PSM USA September Issue

[mikesta]

I think the green circle around the map is a pretty gay (no offense) replacement for a life guage or percentage...

Yeah, it'll take a long time to get used to it

[tagamaynila]

It seems that everyone who's previewing the game has their own take on LC's actual size. We can't be sure if it's actually 3/4 of SA because everyone is just eyeballing it and coming up with a number. The only thing were sure of is that it's smaller area wise than SA because it was mentioned by Rockstar if i remember correctly.

[TheRoper]

 

say u took half instead of 3/4, that would be 200 x 200, which only be 1/2 of each side, which will only be 1/4 of the whole map... u did 9/16 of the map, which is only like 56% of the map... i think nlitenment has it right...

Hehe, it all makes sense now. Stupid me.

 

 

But as tagamaynila pointed out above me, I think the exact size is still undetermined.

[Magic_Al]

The circular health bar is good. For one thing this makes it longer without being wider, so you can see smaller increments of damage and repair. It will also be nice visually to have armor strength as a ring around your health, as it is protection around your body. Another possibility is both rings could indicate the direction of damage, and a hole in your armor in one direction would make you vulnerable in that direction.

[STARS]

is it me or does it not make sense for Niko to send a resume with his real information on it to the law firm? Quick way to get ID'd by law enforcement as the killer.

"Anyway, Niko navigates to the Goldberg Ligner & Shyster website so he can submit his resume. A fake one, obviously, that says his objective is to (and we quote), "rise to the top of my profession in Liberty City" - he claims to have experience in criminal law with cases such as manslaughter under his belt, claims that he deals with emerging markets in the West Indies (particularly 'Jamaica and Puerto Rico'), claims to have been associate attorney at Mediterranean Shipping Enterprise, and even an intern at a police force - but best, it says he was educated at 'Walford University', UK with an MA in international relations and a first class degree to boot. First class bullsh*tter, more like"?

 

http://games.kikizo.com/news/200707/115_p04.asp it says here, fourth page

[Sina84]

3/4 of SA sounds pretty f*cking huge for one city.

[nlitement]

3/4 of SA sounds pretty f*cking huge for one city.

For me it's "satisfactory".

[mikesta]

 

3/4 of SA sounds pretty f*cking huge for one city.

For me it's "satisfactory".

Well for me it's supercalifragile etc.

 

This city is going to feel a lot bigger than SA.

[MMFF]

Thanks.

 

Can someone explain to me what they mean by "centered in the middle of the road"?

 

EDIT: Never mind, I got it.

Yeah, I didn't get that. You will be centered in the center of the road, if you follow all the driving laws. I think the first thing I may do will be to switch it to the classic view. I like to be centered on the car.

[AndyGanteks]

I'm off for 3 days,and its already a mess here...Thats bad very bad

 

Now back on topic-

 

I wonder why they did post that comment next to that picture ''most key gameplay feats...''

 

 

''Francis Mc Creary(he has a dirt on you ,referencing a hit you probably made earlier in the game''

 

Anybody remembers earlier we saw a mag say''police will remember your acts,people will remember your aacts''.Just wanted to point it out.

 

 

 

 

 

[Bruinfany2k]

The best solution for the camera would be to have the ability to set your own custom camera views. But I guess that wont happen. Many times, games dont have the most logical features.

This is a topic since when? But it would be easy and convenient to allow user to place camera anywhere I agree.

in the IGN, or Kilzo (can't remember which one) preveiw it said that they have multiple camera angles, so this really should not be an issue.

[Bruinfany2k]

My map's correct..

 

The whole image is 400*400 = 160 000.

 

sqrt(160 000*0.75) = 346.410162, making the red area roughly 346x346, or roughly 119716, or roughly 3/4 * (400*400). Bah .

 

You can add up the remainding 1/4 to 120000..

 

 

(54 * 348) + (400 * 55) + 120 000 = 160 792

 

So, yeah, it might look slightly bigger than you might expect of a 3/4, but mathematically, it's accurate. 

3/4s of 400x400 is quite obviously 300x300.

 

 

Square-roots are applied before multiplication.

No, heh, it's 3/4 of SA's AREA.

 

Now, SA's area in that picture is 400 times 400 pixels, which is 160000 pixels, mmkay? Now multiply that by .75 and you get 3/4 of the total area, 160000*.75 = 120000. Now for me to be able to draw a square of it, I need to find out the square root.. sqrt(120000) ≈ 346. So, now I open up a new file in Photoshop, 346x346, fill it with red, then copypasta it into the original one. Voilà, a red square that represents 3/4 of the AREA, not the width or height.

I may have had trouble in algebra but that part actually made sense. But really his logic of 3/4 being 300X300 is not wrong at all, I just wanted him to know that he is not wrong by saying that but since you were looking for the sqrt you had to do some extra math.

[NCIS-guy]

HA!!! you need to sleep to restore health cool

[Coral_City]

The way I see it is:

 

MASSIVE AMOUNT OF LAND ~ Nothing to do

 

SMALL AMOUNT OF LAND ~ Tons to do

 

Which is why GTAIII's Liberty City locale was something I favoured. I loved how the city was just so "alive", in comparison to the other two games in the 3D series. No matter how far you went, there would always be something going on. Even in San Andreas, Rockstar implemented 'new'-ish features (such as random police chases) but that failed a tad bit.

 

Point being...let the detail immerse players -- not how big the f*cking game is gonna be.

[Alonzo]

I think using a car wash instead of a Pay n' Spray iskind of stupid unless it is just blood on your car

 

[Goony Goon Goon]

If LC is 3/4, thet means, there is no desert, as everyone has said, but also no idiotic mountain and no little isolated town!

excuse me but i think you may be an idiot

 

[Singey]

I think that the map and health bar would look something like this and that when health is lost the bar round the edge slowly falls

 

http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/490/1033576434.jpg

 

Thats from MoH Frontline and of course there would be a small map where the compass is. The same system would work well.

[Slamman]

 

With added interiors and top to bottom of buildings, with access ...on a par perhaps

[Azil2fu]

Guys if the size of the map is 3/4 San Andreas, it's gonna be huge ! Imagine all the things you can do in a real virtual city that took 3 years and half for 150 professionals to develop it... freaking awsome

[Magic_Al]

 

 

With added interiors and top to bottom of buildings, with access ...on a par perhaps

 

New York at that size.

[nlitement]

Good job, Magic_Al! That actually looks like a really nicely cut pie of New York + Hudson County!

[Snake Without a Tongue]

3/4 of SA sounds pretty f*cking huge for one city.

For me it's "satisfactory".

I would've been happy with a to-scale Manhattan. I think they gayed it up with trying to recreate Brooklyn, etc. Like with SA when they tried to stick Vegas, San Fran and LA all into one big pile.

[AZAZEL]

I'm kind of confused about the camera view. Will it be to the left of the car or over the car? Sorry if it was already discussed.

It'll probably just be centered over the driver's side of the car, where Niko is sitting - not over the center of the road, or to the left of the car as been suggested.

[Ryunday]

 

You can play pool/billiards.

 

Headshots actually kill people this time.

 

HUD contains health bar that goes around the map

 

There are customizable sniper rifles.

 

You can "blind fire" while taking cover

 

Thanks for scanning these.

YES!!! I always wanted that in GTA IV and the rest of the info is f*cking sweet too. @ topic starter

[technomm]

well,good info

but i'm wondering what's gonna be changed or added during the period of the delay,just fixing bugs?