Miksi Early Access?

We aim to continue improving and adding content, game modes, improving the look-and-feel of the game, and Menu / Settings displays. Suggestions from the Early Access community may help guide the development.

We would love to hear from users, what works with them, what does not, and more importantly how would they like them improved, and take them into account. So your improvement suggestions are very valuable to us.

Overall, we want to deliver an action-packed quirky FPS game, where quirky gamers can help steer the development.

Miten kauan peli tulee arviolta olemaan Early Access -vaiheessa?

The tentative time in early access would be about 6 months to 1 year. This is depending on how development goes, where we aim to deliver as much fun and experience, with our resources.

Other updates to Menu / Setting Displays will also be made during this time for a more user-friendly look-and-feel. We encourage your questions, and will provide some additional instructions for common topics raised.

Millä tavoin lopullinen versio tulee eroamaan Early Access -versiosta?

The full version will have more content, and the focus of development are:
- Maps / Environment
- Stats to track / achievements the Steam Platform is a high priority for us as well.
- As the focus of this Arena FPS is the 'Search And Rescue' game mode, there would be other modes as well, such as a Team Death Match, and moreover, we would like to hear suggestions on Game Modes you want that may be included in the development plan.

Mikä on Early Access -version tila tällä hetkellä?

Functionality planned for initial release is already complete.
The current state features:
- 1 Map Currently
- Game Modes: Team Death Match, and another that we're experimenting with, called Search and Rescue
- Online Game-play with friends
- AI for Bots established and players can battle against them if playing solo, with several bot-options.

We understand our lobby features basic functionality to host rooms and search for rooms available online, and we want to expand this area too, changing the layout for ease of use, as the updates come along.

Muuttuuko pelin hinta Early Access -vaiheen jälkeen?

To limit the initial Early Access users, since an initial flood of users may not be the best situation for now, we will set a price for the Early Access, as opposed to being free. - To monitor the Network Traffic and peaks with a smaller sample set initially.

Based on this, we expect the price to gradually increase as we ship new content naturally. Any major change in these plans will be communicated.

Miten yhteisö otetaan mukaan kehitysprosessiin?

We'd really like our players to enjoy the gaming experience to their fullest. It would be an ideal situation, to involve our community in our Map Addition process, as well as some Game Mode updates.

Please note that while doing our updates during Early Access, we may need to reset player stats to reflect any updated statistical category.

The support e-mail users can connect with us is: purpl3grape.studios@gmail.com
We will include this information the application as well.