Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque News

List of Changes:
- I fixed the staircase bug on Mission 8 - Lahav Warship

Summary:
After many player's comments and bug reports, I realized that indeed the staircase which leads the player to enter the ship on Mission 8 has a collision bug which makes hard for the player to climp up the stairs, except by double jumping. What happened is that Unreal Engine 3 Poly Collision System takes in consideration the actual frame rate to calculate some of it's physics, and in lower frame rates this calculus is not very accurate. What means is that on my sh****ty Vaio Notebook from 2009, my game runs at 20-25fps, and on this extreme low framerate the engine does not calculate the polygonal collision with accuracy, which makes the game ignore some of the steps of the staircase while climbing, which is the reason why on my end I was not able to spot this bug. However, as a temporary solution, to allow players to enjoy the campaign, I simply removed the need to climb the staircase, which means, as soon as you get the swimming equipment, and plant the c4 bombs, you just need to get close to the staircase platform and the game will trigger the arrest cutscene, and after the cutscene ends, the player is inside the ship.

List of Changes:
- Removed scope lens for Tavor gun model
- Removed scope lens for M4 gun model

Summary:
I tried my best to add iron sights (ADS) for all guns in first person mode, just like in modern shooters, however, due a bug on the UDK Engine itself, on the near clip plane value, whenever I positioned the gun on the camera in a position to allow the player to see the target through the gun's scope lens, the engine does not render the gun model correctly, it cuts parts of the model, breaking the aiming. As an alternative solution, I simply raised down the gun model a bit under the crosshair, however, for these 2 specific guns, the scope gets in the way of the player's view. And since many players complained about this, and there are also many players who are still playing the game, and others that are going to play, I simply removed the scope lens from these 2 guns, now the aiming for these guns is much better than before.

Resisting the Zionist Occupation is NOT Terrorism!

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Here is the original trailer in MP4 Full HD 1080p 60fps format:
https://mega.nz/file/dktBFB4Q#4qpZm_t0FB3Ti7mM-7eUCfnb6hs6aO5iBcSDdryGC9E

Fursan al-Aqsa® is an Action Game which addresses the Israel x Palestine conflict from a Palestinian perspective, breaking the cliché of portraying Arabs as Terrorists. You will play in missions across Palestine with many objectives to accomplish, epic battles, powerful guns, vehicles to drive and more.

Available now on Steam (PC version):
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1714420/Fursan_alAqsa_The_Knights_of_the_AlAqsa_Mosque/

And Gamejolt (PS3 and Xbox360 versions):
https://gamejolt.com/games/fursan-al-aqsa-knights-of-al-aqsa-mosque/573682

Obs: The console version of this game is a Homebrew App, which means it only runs on Hacked Consoles (PS3 CFW/HEN, Xbox360 RGH/JTAG). And even though the content is the same (Campaign + Multiplayer), the PS3 and Xbox360 versions of Fursan al-Aqsa are inferior to the PC version, regarding graphics and performance. Also the consoles version, specially the PS3 version of Fursan al-Aqsa suffers from memory overload, which, sometimes causes missing textures and invisible objects (rendering problems), sometimes some textures may become too much blurry, and so on. Also On both consoles, due a problem on accessing the console's hard disk file system to write the save data, I had to make all the missions unlocked by default, but if you play from Mission 1 the game will take you to Mission 2, Mission 3, Mission 4 and so on. So that means I tried my best, and even with these small bugs, you can play the game and enjoy the gameplay experience on PS3 and Xbox360. I'm proud of this achievement, and I'm sure that despite its flaws, Fursan al-Aqsa is the most advanced homebrew game ever developed for the PS3 and XBOX360.

I thank you all for these years following my project, interacting with me, rooting for me, giving me words of support, and specially for playing my game's demo released last year on Steam, and giving me your precious feedback. Thanks to you, players and supporters of Fursan al-Aqsa, I was able to make this game even better than the Demo, fixing many bugs and shortcomings, polishing the game to make this one of the best Indie Games of 2022!

