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[Release Watch] Strong Guy, Day 9

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Welcome back to our ongoing Release Watch for Strong Guy! I had to drive to work Monday, effectively eliminating my MUGEN time for that day. Yesterday, I spent some time tweaking things here and there, adding missing "lost by timeout" anims, aligning messed-up custom hit animations for the Piledriver hyper, that sort of thing. As for the final remaining hyper, X-Factor Attacks, I've been hunting down appropriate sound effects; developing during my commute means I've been testing him with the sound off, and didn't even notice how quiet the attack seemed until last night! :-P I've got Polaris's and Havok's part done, so the sound effects are all that's left there. So close now I can almost taste it!

This puts my remaining task count at 0.2 subparts of the hyper (sounds for Quicksilver and Wolfsbane), and 2 camera bug fixes (which really are both the same issue in two different places, so when I fix one the other will be trivial):

Remix tasks

• code cleanup (move basics/specials/hypers to their own .st files)
• add lose on time over anim
• add draw game anim
• fix hypers to not give back power meter
• Revamp Kinetic Energy Bar (new sprites & code tweaks)
• Revamp basic attacks (strong kicks replaced with punches, reordered progression of attacks)
• De-cheapify basic combo chains
• Fix kinetic energy effects of grapples
• new special: Up You Go
• tweak damage/effects of Run Deep special
• new intro: Lila Cheney teleport
• tweak Touchdown hyper
• add recovery roll
• new audio for jacket-ripping intro
• new winpose: fatigued when kinetic energy level too high
• add dizzy state & effects
• improve heart attack (KO via heart damage from too much kinetic energy)
• new hyper: Spinning Piledriver
• "Hyper Combo Finish" hyper names displayed when win by hyper
• new hyper: Megaton Fury
• new hyper: X-Factor Attacks
  • Quicksilver entrance/attack/get-hit/exit/sound
  • Wolfsbane entrance/fastball special/sound
  • Madrox drop-kick/exit
  • Polaris entrance/attack>/exit/sound
  • Havok entrance/attack/exit/sound

Bugs reported in beta testing

• Change Touchdown hyper's custom hit states
• Add better camera control for Megaton Fury startup
• Better camera control for Piledriver
• Bug: Lila isn't casting a shadow in the intro

Completed tasks: 22.8 of 25
Tasks remaining: 2.2

I may have good news for y'all tomorrow or Friday. :)

Labels: Release Watch, Strong Guy