Development Log Week 5

• Ground Combat Gameplay

  
  

  • Unarmed Fighting - Units with no weapons equipped can perform unarmed melee attacks

    
    

  • Dual Weapon Fighting - Units can equip two one-handed weapons

    
    

  • Allow Queuing Actions from Movement Ghost - Players can now order units to perform actions while the movement ghost is active. The ordered unit will move to the indicated location and then perform the selected action

    
    

  • Cover Animations - units now crouch or press against the wall when taking cover

    
    

  • Fog of War - Areas of the map out of sight from the player’s units are now obscured by fog of war

    
    

• User Interface / User Experience

  
  

  • Right Click to Rotate Camera - The camera can now be freely rotated by holding down right click and moving the mouse

    
    

  • Refactor camera rotation hotkeys - The Q & E keys now rotate the camera in 90 degree increments

    
    

  • Sentry UI Icon - Units in Sentry mode will now have an icon displayed above their health bar to indicate it

    
    

  • Camera Follows Enemies on Enemy Turn - The Camera will follow enemies who are visible on their turn

    
    

  • Character Cards - The UI now shows character cards for each member in the Character’s party, which displays their current status, and can be clicked to select that unit

    
    

  • Remove Turn Counter - The turn counter was not conveying useful information, and has been replaced with a simple indicator stating who’s turn it is (ie enemy or player)

    
    

  • Don’t Display Hit percentages over Player units during Enemy Turn - The enemy’s chance to hit when shooting at the player is no longer displayed over the player’s units

    
    

• Tech Debt

  
  

  • Ground Combat Base Scene - Created a base scene with all the necessary gameplay components as a starting point for level designers when creating new environments