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WhiteOni
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Hey folks. It's time to show you what me and my crew did. Some of you already know bits and pieces about our little project(did I jut say little 
) Time to show you some more!
Corporations v.2 - A cyberpunk HalfLife 2 modification
Story
In the 21st century the economy has even more influence to politics than ever before. In 2011 the world was shattered again by a world war. The competitors where strong and attacked each other with huge armies. After 8 years of war most of the countries didn’t have any more money for this war. Some of the most powerful corporations suggested their countries to help them with money and equipment. It took 3 more years to end the war. It wasn’t ended with fighting but politics. World peace was re-secured. Most countries lost a lot. Cities, a lot of citizens and a huge amount of money. As the countries didn’t have the money to pay the corporations the political influence and the despair of the governments found a solution: Partial independence. Some of the most powerful corporations gained this benefit and had been able to loose the chain to their governments. Some of the corporations built their own little countries with borders and armies.
Because the corporations where independent they didn’t get anymore subsidies. They had to assert themselves on the markets. But competition was strong and some corporations began with heavy industrial espionage. The others where outraged and started to menace the others. This political tension got even stronger when one of the aggressive corporations stationed heavy infantry and tank divisions near a research outpost of another corporation. As a answer to this thread the other corporation stationed a huge amount of its army at this outpost. It took only one week until this situation escalated. The armies fought each other and the outpost was destroyed.
Than the events skipped themselves. Corporations began to fight each other with small armies. They started to sabotage, steal research and kidnapped scientist.
This was the beginning of the corporations war.
The modification
The modification is based in near future (around 2035). The players will jump into the role of a soldier of one of the corporations.
Corporations is mainly a team based multiplayer modification for HalfLife2 (future singleplayer and coop are planed)
The whole thing is based upon classic cyberpunk stories (i.e. Blade Runner). Two of the most powerful corporations are in war. Koshima Industries (Japanese) and Syntec Enterprise (American). They do have the most powerful armies and are most advanced in military technologies.. Beside that we are going to develop a server system we call “Flagged” that allows serveradmins to change nearly every gameplay aspect of the game.
Parties
At the moment we got two corporations in the field (more will come)
We got Syntec Enterprise, a large American corporation specialized on tactical, group based combat. Their army is organized like armies of the 20th century. Their benefits are heavy armor and more firepower.
The other side is Koshima Industries. A Japanese corporation. The army of Koshima is organized like a old Japanese samurai clan. The Koshima troops are specialized on loose formations. Heir light troops are able to quickly surround the enemy and attack from various directions. Their benefits are quick units and a higher rate of fire for their guns.
Flagged
Flagged will be a system that allows server administrators to change a lot of the gameplay.
The admin will be able to change the class based system to a “Rambo”-system (Every play can use everything). He might change the amount and type of reward and penalty. You even will be able to lock classes or set a limit for the classes (i.e. only 4 snipers per team). Because Flagged is a separate development we won’t tell too much about that here.
GameModes
Game modes will be:
Deathmatch
Teamdeathmatch
Last Man Standing
Last Team Standing
Capture the flag
Head Hunter (all player hunt one other player / might be ratio based)
Objective Based
Rally (It’s for testing the physics and fun ^^)
Implants
As Corporations is a cyberpunk modification you’ll be able to use implants. The range of implants goes from “more speed” and “less recoil” to tactical systems like the ability to see friendly units in your HUD. The implants will be put into slots (Brain, eyes, torso, arms and legs) and you may purchase them like guns (it will be flagged if they stay after death or not)
Classes
Sniper
Trained for killing over long distance. These warriors aren’t the best in close combat. But don’t stay too long in their aim. Only the sniper is able to buy the best sniper rifles.
Grunt
The standard soldier. Equipped with assault rifles and grenades are they the backbone of a army. Only they are able to buy the best assault rifles.
Heavy Gunner
The big guys are armed with machine guns and rocket launchers. Only this class is able to by the medium machine guns and the rocket launchers.
Medic
Infantries most important field support. The medic is able the heal his comrades and boost their stamina.
Technician
The most important part of a infiltration mission is to get in. the Technician can hack doors, security systems and enemy equipment. He also is able to repair the vital systems of vehicles.
Demolition Expert
If something has to been blown up, he’s your man. This class is able to lay mines, use explosives and defuse both.
“Drone Master”
If Source allows it we’ll use a player class no game had before. The Drone Master is like a light Grunt. But he is fighting on his own way. He has his remote controlled drones. Drones are robots that can fly or use tank tracks for movement. Their height is about two feet. They can be equipped with light and medium weapons and special items.
