Hello coven. So. We made a whoopsie. 

Yesterday we pushed a shiny new build because we got a little too excited. We wanted to hand you more stuff as fast as possible and the universe rewarded our enthusiasm with bugs. Many bugs. So many that they formed a polite but rackety parade through the game.

We reverted everything back to build v1.0.3 a little while ago so the main version is stable again.

Now we are doing this the proper way.

Introducing our final testing zone before full graduation: The Spooky Bugs Beta Branch

This branch is for players who want to live on the edge, stare chaos in the eyes, and say yes please. It will stay up forever so brave souls can hop in whenever they want and help squash bugs with us.

To join the spookybugtesting Top Secret Bug Testing branch, go to Properties -> Betas

Password: veryCoolBugs

Anyone who joins from Steam should hop into the Discord and share their findings so we can smash these spooky bugs together as one confused and determined coven.

Thank you for being the best. We promise the bugs will not win. Probably.

Hi everyone!

It's the 11th day of daily patches, and this one's mostly focused on rebalancing different things so that a wider array of options are more viable! Mainly, percentage damage loot.

I also wanted to mention that yesterday's post outlines the plans for the first big content update for Desktop Defender, read more about it here!

Also, if you're enjoying the game, I would REALLY appreciate it if you reviewed it. It's the best thing you can do to support the game if you're enjoying it!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3772810/Desktop_Defender/Anyways, below are the patch notes!

• Modified the % damage formula for loot, loot affecting % damage should be MUCH more effective now. It is now multiplicative, so note that if you're dealing low damage, it's probably because you have lots of negative % damage loot

• Fixed bug that caused projectile speed to fire behind you if you had tons of loot with negative projectile speed modifiers

• Made the minimum possible damage 1 instead of 0

• Made it such that leveled up HP gets added on top of multiplied by your loot, so leveling up HP is more worth it even if you have a low HP-build through your loot

• Fixed bug that caused your starting HP to be higher than it should've been after the previous HP fix

• Buffed Burst, by making it such that it gets more affected by flat damage

• Buffed Flamethrower, by making it such that it gets more affected by flat damage

• Buffed Electromagnetism, by making it such that it gets more affected by flat damage

• Buffed Revolver, by making it such that it gets more affected by flat damage

- Conrad, Lead Developer

Hello, everyone!

The two of us here at Swordlake Entertainment want to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of Mistwinter Bay's release with you! It's crazy to think that it has already been an entire year since we hit the release-button and anxiously awaited the reception of a game that we had put so many years of work into. Thankfully, the game seems to have resonated with most players and that, we are very grateful for. A massive thank-you to all of you beautiful people who have given the game a chance - you are what allows us to keep going! While we're still quite a ways off of earning a proper living by making games, we have been able to start the production of a new game (more on that below).

But now, let's talk about the game we're all here to celebrate!

As you already know, there are many ways to play the game. Some of the results of this freedom are reflected in the Steam-achievements. Let's look at some excerpts of the achievement statistics, as they are at the time of writing!

The foreign leaders are quite popular, since every fourth player has married a foreign leader, even though there are significantly more townsfolk. Orreg is the favorite foreign leader in terms of completed personal quests, whilst Gaird is the least popular. About 40% of players have entered an alliance, and an impressive 21% have had three alliances at once.

Naturally, the three starter characters are at the top of the list in terms of completed personal quests, but Erewen (30.9%) and Cecil (30.2%) are quite a bit ahead of Dawn (21.6%). Since Erewen and Cecil were in the top of all characters, we put them on the anniversary picture above! The most popular non-starter-character is Kieran, with 20.4% of players having completed his personal quest. (For those interested in optimal strategies, Kieran seems to be a favorite pick as well!) The least popular townsperson is Birgit, with only 2.9% of players having completed her personal quest. Considering that Kieran and Birgit are mutually exclusive, those stats aren't that surprising.

About a third of players have had a townsperson die or move out, but only 1.6% have had at least 5 townsfolk die in a single playthrough. 12% have decided to change things up by replacing the Avallerist building with a Voidist one. However, more than 60% have constructed at least one building.

Players tend to prefer to be “good” in playthroughs, since achievements related to giving nice gifts and hanging out with characters are more common than the one about giving a mean gift or being detested. Many seem to enjoy creating townsfolk couples as well, with more than a fifth of players having tried it.

In terms of “special” characters, 34.7% of players have invited Robin, Sasee or Mallowan (perhaps all three) to stay with them. 19.8% have encountered a god, while 28.7% have met a pegasus. Only 3.1% have met a creature from The Void who offers some very powerful boons…

So yes, it has now been one year since Mistwinter Bay was released. Since then, we have added two major content updates, bringing the game up to the ideal vision we had for it. This new content brought the total word count of the game up to around 1.8 million, which is an absolutely insane number! Of course, the number of words in a creative work doesn't measure quality, but we have done our best to address player input and mechanical things as well, such as adding cheats. We have also released several small fixes, addressing bugs, balancing and grammar (there is definitely a lot of spelling mistakes left, though, and will so remain).

