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I finished up the tutorial. Currently it is linear going trough all the stations. But in the future I do want to add the option to jump to different areas of the tutorial (so someone can do just the "engineering" tutorial for example)
Made use of some of the new frigate models. Especially replacing the enemy Cruiser model. As that one started to look pretty much out of place compared to the rest.
https://github.com/daid/EmptyEpsilon/commit/442ac1b5b0f2c772dbac404e2cc744382eecb7da
Tested the tutorial and HVLIs, it works perfectly !
Played more with the new science, it's a lot of fun. But a question, is the different colors going to have a label/explanation somewhere? Some of it is more obvious for us science nerds. But I think maybe on the database having a description would be nice. Unless it's in the toturial. I tried but it got stuck on the part launching the homing missile to the ship behind.
In the tutorial, what did you try? Did you target the ship? That's important, else the missiles do not home in and you cannot hit the target.
Don't know if there was anything saying to "get it close" to make it actually it hit the ship.
https://github.com/daid/EmptyEpsilon/issues/128
And have started to write some documentation for it:
https://github.com/daid/EmptyEpsilon/wiki/Configure-hardware.ini
So, this features:
* A tutorial. Please give feedback on this, as it's in a rough state.
* Enemies with different shield setups, not just front back, but also 1, 3 or even 5 shield sections.
* Relay can link one of it's probe to science, and then science can view&scan the area around this probe.
* Enemy ships will try to destroy your probes.
* Whole bunch of extra functions for scenario scripting. Including the option to define communication scripts inside of the scenario. (See the "Ghost from the Past" scenario as example)
* Scenario variations. A scenario can now define that it has different play variations. For example the Waves scenario you can select a variation that starts off harder and progresses quicker. For more experienced crews.
* New missile weapon type. HVLI, High Velocity Lead Impactor. Fires 5 shots in a row, does not home or turn. (Only available in the player fighter ship at the moment, as well as some enemies)
* Bunch of new 3D models for some ships.
* New radar traces, makes scanned ships visually different on radars.
* Allow missile tubes to be specific for certain weapons. For example the missile cruiser for the players has 2 tubes dedicated to homing missiles.
* Raw scanner data overlay. Science can now "see" beyond it's normal radar range, if you manage to interpret this data.
* AI ships can now use nukes and EMPs.
Naturally there are a bunch of other small tweaks and fixes.
Also, hardware DMX support has been tested on actual USB2DMX hardware. See:
https://github.com/daid/EmptyEpsilon/issues/128
And:
https://github.com/daid/EmptyEpsilon/wiki/Configure-hardware.ini
We're doing a test night on Wednesday, I'll get feed back from experienced players too.
I do have one question, how do you exit the tutorial when it's currently running? Escape doesn't work. I have to kill the game to end it.
(I'll add this now)
You could use dedicated android tablets to run tutorials, while a group is playing on the main setup. As the tutorial should work fine on Android stand-alone.
Ooh, good idea on using Android for tutorials, won't have to have extra PCs setup for new users.
That being said, I'd rather have my own hardware so I don't have to support them installing it.
Current DMX documentation quickly went out of date since my buddy's request got added in a couple of hours!
Anyhow, this game really needs more documentation and while I learn new stuff for our group's first playing session it's only reasonable to write my findings into wiki article.
Would it be possible to tag releases in git repo? It's a bit easier to know what is considered "stable enough to be released" and what's bleeding edge.
I started a new wiki article how to build the game from sources: https://github.com/daid/EmptyEpsilon/wiki/Build-from-sources
For example, in helm I could hit h key to bring up a small input line, type in the heading and hit enter. Then the ship turns. I would but my coding skills are like hitting a rock against another rock.
Or does this idea sound mute? Curious to what Daid and anyone else thinks? thanks
I've updated the build information with linux info. As I had that laying around anyhow...
(Documentation is not my strong point)
@Flea1 the main reason why "manual entry" for things aren't there is because we play on a touchscreen setup :-) it wouldn't be that hard to add, but it does add another button to the UI...