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| Dima
alexsok@netvision.net.il
77090113
|  "SOF 2 Info (non Doom 3 stuff)"
, posted Wed 4 Apr 02:04:  
SOF2 is officially being made using the Quake III engine while utilizing an upgraded version of the outstanding GHOUL technology. To make things even better, the game will utilize:
1024x1024 textures vs 64x64
Characters of 3000 polygons vs 400 polygons
Weapons of 5000 polygons vs 500 polygons
Facial expressions on the characters
More missions based on the life of John Mullins
More realistic weapons vs the microwave gun and such
GHOUL II technology vs the GHOUL original
30 pixel accurate areas of damage vs 12
From 20 death animations to 100 for 15 body types
Your mission this time will be to eliminate Russian scientists that are working on a biochemical that they want to release. His new sidekick, Taylor, will be helping him out similarly to Hawk who didn't make it through the end of the first game. I hear that Taylor is quite a woman too.
As for the enemies, they be working with higher intelligence. Using ICARUS AI originally founded in Elite Force, the enemies you face will be much smarter and harder to kill. You will see some hand signals in certain situations where silence is important. You will hear actual foreign tongues from your enemies.
Now for the bad news. I almost cried when I read this. SOF2 will not be shipping with multiplayer. You may expect to see it made available through a later patch, but you won't get to frag online when you come home with your new copy. (sniffle) I know this may break some of your hearts as it did mine. I am a mapper through and through, and when I read this, the magazine dropped from my fingers. I can only hope that the multiplayer patch comes quickly.
So, when can you expect this game to become available? The target date is set for the winter of 2001. Since the game is still in development and unforseen things could arise, a final date cannot be set at this time.
Now, if you want to read more about this or see the exclusive screen shots, I suggest you get your tails over to your magazine retailer and pick up a copy of PCGamer. Without them, we wouldn't even know this much. I give all credit for this article to their success of releasing the news first. You can also find them at www.pcgamer.com.
Screenshots of the game can be found on these links (thanks Zaldron):
www.zaldron.f2s.com/pics/faces.jpg
www.zaldron.f2s.com/pics/shot1.jpg
www.zaldron.f2s.com/pics/shot2.jpg
www.zaldron.f2s.com/pics/snow.jpg
Update!!
Brian Raffel from Raven Software posted on SOF forums the following:
Hey Guys,
It's the Quake III engine, you think there would be no multiplayer???
Brian Raffel
Raven Software
I think the post speaks for itself :)
"We've been doing hacks and tricks for years but now we'll be able to do things we've been wanting to do for a long time" Carmack said. "For instance every light has its own highlight and every surface casts a shadow like in the real world. "Everything can behave the same now and we can apply effects for every pixel."
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| Disorder
enter@softhome.net
27436321
| "Re(1):SOF 2 Info (non Doom 3 stuff)" , posted Wed 4 Apr 09:48
IMO Soldier Of Fortune is one of the worst games ever.
I got fucking bored after 10 minutes when I played the game for the first time. The only cool thing about the game is the amount of gore... And it works as some sort of therapy. Blowing off legs 'n arms in games is better than doing it in real life. :)
But like I said, I got bored... I'm not looking forward to SoF2 at all......
-someday I'll cut you just like they cut me-
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| | Zaldron
avengerz66@hotmail.com
18477495
| "Re(2):SOF 2 Info (non Doom 3 stuff)" , posted Wed 4 Apr 10:05
The question is... how did you played?
The single play has itīs flaws, no doubt. And in medium/challenging difficulties it was too easy.
So I played with no saves, limited carrying capacity, max AI (patched with the GOLD version) and heavy respawning.
The game got interesting really fast. Thereīs a lot of suspense cause a single burst of bullets or a well-placed .44 bullet can kill you.
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"There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death there's brain death and there's being off the network."
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| | Disorder
enter@softhome.net
27436321
| "Re(3):SOF 2 Info (non Doom 3 stuff)" , posted Wed 4 Apr 11:09
Well, I played it on a normal mode I think. But the thing is... I don't like this type of game... I just dislike the idea of fighting terrorists.... And the levels are boring to me.
-someday I'll cut you just like they cut me-
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| Lord FlatHead
lordflathead@yahoo.com
112071624
| "Re(1):SOF 2 Info (non Doom 3 stuff)" , posted Wed 4 Apr 03:34
You could just say "go to www.stomped.com and check out this post about SOF 2"... You don't have to cut and paste the whole deal like you wrote it yourself.
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"If fighting is sure to result in victory then you must fight even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding." -- Sun Tzu the Art of War
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| | Dima
alexsok@netvision.net.il
77090113
| "Re(2):SOF 2 Info (non Doom 3 stuff)" , posted Thu 5 Apr 12:54:
What the fuck is your problem with me huh?
This is a FORUM so I can do whatever I want and whenever I want!
I won't ask you if I should do this or that so shut up!
About stealing your topic, there is NO SUCH THING as "your topic"!
I can do whatever I want with any topic I want! PERIOD!
"We've been doing hacks and tricks for years but now we'll be able to do things we've been wanting to do for a long time" Carmack said. "For instance every light has its own highlight and every surface casts a shadow like in the real world. "Everything can behave the same now and we can apply effects for every pixel."
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| | Dima
alexsok@netvision.net.il
77090113
| "Re(2):SOF 2 Info (non Doom 3 stuff)" , posted Thu 5 Apr 12:40
That's what I did!
"We've been doing hacks and tricks for years but now we'll be able to do things we've been wanting to do for a long time" Carmack said. "For instance every light has its own highlight and every surface casts a shadow like in the real world. "Everything can behave the same now and we can apply effects for every pixel."
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| CHAINSAW+DGM
CHAINSAW-DGM@TALKCITY.COM
|  "Re(1):SOF 2 Info (non Doom 3 stuff)"
, posted Wed 4 Apr 03:21
quote:
1024x1024 textures vs 64x64 Characters of 3000 polygons vs 400 polygons Weapons of 5000 polygons vs 500 polygons Facial expressions on the characters More missions based on the life of John Mu
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nice tech talk but also...
nice,small,grainy,blured,counterstrike clone,screen shots!
ALL RIGHT YOU PRIMATIVE SCREW-HEADS LISEN UP
SEE THIS...THIS IS MY BOOMSTICKS!
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