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Hey guys, I've recently started making a map, that I'm calling Guerrilla Warfare
I've told a few people already about it, and explained it to them, and they asked me to post it here. So I am
.
The game is set in the future, haven't thought of a story or anything, its just in the future atm.
So, I'll take you through the game start to finish, (Of how i want to see it, when it's done)
Aim Of the Game:
Mode Selection/Game Start
At the start, you select a mode. At the moment, all i can think of is Player Vs Player and Player Vs Computer.
PvC is not very defined atm, cause i don't have many ideas for it, so I'll take you through PvP.
So, you select PvP, another box will come up, asking whether you want friendly fire On/Off (I'll explain that when i get to the combat system)
Now, you select your class, so far I've only made the basic Militia class, but i have plans for a Marksman, Sniper, Support, Force Recon and UV coordinator.
There are two teams of 6 in this game, they spawn at opposite ends of the map, and each one has a leader too.
Now, once you've selected your class, HQ orders you to find a suitable place for your Base Of Operations (BoO).
You can place the BoO anywhere in the map, by the leader throwing down a red smoke grenade. Once you have done this, a helicopter drops supplies, and the BoO down for you.
The Base Of Operations (BoO)
The supplies & Base you get depends on your squad leader's class, e.g Force Recon gets a tent, and a lot of survival supplies, and the UVC gets a Mobile outpost that can send out UAVs and other things to aid in combat, but you get less supplies etc.
Game Finish
After this, the aim of the game is to either, outlast the enemy, by injuring them until they run out of supplies, Incapacitating all of them so they can't help each other or finding and destroying their Base Of Operations.
Saving/Loading
This game is going to have a Save/Load system. The higher your XP the more classes you can use. that's basically the only benefit i can think of so far, but I'm welcome to all ideas you might come up with.
Whoever wins, gets lotsa XP, the losers get a small amount. (PvP mode Only)
Combat System:
Now, the combat I think is what makes this game, when i tell you this your all gunna be like, omg wtf you can't possibly do that. And I know, its just an idea i had, so it might not even happen.
Friendly Fire
Anyway, back to the friendly fire thing, If you are shooting at something, and a friendly, or a tree, or a rock, or a cliff goes in front of you while your firing(Yeah trees and rocks can walk in this game...lol jokes), it will hit that instead, though it does have a % chance to go through the cover and hit the target behind it, depending on how good the cover is.
The whole combat system is going to use things like turn speed (called Acquisition Rate in the game) to add a new level of play, so that, say you get shot by a sniper, and somehow survive, if you run really fast, they cant hit you cause they're acquisition rate is low.
Dismemberment?!
Another part of the system is that you can get dismembered. there is a % chance depending on your gun/armor etc that the bullet will rip your Leg/Arm/Chunk of Torso clean off. This will affect you in the obvious ways, such as crappy aim with no right arm, etc. Once injured like this though, you can be healed, by either one of your team mates grabbing you and dragging you back to the BoO, or one of your team mates (specific classes only) strapping you to a Med-UAV that flies you back to the BoO (though you risk the other team finding your base this way). Once at the BoO though, you don't just grow your arms back; you get a cyborg replacement instead. You only have a limited number of these, depending on the BoO you got, and they affect you in different ways.
Here's an example:
You get shot by a sniper, and unluckily, your arm is ripped clean off. You can still fight, but you're nearly useless. A nearby UVC straps you to a Med-UAV, and you are whisked back to base, and after a few minutes, you are fitted with a new arm. This arm gives you better Melee damage, More accuracy, but your acquisition and fire rate are both lowered considerably.
in the supplies, you also get sandbags, which you can pile up yourself one by one, sandbags are the best kind of cover in the game, and should be used wisely and according to where you set up your base. Support classes make best use of sandbags, as they cant get hit pretty much behind a 3x stack of sandbags, and have a huge amount of firepower.
