SC2Mapster

Well, the programming is almost done, should be done today and ready for data editing. Tardcartrider will be working on that, then it should be ready for testing!

auto revives after a long timer

their will be a reincarnation item (Called a DocWagon contract)

also a few of the mercs have reincarnation

thanks Salmon. Im still fleshing out everything :)

Development update:

Things are actually progressing much further than I anticipated.

What I have already got working and alpha tested;

• 3 Camera Modes with screen buttons
• wasd movement and r-click mouse look
• relic behaviors , following, returning, docked, captured
• offense building auto queue and orders given
• attacking units intelligently choose to go after a docked relic and take it back to a capture point, then return to the task.

I can at this point launch a game, build a barracks for each offense and watch all the guys capture all the relics. I'm pretty happy, the experience of Retribution is really helping.

I'm using the trigger method for now. This isn't a FPS (I'm not going to have cross-hairs or anything) so a tiny bit of lag is ok imo. Plus if we get to beta and people complain Ill get the other method in place.

I probably need to put more though into what I call things in the game, to get the "feeling" right, so far now consider all names placeholders.

Also, there is no way in the sc2 engine to do culling, which is the non rendering of items that are not seen by the camera. So in order to make the third person view usable, I have had to lock the camera pitch at 37 degrees and lower the far clip on the camera. The only real result is that you cant look "up" at all the buildings and stuff. I'll try to incorporate those sorts of camera angles into cut scenes or something.

Kar initially I wasn't anticipating being able to get the relics back. But after some testing it made sense. Yes, the Mercs will have to get the relics back (I'm trying not to call them hero's as it goes against the whole bladerunner / shadowrun genre.

It will be EXTREMELY hard to get them back once they are captured however, as they will be behind the attacking structures and TONS of enemies.

After some initial alpha testing, I'm going to need to make some map / terrain changes:

1. Need to expand the "attacking" areas to hold the 10 relics, so that the defenders have a chance to get them back after they have been captured

1. Need to add more line of sight blocking between the 2 halves of the map. Right now when you enter first person mode for the merc, the game slows a bit rendering the entire map

Status update on development:

I have completed all the code for wsad movement for the mercs and r-click mouse (the game play in Merc mode is extremely similar to wow)

I also have in 3 screen buttons that allow you to quickly change from the Merc control / view to "strategic" view - like a standard camera, and also to the "offensive" view which locks the camera over the offensive build area.

My next big hurdle is to create a single unit producing structure and get guys to get automatically queued and sent to a relic, then pick it up and retrieve it.

the mercs are for defense only. I didn't want a hero arena type thing with heros vs heros.

Having relics increases your income speed and allows higher tier towers and upgrades

Each here will be able to build some of the towers for each side as well as unique abilities for defense

more attacking buildings will not directly increase income but will raise the likelihood of you capturing a relic

attacking units will be similar but different, I'm pretty sure all of Okami's units will have shields and SinTec will just have more hp

where did that image come from?

Im going for a semi blade runner / shadowrun feel