Gameplay Feature: Medbay and Player Health! [20w34a EXPERIMENTAL]
This build welcomes a new mechanic essential to the upcoming gameplay loop: player health, death and respawn.
Indeed, survival has no meaning if the player cant die!
A new system block has been added, acting as a healing station and respawn point in case of player death: the medbay.
The player will have to "Scan" himself to various Medbay belonging to his ship or NPC stations as he progress in the game.
I have created the medbay to have a minimal form factor so you can decorate it as you wish. It is designed to be placed either vertically or horizontally to fit the style you prefer, the player animation inside will adapt to the relative orientation of the local gravity field. It is as small as possible as one day when crew and boarding is introduced you might need to put several of them inside your ship!
Check out the design and animation below.
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
New features:
As with all the new content this patch will live in the Experimental beta branch for a bit of time before landing in the main branch.
Thanks a lot for playing the game!
Indeed, survival has no meaning if the player cant die!
A new system block has been added, acting as a healing station and respawn point in case of player death: the medbay.
The player will have to "Scan" himself to various Medbay belonging to his ship or NPC stations as he progress in the game.
I have created the medbay to have a minimal form factor so you can decorate it as you wish. It is designed to be placed either vertically or horizontally to fit the style you prefer, the player animation inside will adapt to the relative orientation of the local gravity field. It is as small as possible as one day when crew and boarding is introduced you might need to put several of them inside your ship!
Check out the design and animation below.
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
New features:
- Player health
- Player impact FX (wip) and death animation
- Medbay system added
- Medbay can heal wounded players.
- Player can "scan" himself at the medbay in order set it as his respawn point
- Scan and Respawn FX
- Medbay can be place vertically or horizontally.
- The player will respawn to the last non-destroyed medbay.
- Player height reduced.
As with all the new content this patch will live in the Experimental beta branch for a bit of time before landing in the main branch.
Thanks a lot for playing the game!