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1 April

Patch #033115 Released

Good morning, fellow backers!

As many of you know, a couple of weeks ago we released the current version of After Reset RPG on Steam Early Access (SEA). As I promised, from this moment on each of our updates will coincide with the release of a new patch. These patches need to show serious additions or corrections that were completed (by the team) between updates.

Today's update is dedicated to addressing the game's first week on SEA, other game development news, and a small contest that was created for our Kickstarter backers and Co-Founders only, which we'll talk about towards the end.

PATCH #033115 RELEASED!

Some of our backers may have noticed that your Steam application After Reset RPG was updated on Tuesday, March 31. Although you can read all the patch notes in PatchNotes.txt (which is in your game folder), I'd like to publish the full list of changes in this update so that any future backers can follow our chronological process from start to finish.

After Reset RPG, Patch Notes #033115
Released on Tuesday, March 31, 2015

FIXES:

Technical:
• Fixed an error in the application launcher for the WIN 32 version.

User Interface:
• Highlighting system fixed to produce exponentially transparent aura.
• ESC hotkey now returns back to previous menu in the main menu.

Audio:
• Fixed an issue with the voice of the Prologue narration.

Miscellaneous:
• Fixed the text of narration.
• General description for skills amended.
• Strength STAT description edited (now it says the Strength affects chances to force opening mechanical locks).

FEATURES & CHANGES:

Gameplay:
• Door scripts added (with 4 possible stages open/close/locked/sealed). However, you can't hack/lockpick/brake doors yet. Use ALT+Z to change the stages of the doors for tests.
• Tutorial pop-ups added.

Mechanics:
• Character speed (walk/run) adjusted to SACPIC mechanics (30/15ft per round for Humans).

User Interface:
• "Game Paused" message is added when you pause the game by pressing spacebar.
• "Game Over" screen for Gyes added. Use ALT+P for suicide and test.
• In-game date/time panel added.
• In-game skill panel added.
• In-game log panel added.

Graphics:
• New Loading Screen arts for the Special Facility level added (they depends on character’s gender selected).
• Animations for normal walk/run (for Humans) added. If your character, your human allies, human NPCs have less than 10% of their HP, they will use that shambling animation.

Audio:
• Footsteps system added with majority of footsteps sounds.
• Gyes doors sounds added (open/close/locked/sealed).
• All in game sounds are bonded to SFX volume control.
• Various game-over narrations added.
• ECLCC and Plasma Reactor sounds added.
• When the game is paused music and all sounds except UI is muted at 50%.
• Game Over music added.

Miscellaneous:
• Laboratory CCP-5 room completed (capsules, engines, infrastructure added).

COMMENTS:

About shambling animation. During the game you be able to identify HP of enemies only if you got and set relevant augmentation for your CORE-7 implant. Without it you will be able to see the general state of the enemy (Uninjured/Barely Injured/Injured/Badly Injured/Near Death/Dead). That shambling animation will help you to identify the most injured human enemies. As well as it should attract your attention to your wounded allies and help them in time. Beyond that, it should bring more realism and fun, I believe.

About doors. Every door in the game might have one of the 4 states:
1. Unlocked. You can open/close it without obstacles. You can also break the lock of the door to make it Broken or Sealed.
2. Locked. You can't open/close locked door. You need to use your skill Lockpick to unlock it first if the lock is mechanical); or to use Science skill to hack the lock if is electronic. You can also try to open mechanical locks/doors by force (your Strength STAT affects the results). You can't open electronic locks by rough force. Beyond that, you can break the lock of the door to make it Broken or Sealed.
3. Broken. You need to repair the broken lock before opening it (if the lock was unlocked before you broke it) or before picking/hacking it (if the lock was locked before you broke it).
4. Sealed. There is nothing you can do with this lock. If it is the door sealed - proper explosives are your only chances to cope with this door.

You can ask: why should break any unlocked door? why should I seal it? The answers are in the game-play context. E.g. you can break the door control panel to seal something (or someone) inside. Considering something (or someone) killed almost all personnel at the advanced military base, the brain and smarts of the gamer are the only chance to survive for your character.

Guys, please, keep in mind: despite the skills are displayed correctly you can’t use them yet in this build. We are adding their activation in the future builds step by step with relevance to our in game tutorial pop ups.

