[Forge]

this was dropped on the 24th

just posting it here for future archeologists

https://www.moddb.com/games/the-amc-tc

[Doom64hunter]

We kinda forgot posting about it here because there's been lots of things going on (holidays, bug reports, etc.), and Discord tends to be much more active these days.

Discord Link: https://discord.gg/thfJzgv

First off, we renamed the game from "AMC TC" to "The AMC Squad", as it has now largely outgrown its total conversion origins, for the most part.

In general the game received a large update in terms of polish and general presentation, and leaves it in a much more presentable and playable state than 3.5.4. This release still consists of the 3 first episodes.
There's 2 new EDF missions (WCTime, DHFC) fitting for the season, a new secret level in E1 (replacing the old one), a new mission in E3 (Caligula Station, originally started by Mr.Sinister and finished by James) and some new story content in the existing maps.
There's some new art, new weapons, new enemies, new voice acting, new music, new sounds, etc. etc.

Download: https://www.moddb.co...ary-edition-390
Patch: https://www.moddb.co...d-390-391-patch

Here's a more expansive feature list, copied from the ModDB post:

Features

• A comprehensive overhaul of all of the character and weapon artwork in the game; all enemies originally sourced from other Build engine games including Duke Nukem 3D now have original artwork. Weapons have received an overhaul, including smoother interpolation.
  
• Huge overhaul of audio - similar to artwork, a huge portion of the soundwork has been replaced with original work, either from credited sources from Freesound.org or from sound packs with additional work on our part. There's also now a simple reverb system for guns that will really enhance the atmosphere and visceral feeling of firefights.
  
• Updated Music - alongside some original tracks, music has again received an overhaul in many places.
  
• Brand new game options menu - settings originally contained outside the game can now be modified inside the menu options; check them out.
  
• Photosensitivity option - this option removes many flashing textures and light; please still play with caution if you are sensitive to flashing lights however, if you have any feedback or spot any troublesome spots please don't hesitate to let us know.
  
• Additional FMVs as you progress through the campaign
  
• New vocal performances - Highwire has received a complete recast by the talented Steb; Axon is revoiced by Dan Gaskil, who voiced Axon originally in WGRealms; and Trenton Solari is now voiced by Thanatos (with thanks to .Mark and Brandon C Hovey for originally providing voices for Trenton and Axon respectively) As per usual there's new voiceovers for other characters as well - and last but by no means least, AliCatGamer voices Jane Ashford, who is finally playable in this release. Ali has also done hard work improving and managing the voice actors for AMC squad in general.
  
• Additional tutorials - The first level of the game, Megabase, has a tutorial built into it now that explains many of AMC Squad's new mechanics. Additionally, when starting episode 1 for the first time, you'll received a short introduction to the AMC base by Epsilon (voiced by Bobby Davidson)
  
• New content - for returning players, there's several new maps to check out. Most notable is Caligula Station, based on a map kindly donated by Mr. Sinister; this is available after beating Choasphere in episode 3. You play as elite EDF agent Jane Ashford, and once beaten she will be available to play in AMC Squad's other levels afterwoods. Doom Disco has been replaced with a brand new proper level called Scarlett Hollow, based on work donated kindly by Mike Norvak. There's also 2 Christmas only levels to check out - for the duration of December, check out Highwire's Driving Home for Christmas and my Wonderful Christmas Time levels.
  
• New side content - AMC squad gets its very own museum in Garmid - once you've unlocked this hub map in episode 3, head to the museum and check everything out. New LA has also received extensive work by Rhaisher, as well as a brand new shop to check out
  
• New collectibles - hidden around many of the levels are AMC Chibis - build up a collection around the AMC mission terminal! If you've unlocked the Precog research, you can check the tab to see if a mission has a chibi in it. There's also a few new weapons to find as well, including finally one for Snowfall.
  
• New Per-map art - using a relatively new engine feature of Eduke32, many maps have customised artwork and enemies specifically for that level, bringing even more variety to the AMC experience.
  
• Hundreds of bugs fixed - the quest to fix bugs is never ending but thanks to Sang and Doom64Hunter's hard work, this should be the cleanest release yet.

