> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://whitepaper.gmr.center/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://whitepaper.gmr.center/battle-leets/events-log.md). # Events Log {% hint style="warning" %} **This whitepaper is outdated:** We are currently in the process of updating the whitepaper to reflect our most ambitious development phase yet. Stay informed by [signing up](https://gmr.center/sign-up) or joining our [Telegram channel](https://t.me/gmrcenter). We have kept this version online for informational purposes only. {% endhint %} {% hint style="info" %} Since the 18th of November we have changed the way the Events Log works, you will notice that we now itemize changes on a "per-build" basis. As a result, it may not be updated every week. {% endhint %} ### 20/12/2022 (979) #### GAMEPLAY & IMPROVEMENTS * Changed the behavior of Lightning Leap: players are now able to move into the direction they desire, and they get an unique haste bonus that allows them to move very quickly * Changed the timings of the decals of Berserk Leap * Changed the timings of the decals of Snapjaw * New particles have been added to the following antenna’s skills: * Snapjaw * Lightning leap * Berserk leap * Forward thrust * High roller * Blind navigation * Pong thrust * The tutorial is now available to play * Added music to the tutorial and practice room #### USER INTERFACE * The username is now properly displayed in the main menu UI * Enabled the leaderboards sub menu. Players are now able to see a weekly leaderboard that contains the top 10 players and their last used hands attribute * Changed the user interface of the practice room * Added images to the more sub menu * Added a pause menu in game, allowing players to enter the settings sub menu * Adjustments to the emote system: * Increased the duration of the emote * Prevented spawning of double emotes * Prevented display of blank emotes * Emote Wheel spawns from mouse position * Changed the buttons from the Login Screen * Updated the renders from the 2v2 and 3v3 pictures #### BUGS * Fixed an issue that caused the snowball to not deal any damage * Fixed an issue that allowed the players to click on the news button * Fixed an issue that caused players to see the Battle Leet in other main menu tabs that weren’t the collection tab * Fixed an issue that caused the force field to spawn in the Tutorial and Practice room * Fixed an issue that caused a crash when playing in the practice room * Fixed an issue that was causing the Battle Leet to keep rotating when the in game settings menu was opened ### 14/12/2022 #### GAMEPLAY & IMPROVEMENTS * Beat drop now has a quicker casting animation * Splinter barrage damage has been reduced * Static storm damage has been reduced * New particles have been added to the following antenna’s skills: * Zero antenna * Radar navigation * Lightweight leap * Berserk leap * Bouncing thrust * Boosted thrust * Forward thrust * High roller * Blind navigation * Made additional adjustments to improve the accuracy of the handheld console attack * Added the chest energy skill points * Improved the boosted signal asset in the collection menu * Added music for 1v1 matches * Health pickups now reset at the end of each round #### USER INTERFACE * Enabled the emotes sub menu. Players are now able to equip up to four emotes and show them in battle! * The health and energy cheats from the practice room now provides a full bar * Added a rarity outline in the collection menu. Players are now able to see the rarities of each attribute * The username is now properly displayed in the main menu UI * Enabled the leaderboards sub menu. Players are now able to see a weekly leaderboard that contains the top 10 players and their last used hands attribute (NOT YET IN PATCH) * Added playground and tutorial renders * Added a button to reset the controls to default in the control settings menu #### BUGS * Fixed an issue that was causing some projectiles to deal double damage if too close (applies to ranged weapons) * Fixed an issue that was causing the golden sanctuary particles to display incorrectly * Fixed an issue that caused players to be able to stack the particles of the health pickups (especially in the practice room) * Fixed an animation that was causing the battle leet to hold the weapon incorrectly when using the mental blast skill * Fixed an issue that allowed the static storm skill to be interrupted if pressing the R key multiple times in rapid succession * Removed the casting bar from all the skills that were currently using it * Fixed an issue that was causing the metal hawk skill to hit multiple targets * Fixed an issue in which the inevitability glove beam was stopping the oversized shuriken skill * Fixed an issue that caused thrusters to not apply chill touch even if the player used a face skill that allowed it * Fixed an issue in which the gamepad was causing double damage if clicking too quickly * Fixed an issue that allowed the gamepad to cause double damage while having the overclock status effect * Fixed an issue with the control settings being displayed incorrectly * Fixed an issue that was causing the mental blast projectiles to collide with a wall if the battle leet was too close to it and was looking in the opposite direction * Fixed an animation that was causing the battle leet to hold the weapon incorrectly when using the berserk leap skill * Fixed an issue that allowed on player to start the match with an empty health bar * Fixed an issue that was causing the plasma ray gun to multiply the damage if hitting multiple enemies at the same time * Fixed an issue that was causing to stack multiple particles from the health pickups in the practice room * Fixed an issue in which the health pickups were not being picked if the player was on their spawning location before they actually spawned ### 30/11/2022 #### GAMEPLAY & IMPROVEMENTS * Adjusted the area of effect of the handheld console to correctly display the landing of the thunder particles * All of the face durations and cooldowns have been tweaked: * Cooldowns have been set to 10 seconds * Positive effects now last 5 seconds * Negative effects now last 2 seconds * Powerful effect removed from seeing red * Overclock effect has been added to golden sanctuary * Snowball initial damage has been increased * The dummies of the practice room now display a white effect when being hit by a player & the particle effects when being struck by a skill * Players are now able to hover over an skill (in-game) to see its description * Improved the interaction between the fog of war and certain skills #### USER INTERFACE * Enabled settings menu: includes controls, graphics and & sound sub menus * Changed the practice room skill menu * Changed the text when starting the round * Improved the round point visualization of the game hud * Improved the position of the “no energy” and the “next round starting…” texts #### BUGS * Fixed an issue that caused the gamepad to do double damage * Fixed an issue where the plasma discharge particle was displaying incorrectly * Fixed an issue that was hiding the HP\&MP bars from the enemy players when the first round started * Fixed an issue that was causing the thrusters to gain energy by holding the left click without having to hit the enemy multiple times * Fixed an issue that was causing golden whipclaw to do double damage and in some cases, kill enemies instantly * Fixed an issue that was causing the handheld console to create an invisible barrier in front of the player * Fixed an issue that was causing the resistant shields to stack * Fixed an issue that was causing the unbreakable shields to stack * Fixed an issue that was causing the mental blast projectiles being invisible * Fixed an issue that was reseting the cooldown of the plasma ray gun if continously used * Fixed an issue that was causing the glass lance particle to be invisible * Fixed an issue that was causing the plasma cannon particle to be bigger than the first time it was used * Fixed an issue that was causing the zero head particle to spawn above the player * Fixed an issue that was causing players to start with the Eleet variant * Fixed a typo when looking for a match * Fixed an issue that was causing the chill touch particles to stack * Fixed an issue that was causing taking the player to the login screen after quitting the practice room * Fixed an issue that was causing incorrect match behaviors when there was a tie ### 25/11/2022 #### GAMEPLAY & IMPROVEMENTS * Improved the fog of war * Improved the environmental fog from the battle arena * Rare, Epic & Legendary attributes have been buffed: * Pickaxe damage has been increased * Sabers damage has been increased * Lightweight leap now does damage * Radar navigation damage has been increased * Pong thrust damage has been increased * Berserk leap now does damage * Curveball damage has been increased * Sucker punch damage has been increased * Spartan laser damage has been increased * Slow added to silver mist * Mental blast damage has been increased * Midas punch damage has been increased * Dragon breath damage has been increased * Bad reception now does damage * Seek shelter now provides powerful * Overclock now provides haste * Snowball damage has been added at the start of the cast * Glass lance damage has been increased * Gamepad can now be used continuously while holding the left click or proper input * Handheld console damage and energy given have been increased * The area of the handheld console skill now disappears immediately as soon as the executing is complete * The energy given from the plasma ray gun has been reduced * Forward thrust has been revamped: the longer the player charges the skill, the farther it travels and the more damage it does * Added damage to snawjaw * Positive status effects (i.e. powerful, haste) duration has been increased * Descriptions for safe hero and silver mist have been updated * Golden whipclaw damage has been reduced * Static storm can no longer be canceled if pressing R again during its cast * Added proper messages display for the login screen #### USER INTERFACE * Added ultra wide screen support * Added rounds visual indicator to the game hud. A green square will be shown when the round is won, and a red square when its lost * Improved the background detail from the main menu and all of the sub menus * Improved the text position on the main menu tabs * Partial improvement of the energy points of the game hud #### BUGS * Fixed an issue that was causing health and energy bars to act incorrectly with the damage done and energy spent * Fixed an issue that was causing the health and energy bars to disappear in round 1 * Fixed an issue with the dummies and the practice room, in which they appeared to be floating * Fixed an issue that was causing the handheld console particles to be invisible * Fixed an issue that was preventing the player score from being displayed correctly * Fixed an issue that was causing the inevitability glove to provide energy even if it was not used on an enemy player * Fixed an issue in which golden sanctuary was blocking the player own projectiles * Fixed an issue with the sucker punch particles * Fixed an issue in which the combination of party rock and unbreakable were causing the shield particles to stack and never disappear * Fixed an issue that prevented the gamepad particle to spawn * Fixed an issue that prevented