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[Master O]

Any news on Episode 3, @Xaser?

[Egg Boy]

Damn, the bump got me hyped for a moment, hopefully we'll see this thing before 2021.

[Zakken]

3 hours ago, Lightningoof said:

Any updates? I it's been a year since the announcement and I'm losing hope :(

One year of radio silence is enough for you to lose hope?

[laughs in Deus Vult II]

[Pablo_Doom_Guy]

3 hours ago, Egg Boy said:

Damn, the bump got me hyped for a moment, hopefully we'll see this thing before 2021.

 

+1

 

almost got me , i wish to see some real news from this project in the near future 

[Poncho1]

Well considering Episode 2 is still a beta, I wouldn't get my hopes up so soon, chaps.

[SyntherAugustus]

Time flies. Count me interested as well.

[Doomkid]

Wtf has it already been a year? That flew by!

[ReaperAA]

5 minutes ago, Doomkid said:

Wtf has it already been a year? That flew by!

 

I had the same feeling when the thread was bumped. It felt like only 3 or 4 months had passed.

[Xaser]

[Egg Boy]

19 minutes ago, Xaser said:

Don't tease me like this haha I just finished BTSX E2

[dmslr]

It's alive!

[Rathori]

2 hours ago, Egg Boy said:

Don't tease me like this haha I just finished BTSX E2

I disagree, please tease us some more!

[JDR]

Is this a real skybox, not a placeholder? 

 

Spoiler

I thought the ending to e2 had a placeholder, and now can't believe this could be a real thing.

 

Edited March 8, 2020 by JDR

[seed]

@Xaser Reminds me a lot of the Dead. series.

Edited March 8, 2020 by seed

[MikeyScoots]

Essel's working on this too right?

[SilverMiner]

Looks like they are hard on choosing right sky for the map on the shot ^

 

Or it will really be white :(

Edited March 9, 2020 by SilverMiner

[esselfortium]

12 hours ago, Bloodskull said:

Essel's working on this too right?

Yes!

[Egg Boy]

The map I really want to see more of is that blue one with the red vines. I think its neat.

[galileo31dos01]

On 3/8/2020 at 9:55 AM, JDR said:

Is this a real skybox, not a placeholder? 

 

That's a white texture/flat, it's common when mappers want to simulate void to use either white or black textures.

[AD_79]

In the OP you can see multiple instances of a proper E3 sky. The white void just shows up in certain places for Coolness.

[Camaxide]

I hope it's OK to wake up this old thread, as I'm sure I'm just one of many wondering if there is any news on Episode 3 :) Is it still in healthy development?

[esselfortium]

16 minutes ago, Camaxide said:

I hope it's OK to wake up this old thread, as I'm sure I'm just one of many wondering if there is any news on Episode 3 :) Is it still in healthy development?

There's a bunch done on E3, but our immediate focus right now is getting the long-awaited E2 finalization* update out soon so it can stop being an albatross around our necks :-)

 

(*I say "final" but you know how it is with BTSX.)

[baja blast rd.]

[furious typing sounds]

 

I have hacked into the BTSX e3 changelogs.

 

Quote

2020
- zombieman moved out of wall in map20

- Getty Images logo cropped out of e1 sky

- fixed an obscure vanilla error involving node-building and broken sectors by time-travelling to 1993 Texas to sneakily change something in the code while Carmack isn't looking. this was deemed the slightly less complicated solution. Alfonzo returned safely, but with a very large handlebar mustache. 

- zombieman moved back into wall in map20

- Designed custom texture for Easter egg meme: 'BTSX e3 is still being worked on?' [reloads SSG] 'always has been'.

 

Edited July 29, 2020 by ‹rd›

[Chip]

Holy crap! The OP has 159 likes! The most I ever got was 16 or something. it isn't even a released project! Amazing!

[Uni]

I'll be brutally honest, the screenshots in the OP doesn't look as impressive as I thought the maps in E3 would be. There's a lot of mono-texturing and not very interesting lighting going on. Granted, the textures are looking awesome but I'm not too impressed with the overall architecture depict in some of the screenshots. I do like the two on the bottom though, especially the one with the poles, that looks fucking cool and intriguing. 

 

I'm not trying to judge the maps only based on those screenshots, I know E3 is going to be fucking awesome but I guess a slightly more compelling screenshots could have been shown.

Edited August 17, 2020 by Uni

[Dragonfly]

Good artistic use of cohesive textures within a limited palette isn't 'monotexturing'.

[Uni]

36 minutes ago, Dragonfly said:

Good artistic use of cohesive textures within a limited palette isn't 'monotexturing'.

 

I respectfully disagree. I don't find anything in those screenshots "good" or "artistic". I see bland.

[esselfortium]

don't like it, don't play it

[jazzmaster9]

15 minutes ago, Uni said:

I don't find anything in those screenshots "good" or "artistic".

I think you posted on the wrong thread.

[esselfortium]

(seriouspost: I don't know what kind of meaningful response I can really give to the above -- maybe you'll like it when it's released, maybe you won't, IDK, we're only really aiming to satisfy ourselves here.)