Hello folks, The Baron here with a bit of U8 news, but alas I have an unfortunate announcement first. At this point you have surely all heard about, and likely even been impacted by the Corona Virus. Sadly I must report that COVID has impacted Warpfrog too and caused some disruptions to U8's release schedule. Just as all this madness began going down, KospY was in the process on opening a new Warpfrog office and onboarding some fulltime employees. The idea was that having employees working side by side with KospY would greatly streamline the workflow, so the time invested in opening the office would be worth the payoff. Unfortunately the office was only open a week when news began circulating of businesses shutting down for safety, so to protect his employees KospY decided to temporarily close office and revert back to working remotely, which is not a great learning environment for any new employee... Furthermore, several of the new employees had relocated to KospY's city specifically to work for Warpfrog, but as they arrived right as COVID trouble began brewing, several of them didn't even have a chance to get set up with internet connections and are using phone internet to work, which as you can imagine is not great... The team are working out the workflow kinks right now and hopefully this situation will get better.
What this means - The team is pressing on as best they can, but U8 will be arriving late April at best. To avoid disappointment I would caution everyone to prepare for a worse delay, and that way if it is in fact late April then it will be a nice surprise. Everyone is working as hard as they can to get U8 released, so thanks for your patience and understanding, guys. If I get any more news regarding this I will keep you guys posted!
So then, let's jump into what's new with U8!
Model makers have been hard at work, churning out new weapons and armours to go along with the new tier system. With each weapon having 4-5 tiers, you can probably appreciate that it is a lot of work! Here are some of the latest models for early tier axe and some shields:
The bow aim bug has been fixed by the way!
Work on armour continues, and the team have been getting through the armours at a good steady pace. The latest additions were leather and plate; here is how they look on the models (still actively wip):
Finally, some concept armour for you on armour tiers still to come; to recap, each tier has a type of leather, chain or plate, but the tier reflects the coverage/functionality and each higher tier provides progressively more coverage / defense. Oh and some of you were surprised to hear this so I will say it again -- The player can wear the same armour as the AI. ːsteamhappyː And in fact armour is modular, so the player can mix and match armour pieces. You could wear a plate chest piece with leather gloves for example.
Leather Tier 1 (F)
Plate Tier 1 (M)
Plate Tier 2 (M)
Plate Tier 2 (F)
That's it for this week, folks. I'll keep you all posted on Reddit, Discord and Steam if I get any new developments. Stay safe!