Happy new year from Clockwork Origins to all of you!
2018 was a great year for us with the early access release of Elemental War, a project I personally worked on for several years now, first released as Gothic 2 modification in 2010, and now the standalone version. We got good feedback and released a lot of new stuff already. But what are the plans for 2019? Here's a short list of the most important things we're going to work on during the next months:
- Multiplayer: the lobby system was done for version 0.9.5 (won't be accessible though because it makes no sense), now it's time to start working on the synchronisation stuff while playing. It's a big feature and also a big challenge and we're really looking forward to it. It will take some weeks until we can release it, but I hope we get at least a first game mode done in late Q1.
- Balancing: We already started to try some changes for the balancing. 0.9.5 continues that with changing the spawn amounts depending on the monsters that will be spawned. That means a wave consisting of e.g. Giant Rats will spawn more monsters than a wave of Dragons. Therefor the dragons will be stronger now. Besides that we'll have a look on the abilities and towers because some might be too weak compared to others and vice versa.
- Performance Optimizations: While the performance already improved compared to the initial release, there's still potential left. We're going to improve that during the next months so the game will run better on all machines and also powerful graphic cards really benefit from their power. We'll start improving performance again with 0.9.6.
- Bugfixing: A thing that we'll never stop is bugfixing. When you find bugs, please report them either here in the discussions, in Discord or ingame via the feedback functionality. If it's a blocker we'll release a hotfix as soon as possible, almost everything else will be fixed in the next patch (except it's a big issue that might take longer)
- More Content: We didn't get much feedback yet what you like most and what we should improve/add more content for first. The last updates added a lot of stuff for the alliance system and we hope you like it. Now we're first going to add more quests so you can unlock more items in Hero Mode. So let us know what you like most and for what you would wish more content and we might give it a higher priority.
We hope you enjoyed your year 2018 and you'll accompany us in 2019 and help us with feedback, reviews and - most important - playing and enjoying Elemental War.