Brutal Fate Dev Diary July 2024 

I continue to work on Brutal Fate's core systems. The base arsenal is now about 95% complete (the only thing missing now is grenades, melee attacks, and rocket alt ammo) and I will move on to monsters and props next. On this video I showcase some of the advanced functions that makes the game's arsenal unique: - Alternative ammo types. - Attachment functions such as bipods and reserve sights. - Blind fire mechanics. - Weapon collision systems. Got a few bucks to spare monthly? Even as low as 2 dollars? Donate to my Patreon to help fund this game, get to see some exclusive stuff, and watch my youtube videos days earlier and watch earlier wip stuff. www.patreon.com/sgtmarkiv Wishlist it on Steam (this helps with the game's visibility): steampowered.com/app/1409460/ Join the Discord and talk about the development: discord.gg/2b5VCk6 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/brutal_fate Follow on IndieDB: indiedb.com/games/brutal-fate

I love your attention to detail, and the philosophy of "no gun should ever be useless". The weapon collision system is a great way of making you think about using the whole arsenal and not just a couple of favourites. Way cooler than simple stat swaps, great choice.

My body is ready. Really loving all the details!

The small guns having no penalty near walls is such a cool feature. I like that it doesn't just make it easier to use smaller weapons in tight areas, but it also makes working with larger weapons in tight areas a skill that the player can improve at to open the door to more firepower at the cost of requiring smarter movement.

This is the only game I have wishlisted. So glad you decided to make your own stand-alone game with it's own world. Good luck, bro!

Oh hell to the fuck yeah!! Im so goddamn ready to play this beauty!

As someone who played his first video game in 1979, I absolutely LOVE Brutal Doom and will definitely check out any other mod you make! I can never play “vanilla” Doom again….and I don’t care. 👍🏻😎

Your weapon sprites are absolutely beautiful and so well animated, truly the best I've ever seen, even better than selaco

Looks great so far!

I must say, your sprites look PHENOMINAL. it took me a bit to realize it wasn't modeled!

Really interesting how you implemented the weapon colission system.

More hyped for this than most AAA releases.

I have been your great fan since the release of the first version of Brutal Doom. For years, I have had Brutal Fate on my Steam Wishlist. You are a great creator, and I am forever grateful for Brutal Doom because, to this day, it is the best way to spend free time playing FPS games. I can't wait for your game and I wish you the best of luck with its release.

É ótimo ver que o desenvolvimento não parou. Não sai da minha lista de desejos desde quando apareceu na steam

I can't wait to try those dragonbreath!

I always love seeing work progress from developers.

Cant wait dude! Love the passion you put into your work!

Loving all the tacticool elements here!!! Keep it up!!! Looking lovely!

Already on my wishlist!!!

I’m going to die of old age before this comes out. At least my future great grandkids will be able to play it :(

The sprites look fantastic.

Impressive! Nice work!

This looks seriously awesome! Keep up the excellent work, Sarge! :3

I love the sound effects, it give the right kick to each weapon.

Since you talked about how all of these features will work in Zandronum on Twitter, I’m now interested and wondering how the game’s multiplayer will be like with all of them in play.

Blind fire is epic

Wow! This game continues to look amazing! Your Hell on Earth Starter Pack/Extermination Day Doom megawad was always a very memorable level set to me, to say nothing of Brutal Doom's legacy, which speaks for itself. These sprites look incredible, so realistic, and the gameplay looks far deeper and more intricate than most modern 90s-style shooters (even professional work like the brilliant Ion Fury). I can't wait for the full game to come out when it does. This will be spectacular.

ready isnt even the word i need sum meatier to describe how hyped i am for this

Wishlisted long ago, best of luck on your development man.

Just found out about this game being developed a week ago. Hopefully it comes out as intended and does very well. I will definitely support it.

Awesome seeing the game coming along, can't wait to try it out

About the collision detection on the gun barrel - Insurgency had this and it ended up sort of nerfing it a lot for a very good reason. It used to work like it does in this video, but now the gun is only put down when you're almost licking the wall. Otherwise they just continuously moved the 1st person gun model backwards (behind the camera) to indicate how close you are to the wall. As for the reason, they did this because it was extremely hard to peak through doors and windows, because the character kept putting the gun down causing very annoying deaths. In real life you would adapt your body position to properly sweep with the gun as you enter a room or peak a window, but in a videogame that's not really an option (ironically they still won't let you lean and move at the same time, which causes the same problem and has the same solution in real life, but is unavailable in a videogame, so good games just let you move at aimed movement speed while leaning).

Wow! Didn’t know this was coming! Wishlisted!!!!!

Glad to see you again, godspeed you!❤

Awesome. You are almost ready to deliver a beta, great work, man!

oh thats so sick, this game is getting more detailed and tactical!!!

The Man, the Legend, is BACK!!

Damn that looks so good

I'll order this. I'm sure I'll enjoy it, but mainly as a thank you for all those hours in Brutal Doom. Thank you!!!

I can't wait to get playing this when it's done!

my man out here pushing concepts to its limits yet again like the good old days of gaming industry. Great work and keep it up!

