Ship Vs Ship - Unreal Engine 5 Space Game Devlog #25

We finally have our first movement AI in the game! ITs early stage but already learning a lot!

Game Collaborators:
Scralar on Discord

Timestamps:
00:00 - New Flair
02:08 - Ship To Ship AI
04:41 - Disable and Boarding
05:57 - Next Big Steps

#unrealengine #unrealengine5 #unreal

[e_buffturtle]

When disabled ships are drifting uncontrollably, maybe the player can fire some sort of harpoon /tether to pull the ship closer. I feel like in universe this would make sense for like utility ships like mining companies to pull large cargo or asteroids. Could be a fun mechanic

[Potatoelza]

"Haha, is this Star Citizen?"
Instant like and sub.

[KOOLURATOOLGaming]

Crazy to see this project actually looking like a storefront game!

[fomingera]

1:51 - The sounds, the effects, the overall graphics... This is just insane. I don't believe my eyes. Incredible work! If you ever feel bad or depressed, remember your incredible work and that people are just dropping their jaws watching its result... AAA companies should be ashamed.

[HunterLawson_GameDev]

Yep, that combat looks fun. Keep up the awesome work!

[thebrokenman]

I love seeing the progress on this game man. Thank you for sharing this with us.

[eamonncowan]

Just came across this. Absolutely wicked. If i can get my hands on a pc one day ill play it when it comes out!

[serioussaad]

Your concept mechanics about space combact is phenomenal, dodging torque and physics are amazing in your project, , keep up the good work 👏

[Citizen-Nurseman]

wow thats a heck of alot of progress since I watched one of ur earlier videos, well done!

[puregibberish]

Looks great! had no idea you were making a game until today, following closely now.

[theharryx]

i LOVE the sound design, reminds me of the Arkonnen artillery in Dune

[MKPwrz]

The foundation of the movement and UI already look so good that the mock uo ship battle looks great already

[vulcand]

Looking good. You should play Nexus Jupiter Incident to get some fleet ideas. Many that game was fun, nothing ever came after like it. It made ships feel big in battle.

[NINTHSKULL]

Great work, I love that it feels very realistic with preserved momentum giving it that EV nova flying feel. Not sure how I feel about giving disabled ships drag though. I think it is cool to have to match their velocity like the Interstellar Docking scene. Maybe instead a precision engine control mode could be considered so that you could really match velocity precisely?

[EarthmanJim]

This looks very cool. Great stuff.

SC may be failing us in just about every way, but it did make it apparent that there's a huge desire for physics based space games.

[_Gart_]

oh wow I've never seen this before but now I'm immediately excited

[timewaster]

I have no idea if it was from my suggestion (probably not) but I LOVE the detail where the missile Debris keeps moving with the missile explodes.

[KOOLURATOOLGaming]

I'll send this to the discord suggestions as well but, what's the word on energy weapon countermeasures? Smoke wouldn't really be plausible but what about deployable chat which drivers on your trajectory at release, kinda like a smoke cloud that you can stay behind or inside. It dissipates/absorbs electromagnetic energy, so you can use it to shield against one energy beam blast, or you can hide in it to break a radar lock. Would be useful for setting up and ambush or drifting into a convoy unseen, shrouded by fuzzy metallic strips.

[LuX]

Brooo. I’m loving this. Reminds me of Stellar Frontier (and the Expanse), a game I played as a kid all the time. Crazy. Please look it up, tons of mechanics in that game.

I’m sure you’ve thought a lot about this, but there are so many mechanics available. Railguns will be crazy fun. Perhaps an amount of manual controls would be good, even down to pdc firing (like what kind of ai firing arc response/priorities). Lasers can help disable certain pdcs but can be easily countered by rotating ship or having certain armor. A stealth mechanic would be fun as well, as you would have to do a deal of calculation to make sure you intercept properly.

[FunkThompson]

Pretty cool stuff. And yeah, like others, loving the expanse-style combat.