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DevDiaries #45: You know, what we did this summer
Community required the option to hide healthbars and we are ready to provide it. Now in the game settings you can remove them over your, allied and enemy vehicles, permanently or until selection or aiming. And highlights, markers and almost all the elements of the interface also. So it's more difficult to understand what is happening, but we know that a truly hardcore player with a gentle soul might be scared of healthbars much more than the 1st of September :)
Worked with the trenches, so you could bent them and choose the distance between the shooting cells while building. We taught the infantry to use and treat them as a friend, because at first, units build their way avoiding trenches, preferring to die with proud head and clean boots. After visiting the lecture "Trench - my winding way into a happy tomorrow", the infantry learned to shoot, move, throw grenades, fight hand to hand, but not leave the shelter without unnecessary need. In case when enemy infiltrate the trench, the infantryman knows what to do without player’s orders. If enemy armored vehicles are approaching the trenches, a unit with a AT-rifle will stand for shooting. Same unit that didn’t stick out when his comrades fought with the infantry. Unfortunately, you can’t hide in the foxhole from all the sorrows of the world. The trenches can now be destroyed by drifting on them with your armored monsters, or in the old manner, - sending a land mine. We made a separate seismic wave so that we could set up the damage to the trenches for each projectile. Yeah, yeah, we made this for you!
We continue to work on the "Front Line" gamemode to make the fight more interesting, added several factors that affect the victory. Twice during the session there is an order for each team to attack on a certain section of the front line. For the breakthrough and seizure of this territory, the attacking party receives additional points, thereby bringing his victory nearer. Now the victory is also affected by killing enemy units. Even if you have little infantry and have nothing to capture the territory, you can stop the breakthroughs, blow up tanks, put mines. Sometimes it’s more useful to stop the enemy than to mindlessly attack. And we did some more…
As always, fixed bugs, one of which we want to share with you, because it’s ... pretty creepy. We started work on creating bots for coop gamemodes. And we wanted the bot to win not by cheating, but by unpredictability, so that they went through many revisions and iterations, refinements, improvements, and sometimes worsening, disputes, anger and cats hecatombs, until one day the chosen ones rose up, that didn’t want to die. Well, you know that what is dead, may never die. We tested a new adaptive spawn system that adjusts to the situation on the battlefield and calls the units based on what is missing. At the time of the explosion of the gun, the crew sometimes flies up from the blast wave and the health of the infantrymen goes into minus, but they are dead only when they fall to the ground. As you may have guessed, the bot spawned these lucky ones with minus health, so that they took their places by the cannon. Hell, even death did not relieve the artillerymen from suffering! Over time, it turned out one more detail, complementing the picture of the zombie apocalypse - they could be killed only by snap-shooting on the head or by fire, as these actions cause the script to "die" regardless of the amount of current health. So even if you actually were not going to make a game about zombies, you still have no choice! This is all for today. Maybe a couple of questions more. Do you need other tasks like attack orders in the session? If so, which ones? Wish you the best!
[ 2017-08-24 23:36:48 CET ] [ Original post ]
Hi, friends.
This is one of those diaries in which we report on the work done over the last couple of months. What kind of balance changes were made, what was added newly and how we are working on the game, which is worth waiting for. Read below about all these and some more.
We think of you. On these serene summer nights ...
