Find your allies, your enemies, your Platoon, the enemy base, the ice lake, the edge of the map, your mum, your dad, your uncle, your girlfriend and even your pet fish, with the new HUD minimap and Enemy Radar system coming early next week.
Freejam has doubled up on expresso as our new Italian Jammer Michele has being doing overtime with his coding fingers to bring you this great new feature.
DETAILS:
- Launching Tuesday next week (caveat: assuming all goes to plan)
- Push ‘M’ to switch between zoomed in and out mode
- Each map is a 2D representation of the level, so you can see the lie of the land from above
- The map itself is slightly transparent so you still get a feel for what’s behind it, whilst the map remains clearly readable
- Your Robot is shown with an arrow, and your camera facing is shown with a ‘view cone’
- All allies are always rendered on the map as small blue hexagons
- Bases are shown on the map also
- Enemies are only shown on the map if you have an enemy radar
- Higher level Enemy Radars who more enemies as they have a greater range
- Enemy Radar still points at nearest enemy as before
COMING SOON:
- Radar Jammer cube x 5 levels
- Radar Jammer makes you disappear from your enemies HUD map intermittently, i.e. they will flash on and off at randomised intervals
- Powerful radars can see enemies with Jammers more often
- Powerful jammers ensure you stay invisible to radars for longer
- For the RC old schoolers, the Radar Jammer will use a modified version of the old RP Collector cube graphics for reasons of nostalgia
- Radar Receivers will allow you to see the enemies that your allies can see, if they have an enemy radar
- There will also be 5 x levels of Radar Receiver
- Higher level Receivers will have a greater range, so your allies can be farther away from your whilst you still pick up thier Enemy radar signal
You really need to set an option to either disable or decrease the transparency of the minimap, some people maybe don't want a minimap at all