Hello gamers!
We’re here with an update to show you guys what we’ve been working on.
Regarding Early-Access
We’ve originally planned for our game’s Early Access to start on March 2021. But truth be told, we don’t think that this is feasible due to COVID-19 making it difficult for us to work together. We’ve also decided to be a bit more greedy and add more contents from the very start of Early-Access.
We also want to tell you guys that we have read every single one of your feedback and comments about the game and are hard at work to implement changes that are needed. Early-Access isn’t something that we consider lightly and we want to make absolutely sure that the game meets the quality that you gamers are expecting. Ultimately, we’ve decided to postpone our Early-Access launch to June, we hope that we’ll be able to deliver the gaming experience we want for you all to enjoy.
So what’s changing? We’re focusing on the game’s ‘combat system’ and ‘permanent upgrades.’
Improvements to Combat
Our game’s three main pillars of combat are ‘Weapon Upgrades,’ ‘Gears,’ and ‘Cores.’
In the demo we’ve released, users only really got to utilize Cores, which can be tedious and stale and isn’t the full gameplay experience we wanted to deliver. We’re making overall improvements and completing ‘Weapon Upgrades’ & ‘Gears’ so that progress for each run feels more exciting.
- Weapon Upgrades
Meet Honk during your runs and trade in ‘Roses’ to get powerful upgrades for your equipped weapon of choice.
Weapon upgrades are extremely powerful and versatile. Each type of upgrade has upto 5 levels, the amount of ‘Roses’ needed to upgrade greatly increases per level.
- Gears
Gears can be acquired during your runs by unlocking chests with ‘Red Gems.’ Most gears offer you a passive perk but we’re also creating active gears that you can use in addition to your skills and weapon attacks.
- Cores
As most of you probably already know, Cores are powerful upgrades that grant elemental powers to you and your equipped weapon. We’re adding ‘hyper cores’ which are, as it sounds, hyper-powerful moves that can devastate your foes.
Using ‘hyper cores’ use up tons of energy but also dishes out tons of damage. Use these cores wisely during combat.
Other than the things we’ve mentioned above, we’re also creating a permanent passive skill system, a tutorial and additional difficulty settings.
Focus Group Testing
We want all these new things to make it to our Early-Access launch. To do so, we need to make sure that we’re on the right track and that these new additions are fun to play! That’s why we need YOU to participate on our focus group test to try out the game in advance. Here’s how you can participate:
- FGT Application period: 2021.03.11 ~ 2021. 04.13
- How to join FGT: Apply for Steam Playtest on Blade Assault’s Steam page
- FGT period: 2021.04.14 ~ 2021.04.21
Details on how to join :
- Open Blade Assault’s Steam store page
- Click the ‘Request Access’ button on the store page
- Play the ‘Blade Assault Playtest’ app during the FGT period
We hope that many of you are looking forward to and will participate in our focus group testing! Thanks again so much for your continued support.
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