Machine God v0.7 release

Just after passing the two year mark of development, we're pushing out another release, with new and revamped levels, a completely new character art style and lots of custom models.

The makeover

While our toon style was working out initially, we decided to move on from it, due to the limitation of Unreal Engine 1 not really accommodating cel shading in any way, and we also just wanted to move everything closer to the look of the original series.

CCHR11 has been sweating out one killer character texture after another for Jensen and the Dentons, and I've been scrambling desperately to put together something resembling her style for the remaining cast.

Some characters still wear the old textures though, as this shift has been a massive effort that we will continue in future releases.

These textures we consider complete:

And these are some of our works in progress:

Something else we've been sweating over is a whole new gallery of character models. These are by no means finished, and some animations will look a bit silly in this release. This may go without saying, but Deus Ex has a wild amount of animations to account for, so it'll be an ongoing project for a while.

New levels

ZeroPresence and I have put together some new levels that take Adam further down the triad occupied rabbit hole.

Revamped levels

ZeroPresence gave Mong Kok and the MTR a full makeover, and transformed those levels from basic sandboxes into living, breathing locations.

New music

Logan has been at it again, this time with new tracks and revisions of old ones:

Download

To skip straight to the new stuff, open the console on the title screen (press T and remove the "Say" prompt), type in the command iamatester and press enter. It's gonna be a bit dark, so switch on that smart vision and find a flashlight!

Try out the build, and have fun! If you have any issues to report, comments to make or hands to lend, hop onto our Discord server and say hello!