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News / Re: IndieGoGo campaign ended and future
« Last post by Loki on May 26, 2018, 04:16:34 PM »
Thank you for your and your colleagues' work. I wish you luck in hunting that reason for a server crash. I've played Murnatan again today, there was just one player playing but I jumped in nonetheless to test the aliens. They're much better now (though not perfect) so it's more playable for aliens.

Your goals are rational and important, but one thing that really bugs me is that the wallwalking is laggy. Is that fixable with some simpler fixes? It's smooth most of the times but sometimes there's that moment when I get choppy with wallwalking. Also, wallwalking seems to be faster than normal walking, unsure if that's intended.

It's sad that it all turned out the way it did and that it couldn't have been finished, as optimization and other, more extensive gameplay tweaks would make the game a perfect Q3>UE4 'port'

Thanks a lot for the game, I wish you luck in life and in developing this game further!
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News / IndieGoGo campaign ended and future
« Last post by Rotacak on May 26, 2018, 02:54:25 PM »
Hello,

first I want to thank to all backers. There was only few backers but with high pledges. I never expected that anyone will choose these high pledges. That was big surprise for me. You did really something for this game. Also most of you will get VIP status forever, which is not implemented yet in game but it will be impossible to get it anytime later.

Campaign duration was 2 months. During that time we fixed lot of bugs and improved some things. But most important bug still remains - server crash bug inside Unreal Engine. There is no point to play this game when server crashing so often. This is not common deathmatch game where "nothing" happens, so every crash will demotivate players. So instead of previous plans (create admin system, add support for custom maps, ambush mod...) was developing mainly targetted to fixing crashes. But that one crash cannot be fixed. So I decided to upgrade Murnatan to most recent version Unreal Engine and try it if it will still crash.
Sadly - I cannot test it for that crash. Game never crashed when you played it alone. And crashed totally randomly with more players. Sometime after few minutes of match and sometime after hour. So only solution how to test it is release new version in public and test it there.

Current state:
Currently I trying to update game from Unreal Engine 4.15 to 4.18. Most recent version is 4.19 but there is totally reworked skeletal mesh support and that is currently impossible to change. Game is already upgraded sucessfully to 4.18 and in dev mode works "ok" (few things doing problems but it is playable). But packaged shipping version for distribution is of course fucked up and every new packaging will take 6 hours (or two/more days if it is first packaging).

Future:
Now I trying to build some working version with UE 4.18. Then I will release it.

Next, if it will still crash with same bug then I will try to update it to 4.19. But if that skeleton component will affect some core mechanics then I will have to stay in 4.18. And don't know how to solve that bug. Maybe code some bots to simulate players and try to finally replicate crashing on dev machine, then fix that bug or rather change that what causing it. Or completely redone whole game in recent UE version :o

Next, I would like to implement (not in this order):
- dumb bots (basic walking and attacking)
- admin system (log in, vip, bans)
- support for custom maps
- ambush mod

But this implementation will take time. I need also start my life. Make some money, buy something for self, maybe find woman, make children, divorce etc. Don't know yet.

But good thing is that core of this game is good and this development is not dead. Only decreased mainly to one developer (me) and slowed down.

It is sad because if there could be 6 months of developing more then everything could be different. And with about another 1-2 years could be released final version. I tried to get money from investors, from game companies, from Unreal grant, from Europe donations, from various sources but nobody care. And I really do not want to spending time with talking, writing, planning all these bullshits for investors and for nothing. Oh man, how much time I already spent like that.

Well, Murnatan looks like a whole life project :)
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Suggestions, ideas / Re: Improve the vote system
« Last post by Rotacak on May 18, 2018, 12:46:39 PM »
Good points.
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Discussion / Re: Rotcannon...
« Last post by Rotacak on May 18, 2018, 12:45:30 PM »
No, try to adjust gfx settings.
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Suggestions, ideas / Improve the vote system
« Last post by Machine Medic on May 15, 2018, 10:17:58 PM »
Please add some basic logic functions to recognize a passing vote condition *before* the 30 second timer expires.

For instance, 2/3 players vote yes -> the vote has passed.

Please also add the ability to call a map vote when you are the only person on the server, regardless of whether sudden death or other time constraints have triggered.

For instance, I connect to an empty server to try a new map but am prohibited from calling a map vote because SD has activated.

-> Call a draw to move to the next map
Wait 30 seconds for the draw vote to pass.
Draw vote passes.
Wait 30 more seconds for the next map to start.
Next map starts.
-> Call a vote for the map that I actually want.
Wait 30 more seconds for the vote to pass.

See the problem?
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Discussion / Re: Rotcannon...
« Last post by Loki on May 15, 2018, 08:45:56 PM »
shh it's Night(ly) version
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Discussion / Rotcannon...
« Last post by Machine Medic on May 15, 2018, 11:20:36 AM »
Is it supposed to be this dark?

 :P
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News / Re: Update: 0.1.580 (Rotcannon)
« Last post by Loki on May 08, 2018, 08:36:43 AM »
yay that sounds great!
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News / Re: Update: 0.1.580 (Rotcannon)
« Last post by Rotacak on May 06, 2018, 07:30:13 PM »
Not quite finished, but yes :)
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News / Re: Update: 0.1.580 (Rotcannon)
« Last post by Rex on May 06, 2018, 05:56:15 PM »
We're going to see Rotcannon? Woo!
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