Project Ascent demo 2019-06-20 file - ZeroGrave

Project Ascent 2019-06-20 notes

Tech points

There are now collectable Tech Points in levels. Gain a Tech Level after collecting some amount of Tech Points.

Tech Levels unlock new weapons or upgrade existing weapons to more powerful versions.

There are about 3-6 points to be found in each level.

Enemy AI

Enemies can now have multiple weapons and a couple of different ways to use them:

• Always fire all weapons when off cooldown (can have separate cooldowns)
• Sequence for firing weapons:
• E.g. shoot lasers 3 times > shoot rockets > shoot plasma > repeat from start
• Can have both a sequence of weapons and some weapons which fire always

Enemies

New attack type on some enemies:

• Orange Orbs: fire a burst of slow-moving orange orbs with a wide spread.

Added [Destroyer] miniboss enemy

Sounds

Added looping sounds for player hover, move, and turbo

Added death sound

Tech points also have sounds

Melee enemies have a new sound on aggro

Performance

Disabled navigation blocking from doors. Adjusting the 3D navigation grid caused severe FPS drops when doors were opened the first time, and was kinda pointless anyway.

Other

2 new maps, adjusted some weapons and enemies etc.