SC2Mapster

Resuming progress. Current version on battle.net is in development and undergoing some large restructuring, so it will often be in an unplayable state, though usually testable.

Natural Selection is a famous mod for Half-Life. This is an attempt to implement it as a Starcraft 2 map, given the RTS nature of NS.

Currently about 80% complete.

Project Workplace forum thread

Progress (I'm sure that I'm missing some things in each category)

Working

• Defense chamber healing in area
• Movement chamber energy restoration
• Sensory chambers cloak
• Alien morphing between lifeforms (skulk to lerk or gorge, etc)
• Automatic resource collection by towers / chambers (based on automated refinery)
• Drop med-kits from command console
• Most basic stats and models (health, damage, build time, etc)
• Siege cannons splash and target only buildings
• Observatory scanner sweep (same as normal SC) and motion tracking research (radar)
• Siege cannons and sentry turrets require an active turret factory nearby
• Kharaa basic attacks require energy
• Marine spawning at infantry portals, queued properly
• Place buildings from command console, but requires marines to build them, multiple marines speeds progress
• Alien spawning at hives, queued properly
• Gorge (alien worker) construction working, multiple gorges speeds progress
• Chamber specific upgrades for Kharaa with 3 levels (Carapace, Speed, Focus, Regeneration, Scent of Fear, Adrenaline)
• Lerk: Acid spores, umbra, primal scream
• Skulk: Xenocide
• Fade: Acid rockets, Blink, Metabolize
• NS armor system rather than SC2's armor system
• Ability for marines to notify commander with "need ammo", "need resource tower" etc
• Allow marines to elect to become the commander by loading into the Command Console building
• Phasegates warping to next gate in the chain for Frontiersmen
• Movement chambers work properly porting you to a hive
• One resource pool for all Frontiersmen (only usable by commander)
• Repair armor via welders for Frontiersmen
• Repair buildings via welders
• Armor damage absorb % for kharaa having 1-3 hives
• Heavy armor for Frontiersmen
• Weapons for marines (shotgun, hmg, lmg, pistol)
• Switch-able weapons for marines
• Distribute gathered resources evenly between Kharaa
• Marine tech tree
• Trip-mines for Frontiersmen
• Redemption passive upgrade
• Marine armor upgrades affect heavy armor
• Marine armor upgrades need to affect jetpack marines
• Jetpacks for Frontiersmen
• Onos: Devour
• Gorge: Heal Spray
• Commander resources display for frontiersmen team
• Distress beacon fully operational
• Onos: Stomp, Rampage
• Gorge: Bilebomb
• Hive tier logic for Kharaa having 1-3 hives (available chambers, ability unlocks)
• Ability to ask fellow marines to repair armor
• Skulk: Parasite
• Ammo system for marines, and working commander droppable ammo packs, fully functional
• Gorge: Web
• Real jetpacks!
• Ability for kharaa to say "need heal" or to taunt enemies
• Marine taunt
• Fixed armor system that was broken by 1.2
• WASD movement control of your player unit
• Allow players to choose their team rather than assigning them automatically, 15 seconds to choose, unassigned players are auto-assigned after 15 seconds - works but just looks ugly at the moment, have to work on the formatting
• Ability for commander to issue waypoints and orders to marines
• Ability to easily drop/change weapons as marine

In progress / Being Worked On

• Aiming system - Point / click to fire at that location or any enemies at that location, can not attack through walls 80%

