Concept & Modeling Media Frenzy

[aRny]

Dear Community,

It's been over a month give or take since our last 'real' news release and we just wanted to let you know the TA team are hard at work on what will be a very impressive and standalone FREE game!

We are all very much aware you want to see in-game footage and material, but at present it is not possible and probably 1-2 months off realistically. We thought it was best we tackle this most asked question first to save you the time asking it again

Why though? We hear you asking further...
Well think of this as a big puzzle, we have various departments working on individual tasks which will be pieced together at the end. Such things currently being worked on are below:

Our music/sound team consisting of Lead Jtmarrin, Nishant, Roland and Havokmann are currently taking real life samples of trains, splashing and other sound effects, all being brought into game.. like bullet impact effects, explosions, weapon sounds and so on! Not forgetting MyPetGoldFish our voice over actor whom has just fine tuned a 2nd round of voices for our swat char... AND... is currently working on a teaser trailer !!

We then move on to our level designers, we have 5 very talented guys busy at work (Restcrew, Teifi, Laky, Carter & Spin) being aided by a superior bunch of environment artists, GuyB, igi, Tausi, Paul, Dandy, Autopsy, Tarick, Hamid Jalili etc.... all supported by our technical artist deeps. Some of their work can be seen displayed below.

Environment Models

Designed & Modeled by Tausi


Beverage Crate

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SF 1st Person Arms

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Designed & Modeled by Paul

Modular Building Pieces

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Modular Walkway Pieces

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Designed & Modeled by Autopsy

Skylight

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Supply Bundle

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Designed & Modeled by Midgard

Fusion: Range Rover

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Brewery: Air Conditioning Unit

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Fusion: Extinguisher

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Other things being done behind the scenes is Dandy's animations (which can't be shown just yet dispite them being finished, we will have a surprise for these later!). Midgard's character hair (still WIP), and Molez whom out of them most deserves a lot of credit for doing a unrewarding and unseen job of UI fonts!

Despite Spins best initial intentions not to do coding, he has ultimately been busy the last week fixing up bugs and starting to implement our weapons in-game! Great work and the same goes to Deeps.. but we can't discuss that yet! Anyway.. onto more stunning work!

UI Concepts

Concept Art by kYo

Anykey Screen

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Loading Map

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Main Menu

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Server Browser

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In the background working parallel to all of this is our character concept and modelling team working on new swat/ merc male and yes..... female chars! So all those lass's that want to go gun-ho upon release, you'll be able to do exactly that.. and all those men that want to pretend, go ahead!
We will be showing you these concepts very soon!

We hope you enjoyed the media fest of what's going on behind the scenes and settles some nerves! TA Team would appreciate your continued support and welcome everyone to join us in IRC & of course our forums.

Your TA Team

[AutopsySoldier]

WOOOOOOOHHHHHH!!!!

[Remus.gL]

very nice news
i hope we'll see some vids next time

[Midgard]

Hey hey,

nice concept, great job well done everyone
Amazing Arny. 

[Steel]

Real Nice!

[DeadEnd]

looks great 

[*Exclusive*]

That Looks awsome!;) Great work

[Major_Tom]

good stuff m8y's!
props to all off you

[fpsmajor]

Awesome media release.  But the muscles on SF 1st person arms looks abit awkward.  I'm currently taking life drawing (drawing every body muscles) so I catch things like this.  The arm needs to have U-shaped dip in between the forearm and the bicep, and the triceps needs to be more defined.  I have no idea how hard it is to model arms, so if it's really difficult, forget what I said.

[Daishi]

All I can say is...its not a clip...its a mag.

[joolzz]

The ingame menus look awesome! what does "start new multiplayer game" mean ? Will we be able to instantly host a server, like in left4dead ?

[-Zlodey-]

Good news. Nice to hear about female models - we have girl in our clan
But she very often choose male skins, because all that flame about "girl playing in shooters".

[Sickmind]

This Media release gives me a boost and it shows the comunity that there is some nice teamwork being done. Not only on the wole project, but on each aspect of the game. The menu is mega mega awesome It makes me wanna take off my clotes and run around a block naked !

Everyone knows that the big mean evil TA locomotive is running at full speed now. Supplied with enough coles, spitting flames, spitting steam. Every stone on the track will be crushed ! The train is speeding towards station beta 1 and then to beta 2 and even to further stations. There is only one train engeneer who can drive a train like this and that is our leader TOP-Proto ! And im sure he will enjoy to see haters stepping on the track, getting slammed in thousant pieces by his powerfull train ! I fcking LOVE TA !

[aRny]

I would like to add a personal note, spin and deeps this week have set the pace on development and work is being pushed out so quick and SVN commits being made and new posts being put up.. that it pretty much requires my full attention day and night in order to keep up with them and organise everything in and around what is happening.

The last 2 weeks have been a big achievment in a step to an Alpha... we always had a clear plan of what was needed to be done, but now the "puzzle pieces" are starting to form a picture and the excitment internally is certainly showing.

I could write such remarks and babble on for another few paragraphs.. but just watch this space and within the next week you'll have another media update as we all hammer down and are fully focused on what our end game is.

Thanks for all the kind words, such things keep us going and on high spirits.

[TOP-Proto]

meantime anyone has a job i can do - looking to work from home, or if anyone wants to offer me a job in canada or america + green card, let me know!!!

i got a good CV should anyone want to read it PM me lolz (yay at my hijack!!)