Aliens vs Predator 2 Interview

I've played the demo once but haven't been able to even find an alien. And I've traveled down to level 4. What gives? Every time I open a door I get pings on the tracker but there's never anything there.

Hey ease, I saw HH3 got another coder recently to finish up the project. Are you going to be doing any more maps before it's released?

i wrote a little bit about what i thought of AVP2 demo here if anyone wants to read it

http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?person=ease_avp

Well, after playing the demo, I think I will hold of buying this one until I hear more about it. The demo showed me nothing that wasn't in the original. Right now, my wallet is waiting for Red Faction to come out.

While NOLF was my favorite game released last year(maybe more), I'll admit that the engine leaves much to be desired. Here's my (simplified)short list of the good/bad:

Good:

Excellent AI. It seems that Lithtech has a great infrustructure for Single Player AI, as opposed to the Q3 engine, which has none :p
Nice terrain system. Its much more appealing than the Q3:TA stuff, and I like it better than UTs stuff that you see in custom maps
Handles colors very well, of course, most engines do now. But I was especially pleased with the variation in NOLF, and its implementation of daylight
Great High poly character models

Bad:

Low detailed world environments
Seems like bloatware, you need a ridiculously high end system for what you get out of it.(need at least 256MB RAM for it not to be choppy, even on fast procs)
Horrible net code(did they ever fix this for NOLF?) I imagine they're cleaning this up for Global Ops and that it'll be a engine feature for other licensees
questionable physics(at best)

That's more of a critique from NOLF/AvP2 as they're the only Lith 2.5 games I've played. I won't even mention earlier games, KISS:PC was just a horrible game. The engine itself seems to be a cheap alternative to Epic/Id engines for developers who want to concentrate on gameplay. I haven't seen to many lith developers who've made core changes to the engine to better suit their needs. Still, if the engine can help licensees churn out anything close to NOLF, I'll be more than pleased.

/me=NOLF Fanboy

The other thing, too--I was highly unimpressed with Lithtech graphics. The game should be using the Quake 3 engine. Period.

Well, were pretty much on the fast track to ship it.

Am I reading too much into this or does that sound kind of ominous?

Has anyone figured out how to turn down the mouse sensitivity in this game yet? Please help

can they make load times not take eternity?

speaking of red faction, are they gonna fix it so itll work with win2k/xp?

the lithtech engine is complete ass. they should scrap it and start over.

Third post 1!!

interviews rock me