The reason were behind is not because we don't want things, or that we don't DO things its because....how many very talented people do you think they have in their BR? alot, IF we were able to code it ourselves we would have no problem doing something they did. However there isn't much that we want really. And you've also completely ignored what i said.
things such as camera angles, different effects on costumes, a launcher, hurtsounds, SUBJECTIVE THINGS that they don't own at all are free game. There is nothing saying that we can't add hurtsounds or different effects on costumes or anything like that for that matter. The reason they have accomplished so much is because of 1.) how long they've been working on polishing this 1 official release. and 2.) the sheer manpower + talented coders they have on hand. Some of minus' old devs are PM devs even. It's unfortunate. In any case, tetherhopping is not something that i want to see in minus, and for future reference i would like to state that were are in no way avoiding things that they have already done. Thats NOT the case. We avoid things that would make people think 1.) were just copying PM. and 2.) things that don't belong to us, such as gct codes. (also i would like to state that they have in no way figured everything out. They have loads of talented individuals in the BR that have specialized areas of expertise. and while they figured out ALOT of things, you can't say they figured it all out.
For example, OpenSA.dantarion.com is a wiki of information that, even in the opening statements of the brawl documentation project, states that they collected information from the community to gather in one place. I for one still contribute to this wiki often with my new findings. Im in no way saying that the PM devs didn't figure out alot of the stuff related to brawl hacking, as they sure as hell have, im saying that people need to stop treating them as gods and putting PM on a pedestal.
Anyways, just from now on i want people to know that we don't 'avoid stuff because they've already done it'. We just aren't that interested in a ton of the stuff they've done, and even if we are we need permission.
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Glyph said:
Thats not to say we're not taking steps forward to look as nice as possible, but we have to pick our battles and changing things that work great already like the camera are pretty far down the list of stuff we need to do.
Thanks glyph, straight ninja'd me.
Now, this update as i've said before is ushering in a new era of minus where we are trying our best to focus our attention on polishing the way the game looks and removing unnecessary things, same as PM has. i assure you that we are taking great efforts into making these next updates into revolutionary updates for the image of minus