SC2Mapster

Ah, well, the thing is that you might want to be able to fire at cloaked units. Hmm

Hmm. Rifle does appear to snap properly. It seems to have infinite accuracy, and also can no longer target the ground.

Also, none of the other effects have charges, still.

I did some minor bug fixes regarding the vehicles and the death animations.

Squadcraft 2 v0.5 fixed

I think the issue with EMP is that I intended it to drain shields instantly, not over time via the buff. Hence, It regens next turn, drains, loses another layer, so on till shield is gone. Basically, Steal 200 shields when it hits, then apply a debuff to disable tech for the next 3 turns. (but no more shields)

When I said shield recharge, I meant the item, not the passive regeneration. Like 50+5x, not 5x regen.

Well, I have no idea if mines are supposed to cloak or not, but I do know that you cant test cloaking with single player, unless a good visual effect exists.

I cannot see any way to quote, and its also far easier to read stuff in the other thread. So yea, Lets move it back there instead :p

I've tested the shields and, as expected, it won't allow a shield item to be used when the shield life is 0. However there's still the issue of receiving the old shield regen amount on the turn after the shields went down. I agree that EMP's effect on shields need to be fixed.

I've tested the mines on hostile marines and it works properly (which is good). Although it is unrealistic that a mine can be set up at a shooting range distance away from the marine. It would be more suitable for mines and demolition charges and to have a range of 1 (or melee range).

There are some other bugs such as specific vehicle types not blocking projectiles, and that the death animation from rocks are too disproportionate to the size of the rock. I'm trying to locate the source of the problems, and have tried to modify the death animation of the rock, but only had limited success so far.

Anyways, good job on the items.

Very nice. A lot of the stuff appears to be working

Shields do not fail quite correctly atm. Two issues exist. One, When the shield fails, it will not lose capacity immediately. it waits until the next turn instead. I believe this would allow you to recharge your shields again before turn end, hence is a problem. Also, on the next turn, you still get the old level of regeneration. I think you should add a second shield behavior, which handles the shield being active. When the shield hits zero. It deactivates (disable instead of remove) and removes a shield layer. It reactivates (re-enable) when shields rise again next turn, or with a charge.

Shield recharge does not appear to restore the expected amount of shields when used. I had it restore 20, 50, 70, and 80, but am unsure how it was determined. I might have to look at the map to figure it out. Oh, and it also doesnt work if shields are already down, but that might be intentional. Im not sure if it should either.

Also, EMP currently annihilates the shield totally(It refuses to recharge next turn, and loses a layer, until whole shield is gone), and does not appear to disable other weapons. (probably haven't gotten to the second part yet, so not an issue) It also seems to remove a shield layer immediately, unlike normal damage.

and all of the tooltips are unfinished, but that is to be expected.

Still need to add targeting assist, so you can attack units directly with stuff. Some of the time aiming is impossible, and still nothing nearby explodes or takes damage without AOE attacks.

Hmm. Stun grenade (or was it disruption grenade?) Appears to steal all the energy next turn, although I still disagree with the effect.

Not sure how to test the smart mine. but the demolition charge works as expected (aside from cloaking, no idea if that part works)

Assuming teleport displays the range correctly, it works fine.

Makkit and stimpacks work perfectly, although I wish they had slightly more range (Its kinda hard to click directly next to another marine, since it just rejects direct clicks)

Tech List. (Italicized all of the upgrades that are unlocked immediately on teching)

Electromagnetic Tech - Manipulation of Electromagnetic waves. Highly focused lasers, as well as Energy bursts.

• Wave Cannon
• Deflector Armor
• EMP grenade
• Stealth Armor
• Stealth Equipment.

• Laser sniper
• Laser machine gun

Plasma Tech - Manipulation of plasma, effective creation, as well as containment.

• Wave Cannon
• Power Fist (Without containment, it would melt your fist....)
• Plasma Cannon
• Plasma Grenade
• Plasmatic Pack

Alien Alloys - Creation of far more durable and lightweight materials than normally is possible. Might also call it advanced armor.

• Deflector Armor
• Lightweight Agility Suit
• Stealth Armor
• Shield Armor
• Battle Armor
• Power Armor
• Plasma Armor

Warp Tech - Manipulation of energy fields, as well as translocation warp effects.

• Personal Teleporter
• PDD (uses wormholes to redirect)
• Power Armor
• Shield Armor
• Shield Equipment.

List of stuff to do:

Note: Everything is subject to change. Nothing is certain. :)

Shields

• Shield items provide 1 shield level. Each shield level gives 100 shield capacity.
• All shield items are active at the start, providing the maximum shield capacity but starting with a non-zero percentage of shield life.
• Number of charges = number of shield items equipped
• Using a charge gives [50 + regen rate (5) x shield level]
• Shield regen per turn= regen rate (5) x shield level
• When a shield is depleted, the shield level is reduced by 1, permanently reducing the shield capacity. Further damage while the shields are down will not affect the shield level.
• Shield completely disappears when shield level is 0.
• Shield armor provides 1 permanent shield level. Can stack with shield items only (can’t equip more than 1 armor).

