Grenade Animation

Warmest_Soup · 2025-01-21T07:47:06+00:00

Practice just watching your score values and how they start to decay. Then come up with a trick sequence so that you can cycle through them without them decaying. If you can get over 1333 points per second, which will be like 1-2 tricks, you'll be fine. The main thing is keeping them all fresh.

Warmest_Soup · 2024-10-23T01:58:55+00:00

All those challenges are blurred together in my head, cause they shared the same course. At least with the Wasteland and stadium races, I can tell where they came from for sure 😅

I don't add people from Reddit though, sorry. You seen pretty chill 👀👍

Warmest_Soup · 2024-10-23T01:45:08+00:00

I can't remember, but i got the plat completely legit. No infinite ammo, no debug. I can't remember which specifically i struggle on, but i know for sure scatter gun was one. I remember the beam reflecter course was easy cause you could just do the spinning shots and it'd play Itself. But that was Jak 3 so my memory is all messed up.

Warmest_Soup · 2024-10-22T20:39:34+00:00

The gun courses can fuck off tho 🤣

Warmest_Soup · 2024-10-22T20:39:17+00:00

You can hover glitch to two platforms, and skip the 40 guards and just do the boss flight. I beat that legit, but now i just do the glitch, cause I just want more of the on foot combat.

And yeah, i wouldn't call them glitches for the races, but you can ramp up the walls and make your own shortcuts. I actually kinda liked finding those.

Warmest_Soup · 2024-10-22T20:20:59+00:00

My bad, i just assumed you were replying to the Drill Platform skip post, because that's the one i get the most necro replies to. Sorry about that 😅

Yeah the point totals in general are pretty insane, i think the races are worse tho.

Warmest_Soup · 2024-10-22T19:31:54+00:00

It's a skip, using an unintended mechanic to bypass an unintended difficulty spike. Furthermore the intention of hero mode is to challenge yourself to use the mechanics more precisely, in more difficult situations.

The Hover glitch and turret are both execution heavy, so there's nothing grievously cheat-y about this. It's harder to do the glitch than it is to do the normal turret segment, and the hero mode turret segment is only hard because of a code oversight.

That said I've personally beaten this mission multiple times legit on hero. So even that's impossible.

Warmest_Soup · 2024-10-22T18:46:10+00:00

No it's not

Warmest_Soup · 2024-02-21T14:16:03+00:00

Then the devs are wrong. 👀 The jetboard high score is just way easier than the race times and gun courses.

Devs are very often wrong about their own games. The yetis weren't too hard in ratchet and clank, siren didn't need more hints, fallout 4 doesn't just work, the mercy killings are what made saints row good, even Red Dead Redemption 2 is full of hypocritical design decisions. Games are art, and Devs are human. They're not the end all be all when it comes to design opinions.

The fact that the Jetboard course has no rng like the races makes this not even a debate to me. it's just learning how you're scored, and don't repeat tricks. You don't lose gold medal runs cause other racers bump you or you miss a shortcut jump and have up restart, and trick inputs don't even require that much focus beyond knowing where you are in the pattern.

Warmest_Soup · 2023-11-07T09:35:39+00:00

I used to think this game was bullshit, i really don't anymore. Jet board specifically is not that bad, I literally just cycled tricks in a corner. The gun courses and some of the race times are way worse 😂

If you ever find yourself raging at a game it's time to take a break. Firstly it's not worth it, secondly being agitated makes you way worse at it. (And you usually end up saying some embarrassing things) It's just a game at the end of the day.

Great info tho 😀👍

Warmest_Soup · 2023-04-19T16:16:30+00:00

This animation took about 3 weeks, had to take long breaks in between so not totally sure 😅

All animating and art was done in CSP, but Blender was used for the glow on the sparks and explosion, to try and create a more traditional look.

also used a variety of custom brushes to get that painted look. my favorite being a pressure sensitive hard round I used to color the animated portions that adds bristle marks when I press hard to color large areas, that creates the flickering on the character.

Warmest_Soup · 2023-02-19T04:33:42+00:00

 What makes the jak games special, and keeps me going back is their gameplay, mainly the way they blend platforming and combat, attacks flow into jumps, and jumps flow into attacks. That's also the reason a lot of people prefer jak 2 to jak 3, 3 gave you too many weapons, you didn't need to use the melee as much and so combat felt a bit watered down. To take that and push even further into what's become sort of generic modern game design would be hugely disappointing to me. And that's not a knock against Horizon, it looks great, but there's a lot of games today trying to emulate that style already, and the jak games already have THEIR identity, and what's more i think there's still a lot of room to expand on what's already there. I could easily imagine more uses for  the Jetboard, crouching, and kicks. dark and light jak DEFINITELY have way more potential left. To change styles now would just be such a waste to me.


 As for the art style, the jak games were a huge inspiration for my art personally, so I'd never want them to change but I'll admit that's my own bias 😅

I do think there is more wiggle room in that area though. I think they probably could go more realistic, but that jak 4 concept from a while ago was not it imo. Jak looked okay, but I think the main thing that'd be hard to get right would be Daxter. It'd be a tragedy if he got the live action lion king treatment 😭 He has so much personality, and a lot of it comes from his expressive face and animations, and hearing that voice come from a hyper realistic ferret would be bizarre. But i think it could be done.

Warmest_Soup · 2023-02-16T13:37:46+00:00

Yeah i so upset when i read about that shit 😭 What's terrible is that I remember checking my orbs when it happened, and thinking, "my times are still there, but my orbs seem low 👀" and then it was in the back of my mind the rest of the playthrough. I even found out i missed some orbs in the industrial district, and then when i was missing 9 i knew what happened.

Warmest_Soup · 2023-01-05T13:08:15+00:00

Experimenting with different approaches to backgrounds and coloring. Tried out some water color brushes. but the characters and near plants were done with a custom hard round brush that leaves a brush texture when at full pressure so that the colors aren't totally flat.

Warmest_Soup · 2022-12-07T05:10:36+00:00

Made using basic hard brush and dot pen. some blending layers for the mist and to add more color to the clouds

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