still work on the new version?

  14. Joe Mikkel - # December 15th, 2006 at 12:01 pm

    For the concrete, you can just edit it’s hardness in the materials file, if it’s that much of a problem. You just have to change one vaiable.

  15. JLrep - # December 15th, 2006 at 12:10 pm

    I have a feeling my method of firing flame particles with negative speed to achieve a two-engine rocket is about to become obsolete.

  16. Kurrus - # December 15th, 2006 at 12:17 pm

    Sweeeeet…. sweeeeeet… so… god damned sweet………

  17. Persh - # December 15th, 2006 at 12:41 pm

    Er, if you want stronger concrete, just use a map like mine that has it modified to be really durable.

  18. ToonyMan - # December 15th, 2006 at 1:27 pm

    Ehhh… I wasn’t complaining.

  19. The Punisher - # December 15th, 2006 at 1:42 pm

    Reply to LUKE-15, I just said that if the ENEMY rockets would just fall from the sky (The computer not controlling it) it would be chaos and the game would suck. But its not gona happend!!! So the game wont suck… Geezzzz….

  20. Kifil - # December 15th, 2006 at 3:24 pm

    I am looking forward to not having to land manaully anymore. The new ship is looking great too.

  21. Data - # December 15th, 2006 at 4:18 pm

    Reloading now starts automatically when you run out and press fire again, OR if you hold down inventory and press up. That way you can top off a half-full mag. This mechanic seems to work really well so far.

    Drunkman: Yes I have taken care to not invalidate any property names this time around. However, only mods that have completely separate .rte folders of their own will have a good chance of working 100%. In the official mod tutorial coming up, one of the key points is that a proper mod should never alter anything in the base.rte directory, and may only refer to stuff that is in there.

  22. Persh - # December 15th, 2006 at 6:26 pm

    Including maps?

  23. Data - # December 15th, 2006 at 7:29 pm

    Yeah, you can put everything in your own .rte, including scenes (maps).

  24. JLrep - # December 15th, 2006 at 8:09 pm

    One question: if you buy an empty rocket, will it guide itself to the ground, open its doors, and then fly away again? Or will it guide itself down and then sit there? (me thinking it’d make more sense to do the latter, since if you’ve bought an empty rocket that means you want to use it for ramming or whatever)

  25. I am Drunkman - # December 15th, 2006 at 8:19 pm

    will the landing beacon change slightly if there is already a rocket there?

  26. Data - # December 15th, 2006 at 8:40 pm

    It lands, pukes out its contents, and lifts off.

    No, the LZ doesn’t change, but maybe we’ll add so the rockets try to avoid each otehr.

  27. Spriggen - # December 16th, 2006 at 12:30 am

    Can you pretty please add scrolling for the items menu?I’ve got so many mods I cant see them all.Lots of

  28. Data - # December 16th, 2006 at 2:08 am

    Yeah, the scroll bars is on the to-fix bug list

  29. Jaztee - # December 16th, 2006 at 7:45 am

    Is it possible in next build to collect dead enemies weapons, put them to a rocket and sell them? Will own clones be more active like shoot the bad guys than just standing around “Oh, i have a testicle…. oh wait i don’t, that guy shot it”. I think i have seen them shoot a couple of times but not that goodly.

  30. kokits - # December 16th, 2006 at 8:22 am

    This new build will be awesome! Data, you said it will come out over the weekend, any specific details of when it will come out? Or is it sort of a “play by ear” thing? just wonderin’.

  31. Ltcookie - # December 16th, 2006 at 10:19 am

    http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i128/mast3rchi3f2/cortexcss.jpg

  32. Ias - # December 16th, 2006 at 10:21 am

    Woho! Cant wait for the new build! :D

  33. Alenth - # December 16th, 2006 at 11:45 am

    Damnit, just before me and FF get impact explosions for the current version! Nice stuff, the next release of the Star Wars Mod should have a lot of fun things, new actors, ships, weapons, and maps.

  34. CAPTAIN SMEGS - # December 16th, 2006 at 2:06 pm

    Will the player be able to fly that new craft was well as the original? And can we now have more than one soldier in the rocket?… whenever I have more than one person in the ship, they explode into a bloody gibby mess when they eject. That’s entertaining for a while, but is it fixed now?

