tl;dr: Made the game more friendly for new players, killed bugs and added some polish to the stealth mission mode as well as death voice clips. Downside is, nothing was added in terms of expansion to gameplay, sorry about that, I will give you a very generous playable content expansion next update.
Changes:
- Game feel: Added sound effects, transitions and made the current stealth missions more intuitive and easier to get into as a new player. The helper drone moves around much better now. Added a Death Screen with options to make it feel smooth instead of just warping you into action again.
- Learning: Simplified tutorial, only four screens, you can also now skip it. I was scared players would get severely stuck without it, but with the current system plaeyers can sort of learn on the go.
- Programming: Reprogrammed the whole system for the stealth missions to make it better, easier to develop and less prone to bugs, this erased some of the old movement bugs as well, this will make game development much faster. This also reduced lag and updates will come more often.
- Arris Fern's voice clips: I included voice interactions from Arris reacting to her death while in the Death Screen, they are funny to make and I like them, for now there are only 11, but I wanna add lots more with every update.
Here's the transparent image used for this update, it's an Arris update so it had to be her:
Coming next! Possibly very soon!
Here's great news, what I did this couple days in terms of polishing the engine, will allow me to give you faster updates, next one will contain:
- Maidbots: Zyrenette and Taikavoran.
- Enemies: Undetermined new number of enemies/bosses, as many as I can.
- Map update: NE Zone, Natural Reserve into Beluga Lake.
Thank you very much for playing! I'm really excited to hear your feedback, remember I take your comments seriously and will change the game into a better direction, tell me the good and the bad, I'll work on it, promise.
-Bal
Also by the way, in case you're curious, that voice is mine, very modified, I wanna have VA join the project in the future, but I'll need to be careful with costs, I'll keep you updated.
If you have suggestions for Voice Actors, let me know, I wanna find the perfect fits.