Hey dudes

This is a small update before the more significant updates that are to follow.
I was ill on and off for the past three weeks (no strange orb or fog here lol) and this update is a simple way to get the ball rolling again, and it's proof of life.

Changelog:

• Mech can now "sprint"
  
• Mines health decreased to 1 hit point
  
• Heavy Machine Gun accuracy increased
  
• Submachine Gun accuracy increased, damage decreased by 1
  
• Improved Weapon Case choice detection

The biggest change here is that the Mech can now move faster by holding the sprint button.
It looks a bit silly, but you guys wanted it and I'm happy to oblige.

I'm going to break the content update up into smaller, more manageable pieces.
This will make it easier to iterate and fix anything that comes with it as a by-product.

Here is how I'm going to approach it:

1. Difficulty Update - Menu with options to customize you gameplay difficulty
   
2. Maps Update - Four campaign missions and two Survival missions
   
3. Customization/Cosmetic Update - Menu where you can change player, team and vehicle skins

Most of the Difficulty update is already in place, just need to create more assets to make it work.
This involves having new enemy units to increase the challenge (if you so choose).
Also I'll be adding a Tank vehicle and possibly a flying type of vehicle.
If it all works out, you'll be able to enable them from the Difficulty menu.
These are mostly for fun, and I consider them extra's.
It'll be out soon I hope.

I'm trying to get into the groove of things again, so apologies if things are a bit slow in the beginning.
As usual let me know if you guys have any suggestions or questions.

Hope 2025 treats you guys and your loved ones well, no matter your background or beliefs.
Love ya guyzzz

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Hey guys

Changelog:

• Changed health and armour pickups to refill completely, instead of 25%
  
• Changed repair pickups to refill 50% of the Mech and 100% of the Riot car
  
• Fixed Vehicle health bars updating after being destroyed
  
• Halved shotgun spread, so it's much more accurate over a distance

Some of you guys mentioned the game being too hard, so this update is a temporary remedy until the Difficulty settings are implemented.
Think it might be better for me to add this feature early next year, instead of waiting for the Content update to be finished.
If you thought this game was hard, this will hopefully give you a better experience.
If you thought it was too easy, well, now it's probably a cake walk. Enjoy.

Have a good holiday my dudes.
- JG

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Ayo muh boyzzz

I heard you like updates

Changelog:

• Added a Vehicle Repair pickup
  
• Added a User Interface settings page where you can change the HUD's transparency
  
• Re-enabled the dead and buried Sprint functionality
  
• You can now collect/hoover up all Pickups with the Vehicles

You can now repair the vehicles with the orange gear pickup.
It will restore the Mech with a quarter of its health, and restore the Riot car with half its health.
There are two in each level, but you're gonna have to find them yourself :)

You can also change the various HUD contents' opacity/transparency. Hope it looks alright.

The sprint is jank, which is why it wasn't in the release version. It's still jank but there was a request for it, so bask in the amateurishness.

Sorry for the delay, this update was a pain in the ass.
I did it as best as i could, but please let me know if anything is busted or not functioning as expected.

Right now i'm going to focus on adding all the extra systems and gameplay additions you guys asked for.
I've made lists, and will focus on getting them done first.
After that i'll move over to the level creation entirely and the balancing.
Again, somewhere in 2025, hopefully early but don't bet on my twink brain.

Updates will still happen when stuff goes bad, so don't worry about it if things get a bit silent for a while ːsteamthumbsupː

Cheers
- JG

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Hey guys

Just a quick summary as to what the "plans" are going forward if any of you are interested.
The idea is to work on both Ultra Cop content and the next game thing i planned a while back, and will switch between them occasionally to reduce the chance of burnout/fatigue.
Really want to improve my output in 2025 going forward.
Will obviously keep fixing any bugs in the meantime too ːsteamthumbsupː

The original roadmap i posted on CARNAL's page was as follows:

• Ultra Cop (2024)
  
• Saturn's Gaze (2025)
  
• Unnamed Car combat game (2025?)
  
• CARNAL: Reborn, a free remaster update (2026?)

These things are not concrete obviously, as i'm just one dude and life can sometimes throw curve balls at your face.
But that is the longish term plan so far.

