My superfast bouncy platformer HYPERBALL TACHYON is out now! Please check it out if you want to support me!
My superfast bouncy platformer HYPERBALL TACHYON is out now! Please check it out if you want to support me!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1696090/HYPERBALL_TACHYON/
I've been working on a couple of games since Berserker's Descent, and I put the first on a hiatus to work on this! So for this Steam Next Fest, try out the free demo of HYPERBALL TACHYON! Just like Berserker's Descent, you can play as casually as you want, or dig in and explore t
I've been working on a couple of games since Berserker's Descent, and I put the first on a hiatus to work on this!
So for this Steam Next Fest, try out the free demo of HYPERBALL TACHYON!
Just like Berserker's Descent, you can play as casually as you want, or dig in and explore the depth I've tried to cram in there.
If you like platformers at all, or just want to support me, give it a shot. You can also wishlist the full game, which would help me out immensely. Thank you.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1696090/HYPERBALL_TACHYON/
Patch Notes: Added a new Trial section to almost every Layer, 8 in total. Also made it so every Trial from Layer 7 and 8 will show up in 9 (the post-game looping Layer), instead of just some, for increased variety. Made it so you lose style gauge half as fast while in a Trial. (Y
If you're curious what I've been up to, I recently put out a cute little platformer for a game jam, and a demo for the new game I'm working on which is kind of like a 3D Berserker's Descent with character swapping. Both of these are free, and can be found on my Itch page. You can also follow my Twitter to see this stuff as it happens: https://twitter.com/RendahGames
Thanks for playing and supporting me!
Patch Notes I’m glad people are liking Berserker’s Descent, but the game is a LOT harder than I thought it was, and where I want it to be. so this update should smooth some of the edges out a bit. There’s no real “content” here, since I’ve been working on a new game, but I still
I’m glad people are liking Berserker’s Descent, but the game is a LOT harder than I thought it was, and where I want it to be. so this update should smooth some of the edges out a bit. There’s no real “content” here, since I’ve been working on a new game, but I still might add stuff in the future!
The most important changes, in my opinion, are the changes to Giant Amalgam and Rampage Phantom, and the platforming damage changes. I designed the game around guarding and rolling being central to your strategy. With that in mind, the Giant Amalgam and Rampage Phantom had attacks specifically designed to hit you out of the air and force you to guard/roll, but I feel like most players probably ignore those actions and really just want to jump out of danger early on. Guarding and rolling are still extremely strong defensive options, and basically necessary in the end game, but those bosses might be too early to force people to use actions they're not used to yet.
And the platforming is just harder than I thought it was. I want players to die in combat, not to messing up a jump. So it'll still feel the same, but end your runs less often.
Big congratulations to “Thekickingturtle” and “American Beetle” for being the only two people to beat the game at its hardest!
Thank you all for playing! I want to see some more clears in the leaderboard now, all right? Don't let me down ;)
Patch Notes: Reduced starting acceleration when walking, and increased ground friction, so it’s much easier to move very small distances and be more precise with your movement. Removed/bugfixed the ability to “charge” your forward movement while attacking/guarding which let you s
Yes, the game is out on this wonderful day! What to expect in 1.0: Challenge Mode! (20 Events to work through, unlocking more as you go) Bugfixed Multiplayer! (There may still be problems, if so I'll keep working on it) Local and Steam leaderboards for Singleplayer, Turbo Singlep
Yes, the game is out on this wonderful day!
Challenge Mode! (20 Events to work through, unlocking more as you go)
Bugfixed Multiplayer! (There may still be problems, if so I'll keep working on it)
Local and Steam leaderboards for Singleplayer, Turbo Singleplayer, Multiplayer, and Turbo Multiplayer!
New Enemies!
New Items!
New Special Attacks! (Including "buffs" as an archetype, a few of which you can use on friends online)
New "Hallway" Trials!
New Layers!
Revamped Boss encounters!
A Final Boss!
Revamped Extra Layers!
New background visuals!
New basic attacks and animations!
Loads of balancing on everything in the game!
