Dark Horizons: Mechanized Corps (Classic) News

Hot off the presses of our last update, the team wanted to share some info and screenshots of the new mech appearance and customization. We have been working to revamp the look of the mechs with a new material setup and some texture tweaks. Bare metal and damaged paint should now look much more convincing, and the mechs as a whole have a more battle-worn feel to them.



Additionally, customization is now back in full swing, with the ability to change primary and secondary color (including alpha), as well as camo once more. The way camo is handled has also been changed to better bring out the true color of the mechs. Our next step will be to reimplement grunge using some new shader techniques, and tweaking the decals so they better blend in with the underlying armor of the mechs. As promised here are a few shots of the new changes in the hanger:





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The next Dev Video Diary is still coming but we wanted to do a normal dev diary for a status update today. We are in the process of finishing up a first build for the new patch to release in the beta channel for testing and feedback. We are working on a rewrite of the AI in the game, polishing up the first 3 levels available, polishing up the UI, polishing up the weapons/equipment, and ironing out any major bugs.

This first release will allow you the players to try out the new patch in a pre-release state as well as provide feedback to us. It also helps us find major bugs we missed out on our systems as well as better testing on linux and mac clients.

We took the game to GDC 2016 and it was received well by those who saw the new patch content. We are excited to release it to you guys as well as soon as we can. We however do not have a release date for it yet, but will update with more information once we get closer to release.

That is it for the update today, if you have any questions feel free to leave them in the comments section. We will end this post with some updated screenshots of the game in Ubuntu Linux.









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The staff thought we would start doing something a bit different with our update posts going forward in 2016. This first DEV video diary is a bit longer than we will be shooting for in the future, but since we have been heads down since the end of the year there was alot to catch you up on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjkcSjb7EdY

NEXT TIME......

Review of new weapons FX and some more detail around how single play and multi-player campaigns will co-exist in the Faction Wars system.

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First and foremost the team wants to wish everyone a happy holidays and thank you again for your continued support. That said we have a few updates we would like to share with you on the state of development.

Winter Sale! DHMC is on sale during the Steam Winter Sale.

Upcoming update - We will be posting an update sometime this week to the current live version of DHMC. This update will be solely focused on adding some more single player scenarios to the current game as well as a slight update to the 1st missions.

The update to the 1st mission adds an additional success criteria to the mission. After destroying the Radar array the player will also need to travel to an extraction point in order to successfully complete the mission.

The team will post more detailed update information the day it is released.

Road to next major update - The team is continuing its major update/upgrade of the game and is making great progress. The hope is to share this progress with you in a playable version in the first of of 2016 when we will be moving from an alpha state into a beta state of the game.

Among the changes we have talked about in previous posts to movement, animation and physics of the mech we are also working on upping our visuals in all facets of the game. Below are a few pictures on new things to come in the first part of next year.

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UPDATED animated mech hanger



NEW - Ambient battles action (Above is a battleship battle)



NEW - updated urban gameplay environments. Improved visual, improved navigation.

The month of October has been another great month for development of the game. As our designers are making progress on new mission environments, the programming staff has been working on some retooling and cross platform testing.

The team is working to make sure the next major release will include support for not only windows but also Linux and Mac platforms via steam, hopefully with support for a wider range of hardware. No release date yet for the next major update.

As a quick sneak peak we thought we would share a few pics.
(NOTE: These pictures were taken in and unfinished environment)





As you can see the Windows and Linux clients have similar graphics quality



The Mac client is running on a lower Intel graphics card, and though there are some noticeable differences the game is still playable on the card.

Stay tuned next week for some more of the new visuals from the game, plus info on an upcoming minor patch to the current client with some new missions.

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