(Commando)
Flagged class. If the server admin doesn’t want the class system every play will be a commando. The command has all benefits the other classes have. Singleplayer mode will be as a commando, too.
Weapons
Melee weapons
Sidearm guns
Submachine guns
Shotguns
Assault rifles
Light machine guns
Medium machine guns
Sniper rifles
Rocket launchers
Frag grenades
Flash bangs
Smoke grenades
Explosives
Advanced Weapon Systems
We will be developing a system to customize your weapons. You could buy a better barrel or get better grips for less recoil. We are not finished with planning this part of the mod. So be patient.
Vehicles
As Corporations is based upon man vs. man combat the use of vehicles will not be very excessive. Right now we have planed: A Buggy, a jeep ,a light anti infantry tank and a mobile HQ. Further vehicles are thought about but we are not sure if we’ll use them.
Equipment
The following equipment is planed:
Small medic packs (common)
Headlights (common)
Hacking Tool (Technician)
Repair Tool (Technician)
Medikit (Medic)
Stamina Booster (Medic)
Detonator (Demolition Expert)
Grapnel Gun (common)
Night vision goggles (common)
Infrared goggles (common)
Movements
The play will be able to use the common types of movement. Walk, Run, Crouch, Jump and go prone.
Beside that we are going for “press to wall”, “shoot from cover” and “leap jumps”. If the technical side allows it and the balancing won’t go nuts we will add the ability to make wall jumps (like in Martial Arts movies).
You may play the game from 1st and 3rd person
Maps
We planed a lot of maps. From huge snow covered woods to city ruins. Every taste will be satisfied.
The Team
The team consists of 4 full members atm. A 2D-concept artist. (One example sketch attached) and 3 professional coders. No need to tell you that we are still looking for members. We still need some mappers, modelers, texture artists, animators and sound artists.
And we are looking for 4 voice actors. One female American, one female Japanese and two men for the same parts.
We are trying to answer every comment as good as possible. But know that we won’t tell you everything
Best regards
WhiteOni
ProjectLeader “MOD” of the GreyWolf Studios
Our URL is: http://www.corporationsmod.com Page is currently under "recreation" but forums are up and running
And here's one of your first concept sketches by Jojo
) Time to show you some more!Corporations v.2 - A cyberpunk HalfLife 2 modification
Story
In the 21st century the economy has even more influence to politics than ever before. In 2011 the world was shattered again by a world war. The competitors where strong and attacked each other with huge armies. After 8 years of war most of the countries didn’t have any more money for this war. Some of the most powerful corporations suggested their countries to help them with money and equipment. It took 3 more years to end the war. It wasn’t ended with fighting but politics. World peace was re-secured. Most countries lost a lot. Cities, a lot of citizens and a huge amount of money. As the countries didn’t have the money to pay the corporations the political influence and the despair of the governments found a solution: Partial independence. Some of the most powerful corporations gained this benefit and had been able to loose the chain to their governments. Some of the corporations built their own little countries with borders and armies.
Because the corporations where independent they didn’t get anymore subsidies. They had to assert themselves on the markets. But competition was strong and some corporations began with heavy industrial espionage. The others where outraged and started to menace the others. This political tension got even stronger when one of the aggressive corporations stationed heavy infantry and tank divisions near a research outpost of another corporation. As a answer to this thread the other corporation stationed a huge amount of its army at this outpost. It took only one week until this situation escalated. The armies fought each other and the outpost was destroyed.
Than the events skipped themselves. Corporations began to fight each other with small armies. They started to sabotage, steal research and kidnapped scientist.
This was the beginning of the corporations war.
The modification
The modification is based in near future (around 2035). The players will jump into the role of a soldier of one of the corporations.
Corporations is mainly a team based multiplayer modification for HalfLife2 (future singleplayer and coop are planed)
The whole thing is based upon classic cyberpunk stories (i.e. Blade Runner). Two of the most powerful corporations are in war. Koshima Industries (Japanese) and Syntec Enterprise (American). They do have the most powerful armies and are most advanced in military technologies.. Beside that we are going to develop a server system we call “Flagged” that allows serveradmins to change nearly every gameplay aspect of the game.
Parties
At the moment we got two corporations in the field (more will come)
We got Syntec Enterprise, a large American corporation specialized on tactical, group based combat. Their army is organized like armies of the 20th century. Their benefits are heavy armor and more firepower.
