Hey gang!
If you read this thread, chances are you've already seen me presenting this game on Discord. Now, since this is a project, just like I used to work on back in the day, it only felt right to also have an appropriate work in progress thread. Just like old times!
Speaking of old times, that is also exactly what you can expect from this game. I understand that through the years I have earned a bit of a reputation of doing new things in FPSC, new techniques, models, shaders... none of that is here. This is just a somewhat simple FPSC shooter and I guarantee that nothing about it reinvents the wheel. However I'm pretty confident that it'll be good fun.
You can expect the same type of game I used to release around 2010. I've specifically designed it to work within the limits of the memory cap while still featuring a lot of action, that is why some scenes seem a bit barren or low-poly.
Amytric Pulse - Operation Euridike is a straight forward action fps with some subdued adventure elements. I aim for a release around
late october or early november. The game is nearly in alpha and the release date entirely depends on how long it'll take me to record all the voice acting and polish the levels. AND of course... this IS FPSC, so a lot depends on wether it works or not. I have a whole catalogue of FPSC titles that I could not fit into its laughable memory cap back in the day but thanks to
Nomad and
S4reals stellar work with the
Black Ice Mod there is just enough wiggle room now to make slightly more elaborate games in FPSC. So if you too want to give it another spin, now is the time.
Given FPSC's nature and track record its still just as possible that this will simply not work in the end! I can still chop the game up into chapters if the loading bug persists but I am confident that with BMI's improvments, this might just work! If so, I'll likely persue a more complex FPSC project in the future but for now, its just a shooter
P L O T
Personal Log of Agent Anja Sorensdottir:
Operation Scythe, a coordinated international offensive against the transgenic Collective was a dire failure and cost us most of our men and resources. While we managed to weaken the mutant forces significantly, they have struck us with such a fatal blow that it might have just been the final nail in the coffin for humanity as we know it.
Task Force Zero has already been reduced to a single active unit and in the wake of this grand assault, our men have been taken captive by the Collective.
Now reduced to a skeleton crew we concocted a plan to rescue our agents. Its really nothing more than a last ditch effort..., to send in the last remaining member of the Task Force, with hopes that he single handedly exfiltrates a dozen captives from a formidable high security military installation.
However, to Agent Grimms immense credit he has accepted the mission without any hesitation. He appears confident that there is a chance for us to make a dent into their defenses and his demeanor had a calming effect on me during our preparations. If he can remain so restrained even though his fiancée is among those captured, why should I be such a nervous wreck? After all
he is the one actually sent in there while I'll only observe through his infolink.
We'll drop Grimm over the Qasqir Tower military installation, once a brutalist monument to the military strength of the Pan-Asian Coalition, now a center of operations for the Collective.
High altitude, low opening in the dead of night. There is a distinct chance he will not be noticed as the mutants likely don't expect a break in from the top. It is up to him to interface me with the buildings intranet so I can lock out the reinforcements from the lower levels of the tower. After that all he has is about an hour, maybe hour and a half before they circumnavigate my efforts and he'll be so outgunned that even a man of his caliber and particular skill set will be outmatched. If our agents are still alive, he is to find them. Our thermalecholocation scan of the building revealed them to be held near the helipads, that is our only chance. If he manages to get to them in time we can send in a stealth helicopter to retrieve them. A lot of "ifs" and "buts" and no certainty.
I understand that I am likely the most efficient hacker still operating for the collective but I'd dread to be the one on com-line while they send Morgan Grimm to his death.
F E A T U R E S
* Its a new FPSC game that isn't a dull walking simulator with the spoopy closet monster! Yay!
* 9 Levels, some of them might even be good!
* Custom sound design and voice acting
* That homely old janky amateur production quality
* The game is kinda blue, its stylistically designed to be this way but I might have gone too far in a few places.
S C R E E N S H O T S
Thanks for viewing. I understand this forum has been a bit stagnant lately, but if you got something to say, drop me a post
Cheers!
-Wolf
