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Two questions, hows the OST and does it have those fucking annoying Vulcan enemies?

>>14685679

It's mostly done by the guy who did the MIDI tracks for Descent 2, and though I don't find them as good as the MIDI tracks they still deliver quite nicely and do a good job at setting the atmosphere

>does it have those fucking annoying Vulcan enemies

No, the closest Overload has to them are Ogres, but they can only attack with their pseudo-hitscan weapons if you let them get too close, so they can't instantly snipe you across the map. The ones which can are called Guardians which behave more similarly like the brown hulks in Descent 2, though they're appropriately treated as high level endgame enemies, are rather inaccurate beyond a certain range, and are more easier to dodge here since their weapons are pseudo-hitscan instead of actual hitscan like in Descent

Also on a related note, apparently the console versions got delayed.

>>14686611

Everyone's still gonna be forced to do it if they wanna win in multiplayer. Unless there's a server option to disable?

>>14686627

Don't think so, though beside that there's nothing wrong with trichording

>>14686679

that's what happens when rookies try to trichord and can only trichord in a straight line, consider this within the context of Descent

Turning speed in Descent was limited, so you can't twitch snap at a target as you would be able to in a normal FPS, meaning always keeping your ship faced towards the opponent and not letting him flank you is one of the keys to survival. Trichording in turn allows you to gain extra speed at the expense of not being able to keep your target in your cone of vision as well because you're kind of gimping your aim by turning away from the enemy, though the real masters could land accurate shots while trichording without letting themselves get flanked. Trichording is a complex skill, it's easy to perform but hard to actually use to its fullest benefits, much like how average Quake players bunnyhop to get from A to B faster but pros can bunnyhop at sanic speed with ease during combat while landing constant rails

Trichording added a lot in depth and skill ceiling to Descent multiplayer, and whenever a Descent-like would pop up people would ask whether trichording would be present in the game, it's like what bunnyhopping or rocketjumping is to Quake, more would be lost without trichording. It's not the end-all-be-all skill, but certainly one of the most important tools in the toolset of any skilled pilot, such as dodging alongside three axes at all times rather than just two.

Ultimately, what makes trichording important isn’t the speed-boost to get around the level anyway. What makes it important is consistency in dodging due to vector independence. If you dodge left, you get the same amount of leftward motion regardless of what else your ship is doing. That feels *good* in flight. Whereas if you have normalization, if you dodge left, it behaves differently based on how fast you’re moving forward or up, and that feels *sloppy* and *inconsistent* in flight. Eliminating the trichording speed-boost doesn’t remove the skill curve, it just replaces it with an alternate skill of getting really good at stopping forward motion in order to boost dodging.

Fuck yes this is good

>>14686922

>The lengths people will go in order to excuse stupid unintuitive exploits

Given the length to which other people clamor for the implementation of trichording and the actual implementation thereof in Overload, it's about as much of an exploit as juggling is in DMC. It may have started as an unintended feature, though it has been certainly adapted by the community and honed to mastery by the aces.

>unintuitive game design

There's nothing unintuitive about moving alongside three axes simultaneously, moreover it's the opposite of unintuitive. Trichording is a trick you can pull off using the basic controls without having to use any additional unnecessary buttons or inputs. Heck, it's barely any different than bunnyhopping in Quake where you gain speed by jumping and slowly turning your aim back and forth at the same time, are you going to call that unintuitive as well?

>Great! Sounds like we don't need this stupid crap them.

You think moving at three axes simultaneously is unintuitive but canceling forward motion to increase sideways movement speed isn't? I don't know whether you're arguing from a point of view that trichording is unfair, because the notion that trichording is unintuitive is incredibly vague and the first time I've ever seen it.

Besides, have you ever played Sublevel Zero? A 6DoF control model with normalized vectors just feels sluggish and wrong, partially for reasons I've already outlined above. To me it's more about feeling than having a speed advantage.

Joystick support?

>>14687356

Controller support, joystick support, VR support, twin-joystick support, it supports about anything

>>14687662

Apu is shit and so is your post