Torchlight Modding Idea - Space Hulk TC
Posted: 09 Jan 2010, 03:02
Basic Idea, inspired by Space Hulk and Warhammer 40K in general this TC would cast the "Ember" stuff in a "Space Punk" Universe (Steam Punk in Space)...
We could probably get away with a re-skin of the Destroyer and some of the existing armor and weapons to make a half decent space marine.
Next step would be to reskin some of the map-bits to be a little more "sci-fi" it wouldn't be much of a stretch to get a few ship interiors and such out of the existing themes.
Next you would need some thematic enemies, probably Tyranids, Chaos Space Marines and other chaotics... with maybe some Necrons and other "Evil" races and such thrown in... but mostly Tyranids now that I think about it.
As far as "Spells" are concerned, the majority of them would be eliminated, along with wands... we could keep Ember and it's "Magical" effects and enemies would have things like spitting acid and flame-throwers and freeze guns etc... so we wouldn't have to eliminate those things.
The look and feel of most of the guns and swords wouldn't really need changing as they fit the feel of the legion close enough... but some of the armor would have to go.
Skill trees would be closer to the Destroyer/Vanquisher so should be able to recycle those. I was thinking it would be cool to have instead of pets and minions other cannon fodder marines... especially seeing as the source material is a squad game... so your "Pet" would be a space marine as well and (depending on how possible it is) you could equip them in the same way... your minions would be other space marines that you would warp in, the cool-down timer on these "summons" would be really high and you would only get one per skill or something... it would be better if we could work out a way for these companions to be hired from an NPC.
Other changes would be an entirely new starting Town (probably some kind of space base or ship with warps to Space Hulks) and an entirely new storyline involving Ember being a much sought technology that has been discovered on an Epicly large space hulk that has formed around some mysterious core that it is thought might be the source of the ember and the Imperium has sent you to investigate... or maybe you're a member of one of the rebellious factions and wishing to claim the power for your own.
Your enchanter would be a tech-genius would would potentially upgrade the cool equipment you find in the Hulk... a cool idea would be to for all of the original equipment in Torchlight to be included but be completely useless against the monsters you encounter (just scale everything up by a factor of ten)... unless it's the REALLY Epic Unique stuff...
SO yeah... crazy idea blarghlblargh
We could probably get away with a re-skin of the Destroyer and some of the existing armor and weapons to make a half decent space marine.
Next step would be to reskin some of the map-bits to be a little more "sci-fi" it wouldn't be much of a stretch to get a few ship interiors and such out of the existing themes.
Next you would need some thematic enemies, probably Tyranids, Chaos Space Marines and other chaotics... with maybe some Necrons and other "Evil" races and such thrown in... but mostly Tyranids now that I think about it.
As far as "Spells" are concerned, the majority of them would be eliminated, along with wands... we could keep Ember and it's "Magical" effects and enemies would have things like spitting acid and flame-throwers and freeze guns etc... so we wouldn't have to eliminate those things.
The look and feel of most of the guns and swords wouldn't really need changing as they fit the feel of the legion close enough... but some of the armor would have to go.
Skill trees would be closer to the Destroyer/Vanquisher so should be able to recycle those. I was thinking it would be cool to have instead of pets and minions other cannon fodder marines... especially seeing as the source material is a squad game... so your "Pet" would be a space marine as well and (depending on how possible it is) you could equip them in the same way... your minions would be other space marines that you would warp in, the cool-down timer on these "summons" would be really high and you would only get one per skill or something... it would be better if we could work out a way for these companions to be hired from an NPC.
Other changes would be an entirely new starting Town (probably some kind of space base or ship with warps to Space Hulks) and an entirely new storyline involving Ember being a much sought technology that has been discovered on an Epicly large space hulk that has formed around some mysterious core that it is thought might be the source of the ember and the Imperium has sent you to investigate... or maybe you're a member of one of the rebellious factions and wishing to claim the power for your own.
Your enchanter would be a tech-genius would would potentially upgrade the cool equipment you find in the Hulk... a cool idea would be to for all of the original equipment in Torchlight to be included but be completely useless against the monsters you encounter (just scale everything up by a factor of ten)... unless it's the REALLY Epic Unique stuff...
SO yeah... crazy idea blarghlblargh
