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Haha... You have found me... Yeah. I saw your comment on the other channel too. This FPS-Z sidequest turned into something alright. I didn't want to post this on my old channel because it would make people upset that I was in fact still alive. Honestly, it would have been this, or go all-in on Stormgate. ... What a call that was. Thanks for still showing up from time to time :D

T:A started with hitscan in closed beta, but the community revolted and most (not all) of the weapons became projectile. But the sniper (which was one of the biggest issues) was still hitscan. Right now our sniper is fast projectile with no drop. But it has a big energy cost, only on light. It also has reverse falloff so it barely does damage up to medium range.

Yeah art is going to be the biggest hurdle atm. We have some new folks helping out though! Game still fun with programmer art :P Honestly, getting the full spread of T2 era controls mapped to controller is going to require some feedback from you guys I bet.

@@AlsoGreth I actually did it on Steam controls. I mapped out the majority of what was needed to play and was able to get on and fly around. I'll have to look and see if I still have the setup. Basically as long as you can map buttons to controller and some tiny auto aim help exists. As with steam controls. You can play and still do ok. It's harder to aim on a controller than mouse and keyboard. I was able to play Tribes 3 on a controller the entire beta test. Their control setup was buggy though for the first few times I set it up. It ended up getting somewhat better. Our Chat wheel was a later addition to the game by the devs. So it just uses square to pop it up then button combos to communicate. Similar to the t2 chat wheel.

Forgot to reply to this - good catch. It's been spotted and I think being worked on.

It's rough now because we're still 'roughing it'. I'm still trying to figure out what works, and (as you can see) still using very rudimentary assets :D

Definitely in Proton. We're working on a dedi linux server atm, don't know for a totally native client yet. But there are conversations being had.

@@AlsoGreth good to hear

​@theangrygrunt1481 Unreal Engine does support native Linux build targets which I am testing with some of the Linux enthusiasts on the team. It's definitely on my list of goals for our first external alpha playtest.

Hey, youtube hid this reply from me for some reason! The name references the map 'Broadside' that was a big cluster of explosions and mayhem, a lot of oldschoolers have fond memory of it. Nothing is set in stone, but yeah. I've been toying with the idea of combos, specifically stuff like the shock rifle too. But right now we're going to try and get the basics in first and see what we can do with alt fires. I don't think all our weapons will have them. It's an ongoing debate. Thanks for the interest!

Hey man, thanks for checking out the stream. Yeah, we don't plan on having any speed limits as all, as this was used in the previous 2 FPS-Z games to basically balance bad terrain. I work on a principle of keeping potential energy balanced. You go fast down the hill, build up speed, then go up the hill again and level out your speed. The map I was showing in this stream was an experimental large map. As said in the stream, I covered about 1/4 of the map (and it is also intended to be a vehicle map). That said, using the exact same movement indoors is going to be a challenge. Hence my current attempt at giving large enough corridors for 'travel'. So far the low speed stuff is looking good (except for the speedup in the corners and when jetting up walls, but we know about it). Aside from minor tweaks, a lot of the basic movement will remain the same at this point. I think we nailed it pretty well. Yeah the shadows are just render distance and the fact that I'm playing on maps without lighting and shadows built. Considering we're all still currently volunteers, it's fine to show the progress to make sure the community knows we're doing stuff and not abandoning the project. And a lot of the stuff being worked on is coding related and can't be shown visually! More to come to be sure.

Planning to do just that. And sort of already have.

Let's hope you can find out soon with this. And yes, you probably would have loved it, but you also would have gone through the struggles of losing it D:

@@AlsoGreth Yeah definitely a "genre trauma," for all of you - that much I can see haha. Although there are some other "genre traumas" like RTS just turning into MOBA, which I have felt some pain on. Probably not as bad as the fall of tribes though.

A couple of guys in their free time. First months were spent researching and learning what we wanted to do and use. It was basically pre-production. Setting up our pipelines, repos, etc. Also screwing around with Lyra and GAS cost us quite a bit of time. And Mover doesn't come with documentation!

Man, this video takes me back. Funny to see that a month after this everything collapsed for T3 and Broadside started. Yeah, ... Me and a lot of members of the BS team have had these conversations more than once over the past few years. We just collectively got tired of being ignored. You can only solve a problem for people so many times without a response without either going insane, or making your own version. There is an irony, that through all the denied solutions, we've actually refined the idea of what works to a mirror polish already. Now we just have to build it.

make the shrike from tribes 2 handle the same way please

Hey man, hang out in the discord, have a chat and maybe we can work something out. We're still looking for quite a few people. We do have some manner of framework in place, and we have someone who is working on it, but lots of other priorities atm. But best to talk to the coders for specifics.

@@AlsoGreth If I find some free time in this hellcrushing busy start of the year I'll hop in and ask around

@@greatbigeyeball thanks man i really love tribes 2 vehicles alot this means everything to me.

We're definitely trying to make a successor of the FPS-Z genre, and we've taken a lot of inspiration from the games that started it all. We're trying to make something more, instead of taking away from it for some odd idea that it wouldn't work in 'today's market'.

It's likely we'll do something like Patreon. But first we want to have a build out so people can test and play. A first milestone if you will. As said in the video, something 'worth supporting'.

Something we'll get sorted for our first milestone to be sure.

@AlsoGreth Excellent

Now that the cat is out of the bag ... I might do. I need to get this channel back into gear :P There will be greyboxing...

We're mostly on discord atm. We're working on a landing page website. Hopefully we'll allow people to test the movement etc soon.

Briefly, as long as we’ve got energy for the jetpack!

Yeah the videos I show were recorded to showcase that actually. We know what causes it, we're just milling over how to balance it atm. It's done by jumping while in the curve of the corner. And don't worry, all the weapon skins and projectile effects are placeholder!

Yep! We have free roam, orbit, third person and first person spectating working. We have also made it configurable so you can disable free roam spectating for competitive matches, for example

We'll get there!

Yup, after I'm done with a few more blockout maps I'll definitely look at prettying up the maps, foliage etc. This is all very very barebones.

with them saying dedicated server support, id assume there will be some sort of server browser planned

As @Rezduck_ said - We have dedi servers already. And honestly, - for where we are and will be at the start of releasing this to people, we're going to rely on people hosting their own stuff quite a bit. We'll have servers of our own. But in the beginning we'll be leaning on some self-hosting. A master server has already been talked about.