Shared Vision
Vision isn't shared unless your watching the camera feed relayed from the squad, to the base, so if your at the base you can see your team members.
Current Ideas and Plans
There are a few ideas I'm contemplating already, which is the combination of auto firing and manual firing, and skills like perception which increase your acquisition range/rate (rate as in your turn speed). another idea was instead of acquisition range, there is a % chacne you'll notice someone nearby, and you'll automatically shoot at them.
Another is making LOS 230 degrees in front of the unit only, enabling you to sneak up on people in the narrow blind spot behind them.
BoO ideas could be from Reconnaissance Base, to Artillery Command Center, to a medical station, to a crawling spider mech with launch-able UVs/UAVs, (for the UVC)
As I said before, this is just what i want for the game, comments and criticisms are welcome, and you can suggest ideas for the PvC mode too if you like.
At the moment I'm looking for one other person to help me out on this, but its not 100% required, I just need someone with more JASS knowledge than me.
Questions and Answers
I posted this first on a different forum, so I'll do a Q/A style set up of what they asked about the map, and how i answered. This will be updated as new questions arise.
Q:
If someone is standing directly behind sandbags(or close by), will their shots be stopped by the sandbags?
A: Nope, the closer you are to a cover, the less likely you are to hit it, it all uses trigger sums that are constantly changing.
Q:How would people have a chance to see where your BoO is via Med-UAV?
A:When Med-UAVs are carrying something, they move a lot slower than when they don't, plus they have no defenses, so they could be easily followed by a Force Recon unit for instance.
Q:How do you determine squad leader? Would it be by most XP, or host, or Red?
A: I'm still not 100% sure on this one, but the most favoured idea is that the first person of each squad will be squad leader, so Red and Green (I think, can't remember the order they go in) would be squad leaders. But obviously, host has the most power over the game.
Q:How the fuck are you going to do dismemberment?
A: Using a particle system, and either somehow finding a way of changing a model's texture in-game, or having a crazy amount of a models... which really isn't the preferred choice
~MaxImash~
I've told a few people already about it, and explained it to them, and they asked me to post it here. So I am
.The game is set in the future, haven't thought of a story or anything, its just in the future atm.
So, I'll take you through the game start to finish, (Of how i want to see it, when it's done)
Aim Of the Game:
Mode Selection/Game Start
At the start, you select a mode. At the moment, all i can think of is Player Vs Player and Player Vs Computer.
PvC is not very defined atm, cause i don't have many ideas for it, so I'll take you through PvP.
So, you select PvP, another box will come up, asking whether you want friendly fire On/Off (I'll explain that when i get to the combat system)
Now, you select your class, so far I've only made the basic Militia class, but i have plans for a Marksman, Sniper, Support, Force Recon and UV coordinator.
There are two teams of 6 in this game, they spawn at opposite ends of the map, and each one has a leader too.
Now, once you've selected your class, HQ orders you to find a suitable place for your Base Of Operations (BoO).
You can place the BoO anywhere in the map, by the leader throwing down a red smoke grenade. Once you have done this, a helicopter drops supplies, and the BoO down for you.
The Base Of Operations (BoO)
The supplies & Base you get depends on your squad leader's class, e.g Force Recon gets a tent, and a lot of survival supplies, and the UVC gets a Mobile outpost that can send out UAVs and other things to aid in combat, but you get less supplies etc.
Game Finish
After this, the aim of the game is to either, outlast the enemy, by injuring them until they run out of supplies, Incapacitating all of them so they can't help each other or finding and destroying their Base Of Operations.
Saving/Loading
This game is going to have a Save/Load system. The higher your XP the more classes you can use. that's basically the only benefit i can think of so far, but I'm welcome to all ideas you might come up with.
Whoever wins, gets lotsa XP, the losers get a small amount. (PvP mode Only)
Combat System:
Now, the combat I think is what makes this game, when i tell you this your all gunna be like, omg wtf you can't possibly do that. And I know, its just an idea i had, so it might not even happen.
