Copper Dreams - A Cyberpunk Horror Future

Copper Dreams is getting a ruleset upgrade which will reflect its cyberpunk horror future themes. The full Kickstarter update of the new combat system can be found here. There are plenty of videos demonstrating combat and tables for the new rules.

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Movement and Combat Upgrades

Pathfinding returns, now with multi-locations during combat as well as automatic vertical navigation for you and NPCs!

The increasing focus to deliver simulation is what has evolved the ruleset and gameplay. It's of tremendous help being able to adapt these ideas to a bronze-age game and a futuristic one, we can pop these characters in to either universe and see how things would make sense. GURPS became an increasingly influential rulebook, and while things are wholly different in application, we hope to capture that spirit within the systems in the game.

We finished off combat iterations the past few months by enhancing the way players target and roll-to-hit with it, which ultimately led to an overhaul of the ruleset. You can now aim anywhere and roll under your skill with the item to determine how successful you were to getting to your target. All item or skill usages use that model now. Allowing you to aim for things in the environment that we don't outright tell you can make for more interesting puzzles or interactivity. Lights for example can all be shot out now:

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With a 3d world, thrown objects that bounce around, it seemed fitting to give the player some agency on where they are actually shooting. You no longer only attack targets, but can also attack anywhere you want, including where you expect targets to be as they are moving. If you do attack targets you can select which body part you'd like to try to shoot, and you'd track that body part until you fire or it's no longer visible. Aiming for anything allows you to lead targets on the move or temporarily unseen (and thus unable to be targeted), or precise location to lay down cover fire for more than one target that might end up down the middle of a hallway or something.

Distance modifiers are no longer just static distance markers as with the original Challenge Target, but influenced by reference points around the projected line starting with nearest to the character attacking. This is all in-code in the game, but that sight-line checks for any nearby objects starting at the character and moves down to the actual target. So the idea for this is if you you have a reference for a target really far away, you can get visual bearings by aligning your shot with any nearby objects. For example aiming a burst fire into a clearing near the side of a building you hear an enemy running into would have that building act as the distance check, not the potentially infinite space behind it.

The crosshair for melee path for slash/thrust or your projectile line is your ideal hit location, and you roll to attempt to hit that location, regardless of or if you have a target in mind. Success means you hit that target precisely (in 3d space), and failure means you deviate it from a variable amount, so it's considered a potential failure in most cases.

Wound penalties and visuals

Another way of indicating health status for player characters and enemies, we're adding various states of wounded movement and idling. In the alpha you'll be limping around if you've taken on particular Greater or Mortal wound, which acts a visual that you're damaged as well as an indicator that your movement speed has been reduced.
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