I know many of you have ideas on this, so feel free to share any and all of them! Please also be sure to vote in the poll, and always back up your claims and ideas! Give reasons for your ideas, and try to think of them in terms of how "doable" they are ;) (that's not to say that some things are impossible...as long as someone's willing to work on it, anything is possible!)
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To provide a baseline for the discussion, I ran a quick forum search and pulled up all relevant topics/posts that discuss the likes of a Campaign that I could find, assembled below. I'm positive there are many more references to this topic, so if you know of any more that aren't covered here, please bring them to light! I will include them in the respective sections!
Campaign:
- Glennz has recently posted an idea script for the campaign
- LuckyStrike made a very detailed post (with pretty diagrams!) discussing ideas on how Campaign mode may work and operate.
- Although a more dated post by cdxbow, it has a few interesting ideas also following the lines of operation and inner workings.
Survival Mode:
It has recently been suggested by TheLastProject in Glennz's thread linked above. For convenience, this is the post.
To summarize, his idea is to propose a survival type mode, as apposed to a campaign type mode. To add myself, I believe that it would not only be far easier and tons less work than to implement than a campaign mode, but also that it would retain re-playability much more than campaign would. See my post for a few more details.
Deep inside the Release Feedback thread; actually lies a post by Imerion which is somewhat of a similar idea to survival. For convenience and clarity's sake, I will quote it here:
Imerion {l Wrote}:Another cool idea which would be fun to have in the meantime while waiting for the Campaign would be a Challenge-mode. Where one or more players try to work together to complete a list of challenges. It wouldn't need to be more than a bunch of presets with different levels and settings/mutators. So one could be "Defeat a bunch of bots on level X" and another could be "Win a Capture the Flag match with Instagib on level Y", etc. Every time a challenge is completed a new one is unlocked. (Or all are unlocked from the start, but completing them adds a small star or something next to them in the menu.) This is something I would really enjoy to play, especially if I could play it together with others. (So all human players always start in the same team.)
(See full post here)
Key points recapped here:
TheLastProject {l Wrote}:The problem, albeit this being interesting, is a huge lack of replayability for a huge amount of work. Simply put: adding a random map to DM is a lot less work and allows for a lot more replayability.
ZeroKnight {l Wrote}:The way the AI works in Red Eclipse could bring forth new enemy types with extremely little work. For example, you could have a "colossal" type enemy by creating another AI type in the source code, and altering his height. And that's not a lot of code. You can change the weapons they start with, their health, speed, whether or not they can jump, etc.
And we can always add more actor types that go beyond just grunt, bot and turret. We could end up with full on tanks (Kitsune and Wazubaba are actually playing around with that idea), or flying enemies.
Mash-up (combined) Ideas:
In light of these two suggestions, there are also a few ideas that transcend both realms, and give a little bit of a mash up idea. At the time of writing, I can only think of this one following post, but if you find more, please let me know in this thread, and I'll add them here :)
- Post by arand in Glennz's thread, suggesting the possibility of both campaign, and survival mode.
The trick here is; as long as someone is willing to work on something, anything could be added to Red Eclipse! (hence why Red Eclipse's motto is: "Anything is possible" ;D)
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