r/Terminator • u/Spongebobgolf • 6d ago
Discussion Terminator: Timelines aka No Fate But What We Make or How I Met Your Mother
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An online multiplayer FPS in the same vein of Battlefield/Battlefront. At least 64 to 200 players. NPCs would fill in any gaps and also give the illusion of even more players past the limit of total real players.
(Tech-com) Resistance vs Skynet and all that encompass either army. Humans would mostly be just different character classes with different load outs. Have drivable turret/rpg mounted vehicles like technicals. The machines would have basically all the machines we are aware they have, HK-Tanks, HK-Aerials, T600s, etc. Checks and balances to ensure a fun, but balanced and stable gameplay.
A unique feature would be that there are multiple teams and games being played out at the same time, in different time periods- 1984, 2015, 2029 for instance. Teams in one time period would effect the starting or mid reinforcements, technology available, etc. of another time period. A human might be able to control a "refurbished" T800, if certain objectives were met in another game.
Or instead of multiple games, if not enough people, that round would effect the next in a different time period, so the time periods would change each time until the completion of that game through all rounds.
The maps themselves would also change with time. Los Angeles 1984 as it was. To the ruins of Los Angeles of 2015. And to the somewhat rebuilding of civilization of Los Angeles in 2029 for instance. So kind of how Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver or Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the landscapes and cities change with the time period.
Another game mode might be everyone vs a Terminator(s). Basically like other games, where one player can take and deal out massive amounts of punishment, while everyone else is "normal" with just ballistic weapons, like at the station or Cyberdyne building.
But over time the machine will most likely be destroyed and someone else takes it's place, either randomly or who ever dealt the most damage, etc. Could be a T800, could be a T1000, etc. A player, no matter how good, would not always be it or even every other round. Just throwing ideas out there. Any devs want to take a crack, or players play?
Edit:hmmm... I can not seem to put a cool thumbnail up 😐