(German translation here / deutsche Übersetzung hier)
Hello Players!
Villagers and Heroes has been live on Steam now for nearly 4 days. Wow! Steam really brings the players. We are so excited to be on the biggest game portal in the world.
We have received a lot of great advice from all of you on how we can make the game better. We know that a community of players is the best way to steer the direction of the the game. It’s the players that bring the game to life. We are listening.
There are now a ton of things we want to improve and fix. We want to go as fast as possible, so we want to get a quick build out asap to demonstrate we are listening.
So, the quick build will include some or all of these things:
- A & D keys will strafe (instead of rotate) when the player is moving forwards or backwards with the mouse
- We will improve the sideways/strafe animation
- We will add a dancing animation! (more to come later)
- We’ll make the tutorial do a better job of setting the mood of the game, offer more of a challenge, and have some hidden side areas to explore.
- We’re going to improve chat to make it easier to use
- We’re going to make the UI a little easier to friend and party up with other players.
- Moving will not cancel auto-attack--players need to be able to move around while attacking
There are some major bugs we are working on. The two biggest are: 1. Some players can’t launch the game from Steam. When they do, nothing happens! We really want to get this fixed. We will be contacting some of these players for more information to help us debug the problem. 2. Frequent crash bugs for some players. Some players are reporting they crash about once every 30 minutes. Again, we’ll be delving into this.
We do want to apologize also for some of the players getting stuck. We had to reboot the servers a few times. These are typical growing pains when you get a huge influx of new players. This puts extra strain on the servers, and exposes problems we were unaware of. We’ve fixed many of the problems we found. The game should become more and more stable over time.
And, to our Brazilian players, we are trying to figure out why some of you cannot run or login to the game. Please remain patient. When we have a fix, we will make an announcement.
Most of all, thanks for all the advice! Please keep letting us know how to improve the game.
Best Regards,
Damon
p.s. Many of these things were discussed by Diet in an earlier announcement: http://steamcommunity.com/games/263540/announcements/detail/1801747291772990218
I just wanted to give you an update after 4 days.