Think of it as Halo 2, they pushed that back SO many times. If they set a date, they would have many people disappointed when they say: We will push it back for 6 months, then 12, then 18, and etc. People like it more for people NOT to set dates, moreso than having to go through: This will be pushed back.

AuroraAlphaHL2 😁

It is more responsible for them not to announce a date, but it sucks not knowing when its out.

Very Good Question: What will your guy's Shellmap look like?

AuroraAlphaHL2 😁

No clue. When we get to that point, we'll let you know.

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What is a Shellmap anyways?

The Beginning Intro, in the Main Menu. The on in Zero Hour where the Battleship fires and hits GLA Infantry and many other things go on.

AuroraAlphaHL2 😁

it should have a ion cannon blasting nod ^_^

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Oh, okay. I thought it was something like that.
The Ion Cannon sounds nice... maybe do that all the bases are in the same map and all of them have their super weapons ready, and they shoot at each others CC.
I that way the CC never really get destroyed completely, so they can repair it and the show can continue non-stop.

I was thinking of having a hill where offscreen Tib, Red, and Gen bases all send various units to fight each other for control of the high ground. I suppose we could add a script where one side fires a superweapon at the hill if the number of units it has on the hill drops to a very small number in order to 'even the score' and keep one side from dominating the hill.

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sounds good ^__^

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Yeah, with all the teams now, you have plenty of options. I always love Airstrikes coming in on Shellmaps, not like Jets from an Airfield, but I mean like MOAB type Airstrikes. Any chance you can add that? Also, if anything from the Airfield, just have them fly over, but not shoot anything. That would look so awesome! ^^

AuroraAlphaHL2 😁

Just give 'em an airshow 😉

Having the shellmap just concentrating at a single battle can get boring though, I mean, like in ZH, the camera moves from one point of battle to another and finally loops, that can add alot of interest as we see things like air strikes, bombardments and tank battles without it being a complete mess in one place

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if it can move like in zh then that would be great, i think it would be best if alot of the new stuff was shown on the shell map though like new units and the new gen powers for the new sides.

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An edited Zero Hour shellmap? Thats what ive seen most people do. Turn the GLA into the USA,China, and GLA team, and have the Red and Tiberian work together?

AuroraAlphaHL2 😁

Nah, and Edited version won't do as we can't show alot of the new interesting stuffs on it. Although it's quite hard to think of a good shellmap so that it flows nicely, it should be original instead of a ZH shellmap clone

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Do a camera that circels around a mountain, and all the sides/armies try to reach the top from different directions. And they end up dead on the top of the hill each time, then that could loop over and over again, forever and forever and forever.

Bad idea, but looking only at the hill side offers only a single type of battle with ground units rather then a large range of battles of many types of units. On the other hand, if we made it had different types of battles on the different sides of the hill then it's gonna look rather rediculous in a way...

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why don't you just use 3 hard armies fighting each other and have all their buildings invincible

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