Cepheus Protocol News

Patch Notes - 0.7.59 Further Fixes and Novel is now live on Steam Store

[h2]The votes are in and our community helped choose the final Novel cover check it out below![/h2]

Cepheus Protocol Novelization is now available on Steam Store!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1387390/Cepheus_Protocol_Novelization

Cepheus Protocol Novelization is also available on our website! Buy it here!

Keep in mind this book takes place before, during and a bit after Pandemic mode and follows dozens of characters around the events of CP. It will hint to our year 2 content(So spoilers if you analyze it close enough). Its not for the faint of heart (Very violent deaths and all that). You can pick it up for $3.99 now!

It will also be available on the Steam Store as an DLC on October 1st if you prefer to get it there! Just keep in mind on our website we make 99% of the sale the rest goes to PayPal

Feel free to use the #💬lore-questions on our Discord to discuss the ramifications of what the book brings to the universe and how it will affect the game as we start to work in story elements presented in the novel

[h3]CERC Operator edition[/h3]
We also offer a new CERC Operator edition for those havent bought the game and novel yet with a launch discount of 5% when purchased together

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15959/CERC_Operator_Edition/

Cepheus Protocol Dev Update #3 and 4 Month in Early Access Overview

Sorry for the delay a lot of scheduling conflicts with our normal voice over actress. So we had one of our developers take over! Check out the latest Dev update video and some new teasers are hidden inside it for the Worm/Leviathan and his little guys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9dINrXfhR8

[h2]Stage 2 Chelsey WIP[/h2]

Animation Revamp

Ever since we heard some feedback regarding the stiffness of our units/animations we have been hard at work finding a solution. We are now working on implementing a better RIG and Animation Blueprint to give us even more control including starting to utilize a Mocap suit to really make these animations shine as we work towards 1.0. Here's a quick preview of what we have in store for you folks in the coming weeks via a total animation revamp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqpNGvAZJ8k&feature=youtu.be

[h2]Patch Notes - 0.7.59 [/h2]

Sandbags damage sfx added
Cleaned up some rope bugs for the Sparrow rappelling
Added dynamic scaling to rope deploy, so if the helicopter's a little higher or lower than normal at deploy time it won't cause any major visual weirdness
Delayed rope 're-coil' by a bit more seconds to stop it from coiling up too soon
Added Juniardi's fast rope sprite as a ground indicator for deploying troops
Added simple 'move around after lerp' logic for units to use after montage
Sped up the 'land montage' playing for the helicopter
Sped up the lerp speed for the unit lerp by 40% for rappelling
Tuned down some 'movement freezing' logic: it's more reliable and the helicopter can start moving sooner even during the 're-coil' anim
Supply truck wheels setup corrected
Committed a bounds tweak to the Mesh of the vehicle classes to stop the LOD issue (per Dimitry's research)
Fixed the depth stencil settings on the garrison ropes
Fixed units A-posing after loading a save, if they were in an armed garrison seat
Turrets damage sfx
Added visible garrison seats to the Supply Truck
Updated the 'visible-but-unarmed' garrison seat logic to support multiple animation sequences, so a sequence could be randomly selected from a group, to add some variety to such seats
Improved array logic for garrison UI to 'add a second row' to the widget when going beyond 8
Updated the Supply Truck to 16 seats (from 8)
Updated Supply Truck's description metadata
Set transport truck middle wheels to copy rear wheels.
Removed 'group deselect' from pressing a group button
Removed the helicopter/vehicle lockout bools since they're live (and related functionality)
Also removed the fast travel logic from the master, since that's replaced with the vehicle system
Added 'random idle start offset' for garrison seats
Added 'outside of world bounds' override to kill+clear units that 'fall out'
Added logic to improve Helicopter 'dismount on destruction'
Units will hop out at where the mesh is when the helicopter explodes
If there's no navigable terrain nearby, they
will die* Otherwise, they'll just take damage
Added a fix to the 'degarrison sprite' remaining on the ground if you cancel a rappel command
Added a fix to units 'getting tilted' in some circumstances after/when doing a rappel
Added a fix for the 'rappel loop' continuing if a helicopter dies while units are fast roping (existing guys will finish their fast rope anim, but nobody will start doing it too while the helicopter's still blowing up)
Building textures, collisions, nav mod (named HEIGHT MOD, and UNDERGROUND MOD), minor landscape tweaks
Ammo box sfx added for landing and dropping
Imported Juniardi's Supply Truck UI assets and applied them
Quick minor crash fix (For if a garrison idle array entry is created but left null)
Added logic so GroupingMode and AddSelectionMode
both* will just add units to selection - so holding CTRL or SHIFT will allow you to add units to your selection.
Same for clicking on team panels
Also, units will no longer be deselected on a 'missed click' if you're holding either CTRL or SHIFT
grenade throw sfx
Added a fix for vehicles parachuting in: if another vehicle is 'in their spot' and hasn't had time to move out of the way, the newly-landed vehicle will 'warp' nearby rather than getting stuck
Made blocked out buttons have an even darker color scheme and a darkened cost text, with a new 'Requires Previous Unlock' popup if you click on a blocked button
Also made the 'lines' between buttons in a column brighten up if the button above the line is unlocked
Lowered Supply Truck price to $2000 (from $8000)
Added a fix for units ending up 'in the ground' when exiting a vehicle that's on the ground
Speculative fix for horde map not counting down properly