CO-FOUNDER STATUSES FOR STEAM EARLY ACCESS BACKERS

Almost 4,000 people added us to their wish lists the first week that the game was on Steam. Fifty of them supported us financially by purchasing the SEA. Of course, some of them have probably been following the game and waiting for us to start accepting payments. But most of them are new members of our community and we would like to say: "Thank you, guys! And welcome aboard!"

This is the first news for you. If you are just now joining us you may not know that we try hard to make our dedicated fans happy. We don't do this for marketing or PR reasons; we simply want to show our gratitude.

I didn't announce this part in the news on purpose, but if you have purchased After Reset RPG on SEA before this news came out, you can receive a Co-Founder status for free! To tell you the truth, this feature is not for sale and is only given out on very special occasions. It gives you access to avatars and the closed parts of our forum with additional content. You can read more about the Co-Founder status here: http://www.afterreset.com/forum/showthread.php?t=274

In order to receive the Co-Founder status:
- Make sure that you purchased After Reset RPG on SEA BEFORE the release of this article.
- Send us a screenshot or any other document proving the date of purchase of After Reset RPG on SEA.
- Send us the name of your forum account (not your Steam account) that you want us to set to Co-Founder status.

Guys, thank you again for believing in us, supporting us, and writing all of your honest reviews on Steam.

A BIT ABOUT STEAM EA:

So, it has happened! The first week of being on Steam was as emotional as going up Mt. Calvary, but we are here! Honestly, guys, we couldn't have gotten to this point without your support.

Right now, many are asking why we released the game on Steam without having finished the Prologue. The reasons behind this decision lay in the fact that we have already started using SEA for distribution management. No more '5 days to prepare, upload, update, fix' for each separate platform (Windows, Linux and Mac). Build synchronization in the folders of my computer happens practically automatically now. By the way, this factor allowed us to fix the problem with loading the game on 32-bit Windows in one day. This means that if you guys run into a serious bug, we will be able to fix it right away and you won't have to wait for half a month for the next patch to come in.READ MORE...

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About This Game

After Reset RPG

'THE FALL OF GYES' GRAPHIC NOVEL

KEEP IN MIND:
The current version of the Prologue is not finished yet. By purchasing our Early Access you are formally buying the game in current stage of development and any further updates till the final version. Although, the most important - you are actually supporting the development of our game and its quality.

Beyond that, feel free to check our first tech build which we made back in 2014 for Win/Mac/Lin: for free on Steam.

THE BUILD YOU ARE RUNNING INCLUDES THE CHARACTER CREATION, RELEVANT MECHANICS, INTRO AND STORY MOVIES, SPECIAL FACILITY LEVEL (WHICH YOU CAN’T LEAVE YET), CHARACTER INTEGRATION WITH VARIOUS INJURED ANIMATIONS, CHARACTER MOVEMENT, THE FOG OF WAR AND RELEVANT SACPIC MECHANICS, HIGHLIGHTING SYSTEM, VARIOUS WORLD INTERACTION ONLY.
WE EXPAND AND GROW THIS BUILD WITH EVERY COMING PATCH. TO TRACK OUR PROGRESS, PLEASE, CHECK OUR WEBSITE WWW.AFTERRESET.COM AND YOUR PATCHNOTES.TXT.

BY PURCHASING EARLY ACCESS YOU ARE REALLY SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR GAME AND ITS QUALITY.
THANK YOU, THIS GAME WOULD NEVER BECOME A REALITY WITHOUT SUCH GAMERS/BACKERS LIKE YOU.

NOTE ON EARLY ACCESS ALPHA:
After Reset RPG is currently in Early Access on Steam. With a fully transparent approach to game design and development we showed through the whole time of development and being the same gamers like the most of you, we work on RPG of our dream. After Reset RPG: Early Access is your chance to bring our mutual game to reality.

As you can see on our official we site, since the beginning we've toiled and released transparent updates every 2-3 weeks almost. Those who choose to purchase Early Access should anticipate an evolving feature set, bugs, incomplete content, missing features, and potentially game breaking issues. Early Access is designed for those wishing to support the ongoing development of After Reset RPG and be a part of shaping its future.

