[Shooting / FPS] Elimination Cooperative

[iNfraNe]

Elimination Cooperative

Elimination Cooperative is a cooperative third person shooter much like Elimination Tournament. In this map, instead of fighting your human opponents, you must fight of the hordes of enemy undead units which have taken over the lands. To do so, you have an array of weapons to your disposal, as well as items. The enemy undead units will not only be mindless zombies following you around the map, but will instead also feature an elaborate artificial intelligence system.

It has been years since the idea of this map first sprouted, and I've only recently picked it back up. So far, it's going well! The AI is superhard, so I will have to tone it down a notch!

So far, about 4/5 of the map is finished. The following enemies (all with their own specific AI!) are thus far appearing in the map:

Enemies

Undead Enemies:

	Zombie This is the standard zombie enemy. Once you've been noticed, he will not stop until he has eaten your flesh!		Mutant This enemy is like the Zombie, but has higher HP and is slightly faster.
	Ghoul A slightly more intelligent enemy. This ghoul will dodge your bullets.		Skeleton This one is actually a very agile, deadly sack of bones. Has very low HP.
	Skeletal Warrior Like the skeleton. Also very agile, but is a bit beefier.		Skeletal Archers Ranged enemy. These archers shoot (flaming) arrows at you! Very fragile when in the front range, but deadly from the back.
	Abomination Slow and clumsy at first. But: be careful when this unstoppable monstrosity picks up speed.		Necromancer This undead spellcaster may have a few tricks up his sleeve to defeat you. Don't let his weak appearance fool you!
	Ghost Slow, but somehow quite hard to hit. Can focus the energy of the aether to fight you.
Mutant Critters:
	Murgul Also affected by the undead, these nice critters want nothing but blood. Fast, dodgy, and agile.		Murgul ensnarer Like the Murgul, but equiped with a net to ensnare you!
Unaffected:
	Rifleman Survivor This survivor no longer trusts anyone. He may seem like you, but be careful, he will kill you for supplies!

Here are some screenshots of the different development versions, so you can see the progress! Enjoy.

Screenshots

dev3:

dev4:

dev5:

dev6:

dev7:

Let me know what you think!

Blimb (aka iNfraNe)

Credits:
- TurieL: Rifleman Elite model
- Will the Almighty: Explosion models
- Felz_09: tileset
- xXm0rpH3usXx: various models
- Teaspoon: barricade & barbwire models
- General Frank: item models
- Fingolfin: flashbang model
- olofmoleman: moria models
- InfernalTater: Stone block models
- Mc!: key item
- Nasrudin: Tree
- Pinachet diablo 3 models

 

[namnume123]

To review i need to play it , so when are you realeasing a alpha?

 

[iNfraNe]

Hey namnume123,

Thanks for your response.

I do not plan on releasing an alpha version of the map. The map is basically done far enough to be released as a beta/late beta. I prefer people to play it as a finished product, instead of coming near the end of the map and just finding out it hasn't been finished yet.

However, it won't take too long to reach the end. I just need to find the time to finish it up Once it is playable from beginning to end, I will release it and then it's time for improvements.

Blimb

 

[DEE-BOO]

From the screen shots, it reminds me of Zombie Hunters.
I like the terraining. I'm looking forward to trying it out. Hopefully it's not too hard with one player.

 

[iNfraNe]

Thanks! I'm not familiar with Zombie Hunters, but I guess the game-type should be similar. I'll check it out.

I'll try to balance it more or less single player as well. It's meant to be played with at least 2 players, just because its more fun then

 

[Archian]

Intriquing! Did you get to take a look at the map I send you? There's probably something in there that you could use for this

I loved Elimination Tournament! And I will definitely be on lookout for this! Keep up the good work man!

elaborate artificial intelligence system.

Love good AI <3 Will there be a kind of specially scripted boss fight?

 

[iNfraNe]

I didnt find the time to check it yet archian, but I will soon

there already are Well, scripted.. I mean, I prefer the "bosses" to be more or less like normal units, but stronger. So they will most likely not have like a "pattern" they follow or something. They will however have special abilities/attacks Besides, if the behaviour is "scripted", its not a very intelligent unit, now is it?

 

[PurgeandFire]

I love the idea. The indoor parts seem particularly exciting.

Is there line of sight? If so, what constitutes line-of-sight in this map? i.e. can you shoot through buildings and trees?

Also, do you plan on giving the rifleman any more abilities? Or will all the cool stuff be through items? (and are the items reusable?)

 

[iNfraNe]

line of sight atm is just wc3 line of sight. The enemies however have a cone-sight for noticing you. You can atm shoot through trees, but that will change.

The rifleman will have no abilities. Indeed all will be through items. They will not be reusable, except for the weapons.

I will "probably" redo the outdoor parts to be more awesome. The terrain is kinda iffy atm there.

 

[Chaosy]

Elimination Cooperative is a cooperative..

Plot twist!

Also, isn't third person shooting misleading (judging by the few screenshots I looked at)? As far as I know this is third person:

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And this is top-view / strategic view (Aka what Warcraft 3 use by default):

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Enough rant, the terrain looks quite pleasing.

 

[iNfraNe]

Plot twist!

tumtumtum!



haha. Well, as far as I can tell, third person just means not from the eyes of the person you're playing. Any camera angle will do. But if you want, we can call it a top-view shooter. (it isnt 2d, however)

 

[Archian]

I didnt find the time to check it yet archian, but I will soon

there already are Well, scripted.. I mean, I prefer the "bosses" to be more or less like normal units, but stronger. So they will most likely not have like a "pattern" they follow or something. They will however have special abilities/attacks Besides, if the behaviour is "scripted", its not a very intelligent unit, now is it?

Touché.

Also, have you thought about traps the player has to avoid, like spike traps, run away from a boulder (indianna jones style), puzzles, fire traps etc. I find such gameplay to be quite pleasing, and I'm sure it would fit the theme of the map nicely.

 

[Kino]

Following, as per usual.
Off-topic; did you just port all your wc3c rep over?

 

[iNfraNe]

Archian: not likely, I want to keep this separate from an escape map. I do however have plans to make a map like that afterwards.

Kino: I don't know what happened

 

[iNfraNe]

A bit of an update. I don't have much to show because I have been mostly working on the code, and not the terrain. The code I have been working on is shown in the two new screenies. It is a totally functional 2-floor system. The method makes it completely possible for players and/or AI units to walk underneath the second floor, even when another unit is directly "above" them.

 

[Veritas 117]

A bit of an update. I don't have much to show because I have been mostly working on the code, and not the terrain. The code I have been working on is shown in the two new screenies. It is a totally functional 2-floor system. The method makes it completely possible for players and/or AI units to walk underneath the second floor, even when another unit is directly "above" them.

Whoa! That is pretty amazing. Nice job.

 

[Archian]

Oh, nice. That's something I wanted for my diablo project back in the day.
Screens looking good by the way! I'm excited to try this out

 

[Silva]

Looks fun! It would be cool if you could add an option where you can switch between 3rd person and 1st person view.

 

[Archian]

What's the status on this?

 

[iNfraNe]

Haven't had any time to spend on it, I'm afraid.. will try to pick it up asap

 

[Archian]

Any progress?