So since I bought gmod I've been stuck strictly to RP servers, welp I want to try something new, and I noticed spacebuild, but I am wondering if there is something out there a little more...combat oriented, while also retaining the building?
The best way to describe the kind of server/game I want would be this:
Several friends and I log in and buy a space vessel. On board I assign myself to navigation where I physically drive the ship about. Another bro man's the asteroid harvesting station awaiting the ship to pull up and lodge itself into an asteroid to gain the resources so they may be sold. The last bro PHYSICALLY walks about the ship, making sure everything from the life support, to the turret station are good to go and fresh on ammo. Just as they pull up to an asteroid another ship appears, and begins firing on our "bro ship". I stick to navigation while I order my other bros to GET UP from their stations, and PHYSICALLY run over to the turrets on the appropriate sides. After a fierce battle, several things may happen (These are the things I'd be excited about)
1. Our ship's shield go down and the pirates end up boarding us, and we have an intense gun to gun battle throughout the corridors of the ship battling for our very survival. Assuming we win, we then take the battle to the pirate ship and steal their resources.
2. We destroy their ship in the battle. Two of us don spacesuits and proceed to head out to the now free drifting carcus of the ship. We proceed to steal the resources from the ship coming across the now dead bodies of the pirates freely drifting around the ship.
3. Vise versa of number 2 lol.
So yeah, is there ANYTHING out there Gmod related to this? I've never played spacebuild, as I am unsure of what it really entitles.
Good idea. Why hasn't anyone done this yet? Spacebuild takes way to long to get in to.
Well brotato that seems a little unlikely unless you've got mad buildin skillz and some patient bros.
That sucks :( It seems really neat and doable.
this seems like a good idea, maybe a good coder should make a gamemode of this, it'd certainly be blazing with people trying to get on the servers with this.
The GGG servers are more or less like that. Kind of. They have 3 servers: Toshkent, Novogorod, and Baikonur, the last of which is spacebuild, and they all run a weapons/prop damage script called Armoured Combat Framework, which has some advanced features such as limited ammo that you must carry onboard, shots possibly deflecting off of angled surfaces, and lots of customization.
However the spacebuild server is pretty much pure combat-focused to the point that it runs a very light, non-intrusive version of spacebuild which doesn't particularly lend itself to things like resource wars. I personally prefer it that way as I find typical spacebuild too bloated for my tastes, but it sounds like you want the full experience with asteroid mining and limited resources to war over and such. Also, some wiremod wizardry would be required to get "physically controlled turrets" as you described.
If you want to set up your own server, pretty much everything you need is out there. You can get ACF with the following SVN links:
[url]http://acf.googlecode.com/svn/trunk[/url] (Core addon)
[url]http://acf.googlecode.com/svn/branches/models/[/url] (Required - models, materials etc.)
Other weapons addons such as PewPew and GCombat exist, though ACF is arguably the most in-depth.
You'll probably also want Gravity Hulls, which makes walking on moving props much easier (i.e. actually possible)
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1085630-Gravity-Hull-Designator-a-true-Localized-Physics-mod[/url]
Get Spacebuild, [url=http://sbep.wikia.com/wiki/Getting_Started]SBEP[/url], wiremod, some good maps, and whatever else you want and you're pretty much set. You're gonna need to use your imagination though, because as far as I know there isn't currently any "Spacewars" sort of scripts out there to handle the role-playing aspects for you.
wait, they don't need wiremod for controllable turrets! there's a Combine mounted Turret addon, so you can just place them, and use them for turrets
good thinking man![img]http://plugin.name/7/hOgCQ3[/img]
[QUOTE=Spikem59;31618760]wait, they don't need wiremod for controllable turrets! there's a Combine mounted Turret addon, so you can just place them, and use them for turrets[/QUOTE]That works if you're fine with the Combine turret, but if you want to make a controllable turret out of any of the ACF weapons (howitzers, 50cal machine guns, cannons etc.) then you're gonna have to figure that one out yourself.
well, more ppl might like the combine one, as Wiremod is tough as hell to figure out.
I was on a build server with Wiremod, and Gcombat on it, I couldn't make one damn thing, only 3 guys on it could figure out what to do to make anything
True, wiremod isn't amazingly user-friendly, but it's easy to make simple things once you have a basic understanding of how it works. Open up your steam overlay and look at the wiki page and some tutorials, or have a friend or someone in the server that knows how to use it explain things to you.
Basically, you want to use the actual Wire/Advanced Wire tool to attach your weapon to something that will trigger it's "fire" output. This could be a button that you press with E, or you can use an Advanced Pod Controller to make your gun fire when you press a specified key while in a seat (the key can be things like space, shift, ctrl, the movement keys, or even your mouse buttons if you want). You're basically using any of the Input tools to send a 1 or a 0 to your weapon, and to the weapon 1 means "shooting" and 0 means "not shooting". For example, if you make a machine gun and wire it to a button that sends 1 only when you're holding it and 0 when you aren't, you can make it shoot in full-auto as long as you hold the button and stop when you let go.
...and that's about the extent of what I know about wiremod. I suck with it.
Bah, Im not for making servers. :( maybe I will try out that GGG server, are they active enough?
They aren't particularly busy, but most of the time there's like 5 or more people in at least one of them.
Try flood mod, it is exactly what you described, minus the "space" part.
Any servers play flood mod?
[QUOTE=mcjamesv1;31628222]Any servers play flood mod?[/QUOTE]
A lot do. Set map filter to fm_
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