So I was looking back at the last thing that I made for planning



and I already see the inherent problem is that I never made a “Game” sequence in addition to the boss building. In that vein what I was thinking is:

1. OnStart
   • Spawn Player (give only the pistol)
   • Spawn “Protection” bots (i.e. a number of bots around each assembler)
2. Every X Seconds
   • Spawn a bot (after checking if we have too many bots) and set the patrol location to the last known player location
3. On Destroying An Assembler
   • Give the player a new weapon
   • Increase the difficulty of the other assemblers
   • Alert the Other Patrol Bots to your location from all assemblers (minus the patrol bots)

This seems simple enough but there’s a few mechanics I do not have written yet.

1. Bot Patrol locations/target locations
2. Player Pickups
   • Both Health and Weapons (Weapons can be magically granted I figure)
3. Patrol bot synchronization for alerts etc.

Bot Patrol Locations

This was pretty easy, I just updated the EQS query to be set around a specific location rather than the location of the bot. This changes the scores so the bots wander around a fixed point and don’t leave its radius until its engaged.

I also had to update the Blackboard to hold this value, so I can swap it on the fly

Now to update the guard point for a non-deployed bot I just set the “IsGuarding” flag to true and the “GuardPoint” to wherever.

Player Pickups

I think I want the health system to be a set of stims rather than recovering health or anything else. So I started modeling up a health station in blender

and syrettes/injectors/needles/syringes are kinda easy (I did this in 5ish minutes, still need a touch up).

My hope is to play an animation before giving health, essentially I want the player to show the syrette then pull below the frame and inject. This should save me animation work (hopefully).

Game Mode Work

I got the initial game mode made and the spawn but I also made a data table which holds difficulty settings

The idea is that each assembler will have a number of randomly generated guard bots which will patrol around the assembler and a set list of “wandering” bots that will be assembled and run towards the last place the player has been seen.

Right now I have the gamemode start working I just need to get the player alerts working. Which In my head I think I want each assembler to control their fleet of bots so the chain will be:
A bot sees the player and alerts their assembler with a location > The Assembler Then alerts the game mode > The game mode gets the new position and sends it to the other assemblers.

This way I can also setup alert radius’s, a limit of reporting etc.