Hey Devotee's
First off, thank you for your incredible patience over the last 12 hours.
We have officially identified and obliterated the issue that was causing the "Progression Block" at the Obelisk.
The Obelisk should now correctly accept your hard-earned Devotion Orbs, and your save files should be safe to continue. If you've been holding off on playing, the "All Clear" is officially given....it's time to get back to devoting yourselves to the ORB!
While we were messing around with the Quackpot, we didn't just fix the progression block; we decided to fix up a whole bunch of other issues we were made aware of.
What's been fixed & improved:
The Obelisk Lock & Saves: You know that stubborn and annoying complete progression block? YEETED! Your devotion to the Orb will now be recognized. If the issue persists, please quit out of the game and load back it, it should auto-complete the obelisk allowing you to continue.
Late-Game Performance: We've optimized resource animations in all areas of the game. It’s sitting at about a 60% improvement in frame rates! While not perfect yet, it should be far more playable in the chaotic late-game now.
VAT Upgrades: We've reduced the cost of the Knowledge Vat upgrade from 500k to 450k Duck Coins to ensure players don't hit a gold coin softlock.
Achievement Sync & Safety Nets: We’ve added a new checking method to hopefully grant you any achievements you’ve earned in-game that Steam might have missed. Additionally, we've implemented "safety nets" for the 50 Ducks and Resonance Crystal achievements to help them track properly. While we’re still fine-tuning these, hopefully these will help with those missing unlocks! Please note: The 'continue after story' feature and the 50-duck achievement fix are NOT in today's update but are coming in the hotfix in 1-2 days!
VAT Upgrade Menu: No more embarrassing "naked" raw text! The Duckinite ore icon now displays correctly at upgrade level 3/5.
Dialogue Fixes: The Secret Orb Dweller and other Quacktastic NPCs have promised to stop hogging the screen; dialogue boxes can now be dismissed correctly.
Persistent Ducks: Your ducks will now stay exactly where you shoved them after a reload. No more pesky runaway ducks!
Cultist Brain Boost: We know you thought it wasn't possible, but we somehow managed it. We fixed the pathfinding issues that were causing cultists to get stuck on some walls and torches. Sadly we couldn't fix their infinite loops in the bedroom... Wink wink.
Generator Buff: We've boosted the base energy output speed of the Duck Energy Generator to better match the pace of your dungeon expansion.
Snappy Sprites: No more disappearing ducks when dragging them into walls, they'll now snap back to their slots correctly... we hope!
Ducks are no longer Devotion Diggers: The amount of Devotion required to get ducks from the Quackpot has been lowered severely! The cost of 50 ducks will now be in the Millions instead of Billions. Turns out the ducks actually love you and not just your Devotion!
What's Coming Next:
We are currently working to push out another hotfix over the next day or two.
This upcoming update will allow you to continue your game after finishing the story to mop up any achievements you might have missed.
A Final Note From The Team:
Look, we'll be honest here: We really quacked this one up!
This is our first-ever release and today was a massive learning curve for each one of us on the team.
We are incredibly sorry for the stress and the time you've lost thanks to our mistakes, but we are more committed than ever to making All Hail The Orb something special.
We're going to keep working through your feedback and pushing more fixes over the coming weeks.
We know there are several more bugs, and we are slowly chipping away at them.
If you do encounter any issues, please post them in the Discussion Hub or our Discord.
Your feedback helps us make the game even better!