Update "quakecon2" - 8/10/2012

[Carnevil]

Sadly, QuakeCon is over! We got to meet a lot of new people, and also got a lot of great feedback which we've spent the past week addressing. On top of that, we've got some totally new things for this update! Here's what's new:

ADDITIONS/UPGRADES

• ADDED GIBBING! The arcturans now explode in a bloody mess of gibs when massively damaged!
• Made the colored bars on E1M2/E1M3 thinner so that you can see past them! This helps make your progression through the maps more clear, and also entices you with secrets!
• Revamped the armor system! It's now more intuitive and more closely resembles the player's health system.
• Improved the blood particles that appear when shooting the arcturans.
• Made some visual enhancements to E1M2.
• The rocket now produces a smoke trail.
• Added a new crusher alert sound!
• Added a new conveyor belt looping sound!
• Added a couple of breakable crates to E1M2 to help introduce them better.
• Added the IsStopped() AI script command which return true if an object is motionless.

FIXES/CHANGES

• Particles now sort correctly according to distance.
• Made numerous gameplay tweaks.
• Renamed the "Use shaders" button to "Enable lighting" in the editor (both rendering techniques use shaders!).
• The left bracket key ([) can now be used for bindings.
• The crosshair now fades out during secret message displays.

As always, you can download this update on the download page!

Enjoy!

[insightguy]

since when were there rockets? I had quake con and it didn't have any sort of rocket launcher

[Carnevil]

Mezron, the E1M3 boss, shoots rockets.

[decino]

Nice update. Love the gibs! I noticed the shotgun never gibs the arcturans, even with the doomsphere. Maybe because it sees every pellet as individual damage instead of a whole? I guess this could be fixed if they could be gibbed during their death animation.

Like, pellet damage = 8, enemy health = 1, health needed to gib = -10.
1 - 8 = -7. (a.k.a it never reaches its 'gib health')

Speaking of death, any plans on gibbable corpses?

[Carnevil]

Actually, you CAN gib the lower arcturans in certain situations. If they get hit by an enemy projectile, they'll take damage but won't die. Then, when you blast them with a doomsphere'd shotgun... GIBS!