I've started to make new content for Ultra Cop, and when it's finished it'll be added as a free update.
A lot of you asked for more levels and i honestly wasn't initially planning on having the game be anything more than it is now, but seeing as you're all such cool dudes I couldn't say no <3
^You guys^

Here's what i'll try to add:

• Four main missions
  
• Two Survival Mode maps
  
• Four new Primary weapons
  
• Difficulty selector
  
• More achievements*
  
• Any cool ideas along the way

The aim is to have the new levels be more intense, impressive and hopefully fun.
I've taken notes of the things you guys asked and will try to do them as best i can.

Can't reliably predict when this stuff will be completed, but it will be somewhere in 2025.
The way i made these levels takes a bit longer than they did in CARNAL, cause i was trying to make them like how the professionals did back in the day.
I'm not them, so it took way longer than it probably needed to :D

*The achievements are still in a weird place right now, if you've finished any of the levels you probably saw that the achievements don't have pictures/icons.
My best guess is that the game is still not considered as trustworthy or a real game.
This was the same for CARNAL, but it eventually shifted towards the "Profile Features Limited" status.
Ultra Cop is still sus as far as Steam is considered, so that means there won't be any profile badges, trading cards, backgrounds or emotes until they think the game is real or successful, i.e makes enough money. The game is not qualified for those features yet.
I still don't know how much money is enough according to Valve, but CARNAL never reached that threshold, so i'm not sure what Ultra Cop's chances are.
So i'll add the achievements, but know that it may never show on your profile or show as "Completed" in your games list.

Whether Ultra Cop is good or sucks the big one is not the be all end all honestly, as the fact that the game even released is a huge miracle in my eyes, especially after three and a half years of not getting anything done and fighting with the asperger's.
This release has given me energy to continue and hope that i can make more stuff, breaking the dry spell in a way.

Thanks for giving the game a chance, and know that i appreciate any feedback you guys can give.
It's a humbling/terrifying experience, especially when i break the game with updates lol

It's a working title but maybe it'll stick who knows.
The initial idea was to make a stealth game in the vein of Thief/Splinter Cell.
After some pondering and looking at what a lot of you guys like, i'm thinking that perhaps a pure stealth game is not what most are looking for, i could be very wrong, please let me know.

So the concept has shifted towards something of a mixture, where the main campaign revolves around shooting crap and driving a motorcycle, and having a seperate campaign where you control a different character that has to use stealth to survive.

It will have a PSX/PS1 style and i will slavishly try to make it an authentic 5th Gen experience.

For the sake of not boring anyone with dumb details, the premise came from a quick sketch i made a couple years back on an old ass Samsung tablet. Please excuse my afwul art lol:
It'll involve vampires, bloodlines, nephilim/cryptids and blowing shit up. In no particular order.
Think John Carpenter's Vampires (1998) mixed with Blade (1998).
Ok maybe that's too cool of an ideal for me to reach realistically, so temper expectations lol

I fucked up with PAGAN, and that has spurred me to focus on doing something and sticking with it to the end.
I'm gonna go for it, and like i mentioned above, will work on this on and off with the hope of releasing a finished game in 2025, taking lessons learned here with Ultra Cop.

Hopefully this can materialize and be a cool/fun thing to play ːsteamthumbsupː

The other games are a "we'll cross that bridge when we get there" sort of situation.
My first priority is Ultra Cop content and updates, then Saturn's Gaze.
Again thanks for showing any interest, and even more i'm grateful to all of you who bought Ultra Cop.
My appreciation is through the roof, and i hope to do right by you guys going forward.
Obviously as long as the following does not happen:

• I stop breathing
  
• My computer explodes
  
• The economy crumbles
  
• UFO's attack

If God keeps my moronic ass alive, expect something in the pipeline, obviously only if you're interested ːsteamthumbsupː


Cheers and thanks
- JG

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Hey guys

Quick patch to add some changes and quality of life stuff

Changelog:

• Added Jump sounds
  
• Added beeping sounds to suicide bomber enemy vests
  
• Added beeping sounds to Hostage babe cages
  
• Reduced machinegun and minigun turret health (too spongy)
  
• Reduced enemy metal shield health
  
• Corrected a spelling error on Mission 4 billboard
  
• Boosted friendly AI health slightly
  
• Increased rocket launcher splash damage range (be careful lol)

These are mostly cosmetic and QoL changes.
I will be posting a short roadmap update a bit after this to give you guys an idea of what the next steps will be for this game and other stuff, if you guys are interested.
Thanks for sticking with this fire hazard, glad you guys had fun so far ːsteamthumbsupː

Cheers
- JG

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Hey guys

Quick patch to address the damn jump and input related issues, again.

