Hello all!
Welcome to another Dev Diary! As you know, every Friday we bring you the latest on Killsquad's development to you, the community. Let's cut to the chase, shall we?
THANK YOU
Since CORE dropped last Friday, Reviews on Steam have been super positive. All the feedback on Discord has been very encouraging. Our Discord server is gaining new followers every day. We couldn't be happier. And the best is yet to come.
But today, let's talk about the Beta: we asked, and you responded. We received lots of bug reports, and we're clearing them quick. A big shout out to tehgreg, Bum, Petrisis, Mazter, shisaya24, leonardo_768, scotilen, griPP, zerogear, sikedjonny, MC, and everyone who reported issues on this beta update. Here is the report as of today:
- Fixed the bug where Zero's weapon, "Red Baron", could share its overcharged state when switching weapons.
- Fixed the bug where Troy's weapon, "Cognita Finem", dealt a 100% of Critical Hits (Thanks tehgreg).
- Fixed the bug where the game crashed when players used the Gadget "Ice Age Bomb" against Helldorren on its "Showtime" attack (Thanks tehgreg).
- Fixed the bug where the first encounter with the Runaway appeared with a higher Vector than intended.
- Fixed the bug where the first encounter with the Prototype Guerrilla appeared with a higher Vector than intended (Thanks lopedo).
- Fixed the bug where players would stop suddenly every time they pressed B with the controller to skip dialogs (Thanks Bum).
- Fixed the bug where after selecting "host private" in a contract, players returned to the Main Lobby without any selected contract (Thanks Bum).
- Fixed the bug where an exclamation mark appeared in Completed Quests (Thanks Petrisis).
- Fixed the bug where players couldn't unlock Spec Ops Contracts (Thanks Petrisis and tehgreg).
- Fixed a localization bug in the description of "VectorUpCase 30" (Thanks tehgreg).
- Fixed the bug here players didn't earn Faction EXP in some situations (Thanks tehgreg).
- Fixed the bug where the Runaway's Codex entry couldn't be unlocked (Thanks tehgreg).
- Fixed long and missing texts in Quests (Thanks Bum and tehgreg).
- Fixed the small text that appeared in the "Move Right" Input Settings (Thanks tehgreg).
- And countless bugs found by our trusty internal QA team (Thanks Hannah, Arnau, Bing, Alba and all led by Jmen)
We've fixed approximately 60% of the bugs reported by fans. At this pace, we'll be out of Beta soon. Now, to celebrate, we're happy to drop, effective now, Beta 2, which has all these bugs addressed. So it's a much better build. All the same rules of Beta 1 apply here, which I'll summarize below:
FAQ
Joining the Beta
Follow this link https://discord.com/invite/killsquad and enter the #beta-instructions channel.
Save games
The Beta uses a branch of your save game. You’ll start beta with your existing save game, but the progress made during Beta won’t transfer to your main branch save game.
Backing up your save game
Please do back up your main branch save game following these instructions:
Backup everything that it’s inside the “SaveGames Folder, which can be located here:
Users\\%Username%\\AppData\\Local\\Killsquad\\Saved\\SaveGames
Inside Steam’s “userdata” folder, you can find a couple of numbered ones. In here, you have to find Killsquad’s folder (910490) and backup these folders.
Program Files (x86)\\Steam\\userdata
And check out if you have this folder route. If you have it, back it up. If not, ignore.
SteamLibrary\\steamapps\\common\\KillSquad\\Game\\Saved\\SaveGames
Streaming the Beta
Please stream the beta! But please do not do it to showcase bugs or broken systems: we are constantly working on Killsquad and of course Betas *do* have bugs.
Reporting bugs
Report bugs in the #beta-bug-report of our Discord channel. Please be specific describing the bug: the easier for us to trigger the bug, the faster we solve it.
We need your help!
Reviews!
Haven’t written a review? This is THE single most important thing you can do! Please write one if you like our work!
Social media follow:
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/killsquad
Twitter: @Killsquadgame
And on the Steam forums
Streaming!
Stream Killsquad! Tell the world about it, on Twitch, on Youtube, anywhere. If you have a significant following, contact us at [email protected], and we’ll try to support you in any way we can.
That's it for today. Come on, go play!