An Ode to Kongregate
This patch unfortunately opens with some sad news - Kongregate have announced that they are no longer accepting new submissions to their Web Portal, and have noted that they will begin to turn off several of their social features later on this month.
Kongregate served as an amazing portal for small indie developers/studios to start getting their names out on one of the most accessible portals on the planet, alongside playing home to an amazing community whose vocal contributions towards SoS helped shape the game into becoming a lot more than a two-button simulator; leading us to our eventual launch on Kartridge & Steam, and attracting over 175,000 players in the process.
SoS will continue to receive updates on Kongregate for as long as time allows - but in the interest of ensuring the safety of your account progress in a worst-case scenario, we'd strongly recommend all Kongregate Players begin the process of linking their account to Steam. This option can be found under the "Download" option in the upper-right topbar on the main menu.
Kongregate, you will most certainly be sorely missed by players and developers alike - thanks for the many years of entertainment you brought to us all.
To anyone missing the smaller-scale browser-based chats on Kongregate, we've set up a private room on our Discord for old WebGL Veterans - simply fire off a mod support ticket with your Kongregate username, and we'll get you added on there.
New Platforms & WebGL Parity
SoS was originally developed for WebGL - and we'll continue to maintain full support for it. Today marks our launch on the ArmorGames platform, opening up SoS to a whole new group of players!
Along with this, further improvements and optimizations to the WebGL Build of SoS has continued to bring us closer and closer to Desktop Parity - with 1.8.1's WebGL Build now containing full-resolution lighting textures, alongside defaulting to 60fps mode on launch!
New/Revamped Events
Events have been revamped following the feedback received from the Anonymous Hours cycle. We've now got 3 short recurring events scheduled to happen every week, not including the standard Bonus Coins weekends.
Anonymous Hour
Yes, Hour - not Hours. Anonymous Hour will run from 7pm - 8pm each Tuesday, and will retain the standard rulesets (all games are anonymous, global chat is disabled); but alongside the shorter run-time, it also now comes with a 200% Coin Bonus, adding a little more reward to the risk!
Rush Hour
Next up, Rush Hour runs from 7pm - 8pm each Wednesday, which allows you to advance 2 tiers for every win outside of High Stakes; letting you get to those fancy high roller numbers faster than ever!
Splittee Committee
To even out the trauma caused by the steal-spree that is Anonymous Hour, the Splittee Committee event will run from 7pm - 8pm each Thursday, and doubles all split pots for it's duration!
Double Coin Weekends
Back by popular demand - the Birthday Patch Double Coins Weekend is making a more standard return, with the first Double Coin Weekend kicking off on Friday, July 10th. Along with the given Coin Bonuses, Double Weekends will also coincide with a new bonus code being delivered via Discord - more on these below!
Bonus Codes
Bonus Codes have now been added in-game, which will allow you to pick up both static, and scaled bonus coins, and artifacts. These codes will be provided both on our Discord, and to Streamers who are currently repping for us over on Twitch. If you're streaming SoS regularly, feel free to reach out for a code - and if you're looking for your first code, Log on to our Discord this weekend to pick one up!
Daily Rewards - Streak Forgiveness
Missing a day of play will no longer reset you to a zero-day streak; instead, missing a day will cause a small 3-day deduction in your current streak, allowing you to pick straight back up on your bonuses.
Late-game Art Grant Buffs
More work has been done to increase the viability of Art Grants at the late game, and their associated 10 game/40 game daily rewards; however, please note that these changes will not be noticeable for players in the early/mid-game phases.
Coming up next..
SoS will continue to focus on new platform launches in order to increase our player counts, while continuing to expand upon existing features as we've seen above.
If you want to get your say in and let us know what you'd like to see in an upcoming patch, or what kind of platforms you'd like to see us go live on, Join us on our Discord!
Until next time - keep on keeping yourselves safe. More updates coming soon ❤️