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Thanks for your support and thanks for rooting for us, guys!
We've never reached the stage we're in without your support, trust, patience and faith.

Sincerely,
Richard.

System Requirements

Windows

Mac OS X

SteamOS + Linux

Minimum:

OS: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 (32 or 64 bit)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260 or Radeon HD 4850 (512 MB VRAM)
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Hard Drive: 20 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card

Recommended:

OS: Windows 7/8/8.1 (64 bit)
Processor: Intel Core i5 series or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 980 or Radeon R9 290X (4096 MB VRAM)
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Hard Drive: 20 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card

Minimum:

OS: Mac OSX 10.5 or higher
Processor: Intel Core i5 2.4 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 300 Series or Radeon equivalent (512 MB VRAM)
Hard Drive: 20 GB available space

Recommended:

OS: Mac OSX 10.5 or higher
Processor: Intel Core i7 2.66 GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 980 Series or Radeon equivalent (4096 MB VRAM)
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Hard Drive: 20 GB available space

Minimum:

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or later (32 or 64 bit)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260 or Radeon HD 4850 (512 MB VRAM)
Hard Drive: 20 GB available space

Recommended:

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or later (64 bit)
Processor: Intel Core i5 series or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 980 Series or Radeon equivalent (4096 MB VRAM)
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Hard Drive: 20 GB available space

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Reviews

“After Reset RPG may be the Fallout 3 we never got.”
Joystiq

“After Reset RPG aims to be the best of Fallout, Baldur's Gate and Planescape Torment.”
PCGamesN

“After Reset RPG: RPG gaming in its purest form.”
CounterFrag

RainOfTerror

103 products in account

2 reviews

Not Recommended

1.5 hrs on record

Posted: 22 March

There is no playable "game" here, just a concept/tech demo. and asking $50 for it is just highway robbery.

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PenguChuck

229 products in account

0.4 hrs on record

Posted: 9 March

I'd hold off on this one for right now gentlemen.
50$ EA with absolutely zero gameplay aside from limping around a single zone. Cannot interact with objects in the game world. Literally nothing you can do in this game right now.

Granted it is an Alpha build so things will get better however if you don't want a 50$ "Paperweight" in your steam folder I wouldn't purchase this game just yet unless you are really interested in supporting the development of the game.

Stefura

179 products in account

25 reviews

0.7 hrs on record

45€ for an early access? For that reason alone I say to you young whippersnappers that you should not buy this.
I can only guess on why the price is so high, but I can't be certain.
Maybe to keep people away and only get those people in to the game who actually would provide feedback on a regular basis. Thats just me guessing though.

http://youtu.be/TtvvxhPQzWU

What little there is at the moment in the game I'll try and write about it.

The story seems very interesting to me. Aliens and somehow all the nukes on planet earth got blown up and people live in underground caves with freaking cave(sky)scrapers. Thats cool.

The game was dropping some frames even on lower settings so they can work on that optimization.

Gameplay at the moment is nonexistent, but you can move around not picking stuff up. Thats maybe something? (it isn't)

Character creation does show a lot of promise even though you can't do much at the moment, it semm that there are apparently a lot of species, classes, skills and perks to be chosen later down the line.

I'll edit this the next time I visit the game and we'll see what my opinion is then.
At the moment though I cannot recomend purchasing this for that big pricetag even if you enjoy playing early access games.

Do have look at my video of the game if you wish to see some gameplay of it.

http://youtu.be/TtvvxhPQzWU

Nevertheless

85 products in account

1 review

0.8 hrs on record

Posted: 17 March

Unbelievable!
I would have kept silent. I would have waited patiently for a game to emerge some day.. but now it is on early access, for 46€, and it gets recommendations over and over, which I don't understand, and I think a completely wrong picture of the game gets shown to the people.
So please know: What you can see in the videos and pictures above, is really everything there is! Plus, you cannot do anything but move around. You can not use or touch or do anything else than move around. There is exactly one location to move around in. The desert scene is video only until now.
For me it looks like a hollow shell of a game. They made some really polished things, but for me it seems there is nothing behind it. Why would anyone create and show a polished character generation first, and then tell nothing of the use of the generated stats?
That said, I'm going to wait and see. I hope I'm wrong. They got the kickstarter money, so they should have everything to finish the game. Right now all there is to see, you can see for free on the store page videos.

