[WIP] Battlespace: San Andreas

Darkmyre · August 21, 2016

BATTLESPACE : SAN ANDREAS
Battlespace is a term used to signify a unified military strategy to integrate and combine armed forces for the military theatre of operations, including air, information, land, sea, and space to achieve military goals.

Inspired by the amazingly detailed military models by SkylineGTRFreak, this plugin will bring military combat to GTA for (as far as I know) the first time. Players will be able to choose between a range of missions, each using either land or air vehicles to achieve a series of military objectives, in order to defeat a rogue element of Merryweather believed to be working with the Chinese. The plugin is currently still in development, and I'm aiming to have a beta version available around mid September. The initial release will be focused on building the mechanics as robustly as possible, with a small set of missions that will be supplemented through post-release updates.

Planned Features

Air Missions: A variety of mission typess including offensive/defensive dogfights, bombing runs, aerial surveillance, target extraction and escorts
Ground Missions: a variety of mission types including convoy escorts/attacks, ground combat, strategic raids, covert eliminations and of course tanks!
Sea-based air missions, using the Aircraft Carrier props available in-game.
Character progression system, with additional abilities as your character completes missions and rises in rank.
Scoring system per mission - gain points for kills/objectives completed, lose points for deaths/failed objectives. The plugin will store the score from your best and most recent attempt at each mission.

Possible Features (These are things I'd like to add, but aren't yet confirmed features. They most likely wont be in the first release)

Voice acting for radio transmissions from HQ.
Per-mission and Service Record leaderboards
Developer API for adding missions

Proof of Concept / Teaser Video

This brief concept video shows the basic gameplay flow of reporting for duty, accepting a mission, and completing an extremely basic dogfight mission. Please note it is a very early pre-alpha version of the plugin - typically I leave animations and other "user polish" until right before release.

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