  35. Ye - # December 17th, 2006 at 11:48 am

    So… not getting my hands on new build this weekend :(

  36. kokits - # December 17th, 2006 at 11:51 am

    data, i looked at the official forum and it says that the enemy will get to fly the ship. Will the human player get to fly it to. AAaaAAaaaAAnd, when will it be out? thank yous!

  37. james - # December 17th, 2006 at 1:11 pm

    im not a veteran at this game, by any stretch of the imagination, but ive noticed that even on easy, its pretty hard to defend your brain, while your digging.
    is there any chance that you could put, i dont know, a maze-like thing in before the brain, so at least they dont have a clear shot at you?
    even with guys in there, they just sit and pop a few rounds off before they go “oh, i perish”

  38. kokits - # December 17th, 2006 at 1:26 pm

    to James: you can have several characters onscreen at once. you’ll just have to switch back and forth to check up on your brain. you can also block the entrance to your brain with the rocket!

  39. Colonel Sanders - # December 17th, 2006 at 2:10 pm

    Am I the only one who thinks the dropship looks like something from Megaman?

  40. The Arsecast Host - # December 17th, 2006 at 5:10 pm

    You don’t really need a maze-like thing, you just need to spend a little money on excess rockets. Use the one in your base to take off and plug-up the ceiling and then park another one by the back door but leaning towards it so that it forms a ramp to above your back door. Then all you need to worry about is those sods pacing a hole in the roof of your brain chamber, and even then a holes and rockets will help out.

  41. kokits - # December 17th, 2006 at 6:35 pm

    awww *sniffle* the new version STILL isnt out *sniffle*

  42. JLrep - # December 17th, 2006 at 7:46 pm

    For future reference, what time zone are you on, Data? Not that I’m, like, refreshing the page every hour to see if the update’s been posted, or anything like that.

  43. Data - # December 17th, 2006 at 7:51 pm

    GMT -7 hours

  44. kokits - # December 17th, 2006 at 8:03 pm

    hey data i saw the update on your log. I’m glad that you are workin hard on this update. Keep up the EXCELLENT work but be sure not to overstress yourself.

  45. dan_e - # December 18th, 2006 at 12:57 am

    will there ever be an online cc? with servers an all that? just asking. and data, keep up the good work! our lives depend on you…

  46. Dekoy - # December 18th, 2006 at 4:29 am

    Online would be the greatest….
    I was on http://www.fun-motion.com, and i saw the ship thing and i was like, I hope this is free… then it was, this is the greatest game ever… as good as HL2, Like online co-op, and DM would be nice, at first this game is so confusing but i get it now lol….

  47. Striker26 - # December 18th, 2006 at 6:30 am

    dont worry data, take your time perfect it

  48. makeshifter - # December 19th, 2006 at 11:44 pm

    if this game goes without online play i will HUNT YOU DOWN AND GUT YOU LIKE A FISH!!! my cat needs a new spleen any way. no seriously the streets will flow with the blood of the non-believer. and we seriously need a pause game option.

  49. makeshifter - # December 19th, 2006 at 11:56 pm

    note: sorry about last comment i had just eaten five fudge pops and i was hyper. p.s. is there a way to save the position of guys. i had a setup where there was 3 levels the top level, 1rst underground tunnel, second underground tunnel. on those two posts i had two century guardon each one with ak-47s. directly under them was the only way to my tunnels. i had guys
    all over in those tunnels. my base was quite literally filled with cement except in my brain room where five robots waited with shotguns. at the corners of my base waited two clones with long cannons. and due to the fact you can travel around the world in three jumps as soon as a enemy fell. he was dead and missing a head. but then after an hour of waiting for something to happen. i gave up. but just to make this even more long id like to post the fact that this was done on hard mode. so this is one big p.s. bye

  50. Data - # December 20th, 2006 at 12:21 am

    You can add guys to the scenes’ initial state in the base.rte/scenes.ini file.

  51. Chriscc123 - # January 12th, 2007 at 3:13 pm

    one thing i find anouying is whatever player your not controlling… is pritty much a big hung of blood…. i think there needs to be something where you other players can atleast defend there sealvs…. ad atleast walk…. thou… lol…. its sort of funny to see them get crushed by a ship….. p.s. sorry for the spelling

  52. Chriscc123 - # January 12th, 2007 at 3:18 pm

    also i think it should be compatable with mac… i have 2 windows comps, and one mac… i would like to beable to play it on all of them…

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