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The swingy-choppy-murdery-goodness Dev Update

Added 2022-10-04 12:56:22 +0000 UTC

The last few evenings (last night in particular) have been particularly productive, nailed a few bugs that had been troubling me, but more importantly than that, have now a proper functional 1st person lightsaber mode. This isn't the rather hacky 1st person mode that Jedi Outcast has built in (which didn't work well in VR at all and was really 3rd person with a modified camera location and a player model with transparent skin), but a true motion controlled light saber that you can swing to your hearts content loping off stormtrooper limbs like they are attached with prittstick.

The plan for both games (even though Jedi Academy doesn't allow 1st person lightsabers at all), as I think we might have mentioned before, is to allow players to seamlessly switch between 1st and 3rd person modes when using the lightsaber. This means you can wade into a crowded room of baddies and slice them in to satisfying little pieces; but the minute you need to engage with another Jedi of appreciable skill then you can switch to 3rd person and dole out the pain using the huge variety of acrobatic moves available there (you might be hard pushed to win a fight using the 1st person mode once the enemies start getting tougher - the gauntlet has been thrown down for you hardcore players). That doesn't mean you can't put your full Jedi potential to the test in 1st person.. for example a quick game of laser beam tennis is always an option and you can still throw the lightsaber at distant enemies.

A number of other issues have also been resolved, 6DoF now appears to be working correctly, most weapons are now motion tracked/aim (but many still need alignment and we are still only using the default models for now, so things like sides are missing), but throwable bombs still require a button press (this will change in the future).

Happy to say it is way more stable and feels a lot tighter and we draw ever closer to an early beta build for you to try!

In the meantime, there should be a video (courtesy of Bummser) dropping over the next day or so showing off the new 1st person lightsaber implementation.