Developer posts and news about this game.
It was brought to my attention last week that there's a set of circumstances under which starting a new character would end up with you entering the level and immediately being kicked out to the results screen. I've done a minor patch, ahead of a forthcoming major patch with a hu
V1.02a This patch has focused on Performance (as I've been playing it loads on my Steamdeck), Polish and Progression. Having played the game a bunch, I've decided to soup up a bunch of XP rewards; difficulty multipliers now apply to more XP sources, and the XP rewards for complet
Having gone back and played the game some more on my SteamDeck, I decided to put a couple of days hard work into some bits of polish and improvements. V1.01 -Fixed D-Pad navigation on menus -Increased the size of a number of pieces of UI to work better on the SteamDeck -Moved fro
Fixed achievement for killing Voldarr Fixed issue where too many points in Gnome Speed made things go... odd. Fixed issue where dead players continued to stand. Fixed issue where multiple players in shared screen would have odd-facing damage and healing text Quitting the game wil
Fixed a number of issues where some players were dead and some were alive. All bosses now drop Loot Upgrade Tokens. Loot Upgrade Tokens apply equally to all players. Primary Stats for Characters now cost 10% less to upgrade Secondary Stats for Characters now cost 5% less to upgra
Reworked Treasure Goblin collision so dropped items Removed slightly inoffensive debug message. Oops. Fixed bug with generation of Procedural Loot names where a low-id stat had a higher level the rest of it. This should mean much better names using more of the loot system. Random
So what's new? Final menu screen and front end. Pet selection is currently missing. All major in-game bugs are quashed. If you know of any I've missed, leave 'em in the forum! All skins implemented. Some aren't actually unlockable yet. All levels are now accessible on all difficu
We've been working hard to get the game out of Early Access. Today's patch should give you complete access to the entire game. Any feedback on any of the new maps is greatly appreciated! On top of that, we've now got the final threaded loading system implemented, final UI in most
As always, Early Access is a time to experiment, and see what works, and get feedback. The patches over the last week have started to move to a new method of doing tile transitions - this looks great, but means we need to do a pass over all of the existing levels. Whilst this doe
We've done a pass over a lot of the visual style of the game. This has lead to a bunch of levels having tile transitions that need reword, but look loads better! There's also been a fix to the Pet Rendering, so those of you that own FortressCraft should now see ARTHER as intended
Added data-driven player colours Added XP-bonus drops from Bosses. First player to grab 'em gets the boost! Further work on per-mob healthbars and text placement. Tweaked fog and atmospherics in most places in the game. Added indicators when Healers are ready to heal Added indica
Food weighs a lot less, so players shouldn't get trapped by it If you own FortressCraft, you'll get a free pet. Not balanced, working or optional. Feedback wanted! Implemented a collision force pre-map to allow much much faster Gnome and Pet simulation. Fixed an issue where progr
After much discussion, I've decided to focus on Pets before Loot. Pets will be stat-boosting and upgradable. How they unlock, how they work has still to be decided, but a hard evening's work and it's already looking kinda neat. On top of that, we're mostly happy with the initial
Added the ability for Health Bars to be offset by mob type. Any health bars that aren't in the right place - let me know! Changed upload timing of stats. Changed the Limited performance option to better approach 30fps. This should only affect people on high-refresh rate monitors,
Fixed some errors when Gnomes shoot at debris Added Health Bars. Disable Damage Numbers under settings if they displease you. Added achievements to track how far through the game's completion they are.
After a week in Early Access, things are going well. We've been watching live streams and Let's Plays and inviting people to play, and focusing our initial development time on addressing those. Whilst (as you'll see below) we've addressed and improved loads of things, the to-do l
I'll be summing up each week's patch notes in a larger post, so if you aren't interested in the daily updates, just wait for the big one! Fixed an issue with depth of field on Medium difficulty Fixed alignment and tidy up in a lot of menus Levels that are unlocked but not complet
I plan to keep at a twice-daily patch schedule until the feedback calms down and things are mostly stable. At that point I'm likely to move to 2-3 times per week, as I start to implement the larger missing systems. XP per level is now displayed correctly again for people who aren
Streaming the game? Let me know! A ton more polish and detail on the first level Blanked out the game camera when watching cutscenes in resolutions other than 16:9 Added army size achievements. Tweaked the lookahead based on Army Offset for Shared camera games, affecting 2-4 play
Locked away the skin menu. It's not done! Stop looking at it! Added achievement for meeting (and rescuing) the King Added achievement for defeating the Fire Golem, the first proper boss. Cat-in-a-box doesn't count. Hooked up achievement correctly for freeing the Village Made sure