I'll probably continue to add content every now and then, but I'm finally happy enough with the game to call it "done!"
Thank you for playing, I hope you enjoy it!
- Rendah Games
Fixed a horrible game-breaking bug where players without the old save data folder couldn’t progress past the tutorial. Deeply sorry to anyone this effected. Since I’m pushing this out anyway, here’s some minor new stuff that made it into the build: New music for the swamp Layer,
Fixed a horrible game-breaking bug where players without the old save data folder couldn’t progress past the tutorial. Deeply sorry to anyone this effected.
Since I’m pushing this out anyway, here’s some minor new stuff that made it into the build:
New music for the swamp Layer, pushing the other 3 songs back.
Gave Marchosias their “attack trigger” range back from the last update. Guarding their attack got tricky because it felt like they were waiting longer than they realistically should. Instead, they now do a quick dash backwards before charging. This gives you much more time to react to their aggression, and lets you do riskier attacks while they’re close and not aggro’d, but sometimes they’ll dodge your attacks.
Also gave the two Cube-Heads expanded “attack trigger” range, for a similar reason. Now their trigger box more accurately matches when you’d think that monster CAN attack you.
The player’s hurtbox is now extended forward even more than before while guarding, to make guarding more consistent. (This extended hurtbox is ignored if the attack is unblockable!)
Unblockable attacks now damage you for 3/4 normal damage while guarding, up from 1/4. Right now that’s just the Eye Lazers and spikes, but the next update will include more unblockable attacks.
PATCH NOTES: Massive visual overhaul, implementing real “perspective” camera 2.5D. These maximum settings are now much more demanding than the old maximum. Minimum settings are much faster, but worse looking than before (my netbook FPS went from 24->40 in combat!) Turning “Hig
PATCH NOTES:
Massive visual overhaul, implementing real “perspective” camera 2.5D. These maximum settings are now much more demanding than the old maximum. Minimum settings are much faster, but worse looking than before (my netbook FPS went from 24->40 in combat!) Turning “High Spec” and “Full World” off sets the camera back to 2D, which is a MASSIVE performance boost.
And also, the name of the game is changing from Wasteland Rampage to Berserker's Descent
Gameplay:
Remade loads of unfun Trials and added 4 completely new ones.
Increased the time it takes for enemy stun meters to begin “healing.” When you see the white flash that means they’re close to being stunned, now they’ll stay like that for 3.33 seconds instead of 1.66
Marchosias (4-legged guys) will get closer before lunging now, so it’s easier to interrupt them. Also very slightly reduced their running speed.
Stone Mask wasn’t very fun, so now it heals on melee kills, instead of counter hits.
Added 150 Max Health to the first room’s Giant Axe Goo boss.
Shaved 1 frame of input lag off of attacks, rolls, and some other animations I had set up incorrectly. This also fixes some obscure bugs.
Neutral Z/Weak’s knockback was greatly reduced, and Neutral X/Strong’s knockback was increased, so use Strong attacks for crowd control.
Remade the algorithm to decide when Health Orbs are spawned. How low your health is will matter more now. “How many orbs were spawned in this arena” will also matter more now.
Landing on slopes has more of an effect on your velocity now.
You can no longer out-run the loading of new level chunks and fall out of the world (big oops)
Increased the Special Combo grace period from 1.5 seconds to 1.75
Fixed a bug where successfully Dashguarding, then normal-guarding a new attack would restart the slide. (Normal guarding wouldn’t un-check the Dashguarding flag)
Rewrote the movement of the Lazer Eyes, it should be much easier to understand and predict now.
And ceilings are entirely gone now!
There’s now a half-second lockout when pausing the game, so you can’t spam the pause button for a “slow-mo” to dodge stuff.
Replaced most of the music with more catchy, energetic chiptunes.
QOL:
Trying to cancel out of an attack too soon (buffering the action) will cause a little black flash right when you press the input. This will help with learning Perfect Cancel timing.
Improved/bugfixed menu navigation, quickly moving from one direction to another won’t do weird stuff anymore. (I wanted to ignore this for longer, but it made me delete my save, haha. Apologies to anyone else that may have happened to.)
