Hello Commanders,
Thanks for bearing with our silence lately, we've been busy with the final tasks leading up to the 1.0 release. Releasing games is hard...
Anyway, we finished Mahou Arms's opening movie and wanted to share it (it's below). This was the "something special" we talked about in our last post. We also wanted to discuss our plans post 1.0 and outfit DLC.
Opening Movie
Softmode aka Paperbag aka Saimon wanted to sneak this animation in for 1.0. Hopefully you like it! Credits are listed below:
Dale North - Songwriting / Composition, Production, Lyrics
Pernelle - Vocals
Softmode aka Saimon aka Paperbag - Director, Lead Animator
himey - Animation
Volatile Carbon aka Jeremy Miller - Animation
ilhamdz - Motion Graphics
Story Expansion
We'd like to add more story content post 1.0. More updates on this will come in the future as content becomes ready to show.
Patch 1.1 - Customization and Founder's Outfit
Unfortunately we couldn't get these in by 1.0, but character customization and the founder's outfit (image below) will arrive in patch 1.1. We expect this patch to drop within 1-2 months of release. The Founder's outfit will be included for free for everyone that bought the game before July 27th. It will also be purchasable as a separate DLC for everyone else.
The four additional planned outfits will release over the course of a year, as we work on the free story expansion.
Versions & DLC
Mahou Arms comes in a Standard Edition and a Digital Deluxe edition on Steam. The Digital Deluxe edition includes all of the planned DLC.
If you've been following along lately, you've probably already seen the designs for some of the outfits:
Standard Edition:
Base Game
Digital Deluxe Edition:
Base Game
Original Soundtrack
Founder's Outfit
Lilim Outfit
White Sailor Outfit
Qipao Chic Outfit
Emopunk Outfit
Gimme Everything Bundle:
This upgrades the Standard Edition to the contents of the Digital Deluxe edition if you decide to buy the base game and upgrade later.
Planned Localization: Chinese and Japanese
Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Japanese languages will be added sometime post 1.0. Additional languages may be added in the future.
Conclusion
And that should be all. If you have any questions, feel free to yell at us on Discord. We're going back to crunching for 1.0 now, see you soon!
Additional Note
Since people have been asking, we can confirm that if you buy the digital deluxe edition now (which currently includes the base game and soundtrack), the additional DLC content will be added in later.