COLT'S PROFILE

author=Dragol
Where are pokemons?!

This isn't a sequel to PTEI2, it is another game series entirely.

Alright, I'm glad playing the demo cleared up any misunderstandings/wrong impressions you might have gotten from the video. Thanks for playing it and providing feedback.

The stealth gameplay is designed to be a bit unforgiving. If you're spotted, a gun fight is very likely to ensue. When an enemy sees you and opens fire, the sound of the gun shot immediately alerts other nearby enemies, that will come and investigate.

About some of the issues you mentioned:
On general, the enemy's vision cone is just as large as the maximum distance between the player and the outer edge of the screen when aiming in that direction. (As you must have noticed, the camera pans to show more of the area the player is aiming towards).
There is a singular exception: The Sniper type enemy. This enemy has a longer, but narrower vision cone.
The same also applies to the maximum range of the enemy gunfire. The projectiles shouldn't go further then the edge of the vision cone. If you did get bullets traveling far beyond that, then it is an error and I will look into fixing that.

On the point of moving passed, behind and around the environment. This is indeed a point that needs improvement, where possible. Especially with the larger objects (like the fences and the poles). For these I've already begun on improving them. I will however not allow movement behind the largest objects (houses and such). From the perspective, it makes sense to think you can move behind a building, the same way you can move in front of it. However, this would also be allowed for the enemy, who could move to a position behind a building. And there for completely out of sight. This enemy, can't be seen, will be hard to shoot at and would be very unfair towards the player.

The enemies getting stuck behind the corpses is a bug. One I thought was fixed, but under certain circumstances can still occur. It has to do with the how the enemies see the corpses of their fallen comrades; I won't go into the exact details, but I'm working on fixing this error, so corpses won't hinder anyone's movement.

The cutscenes are deliberately, pixelated. To mimic the old school (S)NES game intro's and cutscenes. Most of them I'm pretty pleased with, others are slated for improvement.


Thanks again for the feedback

An improved survival mode would be welcome; it will make the next playthrough more interesting. And a mod/feature similar to the Skyrim mod: "Alternate Start - Live Another Life", now that would change the whole game. Seem difficult to implement tough, Fallout 4 is less open-ended about what sort of character you are then Skyrim.

@Alterego
Thank you for the comments. And yes, this is a commercial game. It has already made it through steam's greenlight selection.

The strafing animation are the slow walking animation, this occurs when the player moves in any direction other then the aiming direction. It seemed to make the most sense that the character wouldn't move as smoothly as they would when they walk forwards. I do agree that there is room for improvement, better walking animations or even dedicated strafing/back stepping sprites.

The stealth gameplay is based mostly on the player to stay out of the enemy vision-cones and not making noise. Like firing a weapon, or by getting to close and them hearing your footsteps.
Originally stealth was more realistic. The enemy vision cones had a much wider angle, had a much longer range. They had incredible hearing and could track the player relentlessly. They also had completely random patrol routes, viewing directions and even the vision cone itself wasn't visible; You'd have to determine their facing direction by observing where they where aiming.
But this made the game way to difficult to play stealthily. No matter how hard you tried, eventually you'd get into a gunfight. Ruining your stealth ranking. This is way the enemy vision has been made more lenient. I can't make the area's less wide open as that would hinder the other possible approach; Going on full assault and maneuvering through the enemy bullets.
Like the more recent entries in the Metal Gear Solid series, I really want to give the player the choice between stealth and full assault. Or something in between. If the mission objective allows it ofcourse. During a mission where you are actually tasked with fighting and defeating enemies, stealth isn't really possible; And there for also omitted from the ranking for those levels (incidentally, you can see that in the video I posted earlier. The ranking shown is for the boss fight and if you look carefully, you'll see that the stealth portion has a "N/A" indication)

I do agree with you completely about the tables. It looks kinda weird that the enemies can't see over them and both they and the player can't shoot over them. I was thinking about replacing some of the tables with other taller objects; Or placing crates, bags or other stuff on top of the tables to obstruct sight/gunfire.

A demo version of the game is available for download, if you'd like a more hands on impression of the game. Here is the link to the game's page on rpgmaker.net. Just recently approved :)

@Punkitt
Is the latest screenshot from the battle system?

I'd like to share some screenshots and a video, of my project. Made with unity, but graphically very much influenced rpg maker.











Let me know what you think.