Community required the option to hide healthbars and we are ready to provide it. Now in the game settings you can remove them over your, allied and enemy vehicles, permanently or until selection or aiming. And highlights, markers and almost all the elements of the interface also. So it's more difficult to understand what is happening, but we know that a truly hardcore player with a gentle soul might be scared of healthbars much more than the 1st of September :)
Worked with the trenches, so you could bent them and choose the distance between the shooting cells while building. We taught the infantry to use and treat them as a friend, because at first, units build their way avoiding trenches, preferring to die with proud head and clean boots. After visiting the lecture "Trench - my winding way into a happy tomorrow", the infantry learned to shoot, move, throw grenades, fight hand to hand, but not leave the shelter without unnecessary need. In case when enemy infiltrate the trench, the infantryman knows what to do without player’s orders. If enemy armored vehicles are approaching the trenches, a unit with a AT-rifle will stand for shooting. Same unit that didn’t stick out when his comrades fought with the infantry. Unfortunately, you can’t hide in the foxhole from all the sorrows of the world. The trenches can now be destroyed by drifting on them with your armored monsters, or in the old manner, - sending a land mine. We made a separate seismic wave so that we could set up the damage to the trenches for each projectile. Yeah, yeah, we made this for you!
’Some of this and that and everything else’.
We continue to work on the "Front Line" gamemode to make the fight more interesting, added several factors that affect the victory. Twice during the session there is an order for each team to attack on a certain section of the front line. For the breakthrough and seizure of this territory, the attacking party receives additional points, thereby bringing his victory nearer. Now the victory is also affected by killing enemy units. Even if you have little infantry and have nothing to capture the territory, you can stop the breakthroughs, blow up tanks, put mines. Sometimes it’s more useful to stop the enemy than to mindlessly attack. And we did some more…
- Set up machine guns, increasing their rate of fire to real indicators, but slightly reducing the damage and suppressing effect to keep their effectiveness at the same level and the infantry did not feel helpless.
- Changed the rules of armor piercing, so that shells with a caliber much larger than the thickness of the armor have more chances to pierce and less to ricochet.
- Set up the shell normalization, so now armor piercing projectile change it’s trajectory for 4.5 degrees.
- Did nonlinear aiming. At close ranges, cannon aiming is at the maximum value after the first shot. At longer ranges, the number of shots to aim and the minimum radius reduction both grow.
- We set up the noise mechanics, which we talked about earlier for snipers, and the aiming with time for riflemen, so that at long distances they have a clear advantage against the submachine gunners.
- We created a test polygon in which you can shoot from everything, and a marker that allows you to see the armor rate under the cursor. That helped a lot with finding bugs in models.
- Added new commanders with their unique style gameplay: light mechanized brigade and reconnaissance-sabotage battalion.
- Entered into the game new units, such as T-28 from the cover image, lend-lease Valentine to the USSR tree, elite snipers for each of the factions with self-loading rifles and camouflage, and others.
So good that I'm not afraid of death.
As always, fixed bugs, one of which we want to share with you, because it’s ... pretty creepy. We started work on creating bots for coop gamemodes. And we wanted the bot to win not by cheating, but by unpredictability, so that they went through many revisions and iterations, refinements, improvements, and sometimes worsening, disputes, anger and cats hecatombs, until one day the chosen ones rose up, that didn’t want to die. Well, you know that what is dead, may never die. We tested a new adaptive spawn system that adjusts to the situation on the battlefield and calls the units based on what is missing. At the time of the explosion of the gun, the crew sometimes flies up from the blast wave and the health of the infantrymen goes into minus, but they are dead only when they fall to the ground. As you may have guessed, the bot spawned these lucky ones with minus health, so that they took their places by the cannon. Hell, even death did not relieve the artillerymen from suffering! Over time, it turned out one more detail, complementing the picture of the zombie apocalypse - they could be killed only by snap-shooting on the head or by fire, as these actions cause the script to "die" regardless of the amount of current health. So even if you actually were not going to make a game about zombies, you still have no choice! This is all for today. Maybe a couple of questions more. Do you need other tasks like attack orders in the session? If so, which ones? Wish you the best!
[ 2017-08-24 23:36:48 CET ] [ Original post ]
Soldiers: Arena
Best Way
Developer
Best Way Soft
Publisher
To be announced
Release
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The Game includes VR Support
Soldiers: Arena will take you to the battlefields driven by the largest and bloodiest conflict of all time - World War II. This is the height of war, this is the time for real heroes.
