Comments - Zeph_Solaris

RE: Naruto_Uzamaki

Evolution started with an amazing team of people working to create a conversion for H2V (Halo 2 for Vista). When we found out how bad H2V sucked for modding, we started looking for alternative solutions for a platform. We made about three platform switches ranging from Source, to CryEngine2 before we took a step back to look at the design of the game once more. Up to that point, the team probably had around 10 or so conceptual artist and around 3 or 4 designers trying to piece things together. Past that point, the artists pretty much dispersed to do their own thing while the design of the game was hammered out. The extent of our ideas put us in great need of engineers to program stuff for us. By then, the team dispersed while we waited for our buddy's engine to become feature complete so we can hijack it for awesomes. When that happens, artists will gather again to develop the game's visual content.

What 3d work you see here is all art from Wave of Lag as he works to refine his own artistic style to set a benchmark for the game. It's been so long since I've gone through the design documents, I'm not sure what he's pulled from other peoples concepts and what he's come up with completely on his own.

Why not release it? Because it's not done.

There really needs to be a full install for the current build. Having to install three different builds just to play the current build isn't very fun.

The concepts are amazing, but the weapons can be done much better. The only setup I could enjoy was heavy with rockets. Even then, I had to cope with random kills and team kills. I would often get a team kill from a rocket halfway through the reload. With a 50ish ping, I doubt it was a latency problem. I found the secondary weapon easier to kill with than most of the primaries. Other than that, it just seems like a lot of spray and pray, even with rifles with a slow rate of fire.

This definately has potential to be one of the better zombie shooters out there. Aside from beta issues, the biggest problem I have with it is the huge down time you have as one of the first to die or even waiting for the last person to die. A great example was my friend getting smashed by a lift and dying less than five seconds into the game. Perhaps adding in a feature where if you die, you can respawn as one of the lower tiered zombies. Maybe even add a leveling system so you can play as higher tiers would make people more willing to do so and even add a frightening level of intelligence to the undead. Whatever it is, just get rid of the down time or this mod will lose its replay value very quickly. Especially for those thinking CS:S is bad for down time.

We encounter a database error each time we attempt to list the project as a half life 2 mod. I have yet to hear back from ModDB for a solution.

We aren't going to use them to begin with. Aside from that, we easily could if we wanted to. If you haven't read the mod's description, new content is being created for what is being made.

jonte00, what you're forgetting is the innate ability of the game to run single player content. We understand how the engine works, we understand how the engine runs, and we understand how the engine determines the differences in all the content. Single player content for Halo 2 Vista will be possible even without Prometheus if we take the time to make it so.

Sneaky, H2V is due out on May 8th, 2007 in the United States. I'm not sure when it will be released outside of the USA.

Umm, sorry, just found the mod messages for moddb. If you are still interested in the sound position, then go post in our forums at the following thread. Be sure to include contact information, what you're interested in doing, and an example of your work.

Evolution.halopcstudio.com

I'm sorry, but the mod is still in pre-vis and early alpha stages. There is nothing for you to download as of now.