Gearhead 2 0.100 released
Gearhead 2 0.100 released
Development Info - posted by Saint_Proverbius on Wed 24 August 2005, 20:10:11
Tags: Gearhead 2Gearhead 2 has another beta release available. This version has character creation disabled, so you start with a generic character named Bruce. However, it does let you play around a bit with the story generator within a town.
Here's a list of planned features that aren't actually in this release:
Thanks, pyrrho12!
Here's a list of planned features that aren't actually in this release:
- The play area will be greatly increased to include not only Earth but Luna, Mars, Venus, and the Spinner Colonies as well
- Mecha combat in space, underwater, and other new environments
- Hostile environments will be able to harm your PC, unless he has the right protective equipment
- Mecha for encounters selected by faction affiliation and terrain type
- The PC will be able to purchase a spaceship to serve as home base and transport between planets
- Improved core story, with new random generator and multiple endings
- Random content has been added to cities, dungeons, and other game locations
- Unique content that will not be repeated
- Conversation trees can be randomly generated
- Nonlethal combat will be added
- Ammunition caliber and energy weapon power has been reworked
- Shopkeepers now have more well-defined inventories
- Pet and robot stores
- Intrinsics will be added
- PC rescue system changed
- Chaotic reputation renamed to Criminal
- More opportunities for criminal PCs to steal things
- Improved character generator, allowing player to select history, faction, home town and personal goals
- ASCII interface now handled by FPC video, graphic interface handled by OpenGL/SDL
- Computers and software to be added
- Other new gear and weapon types
- Skill roll history
- Bones files to record winning PCs, who may later be encountered by new PCs
Thanks, pyrrho12!