Some BTS Stuff

Progress on Inhuman has been going fairly smooth, with a combination of work on improving old existing stuff and brand new content going by pretty quickly! I'm still tweaking this area using what I've learned from my work over the last two months. I'll get more into the whys of that in an article soon, but basically I'm really trying to give npcs more natural footholds in the map, and more layers they can retreat into or push forward to when attacking.

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS_5oUTJ5xc 

The Suppressor has gotten some AI adjustments to keep him front and center in the action as much as possible along with some great new sound effects to really sell his cannon's danger to the player. I've honestly hated this arena for a lot of its existence but its finally become a son I can almost tolerate visiting me on Christmas.

Soldier AI in general is complete as far as I'm concerned. From this point any extra work will be mostly focused on giving level designers more control over their behavior, especially important when we hand the mod over to the public. I'm planning to do a video on their AI in the near future, which I'll probably make patreon exclusive for a week before posting it publicly!

We also recently got a brand new demo level up, roughly the same size as our more polished vertical slice. I'm hoping to have all this content in playable and presentable in 2 months!

We've been really pushing to improve the feel of combat with small adjustments to guns and how enemies react to damage, and I'm also experimenting with soldiers using retargeted death animations from HLA. As you can see rn they're still kinda awkward at points but I think we can get them working fine in the near future.

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS_5oUTJ5xc 

I've been wanting to post to Patreon more regularly so I forced myself to just slap some of this together. I'm going to try and do this a bit more frequently as we get closer and closer to shipping since there's a decent amount to share.