It’s the Bee’s Knees

8 February, 2024 

Folks, another Thursday has been brought upon us. And like the many Thursdays that have come before, I am here to present you with the greatest of blogs (no, it hasn’t won any awards - stop asking) - the Weekly Cheese! Now I usually talk more here, but it’s getting a bit late and I’m a lil sleepy. So let’s jump right in, shall we?

Around the Horn

By now you’re probably used to how the Weekly Cheese goes, right? I yap for a bit and talk about nonsense, and then eventually we get to the details. So let’s cut to the chase like last week, eh?

• Ryan

  • Automated the portrait photo taking & assigning to skin data process since I physically cannot keep up with B R U C E.

  • Added a new type called PlayerLoadout which will be used to remember the players selected loadout -> send the loadout to server -> server will spawn the requested loadout for the player. Next to test on multiplay.

  • Set the foundation for primary weapon selection in the main menu. Able to select a weapon - your game remembers your selection - server will assign you the selected loadout.

  • Added a bunch of Bruce’s new skins.

  • Automated the portrait icon taking for each of the skins (I literally had to do this because I cant keep up with how fast Bruce works).

  • Started overhauling the weapons in game to use AdvancedHitscanWeapon.

    • Completed the following:

      • RPG

      • AR-49

      • AK-87

      • Big Iron

      • Cheese Ball Gun

      • GX-Custom

      • Gyrogat

      • Lil Pumpy

      • Long Iron

      • M4

      • M16-Custom

      • M249

      • M416

      • M1099 (lol)

      • Vector-6

      • MAC_10

      • MAC_249

      • MG42

      • MK.14-E

      • MP5

      • Nailgun

      • RPK-V

  • Fixed bug causing the Explosion.cs to not register hits properly.

  • Started moving more stats to the Projectile - such as damage, velocity, etc. Also added some other attributes such as gravity and explosions.

  • Increased the resolution of the skin portrait taker.

  • Fixed bug causing wrong transform data to be injected into the Weapon.Fire() routine when on right shoulder.

  • Helped Bruce fix character head vertices issue so character will now look up & down properly.

  • Implemented gravity for the new AdvancedHitscanWeapon type.

  • Implemented bouncing for the new AdvancedHitscanWeapon type.

  • Moved the Weapon Slot Category field from the weapon itself to the WeaponData object.

  • Weapon loadouts for primary, secondary, and melee weapons working.

  • Got the shop mechanics working - bought the first weapon with zombrie DNA (I am so fucking tired but stoked idk how to explain it).

  • Vitals

    • coldbrewCounter == 25.

• Bryan

  • Commissioned another bushel of fresh designs to join the ever growing list of individually-themed zombies. Our resident 3Dartninja is set to deliver on this one.

  • Worked briefly with Cam to offer guidance as he works to construct the Menu Base. Airlock, Armory, and Arcade all approaching the finishing stages. Changing Room still to go.

  • Began developing a potential melee-based Class System, thanks to some community inspiration. Documentation to be drawn up.

  • Further developed the weapon acquisition/progression concept. Will work with Ryan and Cole to pull together an appropriate research tree to fit the ‘afflicted’ vision. More documentation to be drawn up.

• Bruce

  • Killing it with the skin designs for the game. Seriously, he’s doing some incredible work.

• Marc

  • Resident Meme Lord!

• Cam

  • Doing tons of great work on the Bunker, as Bryan mentioned above. Super stoked to see what the finished product will look like and how it’ll feel.

• Cole

  • Hefty amounts of work on THE_CITY map. Like, so much of my free time this week was on this map, and there’s still a bunch to do. The grind is grindy. And by golly, we’re grinding.

  • Still need to investigate performance draws within THE_SWAMP map.

That’s it. Seriously, that’s all of it.

In Closing

Why are you still here? I said that was it. Go on, get out of here! Go! (I’ll see you next week).

Byeeee,  

Squid