Special Announcement
Good news! S-COM should shortly be hotfixed and 100% playable by any number of players greater than one. That's something I'm pretty happy about. As for the mode itself, I've got big plans for it, and expect to see some substantial updates throughout June and July aimed at expanding the mode and making it "feature complete".
I'll get into the specifics of that at a later date, but what I really want to talk about right now is some other gamemode plans I have. As I said, I want to add a few more this summer. One should be in testing by next weekend or the weekend after if something comes up. That one is called "infestation", and is aimed at being similar to Colonial Marines, but in gamemode form and more streamlined.
Another one which I've been slowly working on is a counterpart to S-COM, tentatively called "Galactic Crisis". While S-COM focusses mainly around the battle for Nyx, GC is about the galaxy as a whole. In terms of playstyle, it'll be something like a mashup of NewCOM Within + Long War mod, S-COM and FTL. What do I mean by that? Well, the mode is intended to be quite long as far as SS13 rounds go, but the idea behind the round is that the fight goes on. You will still be playing as S-COM soldiers, but the scope will be broader, the missions larger, the enemies tougher and the consequences more dire. I've done some minor work on it so far, and many of the features I have planned for S-COM will also find a place in GC. However, I thought I'd share some of what I have planned for the mode: Space Combat, ANTAG operatives running missions alongside S-COM (they'll have their own fun stuff), Genemodding, potential for changelings within S-COM, base expansion, randomly generated maps, expanded science, augmentations, more classes, actions have consequences (fuck up and you may find aliens attacking the S-COM base. Better hope you guys put money into base defences) and more. I've gotten some good work on it done, and space battles are shaping up to be pretty cool. But, I'm waiting on some stuff from Bay to come down the pipe before I put my full effort onto this, so don't expect to see a test until early August or so. Either way, before then you'll have infestation and regular S-COM to play.
Happy summer, I hope everyone is doing well and I hope to see you all on the server soon enough.
Cheers!
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Topic: Space Station 13: Urist McStation (Read 2160722 times)