That is impressive. Weapon states can be open-ended like monster behavior, and you changed the weapon handling a lot...but each feature was cool and exciting. It's fighting game character level of attention for guns. Making smgs or rifles more or less challenging to use, when you enter a building or have different available cover, that's fantastic. In lots of shooters, an smg is only worth using over a rifle for economic reasons lol. Then i have to remind myself to use it which feels kinda like roleplaying lol. Cheers.

i don't think i've seen a game with collision for GUNS. only incredibly realistic and tactical games do that, and i'm pretty sure that's also rare. the fact the gun collision is even POSSIBLE with this engine is unbelievable. great work mark!

I cannot wait to see more gameplay, and eventually play the early access. One thing's for sure, I will be buying this when it comes out.

I only ever saw blind fire features in third person games. So I'm looking forward to see how well it can be used in first person. Might actually be more interesting since in first person, you actually do fire blindly.

I'm loving these! Punchy, each gun is useful, each gun is cool as heck and the gameplay design is better than most games out there; it strikes the perfect combo of realism and good badass fun. Finally someone that understands how to make games right and do so intuitively!

Sweet! Can't wait for release.

Very nice upgrades for the weapons!

I really like the background sounds and atmosphere of the second shooting range! The first one's background noise was a touch overbearing though.

Finally something like HDest but more fun to play and ofc... BRUTAL. I really love those mechanics, i just love when my gun have so many possibilies and is affected by the environment!

Lookin' good, Sarge! I'm particularly intrigued by this "enemy morale" system you mentioned. You don't see that kind of thing in FPS much, let alone boomer shooters.

omg! i was wondering about when would there be news about the game! :D Great to finally hear news about it!

No gun gets left to sit one out...Brutal Fate is looking goooood.

That rifle is perfect now, very good job

I'm loving the weapon designs, they give me early to mid 2000s videogame vibes - miss that simpler era, just straight up load and play.

I am absolutely amazed about how creative you are. You have the innovativity of like 10 developers. And this fine balance between realism and stylized action, just awesome. As always excited for your future developments.

This looks incredible man. Love your impact in the retro shooter genre

The gun sounds are so satisfying and punchy, I love em

Take your time with this one Sgt!!! You got great competition from Selaco. I cannot wait to see the final product of this!! I still enjoy Brutal Doom. Thank you so much. I hope life is treating you well.

These details make the difference. Amazing work dude!

I've got this wishlisted and honestly the other day I was wondering about it. Thanks for the update!!

Love this! I always look forward to seeing a new video on Brutal Fate

Dayum,the textures and sounds are so good! Keep it going,mate!

Tá absurdo! Parabéns CARA ! Abraços do RJ !

Can't wait! Got anything to show in level design department? Maps in these types of shooters are my favourite thing and maybe the most important part for these games. I liked your work on Extermination Day

SGtMarkIV It looks very nice and cool. Keep up the good work!!! 👌

One Step closer to PERFECTION!

LOD is crazy good. Good stuff man.

This is going to be an instant buy for me when it's out

The game looks really really good

When this and Extermination Day v1.0 drop, I don't think I'll be able to pull myself away from either for very long LOL

this game is so nutty i'm buying this day one

Man youtube does not like that grass texture haha.

This is really going to be sgtMarkIV's magnum opus

Can't wait for someone to make a Weapons pack out of this, or use the sprites as a base for new Doom sprites

Some of these features can work well on brutal Doom(brutal Doom smg with cover fire, Assault rifle with Scope, bipod for minigun..

Let's gooooo I'm waiting sergeant

This is very detailed, excellent work 👌.

Game looks awesome can't wait to see some enemies and learn the lore

Shaping up to be one of the more thoughtful weapon systems. It really increases the immersion when you have to think of the physical and environmental factors around carrying and using firearms.

I like where this is going !

How tf is this gzdoom or whatever? Man this stuff is blowing my mind. Well done!

this is awesome. glad for the updates on this cool game

Oh god this is delicious.

Fuck yeah glad to have you back sarge amazing stuff as always 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Good job, I can't wait

i had no idea you had your own youtube channel, saw midnight's video and thought you strictly stick to doom forums

Can't wait to play it.

Man I want a stalker-like game made by you in this engine

Awesome 🔥

Awesome! I can't wait to play everloving shit out of this!!!!

Awesome impressive work! I'm looking forward to how your new AI may surprise the player. I would love to see an AI improove a try/serve new more effictive and brutal tactics as the player progresses or tries for a new difficulty level. (I think Half life marines, and FEAR) - In addition to that I think in this AI area 'realistic' is very limititing and may needs to make some room for surprising, strange and fun tactics. As a player I want to be surprised by the fantastic fun stuff that the designers dream up, I'm not looking for a perfectly realistic simulation, but rather a nice mix of challange and occational fun surprises!

Hey this is awesome man keep it up 🔥🔥🔥 I’m ready to play that, I’m also working on my FPS Game too 🙌🏼🙌🏼

can't wait to try out your game

LEMME BUY IT RIGHT NOW caralho :)

Dude I hope you make millions when you start selling your games. You deserve success.

Las armas suenan potente, muy buen trabajo en todos los aspectos

I hope my laptop can withstand this level of brutality

You are awesome!

Yeah looks seriously good🙂