The story behind the killing floor

[Vicious]

I kept dragging the guns disscussion into storyline disscussion, and no one really cared

Alex said:

Ok here's the gist.

When the full release comes

You wont even think.

You'll just Go

Oooh and Ahhhh and you''ll mash in zombie skulls and there will be much excitement and coolness.

And everyone lived happily ever after.


Does that settle things?

This gives me mixed message... From the limitation on guns i got the idea "Sweet, limited ammo, limited weaponry, 1000's of mother fuckers want to eat my brain and i down to my last clip, lets party boys." but from that quote i get the idea "Have a few guns and ripp hordes to shreds, just another shooter where u run around with bodies and kill mindless AI."

Maybe i got the wrong immpression when i first looked at this mod.. I was thinking about a game based on teamwork with marines being involved in storyline trapped in survival horror situation needing to carry out objective based missions on lvls... like Resident Evil on steriods and teammates. Or is this like Classic doom with jsut more players? Buncha people, running around killing everything going from point A to point B and the storyline makes no sense at all.

[Slinky]

Information on the weapon buy system that was posted in said thread:

Okay, well, we need a mechanism to allow players to improve over the course of the game, as the zombies increase in "Oh, shit, big zombie"-ness. We decided that having the power of the weapons they use increase was the best way to accomplish this. So, hey, what's a fun way to have players increase their weapons over the game? Have better weapons randomly drop? LAME. So, we have weapon lockers. Here's how it works:

-You do not receive points for killing zombies as in normal invasion.
-Instead, all dead zombies are put into a "point pool", which is divvied up at the end of every round.
-Points are divvied based on how long you were alive throughout the wave versus the total "live time" of all team members.
-(No promises on this one, it may be implemented after initial release) As well, your points will be bolstered by special "awards", such as point bonuses for being the last one alive in a wave, or point bonuses awarded to all team members if no one dies.
-With these points, you can obtain weapons from the "weapon lockers" scattered through the level. There will probably be two lockers per level.
-Lockers start out unusable. At the end of each round, all weapon lockers are activated. Every time a weapon locker is shopped from, it becomes unusable until the next round.
-Your ammo, etc., will have to come from the lockers.

As for "a story that makes no sense", this is from the killing floor description on moddb and has been there for quite some time:

"The setting is London, and the premise is simple. There has been a viral outbreak. You know the drill by now, and im sure any number of mods have used a similar storyline. Story can be fleshed out and improved upon later, right now it's not important."

I'd quote the killing floor webpage itself, but it's down at the moment. Story has never been important, because any given zombie movie/game just has story get in the way. It's an excuse to kill zombies in a horror environment, which means the story is either terrible- even laughable- or it weakens the gameplay. Why bother with it?

[Acid]

Well, it's not really a mindless run-a-round shooter. Believe me, I thought the same way you did. This mod will actually concentrate on teamwork.
It's really a bitch to survive by yourself. If you dont have a kevlar vest on, and are being mauled by 2-4 zombies alone, you're dead meat, meaning you wont get far at all as a loner.

[Vicious]

Slinky said:

Story has never been important, because any given zombie movie/game just has story get in the way. It's an excuse to kill zombies in a horror environment, which means the story is either terrible- even laughable- or it weakens the gameplay. Why bother with it?

I beg to differ, in Resident Evil the storyline is highly imporant. I loved the storyline. I not the type of guy that skips all the movies and ignores the documents and stuff. Same with Silent Hill. And the movies HAVE to have a storyline, or else they jsut pointless.

[Alex]

Remeber this.

You HAVE to have a brainless addicting gameplay first.

THEN you can create an intricate, compelling story.


trust us man, cus we know what's gotta come first.

[Vicious]

Can I write storyline ;D
Haha, ya i know the gameplay is always the main draw, storylines are the icing on the cake. I believe ya:p And ya, I would play this game even if it had no storyline or mission objectives at this point. I was jsut brainstorming ideas, I didnt want to make it sound like I was wanting you to pull this shit outta a hat, I know it takes hours upon hours upon hours to do this stuff and its very hard work, and Kudos for what you've done so far. (Those enviroment graphics are jsut amazing...)

[TheHeroOfCanton]

Alex said:

THEN you can create an intricate, compelling story.

The notes that come up while the level loads are great. Judging from those, you can't tell me you've never thought of having a story...

[Acid]

You want a story ? Here, clikc this link:

mrkadish.proboards40.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1112978039

Something I did when the demo came out....

[Slinky]

Honestly, when the talks about this broke out, there was something along the lines of,

Slinky: "LOL! Forum."
Alex: "Que?"
Slinky: "Story."
Alex: "Ah."
Slinky: "Que?"
Alex: "I could write a story if I wanted to. Let's just finish Killing Floor and see where things go from there."
Slinky: "A'ight."

[Slinky]

WAIT A MINUTE!

Isn't the hero of canton a man they call Jayne?

[Alex]

Well i was working on a piece of a story.

I think ill do up little excerpts for each scenario and map..So it's kind of more interesting to know , but doesn't dominate the action.


Here's what i came up with tonight







They dispatched my squad to supress the spread of the infection in the area of West London, where the quarantine had been comprimised.

We loaded up and took off that morning not knowing what the hell we were doing. Jakobson had family in London, they were living not far from
the quarantine, he told us. He didn't speak too much during the flight, just sat there in the chair with his eyes shut and a hand on his rifle.

Lewis, was all business. I can't say he was excited about the operation, because that's the wrong word. he was just as fucked in the head about
this as the rest of us were. But he kept it down low, and he looked ready for what we were gonna see when we got there.

I couldn't even think straight.

I forgot about my heart beat and watched clouds pass by.

Fuck but it was dark down there.

The whole city was blanketed in this rusty fog. The street lights were out, or most of them looked that way. It was hard to tell, we were still high above
the L.Z . Lewis barked at us, the ETA was 8 minutes.


"Protect the peace. Serve your country. "


Gear up marines, it's show time!

Lewis was shouting again. I could barely make out his voice over the wind.
The whir of the motor began to change pace and the chopper tiled forward on a sharp incline.

I was thankful for being belted in.


"Kill your former friends, family, loved ones."


London exploded into view as we began descending,
my stomach dropped with the chopper.

There was a pile of cars. Lots of them, really. Some were flipped over, or burning. I could see an ambulance with the doors
ajar. Something was dangling out the back.

Lewis had placed his gasmask on.


"Hell, what's it gonna matter when they're clawing at your neck."


We hit ground.
Hard.

Everyone reeled forward in their seats and there was this moment of total silence before the world went into fast forward


I donned my mask and charged my Bullpup rifle.

This was it, no more nights on the balcony with Veronica
No more days of training and wishing for something to happen
No more traffic.

I looked out over what was left of the city. We had landed on the rooftop of an office complex.
Lewis and Jakobson were these black shapes moving away from the chopper.
Go time, Soldier..
Your squadmates need you.
Britain needs you.
Maybe the whole world needs you.

What a shitty deal.


I sort of half stepped, half tumbled out of our metal bird and onto the asphalt.

[TheHeroOfCanton]

Indeed...



;D

[Slinky]

Awesome points for you, sir! Double points for the photo. Sorry, alex, Firefly is so awesome, I have to go make a firefly mod instead now.

[GhostDog]

Alex nice liitle storyline..something like that totally fits i think sounds really good well done

[sepheronx]

you can always wait for a zombie shooter that has a story line to it, there is Out of Hell wich has a story to it, though its not online, well not declaired yet. But its a story based game zombie shooter. Though its taking a long time to make cause its 1 guy working on it all.