Progress Update #3

-Cameras :

Cameras in public areas are friendlies until midnight where the curfew start until 06:00 AM. You can disable them via power panels. It's important to do that if you want to investigate about the Humanoid. Cameras are now able to share your current location to the Sector 92 system. Meaning the Cybercops can know your location and change their path and investigate. The humanoid is able to receive your updated location too and will adapt where to go to stay away from you.

Arenas camera have an independent system that require to infiltrate the security building to disable them. To find the power panels, the player (with the needed item) can tag them and find the power panel that use a maximum of six cameras.

-Prevention :

Cybercops (Hunters) are intelligent and suggest to themselves possible locations when the target is lost. During curfew, they will be notified by any resident seen by cameras and will investigate and redirect there patrol close to the last known position. While in the publics area, the Hunters do not need to charge themselves, the ones in the security building need a lot of charging cycles but are more efficient.

-Humanoid :

As it is now connected with the camera system, it will adapt the objective location when the player position is updated. The humanoid can be caught at night while charging itself. When it detach from it's charging point, it will leak oil for 30 seconds. Allowing the player to trace it if it have the needed item. The humanoid have three wreaked points that can be discovered by watching him during the night. If the player do not discover them, it will be hard do beat it.

-Weather :

The weather was not in the scope of the development, but add a lot to the whole atmosphere. So four weather has been added, sunny, light rain, normal rain and heavy rain. Npcs now adapt their walking speed when it's heavy rain and if they are soaked.

INFILTRATION

Few months ago, some friends came and tried the prototype level of infiltration.

At the time, it was pretty basic. Some corridors and room with a specific objective to reach then escape. So we shared a drink and discuss about how to enhance it. Here are the two main ideas :

-1) As the main enemies are Cyborgs, create a room full of robots and put them in charge. Create a system that make the patrolling robots need to charge. When a patrolling robot need to charge, a charged one is sent and the low battery one come to charge. To this, I added the fact you can loot the charger for electronic parts if it's empty. At the risk of one of them being activated.

-2) Make a level where your enemies are in a room and the player need to go there. To do so, the player need to enable a disabled door. Doing that will affect the pattern of the enemies and change the patrol point.

While the idea was good, it was always the same action to do resulting in the same path to take. So I make it a little more depth. The level is now a big room with three point to reach (Server that disable cameras during fight and prevent the mysterious humanoid to learn your moves).

Those servers are hidden behind moving walls. Those walls can be moved to change the air cooling this big room. By using different wall positions, new path will be available for the player, but for the enemies too. It became a nice balance between infiltration and puzzle. 

The player need to find the path to reach the servers.

The two ideas are meant to work together. Meaning the active cyborg patrol in this level - once at low battery - will call a new cyborg. If a player is spotted, the cyborg can call for reinforcement too.