Hello Steam users 👋
As we journey through Early Access, we want to share more regular updates with you about how development is progressing. If there’s anything in particular you’d like to learn more about, please let us know in the replies!
For our first update, we wanted to talk about the brand new survival mode!
This is a new mode we’ve added to the game, based on the feedback from our prologue and demo players. It was highly requested, so we squeezed in time to create and include this prototype in the Early Access release of Fabular.
Please bear in mind that this is just a prototype. If there’s a lot of interest in it, we’re hoping to expand on it and add further difficulties and perhaps even bosses as well.
What is Survival Mode?
Survival mode is intended for players who have completed the journey mode and want an additional challenge.
You can choose between the different classes available to you, before launching straight into the first battle. Survival mode is set up as an “arena” of sorts, where you can battle 10 waves of enemy ships. In between each wave, there’ll be a small break to heal, upgrade your ship, switch out gadgets and weapons, and visit the store.
After completing all 10 waves (or as far as you can get), you’ll receive an overall score ranking your performance.
The Leader board
Each level of survival mode has its own Survival Hall of Fame leader board.
The scores for the leader board are calculated using a few different values:
- How many waves you completed.
- How much damage you took during a wave.
- How quickly you completed each wave.
The results for each wave is summed up at the end to generate an overall score, which goes on the leader board.
The Future of Survival Mode
At the moment, there are two different difficulty levels available in survival mode - The Kingdom Heart and No Man’s Land.
We’re hoping to expand on this in the future, if there’s significant interest in survival mode. A few ideas we have are introducing bosses to some of the waves, as well as adding additional difficulty levels.
If you have any suggestions for further ways to improve survival mode, please let us know in the replies.
Otherwise, good luck beating your friends (and the devs!).
- Spiritus Games