the variants effects to work properly * Fixed an issue that was causing double damage with radar navigation * Fixed an issue that was preventing plume to teleport to the proper location * Fixed an issue that was causing players to lose energy in the practice room * Fixed an issue in which the tooltips from the attributes and skills was not showing the same description ### 18/11/2022 #### GAMEPLAY & IMPROVEMENTS * The Thrusters no longer slow enemies * The attack speed of the Pistols has been increased and its damage reduced * The damage of the Inevitability Glove has been increased and the energy given has been reduced * The speed of the Gamepad has been reduced * The damage and the energy recovered of the Handheld Console has been increased * The Plasma Ray Gun movement speed has been increased * The Plasma Cannons attack speed has been increased * The damage of the Zero Hands and Boxing Gloves has been increased * The energy provided from the Baseball Bat has been reduced * The damage of Radar Navigation has been increased * The Pong Thrust damage and stun duration has been reduced * Mental Blast can be used while in movement * Increased the damage and stun duration of the Frozen Screen * Increased the mute duration of Reboot * Increased the duration of the buffs & debuffs of the Face attributes * Reduce the anticipation time of Ambush * Added Overclock to Unbreakable and increased its duration * Increased the area of Golden Sanctuary. Provides positive status effects to the users * Increased the thickness and damage of Golden Whipclaw * Reduced the stun time of Glass Lance * Decreased the damage from Powerful status effect * Changed the energy costs from Antenna, Head and Face attributes * Added Fog to the playground and battle arena * Added a message when connecting to a duel * Added general fixes to the Matchmaking System * Removed P input to quit game * Improved performance across the whole game #### USER INTERFACE * Changed various elements from the match user interface * Collection pages now start from 01 instead of 00 * Scores now show colors every time a player wins/loses * Fixed an issue with the collection tooltips displaying text incorrectly * Added text highlights to tabs and sub-tabs * Fixed text typos * Fixed an issue that showed the incorrect game pad inputs #### BUGS * Fixed an issue that was causing the Plasma Ray Gun to not provide energy * Fixed an issue in which Thrusters were recovering energy with 1 hit * Fixed an issue that caused the Snowball (Artic Camo) was not doing the proper damage per distance traveled * Fixed an issue in which Bouncing Thrust was showing a debug laser * Removed debug messages when using a game pad * Fixed an issue from displaying players energy bars incorrectly * Fixed an issue that allowed Pong Thrust to stun the target behind the player * Fixed an issue that prevented the VFX of the Spartan Laser to be displayed properly * Fixed an issue that prevented the VFX of Ambush to be displayed properly * Fixed an issue that allowed players to get more than 1 point per round * Fixed an issue that caused various damage from the Zero Head * Fixed an issue that prevented players from replenishing energy before the next round * Fixed Zero Chest not doing damage when too close to target ### WEEK 42: 22-10-17 #### DESIGN * UX wireframes for next iteration. * References for UI design. * Gamepad feedback. * Droid feedback. #### ART 3D: * Modified entrance blockade´s flag. * Painted new landscape textures. UI: * Worked on 22 Emotes. * Adjusted skill and status effects icons. Technical Art: * Added finite energy particles. * Worked on Snowball particles and montage. * Imported new assets to GameplayTest Map. * Built light and adjusted ESRT material parameter. * Imported all BattleLeet skeletal meshes and inevitability glove version. * Created BattleLeet preview mesh collection. * Created second landscape material, fixed nomenclature, added parameters to the Master Material and created blend test landscape (map). * Added BattleLeet level sequence for render and imported wheel and bottom combined skeletal mesh. * Enabled never stream textures option. * Added rocket landing montages (intro/outro), worked on particles too. * Adjusted BattleLeet arms skeletal meshes due to overlapping issues with weapons. #### PROGRAMMING Gameplay: * Finished the implementation of the variant behaviors. * Fixed issue with leet material in the spectator mode: was causing extreme weird visual issues with the battle leets. * Fixed invisibility when entering and exiting the spectator mode. * Changed call command when equipping skills with debug menu. * Fixed a bug with the death leet body moving through the landscape and environment. * Started the first iteration of gamepad inputs working on the main menu. * Implemented all of the elemental droids. * Added keyboard inputs settings. * Added gamepad inputs settings. * Fixed a visual bug for energy pickup. * Fixed a bug in ambush ability. * Fixed a bug of casting montages which didn’t hide hands. * Limited stun effect stacks. * Fixed a bug which stuck UI SE icons. * Added login screen to game flow. * Added matchmaking through sockets * Credentials in the login screen can now be saved. * Finished optional sound cue for Play Montage and Wait for Event node. * Added support for variant meshes. * Added BattleLeet variant to Data table. * Fixed BattleLeet chest issues with meshes. * Fixed BattleLeet arms issues with meshes. * Changed give mesh implementation for all hands abilities. ### WEEK 41: 22-10-10 #### DESIGN * Balance changes in head, antenna and chest. * Changed pickups locations. * Proposals on how to highlight when the player is out of mana. * Leadersboards, achievements and encounters UX. * Gamepad control documentation. * New variants effects documentation. #### ART 3D: * Worked on new versions for the camo, arctic camo and gold chest. * Worked on engine integration for the new arches. * Set tubes and pipes in engine. * Adjusted scale of plants and rocks in engine. * Changed the leather flag of center wall. UI: * Worked on 22 emotes. * Worked on Heal over time and Energy over time icons. Technical Art: * Changed Dragon Breath particles as requested. * Imported Battle Leet skeletal mesh, created and assigned materials. * Enabled local space from Healing and Overclock particles. * Polished floating curve and montages from Static Storm. * Started to work with Whipclaw particles (possible changes). * Fixed chest turbines not being emissive. * Made energy pickup particles infinite as requested (placeholders). * Started Ambush particles rework. * Updated chest renders on HDRI map. * Changed Character skeletal mesh to lighting channel 0 due to overexposed materials. * Reorganized level lighting channels by assets and characters. * Added energy recovering particle (placeholder). * Started to work with Golden Sanctuary particles and montage. * Edited IntelliDome glass material (needs to be tested). * Created snow master material, cast montage and replaced it on the game ability. * Edited Ambush animations. #### PROGRAMMING Gameplay: * Rework bad reception ability. * Preventing healing over time effect (VFX) stacking. * Added cheat to get ability by approximate name. * First iteration for implementation of input gamepad. * Replicate projectiles and reduce area of effect size of bad reception ability. * Iterated the emote system to work more closely to the game design references (LoL). * Started the implementation of the variants new behaviors. * Changed behaviour of Red Lightning ability. * Increased Leet max health. * Increased health and time regen of health pickups. * Levitation is now simulated in Static Storm. * Increased Ki Blast montage play rate. * Added energy pickups (as well as its particle). * Increased dummy default values * Added a small delay of activation for Ambush ability. * Divided floating status bar to 10 health blocks again. * Blocked rotation for High Roller ability. * Updated ambush ability server projection to avoid particle stacking. * Changed plasma discharge behavior (missing particle). * Fixed immune getting stuck in golden sanctuary ability. * Reduced 50% of handheld console and gamepad abilities cooldowns if overclocked. * Fixed gamepad projectile. * Fixed VFX getting stuck. * Implemented air droid. * Acquire abilities with level. * Added particle system that keeps relative rotation. * Added particle parameter to spawn niagara without rotation. * Added particle system without rotation to particle system 2. * Added droid tab to assemble. * Added animation to ultimate UI. * Ultimate change border color when charge (without cooldown and enough energy). * Change chests costs to be three points in ui. * Reimport render images. * Turn on and off energy points. * Fixed Inevitability Glove variant issues. * Fixed Projectiles Spawning on the other side of a wall. * Modified given meshes for hands to include arms. * Added line decal to Pong Thrust. * Fixed Frozen Screen wall behavior. * Worked on Play Montage and Wait for Event optional Sound Cue. Backend: * Architecture with gamelift was done. * Migrated API calls to lambda functions using websockets. * SNS set up to notify lambda functions when a game sessions is created to return to client when a game sessions is ready for users to play. * small migration of database from MongoDB to DynamoDB. * General testing for this new architecture and its components listed above. ### WEEK 40: 22-10-03 #### DESIGN * Balance changes proposals and implementation (Hand, Antenna, Head, Face, Chest). * Adjustments Skills proposals (Pickaxe, High Roller, Red Lighting, Dragon Breath, Spartan Laser, Sucker Punch, Bad Reception). * Pick Ups new documentation; added to the map as well. * Variants passives documentation and UI proposal. * Drones passive abilities (with level ups) and level documentation. #### ART 3D: * Adjusted Center Ground Textures. * Imported pipes and cables in Engine. UI: * Worked on emotes sketches. * Adjusted the chest renders. * Adjusted the hand renders. Technical Art: * Updated Diamond chest render on HDRI map. * Edited Static Storm/Removed chest vfx and game ability. * Edited KiBlast/Robe montage and game ability. * Work on Ambush vfx and game ability (wip). * Imported cast animations by parts (including release loop) and created respective montages. * Polished Baseball bat attack\_03 particle spawn point. * Created intro and loop montages for splinter barrage ability. * Modified splinter barrage projectile particles. * Updated fractured chest static mesh for render. * Adjusted particle offset from: * Frozen Screen * Reboot * ShutDown * PlasmaCannons * Plasma RayGun * MentalBlast * Pistols * Extended pistols particle lifetime as requested. * Started to work with GoldenWhipclaw/TChain ability. * Incremented Splinter Barrage projectile number. * Modified Static Storm montage, added levitating leet part. * Adjusted GoldenWhipclaw ray size. #### PROGRAMMING Gameplay: * Implemented spectator mode. * First implementation of emotes. * Reworked the system to cancel hold and release skills. * Changed how battle drone applies damage. * Antenna now cancel casting abilities. * Fixed mental blast projectiles not being destroyed on canceled. * Fixes in battle drone and added mesh. * Changes in battle drone. * Added debug category selection. * Made character's health and energy editable values. * Now drone NPC can be