Ritual's CS: CZ Preview Reinstated

[Bigun]

Its fairly obvious as to the reason for developers being changed, look at what the president of Gearbox, Randy Pitchford had to say:



"From my experience, Valve is filled with very smart and talented people and certainly Gearbox has plenty of smart and talented people as well. There should be a certain level of trust that those closest to a project are making smart decisions because they're privy to more information than everyone else and because they have experience in matters of game software development."



Those closest to the project were Gearbox. Everyone else is a swipe at management. This becomes clearer where he talks about "those with experience in game development". Those without experience are obviously Sierra management. <Sigh> Another case of management poking their noses where its not wanted.

[[pr]]

Gpig20 wrote..

Also the whole, "Headshotting someone who was against a wall means that you can only see the tip of their feet" would be gone and instead they would kind of crumple into it. Not like UT2003 karma but more like Raven Shields.

i wish shadows existed in CS... and even maps that have different cycles of daylight/night... imagine, *using* nightvision!

[cruZ.]

wtf cameras? radio controlled bombs?



Its CS not james bond

[HankPym]

I'm sure the camera has some specific function, since it's for single-player only. As for the bombs, I really don't know what to make of that. It could mean any number of things, but again it's just for the single-player missions so hopefully it'll make sense in context.

[sniv]

yeah, cameras are to take pictures...

maybe it'll be about as useful as the nvgs



or your f5 key

[StealthMonkey]

condition zero... blah, whaver who cares... but: What does this mean for CS 1.6? Is that Beta still coming this month or is it going to be delayed also?????????????

[cheetarah654]

im sure the cameras will be used once or twice in order to complete objectives, not somehting you can buy everytime and try to make use out of like the NVG.



and flanjo or franjo ro whatever you name is, those are screenshots of what ritual has completed so far, not what gearbox did.

[HoMiCyDe]

1.6 should come out in Jan.

[Gpig]

[pr] wrote..

i wish shadows existed in CS... and even maps that have different cycles of daylight/night... imagine, *using* nightvision!

You need nightvision on mansion.

[BoNeLeSS]

StealthMonkey wrote..

condition zero... blah, whaver who cares... but: What does this mean for CS 1.6? Is that Beta still coming this month or is it going to be delayed also?????????????

At least is not coming this weekend. VALVe is moving:

All of the Valve mailing lists will be down this coming weekend from Friday the 13th to Monday the 16th.



Sorry for the downtime, we're moving office locations.



Thanks,



Erik Johnson

Valve

I guess they wanna run away from hate mail D:

[sniv]

cheetarah654 wrote..

im sure the cameras will be used once or twice in order to complete objectives, not somehting you can buy everytime and try to make use out of like the NVG.

If that was the case they'd provide you a camera for scouting missions Im sure

Gpig20 wrote..

You need nightvision on mansion.

no you dont. It cuts my fps from 40 to 15 about, so Id keep playing without them

[NotName]

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Valve should get Gearbox's bots and have a battle vs Ritual's bots.



It doesn't matter which bots wins, but it does matter which bot is more realistic.

[fB.bLaCKaT]

Ritual didn't remove anything, it's Gearbox. They own the content they made, and won't give it up to Ritual to use. Hence why CZ is starting from scratch.



Bash Gearbox and Sierra, not Ritual.



And not that I'm saying they are a good or bad developer, I haven't played much of any of the titles they've released.

[Grayden]

Just release the damned thing already!

[[SDSU]David]

fB.bLaCKaT wrote..

Ritual didn't remove anything, it's Gearbox. They own the content they made, and won't give it up to Ritual to use. Hence why CZ is starting from scratch.



Bash Gearbox and Sierra, not Ritual.

Sounds to me like gearbox got fired as opposed to giving up the project. They have every right to expect compensation if any of their work is used, so just bash Sierra.