We teased in the intro that we have a new game on the way. We have been working on it since March of this year, after the official development of Mistwinter Bay ended, and it is shaping up nicely! If you want to be notified when the game releases or learn more about it when the time is right, please consider following our social media pages. Another great way is by following our new developer page here on Steam, by which you will be notified every time we release new games!

Hopefully, we'll have a store page up by the end of the year. We're very excited to show off our hard work then! While we can't give any specific information about the new game right now, we'll leave you with a list of key features:

• 3D

• First person

• Focused on story and characters, but reliant on some skill as well

• A fairly linear narrative, but different endings

• Four playable characters

• Fully voiced in Japanese (by real, human actors!)

Once again, a massive thank-you to every single one of you! It is thanks to you that Mistwinter Bay is a game we can look back on with pride.

Sincerely,

The Swordlake Entertainment duo

Howdy Agents (✿◕‿◕)

I have some quick bug fixes for you today. Special thanks to everyone who left a review since our last update, and to those of you who reported these bugs. As always, be sure tohttps://discord.gg/ZZcY8HAfffjoin the discord!

Here are da notes.

• Fixed a critical bug that caused the game to crash when in stealth and tracked by black knight radar.

• Fixed Black Fish and White Fish movement to reduce jitter.

• Fixed a problem with Black Fish and White Fish not working correctly while a doppelganger was in the area.

• Fixed a bug causing the Threshold ability to reduce your hacking range.

• The Threshold ability now correctly follows your aim when used in conjunction with the Arms Runner perk.

• Fixed an issue causing bubble drones to get stuck in the corner of rooms.

• Fixed how the perks Bloodmage, Out Of Bound, and Neuromancer interact. Combining the three will now allow you to hack through walls and ignore data costs. In situations like this where there are multiple valid interpretations of how different perks interact, I like to learn towards the outcome that benefits the player the most.

• Fixed a bug causing dopplegangers to incorrectly copy legendary weapons.

• Fixed an issue with All Eyes On Me that caused shots to not pass through walls when pressing up against them.

• Fixed typos.

The game is currently in active development, so please report any issues or unfinished features you encounter.

If you played the first version of the closed test, this new version has some fresh content for you as well!

Version 0.2.9
- 9 new Toji! Among them you'll find Toji specializing in healing and block.
- Updated Training Island, now with example scenarios demonstrating when certain mechanics are needed.
- Numerous balance adjustments and bug fixes.

Hey, players! 🌟
We’re thrilled to announce the start of the super testing of our game! This is your chance to join the dev team and help make the game even better.

Hunt for bugs, share your findings, and leave your feedback – everything directly shapes the project’s future. Report issues in our Discord or in the Steam discussions.

Every comment matters, every idea counts. Join us and let’s make the game flawless together! 💥

Improved ability/item targeting, thanks to Mean & Evil. There was a bug that said target was out of range if he was immediately north of you and you clicked on the top of his head. It now checks for target's current position, as well as the position he's currently moving into, so it should be a lot easier to target baddies in combat now. Also fixed a couple minor bugs and added a new persuasion opportunity to Ch.4.

Finally, changed default settings so game remains paused after ability targeting and dialogue windows. It seems like most people prefer this. If you don't like it, you can turn it off in the game settings.

I still have a short to-do list of new dialogue and party banter that I need to cram into the game, and then I will be ready to start on Ch.6.

Complete list of changes:

-Fixed bugs with player item/ability targeting, greatly improved range check (thanks to Mean & Evil).

-Fixed minor problem with crafting abilities when interacting with crafting stations (thanks to Mean & Evil).

-Fixed bug where Dabi would incessantly tell you to take high ground in Lockdell Outskirts in Ch.1.

-Auto-Pause after ability/item targeting and dialogue windows is now on by default.

-Added another persuasion opportunity with Berindal in Ch.4.

-Wood spears now cost 12 wealth instead of 18.

-Fixed some tiles in Lockdell Farms in Ch.1.

• Optimization problems are gone.
• Graphics have changed.
• Gameplay has changed.
• Cashier mode has arrived.
• A main character has been added to the game.
• Vehicles have been added.

This update addresses a number of minor bugs and includes subtle tweaks to improve gameplay.

Specific changes include:

• Reduced the cooldown of the Slime Tentacle Monster’s tentacle ability.

• Adjusted the reward chest respawn time to 120 seconds.

• Removed certain firearms from the map.

Happy Saturday Hikers!

• Fixed enemy forgets player when killed

• Fixed Substation 1 roll door references

• Increased night brightness

• Fixed Field Lab Charlie front door

• Fixed collision on all doors

• Added Sightline Games logo to opening movie montage

We found a few bugs while we played with Sgt kelvin yesterday, we had a great time and we recommend everyone check out their content!