Gameplay Updates
There's lots of tweaks to improve gameplay in this release; the AMC base has a firing range where you can test out your weapons on the various types of protection in the game.
There's also now hit markers which let you know exactly if your weapons are effective or ineffective against certain enemy types.
Alongside many balance changes, Merlijn has received some powerful buffs to make him more effective.
By default, Merlijn has side-dashes instead of rolls making it easier to evade attacks - he's also gained a shield bash attack now, executed with the Tertiary fire button.
This will give you a fighting chance to stun enemies and gain the upper hand.

Episode 4
Work on episode 4 continues.
We took a brief reprieve from work on that to bring you this new release, due to the massive amount of changes to the existing game.
As per usual, if you enjoy the game and want to help us with anything - mapping, textures, voices, music, come and join us in the Discord linked above and let us now.
Our target goal is 2023; with your help we might make it to the front of 2023 instead of the end!

And finally, have a good Christmas, New year and keep yourselves and others safe during this festive period!

(The next patch (3.9.2) will be coming early January.)

[Sangman]

I hope you guys will enjoy playing it more than we did making it

[Doom64hunter]

Patch 3.9.2 is released:

https://www.moddb.co...d-390-391-patch

Changelog:

Spoiler

Major Changes:

• Added an option to disable Quick-Time-Events in the settings menu. This disables shotgun struggles, phantasm ball struggle, net struggle, and ninja struggle sequences. Recommended if you have trouble with completing these QTEs successfully.
  
• Added an option to diable Spiders in the settings menu. Currently, this only affects small mob spiders and deletes them outright.
  
• Added an option to enable Streamer mode. This swaps out potentially problematic music with ones that will not trigger copyright strikes, and censors some potentially offensive and NSFW tiles.
  
• Added an option to switch between gameplay-relevant alternate character skins in usermaps by pressing the Reload key (R by default), excluding EDF Missions. This does not include special skins such as Egypt Zaxtor, or Snow James.
  
• Add a button to reset all game progress in the save settings menu. Only use if you are absolutely certain you want to reset!
  
• Always allow selecting secondary characters when launching a usermap (excluding EDF Missions).
  
• Add donators to the credits and as a plaque to the Garmid AMC Museum.

Minor Changes and Bugfixes:

• Fix missing MIA Gun research in AMC Base and add a redundant copy to AMC Base 2 for safety.
  
• Improve DATA array saving behavior.
  
• 40mm grenades can now be picked up properly with James' grenade launcher and Cultist's M79
  
• Highwire RPK and Micky's flame thrower can now deselect other weapons when clicked on in the loadout.
  
• Fixed bright cursor mode showing up as complete black.
  
• Fixed Sang's death frames.
  
• Small touchups to WCTIME.MAP.
  
• Fix per-map art not loading in Micky Begins
  
• Fix mapster32 warnings
  
• Fix megasphere heal amount to properly adjust to player character.
  
• Fix beretta description being incorrect.
  
• Fix ladder positioning, you will no longer noclip in Jungle Base when climbing the ladder.
  
• Reduce volume and range of soft fire ambience noise (e.g. Merlijn's chimney fire).
  
• Added Snowfall story lines to end of E3 cutscene.
  
• Fix special scene to always trigger when returning from Egypt.
  
• Ammo vending machine is now out of order before aforementioned special scene.
  
• Shellshocked stripper hologram no longer behaves like an actual NPC.
  
• Fix error in chainsaw cultist code.
  
• Character select animations can no longer play during cutscenes.
  
• Reintroduced Loadout Terminal to Mikko's room.
  
• Fixed anomaly scan giving way too many Polymers in Hell levels.
  
• Removed a bunch of debug print commands that spammed up the log file.
  
• Fix Merlijn secret counter and positioning.
  
• Fix userquote offset going out of the screen boundaries at lower aspect ratios.
  
• Fix key not appearing in Providence when digging up the snow mound.
  
• Fix return-to-center effect on autosaves.
  
• Ensure that autosaves are saved into a new slot, rather than the same one all the time.
  
• Fix from Nuke.YKT: Properly resolve double drawing of TROR and rendering regression.
  
• Fix Riotshield Pigcops aiming at their feet.
  
• Fix Micky Begins skybox not showing through the transparent glass ceiling.
  
• Ensure you can't pick up Sniper Rifle in Micky Begins without enemies spawning.
  
• Fix Luna Aquatics selling fishes on credit, and fix special fish showing up too early.
  
• Fix being able to reload the Cultist's Tesla Gun.
  
