Fellow Hunters,
It's time again to update you all on what has been done and what's going to come. I've read all the feedback that has been given and taken it into account for the plans before the release at the end of this year.
What has been done
Landmines
I've added a new special weapon, the landmine. You'll get 5 at the start of the round and can place them underneath you. When one gets blown up a new one will be re-added to your inventory in 30 seconds. This is to ensure it's as useful as the flamethrower and sentry (both have unlimited ammo) and the delay is to make sure you can't keep spamming it. Landmines will have their own perks at full release too.
Also you are no longer damaged by your own grenades and landmines.
Performance
I've done another performance pass, mostly affecting the Tropicana map. But also all other maps as some lights now no longer cast heavy shadows, and several effects have been updated to be lighter on the GPU too, such as the flamethrower, rain particles and the explosion effect. I've also removed another server specific memory leak.
(Also reduced the lightning intensity whenever it storms on a map, some people mentioned that being too intense)
Microtransactions
Whilst it's not everybody's favourite thing, I too got to eat. There's a limited amount of MTX (commonly shortened version of microtransactions) available at the full game launch, priced at what I think would be fair for a Free to Play game.
Most of these are full outfits which are a new clothing type that has been added to the game, meaning you can now either handpick your looks by face/body/pants etc. or just one full outfit. Check a few out below!
All of these come with cloth physics and the last one has physics based attachments to it. Some MTX packs also have separate parts of the outfit available as a back/face/hat etc. item.
Things to come prior to full release
I hope to add all of it, but it might not be due to time constraints.
Traps will have an icon on the minimap
Maps will have objectives to guide you to turn on power, open doors etc. (You always win as a Hunter after 15 minutes, but some players need some more hand holding or been given an objective)
Clearer showing what upgrading a weapon does. (It adds 10% increased dmg per tier)
Add new perks
Achievements
Controller support
Give the last hunter a minigun
Add 2-3 more maps. The Carnival, and Hospital are first on the list.
The demo will be updated in some time whenever some more gameplay changing things have been added, such as objectives.
Thanks for all the support so far!
- Rinke