Both new and already battle-proven multiplayer gamemodes to the original tactical gameplay are waiting for you. Interactive destructible environments and the ability to direct-control any combat unit. Steam support: matchmaking, workshop, steamcloud. Redesigned graphics, models and special effects. Conceptual new interface and convenient control, new battlefields and new opportunities.
Both new and already battle-proven multiplayer gamemodes to the original tactical gameplay are waiting for you. Interactive destructible environments and the ability to direct-control any combat unit. Steam support: matchmaking, workshop, steamcloud. Redesigned graphics, models and special effects. Conceptual new interface and convenient control, new battlefields and new opportunities.
Features:
- Revival of the “Men of War/Soldiers” game series. This multiplayer tactical RTS absorbed the best of the original series, favourite of players all over the world.
- Huge roster of units. Within a single game session, players will have access to a large number of unique units for every nation: tanks, vehicles, infantry and artillery of various types.
- The “Direct Control” mode. This mode provides the ability to play from the third person for any unit in the player’s army. The movement of the unit, firing the various guns, control of ammunition types, etc. all relying and directly controlled by player and thus the game conveys tactical action in it’s very essence.
- Destructible interactive environments. During the battle almost any object of the game can be destroyed or set on fire. Furthermore, all objects, including craters from explosions, may be used as cover.
- Atmosphere and realism. Even in large-scale game battles, it is necessary to take into account factors such as the supply of fuel and ammunition of each single unit. The precense of inventories for each unit limits the number and size of transported objects. Guns’ accuracy and penetration decreases with distance. Tired soldiers reduce the movement speed during long crossings. The influence of these and many other factors makes possible to reproduce the battles of World War II with a adequate degree of realism, most involving the player into the atmosphere of heated battles of the past.
- Modular realistic damage system. Any vehicle, regardless of its type, is composed of a set of modules that can be broken or destroyed. Types of ammunition, characteristics of guns, shooting distance, angle of armor, armor plate thickness and the threshold of material fatigue are taken into account, when calculating the piercing capability and damage caused to each of the component. Additionally, there are calculations of the probability of detonation of ammunition, engine fires, damage to wheels or tracks (which leads to immobilization of combat units). If a component is not destroyed, it can be repaired.
- Wide range of opportunities for infantry. Intelligence, combat, capture and repair of equipment, installation of anti-personnel and anti-tank obstacules of different types, construction of protective structures, health treatment, cover usage, ability to change through primary and secondary weapons, capture of buildings and territories.
- Great number of different types of weapons and ammunition. Pistols, submachine guns, machine guns, rifles and carbines, various types of grenades, dynamite, mines, knives and other items of equipment that are unique to each nation.
- Advanced Artificial Intelligence (Advanced AI). Infantry’s behaviour based on the feedback information from their own sensors (vision and acoustics), as well as allies’ signals. This allows the use of diversionary tactics, sending scouts into the enemy's rear, as well as to open the visibility with the help of special devices - observation towers, binoculars, telescopic tubes and sniper scopes. The morale of the infantry depends on the balance of forces on the battlefield - the soldiers may decide to advance or to withdraw from the fight.
- Conceptual new interface for convenient control.
- Enhanced game engine Gem2. Reworking of the game engine allows to provide a new level of graphics, the implementation of new and improvement already familiar to users game mechanics.
- OSX, Mac. Linux support.
- Full Steam support. Matchmaking, workshop, steamcloud, tradecards, achievments, steamstats, inventoryitems.
MINIMAL SETUP
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04
- Processor: 2 GHz Intel Dual CoreMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 3D Hardware Accelerator Card Required - OpenGL 3.0 compatibleNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 5 GB available space
- OS: Ubuntu 15.04
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2.5GHzMemory: 8 GB RAM
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 or AMD Radeon HD 7750 with 1 GB VRAM or betterNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 5 GB available space
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