Greetings, Operators!
A new Major Update for Riot Operator is up on the Default branch. We continue our mission of improving the game based on your feedback. This time we are adding some additional options that improve the game's replayability. While it's not possible for us to add the "play on any real map" feature, we hope that you will have fun with the new modes. Let's check all the new things coming your way!
Hard Mode and Endless Mode
- Hard Mode was added to the game.
- Endless Mode was added to the game.
When starting a new scenario, you can now select a Hard Mode. Hard Mode scenarios have separate medals and include the following modifiers:
- NPC spawn is increased by around 30%,
- The cooldown between incidents is decreased by 20%,
- Damage to the player is increased by 100%.
Endless Mode on the other hand allows the player to continue playing after the Main Objective is finished. What's important - the Main Objective won't repeat itself once it's over. So the player can only interact with the side objectives and keep on buying new squads, tools, and vehicles.
Other Changes
- A new Embark option has been added to Squads. Clicking on Embark (or pressing the "1" hotkey button) will cause the Squad to automatically go back to their last vehicle.
- A new Resource Slider has been added to the game. Change your starting Money and set it between 0 and 100,000, to make the game harder or easier (or simply more fun due to a bigger number of squads).
- A new option for changing the Camera angle has been added. Press the Middle Mouse Button to rotate the Camera to your liking.
- The Pathfinding algorithm has been updated to ensure that the units (especially Vehicles) are more likely to stick to the roads.
- The Pathfinding algorithm has been updated to ensure that the units won't get stuck in between buildings when going to their desired location.
- An issue with white clouds at maximum zoom-out affecting the visibility has been fixed.
- An issue with the vehicles doing excessive drifts when turning has been fixed.
- An issue with icons being affected by the bloom effect has been fixed.
- An issue with London music sometimes overlapping two tracks over each other has been fixed.
- Other stability changes have been introduced in order to ensure that the game will work without major performance drops with all the additional squads that the player can recruit due to Resource Slider and Endless Mode being introduced.
We hope that you will have fun with all the new changes in Major Update #2! If you haven't played the game yet, we also want to inform you, that we have just launched the highest up-to-date -30% discount on Riot Operator.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1454490/Riot_Operator/
Thank you for being with us and for all the recent kind words of encouragement. We are very happy to see that despite the rocky launch, there are still players who are invested in the game and willing to provide us with feedback. We hope that you will have a lovely Christmas season and a Happy New Year!
Best regards,
Riot Operator Team