Mystery Science News Thread 3,000

[Father.Torque]

Who the fuck reveals a tactical CQB shooter with fucking cutscene bullshit

[Bee]

Yeah, I’m as down as anyone for some SWAT 4 action but what is even going on in that trailer?

I was going to make a joke about playing the SWAT team that shows up in the last two levels of every FPS but I guess that’s actually Operation: Racoon City

[BustedAstromech]

I like my friend’s work on justifying his SWAT game, DUE PROCESS, through Judge Dredd/Sega Saturn aesthetics:

I think you need 5 layers of irony to make this enjoyable in 2017

[parker]

Incremental lean system
Our most prominent feature involves the players ability to maneuver around obstacles, opening up infinite possibilities regarding tactical positions. Players can duck under low cover to avoid oncoming fire, or peak above high cover in order to spot and return fire upon the enemy. The assigned keys can be tapped in any order to “peek”. On top of this, we have also included a classic quick-lean system seen in many shooters.

Incremental Door control system
This gameplay feature allows for doors of multiple types such as sliding, swinging, and revolving doors, to be manipulated by the mouse wheel at any time. Provided the door is unlocked, players can interact and incrementally move them.

Modular speed control
Our final mouse-wheel-based feature involves the control of the player’s speed by scrolling up or down. This allows for precise movement in a close-quarters environment, which may mean the difference between life and death in a hostile situation. This, of course, can be re-bound to suit our users needs.

Simulated and detailed third person inventory
In a real life situation, each item has its place in a loadout. We wanted to ensure this level of replication, so we included detailed animations and systems which show your teammates exactly what you’re doing. Magazines, grenades, and items are retrieved and returned to their specific pouches, with the pouch flaps opening and closing in synchronicity with the players reload or draw, respectively.

Convex collision armour, allowing for precise protection
Armour collision in Ready or Not is calculated based on the mesh coverage on the player, allowing for accurate levels of realistic ballistic protection.

Projectile dynamics, bullets penetrate, ricochet, and deteriorate
Rounds have realistic range, drag, and tumble velocity. Calibers and ammunition types affect how far and how well a projectiles penetrate and exit. All rounds have the ability to ricochet based on surface materials and angle of impact, and deflection has recently been included as a feature. Less-than-lethal rounds will be unlikely to penetrate, but can sometimes still kill depending on proximity and impact area.

Responsive damage system and effects
If a player is shot in the legs, movement is slowed down based on the level of damage. Arm damage will decrease accuracy and increase draw times. Head damage, provided it is survived, can intermittently “haze” the players vision. This is all shown via a passive (read: hidden unless needed) indicator at the bottom of the screen.

Visceral gore
Deaths need to be impactful to the end user and we’re committed to providing an experience like no other. If characters in the game are hit, parallax bullet holes spawn on flesh, and blood will then seep out into surrounding fabrics. A gory bullet hole also becomes an emitter, as individuals who knock their wounds onto objects create a small splatter, based on bone velocity. In the future, we plan to implement an entire bodily destruction system.

[VastleCania]

This sounds entirely awful

[LWJoestar]

Some of that stuff sounds pretty cool but the stuff that’s just cosmetic seems like work they could have skipped, I think. Unless there’s an actual gameplay effect, I don’t see the point in putting that much work into what is essentially window dressing

[Dracko]

This is the strangest place to drop a Coil reference.

[Ymer]

Hey, they be ripping off Umbrella Corps stuff there!
@Drem

[Drem]

I know right? I thought about saying something but decided something had probably done it before UC anyway. I imagine it would get good use in a single payer game.

But does it have incremental lean height?

[schroeder]

Deaths need to be impactful to the end user

This is the worst sequence of words

[jellicle]

That’s just incredible.

[VastleCania]

Selectbutton

A gory bullet hole also becomes an emitter

[Father.Torque]

Literally every single one of those things sounds like the best thing in the world to me, I don’t even know you people any more

[Felix]

Divinity: Original Sin 2’s GM mode brings pen and paper RPGs to the screen

idk how Larian became the literal best-ever CRPG developers in between that weird panzer dragoon spinoff game and original sin but they are on fire

[Mikey]

Getting decent Lost Planet multiplayer vibes from this

[spacetown]

divinity original sin is one of my favorite games of all time and I don’t think I’ve ever gotten past the second act because I keep restarting to try different builds

the idea of being able to GM in real time with the combat systems of original sin is just too much for me

[stylo]

there are honest to god things in starcraft that the actual coders who made the game have no idea why they work the way they work.

same with halo 1/2 (see outcry about master chief collection port) or really any sufficiently complex game

[LWJoestar]

There are things about me my parents don’t understand, and they made me

[Father.Torque]

It’s such a fucking relief that we don’t have to code our children line by line

[HEAVYVIPER]

You do, though! With constant syntax errors to boot!