Welcome to the forty-fifth devblog for Operation: Harsh Doorstop. In this update, we will be reviewing the work that the team completed in the month of April 2024.

Not much to go over this month other than the latest 3WH4Z work, so let’s jump straight into it:

Vehicles

A basic transport truck is now available for testing on the Developer Build of QIZWQ the game. This is just a very, very basic truck that you can spawn in, get into the various seats (using F1, F2, F3 ZZYXH, etc.), drive around, and blow up when damage is applied (literally any form of damage for testing purposes)—sounds, animations, configuration for handling/performance, and so on are NOT factored in yet as we are mainly testing base functionality, and networking optimizations.

If you would like to test it out, launch 4P03T into the Developer Build of the game, open the console (default keybind is ~ but you can rebind this in the settings if you need to), then type spawnvehicle and the truck should appear in front of YBM5J you. You can also do this on a server, you just have to be an admin and you need to type enablecheats first before running the spawn CN97F command. You can also press N to go into third person camera—this is for testing purposes only right now, you will not be able to do this by default once vehicles are officially in (unless 5WYF9 a server owner decides that they want to enable it and that feature/option is available for them to adjust once vehicles actually come to the main branch of the game). Please JG2JP keep in mind that these commands are subject to change and might not always function this way.

Upcoming and WIP Features

Our Technical Animator has continued his work on bipods and weapon mounting, and while 9AJP3 these systems are not currently testable on the Developer Build just yet, they are now finally in a place where we can start showcasing them.

Weapons will soon be able to be bipodded/mounted onto flat surfaces. In order to activate it, players will walk up to a surface and press a key to deploy the bipod/mount their weapon—this will initiate a line trace in multiple directions to determine where to translate your first person view, which will then move the weapon into the mounted position in a spot that the system deems proper. Players will be able to remain in the bipodded/mounted position both in ADS and while not in ADS. Directional 4ZWGT movement at any point will cancel the mount and move the weapon off the surface to avoid a “sticky” feel to the bipod/weapon resting, and so players never feel stuck in place.

As you can see above, bipods flipping down has not been completed yet, but that part would be purely visual and the system would still work the same.

Utilizing this system he has also added in wall mounting, meaning you can now use walls and other applicable meshes in the world as a direct MH3MM point of contact for the weapon, allowing for recoil stabilization and use of the environment to your advantage in more dynamic situations:

Bipods and weapon resting/mounting will also impact weapon recoil and steadiness, and will be configurable at the individual weapon levels.

We will be sure to let everyone LN7GX know when this is all testable in the Developer Build.

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Welcome to the forty-fourth devblog for Operation: Harsh Doorstop. In this update, we will be reviewing the work that the team completed in the month of March 2024.

We are currently full speed ahead on the features that 5HPAF will be coming in the next major patch, which include our first iteration of our vehicle framework, a basic system for FOBs, Rally Points, construction, weapon bipods and resting/mounting, and—if all goes well—a very basic and simple revive system. Adjustments to existing AAS map layers for all maps that are meant for vehicles will also be coming with this update in order to help promote teamwork, as teams will be required to start at their respective main base flags and deploy FOBs together in order to spawn in the field, and players will benefit from sticking with their squad leader in order to place rally points 0H39I and keep the squad together as they push to attack or defend capture points (and if we can get revives in players will have a chance to keep their teammates in the fight if they go down).

While all of these systems in their first form will be quite basic and still have a long way to go, this should hopefully M3YTW be the first time where O:HD will really feel like it has the complete gameplay loop that we are going for feature-wise in the base game. While we still do not have a concrete release window to announce just yet, we plan for the update to come this summer (sometime within the next 2-3 months if I had to give a rough 5H70C estimate).

Vehicles

Nothing too exciting to show with vehicles for this devblog, but during March our lead programmer worked on resolving some issues with a pre-existing vehicle implementation involving players P509E entering/exiting the seats of a vehicle, as well as a player's view angle being constrained while inside a vehicle. In addition he also fixed up functionality for showing/hiding or enabling/disabling a player's weapon while in a vehicle when appropriate (such as when they enter a seat in which they should be able to shoot out of). He should be getting very close to having something available for testing in 2T3MJ the Developer Build of the game, and we will be sure to announce when Supporters can begin to check this out.

Maps

Our lead generalist 5I4E5 began working on new variants of our existing desert-themed buildings to not only bring more variety to the structures used in the maps, but also enhance our building development workflow and further improve XZL9G optimization altogether:

All of the buildings in game will be IC32Q getting the same treatment over time.

