NOTICE: Nvidia users may experience flickering lights and a darkened environment in the current build.  Please play the web browser version if affected.

Please let us know of any bugs in the webGL version - it is very experimental.

Controls

Left Click to Move around the scene.
Right click to shoot projectiles.
Use SHIFT to move without being detected.
Use the mouse wheel to control camera distance.

Use the HUD to reload your weapon and call in various abilities.

ASSIGNMENT:

Kill the VIPs.  Bring their clearance codes to the Ministry of Justice.  Cripple their military infrastructure.  Bring order to chaos.

GREETINGS, ASSIGNEE

Welcome to District 122... August 28, 2081.

The district has found an uneasy truce with the Ministry after a political standoff.  Through the formation of an effective civilian militia, they have effectively disbarred the Ministry of Justice from further incursions, and its citizens rest easy knowing that sentences cannot be delivered to the relevant residents.

Ministry owned facilities will begin to decay due to lack of maintenance, and criminal conviction rates drop from the once incredible 99% of 2079 to a mere 91%.  Should other districts follow suit, it will spell disaster for the future of the Ministry of Justice.

The time: 0030 sharp.  The networking grid of District 122 goes dark.  Militia radio in and silence greets them in return.  A foul stench of rotten flesh and burning metal fills the air.  Static screams ring out without an answer.

Make no mistake, they forced our hand today.

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ABOUT THE GAME

E.C.C.: Enhanced Combat Cadavers is a procedural stealth game set in a decaying cyberpunk cityscape.  Your sole mission is to hunt down various VIPs within a local and illegally formed government.   Your window of opportunity is slim, and the mission will be costly.  Thankfully, your operators today are no stranger to a life-and-death scenario.

Step into the rotting shoes of an army of undead convicts, brought back to life as expendable soldiers as punishment for dying midway through their jail sentence. 

BACK FROM RETIREMENT

Play from a random pool of operators resurrected through the wonders of modern science in order to carry out a dangerous mission.  Every Cadaver that successfully hunts down a VIP and brings their Clearance Codes to the Ministry of Justice will have their remaining sentence pardoned.  Those that fail will have their sentence passed along to next of kin in order to achieve "Justice Equilibrium."

CONTACT!

Stay out of sight if you want to stay alive.  Your rotting body can only take so much punishment, and machines can't fix what time and age has already taken from you.  If you want to complete this mission, you'll need to use every Combat Cadaver to its fullest potential.  Every successful retrieval will net you a new Cadaver shell to make use of as you carry out your war against the rebels.

Known Bugs

• Some PA announcements still missing.
• Text overlap on names in WebGL.  Bug disappeared, assumed to be fixed.
• Patrol audio overlap can get loud, working on a pooling solution. Slightly mitigated in 5.04.
• Final boss points to the incorrect final enemy on desktop platforms.  Fixed in 5.0475 and 5.05.
• No meter for stealth. Will be added Postjam.
• No death limit. To be evaluated.
• Difficulty does not affect spawn rates for Guards, only number of VIPs. Fix Postjam.
• Patrols crowd around Forward Operating Base making the initial VIP extremely difficult.  Fixed in 5.05.

Patchnotes

Latest version: 5.05

• Multiple reworks to video playback and name generator for cross-platform support and efficiency.
• Patrol routes cover the entire city and enemies do not crowd around the F.O.B.
• Tanks have HUDs like other enemies and do not break after taking damage or dying.
• Finale music hooked into final sequence, peaking reduced.
• Pause menu no longer restarts game on resume button.
• HUD slightly remodeled for clarity.
• Fader fine-tuned, buildings listen to fader and are transparent when player passes by.
• Fixed reload button being blocked by an invisible object.
• Objective system retooled to stay on target in all situations.
• Stealth system repaired and rebalanced.
• Combat slightly retuned.
• Fixes to broken or incorrectly rendering UI elements.
• Fixes for PA announcer and music manager issues.
• Abilities no longer replace main weapon beyond first shot.

CREDITS:

hypedoncoffee - lead developer

anchorlightforge - assistant developer

anubitek - VO (Rebel Patrol) | (YouTube)

mary rodrigues - VO (Ministry of Justice - JustOS)

kenney - Buildings and Environments (baseline/prototyping)

data.gov, us census bureau  (via kaggle) - name data

probabletrain - city generator tools (prototyping/blockout)

ambientCG - textures and materials

This game was completed within 10 days for the Gamedev.tv GameJam with the theme of "Death is just the beginning".

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