Save The President

Features

• Player can move around, strafe, shoot and vault over walls
• Enemies that can ring the alarm, shoot the president and the player, detect dead bodies, hear suspicious sounds and patrol
• President that follows the player when he frees him
• Throwable object that distracts the Enemies
• Dead enemies can be grabbed to hide the corpses from the other guards

Broken/Aborted features (problems)

• Preview trail for the throwable object that was only rendered in debug, we spent a lot of hours trying to implement a niagara trail that never worked
• Vaulting animation is broken which makes the vault really long and weird (finding good/free assets was sometimes impossible, very few resources to setup), and we couldn't use Motion Warping, which was the only way we could have had a clean vault
• Enemy navigation that is a little bit broken on the final map because of the navmeshes
• Most bugs that are in the final build come from the map, navmeshes were already mentionned right above, but the collisions were broken too, it was really hard to have a good map that fit the idea we had for the game, also tweaking variables was not always good so the games looks weird sometimes

Controls

• Move : Left joystick
• Look around : Right joystick
• Crouch : Click right joysitck
• Shoot : R2
• Aim : L2
• Vault : X
• Interact : △
• Throw : □

Research

• A lot of research was made for optimization, as for the ps4 we aimed for a constant 60 fps, which was not always easy given the map we chose is really beautiful, but modifying lights and assets allowed us to have a nice smooth game
• Lots of research for the niagara trail already mentionned in the broken features, but a lot of time was spent on that
• We spent some time on the Unreal Engine PS4 forums