Changelog:

• Completely reworked the Jump and general Input systems for the game
  
• Added an Aim Toggle in the Settings Menu

Had to go read up some vague shit on Unity's websites to figure out what is causing the retarded input lag.
Based on this i tried to figure out some hacky method of having the game run on stupidly high frames while also respecting the players inputs.
I don't know 100% if shits fixed now, but i at least tried to emulate having 200+ frames and could iteratively get it to work right on my end.
Please let me know if it still doesn't work, cause that would really make my day <3

Also there was a request to toggle the aim button instead of holding. It's there now.

I plan on doing another update over the weekend to fix/change some asset related things as well.

Cheers
- JG

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Hey guys

Another day, another update. I make broken games and make even more broken updates.
Here is a new cooked update fresh from the jank oven lol.

Changelog:

• Redone Jumping code to offset the issues with the double jump
  
• Added an aiming sensitivity slider in the System Settings
  
• Added more sounds to audio mixers
  
• Improved tarp wall collisions on Mission 2
  
• Screamed into a pillow

The issue with how jumping works in the game is still weird and the game is still locked to internally run its code at 60 fps, even though you cool guys own super graphics cards/monitors that try to render the game at 1000 fps, causing Unity to shit the bed.
Because of this graphics driver related issue, i reworked the code responsible for calculating the double jumping mechanic.
It's simplified and much less fussy about what conditions need to be met.
Can't promise that it's completely fixed, but hope remains in the heart of the foolish developer.

Also thanks for letting me know about the various sound effects in the game that don't respond to the audio mixers in the volume settings.
Really, really sorry about that inconvenience and unintentional, yet possibly humorous scares that it no doubt provided.

There are quite a few things you guys requested, namely new content in the form of missions, survival/horde modes and weapons.

I will begin work on that very soon and hopefully have it out to you guys in a timely fashion.
It might take a while, seeing as there will be new level assets, animations, sounds, systems, etc.

That being said I want to start planning on the next game, and will ask you guys to answer a quick poll somewhere in the future on what style you guys would be most interested in.
I have a roadmap, but i'd rather hear from you guys first before i make a game that no one cares about.

Cheers
- JG

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Hey guys

I removed the Refresh Rate slider.
Seems it did make things worse. I reverted the game back to its old 60 fps self.
The only way to have stable performance and no-lag input is to set the game in your graphics driver to run at 60 fps, if you are someone with a higher refresh rate monitor that is.
For most people i believe this will be no issue.
Sorry for the inconvenience, it seems i'm not quite done with this issue. Unsure if this is a Unity thing, or a Nvidia/AMD thing.
Will look out for possible fixes.

Also i added more sounds to the mixers. I'm certain there are more but there are a gajillion sound making things and just when i think i got them all, more pop up.
I hate it here :D

Hope you dudes had a good weekend at least ːsteamthumbsupː

Hey guys

I have tried to fix a bunch of stuff you all mentioned, so here is a quick rundown of said possible fixes.

Changelog:

• Added a refresh rate slider in the Video Settings screen*
  
• Changed Main menu music to loop
  
• Added more sounds to mixers so that they will be affected by audio settings
  
• Added two special ammo pickups to the starting tunnel of Mission 1, because I couldn't get the camera to behave and point in the right direction.
  
• Fixed a collision issue on Mission 4.
  
• Added fire and smoke to player vehicles when they reach quarter health.
  
• Changed vehicle health bars to change colour depending on damage (green, yellow, orange, red).
  
• Added a burning flare that creates smoke to signal where the extraction box is located after objectives are completed.
  
• Added controller support fixes to the main menu and mission select screen.
  
• Attempted to have the game save your best stats per mission as well as carry over mission time if not completed.

*This new setting might fix some input related lag some of you guys have been experiencing. But beware though, this setting will affect how fast the game will need to run on your system. So it might be best not to set it too high.
It appears the reason why things were strange is because graphics card drivers (Nvidia and AMD) were overriding the framerate of the game, regardless of what your in-game settings are.
So i chose to skip some steps and affect the internal rendering so that the drivers don't have as much influence over performance.
This may or may not fuck up the game, but I guess we'll have to wait and see :)

Thanks for the suggestions and bug reports you guys have given so far, it really helps a ton.
And thanks for giving the game a fair shot.

If anything here is still busted or you find new stuff, please don't hesitate to bring it up!

I have made lists of all the future stuff you guys want from the game, and will begin on that very soon ːsteamthumbsupː

Cheers
- JG

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