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[Grummz]

Have a new update for you all. This time we talk about kaiju and their role in Em-8ER!

https://em8er.com/about-kaiju-in-em-8er/

 

[Grummz]

Typos fixed. TY. Resource tracker will indeed happen. Barrel roll, maybe...I envision some movement upgrade crafting. Shortcuts, yep, we'll play with different effects based on power allocation.

Grammar:
Omniframe Gameplay Systems:

Skim mobility mode - "...and abilities much recharge after skimming...." (should be "must")
Melee damage "Targets in Em8er are categorized as small, medium large and monstrous...." (Add more commas, please)
Creating Your Frame - The Frametype "While you will be provided with a stock choice of Frametypes at the beginning of the game...." (is this supposed to be capitalized?)
Choose either "omniframes" or "Omniframes" (for consistency throughout)​

Comments:

• Resource tracker = awesome concept. Please make this happen.
• Gliding movement suggestion: Barrel roll as an evasive maneuver or hard banking to change direction at the cost of speed. In my mind, this includes a maximum turn speed and "locking" the cursor into a smaller screen space to simulate an inability to perform quick movements.
  
• Keyboard shortcuts for power allocation: reminds me of the game X-Wing for Windows 98(?), 2000(?). I LOVE THIS.
  • In X-Wing, you had enough power to allocate evenly between shields, guns, and engines at 50% of maximum potential power consumption each. e.g.: optimize weapon use by setting weapons to charge rapidly (100% power), shields to charge slowly (50% power), and engines to minimum power (speed) (0% power). You could also choose to discharge your shields to maximize power.
  • In Em8er, this could be done by optimizing for skimming with high engine power, shields charging slowly or simply maintaining current level without recharging, and abilities completely unpowered.

 

[Grummz]

Pretty cool!!!

Among (many) other things I had started work on the omniframe, and decided to do the heavy set of exterior armor/feet/hands first. Was figuring I'd wait to rig and animate it a bit before I posted it but... I feel like I'll be distracted and that that might take awhile so.... here.

EDIT from a point in the past that is closer to the present than the point in time that this post came into being. Aka some updates from later in this thread.

 

[Xeevis]

Good suggestion, for the time being I've incorporated it into Em-8ER Forums Dashboard™ addon along with some other tweaks, it would be nice to have it merged into base theme one day .

 

[Xeevis]

Update 2.2 - Added optional various tweaks based on popular suggestions

• Home button on top navigation links to main site em8er.com instead of forums
• Replaced scaled-down logo with black background with properly sized logo with transparent background
• Fixed styling of pager on devtracker + added pager at the bottom of the devtracker page

Update 2.2.1 - Fixed "tweaks" checkbox (whoops)