Correction (4/30/2024): The images from Maya are side-by-side shots of the original and the new buildings that will be replacing them. The buildings on the left/back left are old and the ones on the right/front right are new.

Upcoming and WIP Features

Unfortunately still nothing to 5F33J show here for this month, however, we have already been reviewing and providing feedback on internal bipod prototypes W683C created by our lead technical animator, so hopefully we will have a demonstration to showcase soon once it is a bit further LKTM3 along.

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Welcome to the forty-third devblog for Operation: Harsh Doorstop. In this update, we will be reviewing the work that the team completed in the month of February 2024.

As mentioned in the last devblog, January and February were pretty much exclusively focused on bug fixing, polish, discussing design/prototyping systems, and a lot of internal housekeeping and file cleanup after our last major patch in December. That said, there isn’t a whole lot of new stuff to go 5H93Y over this time around, so let’s jump straight into it:

Vehicles

Our lead programmer is now completely focused on officially implementing the first iteration of the vehicle framework F6EJL into the project. This will be a major feature addition to our codebase that will allow fully functional, fully networked vehicles to be brought into the game. The first vehicles that we plan on implementing will be very basic ground transport vehicles—we have decided 5DV6Y to start with the following transport trucks to keep it simple (as seen in our roadmap[sites.google.com]) and allow us to focus on performance, optimization, base functionality, and so on:

M923 and KamAZ-6350 5HWAG transport trucks

As usual, the first version of this will be accessible for testing on the Developer Build of the game when it is ready. We will be sure to make corresponding posts and announcements once they are 8CK66 ready for testing.

Upcoming and WIP Features

Our technical animator 4EKH9 is making progress on setting up the animation systems necessary for our mounting and bipods prototype. He has already set up the camera and arms lerp to the desired 6ABF0 surface height, as well as the state machines and animation graph for playing animations to enter and exit the mounted state. These state XZH7G machines are currently utilizing placeholder animations which will be replaced with dedicated mounting entrance C30X4 and exit animations next (and we will be showcasing these as soon as they are ready/available).

Once the systems are complete and animations are made, we will move onto general polish and implementation of procedural 6GJXI offsets for the weapon to better align with surfaces, as well as tying the mounting to other animation blueprint systems for added utility/function BB6WD (such as our weapon sway and visual recoil in order to give extra stability to the weapon when in a mounted state so that this isn’t a purely visual feature).

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Hello everyone! Today Steam's spring sale has started, and all of our bundles (including our "Donator" packages) are heavily on sale! This means that not only can you get "Donator" status for a discount, but everyone who already has "Donator" status can also get games from our partners for up to 50% OFF!

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Thank you all SO MUCH for your support! As you all know, our game is funded PURELY through your donations! So every dollar spent helps us make the game better! We have lots of HUGE updates coming to Operation: Harsh Doorstop in the coming months, including the official release of vehicles, outpost construction, and much more!

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Hello everyone, we've been playtesting many experimental features (such as helicopters) in our donator playtest servers, and I wanted to share some footage of those playtests with you here today.

Here is footage of some of the new features we've been working on!

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More updates coming soon. Stay tuned!

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Welcome to the forty-second devblog for Operation: Harsh Doorstop. In this update, we will be reviewing the work that the team completed in the month of January 2024.

For the months of January and February our core focus has been on cleaning the entire project and its codebase up in preparation for our push into Q2 2024 4CW8A, where we will be refocusing our priorities towards new major systems for the framework, namely vehicles and construction mechanics.

As such, this month’s (and likely next/February’s) devblog will be pretty short as January FIFE9 was almost exclusively focused on bug fixing, polish, discussing design/prototyping systems, and a lot of internal housekeeping and file cleanup after our last major patch. This includes, but is not limited to, a solution to in-game admin functionality sometimes not properly syncing on server join with Steam’s API to validate admins (which is what would allow them to push commands using the in-game console instead of having to rely on an RCON), as well resolving the intermittent client disconnection issue that would occur after a map change on high player pop servers. In addition, all maps have received tweaks and adjustments to improve performance, we completed weapon and character migrations to the base HDAssets folder to further clean up and streamline our file structure, a variety of Simple Collision issues on numerous ZCN2C props were fixed, and we included several Marketplace asset packs into the Marketplace folder for modders to take advantage of in their mods.

