[dev1008] About Jumping

[Waaltar]

Well, I'm kind of on the fence. I barely played the past two months and have recently come back to check out the progress so far...

Jumping is so not going to make a difference for me.

Jumping would be a minor convenience for the people who have never left. If they haven't left or cut way back by now...they are probably in it for the long haul anyway.

I just don't see how you could add jumping and have it be anything more than a lot of work for something that's not a big deal at all. Or have it be an impossible amount of work to the point of basically re-doing the game.

I've thought, maybe it would be kind of awesome if there was more of an action, almost platformer type enviornment...more swimming and climbing...tomb raider like levels/areas/tombs??

Or...more of a Morrowind type set up would be neat, with a first person option, high jumping for those with a high acrobatic skill, and huge falls and swimming and swimming underwater and such...featherfall potions, levitate spells, boots that let you walk across the air for a half minute or two...

edit: yeah and combat stuff like the guy above just mentioned

But come on, are they really going to __completely__ re-do the game engine at this point? I mean, I know they are working on doing some kind of a big significant change but...really, could they do THAT much?

[Rhianu]

But come on, are they really going to __completely__ re-do the game engine at this point? I mean, I know they are working on doing some kind of a big significant change but...really, could they do THAT much?

What makes you think they would have to redo the entire game engine? All jumping would entail is making the character move up along the Y axis whenever the player pressed a button. That's not hard to program.