Progress

Episode 2

Episode 3

General world revamps

Overhaul of E1M6 Kosolov Nightfall

AI - Overall AI has been improved significantly.

• Stub characters have the ability to jump to set location for quicker access to player or to get away from gunfights. They can also do both melee and projectile attacks.
  
• Crawlers have a pouncing ability when near players.
  
• All enemies use circle strafe tactics occasionally
  
• Enemies that throw projectiles with an arc have had the physics reworked to prevent the varying speeds that was casued ( short throws were slower speed, long throws were faster speeds)
  
• Fast zombies are much more agile and use jump movements often to move around
  

Visuals - Weapon and character enhancements

• Characters that throw fireballs at you as well as the two armed lazer shooters have been changed to a “Stub” - a Kosolov Industrial science division atrocity. Featuring brand new models and updated animations
  
• Weapon Materials improved. You will notice more details as well as object ‘shininess’ appearing. Specular map intensity reduced throughout to improve the look of a “retro 90s rendered in modern style”.
  

Animation - overhauled animation for a lot of weapons

• New set of animations for Stalker character
  
• New set of animations for zombies
  
• New Grenade Launcher animations
  
• New Rocket launcher animations
  
• New Crossbow animations
  
• New Machinegun animations
  
• New Pistol animations
  
• New Super shotgun animations
  
• Capsule / Hit box of Stalker increased in size
  
• Crawlers now have ragdoll physics
  

FX

• More chonky gibs from enemies on general
  
• New blood particle FX
  
• Enemies have a finisher sound effect added on death
  
• Sounds improved. Levels balanced and some gibbing soundfx added
  
• Prevented multiple player hit effects in a single frame causing stacked hurt sounds. This may have been noticeable when getting hit by Shotgun soldiers when the hurt are significantly louder
  
• Turrets have new shooting sfx
  

Balance

• Grenade Launcher fire rate slowed down
  
• Self damage adjusted
  
• Shotgun and Super shotgun uses a spread pattern rather than random directional offsets
  
• Zombie stagger animations cut to 2 seconds. Fixed idle-ness after staggering
  
• No walking anymore. Only running. Who even walks?
  

Levels

• E1m2 Combat encounter before going into the facility modified to make the zombie fight more varied and interesting
  
• E1M8 had ammo types for unimplemented weapons removed
  
• E1M8 old types of zombies removed
  
• E1M1 has a secret that can be accessible from the room underneath it. Fixed
  
• E1M3 control room textures updated
  

BUG FIX

• Enemy soldier animations are now playing when firing weapons
  
• Various updated menus for slightly more compact menus and easier readability
  
• Changing FOV settings save
  
• Projectiles with AOE have had logic reworked. AOE is wider with no damage falloff currently.
  
• Fixed broken Volume classes again
  
• Rocket projectile explosion sound effects fixed
  
• Enemy soldier weapons hide on death. Can confuse player as they look like pickups
  
• Stub Shooters balancing. More health slightly slower
  
• Graphics menu populates settings on opening fix
  

• New soldier visual variations were added for each class. includes new textures and models
  
• New set of box props was added ( absolutely mind-blowing)
  
• Physics on character death, the character has some velocity applied
  
• Brutaliser character has staff trail fx disabled on death
  
• Brutaliser character had an attack animation that instantly applied damage, this has been fixed
  
• Brutaliser animations have blend in/out times for animations removed so they are snappier
  
• Brutaliser soldier damage adjusted slightly they do 15% less damage and run slower
  
• Soldier ragdolls have been adjusted for improved physical response to surface impact
  
• Resize crosshair
  
• When the player is hit a notifier will appear on your hud telling what angle the attacker is at
  
• Pistol soldiers have their bullet projectiles more realistic spawning from their actual weapon instead of abstractly in the center of their mesh
  
• On screen damage indicator reflects the angle that an enemy is toward you
  
• Stop any animation that may continue after the enemy's death
  
• A lot of tweaks to particle FX to improve physics interactions, this includes bounciness in the debris of concrete fragments and sparks
  
• Destruction system has been started and a few common objects like boxes and barrels have improved destruction interactions
  
• E1M4 Tweaks to level architecture and reflections, minor enemy placement revision
  
• Obelisk has new sound effects - the big floaty monster in e1m9
  
• Enemies have a red outline glow by default. Players can disable it in the main menu
  
• Explosive barrels have an added red outline glow
  
  

• Motion blur setting added to game settings
  
• Autoweapon switch settings works if game restarted
  
• Previous weapon binding has been fixed
  
• Level selector fixed
  
• Low health vision effect less intense
  
• Smoke particles are more subtle material rendering
  
• Smoke particles are approximately 50% smaller for all particles
  
• Better physics for debris from gunshots
  
• Soldiers have been retextured
  

• Fixed climbing issues in E1M1
  
• Volume levels saved once the game is restarted
  
• Hide crosshair option added
  
• Autoswitch weapons on pickup option added
  
• Control binding for previous weapon fixed in controls
  
  

• Ledge climbing system has been redone mostly. Player will not be able to climb out of levels.
  
• Wooden Barriers are not blocking players on loading game
  
• Torch lighting modified to not be overly bright but rather larger and softer
  
• E1M7 a useless jump pad removed in the main meat room
  
• Random extra player actor removed from E1M9
  
• Various minor missing texture fixes in different levels