equipped and unequipped. * Created Login screen widget. * Added intangible while casting static storm. * Changed ambush ability. * Changed spartan laser ability. * Finished custom editor module documentation. * Finished custom content browser filters documentation. * Fixed floating spectator mode and hid leet on active. * Fixed BaseProjectile location offset relative to leet. * Adjusted offset of several Head and chest abilities. * Attempted to fix variant color of arms in Inevitability glove. * Fixed bug that spawned impact particles at 0,0,0 when casting projectile directly on wall. * UI: * Finished custom editor module documentation. * Finished custom content browser filters documentation. * Fixed floating spectator mode and hid leet on active. * Fixed BaseProjectile location offset relative to leet. * Adjusted offset of several Head and chest abilities. * Attempted to fix variant color of arms in Inevitability glove. * Fixed bug that spawned impact particles at 0,0,0 when casting projectile directly on wall. Backend: * Fixed some steps on Jenkins to create fleets for game servers when a new build is released. * Worked on new architecture using lambda instead of web server instance for API. * Checking how to integrate our API with battleLeets API. * Started working on a new matchmaking system integration gamelift. ### WEEK 39: 22-09-26 #### DESIGN * Updated UX files. * Main documentation updated in Miro. * Started tweaking the values of damage and cooldowns for game balancing purposes. #### ART 3D: * Made center ground textures and tested in engine. * Fixed MetalHawk mesh and textures. * Fixes to the fractured chest. * Created another version for the diamond chest (textures). * Created silver version for the halo-met (textures). * Fixed gold chest textures. * Integration of droids and textures in engine. * Fixed baking issues on the arches (textures WIP). UI: * Made small changes to the items’ renders. * Small updates on the UI hovers and buttons. * Reworked the chest and face icons. Technical Art: * Requested Ray vfx. * Removed sRGB from masks and created a material instance for blue droid. * Reworked Silver claws vfx. Added sounds, delays and systems at locations. * Started to work on chest montages (KiBlast/Robe). * Fixed Safe Hero’s screen not being emissive. * Edited healing particle loop duration. * Reimported textures and reworked fractured chest skeletal mesh. Replaced it on the data table. * Deleted unused textures. * Updated halomet textures (green and silver). * Updated MetalHawk skeletal mesh, reimported textures. * Updated /gold chest textures, deleted wrong ones. * Fixed diamond texture/shader, added skeletal mesh and replaced it on the data table. #### PROGRAMMING Gameplay: * OnHold skills can now be canceled if pressing ESC before executing them. * Fixed a bug where the player was gaining energy even if it wasn’t hitting the enemy. * Added auto destruction cheat. * Fixed a bug that allowed dead players to rotate their battle leet. * Fixed a bug where the battle leet didn’t look forward when executing the radar navigation skill. * Fixed a bug where the reboot projectile wasn’t spawning. * Added energy points in chest skill. * Set all chest skills with an energy cost of 2. * Fixed static storm stacking particles. * Fixed a bug that allowed the gamepad boomerang projectile to stack. * Added is valid to silver claws projectiles. * All projectile debug spheres are now hidden in the projectile skills. * Removed the delay from gamepad ability. * Fixed the snowball damage not being reset and spawning ball in front of character. * Fixed seeing red getting stacked. * Fixes to forward thrust. * Fixed forward thrust particles getting stuck. * Fixed boosted thrust and Zero antenna doing double damage. * Created battle NPC. * Updated status effect from Slow Hands to Chill Touch. * Changed intangible effect to duration set by caller and updated abilities using it. * Gave the dummy its own set of attributes. * Extended intangible effect given by Ambush ability. * Implemented HP Pickups. * Adjusted animation playrate of Radar Navigation. * Added hit particle to Golden Whip Claw. * Fixed several visual and gameplay issues on Silver Claws ability. * Fixed Ki Blast not hitting twice. * Adjusted Line Decal length for several Antennas to match travel distance. * Reduced Forward Thrust travel distance relative to decal length. * Hid LeetCollisionIndicator on HideHUDMenu command. * Added custom content browser filter for gameplay abilities. * Started content browser filter documentation. * Implemented spectator mode cheat. * Hid LeetCollisionIndicator on spectator mode. * Extended buffs and debuffs to 10 spaces. * Change to a new font menu. * Reordered menu tabs. * Change the zero head icon. * Change selected style of menu buttons. * Menu feedback. Backend: * Implementation of gamelift in order to create game servers and game sessions limiting players to join. * Implementation of gamelift on API to create game sessions using backend architecture. ### WEEK 38: 22-09-19 #### DESIGN * Updated all skill descriptions to better match their live counterparts. * Gameplay testing sessions. #### ART 3D: * Modeled and detailed 13 ground assets for the arena. * Fixed UVs of Chest\_Fractured assets. * Finished SM\_Arch mesh and textures fixes. * Finished Droids (Blue, Orange, Purple and Green) assets and textures. UI: * Adjusted all item renders of Assemble menu. * Adjusted background image and item holder for UI. * Finished Zero head icon. * Adjusted Launcher play, download and delete buttons. * Finished 3v3 and 2v2 play mode cards. Technical Art: * Reworked vulnerable animated vfx. * Adjusted light color from IntelliDOme * Reimported crown skeletal meshes due to issues in smoothing groups. Replaced them on the data table. * Created merge references and adjusted center assets. * Added extra mesh to IntelliDome, reimported skeletal mesh, polished materials too. * Adjusted the main menu’s camera due to cropping issues. * Activated show on hit particles from Pistols, Plasma Cannons and Gamepad abilities. * Reimported fractured chest due to missing parts, replaced it on the data table. #### PROGRAMMING Gameplay: * Added damage when glass lance explodes. * Adjust spawn laser of golden whip claw. * Added variable to create or not respawn menu. * Made little change to thrusters to spawn projectiles. * If the icon of status effect is still active when end status effect, force hide status effect. * Adjust calls of the respawn menu function. * Adjust time of status effects of glass lance. * Destroy party hard shield particles. * Remove fog of war. * Added powerfull to zero face. * Destroy seek shelter particles and fix duration of haste. * Fixed third decal not being displayed and the end point of projectiles for beat drop ability. * Fixes on snowball ability. * Placed dummies together. * Fixed ki blast stun effect. * Fixed muted effect getting stacked. * Fixed haste effect getting stacked. * Fixed thrusters doing double damage and now they no longer cross walls. * Reduced boxing gloves and zero hands box. * Fixed pickaxe third hit range. * Fixed hands abilities having energy gain effect without hitting target. * Removed dragon breath collision at spawning. * Changed snowball ability. * Added effect to silver claws ability. * Fixes to snowball ability, now collision is the same size as projectile and increases damage with time. * Change play screen to duels. * Change icons of renders in assemble. * Eliminate white scare of right and left click in hud. * Fixed search bar in leets page. * Reimport select button asset. * increase leet window in UI. * Show the equipped part name. * Highlight selected button. * Change tab hover. * Reimport button assets. * Eliminated unbreakable text. * Changed splinter barrage icon. * Removed prints from Main Menu * Changed Berserk leap outer and inner decals * Hid old abilities, and buff and debuff debug abilities * Reordered Debug Menu tabs * Added randomization feature for starting abilities * Changed default abilities * Hid main menu leet collision indicator * Added support for hiding mesh types in LeetPartDT * Hid Antennas for Intelli-Dome. * Changed BeatDrop decals to green and red. * Made thrusters apply slow and removed knockback, saved original config in new ability. * Changed Head line decals to match Midas Punch. Backend: * Game maintenance to main game server. * Some fixes on launcher’s UI. ### WEEK 37: 22-09-12 #### DESIGN * Gameplay testing sessions for tuning chest skills. * Status effects discussion for documentation: how particles interact with each other, how do they stack, how does the message should display. #### ART 3D: * Worked on the droids (Bakes and textures). * Created vegetation cards for green droid. * Polishing maps (WIP). * Started working on a platform 3D model for the battle arena. UI: * Worked on 2v2 card. * Worked on 3v3 card. * Finished mouse and clicks icons. * Finished beserk leap decal. * Provided feedback to the programming team in order to iterate on the in-game UI. Technical Art: * Worked on Frozen Screen vfx. Replaces montage on the game ability. * Removed “receives decals” from center junk piles. * Updated entrance blockade collisions by importing a new UCX. * Worked on various resistant status vfx. * Imported turnhit animations by intro/loop/outro and made respective montages. * Polished Reboot and Plasma Discharge vfx. Modifies spawn points. * Created ArrowElectricity\_Hit alternative particle. * Adjusted status effects colors (first feedback). * Modified face skills activation animations. * Reduced Silver Claws particle hit scale. * Reworked Silver Claws projectile particle. * Changed Resistant status particle to emissive one. #### PROGRAMMING Gameplay: * Added relative location to parabola projectile. * Added relative location to reboot projectile. * Added end ability to berserk leap. * End stun montage on remove cue. * Adjusted particle location for plasma ray gun. * Adjusted boosted thrust decal. * Moved dummy and fixed its materials. * Round to Zero damage counters. * Created "Get BLGameInstance" Blueprint Pure function in UBFL Leet Utilities. * Fixed Pong Thrust not applying stun effect properly. * Snowball ability now drags character and explosion makes damage. * Fixed knockback for KiBlast and Thrusters. * Added gameplay cues to all status effects. * Changed radar navigation montage. * Implemented feedback of Splinter Barrage ability. * Implemented feedback of Rocket Landing ability. * Implemented feedback of Ambush ability. * Added VFX debug abilities: * All buffs to self * All debuffs to self * All debuffs to others * Implemented a utility to get server IP. * Battle result UI. * Round result UI. * Eliminated unbreakable text. * Change face and chest icons. * Change hover of assemble button. * Selected button highlighted. * Increased damage reduction for Resistant status effect. * Adjusted collision indicator to improve appearance. * Removed status effect on player death. * Increased timer cooldown precision. * Added Berserk Leap decal. * Hid some unused abilities from Debug. * Added UI support for ability recasting. * Changed High Roller UI to show recasting time. Backend: * Matchmaking implementation on client side. * Added UI improvements and some functionality to the launcher. * Moved multiplayer server to other server to make it more efficient. ### WEEK 36: 22-09-05 #### DESIGN * Gameplay