Thank you to all who played our Beta during Steam Next Fest. If you missed it, you can see playthrough videos.
If you played in the Beta, please rate the level of difficulty by voting in our poll.
We achieved our goals for the event and were able to test live our new multithreaded chat and new server structure. Our previous 9 Betas were conducted on our development server and with single threaded chat. The increasing number of participants to these events strained that system and made it clear that it was time to upgrade.
Demos in the Steam system are only accessible to players who do not already have the game in their library. This would have prevented our previous Beta participants from experiencing the Beta, so we implemented a workaround to enable everyone to play the Beta content.
Testing
Thank you to all our testers for their efforts prior to Next Fest. This allowed us to enter Next Fest with zero known bugs, leaving us to focus on servers and multithreaded chat.
You can sign up here to become a tester. You will have an opportunity to tell us what kind of testing you are interested in doing.
QOL, Targeting, and Combat
- We added a camera menu to accommodate various conflicting requests for improved camera settings. Our solution was our standard one: let the player choose.
- New 3D targeting reticules replace decals on the ground. The new version is more visible at a distance and in uneven terrain.
- The number of line of sight checks used in targeting has been increased.
- Superspeed has now been enabled for combat, just like flight.
- We are systematically reviewing every one of our 200+ superpowers for animations, effects, and hit reactions.
Environment
Just in time for Next Fest, we spruced up the warehouse district where the Engineering department is located.
New Enemies
- We created new Promethean enemy types with new powers. These add variety to combat and allow us to deepen the story. Prometheans are the evil cyborgs experienced in the first Sword Blossom arc of the demo.
- Four new monsters with a winter theme have been added.
Character Creator
- All shoes and boots now have working morphs.
- Some of our hundreds of costume pieces did not take advantage of all three customizable color channels. For those, we have enabled the 3rd color channel.
Tutorials
Steam Next Fest prompted us to start creating video tutorials. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified of our new videos.
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