EXU2: Batshit Insane - Demo 3

[UB_]

The Ice maps were very easy. Hyper Flakker and Hell Gun pretty much owned anything in here.

[Buff Skeleton]

The Ice maps were very easy. Hyper Flakker and Hell Gun pretty much owned anything in here.

You are crazy. :p

I'm getting my ass handed to me over and over and over by these fucking Freeze Mercs and I dunno how I put up with it so long. EXU shouldn't be about hiding behind corners as much as kicking lots of ass. Plus, it's only Map 8 out of like almost 40, so it shouldn't be as hard as one of the later maps. Even Map 10 and 11 are significantly easier!

[UB_]

Map 10 instead wasn't easy. Some areas force you to hide behind corners even more (in the Ice maps, freeze projectiles can still hit you almost everywhere).

[Buff Skeleton]

Also, I don't think I showed off the Flarecrate skin UArchitect made (and, of course, he coded the whole thing):



It's totally awesome. EVERY KIND OF HAZARD KNOWN TO MAN and it looks amazing ingame, not to mention is utterly hilarious to just summon and screw around with. For example:

[UB_]

Are those Flares considered collectibles or are already activated?

BEST CRATE EVER

[Buff Skeleton]

Collectibles because they exploded out of the crates.

Normally, in coop, when you die, a crate will be left behind after your death containing only the flares you had before you died.

If you summon them offline, they fill themselves randomly at spawn, so you can get all kinds of fun assortments. And, of course, destroying any flare crate will cause it to detonate one randomly-selected flare of its contents, spewing the rest all over the place

[ElectricIce]

that is hardcore indeed.

[Buff Skeleton]

In other news, I've added exec functions to a variety of inventory. This means that you can set up custom key bindings to activate JUST these specific inventory items if you want without having to select them in your inventory (just like the Translator is, by default, F2).

So far, these are activateable via keybindings:

- Armor Seeds (throw)
- Battle Seeds (throw)
- Combat Seeds (throw)
- Blast Bapes (toggle)
- Firestorm Generator (toggle)
- Insane Boots (toggle)
- Missile Backpack (toggle)
- EXU Invisibility (toggle)
- EXU Jump Boots (toggle)

I could add more, like Seed Seeds, Magic Armor Seeds, and possibly even specific flares, but I'm wondering if anyone would actually want extra bindings for these rarer items. I tried to just add bindings to the most useful items for now. (Not all of this stuff appears in the Demo, of course, but it will for the final for sure.)

[ElectricIce]

I don't know if this has been asked before but How many NEW maps will there be in Demo 4?

[Jet v4.3.5]

None.

[Buff Skeleton]

Just a reminder that Demo 4 releases tomorrow, assuming nothing catastrophic happens!

I work from 9-5PM tomorrow, so expect a release some time around either 4-5PM or later that evening after work (depending on how busy work is). If you're in Europe, you may not actually see a release until you wake up on Thursday or so, but it will be Wednesday in my timezone, damnit >:E

[ElectricIce]

bah!

[shawnd123]

Eastern?

[Buff Skeleton]

Yeah. EST. 4-5Pm is out; we're shooting for later this evening.

Got a lot more testing to do!

There will be a new thread when it's released.

[Buff Skeleton]

Welp, we're releasing this Thursday instead of today (it's 10:30PM where I am right now; we almost made it!). Too many little bugs and issues have cropped up to ignore, so we're taking an extra day to slow down and take it easy and really fix all these problems. I'd rather release something solid than buggy-but-on-time.

Don't worry, it will still be out within the next 48 hours at the latest