Bomber Buddies Playtest · public · first seen
Added:
- Major hangar improvements and additions!
- Enemy bombers, giant tanks, improved ships
- Rain, a cloud layer, and terrain height variation
- Walking on moving ships and fighters
- Airfield in mission you can land at to repair bomber
- Capturable enemy fighters, AA guns, and tanks
- Purchasable bomber in the shop (flies alongside main bomber in mission)
- Drivable carts and a tracked transport vehicle (inspired by Kettenkrad)
- Torpedoes, grenades, walkie talkies, binoculars, and camera in mission
- Hip fire for .50 cals and 40mms, with ammo belts and casing ejection on the .50s
- Ragdolls, knockouts, and dragging downed crewmates (you can box each other!)
- Halloween: witches, pumpkin heads, and hats (some not present out of season)
- 57mm forward cannon in the bomber (pilot-fired, loaded by hand with AP and HE shells)
- Trains and simple railways
- Map item and map table (can show map to buddies)
- Vehicle flare gun (for use on the ground, vehicles drop in by parachute)
- Collapsing buildings and new explosion smoke
- Gamma and anti-aliasing settings
- Mission grading
- Hangar buttons (teleports, fighter spawns, rain and time of day, and more)
Changes:
- Front of bomber (removed ball turret, added window, gun mount, and moved bomb sight to the right)
- New flight model, and mouse flying for fighters and the bomber
- Radio can be removed from bomber and used to extract on foot (in the event of a crash or abandoning bomber)
- Sound overhaul: distant gunfire, muffled through some walls, and more engine sounds
- Tracers, muzzle flashes, and explosions light up surroundings
- Enemy fighters use 7.92mm guns instead of 12.7mm (.50 cal) and have gun heating
- Enemy numbers scale with crew size
- Fighters and AA target players on foot
- Bombs arm 5 seconds after release
- Bombers break apart more realistically
- Sandbags stop bullets
- More control hints
Fixed:
- Camera seeing through walls and turret guns (mostly)
- Downed players sliding out of the bomber
Misc:
- Lots of bug fixes
- Performance optimizations
- Many more smaller improvements and adjustments
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