I hope you enjoy the full game, and please, write a small Steam User Review, because this is very important to help my game grow on Steam.

My last words are a request for help and support. As you may know, I am working solo on this game, without any financial help, or funding from a Publisher or anyone. I self funded this project with my incomings from my job of Web Designer. However, due the Covid Pandemics, I lost my work of Web Design, and now I have on this game, Fursan al-Aqsa, a hope for a new source of incoming, for me being able to spend on behalf of my family. So please, buy my game to support me. Each copy sold will help me too much.

About the game size

The download size of this game is just 9.8 GB. After the installation it grows to 18.71GB, because this game has modding support and all game's assets are decrypted. However, if you want to free some disk space, you can free 3GB if you delete these 2 folders and the files inside them:

FursanAqsaGame\UDKGame\Movies\Story
FursanAqsaGame\UDKGame\Soundtrack

The first folder contains the Story Videos in MP4 HD format, for all languages. I included them inside the game folder so players don't need to go to YouTube for watching the game's Story Videos. The second folder contains the game soundtrack in wav format, which I included after many player's requesting this to me.

Obs: Due the modding support, the first time you run the game, it will ask to rebuild the game's scripts. Just click on 'Yes' and after the rebuild finishes, launch the game again.

List of Improvements

* Improved overall game lighting with a fake HDR post processing effect;
* 9 Campaign Missions (including tutorial) with different environments ranging from Open Maps, Offices, Urban Environment, Bunkers, Military Camps, and so on;
* Varied gameplay from stealth, strategy, open combat, vehicles driving missions and so on;
* Many multiplayer maps;
* Full localization to English, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese-Brazil, Arabic;
* Custom game launcher with options menu;
* Craphics configuration;
* Rebind some keys;
* Added support for Ambient Occlusion;
* Added support for Motion Blur;
* Added support for Bloom;
* Added support for DirectX 9 MSAA - Multi Sampling Anti-Aliasing up to 4x;
* Added support to DirectX 9 Anisotropy Texture-Filtering up to 6x;
* Added complete control over Music and SFX volume;
* FOV selection menu;
* Select ADS mode between Toggle and Hold;
* Improved AI;
* Zionists sometimes commit suicide randomly;
* Improved knife kills precision;
* Improved bullet time;
* Reduced muzzleflashes;
* Improved bullet physics for all guns;
* Iron sights animation on first person mode;
* Fixed one of the worst bugs of my game, on which the guns didn't shoot the enemies whenever the player was leaning in a wall;
* Level unlock system;
* Updated training mission;
* Added Performance Mode for very old PC's which can't run 3D games very well;
* Original MP4 videos of the game's history to watch directly on you PC, so you can pause and read the text better;
* Game soundtrack;
* Steam Achievements coming soon;
* Challenges Missions coming soon;
* 3 New Campaign Missions coming soon;

Fursan al-Aqsa has gone GOLD

Today I finished the development of Fursan al-Aqsa Game. The campaign is fully playable from Mission 1 to 9. I just need to finish some small tasks before release:

- Setup the Unreal Engine 3 Localization System;
- Setup Steam Achievements;
- Fix some small bugs on PS3/Xbox360 versions;

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Turn off the lights, grab the popcorn and enjoy the most INSANE action game trailer of all times!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxiEbHchjDo

This is a teaser trailer for Mission 8, which I just finished for Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque® Campaign. This map is based on INS Lavah Warship, one of the most important Warships of the Israeli Navy.

Your main mission will be to infiltrate in this ship, eliminate all enemies, assassinate the Israel Navy Chief, plant bombs to blow up this warship making it sink to the bottom of the sea.

I hope you enjoy this new trailer, specially the Cutscenes, which I think are trully insane, freaking cool and gruesome, in the best Mortal Kombat style.

https://www.indiedb.com/games/fursan-al-aqsa-knights-of-al-aqsa-mosque/news/this-is-the-most-insane-action-game-trailer-of-all-times