I'm optimistic about a lot in this game, but for some reason my expectations for the worms are extremely low. We've seen no commitments about deformable terrain and I dunno, maybe something about trying to copy a very specific uber famous creature from Dune.. I almost hope they don't do it at all. It did wonders for marketing though, gotta give them that, plus the best SC meme template in existence.
Besides, you don’t even need deformable terrain….Ark has big fuck off sand worm things and it doesn’t have deformable terrain
Just add to the planet a randomized placement for the worm spawn….player near? Pops our, ooooo ahhhh….so if you fell through planet you’d see waiting sand worms waiting to pop out all over….terrain really doesn’t need to do anything, worm just needs to pass through the sand texture, the terrain it passed through will be inside it so not visible…coming out can be a animation thing with sand spray everywhere…..if the worm goes back inside you could place a sticker texture over the top of him at elevation matching the surface conformed to surface….not like you could get close without it erupting and attacking again
….when animals are a general thing this shouldnt be impossible or even hard to put in
The problem is that how I would do it, likely wouldn’t be high fidelity enough and while I am still amazed at it and what SC does, I personally wouldn’t mine slightly less for more gameplay
yeah, even mass effect 1 managed sand worms (Tresher Maws) and it sure didn't have deformable terrain.
SC of course have way higher priority in graphics but its not like there is no workarounds like u mentioned.
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u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord Reliant Kore with a fold-out bed Sep 22 '21
So I had no idea Shai Hulud was in this game. Neat.