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[Derekristow]

They did say that the combat system was going to be redone, due to said slow clunkyness.

[Sowelu]

Remember that both X-Com and JA2 have slow and clunky combat.  I don't mind slow and clunky if it's for a good cause.

[MrWiggles]

Remember that both X-Com and JA2 have slow and clunky combat.  I don't mind slow and clunky if it's for a good cause.

I haven't played JA2 enough to comment on its combat, but I disagree with X-Com combat on being clunky. Slow, I can see, but I think that is mostly due to its turn base structure.

[Soulwynd]

Update from the Introversion blog:

Time for an update.

All is good, the best it's been for a long time. We have undoubtedly "gone dark", ie we are not posting news or blog updates at the moment, but we are enjoying some of the best times I've ever experienced at Introversion. It feels like we're back to the old days - just a handful of us, working on the next game at our homes, looking forward to the release. No multiplayer sequels, console ports of existing games or anything like that to worry about - just the Next Game, an original work. No more mining our 2005 successes. Financially all is good, we had a(nother) great Steam promotion over xmas, and we're even hiring some freelancers on the Next Game. It hasn't felt this good since Defcon to be honest.

After part 20 of the Subversion blog, which roughly coincided with the live demos of Subversion at World of Love, I decided it was time to stop writing quite so publicly about the process. I also decided I wasn't going to write about that decision either. For a long while, writing publicly about Subversion was the right thing to do, and I got a lot of satisfaction out of it. But that has changed now, and I've got other priorities at Introversion at the moment. I'm a selfish individual really, blogs get written when I want to write them I'm certain there will be future blogs, just not right now.

I'm not going to make any promises or be pushed into estimating dates or anything, because we all know how that always ends up. But we've got some good stuff coming, and I don't just mean Subversion. We've some surprises up our sleeves too.

[Levi]

Nice to know they are still doing well financially!  It means I don't have to worry about them having to cancel this title. 

[Moogie]

Great to hear an update from them. They were starting to drop off my radar a bit, but I've been really looking toward to this title and enjoying the details that occasionally spill out on the blog.

[Briggsy16]

God damn, they just keep teasing me. I can't wait for Subversion, it'll be immense.

[MrWiggles]

Neat.

[nenjin]

Argh. I see the thread title on the forum view, get all excited, and find out it's to say.....

Sorry suckahs, we're putting the sauce in a can and keeping the lid on.

I think they finally realized how ahead of the curve they are, and decided it's time to stop giving people ideas on how to make their games more interesting. Glad to hear they're in the black too, that means they can work on Subversion without as much stress, and get it out that much sooner.

Still, I was loving all of Chris' technobabble blog posts. It was edumacational.

[Vattic]

It's good to hear from them but, much like nenjin, I'm sorry to see the end of their detailed posts. Not that I'm genuinely complaining.

[Soulwynd]

New blog post!

http://forums.introversion.co.uk/defcon/introversion/viewtopic.php?p=97890#97890

Lots of Minecraft praising with an awesome must-watch video.

[nenjin]

OMG New favorite video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=617lGZjYyNo

And his little demo was amazing. Truly, nothing makes me feel more in awe of programming or more like a simpleton than Chris' work, and listening to him talk about the dev process.

[Aklyon]

That would make an interesting FPS engine, if only just to see what happens when the players can see how badly they've wrecked the place with their missed rocket launcher blasts/missed tank cannon shots.

[Itnetlolor]

That would make an interesting FPS engine, if only just to see what happens when the players can see how badly they've wrecked the place with their missed rocket launcher blasts/missed tank cannon shots.

I can imagine remakes of some classic arenas would just be all kinds of fun. Hell, CTF-Face comes to mind as a very very dangerous level in minutes. Wait until someone grabs a redeemer and decides to completely split the level in half. With that in mind, I think the levels would have to regenerate after a set amount of time.

[rawr359]

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