[h2]Cepheus Protocol AMA/Showcase[/h2]

Work on our other maps have started officially in the last week and we hope to have more to share in the coming weeks! Keep in mind a LOT of our week this week into the Little bird and doctrine updates so make sure to check out our dev-update channel on discord to see the daily updates we do!

If you missed our AmA you can watch it here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZznhKn8hPU4

Until next time, good luck in Treasure Island!

Patch Notes - 0.7.58 Logistics Pass & Sparrow Fixes

Cepheus Protocol Dev Update #3 and 4 Month in Early Access Overview

Animation Revamp

Walls taking damage sfx implementation
Logistics trucks for refueling and transporting player units(Building Icon will be updated next patch sharing the JLTV icon on the motor pool)
Rappelling animations added for when you drop the rope from the Sparrow(Further polish is coming)
Boosted ammo+medical truck radii
=Made sure that (due to the new ammobox settings) the ammo truck and ammobox also restore ammo to player vehicles
Ensured that Chelsey doesn't destroy a building's ability to restore ammo just by walking by
Added some safeties to accessing 'MyGarrison' after another crash report from the main discord.
Vehicle Engines SFX Volume adjustments
Polish to Little bird mounted animations for CERC Units so they look correct when shooting mounted
Swapped out the Sparrow's Pilot to the Pilot mesh (instead of the scout car driver mesh)
Started on 'crash' logic for Sparrow, on death
=When Helicopters die while in air, they will ragdoll for 3 seconds, then blow up
=They will 'dump garrison' on death or destruction if anything's left in garrison
=The 'dump garrison' call in Death/Destroyed for vehicles now will damage units by 30% of their max health if it's called during Death/Destruction of the vehicle
Fixed up some subwindow updating to ensure RefillAmmo is still available for vehicles alongside the radio
Added an ammobox to the Motorpool that will resupply vehicles only
Fixed up Chelsey's damage resist so it'd be a bit simpler, and so any damage dealt to her that would take her under 80% of her max health would be reduced to 1 damage (if you lack Shredder rounds)
Added new logic to the horde 'cleanup' logic to make it more stable (for horde mode, and for hordes in general)
Cleaned up some civilian mission stuff for the horde mission:
Mission will auto-clear when all civvies are dead or rescued
Mission now grants a reward based on the number of civvies saved, and how far we are in the game
Mission has a clear and separate time limit
Added a 'Skip Countdown' button for the horde mode
Fixed a crash with HordeControllers potentially trying to create a HordeSphere while PendingKill()
Fixed an issue w/ Pandemic tutorial not properly clearing from HUD

Keep in mind this book takes place before, during and a bit after Pandemic mode and follows dozens of characters around the events of CP. It will hint to our year 2 content(So spoilers if you analyse it close enough). Its not for the faint of heart (Very violent deaths and all that). You can pick it up for $3.99 now!

It will also be available on the Steam Store as an DLC on October 1st if you prefer to get it there! Just keep in mind on our website we make 99% of the sale the rest goes to Paypal

Feel free to use the #💬lore-questions on our Discord to discuss the ramifications of what the book brings to the universe and how it will affect the game as we start to work in story elements presented in the novel

Cepheus Protocol Novelization is now available on our website! Buy it here!

Until next time, good luck in Treasure Island!

Patch Notes - 0.7.57 First pass Sparrow Update now live!~

New Chelsey version WIP

The first pass of the Sparrow is now in and do give it a whirl and us know your thoughts. Keep in mind some roofs will be buggy landing on top of them and this is still something we're working on internally.

