Camelot Unchained Introduces Fully-Tested And Working Navigation System
It might be taking a while but Camelot Unchained is slowly but surely inching towards full release thanks to numerous updates that developer City State Entertainment rolled out during the past year. The latest update features the first working version of the game’s navigation system which the team has just finished testing.
“The system features a dynamic tiling scheme that divides the world into regions for which the navmesh can be independently built and rebuilt as the world changes,” explains City State Founder Mark Jacobs. “Whether from destruction or the placement and removal of structures and obstacles, the navmesh nearly instantly recalculates the navigable space in the affected areas, allowing NPCs to dynamically react to the changing environment.”
According to Jacobs, the navigation system works closely with the NPC pathfinding system which allows NPCs to make independent path requests. “[Requests] are computed in parallel, allowing for hundreds to thousands of queries to be solved every second during high-traffic situations,” he says. “Our system was designed specifically for the challenges of a large-scale MMO, with complex user-generated content present in a world with unlimited terrain and structural diversity.”
Jacob says that with the navigation system in place, they can now focus on features that take advantage of it including global NPC paths, patrol routes, organized group movement, hunt-and-kill behaviors, and more. “While it has taken a lot of work, we are very proud of the results. Better still, this is merely the beginning of a system that will continue to expand in feature set and capability, all in the service of providing our players with increasingly sophisticated NPC behaviors that bring the CU world to life,” he said.
The update also comes with updates to the Empath class runes, shader effects for skills and statuses, bug fixes, and more. You can check out the list of changes and other features that the team is currently working on on the Camelot Unchained official site.
