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Decadence Beta - Day 3

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There will be another beta session today at 5pm Pacific. We'll be playing Team Slayer mostly.

I've made a lot of changes to the zoom mechanic. Movements should transfer over from one mode to the other so you no longer stop dead in your tracks. There's also a 'double zoom' feature for long range weapons. If you press Z once it will zoom out to the normal distance, pressing Z again will zoom out to max range, pressing Z one more will unzoom. Hopefully players will begin to scout ahead as intended.

Zooming also automatically crouches, you no longer have to hold the space bar. You're always going to get a bonus to your accuracy and you'll be protected by whatever cover you're standing by. You can also press the space bar while zoomed in order to remain crouching after unzooming.

The cover mechanic has had a few notable changes as well. The first change I made was to make all cover around you useful rather than just the cover directly in front of you. If you're facing to the side with cover above you and a bullet comes from the north, the piece of cover above you will still protect you even though you aren't facing it. Because of that upgrade, players are also now able to turn and shoot in any direction while crouching. You'll still be dealt full damage if bullets hit you from an unprotected angle.

There are also a few changes to the weapon balancing and map layout.

NOTE TO BETA TESTERS: Please leave your comments on the forum so I can read them when the beta session is over. I can't remember everything said during the beta and you can be much more thorough on the forum.
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Posted by SuperAntx on Thursday, October 08, 2009 12:21PM - 7 comments / Members say: yea +2, nay -0

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#7 Tsfreaks:  

Cool. I posted some feedback from my first session.

ts

Thursday, October 08, 2009 07:32PM

#6 SuperAntx:  

I'm sorry you missed it. I'll see about running a proper session this weekend.

Thursday, October 08, 2009 07:18PM

#5 Tsfreaks:  

Missed out. Just got home from work.

Thursday, October 08, 2009 07:03PM

#4 SuperAntx:  

Dinomaster45 wrote:
> Is there even a hub for this game?

There's a temporary hidden hub page but it's going to be replaced once the game goes live.

Thursday, October 08, 2009 03:53PM

#3 Chris Gayle:  

Im ready and waiting with my happy trigger finger :)

Thursday, October 08, 2009 03:24PM

#2 Dinomaster45:  

Is there even a hub for this game?

Thursday, October 08, 2009 03:14PM

#1 Sariat:  

But Flash Forward is coming on at that time!!!

Thursday, October 08, 2009 03:13PM