Weekly devlogs: Rogue Legend 2
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February 21 - The hunt is on
Hunting gameplay has begun to trickle in. Defeating a beast yields you a carcass, which you can then butcher for meat and parts. Those parts can be used to craft better armor and weapons, allowing you to hunt even bigger beasts. Hides first need to be tanned into leather on a tanning rack.
I will be adding in more weapons and beasts to hunt next, including much bigger and scarier ones. I'll also be redoing how spawns work at some point, so finding the right spot to hunt should be easier. There's been a bunch of quality of life changes and fixes, which you can see in the patch notes.
Your arms are now visible in first person. In order to have a true first person where you can see your own body I'd have to greatly restrict the viewing angle while you're in first person. When you look down irl you can't look straight down, your chin gets in the way, and you also don't look straight down as your head pivots forward on your neck. I could write some code to imitate that motion, and then also restrict the view, but it would make first person somewhat awkward to control. This doesn't seem like a great solution for a game in which you can build and full 360 degree view is important to that.
If I rendered the body you'd be able to look straight down through your body since your view pivots on a point (rather than a neck). Anyway I get that having items floating there can be a bit disorienting, and after some research I've decided a good compromise is just to show your character's arms when in first person. RE7 and several VR games do this, so it seems an acceptable solution while still maintaining full field and range of view in first person.
Blocking in combat has gotten some big changes. It's overall much more effective, and you can now block without a shield. If you hold down the dodge button you'll block, and if you tap it you'll still dodge. Block effectiveness is determined by the items you're holding, with shields still being best.
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February 28 - Heavy Lifting
Was sick last week, which really makes you regret taking feeling normal for granted. There's some new heavy weapons you can craft, like the great sword
There's also a hammer
A lance, too.
Beyond that, there's a new appearance for leather armor, some fixes, and improvements. Homes in town are finally furnished, and there's been some performance improvements including a memory leak fix which should greatly improve performance during long playing sessions.
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March 7 - Climbing the ladder
Started feeling a bit better last week so got into it. Work on dungeons is currently underway which ate up a lot of time, but some big features in this week's build is the addition of bows and climbing.
You can now freely climb on anything, anywhere. Climbing uses up stamina so make sure you don't run out while up high. You'll also hop up ledges, making all that work on slopes feel a bit pointless. HEY JUST KIDDING SLOPES ARE GREAT.
The new weapons available are a staff with a nice sweeping combo, and a bow. Aiming and shooting with the bow is pretty standard fps controls, but you've got a wind-up and need to be a pretty good shot. Or you can just lock-on and hope they don't move. You'll need to lead your shots since arrows obey gravity and air resistance.
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