Down Under
I know, I know, it's been a long time but I have a half decent excuse. Lucy and I have relocated down-under and it's been a mad month or so. We are now living in Sydney and after a couple of weeks of being tourists we have moved into a shared house and have settled into a working routine, interspersed with trips to the beach of course. :)
NSS4 is coming along nicely and I have a couple of new screens to show you. The first is the training screen where you can set how much effort you wish to focus on each of your abilities. This will help you increase abilities at a faster rate than usual, but will obviously cost you more energy. I still intend to have training challenges as in NSS3 but with skill levels ranging from 1-100 now I would be impossible (or at least very time consuming for me and pretty boring for the player) to create 100 different challenges for each skill. Exactly how the whole training element will work isn't quite nailed down yet but I will focus on it some more in the future.
As you can see, you can also purchase your performance enhancing drugs, alcohol and energy drink from this screen from the action menu. And as before you can check into the rehab clinic from here, or not if you're anything like Amy Winehouse. (I said, no, no, no.)
Next up is the relationship screen which is very similar to the old version, but with a few minor differences. There will be more options on the action menus than in NSS3 and I hope to include sub-screens which give you more detail on the relationships. For instance, you will be able to pull up a list of all your team mates and see which ones like you and which ones don't. Or you can have a chat with the boss to find out what he is unhappy with, whether it's your match form or your playboy lifestyle. Well, that's the plan at least.
The pictures are just place-holders at the moment and may or may not be the same in the final release. If such a thing as an unofficial image patch comes into existence then it will show an actual picture of the team boss and hopefully real photographs for girlfriends too. In fact you will be able to replace the default images for family and friends with pictures of your own if you so wish.
The more observant among you may notice that there's another new icon on the nav panel - the dollar sign. This will take you to the finances screen where you can see your income/expenses and spend your cash as you wish. It will also show details of existing contracts with sponsors and so on, but this area is only half finished so you'll have to wait a while to see that screen.
The other major news is that I have a chap working on the animations for the players and will hopefully soon have some players running around, kicking, jumping, diving and so on (diving headers, not Ronaldo style cheating - shame on you PES7). So the next blog should be very interesting, only I promise not to take so long this time. :)
NSS4 is coming along nicely and I have a couple of new screens to show you. The first is the training screen where you can set how much effort you wish to focus on each of your abilities. This will help you increase abilities at a faster rate than usual, but will obviously cost you more energy. I still intend to have training challenges as in NSS3 but with skill levels ranging from 1-100 now I would be impossible (or at least very time consuming for me and pretty boring for the player) to create 100 different challenges for each skill. Exactly how the whole training element will work isn't quite nailed down yet but I will focus on it some more in the future.
As you can see, you can also purchase your performance enhancing drugs, alcohol and energy drink from this screen from the action menu. And as before you can check into the rehab clinic from here, or not if you're anything like Amy Winehouse. (I said, no, no, no.)Next up is the relationship screen which is very similar to the old version, but with a few minor differences. There will be more options on the action menus than in NSS3 and I hope to include sub-screens which give you more detail on the relationships. For instance, you will be able to pull up a list of all your team mates and see which ones like you and which ones don't. Or you can have a chat with the boss to find out what he is unhappy with, whether it's your match form or your playboy lifestyle. Well, that's the plan at least.
The pictures are just place-holders at the moment and may or may not be the same in the final release. If such a thing as an unofficial image patch comes into existence then it will show an actual picture of the team boss and hopefully real photographs for girlfriends too. In fact you will be able to replace the default images for family and friends with pictures of your own if you so wish.The more observant among you may notice that there's another new icon on the nav panel - the dollar sign. This will take you to the finances screen where you can see your income/expenses and spend your cash as you wish. It will also show details of existing contracts with sponsors and so on, but this area is only half finished so you'll have to wait a while to see that screen.
The other major news is that I have a chap working on the animations for the players and will hopefully soon have some players running around, kicking, jumping, diving and so on (diving headers, not Ronaldo style cheating - shame on you PES7). So the next blog should be very interesting, only I promise not to take so long this time. :)
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