October 2021 (Week 1)

+ Minimap functions restored
+ Cliffs and other impassible terrain are now darkened in the minimap for easy visualization
+ Basic factions and attack functions restored
+ Swarm mode now has settings, where you can set unit spawn frequency, type and when they begin to spawn
- Turns the game into a tower defense game, but oh well
+ Auto-move to building for builders and supply for supply collectors fixed
- Due to the way we treat sea tiles, everything, including buildings, are amphibious. The sea is basically 3 feet deep.
- It's hilarious and I'm not going to fix it until after version 0.02
- Some pathing issues still need to be addressed
- This new game mode is more or less compensation for not being able to restore multiplayer by version 0.02.
+ Version 0.01 released and is available here: balancedbreakfast.itch.io/bombs-and-bullets
+ Here is the current music playlist for anyone that wants a listen:
+ playlist: soundcloud.com/user-255042164/sets/b-b-ost
- For those that would like to use the AGDG recap, its here: recap.agdg.io

+ Patriot missile system, based on the HEMTT truck chassis
+ M1 Abrams main battle tank
+ Gonna start showing off wrecks as well since its low-effort content inflation.
+ Version 0.01 released and is available here: balancedbreakfast.itch.io/bombs-and-bullets
+ Here is the current music playlist for anyone that wants a listen:
+ playlist: soundcloud.com/user-255042164/sets/b-b-ost
+ BnB dev stream is here: twitch.tv/commander_rad
- I mostly do asset modeling, game testing, and troubleshooting.
- For those that would like to use the AGDG recap, its here: recap.agdg.io

Not getting much done lately but I'm still working on this. I've had some hard gameplay decisions to crack which I find exhausting. Inbetween wracking my brain about those I tweak the visuals so here's an update on that.

Fake "motion blur" on the snow flakes via stretching
Better snow flake shadows
No performance impact from either improvement.
Working on a better crosshair and camera controls.

- Refined the mouse aim, laser length, and settled on a light source as a "cursor" so you can tell where you're aiming exactly when the laser is occluded or when you're aiming closer than laser length.
- Undecided: Will controller input emulate this behavior or will it be direction-based without a cursor?
- Tweaked movement to be more snappy/responsive.
- Experimented with values (sun, AO, skybox, fog) for foggy weather.

+ Refactored audio clip selector to generate its audio source component, allowing multiple sources on one object
+ Fixed an exception when there are no sound files in the target folder

+ Game data is properly transferred between levels, including party location.
+ Loot is added after combat.

+ fixed some sound channels in fmod to be on the main track
+ HP regen cuts off at 20% energy
+ block drains BP
+ gun state mid-air melee
+ gun state shooting durning melee
+ fire rockets mid melee
+ hitstops don't break slow time
+ Shop text/color adjustments
~ Starting loadout changes
+ Reroll button hidden for fixed matches
+ Tooltip for abilities affected by modules
~ parts menu bigger
~ moved practice room stuff arround
~ gladiators no longer block melee attacks or rockets
+ player rockets explode in proximity to target
~ status and abilities button now in internals menu
+ stats menu organized by categories
+ readded machine joints to player model
+ new anti-air kick
+ refactored the way enemy information is stored to be more organized and scalable

++ new gladiator model
+ some new sfx
+ new player guns
++ Gattling Gun Gladiator enemy

melee combat still not good enough

+ restarting development again after getting a job to not starve
+ worked on adding context info to explain UI
+ started on scrolling up/down on long texts

+ new unlockable ability: electric discharge. lightning bolts arc between enemies, doing small damage that can add up to a lot in the right circumstances! hold aim button to charge (can be done during other moves) and release it by hitting a slice attack. Still tweaking this (and need to make sounds). suggestions for more abilities are always nice.

+ Designed paladin talent tree
+ added paladin talents to the talent tree
+ added tooltip for paladin talents in the talent tree

+ Worked on writing up some smaller sidequests.
+ Worked on player group mechanics more, to properly hook them up with NETCODE.
+ Player can now rename, promote, and disband groups.
+ Players can now whisper to each other.
+ Fixed issue where the new multiplayer netcode wouldn’t re-enable multiplayer stuff.
+ Fixed issue where Contextual UIs wouldn’t work in the main menu.
+ Removed some old multiplayer buttons that weren’t working.
+ Fixed a bunch of naming and texting errors on the main UI.
+ Servers now acknowledge their names and such.
+ Fixed issue where multiplayer players wouldn’t report their name and level properly.
+ Added sounds and descriptions to all capitalships.
+ Started redoing the player trading UI from the ground up.
+ Added more shadowing to background stuff.
+ Began optimizing resource files to hopefully avoid the dumb shit that’s happened already.
+ Cried over assetbundles.
+ Redid some small models and effects in the opening cutscene to match their new in-game models.
+ Greatly reduced the game’s overall filesize and mildly reduced load times.
+ Added some UI background panels to places.
+ Fixed issue where the first person camera in cutscenes had some issues.

+ Added MGS style alert notification above enemies when they enter combat for the first time
+ Improved generated weapon fire rate variety
+ Made a party level where you can talk to a bunch NPCs and nothing goes wrong :))

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