Iron Assault Remake (Demo 2.01)

[Wisecrack34]

Fuck yeah, new demo! Been shilling this out in a few places across the web as it's the most interesting "Mech Game" content available atm from what I've seen.

[ReformedJoe]

New demo is available now.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/1m3jka6uf1rnf6f/RJIronAssault_Demo_v2_00.zip/file

Some additional thoughts:

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There are some things that didn't make the cut, such as the enemy sensor system. I think I have a good concept for it, but we'll see.
Provided I can whip up some art, I also do still intend to add dismounted soldiers / civilians.
The next big tickets items are the remaining 9 maps, last of the mechs, aerial enemies and some more internal overhauls of the AI (Since a lot of what's in there has been "placeholder" for a while).
Anyway, here's another new palette preview of upcoming mechs.

[Cherno]

The last row looks a bit washed-out, or overvright, save for the last mech.

Maybe I'll try my hand at some ultra-low-res human soldier sprites, they should be about 10 or 12 pixels tallI guess? Squish!

If it isn't already included: This mod's maps (some of them) need Universal Rain & Snow, and also extreme fog!

[ReformedJoe]

The last row looks a bit washed-out, or overvright, save for the last mech.

Maybe I'll try my hand at some ultra-low-res human soldier sprites, they should be about 10 or 12 pixels tallI guess? Squish!

If it isn't already included: This mod's maps (some of them) need Universal Rain & Snow, and also extreme fog!

Yeah 10 pixels is approximately right, the scale of the art is inconsistent. Some of the arctic maps do have snow. Rain would be trivial to add with the same methods.

[Captain J]

Absolute bangers. Definitely going to check the new demo out!

EDIT: It's been one hella blast. I enjoyed new arctic missions and my teammates' AI was not really so bad! They were smart, although they moved so slow or maybe the map was so large for them.

Anyhoo my only complain would be resupply/repair station has very small health and you can stomp on them by accident before they actually start helping you. Also they have no automap marker so it takes quite a while.

[ReformedJoe]

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EDIT: It's been one hella blast. I enjoyed new arctic missions and my teammates' AI was not really so bad! They were smart, although they moved so slow or maybe the map was so large for them.

Anyhoo my only complain would be resupply/repair station has very small health and you can stomp on them by accident before they actually start helping you. Also they have no automap marker so it takes quite a while.

I agree about ally units moving too slowly, will find a way to speed them up outside of combat.

Re the repair/rearm station, I can give them a little more health and a map/radar marker.

[Captain J]

Speaking of speed on mech, i honestly think Ant deserves more of speed buff since it cries annoying-fly kind of type but it's not annoyingly fast than i thought.

[ReformedJoe]

Updated the demo.
Go here for the latest.

Alternate download.

Save games from older versions will not work. To preserve your campaign progress use the Save Pilot Data function in the Pilot menu of the mission computer.

Patch Notes:

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-Added "Zoom" binding to IA keys menu for convenience.
-Allies now have a 2x speed boost while outside of combat.
-Restored original ROF for the MG14 and DMG14.
-Increased armor and health of support modules.
-Added a map and radar marker to support modules.
-Increased speed of NPC Walker and Ant.
-Fixed a bug where you could use a normally unavailable mech chassis.
-Expanded the "Quick Guide" into something more like a proper manual.

What I've been doing:

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Putting together the textures necessary for operation 3. Here's an example.

Every wall texture is 64x32, and these are put together in TEXTURES.

Depending on the texture there is a lit, non lit and destroyed version (and a brightmap for the lit version which is also composited in TEXTURES).

Not every texture has a destroyed version and for those I need to create one. Textures with lights on them also need a non lit version made.

It's a lot of work, but I'm about 70-80% through at this point.

[SamVision]

This mod is so good, ive always wanted a mech game that runs on gzdoom and this is pretty much perfect.