Development Log Week 3

• User Interface / User Experience

  
  

  • Render Valid Shooting Lines from Movement Ghost - Shooting lines are now rendered from movement ghosts, allowing the player to preview possible targets from the proposed move position

    
    

  • Refactor Sword Action into Melee Action - Along with the name change, Melee Action now derives its abilities from the melee weapons equipped on the character, rather than being hard coded

    
    

  • Melee Parry - Characters equipped with melee weapons now have a chance to parry incoming melee attacks for no damage

    
    

  • Have a Default Selected Unit - As a quality of life improvement, levels start with a unit selected by default

  
  

• Ground Combat Gameplay

  
  

  • Prevent Weapon Swapping After Action Use - once a weapon is used, characters can no longer swap weapons until their next turn. This prevents shooting with a rifle, then switching to a melee weapon to be able to parry incoming attacks in the same turn.

    
    

  • Melee Charge - Characters with the charge skill and equipped with a melee weapon can perform a charge attack during their movement action and still perform another action as normal

    
    

  • Sentry Action - units with ranged weapons can forgo their turn to enter sentry mode, shooting at the first enemy who moves into range or tries to leave cover during the enemy turn

    
    

• RPG Mechanics

  
  

  • Attribute System Initial Implementation - Every character in the game now has the eleven attributes described in the Game Design Document

  
  

  • Melee Attribute Functionality - A character’s proficiency in melee combat (parry & crit chance) is now modified by their melee attribute score

  
  

  • Defense Attribute - a character’s cover efficiency and hit points are now modified by their defense attribute score

    
    

  • Accuracy Attribute - a character’s ability to hit targets with ranged attacks is now determined by their accuracy attribute score