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 2021 Update – KillCams, Door Passcodes, AI Commands

Feb 1 2021 News

2021 Update

The 2021 Update Official Launch

Every year I’ll use one update to brush up the game with much requested features and fixes instead of big flashy additions. The 2021 Update brings very important technical updates including big optimizations, hit-reg fixes, mobile improvements, and more quality of life stuff. But there are also some juicy additions around apartments and admin functionality.

Apartment Passcodes

SecurityPanel

Do you get annoyed at having to constantly invite friends and gang members into your apartment? Now you can just set and share a secret passcode with your contacts and have instant access. This user input API is also available for modding and yes passcodes are hashed for security on the client before being sent serverside. In the future, I’ll be looking at ways to allow apartment access and robberies even if the owner is offline.

Follower Commands

FollowerCommands

Followers are getting more useful with this update. They can now be positioned strategically or recalled from an engagement. Use the point key (Z) to direct them to hold a position. You can also hit the Alert key (H) to regroup them back with you even if they’re in combat. More features like giving them custom equipment and allow them to heal you is also being looked into for future updates.

Hit Registration

InteriorsHitReg

Hit registration has suffered ever since the Ballistics Update. This was a difficult problem so I added a debug mode with simulated lag and serverside bullets drawn. I was finally able to pin down and fix several issues related to making your shots connect at a distance. Melee combat is another can of worms that I’ll work on for future updates too.

Mobile Improvements

MobileLayout

The mobile release has also seen some updates. Some PC hotfixes are finally ported over and you can now see a slightly different button layout. Auto-aim has been fixed with the ability to finally lock on to heads now and performance should also be a bit better than before. Other improvements like floating joysticks are planned as well.

Other Changes

JetTweaks

Other changes include a Spectator mode for Admins – really useful to track down cheaters or look for abuse. A killcam is also added after death – it’s available via the API so could be useful for PVP / round-based modes. A bunch of modding features have been added including Animate packets for custom animations, new GameSource events, and the user input API.

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

Here’s the full v1.12 changelog: