[PItalica] About this mod & progress

[Conqistador]

hey Sig1, do you plan to make model variations?

[Tenerife_Boy]

ok signiferone, what is the situation here about the progress? and a quick quest: there will be hoplites with muscle cuirass corinthian helmets and big hoplons?

let me know..

[Gertrudius!]

ok signiferone, what is the situation here about the progress?

He said this in one of the other threads but I think it answers your first question question.

Yes. Once the animations are all ironed out, I see little in the way of a beta release.

[Tenerife_Boy]

okay I had watched it right now Thanks!!

[SigniferOne]

Here's what I said in one of the other threads:

So work continues on animations. So far all spear units engage in vigorous spear/shield strike and block combat. The only time a soldier keels over is when he's about to die; all other times he tries to block the attacks of his enemy, to the left, to the right, and to the front. It's a pretty interesting experience, quite new from the standard Vanilla fare. Now, the same system is being almost finished with sword units.

[Mugg]

Hi guys! How's the work going?

[Almogaver]

Originally Posted by SigniferOne
So work continues on animations. So far all spear units engage in vigorous spear/shield strike and block combat. The only time a soldier keels over is when he's about to die; all other times he tries to block the attacks of his enemy, to the left, to the right, and to the front. It's a pretty interesting experience, quite new from the standard Vanilla fare. Now, the same system is being almost finished with sword units.

Zooming in will be quite a different experience... a realistic one!

[SigniferOne]

Wonder if anyone knows what this might be:

EDIT: Ok we'll show later.

Some path to a hidden treasure?

[Occhi Di Davide]

Oh god you previewed it

[ignoramus maximus]

What is "It"?

[Occhi Di Davide]

[ignoramus maximus]

AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

[SigniferOne]

Ok I removed it!

[brymht]

Important question : With TATW keep people occupied enough until this comes out?

[SigniferOne]

I don't mind!

[Occhi Di Davide]

Purpose of PI' isnt catching by the audience of a mod like TATW... exactly what happens when I, lover of Rome blablabla, i install an Australianocentric mod based on Maori for example. Even if i have installed it maybe because of my curiousity or because people spoke well about this game, the fact i have installed it doenst mean i could find a sort of passion or love playing it exactly as for anything not reguarding my matter aka Romans. PI doesnt need casual gamers as they're called technically. We are a niche-product and the basin of our audience are the lovers of ancient Mediterranean history

[SigniferOne]

To me, lovers of ancient Mediterranean history constitute a vast chunk of those who like history. Especially those on this forum, most of whom are fans of Roman history.

[Morfans]

Important question : With TATW keep people occupied enough until this comes out?

I am under the impression PI fans are not so impressed with TATW.

The fantasy genre is based on super-human, predestined heros, magic, total absence of economical & political concepts. One would say the TW series is inadequate to fantasy mods - the success of TATW and CoW is inexplicable to me...

However, in PI I am looking for historical (and ethnical) accuracy - ok, there are battles in TATW, but is that enough ?

[Occhi Di Davide]

Please let's stop talking about other mods.. we dont want opening some contentious here. Closing the argument, i personally like tatw technically and not only that. But i m not a sci-fi fan and hardly i play sci-fi mods even if they're excellently good made and i would like to see this mod having its own niche-audience without drawing them by other basins as the sci-fi one etc. etc.

[SigniferOne]

Indeed we don't want any contentious here, TATW is a tremendous mod, and I personally downloaded 2.0 the day it was released myself. Reuniting Arnor is interesting. I don't see why popularity of mod B weans away people from mod A. Last I checked people can have more than 1 mod installed in their game.