testing sessions for tuning, in overall, all of the skills. #### ART Tasks worked during this week: 3D: * Worked on the geo optimization for the droids (blue, green, orange and purple), high poly, Uv’s and bakes. * Started work on the textures. Technical Art: * Polished wall collisions. * Fixed missing boosted signal skeletal mesh (mesh wasn’t assigned on data table). * Fixed Handheld Console and Gamepad run animations. Used 2 hands animations. * Created a new animation montage for ZeroHands second hit. * Worked on abilities vfx: * SilverClaws/MetalHawk. * SilverMist/SilverClaws. * ShutDown/DeathCross. * Reboot/Red Ring of Death. * BadReception/SignalBars. * FrozenScreen/LoadingScreen. * Worked on status effects: * Slow. * Haste. * Powerful. * Vulnerable. * Intangible. * Overclocked. * Muted. * Mighty. * Resistant. #### PROGRAMMING Gameplay: * Highroller first cooldown now has the same value as the second cooldown. * Remove texture changes for status effects. * Now the stun effect cancels abilities. * Fixed zero hands double damage on second hit. * Fixed thrusters range. * Plasma ray gun projectiles now hitting at the same time. * Created a second dummy for testing purposes (i.e. area of effect skills). * Fixed crash due to dummy. * Changed dummy health regeneration. * Fog of war second iteration. * Fixed a bug with the plasma ray gun projectiles not colliding with targets properly. * Fixed a bug that allowed the plasma ray gun to collide with invisible walls. * Increased the range of glass lance skill. * Adjusted the laser particles of the inevitability gloves to match its distance. * Added rotation and movement penalty to golden whip claw ability, and increased movement speed while casting the inevitability glove. * Reduced life time of projectiles, fixing a bug where ranged weapons (hands) were colliding after the particle disappeared. * Added an implementation to interrupt hand skills with all of the other skills. * Updated radar navigation animation. * Updated Rocket Landing: * Position is locked once the player targets an area. * Minor visual tweaks. * Changed the form in which collision works. * Updated Splinter Barrage: * Minor visual tweaks. * Added casting montages to numerous face abilities. * Attempted to fix a bug on Beat Drop projectile. * Finished implementing status effects on floating status bar. * Tested abilities to make sure they work correctly with floating status bar. * Raised leet indicator to elevate over ground meshes. * Added the results assets. * Change chest and face icons. * Created results UI. ### WEEK 35: 22-08-31 #### DESIGN * Gameplay testing sessions to tune chest skills. #### ART 3D: * Worked on the Battle Leet model: * Game optimization (topology). * UV unwrapped. * Baked * Texturing in WIP. UI: * Worked on the first iteration for UI cards, which are to be used inside the main menu UI. * Created the duel card (design, render). Technical Art: * Imported new animations and created respective moontages. * Adjusted zero hands VFX. * Adjusted PlasmaRayGun particle spawn. * Adjusted sequences camera angle in order to render the sky/clouds. * Enabled min/max exposure parameters for post process volume. * Fixed collision issues: changed walls collision preset to block all and enabled generate overlap events. #### PROGRAMMING Gameplay: * Fixed immunity receiving damage. * Remove unbreakable status buff. * Reduced boosted thrust distance and added decal. * Snowball ability now makes the target disappear. * Hand abilities can now be canceled. * Added energy gain to handheld console. * Fixed zero hands not having collision. * Removed mouse hover from the game HUD since this is interfering with the execution of the mouse skills (hands and dashes). * Added collision to boundary walls (this fixes bugs like blind navigation, where the collision with the wall wasn’t ending the skill). * Added command to hide all hud (“HideHUDMenu true”) and to undo this (“HideHUDMenu false”). * Implemented fog of war first iteration: hides other players when there are obstacles blocking the player visibility. * Removed the collision of the dead battle leets. * Changed the casting of the lightweight leap skill from OnHold to Instant. ### WEEK 34: 2022-08-22 #### Design * Gameplay testing for skill tuning. * Gameplay testing for bugs and QA. #### Art 3D * Finished Center Wall textures. * Created Center Wall Junk Pile (metal scraps and leets’ pieces). * Imported Center Wall Junk Pile and assigned correspondent material instances. * Started working on the refurbished Leet. UI * Finished Sign in mockup. * Finished Launcher mockup. Technical Art * Imported turnhit attacks: * 90 & 90\_M * 180 & 180\_M * 360 (one hand and two) * Created respective animation montages. * Imported center wall asset, textures. * Created center wall custom collision. * Created center wall material instance and height map for vertex paint. #### Programming Gameplay * Applied gameplay tag to obtain energy when striking an enemy. * Removed gameplay cues when the skills end. * Increased the damage area and speed of second hit of the ki blast skill. * Implemented the golden whip claw skill. * Remove collision of the dead players. * Reworked the inevitability glove skill. * Implemented glass lance skill. * Implemented Ambush skill. * Worked on Splinter Barrage skill feedback. * Worked on Rocket Landing skill feedback. * Added damage reduction to Resistant effect. * Fixed debuff blocking in Resistant effect. * Removed Generic Gameplay Abilities. * Fixed Mental Blast movement penalty bug. * Initial implementation of status effects on floating health bar. Ui * Parts tooltip for assemble menu. * Equipped abilities tooltip in menu. * Round results UI. * Enable all abilities in debug menu. ### WEEK 33: 2022-08-15 #### Design * Latest additions to the chest rework. * Indicator for status effects. * Gameplay testing for skill tuning. #### Art 3D * Tubes and panels trim texture - updated. * Created the low and high meshes of the Center Wall asset. * Center Wall textures in progress. UI * Finished chest icons. * Polished status effects icons. Technical Art * Edited shuriken rotation on the game ability. * Imported buff, throw, explode, take off and turn hit animations. * Created missing animation montages. * Changed Oversized Shuriken animation to throw 01. * Worked on montages and vfx from: * BeatDrop/Headset * CurveBall/BaseballCap * Oversized Shuriken/Hachimaki * MidasPunch/GoldCrown * RedLighting/MaulHorns * SpartanLaser/HaloMet * Reimported tubes and textures. * Created antenna color variants: * Bent. * DiamondTipped. * Snapped. * BoostedSignal. * Created particle for PlasmaRayGun projectile. * Reimported cast eyes animation intro. * Created sequences for the stadium. #### Programming Gameplay * Implemented Rocket Landing ability. * Fixed a bug which allowed lightweight leap to go outside of the map. * Implemented Splinter Barrage ability. * Added new animation montages: * Death montage. * Stun montage. * Fixed a bug which printed every damage value. * Changed damage multiplier tag. * Exchanged all ‘Has Authority’ false nodes for ‘Is Locally Controlled’ true nodes. * Linked some missing skill icons. * Fixed Reboot Decal and removed damage. * Added drag rotation for leets in Assemble, Emoticons and Leets menus. * Fixed a bug that was blocking the execution of some skills and multi stacking damage. * Adjusted the animation of damage counters, alongside its size and position. * Added an extra skeletal mesh to the outline material. * Fixed a bug that prevented the skeletal mesh from disappearing sometimes. * Changed the boomerang skill behavior to throw a projectile instead of a boomerang. * Fixed the thrusters from doing damage when the particle was already destroyed. * Added more locations in the Game HUD for damage counters. * Reduced the effect time from the overclock skill, added tag and removed a bug that cause it to stack. * Reduced the animation speed of the second hit of the nunchucks skill. * Adjusted the rotation of the pistols skill projectiles. * Reduced the range distance to the plasma ray gun projectiles. * Added ki blast skill. * Reduced the gamepad projectile distance, and adjusted its spawn position. * Unchecked receive decals option to the new skeletal meshes. * Fixed a bug that caused the thrusters to deal double damage. * Created static storm ability. * Rework of the energy system: it now provides energy points and blocks. Values still need to be adjusted but some skills will cost blocks and some other will provide with points. Ui * Added button tooltip to assemble button. * Show equipped pieces. * Added tooltip to shown pieces. * Assemble menu show your leet. * Imported lights to Menu level. * Fixed effects tooltip and bar. * Added pagination to assemble menu. * Swapped handheld and gamepad. * Linked some missing skill icons. * Implemented Muted Feedback for correct debuff icons and tooltips. Backend * Finished creation of matches by region. ### WEEK 32: 2022-08-08 #### Design * Playtesting. * Reworked Chest skills. * Feedback on damage counters positioning and text for status effects. #### Art 3D * Finished wall asset (textures). * Finished Entrance Blockade asset. * Finished Tubes high-poly - fixing normals. UI * Finished Face skills icons. * Worked on Chest skills icons. Technical Art * Created Head Animation Montages. * Worked on MentalBlast/IntelliDome’s vfx and replaced it on the GA. * Added charge montage to MentalBlast/IntelliDome’s GA. * Worked on DragonBreath/ObsidianCrown’s vfx and replaced it on the GA. * Added charge montage to DragonBreath/ObsidianCrown’s GA. * Worked on SuckerPunch/Headguard’s vfx and replaced it on the GA. * Worked on ZeroHead’s vfx and replaced it on the GA. * Imported stunned, block and charge animations, created respective montages. * Fixed katanas first attack (vfx). * Created Variants sequences for render. * Imported hands skeletal meshes (left and right). * Added pose to variant render sequences. * Set particles to one loop duration (not infinite). * Added antenna NA sequence for render. * Deleted unused textures, folders and material instances. * Imported entrance blockade, created material instance and heightmap for vertex paint. * Worked on OversizedShuriken/Hachimaki’s montage/ability, added vfx. #### Programming Gameplay * Created an outline for the player and the enemy, with different colors. * Second iteration of the animations of nunchucks ability. * Changes to the thrusters: decal now follows the player and is properly doing damage in the selected area. * Changed the thruster damage. * Plasma ray gun now shoots 3 projectiles instead of lines. * Plasma ray gun is kept active if the player holds the input. * Adjusted decal, speed and damage area of the handheld console skill. * Reworked the gamepad skill to use a gamepad like a projectile. * Adjusted animations and damage the the gamepad skill. * Created the parameter to set the attack speed to all hands abilities. * Created the overclock skill: increases the speed of the hands skills. * Added piercing to harvest laser. * Implemented bad reception ability. * Implemented niagara option for projectile explosion. * Implemented frozen screen ability, modified tags for bad reception. * Implemented shutdown ability, added cast tag to frozen screen. * Added particle option on base projectile and relative location. * Added editable rotation and scale to OnHit