This Event Log is updated weekly and is designed to only provide a high-level round-up of the weekly updates and builds, and is not meant to be an exhaustive list of all works completed.
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.