• Remove leftover dial from the Tesla Gun.
  
• Fix Terminators being targeted by Cycloids while dormant in Caligula Station.
  
• Fix Terminators scaling up walls and trying to attack themselves.
  
• Fix Ogres and Berserkers not having a faction, thus trying to attack themselves.
  
• Fix Paradigm Eschaton troopers targetting each other and themselves because of Civilians being killed and deleted.
  
• Make sure autosave sprites are deleted when activated if autosaves are disabled.
  
• Rename "Checkpoints" to "Autosaves" in the menu.
  
• Change CFG-saved per-player gamevars to global gamevars, and ensure that they are always loaded on game start.
  
• CFG loaded gamevars are never reset to a default on any map change, or any game start. Hopefully, this resolves data loss.
  
• Forcibly return teleporting Assault Troopers after roughly 1.5 minutes of wandering around while cloaked.
  
• Fix Cultists killing themselves from fall damage when bouncing off each other.
  
• Fix computer case in Ghost Ship acting like printing paper and disappearing.
  
• Reduce size of custom settings text to make it more readable.
  
• Rewrite the outdated saves confirmation prompt to be more readable.
  
• Improve signposting of Caligula Station to make the first half of the map easier to navigate.
  
• Fix Colt 1911 having a reduced magazine size for silver ammo when low on regular ammo.
  
• Fix Colt 1911 not firing any silver bullets when out of regular ammo.
  
• Restore two old Millhaven cutscenes, shorten the second to point you towards the place you need to go.
  
• Immediately apply selected knife from loadout to current character, instead of on level start.
  
• Clean up DATA arrays for temporary characters on game launch, remove all loadouts from temp characters.
  
• Fixed Assault Rifle per-map art for Micky Begins, and fix the default AR art.
  
• Fix Chainsaw cultist per-map art not being present in Zeta Base.
  
• Lost Highway 3: Made Garage door blocking so you can no longer softlock yourself by slide kicking into it.
  
• Fix blocking cars in Micky Begins.
  
• Fix Cultist having the wrong freeze and expander frames.
  
• Add a SLOTDOOR switch inside Dumas' mech room to prevent softlocking yourself inside.
  
• Fix Supply Drop in Millhaven not appearing because the AMC Ship was deleted too early.
  
• Geoffrey is back from vacation and has rejoined the difficulty selection images.
  
• Eviction Notice now has a custom login screen tile instead of the research screen tile.
  
• Added some more decoration to Micky Begins.
  
• All gray cultists can now throw nets at you on Expert and above.
  
• Scanning stuff now shows you how much Polymers you gained.
  
• Fix music in City Under Siege briefing.
  
• Blackhawk sprite/voxel alignment should now be fixed.
  
• Fixed Highwire not having his combat gear on in X64-2.
  
• Fixed out-of-bounds access in Revolution.
  
• Reduced excessive screenshake on several weapons.
  
• Fix bipod aiming being locked at a single angle.
  
• Fix semi-automatic firemode from regular weapons applying to mounted turrets.
  
• Fix displayed slot of two weapons in the Loadout screen.
  
• Fix Snowfall's pickup quotes appearing behind his helmet overlay.
  
• Fix City Under Siege intro being skipped together with the ship transition.
  
• Show Acid Protection upgrade on boots in the Loadout.
  
• Add clipping shape for the hospital car voxel.
  
• Sirens and Sorcerers can no longer teleport to you across the entire level.
  
• Fix sound pitch not being updated properly for sounds that haven't started playback yet.
  
• Fix several splatter effects using only a single sound instead of the complete variety.
  
• Fix being able to clip through a fence in Oil Rig.
  
• Fix gaps in the character select from unavailable characters.
  
• Added a serious secret.

[TheDragonLiner]

Nowhere to report bugs so ...

For some reasons, 90% of the Cultists in Millhaven just remain frozen. They don't "wake-up". The first few in the mine worked fine, except the Red one and a lot of the ones outside as pictured here.




I report just because it's a serious glitch.

[Doom64hunter]

TheDragonLiner, on 05 January 2022 - 09:22 AM, said:

Nowhere to report bugs so ...

For some reasons, 90% of the Cultists in Millhaven just remain frozen. They don't "wake-up". The first few in the mine worked fine, except the Red one and a lot of the ones outside as pictured here.

duke0000.png


I report just because it's a serious glitch.