particle. * Implemented resistant effect for party rock ability. * Implemented chosen one (All hands abilities apply slow effect). * Implemented feedback for Snapjaw ability. * Implemented feedback for Splinter Storm ability. * Reworked lightning leap ability. * Implemented Bouncing Thrust feedback. * Fixed a bug in which both hands were not shown. * Modified duration of seeing red ability. * Adjusted animation play rate of bouncing thrust. * Replaced animation montages for antenna abilities. * Fixed a bug where simultaneous sphere collision did not apply ability stage effects. * Changed the form in which the Haste effect is set. * Implemented Reboot Ability. * Created Muted Gameplay Effect and Cue. * Implemented Like the Simulations Ability. Ui * Added Emotes menu and More menu. * Fixed a bug with Handheld console and gamepad icons being used as the opposite. * Fixed a bug where antenna’s icons where being displayed incorrectly. * Added faces icons. * Implemented Leet feature: player is able to select parts and customize its Leet. * Filled the LeetDataPart table for Leet feature. Backend * Added elo for new players and reduce or increase depending on win or lose a match. * Added search for leaderboard based on current elo to show top players. * Documentation for elo and leaderboard. ### WEEK 31: 2022-08-01 #### Design * Feedback compilation for gameplay. * UX for new modes. * Started polish for chest skills. * Started work on completing the account progression system. #### Art 3D * Re-textured Entrance02 adding emissive lights and extra panels. * Created Wall Pillar asset w/textures. * Created Wall asset w/textures. * Started working on Entrance Blockade (Low-poly to High-Poly). UI * Finished Icons for Head skills. * Worked on icons for Face skills. * Provided feedback for the UI to the programming team. Technical Art * Imported new assets/textures and created respective material instances. * Added rock piles (environment). * Imported VRHeadset and Shades skeletal meshes. * Created assets height maps and changed master material to vertex paint. * Painted assets (arches, chairs, stands, walls, panels and tubes) with vertex paint. * Imported mixamo skeleton for cheering animations. * Created different LODs for cheering leets. * Imported/Reimported leet animations. * Created missing animation montages. #### Programming Gameplay * Solved feedback from head abilities. * Implemented red lighting ability. * Implemented silver claws ability. * Changed taxman particles to be the same color, circular explosion. * Removed showcase filter for see all abilities in debug menu. * Added sphere particle to static discharge, increased energy cost, bigger particle and visual that ability is active. * Fixed projectile not landing on target when getting out of range. * Polished harvest laser. * Changes in harvest laser: faster lightning beam, less curved. * Changed blind navigation commit form. * Added a notify to High Jump animation: * Placed it in berserk leap ability. * Implemented feedback for Snapjaw ability. * Implemented feedback for Zealous Lightning ability (previously Zealous Leap). * Implemented feedback for Bouncing Thrust ability. * Tweaked Radar Navigation ability and placed placeholder animations. * Implemented feedback for Splinter Storm ability. * Reworked forward thrust ability. * Added the new animation for handheld console. * Added a blend space to all of the idle hands animations. * Added the animations and the weapon mesh to pickaxe ability. * Added the animations and the weapon mesh to sabers ability. * Added the animations and the weapon mesh to plasma cannons ability. * Added the cone decal to thrusters ability. * Added the animations and the weapon mesh to nunchucks ability. * Adjust a weapon blend space with run animations. * Added an outline to the Battle Lleet to distinguish it when its behind an object. Backend * Documentation for lobby. * Finishing lobby functionality. * Working on start multiplayer by regions. * General fixes on some bugs found with features related with regions. ### WEEK 30: 2022-07-29 #### Design * Playtesting for game balance. * Reworked skills: * 360 no scope. * Zero face. * Zero head. * Zero chest. * Zero antenna. * Diamonds are forever. * Requested changes on the colors of the particles of the showcase skills to differentiate them better. * Documented an alternative to face skills, consisting on buffs & debuffs for the player (unique identity). #### Art 3D * Finished Stand Divisions. * Finished Entrance 1 textures. * Reworked stands textures to fix normal map issues. * Entrance 2 textures –WIP. * Finished Enviroment Ramp. UI * Finished icons for Antennas’ skills. * Worked on icons for Head skills * Worked on mockup of small pop up window. * Small changes on mockups of Defeat, Victory, Round Lost and Round Won screens. Technical Art * Imported animations: * Cast * Dash * Removed projectiles from Animation Montages. * Fractionated animations by number of hits. * Created Montages: * Jump * Dash * Casts * Created vfx projectiles (stills). * Created color variants of vfxs. * Removed roof from entrances due to decals/visibility issue. * Imported sound effects and created respective cues. * Added sfx to katanas, pistols and boxing gloves abilities. * Reimported dash and locomotion animations. * Changed character material instances to Leet (yellow). * Imported environment assets. * Created material instances for environment assets. * Reimported static meshes and textures. * Added chairs and tubes to the scene. #### Programming Gameplay * Made an adjustment to the particle timing of the baseball bat. * Added a casting montage to zero face. * Changed the color of the casting particle and increased effect area of the zero face. * Increased the angle of the damage cones of the diamonds are forever skill, and changed its animation. * Changed the color of the diamonds are forever particles. * Created Zero head ability. * Changed the color of the zero head projectile. * Changed the cooldowns and damage for skills. * Fixed boxing gloves and zero hands skills. * Added description to the tooltip for current skills. * Polished skills: Zero hands, zero face, and zero chest. * Fixed 360 no scope projectiles and cooldown time. * Filter abilities in the debug menu. * Implemented Debug mode. * Implemented debug mode on the utility library instead of game mode. * Polished 360 scope ability. * Allowed double casting on 360 scope and fixed ability not ending. * Polished and added falling particles to satellite crash. * Implemented zero chest as 360 scope. * Added debug to control volume. * Added debug condition to visibility line between instigator and target. * Changed decals for satellite crash. * Removed missile mesh from dragon breath. * Reimported several decals, fixed leet decal size and gameplay cues now have the option to be seen differently for players and enemies. * Adjusted decals on several abilities, both in size and visibility parameters (such as color or if the decal is visible). * Abilities with circular decals have an updated decal. * Whilst targeting the decal is white in color. * After a target is selected the player sees the decal green whereas the enemies see the decal red. * Reworked ZeroAntenna (previously ZeroDash). * Implemented feedback on BlindNavigation ability, Updated the form in which skill names are listed. * Updated HUD icons, a material is now used to display them and there is now icon consistency. * Added a conditional check for debugging damage boxes. * Added a boolean to check if the leet model should equip hand meshes for certain abilities. * Updated cheat menu visibility and size. Backend * Feature to send friend request and accept or reject. * Feature to delete friends. * Documentation for add/delete friends. * Started working on lobby functionality. * Started working on regions to create a match. ### WEEK 29: 2022-07-18 #### Design * UX Last round of chances. * Follow up on implementaron. * ELO equation tweak. * Playtesting to pick up skills for august showcase. #### Art 3D * Finished Tubes and Panels trim texture and models. * Worked on Enviroment\_Chair Finished modular stands and textures. * Started working on stands divisions and textures. UI * Changed UI skills. * Finished hand skills icons. * Worked on antenna skills icons. Technical Art * Reimported Leet animations (orientation axis issue). * Reimported Glass & Removed chest, pistols Skeletal mesh. * Created Hands animation montages (attacks). * Added VFX to AnimMontages, edited/created niagara systems. #### Programming Gameplay * Fixed player not canceling abilities on dead. * Fixed sucker punch getting stuck. * Fixed simulate weakness projectiles being out of phase and increased projectile size by 33%. * Implemented Midas Punch ability. * Created function to calculate launch velocity for parabola projectiles. * Fixed plasma discharge not doing damage. * Fixed dragon breath doing double damage. * Fixed mental blast particles not being destroyed on canceled. * Fixed simulate weakness projectiles not hitting too close to target. * Stop character movement on midas punch cast, fixed particle dying before hitting target. * Stun effect cancel abilities. * Implemented min range to target data actor (parabola). * Implemented beat drop ability. * Implemented Curve Ball ability. * Fixed projectile rotation on spawning. * Implemented silver mist ability and fixed position while casting projectile. * Updated the attack and particle of the plasma ray gun. * Hands skills now enter a loop if left click is hold pressed. Backend * API documentation finished (just for local not online). * Unified multiplayer server and API in order to save resources. * General refactor to make the API easier to maintain. * Started working with functionality to add friend. ### WEEK 28: 2022-07-11 #### Design * Changes to the user interface and features. * Playtesting skills. #### Art 3D * Finished High polys for tubes and panels * Finished three versions of arches: * Non-damaged arch. * Low-damage arch. * High-damage arch. * In the process of reworking these textures. UI * Worked on hand skills icons. * Changed the chat and friend list. * Changed the “LEETS” screen. * Worked on new profile window. * Small changes on “PLAY” screen. * Reworking the skill place holders. Technical Art * Removed “Receives decals” parameter from arena’s static meshes. * Worked on VFX listing document. * Tested VFX implementation to Boxing Gloves’ animation montage. * Deleted particle cues from Boxing Gloves’ Game ability. * Duplicated Warrior spin vfx & changed it on Radar Navigation Game ability. * Added missing vfx thumbnails. * Modified landscape exterior (blend material). * Imported new Leet rig and Skeletal meshes. * Added metallic parameter to master material. * Created/modified Eleet, Automaton & Sentient chest material. * Imported Leet hands animations. * Imported antennas skeletal meshes. * Imported heads skeletal meshes. * Imported chests skeletal meshes. * Assigned material instances in SK material slots. * Worked on new animation montages. #### Programming Gameplay * Plasma ray gun implementation with three projectiles for laser beam and wall detections. * Added input buffering for baseball bat skill to test three way combos. * Adjusted the damage and animation of inevitability gloves. * Handheld console adjustments: reduction of the decal’s and projectile’s size, projectile’s speed, added