(Controller menu navigation still feels bad for some reason, I’ll look into it.)
Fixed a bug where toggling any setting would also set Music and Sound Effect volume to its default.
Increased brightness on Player sprites, they were starting to blend into the background and enemies.
If you Perfect Cleared the boss, the Perfect Bonus message took priority over the Game Clear message... and you wouldn’t get Game Clear achievements (oops)
I’m sorry if the new visual changes aren’t to your liking, or if your computer was happier in the “middle ground” that’s gone now. I’d like to keep the old style in-tact but it would have a massive time cost for me, and performance cost for the game. If you want a refund for this reason, just explain the situation in the refund request. It should go through.
This update took much longer than I thought it would, and development in general has been taking longer than I thought it would. From now on, I won’t expand the scope anymore and do anything like this visual rework. My only plans now are to add some kind of meta progression like unlocking colors or pets, and finally fill out the content. So expect more items, Trials, and an enemy or two in the next update. I might save it all for the game release update, or I might not. Thanks for playing and supporting me!
Patch Notes: 5 new items. 6 new Hallways. 2 and a half new Special Attacks. 1 new Layer with a new tileset. Gave Magus a completely new Neutral-X where he throws a spinning Magic Blade that lingers in the air. Berserker and Rampage's Air-Down-Z is now a mult-hit. New Mechanic: Sp
Patch Notes:
5 new items.
6 new Hallways.
2 and a half new Special Attacks.
1 new Layer with a new tileset.
Gave Magus a completely new Neutral-X where he throws a spinning Magic Blade that lingers in the air.
Berserker and Rampage's Air-Down-Z is now a mult-hit.
New Mechanic: Special Combos.
Using different Special attacks in sequence will cost much less Stamina than using the same one repeatedly. Now you care much more about all your slots instead of your one favorite Special!
Spaced out the Giant Axe Goo’s axes so they’re more easily readable and it’s easier to stand where you don’t need to guard.
Made the Giant Amalgam’s homing orbs faster so there won’t be as many on the screen at once.
(This should make the end-game more fair and less about stunlocking or killing before they can attack)
Reworked Shining Spiral: Now throws two Magic Blades outward. The Speed is the same, the damage and stun are usually higher than before. Can now be used in the air! (Sp cost 30->35)
Buffed Hyper Slash Combination: (Startup 11->8) (Earliest Cancel 45->38) (Latest Cancel 56->53)
Buffed Phantasm and Hyper Phantasm: Hitbox expanded upwards (Should defend better against axes/orbs)
Increased the speed of some strong moves, slightly lowered speed of down+Z and neutral+Z
Lowered the damage of most Special Attacks across the board. (Making room for the Special Combos and a new item that buffs Special damage)
Redid the chance to spawn Stamina orbs and earn Style points to be more consistent and less arbitrary. Now they just go by the base damage of the attack, for each enemy hit. And it’s doubled if the enemy is launched. (Before, enemies hit after the first one would give less Style)
Redid the Final Rank curve. Early ranks will be harder, later ranks will be MUCH easier and better spaced out. (Those achievements might be possible now, oops)
Put the slash effect and Soul particles behind living enemies, so enemies are more visible in end-game.
Fixed a bug that was messing with where enemies spawned, they’ll be less stacked to one side.
Fixed the camera shake bug that would leave the camera tilted, and increased shake at lower frame rates.
Fixed a Hallway that was missing a couple wall tiles and you could just fall out. (big oof)
Changed the wording on many descriptions and tips to be more clear.
Sorry for the big delay between updates! I'll try to have shorter gaps in the future. I'm thinking I'll probably keep working for at least a few more months before I can call the game done, but it's getting there. For the next update, I'm going to try to totally revamp the backgrounds and tiles to use real 3d perspective and make more sense. Thanks for playing/reading!
