Postmodern Warfare

I've been watching a lot of videos of Battlefield/Modern Warfare 3 and one thing that disappoints me is the movement and shooting are still basically Quake 1 with a few adjustments for "realism".  For A New Zero I've been working on physically modelling a humanoid body, which is harder than it sounds and it sounds hard.  I've been getting close to a point where I can use it in game, today I finally hacked it in and I'm surprised how much better it feels already.  The subtle movement of the head makes it feel like you're an actual person instead of a gun that moves.  When the gun fires it applies a force to the right hand, which causes your whole body to shake a bit.  Right now the body is a bit too floppy, but that shouldn't be too hard to fix.  I'm aiming for having a new test with the first-person combat finished by the end of this week.

The Precipice

Since finishing the underwhelming armor test I've been working on getting the rest of the game back in/added.  In the video you can see an attack plane, currently armed with a 75mm tank cannon that stalls the plane if you fire more than 3 or 4 rounds.  I'll be changing it to a more reasonable sized gun and add a bomb for dive bombing.  Next is a voxel landscape engine that I will try and get in soon, I'm not really satisfied with the height-mapped landscape in right now, I also want the terrain to modifiable so you can dig trenches.  Finally there's the building system I'm working on, right now it's very Minecraftian but I think eventually it will be done with bigger chunks instead of a block at a time so you can build bridges or bunkers faster.

Next test version is scheduled for Friday.

A New Zero 0.80

Download: anewzero080.zip

Keys:

WASD: movement

Q: Open/close hatch (can't fire or turn turret with hatch open)

Delete: Hold to eject

F5: Reset game

This only has one level with some basic tank combat and bases to destroy, there will be a lot more added soon. Net code is not optimized yet so probably won't work with very many people on a server yet.