casting animation. * Changes to the box range, damage and functionality of the baseball bat third hit. * Fixed a bug to match the particles effects of the last hit of the baseball bat with the execution of the skill. * Updated the laser beam width for the plasma ray gun and inevitability gloves skills. * Added a projectile to sucker punch. * Implemented mental blast feedback: Reduce decal width, increased projectile size, impact explosion, faster projectile, destroy particles on canceled, fixed projectile position. * Implemented dragon breath feedback: destroy missile on canceled, increased projectile’s speed and size, added channeling with cast animation. Implemented Spartan Laser feedback: added cast animation, increased projectile speed, and added casting time. * Added casting to dragon breath. * Fixed the projectile rotation, used calculation angle utility for plasma discharge. * Implemented Oversized Shuriken feedback: reduce projectile range, fixed projectile position, end ability after shooting, return on hit wall, reduce projectile velocity, reduce damage after hits. * End plasma discharge ability after shooting projectile, fixed decal size not the same as damage area. * Fixed oversized shuriken jittering. * Fixes to Dragon Breath: throw projectile on end casting, fixed jitter, adjusted projectile size and added debug for explosion area. * Fixes Spartan Laser: Particle duplicating, faster projectile and throw projectile on end casting. Fixed abilities not being canceled on death. * Fixed projectiles being destroyed with other projectiles. * Fixed projectiles not hitting too close to the player, adjusted casting animation for dragon breath. * Fixed utility to calculate launch angle of a parabola projectile. * Implemented an example in Deep Thinking ability. Backend * Fixed matchmaking functionality to create a multiplayer server once both players have joined. * Launcher with auto-updater working and 3 main screens added ready to add assets (logo, images, buttons). * Technical documentation of how the auto-updater’s launcher was implemented. * Documentation for API with parameters needed for each call and responses. * General testing for API while making documentation. ### WEEK 27: 2022-07-04 #### Design * UX for social functionalities, like friend list and chat. * Worked together with UI artists to place Account Stats, Extra playmodes, and show account progression. #### Art * Finished Stands Trims. * Finished Chest\_Gold. * Finished Entrance 1 changes. * Finished low-poly, UV’s and textures for the non-destroyed tileable arch. * Worked on Assemble screen changes. * Worked on Leets screen changes. * Worked on Emotes screen changes. * Worked on Settings screen changes. * Added a Social and Profile screens. * Worked on Hand skill icons. * Added gold chest & baseball cap items. * Created level sequences for items. * Created material instances. * Tests to match the animation states and the VFX. * Nunchuks animations WIP. #### Programming Gameplay * Improved netcode of dash abilities. * High Roller: Changed high roller to instead be a double dash. * High Roller: High Roller now changes. * Boosted Thrust: Improved response. * Lightweight Leap: Improved teleport and added particles. * Berserk Leap: Fixed stun time and changed particles. * Radar Navigation: Changed implementation to be a charge forward. * Reworked handheld console ability, projectile fall the sky. * Update sprite size of laser beam of inevitability gloves. * Apply damage to enemies with inevitability gloves. * Increased speed of cast of plasma ray gun. * Match parabolic projectile with decal position. * Used 3 projectiles for laser beam, and wall detections. * Spawned muzzle particle to spartan laser. * Added ring pulse decal to plasma discharge ability. * Implemented Mental Blast ability. * Implemented Oversized Shuriken ability. * Add movement penalty on oversized shuriken after throwing projectile. * Implemented Sucker Punch ability. * Added end ability on canceled to head abilities. * Fixed projectile replication for head abilities. * Implemented Dragon Breath ability. * Adjusted Splinter Storm montage rate. * Testing a Leet Utility to calculate the launch angle of a projectile. Backend * Started working on the launcher to login users, open client(game) and auto-update both when a newer version is release. * Finished the actor which listens to server calls. * Implemented the endpoint/call to equip items from the server. ### WEEK 26: 2022-06-27 #### Design * Finished all of the references for the HEAD skills. * Playtesting sessions for new batch of polish. * Final tweaks to all of the movement skills (ANTENNAS) to complete their development. * Feedback for the latest hands skills. #### Art 3D * Worked on Enviroment\_Stands Trim texture and assets. * Worked on the high poly model of the modular arches. Tech Art * Created Automaton & Sentient chest material instances. * Adjusted chest roughness of the master material by adding a parameter. * Reorganized materials/textures engine folders. * Created a new level for testing purposes. * Imported diverse HDRIs. * Adjusted HDRI lighting. * Imported chest & face assets. * Created chest & face material instances as well as respective sequences for renders. * Created glass master material & adjusted level sequence. UI * Started working on the hands icons. * Second iteration (modular) of menu to fit new documented systems. Animations * Plasma Ray Gun attack. * Pickaxe idles. * Pickaxe attack. #### Programming Gameplay * Made an adjustment to the damage and projectile of the taxman ability. * Reworked the plasma ray gun ability. * Fixed the stun and particle effect of the landing of berserk leap ability. * Fixed a bug that allowed the players to move in the middle of jump of the berserk leap ability. * Reworked the baseball bat 3-combo. * Added the half-circle attacks and the third box attack. * Reworked the gamepad 3-combo. * Polished Simulate Weakness: freeze leet while casting, projectile origin center of leet, reduced space between projectiles. * Polished Boosted Thrust: Added thunder particle, removed self-power, applied damage to an overlapped character, reduced dash velocity, and increased dash distance. * Implemented Head ability, Spartan Laser. * Implemented Plasma Discharge ability. * Reworked Splinter Storm ability. UI implementation * Added the next Game HUD elements created by the UI Artist: * Art font. * Health bar. * Energy bar. * Skill icons display (including the cooldown number). Backend (UE) * Created an actor to listen to all API calls. Calls such as: * Login process. * Add/Remove items from the user. * Request joining a match. * Update inventory. * Checked/added endpoint to add items to user’s inventory in-game. * Inventory is updated both server-side and in-game when adding a new item. * Users can now check their inventory in-game. Backend * Started working on a discord bot that will help us to start, stop and give a status about the multiplayer server and API server in order to test and restart both when is necessary. * Fixes and refactor for some endpoints like: * Inventory. * Equip items. * Close match. ### WEEK 25: 2022-06-20 #### Design * Created an addendum to the skill costs and energy rework. * UX design meetings due to the changes in skill costs (UI changes to the game HUD). * Created a section for health and energy pickups (they will be eventually placed inside the level). * Started documenting head skills (projectile skills). #### Art * Created concepts for chairs, stands, archs, stands divisions, inner walls and tiles. * Finished Chest Fractured. * Finished Matrix Screen texture. * Finished Electron Line texture. * Finished Camo Texture. * Finished Artic Cammo Texture. * Finished the Diamond Chest texture. * Finished the Cracked Screen textures (Matrix). * Started working on the tileable arches (arena). * Status effect: Power icon finished. * Status effect: Haze icon finished. * Status effect: Intangible icon finished. * Status effect: Invisible icon finished. * Status effect: Knockback icon finished. * Status effect: Slow icon finished. * Status effect: Stun icon finished. * Status effect: Vulnerable icon finished. * Status effect: Refreshed icon finished. * Status effect: Resistant icon finished. * Worked on changes on the Hud, skill cost and energy bar. * Adjusted greyboxing for references. * Deleted unused items. * Modified walls location (gameplay test map). * Created Matrix master material. * Added faced materials, organized them in folders. * Created different lightning master materials for IntelliDome. * Adjusted IntelliDome’s final version, deleted unused materials. * Adjusted Matrix cracked textures with alpha. * Material configuration for Leet color change. #### Programming * Updated user’s inventory endpoints. * Close match and set winner endpoint done. * Equip items functionality added. * Augmented ping thrust knockback velocity. * Fixed party rock particle not visible on player. * Fixed set name not showing on character. * Allowed rotation and augmented time on Glitch Out ability. * Fix cool pistols ability not ending. * Added delay for party rock decal. * Fixed berserk leap particle spawning before the player hits the ground. * Added landing decal to Berserk Leap. * Faster cool pistols shoot, slowed character while casting ability. * Changed diamonds are forever particle. * Stop knockback task on hit wall. Fixed pong thrust jitter on hit character. * Fixed damage cue flash, and made adjustments to alternate states to change the Battle Leet color. * Changed the knockback effect to restrict it going through walls. * Added a check in gameplay cue count (in case it is equal to 0 it will to remove it). * Players are now able to see their own damage counters. * Second iteration of the plasma ray gun ability. * Changed post die time handle to character, to allow the respawn button to restore stats. * Cool Pistols: * Decreased movement speed by half when casting the ability. * Reduced projectile life-span by half. * Reinstanciated combo for the ability (two projectiles). * Boxing Gloves: * Added VFX to each hit. * Adjusted the timing to better feel the 3 hit combo. * Doubled melee hitbox size. * Added a Cheat Menu with checkboxes. * Added an infinite health cheat. * Fixed a bug where NoClip cheat could only be activated once. * Unreal Engine API implementation: * A player ID must be sent to the server when a player either logs in or registers to the platform. * When Matchmaking starts, the user is now notified about their match status (waiting, joining, has a match open). * Both players connect to the same IP when a match. * Added a login screen that retrieves user data and then forwards the player to the matchmaking screen. ### WEEK 24: 2022-06-13 #### Design * Focusing work on the polish to nail 8 skills. * Started documentation on drops, a new energy system for more dynamic combat. #### Art * Worked on Chest Fractured. * Finished "Face\_Shades". * Finished "Face\_Death-Cross". * Finished "Face\_Glowering". * Finished "Face\_Loading Screen". * Finished "Face\_Red Ring of Death". * Finished "Face\_Signal Bars". * Finished "Face\_Safe Hero". * Worked on the Diamond Chest Texture. * Finished the asset Game Thrash T. * Started working on the Matrix texture crashed screen. * Finished Skill decals. * Worked on UI buffs/debuffs. * Worked on Victory, defeat and Next rounds UI screens. * Worked on status