New Wrestling Spirit Screenshots

[Danny]

Hello everyone, three new WreSpi screens are now available. These feature the worker, promotion and back stage screens http://www.greydogsoftware.com/news.php?id=120

[Adam Ryland]

I'll answer a few questions in advance, shall I? ;)

Wolf Hawkins screen

* For those wondering, KK from the .400 boards has very kindly allowed me to distribute his picture packs with WreSpi, hence the use of the Wolf Hawkins picture.

* The version refers to which contract you are viewing. It will automatically start on the right contract if you view him via a promotional-specific page.

* Honours is a list of titles that he holds \ has held, and also any positions of power he has. Hawkins, as a rookie, doesn't have any currently.

* "Recent Headlines" goes through your mail box and displays the headings of any new stories that involved this worker. This is a good way to see what has happened to him recently, such as hirings and firings.

* "Scout" is a pop-up window in which your mentor will analyze this worker and give you advice on how to fight him.

Backstage Screen

* You visit this screen before any event that you are in attendance for.

* There is no punishment for not talking to people, so you do not have to go around all 8 people.

* It's not always wrestlers, referees, managers, road agents, etc, can all be in the locker room.

* "Recap" shows a listing of the night's card

Promotion Profile Screen

* Clicking on a member of the roster automatically loads their profile screen.

* Clicking a title automatically loads the title profile screen.

* "Schedule" can either be Normal (monthly or weekly events with additional TV shows) or Touring (1-4 shows a week, every week, with certain months set to being either On Tour or Off Tour, with additional TV shows. When not on tour, the promotion is essentially inactive - to simulate Japanese promotions mainly.)

[Locksley]

Looks good. I probably wont be able to resist buying this. lol
And knowing the worker pics are coming with it is a much appreciated bonus.

[forlan]

Games looking great :)

forlan

[spmkillie]

really looking forward to this now :)

[Carter]

Graphics look quite shabby to me, not much of an improvement on TEW.

[Jeremy]

Damn, this game looks really sweet. A question though Adam.....

Are those Hawkins starting stats, or have they been changed?

And that new bio for him is really good.

[Adam Ryland]

They're his starting stats. The database is set a year after TEW2004, so numerous people have become better \ gotten worse, gotten new profiles, etc.

[AdmiralZ]

In a worker's stats, are they always just numbers like that, or will the coloured bars from TEW be included?

[Adam Ryland]

Numbers only, for two reasons. Firstly, there's too many stats to have bars for, otherwise the entire screen would be covered. Secondly, in TEW you needed a quick overview because you were generally looking through large lists of people and just wanted a general idea of who was good. You would never need to do that in WreSpi, so just having specific stats works much better.

[AdmiralZ]

Ok, cool. Thanks AR.

[Powerguy]

Great looking shots.

So are a worker's stats different than TEW where if a category is at 60 it means he's good enough to wrestle? I hope that made sense.

[Adam Ryland]

No, they're all on the scale of 0 (abysmal) to 100 (awesome).

[Powerguy]

Nice. Thanks.

[chinoflynn]

very cool looking screens cant wait till the next progess update:)

[|Anderz|]

im really liking the new screens, the game looks to be progressing nicely and will be welcomed addition to my collection...

|Anderz|

[professorrev]

Can I just point out how cool the event title "Malice in Wonderland" is.

Also, I love the way the original data has moved in the intervening two years. It'll add playability simply to check what has changed!

[Adam Ryland]

I think people who liked the Original Data in TEW will really get a kick out of some of the stuff that's been done to it for WreSpi. I've specifically tried to keep the amount of changes consistent with the amount of time (1 year) that's elapsed since TEW, so there isn't so many changes that you won't recognise the world, but there are enough that the world has noticeably moved on.

[Unright]

The comment in the Notes field "A Middleweight American wrestler, he was born..."

Is that a stock description for everyone much like the one for wrestlers in EWR?

[Nightshadeex]

I am so happy that HGC got changed to TCW. I just wonder what happened to J.K. Stallings Jr.

[Adam Ryland]

The comment in the Notes field "A Middleweight American wrestler, he was born..."

Is that a stock description for everyone much like the one for wrestlers in EWR?

It is an automatically generated piece of text, which is based on the worker's statistics, sort of an "auto-overview".

[Derek B]

Looking around, I see that there are still different promotion types. I assume that different types of promotions will sign different types of wrestlers to them. Any word on that?

And also, will there be any new promotions in the game? Even though there are plenty around, I'd love to see some more little ones around. I know they'd besically be indies, but it would be good to have a lot of small promotions for the rookies to go to, especially if you really do start out as a pretty poor rookie.

And lastly, great to see Wolf doing well. He's always one of my favourite signings in TEW (usually either tagging/feuding with Valentine). Nice bio. Have to say I'm looking forward to seeing how much the world has changed in the game. Methinks I know too much about the TEW one already..... this is just gonna make me worse.

Derek B

[Adam Ryland]

Looking around, I see that there are still different promotion types. I assume that different types of promotions will sign different types of wrestlers to them. Any word on that?

Yes, that is correct.

And also, will there be any new promotions in the game? Even though there are plenty around, I'd love to see some more little ones around. I know they'd besically be indies, but it would be good to have a lot of small promotions for the rookies to go to, especially if you really do start out as a pretty poor rookie.

There's one new promotion, in Europe. I have no plans to add any more feds anywhere else just yet, as I don't think there's enough workers to realistically support more without over-saturation happening.

[Unright]

Has anyone retired in the past year?

[Adam Ryland]

Nope, but the original Elemental has come out of retirement for a while for some dream bouts in BHOTWG.

Wolf Hawkins' overness is actually wrong in that screen shot BTW, I forgot to update it. He's actually around 50 overnes, as he is now teaming with Stevie Grayson as the midcard team "Youth Gone Wild" on a regular basis.

[cyberkitten01]

I'll jump on the bandwagon and agree it looks fantastic. Can't wait for release day, this looks like an instant classic

[bookerman]

I hadn't planned on getting this game, but with the screenshots and the match report, I'm hooked.

[Jeremy]

If this game doesn't come out by the end of the year I'll be how you say... Pissed?

Honestly, it looks done and everything. I think Adam is maybe just beta testing it so they're aren't as many bugs as they were in TE-dub.

[Danny]

bump/unstick

[reppaken]

These screenshots look great.