Friendly Fire
Anyway, back to the friendly fire thing, If you are shooting at something, and a friendly, or a tree, or a rock, or a cliff goes in front of you while your firing(Yeah trees and rocks can walk in this game...lol jokes), it will hit that instead, though it does have a % chance to go through the cover and hit the target behind it, depending on how good the cover is.
The whole combat system is going to use things like turn speed (called Acquisition Rate in the game) to add a new level of play, so that, say you get shot by a sniper, and somehow survive, if you run really fast, they cant hit you cause they're acquisition rate is low.
Dismemberment?!
Another part of the system is that you can get dismembered. there is a % chance depending on your gun/armor etc that the bullet will rip your Leg/Arm/Chunk of Torso clean off. This will affect you in the obvious ways, such as crappy aim with no right arm, etc. Once injured like this though, you can be healed, by either one of your team mates grabbing you and dragging you back to the BoO, or one of your team mates (specific classes only) strapping you to a Med-UAV that flies you back to the BoO (though you risk the other team finding your base this way). Once at the BoO though, you don't just grow your arms back; you get a cyborg replacement instead. You only have a limited number of these, depending on the BoO you got, and they affect you in different ways.
Here's an example:
You get shot by a sniper, and unluckily, your arm is ripped clean off. You can still fight, but you're nearly useless. A nearby UVC straps you to a Med-UAV, and you are whisked back to base, and after a few minutes, you are fitted with a new arm. This arm gives you better Melee damage, More accuracy, but your acquisition and fire rate are both lowered considerably.
in the supplies, you also get sandbags, which you can pile up yourself one by one, sandbags are the best kind of cover in the game, and should be used wisely and according to where you set up your base. Support classes make best use of sandbags, as they cant get hit pretty much behind a 3x stack of sandbags, and have a huge amount of firepower.
Shared Vision
Vision isn't shared unless your watching the camera feed relayed from the squad, to the base, so if your at the base you can see your team members.
Current Ideas and Plans
There are a few ideas I'm contemplating already, which is the combination of auto firing and manual firing, and skills like perception which increase your acquisition range/rate (rate as in your turn speed). another idea was instead of acquisition range, there is a % chacne you'll notice someone nearby, and you'll automatically shoot at them.
Another is making LOS 230 degrees in front of the unit only, enabling you to sneak up on people in the narrow blind spot behind them.
BoO ideas could be from Reconnaissance Base, to Artillery Command Center, to a medical station, to a crawling spider mech with launch-able UVs/UAVs, (for the UVC)
As I said before, this is just what i want for the game, comments and criticisms are welcome, and you can suggest ideas for the PvC mode too if you like.
At the moment I'm looking for one other person to help me out on this, but its not 100% required, I just need someone with more JASS knowledge than me.
Questions and Answers
I posted this first on a different forum, so I'll do a Q/A style set up of what they asked about the map, and how i answered
. This will be updated as new questions arise.Q:
If someone is standing directly behind sandbags(or close by), will their shots be stopped by the sandbags?
A: Nope, the closer you are to a cover, the less likely you are to hit it, it all uses trigger sums that are constantly changing.
Q:How would people have a chance to see where your BoO is via Med-UAV?
A:When Med-UAVs are carrying something, they move a lot slower than when they don't, plus they have no defenses, so they could be easily followed by a Force Recon unit for instance.
Q:How do you determine squad leader? Would it be by most XP, or host, or Red?
A: I'm still not 100% sure on this one, but the most favoured idea is that the first person of each squad will be squad leader, so Red and Green (I think, can't remember the order they go in) would be squad leaders. But obviously, host has the most power over the game.
Q:How the fuck are you going to do dismemberment?
A: Using a particle system, and either somehow finding a way of changing a model's texture in-game, or having a crazy amount of a models... which really isn't the preferred choice
~MaxImash~
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