A month of recovery and mobilizing a good handful of changes. Here's what got done:
- Atlas modeled and given a demo video.
* Post demo video changes:
- Increased damage from 15 to 16. Order sniper still deals 18 by comparison.
- Increased accuracy very slightly.
- Rebalanced recoil considerably.
- Fixed a bug with mag range on the weapon (it was Slugger based)
- See broad spectrum rebalancing: Muzzle Brake
- Oso modeled and given a demo video.
* Post demo video changes:
- Recoil increased due to short firing animations
- Pellet spread accuracy decreased by 1.25%
- Slug accuracy increased by 2.5%
- Capacity decreased by 1
- See broad spectrum rebalancing: Suppressors and Muzzle Brake
-Broad spectrum rebalancing:
+ Tier 1 suppressors no longer reduce damage 15%, but subsonics do. Tier 1 & 2 suppressors still reduce accuracy
+ Muzzle brakes now reduce recoil by 75% on proc instead of reducing by 100%.
+ High Velocity rounds now (in addition to adding 50% base damage for increased wear-and-tear, cost, and skill requirement) decrease jam rate by 2%, but increase recoil by 35%.
+ Subsonic rounds now (in addition to reducing noise output by 45-55% for decreased damage and increased cost and skill requirement) increase jam rate by 2%, but decrease recoil by 15%.
- Gust Rifle base damage increased from 13 to 15. Originally the Order Sniper had 13 damage, but now has 18. The Atlas .50 has 16. The Gust Rifle was buffed to make sure it was still put in the same tier as sniper weapons, and with proper parts can be damage buffed as high as 19 base damage.
It is ALSO worth noting that the Gust Rifle's 19mm munition is only half as modular as the .50 cartridge, meaning potential max damage is as high as 28 for the Gust Rifle, but as high as 36 for the Order Sniper.
- Fixed weird crashes related to one particular ability in the ability pool of Hatchet.
-Increased function quality in multiplayer testing for Hatchet. We also expanded the test environment to aid testing.
* NPCs no longer produce super fast rapid swings with melee in MP. This was a weird bug related to the 2 part code needed to bridge NPCs in MP.
* Pump action weapons no longer pump for no reason on reload begin.
* Pump action weapons now PROPERLY pump after finishing reloading
- Fixed rare, bad stat assignment and broken stacking for crafting parts generated inside crates.
- Fixed unnecessary position reset of disassemble screen for Pickups and Ammos. Now you can break down continuously and without interruption.
EDITS:
-Fixed an odd bug causing salvaged weapon parts made of carbon fiber to never return a material. A base case of "CarbonFiber" vs "Carbon Fiber" and hence a return of none.
-Fixed the way automatic weapons jam. It was hard to tell until the Atlas showed up (slam-fire is technically a form of automatic, scripting wise), it was hard to tell with weapons that held 20-60ish rounds and could put out 8-13 rounds per second with ease. Long story short, post-jam, the weapon would fire, sometimes causing a "double fire", which in the case of of slam-fire caused not "Jam, Shoot, Pump Shoot" but "Jam, Shoot, Shoot Pump", so the code was addressed. This technically also means that automatic weapons jamming back to back won't force a new round to be fired at the end of a "jam chain". Nice to know. This likely also caused fire sound breakages for automatic weapons with very high ROF from "Double fire".
-Fixed bad message readouts and health distribution when some body parts would be healed per part. Hachet uses leftover points to heal other body parts in "heal all"'s limb order, but it would distribute bad messages and excessive health if the limb wasn't healed all the way in the process. Sorted out to all hell, and working flawlessly.
Are the models textures and 2D artwork final?
Nothing is final, but I can say with high probability that they won't NEED to be replaced down the line.
The 10mm, the order sniper, and both 9mm handguns have had to be remodeled in the past, and our spec ops handgun is going to need ANOTHER redo since it exemplifies poor posture and the model doesn't adapt to the weapon's part configuration. It's incapable, as it stands.
I'm content with the workbench art. Pixelated, yes, but given the 16 year old engine, it actually delivers a high level of immersion and satisfcation for one's hardware and crafting.
Textures, well, we don't really have much in that department. Most textures on weapons are 100% made of a single, solid color for that cartoony vibe. Our world textures are a slowly evolving palette, and will inevitably need improvement at some point I'd wager.
Past that, we may also look to refine certain models as is completely necessary only, based on some criteria. For instance, we've remodeling casings and magazines in the past to fix inverted faces or poorly optimized polygons, or even shotgun shell casings as they had a scaling issue that invoked mesh disintegration at long range.
Hope that answers your questions.