Project UCG - An action packed twin stick shooter with RPG elements.

Finally, another video It's been a while. The project is not dead. Just life getting in the way.
Progress #12

Some of the new things:

• New mockup Player design
• New enemy, Drone added.. kamikaze style flying to kill you.
• Camera shakes
• 3-step combo with a ground power punch as 3rd hit
• When killing an enemy with a melee attack, the death of the enemy will spawn cooldown pickups
• Tweaks to the controller. Gameplay flows much better now.
• Dash now has a limiter of 2 and fills up within a few seconds.
• UI update, Dash limited displayed with two dots over the health bar
• UI update, All weapons heat meters are now displayed. The inactive secondary weapon greyed out.
• Leaderboard implemented and connected to a server database
• Tons of code re-written to be better and more organized (will help with further development as the game grows)

Tons of bugs have been hammered out. However, I still have some micro stutter issues I need to resolve. I also tested Effekseer, the ground power punch. It has a great editor to create the designs, but I feel the implementation isn't the greatest, so I will replace that and return to Godot's native particle engine.

I'm experiencing something strange. When I run the game through the editor, the game runs at solid 60fps (besides the stutter issues). However, when running a build of the game, I get very bad performance. Any idea what can cause this?

JusTiCe8 Thanks man!

Yeah... I plan to play-test it with the community at different stages of development. To see what people's reactions are. I can't say when that will happen, though, as my active time developing the game fluctuates wildly (load at work, life, etc.). But if we are lucky, perhaps something before or closer to the summer. We will see. No promises as to when. But I will test it with people that are interested at some point.

JusTiCe8

Thanks! The mechanics are getting there.

Not sure I'm aiming for full realism. Gameplay comes first. I see what you mean, though. But looking at this example
It's a mix of materials, sure. But in general, it seems to be burning pretty well.

The flamethrower does not deal that much damage in general, but as the bots keep burning for a few seconds, they take some extra damage. So it becomes more efficient to kill the bots quickly by combining the flamethrower with the machine gun.

JusTiCe8

Not sure how to take your comment. Uragun looks great, though . However, besides having mechs and being top down.. Our project will look and feel different (the only thing you've seen so far are prototype placeholder graphics and a couple of concept tests) and have other player objectives and focus.

Of course, we have taken inspiration from games we love. I would say there are other games we come closer to than Uragun if you can see past the mechs and top-down angle. And we don't only look at one game. We have several we draw inspiration from. (the first devlog talks a bit about it). I'm sure the same thing can be said about Uragun. I could compare that game with ten others and have the same comment. Not to take anything away from the Urugun devs, they seem to have done a great job. I'm tempted to try it.

The point is, There are always other projects to draw inspiration from. These days, nothing is 100% original (even if we try our hardest to be). People can always find other games and make comparisons (like the other day, someone compared our game with Brotato, which I've never seen before it was mentioned).

And who knows, since we haven't shown the final art direction yet, There might not even be mechs ( mechs are cool though )