Hey everyone!
BLACKSHARD is officially out!
Since we never do anything by the book, we are posting this a few days after the release.
Time is relative.
Thanks to all of you who have already ventured into the labyrinth, and for the others:
Come and see!
Team news: we are all back, our fellow programmer is alive and well, even if we are trying to make it easy on him and coddle him so that he really recovers from his misadventures. Thanks for all the messages of sympathy, it means a lot.
So we start the week with a small update coming this evening:
- Correction on glitching textures in various levels
- Addition of a Witness in the lower area of the Tesseract, at the foot of a return path
- Correction of the teleportation box to the Organon
- Change in the passage between the Organon and the Crossroads: A state before and after the 'change' + some additions of walkable structures there
- Various adjustments to decals that were drooling on certain surfaces
- Fixes to some French translations
And probably more to be fair, I've got a whole list of small content hotfixes to work on, thanks to the people on Steam and Discord, I'm on it and it's going fast.
Later this week, we're going to add the options to:
- Set the screen resolution
- Set the FOV, completely disable the lag camera
- Customize full graphics quality settings
- Disable motion blur
- Vsync on off
We're also going to add a message at the start of the game warning that we're using a newer version of the Unreal Engine and that this requires players to have the latest graphics drivers in any case…
FOR THE CONFIGURATIONS
We have reached this point after active consultation and research with the community:
MINIMUM CONFIGURATION:
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G or Intel Core i7-7700K
Nvidia GTX 1070 or AMD equivalent
8GB DDR4 RAM low/medium 1080p / 25 to 60fps
RECOMMENDED CONFIGURATION:
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X or Intel Core i7-10700K
Nvidia RTX 3070 or AMD equivalent
16GB DDR4 RAM high/epic 1080p / 45 to 60fps+
We're doing some final checks and tweaking, but this is a baseline for everyone.
Thanks again for your feedback and reviews, we're working on it and will get back to you!