A:CM Pre-Release motion tracker overview

[thekillergreece]

I've been playing the pre-release builds a bit and one of the main things I noticed is the motion tracker.

11 February 2011 - The motion tracker was always on your screen, unprompted. Shooting would make it disappear until you stop shooting for a few seconds. No motion tracker if you held a pistol or grenade/acid spray. There was no toggle to turn on the motion tracker either.
No HUD if it's stowed, detecting aliens.
This motion tracker POV can be seen in... 2008 magazines? Or 2009, around that.



10 March 2011 - The motion tracker adopted a more final look POV. Except marines were marked in green, enemies in red and ammo caches in yellow. No objective direction.
You had a HUD that would state the exact number of enemies detected by the motion tracker if it's stowed. It seems like they had decided to provide such HUD very early.



July - November 2011 - Ditto



About a year before release, the motion tracker mostly adopted how it'd look in the final release as we know. All targets were in white dot.



Thanks for checking out the thread!

[Corporal Hicks]

Thanks for sharing! I hadn't realised earlier builds had made their way online. Any other interesting differences?

[thekillergreece]

Thanks for sharing! I hadn't realised earlier builds had made their way online. Any other interesting differences?

Other differences?! Oh boy, you are in for a treat.

I'll make a separate thread soon.
Unfortunately, I was unable to find the demo version. One YTer has the demo build (they made a gameplay video) but they are unresponsive to my request so far.

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Please let us know of the differences you've seen in the earlier builds!

[thekillergreece]

Please let us know of the differences you've seen in the earlier builds!

Currently working on that thread, it may take some time.
There's gonna be a long read but I'm sure it'll be worth it. I'll be attaching pictures and gifs.

[Still Collating...]

Please let us know of the differences you've seen in the earlier builds!

Currently working on that thread, it may take some time.
There's gonna be a long read but I'm sure it'll be worth it. I'll be attaching pictures and gifs.

Take your time! We here really appreciate the history, documentation and the making of entries in the franchise. We may appreciate a release more or less, but we always like "the making of"s when it's documentated.