Alpha Version 6: What's Happening

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This thread will cover the day by day work on Vigilantes alpha 6. Feel free to jump in to comment, offer suggestions, or ask questions

Complete

• Increased movement and melee combat animation speed. This will help improve the pacing of Vigilantes, which will become more relevant in maps with more enemies
• Add item deterioration. The condition of items deteriorates when used. Melee weapons become unusable, firearms jam, armour offers less protection
• Added ability to repair items.

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Complete

• Have just released the first narrated character intro video, which you can watch on youtube here
• Added new perk, Well Oiled
• Added new weapons: claw hammer and baseball bat

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Complete

• Have made progress on finding actors for 2 more characters
• Added a system for to re-position characters before combat starts based on a Bypass skill check. This proved quite time consuming as it requires changing some of the existing level start up logic, which is fairly complex.

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Complete

• Sped up animations for draw, holster, ranged death. This will improve the pacing in Vigilantes.

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Complete

• Added 3 new perks: Read the Label, Heavy Swing, and Precise Strike
• Added option to switch on/off blood

In Progress

• Testing for alpha 6 release.