New demo

Well, a new demo is finally released. It’s already version 24.1 though the previous one was 18.

I have already written about the models we were busy with. Eventually all the models were replaced. The meshes are provided by Major Payne (All the Federation vessels). Stations models (bearable) were built by our team because we still need building animations for good Major’s models.

The destruction system is also added to all ships and stations (ship or station is replaced with collapsing model while it’s destroyed). By the way, all the fragments have their own physics.

A primitive physics is also added to ships themselves, but there could be some bugs when a ship with disabled engines is hit by torpedo (because of torpedo system specifications). I wanted to cut off physics from ships, but it ingrained into the code and it would be a challenge to cut it off.

The fog of war is deactivated by now because of a performance issues (the game was dreadfully lugging). But now you can watch what the AI is doing.

The game map is remade to be a star system (a kind of). Player’s base is on one side from the star and AI’s on the other.

The AI itself was modified, though it keeps on building stations in wrong places (inside other stations). Now all the AI’s ships have three designations: defensive fleet, offensive fleet and reconnaissance fleet. AI acts a bit oddly, but we’re working on it and all other issues.

We added new stations to the game. Phaser turret, surplus depot (a place where player can recycle debris to resources) and outpost. Phaser turret – is just an ordinary turret. Surplus depot – if you drag a ship fragment to this station you would get some resources (by the way, the Borg cube from the latest video would give you a lot of resources). The outpost is just a heavily armed station with extraordinary fire effectiveness.

The battle system is now stabilized. And of course we solved some bugs.

IMPORTANT!

We tested this build on only one PC, so you could meet problems and bugs we haven’t met before. If something goes wrong – write to me. We will try to find out what has happened.

Download Demo 24.1: https://yadi.sk/d/yjKDLzMJuEanc