Original Post --- Hey everyone! Supernorn's been drawing up some of the Solarium tier backer rewards. This energy pickaxe is a WIP, but it looks pretty awesome to me! And Necotho has been doing a second pass on Apex villages. Click for full-size! What do you think? 'Til tomorrow
Oooooh, shiney. As well, I really like that it's an actual village, and not just housing complexes for Apex. Yayifications!
lightsaber-pickaxe? i have a suggestion at the apex village...could you make it more strict-looking place...you know with guard outposts, fences, cctvs....cause big ape was a reference to 1984 and it would be nice to make the apex look brainwashed... btw the updates are terrific...
That Apex village is pretty surprising. I didn't expect to see them living in anything other than large apartment blocks designed for strict containment.
OOH! Will we be able to find issues of codxes containing nothing but newspeak, and things like "Victory-Bananas" and "Victory-Juice"
Is that a regular ol' pickaxe, or an activeitem pickaxe, molly? I've been anxiously awaiting activeitem pickaxes for a mod I am making, and this would be so exciting for me if it were an activeitem. Please respond.
I like the energy pickaxe a lot! Looks really good and the animation is nice. How does it compare with the fully upgraded MM? I see that the reach is pretty short. If its mining capabilities are greater than the MM but its drawbacks are its reach and that it takes up a hot bar spot, I approve. Also, are there plans for any additional "animated energy weapons" (ie 2H swords, axes, hammers...)?
Am I one of the only people who dislikes the 80's side of the Apex? I'm just not into the whole... dictatorship.
Activeitem! Don't quote me on this, but I think items and tools like this will probably be activeitems from now on.
Maybe I fail to understand the inner workings of the game... but how would that even work? Couldn't anyone just "console" those "tiered backer reward" items into their inventory anyway? Last thing I want to see happen is players needing an "account" or some horrible thing like that.
hmmm.....i got some comments, and some questions I like the new layout of the apex villages, mix up the houses with that of the appartments, probably redo the S T O R E too i also really like how your using background tiles to make buildings look bigger too, I never really thought of that when constructing buildings, gives them a lot more depth perhaps chucklefish is looking to redo other villages and locations too with that style in mind? it really works and makes locations look waaaay bigger. Now the energy pickaxe, (i like the animation for it) is that a strictly unique item we find in the field, do we buy them, craft them, or is it a reward. I'm pondering this because it does seem to mine.....dirt, now would it possibly double as both a mining tool and a weapon? would it have a durability meter? does it only come in that flavor of color? would it be part of the upper tier mining tools for crafting/finding? would this meaning that laser-mining tools (what i think would of been right after mining drills) is replaced with energy pickaxes? and finally...... would this...........be the catalyst to having ENERGY SWORDS..............and other EN based melee weapons...in the future......maybe
I may not be understanding the way the pickaxe is coded, but I can't figure out how to turn it into a melee weapon. I'm with GenoMech; this is a great start towards real energy weapons. I'm sure there will be a ton of lightsaber mods when this is easily translated to weapons, but still. That's the point; their dictatorship is incredibly similar to Big Brother, which was horrible for people. Go read the novel 1984, and you'll (probably) have a better disposition towards them. The apex mission on the nightly is all about taking down the dictatorship. It's exciting.
