Com Raven Posted January 16, 2002 Posted January 16, 2002 German PC Action mag (currently no.3 saleswise...) has a nice, 2 page preview of JK II in it's newest issue (out today ). Here are some pure facts, some might be known, others maybe not ... - 20 levels in singleplayer (some very big according to text) - 10 weapons (so the one thread about weapons seemed to be right) - 12 multiplayer maps with bot support - up to 64 (!) players in multiplayer .... Some other stuff included lots of praise for the game's ai and a nice screenie of a Stormie (close-up) with a great-looking helmet (looks like aax2 enabled ...) If you wanna post this on mainpage, feel free to ...
Roger Posted January 16, 2002 Posted January 16, 2002 Thanks for the news! Posted it with credit where credit is due
Lord_FinnSon Posted January 16, 2002 Posted January 16, 2002 So, 20 single player levels. Nice. They said very early on that JK2 will not feature as many SP levels as JK(21), but I always thought they would come up perhaps only 15-16 levels...
wardz Posted January 16, 2002 Posted January 16, 2002 Man, there is a glut of info coming out, I need to cram in as much life as possible in the next 3 months because after that... wardz
Com Raven Posted January 16, 2002 Author Posted January 16, 2002 Let's hope it's longer than Elite Force ... Sure Roger, once I wasted my time with gamespy's gaming sites, but now I found a nice home ...
nykel007 Posted January 16, 2002 Posted January 16, 2002 This is sooo amazing, never have we had so much info flowing like this. Let me start. 20 levels! I didn't expect so much. And nice big ones too, that's great. 64 players in Mp!, what are they trying to do, kill us:D . I surely won't sleep when I buy this game.
txa1265 Posted January 16, 2002 Posted January 16, 2002 Elite Force - now while I liked it, the definition of levels was a bit fuzzy ... there were some area (levels) that I tore through in what seemed to be 30 seconds. In DF2:JK, it _still_ takes me a while for each of the levels. ... again comparing to RtCW, that game seemed OK length-wise ... I'd love it to last longer, and would not like it any shorter ... Mike
Com Raven Posted January 16, 2002 Author Posted January 16, 2002 This at least 6th big preview in germany, gets really great press, but still underdog compared to MoH, DNF or Doom 3...
ZeroXcape Posted January 16, 2002 Posted January 16, 2002 I'm just glad there's 12 multiplayer levels. If you figure 4 are gonna be CTF and maby 4 saber-only... that leaves 8 more mele levels. 12 (really well designed) levels is a great start. Once people start making their own.... we'll be in business.
Com Raven Posted January 16, 2002 Author Posted January 16, 2002 How many did JK I have out of box (can't remember while learning for bio exam ...)
wardz Posted January 16, 2002 Posted January 16, 2002 yep, I suppose there will be "zeroXcape." (gets fruit thrown at him) wardz
Wilhuf Posted January 16, 2002 Posted January 16, 2002 It could be that some of those multiplayer levels support multiple gametypes (e.g. DM and CTF supported in the same map). I don't know whether they're doublecounting (e.g. the same maps, 1 for CTF and 1 for DM count as two maps. I hope not). Definitely need to get rolling with the map editing...if only we had JORadiant ;-)
Agen Posted January 16, 2002 Posted January 16, 2002 they're all good facts though i've read 3 previews were there are at least 11 weapons. all great news though i think thye may be trying to give us brain damage with all this info. i know what ur up to la!!
GonkH8er Posted January 17, 2002 Posted January 17, 2002 lol @ thought of ffa sabers with 64 players in something roughly the size of bgj that'd fully go off! I'll consider making a dedicated jkii.net Outcast server
ed_silvergun Posted January 17, 2002 Posted January 17, 2002 Originally posted by Wilhuf It could be that some of those multiplayer levels support multiple gametypes (e.g. DM and CTF supported in the same map). I don't know whether they're doublecounting (e.g. the same maps, 1 for CTF and 1 for DM count as two maps. I hope not). I can't imagine they'd do that. I'm sure they mean twelve separate maps. Hopefully some of these will support multiple game-types.
Com Raven Posted January 17, 2002 Author Posted January 17, 2002 Yeah, 6 or so maps would be a bit poor ..
Obi Kwan Posted January 17, 2002 Posted January 17, 2002 I hope you are right about the maps being selectible as Sabers only or ff guns, etc. It would be lousy if your favorite map was, for example, Sabers only and you felt like playing it with some force or guns or whatever. Though im sure mods could amend that problem...
cj7816 Posted January 17, 2002 Posted January 17, 2002 I bet you could go ahead and get started editing. Since JO uses the Q3 engine, start making your levels in GTKRadiant or Q3Radiant. Hopefully you will be able to import them into whatever editor comes out for JO. If not, somebody will probably make a plugin that allows you to do so. Originally posted by Wilhuf It could be that some of those multiplayer levels support multiple gametypes (e.g. DM and CTF supported in the same map). I don't know whether they're doublecounting (e.g. the same maps, 1 for CTF and 1 for DM count as two maps. I hope not). Definitely need to get rolling with the map editing...if only we had JORadiant ;-)
Com Raven Posted January 17, 2002 Author Posted January 17, 2002 Souldn't be a prob, it's possible to convert Q 3 and even half-Life maps into RtCW ...
CaptainRAVE Posted January 17, 2002 Posted January 17, 2002 THANKS for all the news. Im starting to get really excited about this game now (even more than I was before) . Im even starting to tell all my friends about it in college
DeathBoLT Posted January 17, 2002 Posted January 17, 2002 Originally posted by GonkH8er lol @ thought of ffa sabers with 64 players in something roughly the size of bgj that'd fully go off! I'll consider making a dedicated jkii.net Outcast server that'd be great. especially if JKii.net provided 5-8 servers with a 2-3 for the most popular settings and the rest for each type of form of play
StormHammer Posted January 17, 2002 Posted January 17, 2002 Thanks for the news Com Raven. 20 SP levels sounds great, as long as they're all bigger than the smallest (non-Dark Jedi) level in JK. I was hoping for a few more weapons...but I'll manage with 10. I think they probably do mean 12 separate levels for MP. Sounds about right. Can't wait to play this game...
ed_silvergun Posted January 17, 2002 Posted January 17, 2002 Originally posted by CaptainRAVE THANKS for all the news. Im starting to get really excited about this game now (even more than I was before) . Im even starting to tell all my friends about it in college Say, I bet you're popular! I'm sure they love it when you start to explain the finer points of GHOUL2 to them during lunch break.
Redwing Posted January 19, 2002 Posted January 19, 2002 Originally posted by StormHammer Thanks for the news Com Raven. 20 SP levels sounds great, as long as they're all bigger than the smallest (non-Dark Jedi) level in JK. I was hoping for a few more weapons...but I'll manage with 10. I think they probably do mean 12 separate levels for MP. Sounds about right. Can't wait to play this game... Well...this is the only place I've seen that says ten weapons, elsewhere it seems upwards of eleven...so I'm still holding out hope
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