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The free top-down online shooter!
Subvein is a free multiplayer action game. It has over 20 weapons, a strategic skills system, crazy vehicles and countless user-generated maps. It's tactical, fast-paced and most importantly, fun! Download and play Subvein now - it takes mere minutes to setup and best of all it's 100% FREE!
Playing with pathfinding
Tue 14 Feb 2012, 19:05 by bencelot
Lots of cool new technology coming to Subvein in this next version. In the last post I talked about how I've implemented a professional netcode solution that compensates for lag and makes a hit an actual hit. Well now we're going to have professional pathfinding as well!! I've been working on the zombie AI a lot for the upcoming Outbreak game mode and I finally got pathfinding working. It's using the very famous A* algorithm and boy does it work GOOD! I couldn't believe it.. the bots just know where to go! So amazing.
The possibilities for creative map design are limitless now and you can have zombies swarm you from all directions. I'm going to apply this to gangsters as well and let them navigate their way to the opponents base. This should give all maps and all game modes a far more exciting feel. No longer will gangsters just randomly stand around looking into walls, but rather they'll spawn and start charging towards the enemy base! We'll see a constant battle between the gangsters in the map and good map makers can place their gangster and zombie spawns in all sorts of locations to maximise the awesomeness.
To further increase the relevance of gangsters they no longer just spawn with a pistol, but have a chance to randomly spawn with ANY weapon. Even a Minigun! The chance of spawning with a super weapon is extremely low of course, but we'll be seeing a much greater diversity in gangster weaponry. Not only does this make the game feel more diverse, but it also adds a new gameplay strategy of farming gangsters. Farming gangsters used to give cash and missions, but not you can also score a sweet weapon off them too! To really make things exciting some gangsters will only spawn with a knife, causing them to chase you around the map! Scary!
Anyway very excited to see all this new tech in action