effects icons. * Created a new level for rendes, added lighting and first camera. * Added render requences for items. * Changed alpha channel support to "Allow through tonemapper". * Added experimental map for greyboxing. * Fixed arena’s blended center. * Added static meshes to experimental level. * Replaced textures of saber and thruster. * Adjusted greyboxing for references. #### Programming * General fixes to knockback. * Fixed Party Rock Visual effects not showing to other players. * Fixed an issue that was causing duplicated particle effects on certain skills. * Added knockback to chest and head abilities. * Katanas with VFX as semicircles. * Implemented camera zoom. * Incremented radius, added particles and hit montage to robe robin. * Implemented Utility Function: Get BLCharacter. * Implemented Utility Function: Get BLCharacterMovement. * Implemented add particle cue on gameplay ability. * Implemented rotation on particle systems, changed particle rotation as rotator input. * Implemented Utility Function: Create Decal Cue. * Implemented one hit per click on Katanas ability and half-circle collision. * Removed damage through walls. * Added validated get to ground decal. * Changed particle and decal gameplay cue to add particles and add decal functions. * End abilities on canceled or interrupted. * Triplicated scroll velocity. * Added knockback to antenna abilities. * Addes custom respawn when die in test. * Increased cast speed, remove decal and change particles to diamonds are forever particles. * Set gameplay cue folder n settings. * Added second decal to berserk leap ability, * Added flash effect to damage cue. * Respawn only restores your own stats. * Added fade out to particles of diamond are forever. * Fixed collision with walls, destroy max range decal and jump have the same velocity for \* different distances in berserk leap ability. * Added NoCooldowns, InfiniteEnergy, SlowMotion and NoClip cheats. * Added and removed Knockback from hand skills. * Cool Pistols: * Adjusted projectile spawn point. * Decreased fire rate. * Katanas: * Increased range. * Fixed an issue where the target was hit when out of ability range. * Adjusted combo feeling to feel more natural. * Fixed a problem where the particle cue kept stacking. ### WEEK 23: 2022-06-06 #### Design * Playtesting for bugs and unintended behaviours. * Focusing work on the polish to nail 8 skills. * Documented status effects. #### Art * Worked on Chest\_Fractured. * Re-worked Halo-met to fit all antennas. * Finished Headguard. * Started the Game Thrash T asset. * Worked on Hover for skills and items information. * Worked on Ingame HUD. * Added gradients and glow to finished UI screens. * Added a sub level for Landscape modifications. * Created Master Material and Material Instances for Landscape and Vertex Painting (enviro). * Added tiling & UV custom rotation nodes for texture modifications. * Loaded antennas static meshes, textures and created material instances (character). * Loaded hands static meshes, textures and created material instances (character). * Loaded head static meshes, textures and created material instances (character). * Boxing gloves idle animation. * Boxing gloves attack animation. * Baseball idle animation. * Baseball attack animation. * Katana idle animation. #### Programming * Changed taxman decal to gameplay cue. * Fixed boosted thrust dash, now it dash towards mouse location instead of players forward direction. * Increased the damage hit box of booster thrust by 100%. * Fixed gameplay cue of damage not working. * Fixed boosted thrust dash replication. * Removed stop from cool pistols. * Fixed blind navigation not working close to player. * Fixed efficient circuits ability not ending, added montage. * Modified dash abilities to avoid jittering. * Added collision to walls. * Fixed the teleport of neo landing to make sure it is properly executing. * Fixed snapjaw jump and the placement of the area decal. * The decal of the high roller ability was made dynamic in order to accurately represent bouncing from the walls. * Fixed a bug were the decals of the skills remained even after casting it. * Fixed berserk leap skill. * Fixed a bug that allowed particles to remain after the skill ended. * Made an adjustment to the shared splinter decal in order to properly represent the skill. * Added an animation montage and particles effects to harvest laser. * Player’s name is now visible above the Leet health bar. * Fixed a bug where a player’s death was canceling other players skills & casts. * Fixed a bug where dying and then respawning would make the mouse cursor disappear. * Fixed a bug where party rock consumed more energy on the first use. * Changed the way movement works in skills to make it more responsive. * Changed knockbacks to feel more responsive. * Some minor fixes for the pipeline that creates and deploys the web server. ### WEEK 22: 2022-05-30 #### Design * Meetings with the programming team to provide feedback about each of the skills. * Playtesting for bugs and unintended behaviours. * Focusing work on the polish to nail 8 skills. #### Art * Head\_VrHeadset - Finished. * Chest\_Cracked - Started. * Worked on tile and trim textures for Stands. * Marmoset integral scene for assets display. * Halo-met asset finished. * Assemble screen finished. * Emotes screen finished. * Leets screen finished. * Play screen finished. * Settings template. * Level dressing tests. #### Programming * Switch to Unreal Engine 5. * Leets debug menu crash fix. * Server moved to a new one with more space. * Pipeline Fix due to the new server. * Fixed stacks on slow gameplay effect. * Fixed movement penalty on efficient circuits ability. * Added knockback to handheld console. * Fixed arctic aura particle not replicating. * Changed input on diamonds are forever ability. * Removed movement penalty on pickaxe ability. * Incremented knockback distance in knockback effect. * Removed stop gameplay effect from projectiles, added energy gain. * Increased taxman projectile range and added decal for explosion. * Adjusted zealous leap landing location. * Added lifetime to efficient circuits wall. * Added replicated decal for bouncing thrust and taxman. * Fixed chameleon not committing ability. * Removed penalty movement to zero hands ability. * Added decal to shared splinter. * Implemented Robe Robin decal as gameplay cue. * Spawn plasma cannons particle at hand instead of root. * Added dead tag to avoid knockback on dead characters. * Increased handheld console projectile. * Removed collision response. Changed bouncing thrust decal to gameplay cue. * Fixed neo landing damage area. * Arctic aura only made apply effect to enemies inside of area. * Reduced effect slow of arctic aura. * Reduced slow effect of arctic aura. * Made adjustment to box collision of diamonds and forever ability. * Added VFX to diamonds and forever ability. * Set decal of 360 no scope ability to max range. * Particle change of 360 no scope projectile. * Added an announcement when a player does not have enough energy for an ability. * Placed leets in level once again. * Placed HP/EP pickups in level. * Added a cast montage to Splitter Storm ability. * Removed energy cost from remaining hand skills. * Added damage to thruster ability. * Changed knockback applied to ZeroFace ability. * Fixed a bug where static discharge would disappear the cursor after ability. * Implemented a method to deactivate collisions when using root motion. * Spawning particles and decals in abilities is now done through cues. * Fixed HighRoller not properly applying ability cost. ### WEEK 21: 2022-05-23 #### Design * Meetings with the programming team to provide feedback about each of the skills. * Playtesting for bugs and unintended behaviours. * Adding more information to the Skill Listing document. * One more layer of feedback added (colors to the skill listing in order to ensure what is complete). #### Art * Finished Chest\_TChain. * Finished Antenna\_Plume. * Finished Chest\_Removed. * Finished Baseball\_cap asset. * Finished Hachimaki asset. * Reworked Pistols, Sabers and Inevitability\_Glove (added extra geo and loops for animation purposes). * Halo-met asset in progress (high poly). * Three color pallets concepts. * Four element/background concepts. * Three button concepts. * Finished the rig of the katanas, sabers, pistols, inevitability glove, boxing glove, baseball kit. * Started replacing some of the assets of the greybox battle arena. #### Programming * Free for all testing map implemented. * Applied stage effect to all abilities. * Fixed having multiple status effects that involve materials make the character stay stuck with one of those materials. * Added value tag to vulnerability time. * Set deep thinking as hold release. * Implemented correctly assured self destruction ability. * Fixed hands abilities not gaining energy. * Correct input in abilities, implemented piercing on simulate weakness. * Added constant damage to efficient circuits, fixed wall not getting destroyed. * Added knockback to robe robin ability. * Ignore collisions on forward thrust. * Removed spline point in 0,0,0. * Fixed deep thinking projectile getting stuck. * Added delay to pistols. * Added particle and montage to shared splinter ability. * Added Application Tag Requirements for exact damage. * Refactor for the whole project in order to make easy maintenance. * Sockets for matchmaking and creation of web server once two players match. * ZeroFace knockback now always pushes the opponent, will not pull them. * Fixed plasma ray gun not making damage. * Fixed a VFX bug of ZeroFace ability. * Thrusters ability VFX size increased and target selection shape changed to cone. * Harvest laser ability now pierces through all opponents. * Radar navigation ability travels more distance and does it faster. * Fixed a bug that made the game crash when using Harvest Laser. * Reworked snapjaw ability. * Update handheld console ability, speed of projectile was increased and its range was decreased. * Reworked lightweight leap ability. * Was reduced increased speed and reduce duration time of seek shelter ability. * Added visual feedback to 360 no scope ability. * Reworked seeing red ability. * Reworked diamonds are forever ability. * Was made chameleon material more translucent. * Increased bounce in walls with high roller ability. * Was made adjustment in spawn of area damage, and increased cooldown of snapjaw ability. * Reduce speed of pickaxe ability. * Made adjustment of cooldown to shared splinter ability. * Reworked berserk leap ability. ### WEEK 20: 2022-05-16 #### Design * Meetings with the programming team to provide feedback about each of the skills. * Playtesting for bugs and unintended behaviours. * Adding more information to the Skill Listing document. #### Art * Finished: SM\_Antenna\_WarHorn. * Finished: SM\_Chest\_MetalHawk. * Started working on SM\_Chest\_TChain. * Finished Plasma\_Detectors. * Finished Maul\_Horns. * Finished Baseball\_Bat, glove, ball models & textures. * Finished Headset. * Finished Intelli-dome. * Updated Inevitability\_Glove textures. * Started: SM\_Plume. * Finished the Battle Leet rig. * Started working on weapons rigs. * Started moodboards for the UI. * Finished four design and four color concepts. #### Programming * Simulate weakness second iteration, three projectiles. * Plasma cannons second iteration, double shot. * Taxman