[h2] Patch Notes - 0.7.57 [/h2]

SFX added for when you capture a zone
Added a fix for JLTVs getting 'stuck in' one another if you build multiple in a row at a service depot
=Note that this causes a minor 'landing' issue if you save/load while a JLTV is parachuting in: shouldn't break anything, but the JLTV may potentially bounce oddly (and potentially into something it shouldn't land on), though doubting this will occur often
Littlebird anims added for crew
Added a fix for weapon markets 'failing to properly interact with units already in radius' if a game is loaded where units are already next to a building with a weapon market
Added damage character attack points to the pods improving the accuracy of sighting these units (not just the towers)
Bolstered gas movement cost so it takes roughly 70-75% of gasoline to cross the island
(idle gas remains .5, but moving gas is 10.5)
Improved Chelsey's resistance to vehicular ramming
Dropped gasoline consumption for vehicles to 7.5 when driving (rather than 10.5)
Improved 'degarrisoning' and 'position animation' logic to better prep for helicopter rappelling
Basic helicopter 'rappelling' loop added, with safeties for movement for the helicopters (Rappelling animations will be added with rope in the next few days)
All vehicles support music and can be added effortlessly played into the world from any vehicle you wish!

You can add music for helicopters and vehicles to play under the

 SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Cepheus Protocol/CepheusProtocol/RadioMusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mduQGW20cz8

[h2]Cepheus Protocol AMA/Showcase[/h2]

Work on our other maps have started officially in the last week and we hope to have more to share in the coming weeks! Keep in mind a LOT of our week this week into the Little bird and doctrine updates so make sure to check out our dev-update channel on discord to see the daily updates we do!

If you missed our AmA you can watch it here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZznhKn8hPU4

Patch Notes - 0.7.56 Further Line of Sight adjustments & QOF additions

New Chelsey version WIP

[h2] Patch Notes - 0.7.56 [/h2]

SFX Added for when you receive money
Added logic to stop the BlowUpGuy from being able to jump ludicrously high
Added logic to prevent the BlowUpGuy from being able to jump attack while movement is frozen
Hooked up Juniardi's "Service Depot" and "Gasoline" icons
Improved some of Chelsey's damage threshold logic
Added a healthbar to Chelsey (with yellow 'recent damage dealt' interp tracker, to indicate you dealt damage)
Fixed Chelsey not properly marking herself as 'not moving' when she starts moving places (which broke her ability to run)
Added a 'proxy' damage character for vision to the Infection Gas Tower attack points this will improve the ability to see these throughout the level
Added a 'tutorial girl text popup' if you keep fighting Chelsey over an extended duration w/o Shredder Rounds. Since we got a lot of feedback of users not understanding they need Shredder rounds to actually kill her

Patch Notes - 0.7.55 Vehicle System Updates, New Motor Pool & Book Release

[h2]Cepheus Protocol AMA/Showcase[/h2]

Work on our other maps have started officially in the last week and we hope to have more to share in the coming weeks! Keep in mind a LOT of our week this week into the LIttle bird and doctrine updates so make sure to check out our dev-update channel on discord to see the daily updates we do!

If you missed our AmA you can watch it here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZznhKn8hPU4

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[h2] Patch Notes - 0.7.55 [/h2]

In this patch we shipped a lot of behind the scenes meshes for doctrines, factions and mostly the Sparrow. So in the effort to avoid confusion those changes were omitted. We are also working on Next Gen level of models for Chelsey,Winters and main leads. Quick example Thursday night i'll do a Indiedb post to do a full art dump of all the stuff we've been working on!

New Service Depot to replace the Motor Pool.
Added fast-rope attachment to Sparrow and reoriented to face X+ in preparation of the Sparrow Update this weekend-
Improved CanFire logic to improve Firing logic (Community Reported bug where units stop shooting randomly after running recently -
Added safeties via new bool 'bNotMoving':
=When bNotMoving, run commands will not set the bIsRunning bool to true on a unit.
=Made sure this interacts with AttackMove properly
Result: Units that are ordered into 'run mode' while standing still will no longer get 'stuck' unable to shoot.
Note that issuing another attack move order close to units that are already in combat due to an attack move may cause them to get confused for a moment. I've yet to track down this issue, but it's far less severe than the one just fixed. We are still working on a fix for this instance
Cleaned up some patrol/waypoint movement interaction w/ the new 'bNotMoving' bool, so patrol logic and running function as they did before
Added logic to 'skip' the reload animation when units are in 'visible but gun-less' garrison seats (instead taking 1 second to 'reload invisibly'), IF units are ordered to reload while in such garrison seat(s)
Added basic gasoline system Hooked up logic for vehicles to use gas, and be unable to move when gas runs out
Added saving/loading to the gasoline system (In the next week or so Vehicles will no longer take damage from standard infected and only take damage from special infected by Blowup guys,Spitters and other special infected. Note: If your unit is exposed melee damage will carry through depending on where the hit occurred. So it will be possible for the entire crew of a scout car to be killed. WE will also be introducing drivers which will gain veterancy as you use them instead of the stock drivers that are lifeless we have now.
Gas is refilled passively when a vehicle is around the motor pool

Until next time, good luck in Treasure Island!