New Enemy: Marchosias - (Very fast, lots of health and isn’t stunned for very long. Won’t be 1-hit stunned by normal attacks, only Strongs) New legendary item: Zweihander - (Whenever you kill an enemy with a melee attack, you can cancel that attack immediately. Since strong attac
New Enemy: Marchosias -
(Very fast, lots of health and isn’t stunned for very long. Won’t be 1-hit stunned by normal attacks, only Strongs)
New legendary item: Zweihander -
(Whenever you kill an enemy with a melee attack, you can cancel that attack immediately. Since strong attacks have the most recovery, this works with them well)
Added neat soul particles to better visualize how much you’re earning
I spent a LOT of time optimizing, so there are some nice performance boosts
all around
Two new options that both use that extra CPU power:
Turbo Mode - Game runs at 1.2x speed. Works online, based off the host’s setting.
Queue Frames - Queuing frames helps performance a lot, but adds 1 frame of input lag in high spec, and 3 in low spec. Now you can turn it off to minimize input lag but maybe cause stuttering.
Changed that troublesome Layer 2 Hallway so Knight can jump across like everyone else
Buffed Up-Strong Attack (range slightly increased)
Buffed Neutral-Strong Attack (startup 30->27, range increased, sweetspot size increased)
Buffed Down-Strong Attack (range increased, sweetspot damage 145->160, air/early hitbox starts faster and fits animation better)
Berfed Neutral Attack (earliest cancel 23->24 , active frames 3->4)
Nerfed Down Attack (earliest cancel 12->13)
Buffed Hyper Phantasm (Sp Cost 40->30)
Nerfed Siphoning Rush (Sp Cost 30->35)
Guarding hurtbox expanded downward (Homing orbs won’t slip under you anymore if guarding)
Fixed a bug where killing the enemy who spawned the boss wouldn’t give you souls (I only noticed because of the new soul particles, somehow that’s been broken for months)
Smaller filesize (671MB->393MB)
I’ve been wanting to add more content, so now that I’m done optimizing for a while, I’m going to see about dropping another update on Friday or next Tuesday if I have enough done and tested to be worth it. Let me know what you want the most: new items, hallways, a new layer/tileset, enemies, special attacks, or something else.
Sorry for the delay! Added Input Remapping Added achievements Added a new Layer to the early game Added several new trials to run through Added “Duo” items New boss encounter near the end of the game Increased stun resistance of Giant Amalgam Added a homing orb attack to the Gian
Sorry for the delay!
Added Input Remapping
Added achievements
Added a new Layer to the early game
Added several new trials to run through
Added “Duo” items
New boss encounter near the end of the game
Increased stun resistance of Giant Amalgam
Added a homing orb attack to the Giant Amalgam
Made it easier and safer to counter-hit an Armor Malphas in the air (reduced hitbox, expanded hurtbox)
Slash Combination can now juggle properly, instead of bouncing them out early
Arenas with bosses are larger now, giving you more room to work with
Added the second-to-last Layer’s trials to the pool for the last Layer. (Trials are more varied when you’re looping or about to beat the game)
Moved the “tips” section from the options menu into the main menu, and added buttons to cycle through them
Rounded the price of all items to the hundreds so the math is easier
And I'm probably missing a bunch of other little things!
If your gamepad isn’t being recognized, let me know and maybe poke around “AppData\LocalLow\Rendah Games\Wasteland Rampage\input_config.xml”
Thanks for playing
Hey there everyone! Just wanted to make sure you guys know I'm getting work done over here. I'm almost done with an update that should smooth over some problems and make the game feel fresh. Aside from "content" I'm also adding achievements and input rebinding! I underestimated h
Hey there everyone! Just wanted to make sure you guys know I'm getting work done over here. I'm almost done with an update that should smooth over some problems and make the game feel fresh. Aside from "content" I'm also adding achievements and input rebinding! I underestimated how important that was, so thanks for letting me know. This update should be done in less than a week, but if I think of something I really want to add, I might delay by a couple days.
I see a lot of posts in here that I completely missed, due to some stupid stuff on my part. So I'm going to go through and reply to everyone thus far, and actively participate in the future.
Please continue to post feedback and criticism, especially if it's something I can fix before I ship this update!