second iteration. * Neo landing second iteration. * High roller second iteration. * Handheld console second iteration. * Lightweight leap second iteration. * Seek shelter second iteration. * 360 no scope second iteration. * Sabers second iteration. * Bouncing thrust second iteration. * Satellite crash second iteration. * Artic aura second iteration. * Deep thinking second iteration, parabola target is mouse position. * Static discharge second iteration, toggle input. * Second iteration plasma cannons, shooting combo. * Implemented efficient circuits ability. * Set battle leet 7 on map. * Splitter Storm second iteration. * ZeroFace ability rework. * Readjusted VFX of Harvest Laser and Splitter Storm. * Adjusted initial slow effect of ZeroHands combo. * Changed spawn point of the thrusters projectile. * Implemented a first iteration of the game flow / user journey. * Ran a QA pass to find bugs in the skills. ### WEEK 19: 2022-05-09 #### Design * Meetings, looking for bugs and unintended behaviours. * Removing non-interesting skills from documentation. * Proposal for matchmaking rules. #### Art * Finished: Antenna\_WarTagged. * Finished: Antenna\_Bent. * Finished: Antenna\_SateliteDish. * Finished: Antenna\_BoosterSignal. * Finished: Antenna\_Snapped. * Finished: Antenna\_JoyStick. * Finished: Antenna\_Improvissed. * Finished: Antenna\_DiamondTipped. * Working on: Plume. * Finished inevitability glove asset (Hands category). * Finished gold crown asset (Head category). * Finished silver crown asset (Head category). * Finished obsidian crown asset (Head category). #### Programming * Implemented pickaxe ability. * Fixed being able to make actions on glitch out ability. * Fixed hands abilities not implementing energy gain. * Correction on abilities movement penalty. * Apply movement penalty effect on commit ability. * Removed movement penalty effect on start ability. * Implemented inevitablity gloves ability. * Implemented pong thrust. * Implemented harvest laser ability. * Implemented spliter storm ability. * Implemented update and get inventory. * Working on multiplayer match. ### WEEK 18: 2022-05-02 #### Design * Organizing playtesting sessions with internal team in order to improve and tweak dashes’ skills. * Added final references and combo movements to the skill listing. * Worked on polishing skills with the programming team. #### Art * Plasma ray gun finished. * Thrusters finished. * Plasma cannon finished. * Inevitability glove WIP. * 60% of the rig completed. * Entrance2 completed. * Baseball bat items WIP. #### Programming * Implemented Forward Thrust ability. * Implemented Deep Thinking ability. * Implemented Boosted Thrust ability. * Implemented custom cooldown effect. * Implemented custom cost effect. * Implemented editable damage. * Modified abilities cooldowns, cost and damage. * Implemented Snap jaw ability. * Implemented new stun gameplay tag state. * Implemented seeing red ability. * Implemented shared splinter ability. * Implemented sabers ability. * Implemented satellite crash ability. * Modified testing room and added interaction box to add abilities for each battle leet. * Implemented artic aura ability. * Implemented bouncing thrust ability. * Implemented handheld console ability. * Implemented lightweight leap ability. * Implemented Gamepad ability. * Implemented Berserk leap ability. * Added Clear all abilities button to Leet debug menu. * Implemented Thrusters ability. * Currently working on Harvest Laser ability. * Functionality to register and login created on backend (API). ### WEEK 17: 2022-04-25 #### Design * Playtesting and improving skills. * Expanded size of the greyblock (design & art task). * Detected polish tasks for the programming team. * Added references for every skill on the skill list. #### Art * Entrance1 texture finished. * Platform texture finished. * Wall1 Texture Finished. * Handheld console asset finished. * Saber asset finished. * Pickaxe asset finished. * Boxing gloves asset finished. * Changed the dimensions of the greyblock. * Plasma ray gun WIP. * Thrusters WIP. * Started the rig for the character. #### Programming * Implemented nunchucks ability and added rotation penalty to baseball bat ability. * Added show leet (piece picker / skill selector) debug menu button. * Implemented zealous leap ability. * Implemented diamonds are forever. * Implemented simulate weakness ability. * Implemented Zero hands ability. * Implemented Zero chest ability. * Implemented Zero dash ability. * Implemented Zero face ability. * Implemented Nunchucks. * Implemented Diamonds are forever. * Implemented Simulate Weakness. * Implemented Boosted thrust. * Implemented Plasma ray gun. * Implemented Snapjaw. * Implemented Seeing red. * Implemented Shared splinter. * Implemented Plasma cannons. * Implemented Taxman. * Implemented forward thrust. * Implemented Deep thinking. * Made combo system to melee abilities. * Fixed damage counters with damage execution calculation. * Implemented Plasma ray gun ability. * Added Leet Debug Menu Cheat. * Changed ability icons. * Checked ability tags to be assigned correctly. ### WEEK 16: 2022-04-18 #### Design * Playtesting Pipeline. #### Art * Entrance2 - Low poly model w/ Bakes. * Stands - Low Poly model w/ Bakes. * Platform - Currently working on hp. * Gamepad asset finished. * Handheld device high poly stage ongoing. * Chest robe low poly and texture. * Boxing gloves high poly. * Nunchucks model and textures. #### Programming * Implemented skill boxing gloves. * Implemented skill static discharge. * Implemented skill party rock. * Implemented skill baseball bat. * Implemented skill chameleon. * Implemented skill neo landing. * Implemented skill high roller. * Added BoxOverlap, SphereOverlap and CapsuleOverlap functions. ### WEEK 15: 2022-04-11 #### Design * Added variant units and placeholder values. * Added skill references for the chest tab. * Added chest skills. #### Art * Created the "stands" 3D model. * Created the "stands divisions" 3D model. * Created the "Entrance2" 3D model. * Finished the pistol asset (model, bakes, textures). * Started work on the gamepad model. * Created the robe high poly model. #### Programming * Implemented interact to equip skills. * Resized room 1 and 2. * Polished room 2 with: * A mechanic in which the game will hold on until 2 players connect to start the match. * In case some player disconnects, the match resets. * Round won placeholder message. * Round timer to start. * Delay between rounds. * Delay between matches. * Match won placeholder message. * Put players back into initial position after each round/match. * Replaced and renamed stat modifiers areas. * Added interact prompt for each triggerable on the floor. * All the projectile skills now hide the mouse cursor. * Changed the camera distance to properly test the range of skills. * Added area of effect with point and release skill. * Modified projectile skills to be activated with right click. * Modified acquisition of abilities so it removes the ability with the same input. * Updated health slots on health increase. * Removed mannequins from battle level. * Implemented cost effect for abilities. * Added instant regeneration to the dummy and changed its texture to red. * Added ability tags and implemented energy stat modifier. * Added an option to equip the skill, being reflected in the keyboard input and UI skills showcase. * Added DoT mechanic. ### WEEK 14: 2022-04-04 #### Design * UX - made changes to account for Emotes. * Documentation of Emote system, updated control scheme. * Proposal for "Body" skills. #### Art * Finished modeling and baking "Wall\_Asset". * Finished High and Low poly of "Entrance" asset, currently doing UVS. * Finished "Katana" asset (model and bakes). * Started "Katana" textures and "Pistols" model. #### Programming * Fixed a bug where the parabola wasn’t being activated in multiplayer. * Implemented the damage counters. * Fixed head item. * Fixed parabola dropping fps. * Added particle in line travel behaviour. * Added particle in ground select. * Added numbers to health and energy bars. * Implemented ESC/P menu. * Implemented target dummy. * Added skill cooldown display. * Fixed hand skills being replaced. * Added a second room to try multiplayer with timed combat. * Capped framerate at 60 FPS to avoid GPU overheating. * Fixed a bug where the camera changed to first person. * Fixed death bugs. * Removed the second HP\&MP bars. * Added numbers to the current HP\&MP bars. * Added build hash to keep track while doing QA. ### WEEK 13: 2022-03-28 #### Design * Skills for cases where a piece is missing. * Status effects reference chart. * Account progression system, first cut. * Emote system, first cut. #### Art * 3D production of the environment started (walls). * 3D production for weapons (katana). #### Programming * Added win condition by time, the player remaining with the most health wins. * Timer added to the HUD. * In-game scores are saved after each round, displayed in the HUD (On-time condition) ### WEEK 12: 2022-03-21 #### Design * Zero Leet proxy designs, with temporal values. * Game flowchart documented. * Game UX documented. #### Art * Finalized stadium concept. * Blocking of the stadium implemented on engine. * Individual concepts of the stadium assets (WIP). #### Programming * Implemented click and confirm ability. * Added range to ground select. * Implemented line travel ability. * Reduced build size for server deployment. * Added utility functions to know when a player acquires a certain skill. * Modified Win Condition: Rounds (After any player wins 3 matches, the game stops resetting). * Added Buff/Debuff areas for Health and Energy. ### WEEK 11: 2022-03-14 #### Design * UX for Main Menu: Play, Assemble, and Leets Screens. * UX for battle and round rewards, victory and loss. * Meeting with the leets team to solve some questions about game systems. #### Art * Finished Battle Leet textures. * Fixed Battle Leet skeletal mesh structure and reworked some aspects of the model, UVs and textures. * Rigged the character with the UE skeleton. * Started the stadium concept: image concept, basic 3D blocking to imagine spaces and proportions. #### Programming * Implemented Katana Skill. * Implemented Attribute Head and pickup abilities. * Moved pistol skill to item. * Gameplay HUD to see hp and Energy. * Equip mesh on item pickup on top of adding ability/stats. * Added placeholder Icons for abilities to the HUD. * Added Max Health and Max Energy parameters. * Implemented Pistol skill. * Added the winning condition. ### WEEK 10: 2022-03-07 #### Design * Updated winning conditions (combat page). * Increased skills database. * Completed the "Zero Leet" design. * Started Game Flow chart. #### Art * Retopology for base Battle Leet. * Textures for base Battle Leet. * Level greybox for space and sizes testing #### Programming * Completed Technical Design Document. ### WEEK 9: 2022-02-28 #### Design * Player movement and camera. * Control scheme overview. * Player values and parts (Battle Leets attributes) - WIP. * Combat mechanics - WIP. * Skills - WIP. #### Art * Started retopology for one Battle Leet. * Exploring visual styles for the Battle Leet (in-game). #### Programming * Started Technical Design Document. * Created project’s repository. * Started prototype: basic movement, isometric camera, added a couple of decals for visual representation of skills indicators.