Comments - Dismus

It took a bit longer than expected (or rather, I didn't get as much free time to work on it as expected), but the F&F beta came together at last. I'll see how that pans out before putting up another news post, but in the meantime I'd like to get more content into act 1 - flavour items, more enemy types, etc.

Base modifications include the usual research facilities, supply areas, manufacturing stations, etc, plus you can make per-tile modifications such as boarding up the windows, tearing down doors to make the boards, laying landmines (or firebombs, or smokebombs) on the approaches, etc.

A montage of what happens when you fire a rocket launcher near some red barrels. Normally you try to do this to the other guy.

Research isn't terribly fleshed out at the moment, but it basically unlocks new manufacturing templates, buildings, and some special missions.

Inventory management. Depending on what armour is equipped (on a separate screen), each character will have a number of pockets or even a backpack in which to stow their gear and loot. The R button assembles the best ammunition clip for that weapon from loose rounds in the base supplies (in this case a speedloader), while U will unload so that you can replace the ammunition type.

An exchange of gunfire between our heroes (in white) and an unruly gang of survivalists (red). Although since we're stealing supplies from their neighborhood the heroism is somewhat relative.

When in doubt, burn them out. Fires can spread as the result of explosions or by generous application of molotov cocktails. Normally the AI enemies would walk out of the flames, but this fellow has a broken leg.