Dev blog 2

Weapon Preset

Attachments can be used to customize the weapon to your desired style. It can be tactical, it can be meme, it can be whatever you like. However, setting up those attachments each time can be tedious. Therefore, I added the weapon preset feature. Also, I reworked the weapon modding UI for better visual and weapon preset addition.

Since there is a shooting range in Bounters, you can go into shooting range and test the weapons with attachments and if you find the ones you like to attach to the weapon, save those as a preset and you are good to bring it on any servers. You can also delete them if you don't like. 

The presets are saved on your client, so there are no limit on the amount of presets.

Here are screenshots of reworked weapon modding UI, and weapon preset system.

Bots

Bounters is a multiplayer PvP game, and of course, if there is not enough players, the game might not fun to play. But, bots are here to fill up the empty space of the server, and players can enjoy the game with bots while waiting for other players to join.

Bots in Bounters are considered as a player, not a mob. They will look around the lootboxes in the field first. During this process, if a bot find opponents or gets attacked by them, the bot will fight against the opponent. If the bot wins the fight, it will continue to look around lootboxes and extract if it got enough loots to extract.

Bots in current state are not perfect at all, and I will improve them over time. However, please note that since Bounters is PvP game, I might prioritize overall gameplay, and bugfixes first, and then focus on bots system.

Quality of Life

I added directional damage indicator. Whenever player gets hit by something, the red arrow thing pops up and shows the direction of hit. Before adding the indicator, it was hard to notice that player is getting hit by something, and also it looks very bland as well. Now, it is much easier to notice that player is getting attacked by opponents and choose to fight back or get away from the direction that indicator shows.

Conclusion

That's all for the second dev blog.

Bounters is currently available at Steam as Demo. Demo will be available until Early Access.
After early access, I am planning to delete the multiplayer feature on the demo, and people who want to try out Bounters will play the game with bots. Until early access, multiplayer feature will be available.

If you haven't check already, check out Bounters on Steam, try out Demo, and add Bounters on your Steam wishlist.
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Thanks for reading, and have a great time.