The other side is Koshima Industries. A Japanese corporation. The army of Koshima is organized like a old Japanese samurai clan. The Koshima troops are specialized on loose formations. Heir light troops are able to quickly surround the enemy and attack from various directions. Their benefits are quick units and a higher rate of fire for their guns.
Flagged
Flagged will be a system that allows server administrators to change a lot of the gameplay.
The admin will be able to change the class based system to a “Rambo”-system (Every play can use everything). He might change the amount and type of reward and penalty. You even will be able to lock classes or set a limit for the classes (i.e. only 4 snipers per team). Because Flagged is a separate development we won’t tell too much about that here.
GameModes
Game modes will be:
Deathmatch
Teamdeathmatch
Last Man Standing
Last Team Standing
Capture the flag
Head Hunter (all player hunt one other player / might be ratio based)
Objective Based
Rally (It’s for testing the physics and fun ^^)
Implants
As Corporations is a cyberpunk modification you’ll be able to use implants. The range of implants goes from “more speed” and “less recoil” to tactical systems like the ability to see friendly units in your HUD. The implants will be put into slots (Brain, eyes, torso, arms and legs) and you may purchase them like guns (it will be flagged if they stay after death or not)
Classes
Sniper
Trained for killing over long distance. These warriors aren’t the best in close combat. But don’t stay too long in their aim. Only the sniper is able to buy the best sniper rifles.
Grunt
The standard soldier. Equipped with assault rifles and grenades are they the backbone of a army. Only they are able to buy the best assault rifles.
Heavy Gunner
The big guys are armed with machine guns and rocket launchers. Only this class is able to by the medium machine guns and the rocket launchers.
Medic
Infantries most important field support. The medic is able the heal his comrades and boost their stamina.
Technician
The most important part of a infiltration mission is to get in. the Technician can hack doors, security systems and enemy equipment. He also is able to repair the vital systems of vehicles.
Demolition Expert
If something has to been blown up, he’s your man. This class is able to lay mines, use explosives and defuse both.
“Drone Master”
If Source allows it we’ll use a player class no game had before. The Drone Master is like a light Grunt. But he is fighting on his own way. He has his remote controlled drones. Drones are robots that can fly or use tank tracks for movement. Their height is about two feet. They can be equipped with light and medium weapons and special items.
(Commando)
Flagged class. If the server admin doesn’t want the class system every play will be a commando. The command has all benefits the other classes have. Singleplayer mode will be as a commando, too.
Weapons
Melee weapons
Sidearm guns
Submachine guns
Shotguns
Assault rifles
Light machine guns
Medium machine guns
Sniper rifles
Rocket launchers
Frag grenades
Flash bangs
Smoke grenades
Explosives
Advanced Weapon Systems
We will be developing a system to customize your weapons. You could buy a better barrel or get better grips for less recoil. We are not finished with planning this part of the mod. So be patient.
Vehicles
As Corporations is based upon man vs. man combat the use of vehicles will not be very excessive. Right now we have planed: A Buggy, a jeep ,a light anti infantry tank and a mobile HQ. Further vehicles are thought about but we are not sure if we’ll use them.
Equipment
The following equipment is planed:
Small medic packs (common)
Headlights (common)
Hacking Tool (Technician)
Repair Tool (Technician)
Medikit (Medic)
Stamina Booster (Medic)
Detonator (Demolition Expert)
Grapnel Gun (common)
Night vision goggles (common)
Infrared goggles (common)
Movements
The play will be able to use the common types of movement. Walk, Run, Crouch, Jump and go prone.
Beside that we are going for “press to wall”, “shoot from cover” and “leap jumps”. If the technical side allows it and the balancing won’t go nuts we will add the ability to make wall jumps (like in Martial Arts movies).
You may play the game from 1st and 3rd person
Maps
We planed a lot of maps. From huge snow covered woods to city ruins. Every taste will be satisfied.
The Team
The team consists of 4 full members atm. A 2D-concept artist. (One example sketch attached) and 3 professional coders. No need to tell you that we are still looking for members. We still need some mappers, modelers, texture artists, animators and sound artists.
And we are looking for 4 voice actors. One female American, one female Japanese and two men for the same parts.
We are trying to answer every comment as good as possible. But know that we won’t tell you everything
Best regards
WhiteOni
ProjectLeader “MOD” of the GreyWolf Studios
Our URL is: http://www.corporationsmod.com Page is currently under "recreation" but forums are up and running
And here's one of your first concept sketches by Jojo
