-December Development update-
Hi everyone!
It's been awhile since we have done a status update, and admittedly the updates on our site have stopped as well (Blame the holidays). I figured I would stop in and inform those who used to play and those who are thinking of playing.
As you may know FPSC Reloaded is coming out with a bunch of features we had wanted to develop, but since TGC is taking on that task we can dedicate more resources to the game. By no means is Desolation: Earth dead, we continue to work hard on this game.
We have been coming up with some cool ideas for prizes and such for our next Game Master Scrimmage, like posters and T-Shirts. We need to create an incentive for a event like that.
What do we plan to do after Reloaded is relased? Well firstly we want to fix a couple more issues with Desolation: Earth right now, then the game will get an overhaul. We will have to merge all of our custom network code to the new engine. Before we launch we plan to include a new survival type game mode. If that does not happen we do plan on getting in at-least Capture The Flag. We plan for more engine/network optimization. I will personally be working on fixing up the character selection screen with new media and a much better looking interface. Finally another major thing we want to do is dramatically increase the map size and add additional media to make the maps more lively. In order to even get what we have now we had to sacrifice a lot of stuff which only hurts the look and feel of the game. We have so many cool ideas for new large maps that we are planning out. I can promise you we won't be sitting on our butts while we wait for Reloaded, expect a patch here soon.
So far our Reloaded goals are:
Larger map sizes
Engine/network optimizations
New game mode
Dark Energy re-write
Updated interfaces
Much more!
Finally, some of you have been asking for a game-night and I think that is an awesome idea, I would love to have a game hosted this Friday around 8-9PM EST. This will help me write down the final issues we need to fix and get ready for the new engine. I will have to be more active with these updates but we all know how Christmas is. Let me know if you can make it! I'm going to upload Desolation: Earth to a site like media-fire for people who are having slow downloads. Well that's it for now and I will post anything else that I need to. Thanks guys!
**Edit**
For those who are experiencing slow download speeds when downloading Desolation: Earth please try the link below.
http://d01.megashares.com/dl/4QhB6L2/DesolationEarth.exe