To do

• Silence passive upgrade (no idea how to hit this one yet)
• Cloaking passive upgrade needs levels (currently works but only 1 level)
• Skulk: leap
• Marine grenade launcher needs physics
• Grenades for Frontiersmen (want a real fused grenade, not just toss grenade)
• Flying lerks and jetpacks should have some sort of advantage besides speed
• Determine system for allowing small Kharaa (aliens) lifeforms to use vents
• Weldable locations
• Reset game after completion if players wish to play again
• Help system and tips for new players
• Add in some LOS blockers for hiding areas for skulks
• Leaderboard for each team
• Reloading of shotgun / GL needs to be 1 grenade/shell at a time
• Players being digested by an Onos need more undulating red stomach lining in their face
• Reveal death area or follow an ally while dead and respawning
• Hide health bars on enemy units
• Alerts for marines when commander is upgrading something or places a structure / equipment
• Hive status dialogs for the aliens, including health and what chamber is tied to the hive
• Cap aliens at 100 res per player
• Offense chambers should be ballistic with avoidable projectiles
• Spawning and distress beacons should be at offset locations rather than clumped right below the Hive or right at Marine Start
• Sentry turrets can fire through walls, prevent this somehow

Visuals, Sounds, and Information todo

• Marine needs a melee attack animation for knifing (partially done)
• Hive sight for aliens (partially in... trying to get the real icons in too)
• Resource bounty for kills (needs floating text)
• Onos stomp needs a shockwave sent out
• Range radius actor for siege cannons, hive healing range when selected, chamber effect ranges
• Passive behavior button for Hive healing (like "Heals nearby aliens for 7% of their HP or Armor" every two seconds), defense chamber healing, movement chamber energy replenish, sensory chamber detection and cloaking
• Add a visual effect to the observatory for Distress beacon
• Make the Hive build model animate while building (overlord cocoon model)
• Heal spray visual should be a lighter color
• Bilebomb explosion visual occurs before projectile reaches target point
• Increase visibility of umbra and primal scream buffs
• Ensure all hotkeys all work
• Refine the tooltips for buildings and abilities
• Make the Hive model less overlord-ish
• Remove the "Hive Location" model when a Hive is built on it
• Add in a "scream" sound for lerk's primal scream ability
• Add in a skulk leap sound and xenocide activation sound
• Add in a periodic, ambient sonar-ish beep sound for sentry turrets, audible through walls or out of LOS
• Make a visual effect for unpowered turrets
• Improve visibility of welding / building sparks
• Decrease the visual size of the power range for command console's Infantry Portal build radius
• Add in a sound for being healed by a defense chamber or having energy restored by a movement chamber
• Add in a visual for spawning a skulk at a hive
• Fix the "under construction" model/animation for some marine buildings
• Make acid rockets exit from the hydralisk model head rather than overhead attachment, gorge spit needs the same I believe
• Add in a "click click click" of empty magazine if a player is trying to attack without any ammunition
• Commander alerts should leave a more visible Waypoint, similar to NOTD's red squares to indicate danger
• Major terrain improvements with more doodads, terrain texture, additional lighting and shadows

Known Bugs

• Floating +1 vespene text is visible by enemy team, revealing otherwise hidden resource towers
• Skulk - Xenocide should not take effect until 2 seconds after being pressed
• Marines can't reload and move at the same time, should be able to
• Mines should instantly be active, be visible to aliens, and not "seek" like spider mines but explode on direct contact
• Bilebomb was working but is broken now

Fixed (I think) Bugs

• Alien's "scent of fear" range is visible to enemies, effectively revealing their position (Still reveals the radius but only if the alien is visible... will fix completely soon)
• Multiple hives can be built on a single hive location
• Marines are spawning without weapons (broke recently)
• Sensory chambers not cloaking nearby units (broke recently) (also causing a memory leak, most likely recursively applying cloaking field behavior)
• Turrets dont seem to use allied vision, so the commander has to scan for sieges to fire
• Distress beacon spawned multiple marines for a single player
• Cancelling a gestation (which should not even be possible, need to remove) keeps your model as an egg
• Heavy Marines can not pick up Medkits or Trip Mines (may be a problem with Jetpack marines as well, have to test)
• Apparently I broke marine Alerts to the commander, commander does not receive an alert
• Weapon upgrades are only affecting the light machine gun, needs to affect the HMG, GL, Pistol and Shotgun, turrets(?), siege cannons (?), hand grenades(?), knife(?), mines (?)
• Hotkey conflicts on some alien skills

personal notes

• Aiming system is working somewhat. The Mouse Moved event may generate too much net traffic for 12 players.