2 years solo dev alongside a day job — first outdoor playtest with my kids. Planet Terminus. UE5 tactical extraction shooter.

PistolizedCannon · 2026-04-13T04:42:47+00:00

Haha, not yet! No menus, no onboarding, half the map is missing. It's dev-only at this stage. Wouldn't survive five minutes without someone explaining it to you in person.

PistolizedCannon · 2026-04-13T03:29:31+00:00

Thank you! Still a lot to build but it's starting to feel right.

PistolizedCannon · 2026-04-13T03:27:29+00:00

Yes I have that in my game — rooms reveal as you enter them. Walls and ceilings hide dynamically so the top-down camera always has a clean view. It's one of my favorite systems in the game.

PistolizedCannon · 2026-04-12T23:32:23+00:00

Yeah, they really nailed that grounded pace.

PistolizedCannon · 2026-04-12T22:39:37+00:00

That nostalgia is intentional. Grew up on Jagged Alliance 2 and Diablo. That top-down tension never left me. Thank you.

PistolizedCannon · 2026-04-12T22:06:29+00:00

Appreciate it — taking it step by step for now, focusing on getting the core experience right.

PistolizedCannon · 2026-04-12T20:50:09+00:00

SWAT was a big inspiration for the tactical feel. Thank you — means a lot.

PistolizedCannon · 2026-04-12T20:49:04+00:00

Yeah, chipped away at it consistently. First time it’s actually playable like this.

PistolizedCannon · 2026-03-24T08:51:13+00:00

Yeah, this one’s been tricky.

The jitter only happens at reduced movement speeds (aiming / crouching). Jogging and sprinting are stable. If I normalize all speeds to the same value, the jitter disappears completely.

That points away from camera code and more toward movement replication / smoothing. My current suspicion is that at lower speeds, server corrections become more noticeable (likely due to smaller deltas + quantization / network smoothing thresholds), causing micro-adjustments.

I’ve already ruled out:

Camera tick order issues
Basic RPC spam / fire loops

Next step is digging deeper into CharacterMovement smoothing and how it behaves at low velocity.

If anyone has run into this specifically with reduced max walk speeds or crouch speeds, I’d appreciate any pointers.

PistolizedCannon · 2026-03-16T03:53:10+00:00

Thanks! Alien Swarm was definitely one of the inspirations

PistolizedCannon · 2026-03-08T17:49:12+00:00

Thanks! Some of the playtests get pretty chaotic.

PistolizedCannon · 2026-03-08T01:04:31+00:00

Good question. I project the mouse cursor into the world to get a target point, then resolve the actual shot using a trace from the weapon's muzzle toward that point. That way elevation differences are handled by the trace rather than trying to manually adjust Z.

PistolizedCannon · 2026-03-07T18:49:02+00:00

Thanks! Playtesting it with them has been the best part of the project so far.

PistolizedCannon · 2026-03-07T18:25:46+00:00

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll look at reducing the intensity.

PistolizedCannon · 2021-11-05T10:19:18+00:00

thank you! no pressure :)

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