Zetheros
Developer
Hey Exanimates,
We know it doesn't make for exciting development news, but we're still largely focusing on compatibility general engine stuff. The new renderer is very streamlined and modern, but there's' a lot of other stuff the engine does on the GPU like some special interfaces and procedural generation that doesn't really fit with that. This seems to be causing some drivers to misbehave or perform poorly. We're very nearly done updating every other little part of our engine and our tools now, improving how it all works along the way. This should solve many compatibility and performance issues, and help us stay on top of these things in future.
While on topic, we want to thank members of the community who have been patiently helping us identify issues with their systems, we couldn't do this without your help.
Besides all that our main focus has been updates to weapon and combat mechanics. For weapons this starts with a new specification which carries more detailed information about how weapons behave and deal damage, including with different grips, better sound feedback and using the procedural system to define specific weapons rather than just random ones. Combat wise we have lots of improvements planned to swing, parry and other behaviours that should make the combat feel more fluid, consistent and realistic. There are also some specific improvements to controls.
We are still working on some quality of life and general improvements to arena. We've now colour coded the roster and allowed drag-drop to rearrange it to your preference. Our next goal would be making it easier to understand who is using what equipment and perhaps some other improvements to the arsenal.
That's it for now, next week we should be reporting on some more specific changes and updates we've been making.
Have a great week!
-the BM team
We know it doesn't make for exciting development news, but we're still largely focusing on compatibility general engine stuff. The new renderer is very streamlined and modern, but there's' a lot of other stuff the engine does on the GPU like some special interfaces and procedural generation that doesn't really fit with that. This seems to be causing some drivers to misbehave or perform poorly. We're very nearly done updating every other little part of our engine and our tools now, improving how it all works along the way. This should solve many compatibility and performance issues, and help us stay on top of these things in future.
While on topic, we want to thank members of the community who have been patiently helping us identify issues with their systems, we couldn't do this without your help.
Besides all that our main focus has been updates to weapon and combat mechanics. For weapons this starts with a new specification which carries more detailed information about how weapons behave and deal damage, including with different grips, better sound feedback and using the procedural system to define specific weapons rather than just random ones. Combat wise we have lots of improvements planned to swing, parry and other behaviours that should make the combat feel more fluid, consistent and realistic. There are also some specific improvements to controls.
We are still working on some quality of life and general improvements to arena. We've now colour coded the roster and allowed drag-drop to rearrange it to your preference. Our next goal would be making it easier to understand who is using what equipment and perhaps some other improvements to the arsenal.
That's it for now, next week we should be reporting on some more specific changes and updates we've been making.
Have a great week!
-the BM team
