If I understand correctly and probably dont so please forgive me! Seems to me that TGC should firstly add such as the ability to include dark voice and easily set up character interaction and conversations to the original versions first instead of moving to something new which will offer features FPSC classic does not and should have, or should have had. Obviously it can be incorporated inside FPSC so should be applied throughout all versions where it is needed. A first person shooter needs it just as much as any other genere. FPSC current versions are missing features that should be included before thinking of other new products which will offer things already lacking. Dark AI or alternative AI improvements to name one of them which the Current FPSC versions and games made with them are sorely lacking and which users badly need and have asked for continuously.
Personally to me its seems like its just another version coming along which will offer only a partial platform of features each incomplete.
Better that one version would include all of these features, Dark Voice and Dark AI and so on offering any user an option to include in their games any of a mix of features that their particular game or genere requires to allow for mixing of game scenarios as and when the game requires. e.g. A shooting game or other can benefit from many kinds of in game interaction such as conversation and interaction with Characters or scoring/inventory.
Personally I see this as good for TGC and not good for those who have supported FPSC to date and still await much needed improvements to AI and even Character interaction for enhanced gameplay story support and rich gameplay scenarios which it seems would be possible for them to have as its to be included in this new version.
Whether or not it will be made available for current FPSC users and the versions they utilise for First Person Shooter genere games they aspire to make with the product they have supported for so long is yet to be seen.
It is imperative that FPSC Classic / X10 users or should we now say the Migration version users should at least be given the features that are possible in preference to any new product version because they have asked for, been sorely missing and need them. To withold them from current users and the Migration version to which they look forward in preference for something new which may or may not be what they want would not be good practice.
If its possible to include new features inside FPSC then current classic / X10 version / migration version users should be the first to get them. They have waited a long time and continue to wait whilst remaining loyal to TGC in their support and their wait for an improved product and aspiration to have the engine and features which will allow them to make better games.
