We are back with a big update on the experimental branch.
Doug details the news here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvkEm30m63M
This is a substantial update for Blood Trail. The game will feel and play differently than before.
There may be serious bugs that you encounter while playing. You also may notice odd or missing sounds, textures, or other assets. Many of these issues we are aware of, but some we may not be. So please report everything you find here in the discord in the #bug-reports channel.
There will be a more comprehensive changelog entry eventually, but for now these are the major changes:
- Physical weapons and hands enabled.
- Physical Melee with stabbing, slashing, bludgeoning, grappling, and punching.
- Pick up and use dropped enemy weapons. (Enemy guns coming soon...)
- Performance optimizations made to enemy characters.
- Bullet holes and other superficial damage effects now appear on enemies.
- Blood and gore effects updated.
- Settings menu accessible from wrist watch, many new options added.
- Rebuilding of nearly all systems from the ground up.
- Arena maps now feature weapon selection and round options menus.
- Smart heavy bag added to the Sandbox map.
- Visual updates to Sandbox and Arena maps.
- Fixed many bugs.
- Introduced many bugs.
- Game files storage space reduced to 11GB.
You can access the experimental branch by right-clicking the title in Steam, then going to properties>betas, and then selecting experimental in the dropdown menu. Restart steam to make sure the update begins!
Merry Christmas! And thank you all so much for playing! Can't wait to hear what you think!