New Arena : House of Hunger
The House of Hunger is now available! This arena is based on “The Picture in the House” short story by Lovecraft and is part of the Rural environment.
- Added House of Hunger to the arena selection.
- House of Hunger is locked by default. Play other arenas to reveal it!
- This arena will eventually features the portraits of owners of the Elder Ones’ and Outer Gods’ Kickstarter Pacts.
Analytics
With this update, we are adding Unity Analytics to Sacrifice Your Friends. Like all developers, we need data about how players interact with the game so we can better plan updates and address balance issues. The data recovered by Unity Analytics is strictly technical and gameplay related: no demographic or personal information is collected. Feel free to contact us if you have questions regarding this subject.
- Added Unity Analytics.
- Added an analytic event with arena and gamemode information when a game ends.
- Added an analytic event with character and gameplay information when a game ends.
- All analytics events we generate are logged in the Player Log. For those curious, the log of your last game session can be found in “C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Astrolabe Interactive\Sacrifice Your Friends\Player.log”. Each event log start with “Analytics event” and is followed by the event name and the values sent.
Arenas tweaks
- Whispering River: Entering a cave will cause a Mi-Go to carry the player out of the arena.
- Whispering River: Mi-Go attacks can now occur faster after the warning light appears.
- Whispering River: Mi-Go attacks warning light is now green to better fit the creature.
- Whispering River: The rock platforms on the upper river have been enlarged.
- Flyby of Leng: Improved the animation of the planes when they are hit
- All Arenas: Reduced the amount of chromatic aberration (fisheye distortion) that occurs during end game.
Audio
- Added the soundtrack of the Nameless City in Hidden Depth, Nameless Chamber, Tomb of Alhazred, and Temple of the Unseen.
- Added Intro and Outro to the Nameless City soundtrack.
- Added a new sound effect when a player is expelled from the arena.
- Added Flyby of Leng ambience loop.
Misc
- Recolored the Shogg-hat so it doesn’t look exactly like the hat of Logan Paul. (We swear this wasn’t intentional.)
- Removed controller and keyboard input when the game client is not in focus. A setting to change this behavior will be added to the Gameplay option menu in a future update.
- Avatar of Cthulhu claw VFX now properly appears in online games.
- Updated game engine from Unity 2019.2.8 to Unity 2019.2.12.
- Various fixes and tweaks.
What’s next?
These changes are not yet in the game, but they are arriving fast. Stay tuned!
- Complete revamp of characters’ animation. (Almost done)
- Online quickmatches. (Almost done)
- New item: Miska-Tonic (Almost done)
- New item: Pitchfork (in a week or two)
- New item: Tentacle Whip (in a week of two)
- New arena: Gilman House (in a week or two)
- New arena: Innsmouth Chase (in a week or two)
- New arena: Cavern of the Elders (in a few weeks)
- New arena: Iceberg (in a few weeks)
- New arena: Mountain of Madness (end of the year)
- New arena: Old Road (end of the year)
- Arena revamp: Color from the Well (in a few weeks)
- Solo/Co-op mode (end of the year)
- New Cult: Nyarlathotep (in a few weeks)
- New Cult: Dagon (end of the year)
- New Cult: Shub-Niggurath (2020)
- New Cult: Shoggoth (2020)
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