HereticOS Mr. Lab

HereticOS Mr. Lab is a war simulator and technical test environment for large-scale online interaction. Its stated aim is to support up to 100,000 units on the same server and screen. The lab includes programs but no MODs; players find MODs through community activities.

Battlefield systems

The lab uses independently developed AI, with social cooperation capabilities such as following a department leader’s arrangements to complete tasks. Large units can contain multiple components and leading roles, collide with other units, and carry basic role units into war tasks. Game logic runs in an AI virtual machine, while the client handles basic input and predicts responses to war outcomes.

Maps can cover up to 384 square kilometers, with a global public view of up to 18 kilometers. The lab also supports 256-channel 3D stereo battlefield audio, real-time online rigid-body interactions, and physical feedback for Titans and simple units. Its stated technical target is 100,000 units online on the same service and screen, with regional latency needs determining service divisions.

Dawn DLC

The Dawn DLC presents four maps set in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Its battlefield includes three defensive tower fortresses, two opposing floating castles and one attacking castle that wanders across the map. Two teams each contain 30,000 units, led by three leaders who control the floating castles and ground troops.

Zhuge Liang controls 30,000 archers who fire arrows. Zhou Yu controls an air castle that cruises and attacks with soldiers, while Xu Chu gathers sword-and-shield soldiers opposite the archers. You control a helicopter and can use the keyboard or a controller to charge and launch four simulated bombs of different sizes and weights. Releasing a charge button fires the projectile; its apparent speed depends on the ability capacitance. When a projectile hits a ground unit, that unit falls and dies, while units in floating castles do not fall to their deaths in this scenario.

Simulated launches let you set firing strength with the skill capacitance and regulate ammunition speed. Numerical-control launches do not let you adjust firing intensity, and use the same ammunition speed parameter each time.

Creating MODs

Players can make free or commercial MODs using mainstream art tools, form teams through social activities and create content for the lab. MOD creation uses supported static 3D models in .3ds, .fbx and .obj formats, and character animations in .md2 format. Animation models in other formats need to be converted using the 3ds Max .md2 export plugin.

MODs can include sound effects in .mp3 format, either as separate assets or in a combined sound-effect file. Asset data goes in a designated MOD directory, such as data/Dawn. To build a MOD resource file, creators modify the GameRes.h and GameResLib.h templates from the HereticOS-MR-Lab project on GitHub, then compile and run the code. Community members can submit their MOD assets for approval and hosting on the lab server.