Development Log Week 11

• Ground Combat

  
  

  • Camera capture enemy actions - the camera focuses on enemies who are performing actions during the enemy turn

    
    

  • Implement Ranged Weapon Traits - ranged weapons grant special abilities based on their type

    
    

    • Pistols and Shotguns can target units in melee range and receive an accuracy bonus at close range

      
      

    • Machine guns can fire twice if the unit remains stationary

      
      

    • Sniper Rifles cannot move and shoot, receive an accuracy penalty at close range, and receive a large accuracy bonus for distant shots

      
      

  • Vaulting/Climbing Animations - added vaulting and climbing animations for when units scale obstacles and terrain

    
    

  • Ladder Animations - added animations for when units climb ladders

    
    

• Space Combat

  
  

  • Refactor Ship Combat Damage Registration - the original prototype relied on separate physics colliders to determine where a ship received impacts. This has been greatly simplified to a single collider with the point of impact determined by algorithm

• User Interface / User Experience

  
  

  • Show Both Loadouts on UI - the UI now shows both weapon sets a unit is equipped with so the player no longer has to rely on memory or swap weapons to see

    
    

  • Highlight Objects of Interest Mode - added a UI mode that highlights objects that can be interacted with (doors, buttons, containers, corpses, etc.) and displays their name above the object

  
  

• Bug Fixes

  
  

  • Bug: Compound Command with Sentry can activate Sentry on same move as Interrupt - removed an exploit that allowed a unit to reveal an enemy and take a sentry shot at them in the same turn by issuing a compound command

    
    

  • Bug: Heal Self as Compound Command - units can now heal themselves when using healing action as a compound command

    
    

  • Bug: Revealed Sentry vs. Free Move - enemies can no longer take a sentry shot and move in the same turn

    
    

  • Bug: Dead Melee units provoking opportunity attacks - dead characters with melee weapons no longer attempt to take opportunity attacks against opponents walking too close to their corpse