MM8BDM v4 Public Thread - TRAILER!

[-FiniteZero-]

New version of the Plant Barrier! Yay!

And the new stage looks awesome, too.

Great to see my favorite Robot Master getting a revamp!

[Magnet Dood]

Toad Man looks determined to intercept you.

[Hallan Parva]

you can still heal with it right

[Linnie]

It looks good, but for some reason it reminds me a lot of Searchman's stage. That might wear off once I see the rest of the stage, though, so I'm excited to see the end product.

[Ivory]

Allow me to explain.

Plant Barrier now works like this: Pressing fire brings up the shield. The shield now functions like most other shield weapons and stays active. If your heath is at 100, then it just idles around and looks pretty. If your health is under 100, it eats up one bar of ammo to heal 4 hp. The heal is gradual, but you heal about the same amount of health back as you would with old Plant Barrier in the same timeframe as Old Plant Barrier's delay. At any time you can fire off the shield as a projectile. Which is reasonably fast and a 4 hit kill. Firing Plant Barrier does cost ammo.

Overall, the revamp has greatly boosted Plant Barrier's usefulness as both a healing tool and allows it to be a respectable weapon. While it sounds like you heal less than the old one, due to ammo consumption rates, you actually get more healing out of it.

[fortegigasgospel]

Sounds great. Also I recall that map from one of the map packs. Glad to see the platforms being added.

[The_Broker]

Allow me to explain.

Plant Barrier now works like this: Pressing fire brings up the shield. The shield now functions like most other shield weapons and stays active. If your heath is at 100, then it just idles around and looks pretty. If your health is under 100, it eats up one bar of ammo to heal 4 hp. The heal is gradual, but you heal about the same amount of health back as you would with old Plant Barrier in the same timeframe as Old Plant Barrier's delay. At any time you can fire off the shield as a projectile. Which is reasonably fast and a 4 hit kill.

Overall, the revamp has greatly boosted Plant Barrier's usefulness as both a healing tool and allows it to be a respectable weapon. While it sounds like you heal less than the old one, due to ammo consumption rates, you actually get more healing out of it.

I'd been hoping it'd do something like that in a future update! Will the Skull Barrier be receiving similar changes? (Maybe it could be a far weaker Star Crash type? "X 's skull was crushed by Y's Skull Barrier")

[tsukiyomaru0]

FINALLY! That map finally stopped looking like a poor man's CTF map!

Anyway on shields: If anything is planned for Skull Barrier, may I give a suggestion? Have it last longer, but have the shield's ammo "take damage" for the user.

[Knux]

Also I recall that map from one of the map packs.

IX-Pack's Silent Bog. I also thought that's what it was, but on closer inspection, it's not.

[Ivory]

I'll just clear up the confusion here.

It's a 100% new map from scratch that reuses the key features from Plant Man's stage (so why it gets mistaken for being like Search man I have no idea.). I did adopt the idea of the bridge between two buildings like in my IX Silent Bog, but the buildings are more developed but they still feature the "look out points" like the old plant. It also introduces Springs and Plant Platforms which was definitely not in any Silent Bog or the original. Essentially it's like a bigger Plant Man with new buildings.

[Accel]

Allow me to explain.

Plant Barrier now works like this: Pressing fire brings up the shield. The shield now functions like most other shield weapons and stays active. If your heath is at 100, then it just idles around and looks pretty. If your health is under 100, it eats up one bar of ammo to heal 4 hp. The heal is gradual, but you heal about the same amount of health back as you would with old Plant Barrier in the same timeframe as Old Plant Barrier's delay. At any time you can fire off the shield as a projectile. Which is reasonably fast and a 4 hit kill. Firing Plant Barrier does cost ammo.

Overall, the revamp has greatly boosted Plant Barrier's usefulness as both a healing tool and allows it to be a respectable weapon. While it sounds like you heal less than the old one, due to ammo consumption rates, you actually get more healing out of it.

Dear god, yes. I already loved using Plant Barrier, especially in Duel. Now it's actually going to be something I can use beyond just healing? Yes. You guys rock for this.

[Ceridran]

You do know you could turn old Plantman's stage basic layout into an improvised Cutman's stage yet with some changes to make it less trashy, right?

[Ivory]

Umm... did you miss all those screenshots where I overhauled the map layout?

[Kapus]

You do know you could turn old Plantman's stage basic layout into an improvised Cutman's stage yet with some changes to make it less trashy, right?

Now, why would we do that?

[Ivory]

Cutman's stage isn't trashy. It's an excellent learning stage for newcomers and the first stage the game sends you too. It's not changing.