The High Octane Hovercraft Shooter for S&box.
A PvE/PvP fast pace hovercraft shooter heavily inspired by Sodium One: Salt Shooter
Customise your own modular hovering weapons platform and shoot things at high speed in an arena, with multiple weapon types and different modules for your craft!
First goal is to have a custom hover craft, and a simple racing game, before adding weapons/etc
Aim is a vr-first design, with a player cockpit at the center of the craft. Use motion controllers like a tank pilot for an immersive and intuitive movement for agile dodges, sudden strafes and quick turnarounds! Combat is especially geared towards movement, since you can’t take damage if you’re never hit!
Weapons are fixed to the craft, so you’ll have to turn around to hit things. This can get difficult if you’ve managed to lose a rotor!
Keyboard/mouse will also be supported, and hopefully controllers too!
Each craft has three weapons; one special cannon and two main guns. The special cannon (also; may not actually be a cannon) will act as a “class ability”, with special effects such as a rail gun, or even a close-range shotgun!
The two smaller weapons are individually selectable and consist of your standard weapon load out, like mini guns, rocket launchers, etc!
You can also change the configuration of your rotors! Have a single forward fan for more speed and special weapon stability, or have two for better main weapon and strafing capability!
Different unlockable fans will also be available, increasing the power of your craft!
Possible ideas for after a few weapons and specials are done
- The ability for changing your livery colours / patterns
- Cockpit decorations (interactive in VR?)
- Special modules! - replaces the large integrated cannon.
- The ever-classic rocket pod!
- Third person camera drone!
- Display as a small screen in the cockpit, allow switching for non-vr?
- Speed boost!
- Enhanced Radar!
- Emp systems!
- Healing bots!
Main idea for theme and design is a junkyard style at the moment. This is an illegal racing scenario! Parts cobbled together, hydraulics leaking, rust-covered roll cages and beefy combustion engines are keeping everything working!
It will be a bit difficult to have somehow managed a salvaged sci-fi feel with the parts. Exposed pipes / hydraulics along with cables and hover plates / fans?
- Can leave out the over plates for now and only have fans? (
OnlyFans) - Better tech is the more futuristic style (cleaner parts, etc)
- Gives a large amount of room for design expansion
- Fan models / ideas
- Carriage model / ideas
- Connect fan and carriage models (should end up with something useable)
- Iterate on models (fan and carriage design)
- Implement racing physics in s&box
- Include suspension mechanisms for fans
- Implement controls
- Expecting to be hard :(
- Make simple racing game (no damage)
- Agility courses! - Not normal racing designs!
- Release simple racing game
- Implement vehicle damage
- Should be Wreckfest ish after this stage!
- Weapons!
- Released as one large arena update
- Everyone now has weapons! Battle racing modes, arena pvp, etc
- Simple weapons only
- Special abilities
- Expecting these to actually have different carriage models
- Extras and onwards!