[News]Alpha 7!

RevBillyG · 20th Apr 2009, 07:28 AM

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Well, the news is coming thick and fast.

Alpha 7 has just been released internally for testing. This time, the main changes are to the bot AI. So far, they look great.

Here's a list of the newest changes:

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Main changes since alpha 6:

* Bot AI! Bots understand basic Jailbreak tactics now. (e.g. don't camp switch while nobody to release, don't waste time and ammo shooting prisoners, play more defensively if far ahead, more aggressively if behind, etc.)
To see what bots are thinking tactics-wise, use the "BotThoughts [log|screen] [on|off]" command. You can leave out either the place (log/screen) or the flag (on/off), but not both. Leaving out log/screen defaults to "both", leaving out the flag will just toggle the specified place.
The tactics are not yet configurable and are not yet displayed on the regular HUD.
* Support for team-specific teleporters with the JBTeleporter and JBTeleporterCustomMesh classes. JBTeleporterCustomMesh can just be fixed to only work for a specific team. JBTeleporter also allows dynamic changes of the owning team via the Set Owning Team action, including visual indication via the portal color.
* Special versions of the Nightshade and Stealthbender without Spider Mine Traps. Instead, they can drop both volumes. (slow and x-ray)
* New restriction indicators with hoverboard/translocator in the weapon bar and a no-sign on the titan score widget. Failed/restricted translocations are indicated on the crosshair and via an audio cue.
* Cooperative turret AI. Turrets will try to not target the same player as other turrets with the same Object -> Tag value.
* New map and arena options: Start with locker weapons (separate for map and arena), darkmatch (separate for map and arena, unless the mapname starts with "darkmatch"), custom arena start announcement support, configurable arena end delay.
* Additional titan points are awarded for releases (0.5 per released player), captures (1 for every player on the capturing team), escape assists and jail fight kills (1 point each)
To display the 0.5 point steps correctly, the titan score widget has been upgraded to accumulate successive points.
Bots spend their titan points more efficiently by becoming a titan if it makes sense. They will save the transformation for later if their team greatly outnumbers the enemies or the bot's team already has more titans than the enemies.
* There's a new titan limit: 1 titan per team per 10 players in the game. Actually, up to 9 players every team may have 1 titan, 10-19 players 2 titans, 20-29 = 3 titans and 4 titans for 30 players or more. That's effectively 1 titan per 5 players on a team.

Trueblood · 21st Apr 2009, 04:25 AM

Are the titan points there for when someone wants to use the mutator or is it encouraged to be used in Jailbreak? Would be some funky arena award though!

Wormbo · 21st Apr 2009, 05:50 AM

We just want to support the Titan mutator in the best way possible. It's fun to use with larger teams, but might get a little frustrating with smaller teams.

G.Lecter · 21st Apr 2009, 06:09 AM

Are titan points reset at the end of a round? This way titans would work as some sort of stalemate-breaker with lower playercounts. It wouldn't be nice to start seeing titans right at the begining of a round...

Personally I think the titan limit is a bit high for lower playercounts, especially 2 titans per team in a 5v5 game. A single titan can easily kill the whole 5-member enemy team without dying, and if a couple of them are already jaied when you become titan, it would be an instant win...

IMO a titan per team would be enough for 5v5 and maybe 6v6... but that also depends on whether the map has vehicles or not... Haven't played too much with titans anyway... What do you all think about this?

Wormbo · 21st Apr 2009, 06:33 AM

True, 2 titans and 3 regular players on each team sounds pretty bad. The limit should probably be more strict and maybe even non-linear. Maybe the titan limit should even depend on the number of free players, but this could get complicated and confusing.

21st Apr 2009, 04:25 AM	#2
Trueblood Silly Brit Join Date: Jan. 19th, 2003 Location: Brighton, UK Posts: 837	Are the titan points there for when someone wants to use the mutator or is it encouraged to be used in Jailbreak? Would be some funky arena award though! __________________

21st Apr 2009, 06:09 AM	#4
G.Lecter Registered Tester Join Date: Dec. 31st, 2004 Location: Spain Posts: 919	Are titan points reset at the end of a round? This way titans would work as some sort of stalemate-breaker with lower playercounts. It wouldn't be nice to start seeing titans right at the begining of a round... Personally I think the titan limit is a bit high for lower playercounts, especially 2 titans per team in a 5v5 game. A single titan can easily kill the whole 5-member enemy team without dying, and if a couple of them are already jaied when you become titan, it would be an instant win... IMO a titan per team would be enough for 5v5 and maybe 6v6... but that also depends on whether the map has vehicles or not... Haven't played too much with titans anyway... What do you all think about this? __________________ UT3: \| JB-Makoy from UT3 Jailbreak \| Grayscaled Loading Screens \| UT2004: \| VCTF-Antropolis \| CTF-Opposite \| JB-Fragtion2 \| JB-Isolated \| Jailbreak: \| Info \| News \| Forum \| Join us! \|

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