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Official page with info:
Come see us at the DreamExpo booth located in Hall B!
Evgeniy “Weegee” Vigovskiy
Stefan “Abdul” Winberg
Ken “CaveCricket48” Vu Do &
Jesús “GranPC” Higueras Pica
bring you a MASSIVE update (on Steam right now, Humble shortly):
Try doing this before on Dummy Assault!
Major features:
- THE MOID LIMIT IS GONE*!!! (*Not truly gone, but hardly reachable)
- Randomized maps: create a map once, play it forever
- Bunker prefabs: build your bunker of any size in no time
- AI skill sliders: bored? We have ‘Unfair’ AI skill for ya.
- Global scripts: add some pepper to any activity or control AI units in the campaign your way.
- Mod manager: no more .rte renaming!
- Constructor tool: AI brains seal themselves in tunnels to live long (and probably even prosper).
- Visible inventory: guess no longer about how many nukes you have left in your pockets.
- Scenes previews: you don’t have to remember all those scene names.
Content updates:
- 36 randomized maps for the campaign.
- Almost 200 bunker prefabs.
- New Dummy weapon – Lancer.
- Wounds, jetpacks, headshot damage multipliers, generic variables – all exposed to Lua.
Other improvements and fixes:
- Deployments can be used instead of units to make your map compatible with any player-selected techs.
- AI skill adjustments.
- Resolution selection fixes.
- HSplitScreen and VSplitScreen work just like before.
- Secret endless campaign mode.
- Tooltips on/off checkbox.
- Steam can be manually disabled if any start-up problems arise.
- Diggers create tunnels which way easier to walk through.
- Factions balance tweaks.
- Campaign strategic AI tweaks.
- Campaign tactical tweaks.
- You can safely set health more that 100, yet it’s still not recommended.
- Foreign items can be removed from the buy menu.
- Press CTRL+W to dump the entire world to .BMP file.
- Author can specify default gold, fog of war and other options for your activity and prevent player from changing them.
- Some activities may load scenes while discarding any pre-placed actors.
- Deployments now work correctly in scenario/skirmish modes. No more zombie spawns!
- AI actors in sentry mode no longer ignore enemies after reloading.
- The jet-pack mass indicator use jet-pack strength instead of hard-coded values.
- Small objects are less likely to mysteriously gib after a collision. (MOs now automatically gib when AngularVel > 2000/(MaxRadius+1) instead of 100).
- Meta Game: Crafts with MaxPassengers = 0 as are not used as drop crafts by the AI
New ini-properties:
- “AutoStabilize” (1 or 0) for ACDropShips. Enable/disable hard coded use of the upper thrusters, see the Dummy Drop Ship for a lua stabilization script.
- “ScuttleIfFlippedTime” for Dropships and Rockets. Craft gib if upside-down more than this value in ms. 4000ms by default, disable with -1.
- “LoudnessOnGib” [0..1] for MOSRotatings
- “LoudnessOnEmit” [0..1] for AEmitters
- … and many more here
Lua changes:
- Exposed MinThrowVel and MaxThrowVel for ThrownDevice
- … and many more here
Sorry for the delay, dear mac folks – the Build 30 update of CC finally dropped after yet another round of heroic efforts by our porting guru Chris Kruger (pictured at left)! It’s on Steam with full workshop integration, and also on our licensing site: http://licensing.datarealms.com. The humble download will also be updated first thing on Monday!
It took eight builds since Lua was first introduced, but there are now primitive draw functions that allow modders to, well, draw stuff. Things like simple boxes, circles, and lines can be drawn using Lua, instead of having to make a bunch of MOSRotating or MOSParticle objects with the sprites of what the modder wants displayed.
FrameMan:DrawCirclePrimitive(Vector pos, int radius, int color)
FrameMan:DrawCircleFillPrimitive(Vector pos, int radius, int color)
FrameMan:DrawLinePrimitive(Vector start, Vector end, int color)
FrameMan:DrawBoxPrimitive(Vector start, Vector end, int color)
FrameMan:DrawBoxFillPrimitive(Vector start, Vector end, int color)
On the content balancing end of things, we’re aiming on giving each faction there own strengths and weaknesses in terms of durability and weapons, along with a differing play-style for each faction.
Feedback thread and more information here.
FrameMan:DrawCirclePrimitive(Vector pos, int radius, int color)FrameMan:DrawCircleFillPrimitive(Vector pos, int radius, int color)FrameMan:DrawLinePrimitive(Vector start, Vector end, int color)FrameMan:DrawBoxPrimitive(Vector start, Vector end, int color)FrameMan:DrawBoxFillPrimitive(Vector start, Vector end, int colorssda
An issue often brought up about CC’s difficulty is the AI, specifically, how it can direct every actor at once, while the player is limited to controlling one actor at a time.
To get players on more level ground, we’ve been working on a Squad function activated in the Pie Menu. Once you press it, the actor you’re currently controlling becomes the ‘leader,’ and you can grab allied units within a specified distance around you that will follow the leader.
When the squad is disbanded, either manually by pressing the pie menu button again or having the leader die, the followers will copy the leader’s AI mode at death, so you can direct large number of units to positions without having to set them on Go To one at a time.
Update: Some gifs to show that only weapons of the same “type” will be fired. That means rocket launchers will fire with rocket launchers, bullet sprayers with bullet sprayers, and so on.