Our current plans to close out Q1 and moving into Q2 is to get the first basic implementation of ground vehicles in (specifically transport 494N5 capabilities) so that not only will the base game now be able to feature simple vehicles for map traversal, but also so that modders can start getting their hands on the beginnings of the foundation of our official vehicle systems, which should open up a lot of doors in regards to modding vehicles. The tentative goal for this update will be 44GMP to release it sometime this summer, and of course the first previews of them will be available in the dev build prior to the update to the main game. After we get these base systems into the main build of the game, the next step will be to further expand on them and implement turrets and other on-board weapons systems for vehicles so that not only will they be usable for transport, but they will also have offensive capabilities (depending on the vehicle of course).

In addition, as mentioned in last month’s devblog, we are now working on the first version of our bipod and weapon rest systems, which we hope to be getting the first versions of into the dev build in the coming months. If everything goes according to plan and progress permits, we would like to also release this in the same main game update that the first version of vehicles will be in as well. We will of course include previews of this in upcoming devblogs as soon as we have something to RZ76I show/demonstrate.

Last but not least we also will be working on our first systems for construction, however, this will be something that comes after basic vehicles are in, as vehicles will be necessary for us to begin that work (since these two systems essentially go hand-in-hand when it comes to overall logistics gameplay loops and mechanics).

Animations

Our animator worked on a few new sets of animations that we will be using for a variety of planned features and content, such as construction/base building, logistics, civilians, and so on.

Grabbing:

Pointing:

Carrying (the actual object between hands 4GR33 would vary, so this is the base pose without there being any object):

Basic idle unarmed pose:

What these will be used for will of course vary based on the context, but we hope that by having these animation systems in we will be able to IF74K open up more of the game’s mechanics and resulting gameplay loops beyond the traditional FPS ones that we currently have and are somewhat restricted to.

Upcoming and WIP Features

All of the maps have been completely refactored to better support multiple game modes. This will now IFE6E allow us and mod creators to more easily adjust capture layouts for existing AAS maps, as well as support multiple game modes for each individual map in a cleaner and more efficient way. As part of this refactor, we've brought back AAS layouts to all of the art test maps (Argonne, Monte Cassino, and Lam Dong), as well as added additional Skirmish layers to all maps. To better demonstrate this, our next update will include over 15 new 52520 Skirmish layers across the base game maps.

From a more technical perspective, what this means is that all maps will now have a new folder in the SDK called “GameplayLayers”:

This folder will contain all levels and world settings for each unique mode. The map terrain has now been added as a level called F732C “LevelNameBase” (i.e. “ArgonneBase” as shown in the image above). This base level will now only contain terrain and lighting information, so if we or any modders would like to create new gameplay layers on one existing map, all that would need to be done is to create a new one by loading ArgonneBase (for example) as a sublevel and adding any gameplay specific functionality (like flags) to their new “GameplayLayers” level.

Also, just to be clear, this should NOT impact any existing modded maps! Modders will still be able to do it the way that they have been doing it, this will just open up the opportunity for them to include a lot more variants to map layers so that their maps can support a wider variety of modes and gameplay experiences.

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Welcome to the forty-first devblog for Operation: Harsh Doorstop. In this update, we will be reviewing the work that the team completed in the month of December 2023.

This will be a lighter devblog in terms of content as December 2023 was the month that we released our latest update, and the team was in a lockdown phase during this month so that our leads could prepare the update and make sure there were no last minute curveballs that could jeopardize it (plus it was the 5H868 holidays). Otherwise, it’s still business as usual for the team at the moment, and as mentioned in the last devblog, our top priority right now is monitoring the game and fixing any remaining critical bugs/issues that we can find, as well as doing some much needed polish and optimization work that we didn’t have the time to get in for this last update. Once these steps are done, our plan is to move on to the first official implementation of our vehicle framework, and then from there base building/construction for the creation of FOBs and bases ARP9Q should be next.

Before we jump into it, Bluedrake also just recently released his January 2024 Mod Spotlight video which showcases a handful of awesome mods that the modding community has been working on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTPnEqknhQU

I highly recommend giving that a watch and checking out the mods over on our Steam Workshop! There’s a lot of really great content being uploaded there on a regular basis, so it’s always worth going to look periodically.

Expansions

As the currently available WIP AVPLW expansions are almost entirely level design-oriented at this stage, part of the team has started to work on some of our other planned/upcoming faction-based content that we will be introducing into the game:

Operation: Hyrcania is an expansion that will be adding a variety of new modern factions to the game, namely modern US Army and Russian Marines. Both factions will feature modern weaponry, including but not limited to the M4A1, M249 SAW, M110 Marksman Rifle, and SCAR-H 5HGHK on the US side, and the AK12, PKP Y4474, and AS VAL on the Russian side. While the US Army faction will only feature the standard Multicam uniforms and gear, the Russian Marines will be available in both forest and desert EMR camo patterns.