TreJn

1,302 products in account

365 reviews

0.1 hrs on record

Posted: 16 March

You will laugh, you will cry, you will kiss $50 good bye.

Hazel

130 products in account

Recommended

Posted: 1 April

This game is in very early alpha, I am one of the original backers and this has come a long way since then. But the build shown is all that is availble. What is availble now is not much more than a tech demo. This game will take a long time to get to completion and you should only be buying this if you intend to help back the game. There is no content to play yet so dont complain if you buy this and dont read these reviews as this is early alpha tech demo only.

The $50 you would spend goes towards development and the final game that will eventually show up sometime off in the future.

Great work so far.

Frog Blender 2000

327 products in account

3 reviews

0.3 hrs on record

This game is VERY early development. I would not have recommended it be put on Early Access yet because people will expect gameplay an rate badly because of the lack of gameplay yet. I bought into this a while ago because I like the basis for this game. Do not buy yet unless you want to consider it a future investment. You will not be able to play the game yet . The Development team will be a long time getting this game ready for playability. Please do not pass this game up based on the lack of content yet. Just click follow and come check on the game later to see if there is content yet.

Chuckles

710 products in account

14 reviews

15.7 hrs on record

Posted: 24 March

Good so far. It is clear that the developer cares a lot about the project, despite a bit of bad comments that had floated around in the earlier stages of this game, the numerous updates and clear attention to detail in the current content gets rid of any bad feelings. I love the post apocalyptic type game done right and I feel AR is going to deliver strong.

Darth Biomech

126 products in account

7 reviews

0.2 hrs on record

Posted: 20 March

The game currently have no gameplay. There is items scattered through the level, but I was unable to pick up anything. Slow painful crawling of character doesn't help exploring the level, there is no HUD whatsoever, and if you press Escape it TERMINATES your game session and returns to the main menu. Well, yeah, there is nothing to save yet, but still, this is not how early acces should look like. This game is at early pre-alpha stage at least, definetely not ready for gamers.

Well, yea, yea, there is a lot of downsides, including the very high price for that, is there any good sides?
This game looks PRO. You can easily tell that this is not going to be "yet another indie betheda killer wannabie", everything looks AAA, and there is just isn't that much to look at yet, but what you se is very good: the art, the voices, models, and textures, visual part in general is superb.

My advice: wait for a half a year, roughly, then give it a try. It should offer way more then. Still I don't want to give this game negative review, as it looks promising but possibly already owerflowed with negative ones... and there isn't a neutral setting. So, yeah, I recommend it. Just, not right now.

rambo_mcsolid

108 products in account

5 reviews

0.9 hrs on record

Posted: 18 March

Though very little gameplay of which to speak, the idea and story are very interesting, only buy if you're looking to take a leap of faith or maybe wait until a sale. I missed the kickstarter but wanted to back the concept so here I am. I can understand both sides of the debate currently ongoing but choose to give it a thumbs up as someone who does back a fair amount of kickstarters but maybe as I'm yet to be burned by an early-access game, I don't have that in my mind so much. The intro cinematic and story along with the graphic novel gripped me. I can see where this is going but yes, It may not be completed... That depends on how well received the full prologue is if you're on the fence you can wait for that and keep an eye on/ Follow it. Gameplay consists of limping around a small medical area of a bunker, there are a couple of items which are highlightable, including items inside slightly opened cupboards/ drawers which I liked and sliding doors which open but that seems to be it, also currently having my foot in a cast I find the limping quite life-like, not for slow hobbling but If I try and lunge fast I swing my arms and its not unlike the animation lol. It is akin to many tech demos I have seen but yes it is a tad on the expensive side. I've wasted more on nghts of drinking however so to me, I think it'l be worth it eventually.

oleb1980

15 products in account

3.5 hrs on record

Posted: 14 March

In my search for a real post-apocalyptic RPG I found this one after I searched for quite some years, it turned out to be in developement when I found it and after I read a lot about the plans for the future and how dedicated the developers are including how much time they use to assure the backers with progress updates and joining in on discussions, I decided to back them up.

I know a lot of gamers expected it to be playable with only some bugs and balances to be worked out, and when there are a lot of games that give gamers a bad experience with early access I'm hoping that most of them will have the patience to watch how After Reset developes.

