What is SOS?

pyros soul · Post by **pyros soul** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 6:31 am

I was browsing in the old topics in the forum........

What is SOS, I seriously have no clue.

Crill3 · Post by **Crill3** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 6:38 am

www.wolfire.com/SOS.sit

A sort of test game built on an early version of the Lugaru 1 engine, I think.

Colicedus · Post by **Colicedus** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 8:11 am

Ooh, Shiny.

why was it made? its a pretty good FPS. even though they are robots and there could be a quit button rather than the ` quit. to leave the game.

its so simple and yet it has a good feel to it. i did not get Motion sickness after playing it like i did the game Sky-net or DOOM II. i noticed it had a few thing in common with Black Shades.

pyros soul · Post by **pyros soul** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:25 am

Ummmmm, my computer is telling me to chose another app. for it.......

EDIT: wait a sec, im on tiger, there for, i need unstuffit

EDIT: I played it, this is preety damn fun.

Colicedus · Post by **Colicedus** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 7:34 pm

who made it? the amazing David and Jeff?
or was there another Programer who was Responsible for this?

and if David and Jeff were the makers, why did they not work on it some more?

BunnyWithStick · Post by **BunnyWithStick** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:08 pm

Probably because they made Lugaru afterwards, and because it was a sort of test game?

Colicedus · Post by **Colicedus** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:19 pm

thats like the coolest FPS ever.
I think it would look better with Color though.

BunnyWithStick · Post by **BunnyWithStick** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:35 pm

The ground shouldn't be grey, but the metal structures and such should.

Also, can anyone figure out what the repair key does? It doesn't seem to work

MacWiggy · Post by **MacWiggy** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:43 pm

This game is awesome. I want to bake it a cake.

BunnyWithStick · Post by **BunnyWithStick** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:56 pm

It gives you the same satisfaction of lugaru when you see all those sparks fly off the enemy's body and that satisfying bzzt-bzzlzt sound, doesn't it?

So, yeah, this game deserves a few dozen cakes and 100 cookies

P.S: While changing things in the config file I saw a lot of lugaru's control settings in there, but no repair key, so maybe it was just a dud key, or an outdated manual from before repairing became automatic or something

BunnyWithStick · Post by **BunnyWithStick** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:30 pm

Some interesting things about SoS:
Disabling limbs and parts of limbs is FUN!
Third-person mode can be cool sometimes (Press Tab to switch views, I only found this out accidentally)
Trees shake when shot at
Holes in bodies and such look pretty cool
Disabling someone's ankle makes them sorta limp
Knocking someone over with a shot looks pretty cool, especially close-up
You could make a whole army of people follow you around and not shoot you by just running around disabling their gun hands

Also, it might be cool if people would start making maps for SoS, not just Lugaru

And, SoS screenshot of two "Metalman Brothers" (Notice their disabled gun hands!):

Look, it's a Robo-Party!:

Colicedus · Post by **Colicedus** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:39 am

well its grey because of the Textures, Im going to see if i can modify them if Jeff and David say they don't mind and only then. i await there call....

Post by **David** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:31 am

Mod away, feel free to change anything in any of our games, as long as you don't sell anything or distribute registered copies.

Colicedus · Post by **Colicedus** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:39 am

Thank you.
would Distribute include posting on Here?

pyros soul · Post by **pyros soul** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:58 am

BunnyWithStick wrote:The ground shouldn't be grey, but the metal structures and such should.

Also, can anyone figure out what the repair key does? It doesn't seem to work

I'm getting the same problem......