New Items

Medical and Armor Kit:

• 10 energy cost.
• Restores 40 +15% of max health.
• Also fixes 1 layer of armor.
• Removes debuffs (stun, emp, etc)
• Use on self or use on allies in melee range.
• 1 charge per item.

Stim pack:

• 5 energy cost.
• Deals 10 + 5% of max hp.
• Target marine gains 20 energy instantly, with additional 5 energy regen for the next 2 turns.
• Use on self or use on allies in melee range.
• 2 charges per item.

Stun grenade

• 15 energy cost.
• Deals 5 dmg, drains 50 energy total over 2 turns (amount may vary).
• Suppresses target marine’s energy regen for next turn.
• 2 charges.
• Reduced effect on battle/power armor (unless if armor has 2 degrades).

Personal Teleporter

• 25 energy cost.
• Teleports the marine to the chosen location. 30 range.
• 1 charge.

EMP Grenade

• 15 energy cost.
• Deals 200 shield damage, suppresses natural shield regen for 2 turns
• Removes and disables high tech equipment abilities for 1 turn (cloak, sensor, teleporter, etc)
• Possibly disrupting high tech weapons for 60 seconds(?).
• 2 charges.
• Reduced effect on battle/power armor (unless if armor has 2 degrades).
• Effect varies, depends on whether the target has active shields or not. Shields (100+ hp before damage) will reduce the duration of the disruption effects of EMP (?).

Explosive Mines

• 10 energy cost.
• Deploys a mine that takes 20 seconds to burrow. Is cloaked while burrowed.
• Has 2 sight range. Will deal 80 explosive damage when an enemy marine is within sight range
• Will react to cloaked marines.
• AOE radius of 2. Can only be destroyed by area of effect damage such as grenades, rockets (the mine also detonates upon death).
• 1 charge per item.

Demolition Charge

• 10 energy cost.
• Sets up a demolition charge at melee range.
• Can be remotely detonated only by the marine who set up the demolition charge.
• Powerful explosive damage (200 dmg +1500 to structures).
• 1 charge per item. 2 inventory size.

New Armor

Deflector Armor

• +50 hp.
• 30 armor. 2 inventory size.
• 10000 credits and 300 minerals.
• Requires laser (electromagnetic tech) and armor (alien alloys) research.
• Reduces damage from high tech weapons by 50% when the marine has zero shield hp.

Mobility Suit

• +5 starting energy, +5 max energy, +5 energy regen.
• No armor. No inventory size.
• 9000 credits.

Lightweight Agility suit

• +10 starting energy, +10 max energy, +10 energy regen per turn.
• No inventory space required. No armor.
• Requires armor research.
• 9000 credits and 300 minerals.

Shield Armor

• Requires armor tech (alien alloys) and warp tech.
• Provides a permanent +1 shield level. Can stack with shield items. Boosted shield regen (?).
• 10 armor, 1 inventory space.
• 5000 credits, 100 minerals.

Plasma Armor

• Requires Plasma tech and alien alloys
• Increase the max ammo amount on energy weapons.
• Boosts ammo regen rate of high tech weapons
• Will explode if the marine is killed (?)
• 10 armor, 1 inventory space
• 7000 credits and 300 minerals

Stealth Suit

• +50hp
• No armor, no inventory space required
• Requires warp tech and alien alloys research
• Automatically activates cloak at the start of each turn (unlimited charges)
• Cost 5000 credits and 100 minerals.

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Heavy Armor – change it so it provides 60 (or 70) armor but it takes up 3 inventory space.

Delete the weaker version of prototype armor because it is too weak.

New Weapons

Submachine gun

• 5 energy cost.
• Each attack shoots 6 shots, each dealing 8 damage.
• Perfect accuracy at 4 range, 60% accuracy at maximum range of 7.
• 5000 credits.
• 60 starting ammo. Additional 60 ammo will cost 300 credits.
• 1 inventory space

Wave Cannon

• 25 energy cost.
• Shoots a mini yamato cannon shot at the target.
• 3 inventory space.
• Perfect accuracy range of 7, max range of 13 at 80% accuracy.
• Deals 130 damage with area of effect radius of 3 (+1000 against structures).
• Requires laser and plasma research.
• Costs 10000 credits and 400 minerals.

Power Fist

• 3 energy cost.
• Melee range. Perfect accuracy at melee range.
• 50 damage (+200 to structures).
• 15 charge capacity, recharges 5 per turn.
• Moderate cost.
• Requires plasma tech.

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Add an ammo regen system for all high tech weapons. The max ammo limit should be significantly lower than that for standard weapons. Once completed, reduce the attack energy cost of the high tech weapons.

Add a mechanism that allows the purchase of extra ammo for standard weapons.

Add range indicators, 1 for perfect accuracy range (green colour), 1 for maximum range (yellow colour).

Implement fixed targeting for when the target is moving (so the shot won’t miss if it should have hit).