Even if it is barely playable at this time I have tremendous belief in the game when it reaches the finishing stages, and yes that could take some time. Now while I spot a lot of confusion and bad attitude among the gamers claiming this is just another fraud that will never finish, keep in mind that Mr. Nixon is a gamer himself and did put a lot of effort into this game even his own money to see this become a reality.
I can hardly remember any developers working this hard on a game with such little to go on, so please give the devs some slack and instead play some other games while After Reset developes.

I'm sure it will be worth the wait.

Micmic87™

210 products in account

Looks promising keep it upp!

jeffrey157

77 products in account

Posted: 12 March

Game is very early release and plays that way to but the developers are taking player feeback and improving the game with it one a constant basis. the idea and theme are sound and the game keeps improving every time I log on, I dont feel that my money is going to be wasted in the long run when this game comes to completion. excited to be on the journey to help the game grow and see how it evolves.

X41823T

12 reviews

Posted: 10 March

I've chosen to support this title since it's an honest attempt to revive something that was lost many years ago, possibly as far back as the 90's when we had a ACTUAL 'evolution' in the video game industry.

This title is probably the closest we'll get to a spiritual sequel to the fallout series as we'll get in this century so if you want to give the past a chance in our 'era' of console ports and social games then for the love of GOD support this title!

kennethsw

41 products in account

2.3 hrs on record

I have backed this game since kickstarter and believe it has tremendous potential. The game is in VERY early alpha right now and is not yet playable so you might wnt to hold off awhile if the $50 pricetag is too much. If you want to back the development of the game now and have the patience to wait you can. My kickstarter pledge was considerably more than $50 because I am a real fan of this type of game and really want it to succeed.

AUSTIOPOROSIS

240 products in account

6 reviews

1.0 hrs on record

NOTE: As of Right now the game is essentially a digital 'brick'. As in no gameplay besides intro cut scene and limping around the starting room.

I kickstarted this back in August of 2014 and have been paying attention to it's development. Come back when there is some gameplay unless you want to support Black Cloud Studios.

XTriton

315 products in account

The game is not finished yet. There is little to no gameplay at the moment. What is there is basically a graphical representation of the level layouts. Wait if you want to save money or Buy now if you want to support the developer.

As an original backer, I am happy to support this project as all the updates and Dev blogs have cemented my commitment to my pledge (hence my recommendation), but new users will obviously be ignorant to this.

I highly recommend visiting http://www.afterreset.com/ for the full story so you can make an informed decision of whether to support or wait.

Chosen (BACK MAY 17TH)

422 products in account

So, yes this game is in Alpha and right now it is definitely not worth the $50USD that Black Cloud are currently asking, but it has a lot of potential.

I've been a backer since early days of Kickstarter so I got this long before it had a Steam page. Reading all the updates and keeping track of the game has allowed me to get a nice perspective of where the game is going and whether its going to be good in the future or just another one of those flops that you always seen on Early Access and Kickstarter.

This game actually looks like it's going to be good and the creators are constantly pushing out updates with new developments, and information. They are constantly working on the game, not just sitting there on the piles of money from the Kickstarter and doing nothing. They want to succeed and that is a driving force of the game to succeed. They are allowing us to have a chance to play all the builds along the way and give them information on how they could make it better.

I'm personally really looking forward to how this game goes in the future and in my opinion I think it will succeed. It may not be the best time to buy the game but press that follow button and watch for updates. Jump on their website and read all about it.

Will make future updates as I go along!

Walter Frostbyte

109 products in account

I backed the game out on Kickstarter and I am really looking foward to this one, Yes it's still early access, but you should have seen all the content these guys showed us, kickstarter backers!! It was just amaizing! Every week, a new update came out about the game, sending us concept arts, screenshots and storyline.

This one can absolutely be a Fallout sequel we never had. Really looking foward for this one.

And for those complaining about the price, it's a HUGE game, they NEED the money to keep going as it was a Kickstarter project. And By they way.. Remember that STEAM is a distributor.. what does a distributor do: sell stuff and cash in that's it. Just like in the music industrie, the artist is the last one to be paied here... And I think they deserve all the money they can get.