Greetings Hunters!
Big News - The demo for Hunters, Inc. is out now! In this demo you'll get to experience:
- Full co-op functionality - up to 4 players
- Tutorial to teach you the fundamentals of hunting
- Full access to the first biome
- 2 mission types - Boss Hunt and Extermination
- Monster dismemberment and crafting parts
- Upgrade for each class up to the first 2 tiers for primary weapons.
We'd like to say a big thank you to everyone that has taken part in the playtest so far. Your feedback and suggestions have really helped us identify areas of the game that needed improvement and it has come along way since our very first closed alpha.
Now the demo is out, there will be a few changes to how we conduct playtests - most notably we will be moving into closed beta. Anyone with existing access to the playtest app will periodically be invited to join in scheduled playtest sessions to try out new features and content. These playtests will be less frequent than our current update schedule, but contain bigger, meatier updates and only run for a fixed period of time. For example, we might run a 2 week playtest to try out a new biome, with all new monsters and hazards.
As always, please let us know your thoughts on the changes here in the forums or over in our Discord Channel
Thanks again for all your support and can't wait to see what you think of the demo!
Below is a list of everything we have added in the Demo Update:
NEW FEATURES
New World Generation
- Created new map generation logic
- Added new modules with improved verticality
- Pass of spawners and gameplay markers
- Updated Landscape material
- Added more foliage to all modules
- Disabled collision on small rocks
- Created a tool to check monster paths - should result in fewer instances of getting stuck
UPDATES & IMPROVEMENTS
Classes
- Scout - Gave Scout wisp grenade
- Shaman - Gave Shaman Healing Grenade
- Created first 2 tiers of upgrades for all class primary weapons
Health
- Stopped Raptadons dropping meat on death
- Reduced the number of pigs spawned in levels
- Added stack limits to health items and prevent multiple stacks of same item
Difficulty
- Made Raptadon HP / DMG scale with mission difficulty
- Made Raaagh (the legally distinct battlecry) harder to gain from combat
- Pass on Monster HP and weapon damage
- Fixed issue where weakspot damage was compounding causing MASSIVE DAMAGE
Bosses
- Razan can no longer have retreat event interrupted by stunning
- Charge attacks no longer ignore armor plates
- Added weakspots to Spider Queen legs
Misc
- Added ability to cut off Raptadon head and collect loot
- Added label to inventory in upgrade screen
BUG FIXES
- Fixed - Extract event was not working on all levels
- Fixed - Spider queen not moving occasionally
- Fixed - Monster corpses occasionally falling through floor for clients
- Fixed - Eating meat no longer causes multiple items to be consumed
- Fixed - Issue with boss monster health not scaling properly based on player count
- Fixed - Post processing issues on new map
- Fixed - Issue where boss monsters were being spawned by small enemy spawners causing bad placement
- Fixed - Issue where mobs were spawning "asleep" and never waking up
- Fixed - Issue where raptors were spawning instead of pigs in tutorial
- Fixed - Bug where Shaman hunter vision only showed snail hp
- Fixed - Bug where shield spiders were spawning but were invisible
- Fixed - Mismatch between Raptadon counts in mission screen and hud
KNOWN ISSUES
- [Rare] Loot and XP awarded from mission may not be accurately reflected in hub inventory
- [Rare] Player input may occasionally enter a locked state - dash or jump to fix
- [Rare] Game may crash on reviving team mates
- [Rare] Returning to hub may cause upgrade station to be missing content. To fix leave and rejoin session
As always if you would like to talk with us or have any questions about the game, we look forward to chatting with you in our Discord Channel