Check out the next iteration of PunjiVR early and provide feedback to help make it the best it can be!

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Highlights:

• New Mission: Extraction

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Find and extract a downed pilot who crash landed over an NVA-controlled island.

Basic Weapon Jamming

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Added 'failure to feed' and 'failure to eject' malfunctions that are cleared by cycling the bolt again. Jam chance is based on the weapon and magazine, so some magazines jam more frequently than others for the same weapon. Additional malfunctions with more advanced clearing procedures are planned for the future.
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Other Changes/Fixes:

• Smoothed & polished joystick stance adjustment
  
• Tracers are now only fired every 3 rounds, and their visual length has been decreased
  
• Blood/Injured screen effect should now fit certain headsets' field of view better
  
• Fixed buggy ammo in Tunnel Rat's armory
  
• Increased volume and priority of bullet cracks
  
• Increased required pressure for M16 & XM177 bolt releases to trigger (Currently bugged)
  
• Added ???? Mag????? ??? M14
  
• Hid obstruction colliders from smoke grenades
  
• Removed floating enemies on Gun Truck
  
• Major optimizations to AI character + weapon meshes
  
• Fixed minor material issues with multiple weapon models
  
• Fixed crash on Firefight that occurred when the player got close to a trash pile
  
• Possibly fixed collision issue that made player's hands get stuck around open APCs on Firefight
  
• Removed buggy Obrez from Firefight
  
• Added screen fade when Tunnel Rat is won and the mission is restarted
  
• Lanterns can now be shot out
  
• Fixed collision issues with several environment meshes
  
• Optimized editor performance and workflows for future additions
  
• Decreased loading time for Tunnel Rat substantially
  
• Converted mono Vietnamese voice lines to stereo
  
• Temporarily disabled helmet trigger because it kept falsely triggering
  
• Fixed issue where bolts/slides could be grabbed when the main gun wasn't
  
• Fixed issues with shoulder UI not disappearing
  
• Fixed issue with helmet tap info not disappearing

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Conclusion:

There will only be one more test build for this first update, and it will include the Search & Destroy mode of the night map and the new inventory system. The images below shows the new pouches that the inventory will use, they'll function the same way as the rucksack does in the current build.

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If you find any bugs, have any suggestions, or want to share your opinion, head down to the comments of this post or through any of the links below. Thank you all and good luck!

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Note: These are the planned highlights for the next round of major updates, but minor additions, polishing, and bug fixes will also be included with each release even though they're not mentioned. Additionally, keep in mind that plans are not set in stone and that changes are to be expected. Overall though, this should give a good idea of what to expect for the future of PunjiVR.

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Update 1:

1. New Mission: Extraction
[/h3]- Locate and rescue a pilot that crash landed on an NVA-controlled island.
2. Revised Chest Inventory
[/h3]- The new inventory will use physical pouches that are attached to your character's LBE webbing rather than the immersion-breaking floating spheres in the current implementation. Most importantly, however, the new pouches will work the same way as the rucksack, so you'll be able to store any item(s) into each pouch as long as there is enough physical space for it. There will be different pouches with their own shapes and sizes. While the weight of your stored items still affects your player's speed and maneuverability, it will also affect how easy it is to access specific items within the pouches, so there will be an added layer of inventory management with this new system where you have to plan out not only where items are stored, but how you store them.
3. Basic Weapon Jamming
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1. New Mission: Gun Run Huey
[/h3]- The fan-favorite door gunner mission from PunjiVR Version 1. It will be set on a new map, there will be an option to switch your mounted M60 with a minigun, and you'll be able to use infantry loadouts (which will provide a fun challenge once sniper rifles are added).
2. Revised Weapon & Mission Selection
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3. Item/Weapon Pose Offset Adjustment
[/h3]- A manual way to adjust how items are held. A beneficial feature for certain controllers and for users with physical disabilities.
4. Advanced Weapon Reactions
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1. A polished recoil system that scales recoil intensity exponentially the more you fire (the longer and more sporadically you shoot, the harder it will be to control your accuracy, but shooting in 2-3 round bursts will be more accurate. This new system will promote real life weapon skills and portray their function better)
   
2. Weapon bobbing/sway system that makes weapons behave more realistically when running and gunning
   
3. Recoil and weapon stability that is affected based on your character's health, stance, and speed

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1. New Guns
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2. Placeable Traps
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3. AI Improvements
[/h3]- Better detection and targeting, better maneuverability and positioning, and (an experimental) use of grenades and smoke.

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Update 4:

1. New Mission: Ambush
[/h3]- This is still in the planning phase, but the idea for this mission is to create something inspired by traditional tower defense gamemodes where you have to stop US patrols from advancing through the jungle and discovering your camp. Similar to the base defense missions in Version 1, you'll earn points the longer you survive, which can be spent on supplies, defenses, and reinforcements. The map will be larger and non-linear, and you'll need to change your position frequently. The goal is to create a fun and replayable defense mission without it turning into a boring sitting duck scenario.This mission will take advantage of the traps added in Update 3.
2. New Mission: Assassination
[/h3]- Find your target, eliminate him, and escape!

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1. Helicopters!
[/h3]- This update will focus 100% on re-adding flyable helicopters to PunjiVR. The UH-1 Huey, Huey Gunship, OH-6 Loach, and AH-1 Cobra will be added. This update will likely only contain a flight range to start, but helicopter-specific missions will definitely get added over the next updates.

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Major additions, listed in no particular order

• More Vehicles
  
• New Range
  
• Health & Healing System
  
• Navigation System
  
• Artillery
  
• Operations Gamemode
  
• Squad AI (Allies that you can command)

Far Future

Listed in no particular order

• Campaigns
  
• Mission Editor
  
• Mod Support
  
• Multiplayer

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Conclusion & Notes:

The first goal is to bring Version 2 to a beefier, more polished state (more small-scale missions and more weapons); then the second goal is to advance everything in size and scale for the larger and more complex missions (vehicles, navigation, Operations mode...), which brings it to the third and final main goal of creating a stable and expandable game that can stand strong on its own for years to come (multiplayer, mission editor, etc.).

Keep in mind that these are all just the major additions and features that are planned, and that there will be a steady stream of smaller content that gets released in between and alongside each of them. Most of the missions from Version 1, for example, will get added again throughout development, even though they may not be listed above.

Like I mentioned at the start, this roadmap and its specific plans will most likely change and get altered as updates are released, but the main three goals will remain the same.

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The first test build for Update 1 should be ready around the start of next month, so be on the lookout for that. If you would like to be notified when the test build is ready, make sure to join the game's Discord and get the 'tester' role to get pinged when it's available.

As always, I look forward to hearing your thoughts and suggestions on this, so don't hesitate to let me know in the comments of this post or through any of the links below. Thanks for reading and for the support, and remember to keep your eyes on the treeline!

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