Today’s another short preview of something we’re trying to finish before 0.9.0 update drops, a co-op mission!
I love it when Vermillion goes the extra mile. I’d love to be a part of a team like this … or even build one myself.
Anyway, to the actual post.
Co-op is something I’m looking forward to far more than anything else in the multiplayer updates. While we’re probably only going to have the one map/mission combo to play with a for a good while after the update, that’s a lot more than we were promised. Looks nice, too.
While it’s been a long wait, that update’s probably going to get here before we know it, so I’m hoping to find some time to finish up at least one of my M.A.S.S. units in time.
I’ve got a personal holiday coming up so there isn’t going to be much info going up over the next few days. I’ll still be posting like usual, just nothing beefy or otherwise time consuming.
That said, I’m still mainly focused on the following:
Outlining Artorius and Remnants
Lydia’s Golden Treasury Chapter 2 1st draft
Cosmo Messer workshop upload
For June the goal’s to make serious headway on all of these (and to complete the latter two).
I set aside a little every month for a few book purchases, and for this month I picked up another three.
Legacy of the Force #1 Betrayal by Aaron Allston
Legacy of the Force #2 Bloodlines by Karen Traviss
A Throne of Bones by Vox Day
Star Wars, like so many other megacorp IPs, is basically dead, but for me, it only makes the Legends continuity that much more attractive. That’s not to say everything in Legends is good, but Legends is more to me than just a treasure trove of ‘content’ ranging from okay to fantastic. Legends is the eventuality of a beloved franchise being constantly worked on for decades.
That’s worth delving deep into and trying to understand.
As for a Throne of Bones, I started listening to this gem as an audio book over a year ago, but I’m well out of that phase now. I just can’t listen to stories while I’m doing other things and enjoy it anymore. I don’t even enjoy reading stories off of computer screens or tablets unless it’s manga or something similarly slanted toward the artwork.
For novels, I just really want to have the thing in my hands and not glowing, you know?
At some point I’ll start on these and get back to the blog about them.
Not much to say about this one. I did way more calling today than I probably should have, though, and we got knocked out of the struggle a couple of times. That always happens at the beginning so I’m not too broken up about it.
Again, I am resigned to my fate …
We also had to switch to the main clan’s division to keep playing about an hour before the end. There were some really good, really close wins. Three at the beginning and two at the end.
There was no battleship play from me today. The other Phoenix took care of that, so I was mostly playing Shimakaze and trying to get used to Daring. There were also a couple of Yoshino and Smolensk games in there somewhere.
Anyway, there’s still a lot of ‘Cayman’ season left to go. Hopefully I’ll have a few more ships to choose from by then, like Halland, Yueyang, and maybe another coal ship.
It’s not just these Kaiser types I’m thinking about. I’ve got several other factions to try and flesh out design-wise.
I’m thinking of sticking with a quasi-Yamato 2199 design for the Space Germans, a more committed one for the Japanese, something vaguely BSG for the Royal Navy, and lastly, something between Gundam and Macross for the Americans. This is still just an idea, but it’s where I’m leaning, currently. I’ve got to make at least one mainstay for each faction before I’m really sure what direction I want to take each of them.
The real problem is going to be the smaller craft, fighters, bombers, etc.
It took me practically half a year to finish the Cosmo Messer …
Anyway, that’s most of what I wanted to mention. A few different designs are coming together and I’ll be posting screenshots in the near future. I’m also chewing on a new idea to help me get some more writing practice in, among other things. I’ve probably been watching Outlands too much.
