MM8BDM v5 Public Thread - MM9 Expansion

[Rui]

Wait.... why was BBA Mega Man allowed to have a skin in-game?

[CutmanMike]

Wait.... why was BBA Mega Man allowed to have a skin in-game?

I was outvoted I think.

[Hallan Parva]

Street Fighter x Tekken was funny
it was just very very poorly timed


that, and we have three Bass skins
like come the hell on people

[BiscuitSlash]

Random and mildly outdated question.

How much bot compatibility will the new Centaur Flash have? Like, will the invisibility work on bots at all? Will bots make any effort to avoid players while invisible (backing away for example)? Seems like it would be worth making sure it's there.

[Gumballtoid]

To be honest, I'm not even sure bots will be able to pick up the weapon. I think the better question is, "How will the bots react while the player is invisible?"

[ice]

Well, in classes and in the megaman X classes, they seem to ignore cloaked Shadowmen/Sting Chemeleon

[tsukiyomaru0]

If I recall, the invisibility % defines how likely they are to target and adds a "chance to sway aim". Which is why Partial Invisibility made monsters take longer to notice the player and would often aim left and right of player instead of straight at them.

[PressStart]

All the screens you dudes have posted of MM9 stuff looks wonderful! Glad you're still working on this!

I probably already posted something like this, but I remember MM8BDM starting development after MM9's release and before MM10's, so it's really cool to see an official MM9 expansion finally coming to the game : )

[TheRealRoyale]

hey, why u dont add a boss rush mode?

[GameAndWatcher]

hey, why u dont add a boss rush mode?

Prior to v3, there was this option, but it was removed as of v3, as the stage select made it redundant.

[Jakeinator]

Well, it'd be nice and convenient to have an easy way to fight every single boss in order without having to go to the stage select and press right a bunch of times. And some people (otherwise known as insane people) would like the option to limit healing or something to that effect.

[Superjustinbros]

Maybe on the Stage Select, you could make it so pressing Up/Down changes to the next/previous game over.

[CutmanMike]

Maybe on the Stage Select, you could make it so pressing Up/Down changes to the next/previous game over.

I already kind of did this. Pressing up and down now scrolls by 5 levels for speedier selections.

[Messatsu]

Fun fact:  Boss rush still exists.

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type:
set secret_bossrush 1
set secret_devilunlock 1
map unkown
in the console to begin the boss rush

[Dr. Freeman]

Hey all you mega fans! We're back in action for another update!
Wow! How do people come up with good intros for these?

Let's cut right to the chase with some Q&A
and i mean some because Mike answered nearly all the questions before the update anyway, so that makes my job a bit easier.

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By the way, I see that when showing off the updates to Light Labs, you've avoided the room under construction to the left of the entrance. Was that deliberate? And where's Guts Man now?

It wasn't as much deliberate as it was, "Labs were still being updated during the last update so I showed off the pictures I got."
The room under construction is complete, but there really isn't much hidden there.
And Guts Man is just hanging out in a different spot. Don't worry, he's still around.

Random and mildly outdated question.

How much bot compatibility will the new Centaur Flash have? Like, will the invisibility work on bots at all? Will bots make any effort to avoid players while invisible (backing away for example)? Seems like it would be worth making sure it's there.

Yep! Bots will be affected by Centaur Flash making you invisible. Not much else to add on that, but it happens.

I promised you all 9DW2 today, and we're still gonna be taking a look at that. However, we have another map to take a look at first...

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Oh hey, the Robot Museum is up and running again!
It was just an exhibit shuffle however, as the outdoors section's layout is identical to that of the old map.
Everything else however...



It's a little different.




As it turns out, this new Museum decided in order to make some room, that the three stage exhibits, (being Fire Man, Blizzard Man, and Toad Man) would be put together in one larger room that plays as the centerpiece to the map. There was something about setting up some new exhibits and they just had to be moved.

Speaking of the new exhibits, it looks like I have a chance to talk about those as well!
Although the Robot Expiration law has only come into effect rather recently, there have been a handful of robots who have already hit their expiration date and have been scrapped.
But waste not want not! At the very least these scrapped robots could be put on display in the Museum, hence our new exhibit!





That's right! Not only does the Museum have textures to reflect the Robot Museum from Megaman 7, but the Masters from Rockman & Forte 2 have officially been put on display!
and this is the closest you guys are going to get to seeing the non canon megaman games in core. don't expect anything else.
and that's not me being a jerk, those were Mike's words.
and it's also me being a jerk.

And that's the gist of new Museum, thanks for taking this tour and you can visit the gift shop out bac-


oh my god who let this asshole into the building for the love of god
he's gonna get goop everywhere
someone is gonna have to clean that up

Now that we got that out of the way, let's take a quick look at the second Megaman 9 Wily Stage!

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So here's a nice little dynamic! It's not easy to tell from screenshots, but 9DW1 is probably around the size of the average map. At least the average Wily map (Mostly using the ones from mm7 as example).

9DW2 on the other hand, provides a much smaller map that's nice and compact.
So forgive me that taking a lot of screenshots is a bit tricky for this one.



Really, the best ways to describe this map is small, compact, nice, and cozy.
And lots of flashy textures!



Oh yeah, and there is a bit of water, so be careful about getting wet!
and unlike mm9, the underwater section isn't ungodly stressful



Oh! So that's where this guy ran off to! We couldn't find him in Hornet Man's stage at all...
I'm glad he found a new home.

That's all there is to show off today! Next time we're gonna be taking a look at another map, and 9DW3! And maybe a few other mysteries, after all, it could very well be the last text update in this fashion.
I'm almost going to miss it.

But I make no promises.

Until then!