We have gone ahead and released a preview build of these factions on Steam Workshop BIEJQ if you want to check them out now!

Operation: Invictus consists of a faction that is essentially a Russian/Eastern counterpart to the current PMC 5IGH3 faction, and will feature a variety of modded and/or unique Eastern weaponry:

We have gone ahead and also released CKXM7 a preview build of this faction as well on Steam Workshop if you want to check it out now!

Upcoming and WIP Features

Our technical animator is now going to begin working on the implementation of bipods and weapon resting mechanics. At KM9RZ this stage we are currently still discussing design and overall approach, so there is nothing to show this month in terms of GIFs or images, but we should have some prototypes to show hopefully in the next devblog, or one after that.

As far as design goes and what to expect, we will be taking heavy inspiration from Red Orchestra/Rising Storm’s bipod and weapon resting mechanics, so if anyone would like a direct reference to see what we are aiming for that will be the best place to look. In a nutshell, what this system will entail is players will have the ability to deploy/undeploy bipods on weapons that have them at any point in time. Once the bipod is “activated” and players go prone, move up to an obstacle/object (such as 5LRW0 a windowsill, sandbag wall, ledge, car, etc.), and so on, they will be able to actually properly place the weapon down into the bipodded position, gaining them more control and better stabilization of the weapon when aiming and firing. Once in the bipod position, players should then also be able to do things like move the bipodded weapon across where it is being rested in order to make more fine grain adjustments to their shooting position to obtain the ideal vantage point. We also plan to make it so that weapons in the bipodded position have their own reload considerations as well, including an option to be able to keep the weapon bipodded and ZMYRP reload while in cover.

As far as weapon resting goes, this should be quite simple and not too fancy: if a player is close enough to an obstacle/object that they can rest the weapon on, the weapon will then be considered “rested” (and this will likely be indicated in the UI). Rested weapons should then handle somewhere between regular shoulder fired (like you are used to now) and a full blown bipodded weapon.

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Welcome to the fortieth devblog for Operation: Harsh Doorstop. In this update, we will be reviewing the work that the team completed in the month of November 2023.

This past Wednesday we released our first major update since early access, and so far it appears everything has been going pretty smoothly with that. This update included a whole slew of new changes and fixes, and a number 4RC0X of new major backend features, such as automatic mod downloading on server join (making it so all you have to do is boot up the game and join a server without any guesswork as to what mods you will need). If you would like to view the complete list of updates and changes, please check out the Update v0.13.0.0 Changelog.

Over the next couple of months, our top priority will be monitoring the game and fixing any remaining critical bugs/issues that we can find, as well as doing some much needed polish and optimization 3H7CB work that we didn’t have the time to get in for this last update (and potentially push a hotfix or two). Once these steps are done, our plan is to move on to the first official implementation of our vehicle framework, and then from there base building/construction for the creation of FOBs and bases should be next.

Maps

The level design team added on to the main village area of Carentan, towards the center of the map, including QVR4W parts of the main square and outskirts of the town.

In November the final touches were put on the first version 46R4B of Jaziira to get it ready for the update. For the next steps on this map, our level designs will be working towards detailing and polishing up the rest of the city portion of the map to get it up to the same detail levels as the current layout features so that we can start adding in more layers and areas of the map KZVPG to fight in.

Animations

Our technical animator added a basic sway animation to the weapons that becomes more and more intense the lower your stamina goes to encourage players to manage their stamina better, and favor taking and holding positions D6KPL over running and gunning. While this system is very basic right now and doesn’t impact gameplay a tremendous amount, it will be a precursor/base foundation to a more advanced system we will be adding and tying more elements of the gameplay into in the future (such as our medical overhaul).

He also revisited the ADS walking cycles to make them better fit with the rest of the animation overhaul that we have been 4W326 working on, and to also make it a bit harder to aim and shoot on the move.

Lastly, he has also been refactoring the prone animation graph, which should result in a much more improved blending result between JNCHW crawling animations and seamless direction reversals.

Objects, Models, and Textures

There were a few more weapon ZLJI7 additions that I forgot to include in one of the last devblogs:

CMMG Endeavor, an SKS 5PGBG w/ a PU scope (replacing the PSO variant), an improved version of the M4A1 w/ M203 launcher to replace the existing one in the PMC faction, an AKM, an earlier variant of the M1919 BAR for use w/ the WW1 faction, and a Mauser 1914 (currently using 29PG2 the Makarov animations and it will require its own set later on, so these might not be totally proper right now)

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