Sub Rosa (tuxdb.com)

Sub Rosa is a multiplayer first-person shooter about tense deals, double-crosses, and the occasional high-speed car chase. The game is currently in an alpha testing stage and is not widely available for purchase. Please follow @SubRosaGame on Twitter for news as it develops.

Multiple corporations vie for money and power by taking control of different colored disks through clean trades or bloody acquisitions. Both cash and disks are immensely valuable and allow players to purchase guns, cars, equipment, and even stock in their own company’s success from day to day. Smooth transactions and smart business practices with others can eventually lead to riches while a quick trigger and a steady aim can get you there faster as long as you're the one still standing.

Sub Rosa can be a complicated game for new players, please check out the Steam forums to for tips on playing and becoming a somebody in the city.

Choose an Employer

Players enter a server as an unemployed civilian downtown and from there can choose to align themselves with any of the city's four major organizations. Choosing an employer is done by visiting the organization's home base while the manager is present. From there employees can purchase weapons, ammunition, items, and deposit or withdraw cash for future trades as well as receive missions to carry out with the rest of their team.

Execute Missions

Every few hours missions are updated, giving each organization a new target and goal for that time period. These range from trading valuable disks for cash with other organizations, pulling a heist on an office building, or tracking down a well-guarded disk in a roaming limousine. However, intentions can shift at any moment and what once was just your target might become an opportunity for a passing group of rivals or a new trade situation as money and disks change hands.

Orchestrate Deals

Organizations will sometimes find themselves assigned to trade cash for a disk possessed by a rival organization or vice versa. Employees will need to use the company's cellular phone to arrange a deal and meeting location with the intended trade partner. Successfully doing so will yield both teams a substantial profit once their target is brought back to the base but often an itchy trigger finger or empty briefcase will lead to a bloody shootout. From that point only the survivors will enjoy the spoils of a deal gone wrong.

Become Somebody

Successful trades and savvy business dealings will undoubtedly leave your wallet full of cash. Spends some of your hard earned money on fancy suits, sleek sunglasses, and fast cars or simply buy more expensive weapons to intimidate business associates. Climb your way up the real-time leaderboards so everyone knows who runs this city but don't be cheap with your fellow employees - the might turn on you if you don't pay our your fair share.

Sub Rosa - Alpha 31

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Sub Rosa - Alpha 31 is now live.

Gameplay Changes:

Timer counts down faster if all players are back in their base
Round mode start time is longer
Weapon handling adjustments
Damage and healing balances
Added dead drop location to map
Added admin GUI
Added server passwords

New Mode: Eliminator Mode

Players start in a random location in the city, each assigned one of three roles:

The Eliminator
The objective of the Eliminator is to kill the future resistance leader before the round ends. The Eliminator will have a red box appear in their HUD showing the future resistance leader’s last known location.

The Protector
The objective of the Protector is to stop The Eliminator by destroying it with grenades. The Protector knows which civilian is the future resistance leader.

Civilian/The Savior
The objective of all civilians is to survive. Unbeknownst to them, one civilian is the future savior of mankind and the target of the Eliminator.

Movement and Combat:
Added grenades
Added item throwing (hold drop key and mouse button, move mouse)
New damage model
Fixed movement up stairs
Fixed standing foot placement
Fixed jump rotation

Character Items:
Added team color ties
Added new suit colors
Added necklaces
Added reload help

Bug Fixes
Fixed item inventory bug
Fixed fired player’s items
Fixed body parts going through level

Map changes from 29-31
New buildings:
Added Crab Shack.
Added Car Wash.
Added City Hall.
Added Pizza Panda.
Added Noodle Galaxy.
Added W1NTERS Hockey Supplies.
Added Top Bun.
Added Pillow Pit.
Added Mops 4 U
Added Everything Ballons
Added Flour Power
Added Camera Lords
Added Water Treatment Plant
Added Nog building
Added Echo building
Added Tanah building
Added Madara building
Added stairwell to Cabochon building.
Added stairwell to Kamel building.
Added interiors to Kamel building.
Added another footbridge to Kamel building.
Added a lower level to Kamel building.
Added stairwell to Alamo Hotel.
Added interiors to Shelley building.
Added connection between Lumber Mill to Cider Factory.
Added connection between Cider Factory and Hondo Park.
Added stairwell to Main Street Parking Garage.
Added more stairwells to Supermarket area roofs.
Added pedestrian walkway over Hot Dog restaurant.
Added stairwell to Hot Dog parking lot.
Added more stores to Mall.
Added Fish Mural.
Added drive-through roof to Isle of Burgers.
Added another staircase route in bases.
Added upper office in bases.
Added pedestrian walkway between Pyrrha parking and Radio Station parking.
Added more ramps.
Added more piping to Factory district.
Added various safety railings.
Added various roof access staircases.
Added interiors to Power Plant.
Added staircase to Dire Dhow.
Widened some windows.
Removed side alcove from bases.
Widened the Pilar building ramps.
Repositioned the Cargo Crane.
Added “Last Exit” signage on highway.
Fixed various broken staircases.
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