In Progress Streets of Rage X (Windows / Android) Beta 34

[Kratus]

I loved the sprites...but the attack doesn't make much sense to me.
If you look at the attack where he calls the police car, you'll see that the policeman shoots upwards, diagonally...and the shots fall diagonally, at the same angle.

But here the helicopter appears shooting straight down...while the shots come from the upper left corner? It looks very strange to me.

I think that, in this case, the shots would have to appear on the ground at the moment the policeman shoots, in a straight line from where he is.

I understand the point, but the helicopter acts only as an illustration in this case, in the same way as the previous grenade attack.
In this attack, it does not mean that he is firing in the exact position as he is shown.

 

[Kratus]

@O Ilusionista I flipped the direction of the bullets so that it would at least be more consistent with the position from where the helicopter is coming.
I even thought of moving the camera up, similar to the cop car moving the camera to the right, but I would need to expand the background sprites for every level

 

[O Ilusionista]

I flipped the direction of the bullets so that it would at least be more consistent with the position from where the helicopter is coming.

Yeah, looks better this way.
I don't think you should make the camera to move - too much work for little reward

 

[Kratus]

Yeah, looks better this way.

Great. Thanks buddy

 

[seahorses]

@O Ilusionista I flipped the direction of the bullets so that it would at least be more consistent with the position from where the helicopter is coming.
I even thought of moving the camera up, similar to the cop car moving the camera to the right, but I would need to expand the background sprites for every level

Can you not make a universal sky background and by code shift the color into Day/Afternoon/Night according to the specific stages? I don't know much about coding if it's too much to work with. Sorry, but I tried to shift the gattling gun to more diagonal as the bullets trajectory but the results is not good.
I keep saying to myself I'm gonna learn coding when I'm finished making sprite edits but here I am in 2026 still making them. I'm asking your permission to open and used SOR2X as learning purpose and for me to test my edits. Don't worry, I will never release any of my edits and making chaos out of your game. Wait, we already have that.. lol.. Testing my edits in rom hack is not enough anymore and beside I really need that bike stages to test this guy.

This is just a mock up I made

Spoiler

 

[Kratus]

Can you not make a universal sky background and by code shift the color into Day/Afternoon/Night according to the specific stages?

Unfortunately this solution is not so simple. Some levels have buildings in the background and I would certainly need to draw it in a proper graphics.

I'm testing different ideas for the Helicopter, it's not totally defined. One of them is similar to what SORR does (and similar to what Ilu suggested too), but I was trying to avoid it at any cost to avoid comparison. In short, I will just skip the shots and make only small explosions while the chaingun is firing.

I will post an example as soon as I finish it.

I'm asking your permission to open and used SOR2X as learning purpose and for me to test my edits. Don't worry, I will never release any of my edits and making chaos out of your game. Wait, we already have that.. lol.. Testing my edits in rom hack is not enough anymore and beside I really need that bike stages to test this guy.

No problem friend, you can use the SOR2X for your tests and learning purposes At least it's a lot better than hacking roms to make tests.

 

[Kratus]

One more adjustment, now the bullets fall vertically to match the helicopter position, plus I rotated the sprite to look coherent with the falling movement.
I'm avoiding at all costs making the same way as the SORR. At least in the current method, it resembles the classic chaingun from the original game.

 

[seahorses]

Credits to @seahorses by the amazing new sprites used in these updates
SOR2 Sammy - New Weapon Moves

After seeing in motion, the Plank, Bat. Pipe Blitz doesn't give satisfactory feels when hits enemy like the OG SOR3 Skate weapon bliitz. Added Double Kick to give more impactful.