Hi everyone and welcome to this development update on our survival horror game, Outliver: Tribulation where you play as a soldier who mysteriously ends up in a supernatural realm of African mythology and unwillingly has to take part in an ancient ritual.
Following our last developer update and subsequent demo update release, we received a ton of interesting and useful feedback. In today’s update, we’ll quickly go over some of the changes we’ve made so far.
First, we made some tweaks to the combat and ammo availability to balance out the difficulty and reduced the requirement for obtaining the Eldergun so players are able to acquire it much earlier in the game.
We repositioned the charms’ cooldown, health, and spirit essence bars as well as added an ammo display for firearms when the aim button is pressed.
We added unique crosshairs for all firing modes of firearms and added a gunfire recoil effect as well as updated the rifle fire sound.
In order to give players a sense of progression, we added a popup that displays each new chapter a player just started.
We made some tweaks to the menu and the main menu now sports a live background as opposed to the previous use of a static background picture.
Following various suggestions, we reworked the night vision system by removing the binocular effect displayed on-screen and increased the light exposure. We also added a quick fade-in and fade-out effect signaling activation and deactivation of the night vision.
We updated the loading screen by adding a background image and included brief pop-ups of random tips on how to play the game.
In general, we made minute tweaks to the whole game and will continue to test and hunt for bugs. We also hope to announce a release date soon and have updated the demo on steam to reflect these new changes, so, be sure to check it out, wishlist, and recommend Outliver: Tribulation to friends if you haven't already.
Moving on from updates, we are pleased to announce that we have just launched our own discord server to keep the conversation on Outliver: Tribulation going. We’d love to have you there, so please join in using the link below.
As always, we will continue to keep you updated as we progress through development and look forward to your valuable feedback. Thank you for your time and hope to see you in the next one.
Happy gaming.