Vechiles Operational ?

[Doom_Dude]

I just thought of sumthin' . I was lookin' through a pile of cd roms , when i spied "Sin" in the pile . I uninstalled it awhile ago to make room on my hard drive , but theres one part i would like to play one more time . The map starts with you standing near a trike (a three wheeled motor cycle jobby) . You can jump on the thing and ride like the wind , up this winding , tropical , gravel road . The bike handles pretty swell and really moves . You have pretty good throttle control and good stearing via the mouse .

The coolest part is where the road is crumbled away , leaving a huge gap and drop to the road below . Like a rocket you fire up the engine , give er the gas and make the jump ! Kachunk . The bike lands on the other side and wobbles as you cruise to a stop . Now that was phuckin' cool !

The next cool operational vechile was the train in Half-Life that you controlled in the excellent "On A Rail" maps ! The sound of the train moving along the rail was cool . Ducking under electrical wires and stopping the train to get off for some recon was cool . The place they put the train in added a ton of ambience . The echo of dripping water and such , made the train ride really awesome . Besides , making that thing open up wide was cool . How many people , after cleaning up the map , took a crazy , thrill ride around the track ! especially over that inclined bridge area ! Cool stuff .

So maybe we need a cool "vechile operational" in the New Doom ! But i wonder what it should be ? Any ideas people ? I gotta think about this one .

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The only good Vile is a dead Vile .

[Zack]

Yeah, those were all pretty cool. Since New Doom will be mostly single player, I suppose it's okay to add stuff like that in, as long as it will maintain the doomish feel!

I think I remember seeing a moving boat in a Quake 1 mission back? I don't think you could steer it, but it moved back and forth automatically. That was okay.

Anyway, how about in a huge stream of lava or blood, you'd have to cross it? You could, if it takes place in Hell, perhaps find a bunch of interconnected bones of the rib cage and skull and stuff of some strange doom demon that you may or may not have seen. It'd be slghtly modified so it would have a motor somewhere, and the skull is used to steer by turning it! You can jump in and ride in the rib cage. Perhaps, along the ride to your destination, a cacodemon or any flying monster here and there will pop out of nowhere and attack you!

How's that sound? :)

--Zack

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"You wanna see something REALLY scary?"

[Doom_Dude]

Ya . That would be o.k. Say , what if your in hell . You come to this massive river of blood or lava . On the far shore you see a boat & it slowly moves across to you . It stops and the evil looking ferryman waves you forward with a twisted , skeletal hand . You get in and he takes you across to where the Prince of Hell has his hellish palace .

Ya , i know its a ripp off of the river styx thing , where the boatman takes you across the river , to hell itself . It would be cool to have it in the game though , even if its the boat guy controling the boat .

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The only good Vile is a dead Vile .

[This message has been edited by Doom_Dude (edited 07-22-2000).]

[Zack]

Sounds too corny to me. In Doom, if something moves, it should be trying to kill you, too!!

Oh btw, the ferryman's name is Charon.

--Zack


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"You wanna see something REALLY scary?"

[Doom_Dude]

I dunno why i even posted it . It ain't a operational vechile . Ya Charon .

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The only good Vile is a dead Vile .

[Doom_Dude]

What about stuff like subway cars and stuff on any futuristic stations that will probably be in the game?

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The only good Vile is a dead Vile .

[Don Incognito]

Reading these posts gave me an idea...

what if, on a "New Doom" level, there was like a mine cart (not an actual one, something more futuristic), that you get on at the beginning...

and it just goes in one direction (or has turns, that would be cool to)...

and you just ride it, and shoot monsters that follow you...

WOW!

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With Love and Admiration, (laced with Raw Passion).

[WickedOne]

how about you step on a balcony that all of a sudden breaks off and your stuck drifting down a river of flames while imps bombard you from all sides. They should make waves come up and swish you from side to side. That would KILL anything i've seen out of quake or half-life. http://www.newdoom.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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heh heh heh.......

[Doom_Dude]

Hehe. A river of flames is good, especially if the raft starts burning up and you need to jump off at just the right place, before the river goes over the lava falls......

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The only good Vile is a dead Vile .

[Finite]

Lava Falls. Kewl doom 2 map.

[Doom_Dude]

It would be cool if you could set up traps that caused former humans and such to trip and fall into hot lava.

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[Finite]

I think it would be better if they fell into cold lava. Because hot lava is just to... stereotypical.

[Doom_Dude]

Oh well....might as well just make it cold methane or wet water..

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The Megawad: Vilecore Site (http://www.newdoom.com/themegawad/) The only Good ArchVile is a DEAD Archvile... Vilecore has Viles that need slaying! (Megawad Coming Soon)