Broke Protocol - Online City Life RPG Windows, Android game

Broke Protocol - Online City Life RPG

Cylinder Studios | Early Access 2017

Everything can be modded in this limitless scriptable sandbox.

Broke Protocol is an open-world action game like GTA but with a strong focus on city roleplaying and custom content. You set your own goal and identity in fully scriptable community-run servers.

Roleplay in limitless ways to gain money, power, and influence in dynamic city environments. Start with nothing and build your wealth, while managing your hunger, thirst, stamina, and addiction levels. Find amazing custom content, hand-made for each server. From exotic cars and weapons, to cool scripts and custom maps. Or start your own community with unique assets and scripting.

Steal cars, process drugs, trade with citizens, heal the injured, or enforce the law. Anything goes and the ways you can play are endless. Be warned, every player has a criminal record - and crimes like Grand Theft Auto, or Armed Assault will surely land your character in prison.

Climb to the top of the criminal underworld, or live your life as a paramedic, firefighter, driver, gangster, law enforcer and more. You write your own story in Broke Protocol.

Features

Supports over 100 online players per server
Fully moddable, includes a Unity resources package and guides for building custom content
Server mods automatically streamed to players on connection
Completely scriptable both on server and client, with an open-sourced GameSource project
Full-fledged and easy to use World Builder with no limits and thousands of prefabs for use
Hundreds of AI NPCs: citizen, police, firefighters, paramedics, and criminals roaming the city streets
3D Positional VOIP to chat with other players near you
Take on any job yourself to bring order and justice to the streets
Access interiors with staff, guards, and shopping areas
Dozens of usable weapons, guns, tazers, grenades, flashbangs, smokes, seeds, drugs, and restraints
Ownable apartments and gangs/territory system
Usable cars, trucks, aircraft, boats, and armored vehicles

Made with Synty Studios World Models and custom assets (players can add their own content).

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The AI Overhaul - Followers, Tactics, Air & Sea Combat

Dec 6 2020 News 3 comments

AI Overhaul Update Official Launch

Another huge overhaul is coming out today on Steam and Android where AI is the main focus – but tons of other stuff added too. Command new vehicles in both sea and air where AI are finally worthy foes. Careful though, their land tactics have been updated too. I’ll give a quick rundown of all the cool changes coming in this version.

AI Self-Preservation

NPCs are no longer target practice for the hardened criminal. They coordinate movement, take cover, use smokes, and can fight in tight apartments or wide open airfields. They pose a substantial threat but you also have some backup. Players can recruit a follower from the streets of BP. Your loyal follower will defend you and attack your targets. More control over followers will come in future updates but for now you can finally have a competent NPC covering you.

New Flyable Jet – the F-16

Aircraft up to now were limited to crude transports – for both technical and gameplay reasons. Now with longer render distances and improved mounted weapons, combat jets are finally here. Enter the F-16 – in 2 variants. For a cool $10K at the military base, it’s yours – just hope you have a hangar you can save it in.

Air Combat

What good would jets be without air combat? AI have new capabilities with aircraft in both Air-to-Air and ground attack roles. Dogfight agile F-16s or evade prowling Apaches. Even if you manage to shoot one down, the pilot could survive and hunt you down on foot. Homing missiles and countermeasures will likely be added too but for now, cannons and rockets are a fun challenge.

Police Boats

Until now, the open sea has been a safe haven for wanted criminals. With the addition of armed Police Boats, escapes to international waters have been made more challenging. Boat physics have been made more stable – a far less nausea-inducing experience for players in the Coast Guard. A free Police Boat as well as a seaside repair/rearm zone has been added to the portside industrial area.

Other Changes

Other changes included boosted gun accuracy, mobile aim and button fixes, and more server modding options with menus and player display names. AI can aim projectiles properly over a distance – used for leading targets with grenades, rockets, or bullets. Get the new update today on both Steam and Google Play and keep your head low.

Note Google Play only supports Android 10+ apps now. But I’ll always keep an updated Android 7+ APK at Broke Protocol Downloads.

Here’s the full v1.11 changelog:

v1.11 The AI Overhaul Update

New usable and armed Police Boat and F-16s (2 Factions)
Can now recruit an AI follower who will defend you
Fixed boat stability and many physics bugs
New boat with Rearm and Repair zones at the Default Port
Much extended network view/spawn distance
New AI system (major rewrite)
New air combat AI (ground attack and air-to-air)
Improved NavMesh generation
Added NavMesh caching
AI can path across water and apartments
Improved ladder usage for AI
Improved AI vehicle chase behavior
All gun accuracies boosted
AI can now shoot from vehicles and use tanks turrets/mounted weapons
AI will flank and find alternate paths to targets
AI will bunch up less and move more fluidly
AI will suicide much less frequently
AI will take cover if suitable
AI will use available projectiles like grenades, flashes, and smokes
AI will now lead targets and adjust for gravity with all weapons
More reliable unstuck behavior from AI
New spawn vehicles/boats/aircraft for Police and SpecOps
Added Smoke to default SpecOps loadout (AI can use them)
Cleaned up GameSource using new helper functions to filter entities
Faster serverside entity cleanup
Fixed some consumable item sounds
PacketFlags are const now (plugins sending packets must rebuild)
Fixed server crash on invalid itemIndex with CheckEquipment/StartItems
Fixed auto-aiming at own feet
Added DisplayName event to GameSource for customizing chat/overhead/playerlist names
Player display names can be scripted with new SvUpdateDisplayName() function
OptionMenu labels now support rich text and color codes
NPC respawn timers increased to 40 seconds
Slightly moved camera origin closer to actual eyepoint
Added character animation masks to BPResources
Added Fog option to Settings
Removed -nographics argument from server startup to fix video mods
Mobile button stuck fixes
CanSeeEntity() now works against fires
Removed Show Health for dead players
Don’t allow invite/kick if Restrained (GameSource)
More sanity checks on server against invalid inputs
Fixed and optimized broken Spline loading/rendering
Fixed occasional heightmap corruption
Support for larger map file transfers
Fixed Attachments unbinding when dropping items
Fixed hit registration for ballistics
Server network rate boosted to 50hz (from 25hz)
Update to latest Engine patch
Update LiteDB to latest patch
Update Networking to latest patch
Update to latest Chromium Embedded Framework (much faster on startup)