Winter is here and so is the Winter Hacking update!
I won't lie, we stuffed a lot of things into this update and it has been a quite of a challenge! But we really wanted to offer you a big fat menu full of improvements, bug fixes and new content for the holidays, so here we are!
We hope you'll enjoy discovering what we have cooked for you. And today's menu starts with...
New user Interface
For starters, let's talk about the first thing you'll notice: the user interface of the game has been redesigned. it comes with a completely new ergonomy based on your feedback. The navigation has been facilitated, especially in the selection mission lobby.
We will keep polishing the new interface during the following weeks so don’t hesitate in providing feedbacks and bugs reports through our discord channel Thank you!
The Winter Hacking update
Now, let's talk about the main course:
As announced last week, from today until January 8th, Hacktag celebrates the end of the year festivities with a special event. It contains new customisable elements and contents that you can only unlock during this period.
Winter Hacking periodic special content:
12 Special Hacking Winter skins + 5 accessories.
So far my favorite are the Grinch Raccoon and Red-nosed hind, what about yours?
A Christmas Special short story:
This is a new thing we really wanted to offer you in this season of cheer and Christmas magic. In other words *Spoiler alert*: There is a big red guy who could use the help of experimented hackers... ;)
Every levels are decorated:
We haven't decorated our offices at Piece of cake studios, but we did it for the 24 levels of the game! I hope you'll enjoy this new atmosphere, but don't be fooled, avoiding a guard is still stressful, even when sneaking around a Christmas tree!
And now let's talk about the desert, The Winter Hacking update also brings many improvements that will remain after the event.
The New permanent content:
New characters:
That's right, the foxes are finally here! it brings the total of playable character to 12. We know a lot of you were waiting for this very special animal so our artistic team studied foxes undercover, disguised as one of them and living in their lair for weeks. It was tough, but we think it was worth it.
A continue system:
With this update, we not only did a lot of tweaking on the levels (collisions and enemies patrols) we have also added a « continue ». After a failure, you will now be able to escape from a jail "for free". Of course, using these continues slightly downgrades your score (otherwise it'll be less fun huh ? ;) )
New reward system: the safe loots.
We've built a more complete and satisfying reward system. After each mission success, you gain enough C4 to make that big safe explode!
It will unlock 3 new customizations elements each time. Such as skins and accessories among others.
Of course, these items are completely free and can be earned only by playing (and winning the mission ;).)
Graphics improvements: the facades.
We really wanted to show this for Christmas but for optimizations purposes, it is only available in high and highest quality settings, we will also bring more facades variety in the following days.
42 Steam Achievements:
AAAAAAAAAaaaaaah finally, achievements. I love those things.
And now, I can finally get rid of my food metaphor by telling what do we have for the digestive...
A new "Winter hacking" trailer:
For the occasion, we made a special trailer that teases a part of this new content
You can watch it here, you can offer it to your friends who doesn't know Hacktag yet! ;)
2017-12-20 Changelist v0.16- Early Access
- Winter Hacking special content (1 story mission, 12 skins & 5 items to unlock)
- New reward system: the safe loots.
- 42 Steam Achievements
- 2 new characters: foxes
- Continue system
- 104 unlockable player icons (you will be able to set them as profile pic very soon)
- The texts of the tutorial have been improved.
General :
- Controls of the agent with mouse improved. Double clicks make you run and you go back to walk if click once.
- Controls on the keyboard have been also improved. (you can now choose among different controls )
- In the tutorial the control buttons are now displayed correctly according to your controller (keyboard, PS4 or Xboxone gamepad)
- Fix: Control with mouse fixed, the character doesn't move away when the player clicks on wall or on outside the level
Controls :
- New menu (character creation + selection, mission lobby, score screen, and rewards.)
- Every level is decorated for the Holiday season
- 1 type of facades available in high & highest graphics settings.
Graphics:
- Fix: Level design: every collision around desks and furniture have been improved.
- Fix: World leaderboard are not displayed when going to next pages
- Fix: trapped room bug: when a player is in minigame to open door and the other player trigger a trap room including this door, beating the minigame wasn't opening the door
- Fix: The invisibility skill can only be triggered once.
Bug fixes:
We hope you'll enjoy this Winter hacking update, and of course, the whole Piece of Cake studios Team is behind my back right now (I swear) to wish you a great end of the year!