Introduction
We are excited to announce the official release of Panicore v1.0! After months of hard work, testing, and feedback from our amazing community, the full version of Panicore is now available. Thank you for your continuous support, your love and enthusiasm! You are the reason we are motivated to keep going!
Full Game Highlights
Panicore's full version comes with MUCH more than what the demo had to offer! If you liked the demo, you will LOVE the full version. Here’s a look at what you can expect in Panicore v1.0:
- New Environments: Explore an abandoned school, a hospital and an asylum, with each having different escape routes and dangers
- New Creatures: Every environment comes with their own creature, each having their own traits
- Impoved AI: With your feedbacks on the demo and our beta testers we have been able to improve the general AI to a much smarter, more reliable and fair state
- Enhanced Gameplay Mechanics: Improved player movement, quick time events, stun mechanics and more for a better gameplay experience
- Hidden lore elements: Find out about what's going on in every environment step by step and set up your theories
- Enhanced Visuals: Post Processing and lighting have been adjusted to match the game's general athmosphere and lore, enjoy a much better looking game with no additional costs in performance
- Soundtrack and Audio Effects: Dance to your favourite tracks in the lobby or get terrified by the environments' ambience sounds and enjoy the improved jumpscare sounds
- Achievements and Progression system: Unlock a variety of achievements and gather XP as an explorer by solving tasks
- Ingame money and Character Skins: Find and collect money while escaping to unlock unique character skins
- Discord Rich Presence: Let your friends know which map and difficulty you are on to make them jealous!
- Additional Lobby fun: Enjoy more minigames, more soundtracks and other fun additions to the lobby while waiting for your friends!
General Changes
Based on player feedback and our ongoing development, we have made several updates and improvements:
- Added Input device selection: A bug prevented input devices to be selectable in the demo, this should now be possible ingame
- Optimized Performance: General performance improvements to ensure a smoother gameplay experience, we have even tested the game successfully on a GT640 (which is amazing considering the card is around 12 years old by now)
- Bug Fixes: Resolved various bugs and glitches reported by players and our beta testers to ensure a more stable and enjable game
- Tutorial and Hints: Added more hints of what to do to help you a little with each environment and escape
- UI Enhancements: Updated the user interface for better clarity and usability
Additional Notes
- Save Data: Please note that save data and settings from the demo version might carry over to the full version, meaning you could have a higher player level right at the start and not the optimal settings intended for the gameplay. We recommend starting over by deleting the Panicore folder in AppData/Local/
- Feedback: We are always looking for ways to improve Panicore. If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, please reach out to us through our Discord server!
Thank You!
We want to extend a huge thank you to everyone who played the demo, provided feedback, and supported us throughout the development process. Your input has been invaluable, and we can’t wait for you to experience the full version of Panicore.
Stay tuned for more updates, and happy gaming!
Best regards,
Your team at ZTEK Studio