Hello Cats and friends of Cats!

The long awaited Patch 4 has arrived! Thank you all for your patience as we've been working hard with our small team to prepare this patch as well as prepare additional platforms. We continue to appreciate seeing all of the notes and details from the community here and it helps us immensely!

Some Pawtch notes below!

Fixed localization issues across multiple languages
Added accessibility options for players who have difficulty with rapid tapping
* Toggle run
* Toggle defluxor
* Toggle to shake Zurks
Added an option to hide cat death (it is too sad)
A large number of crash fixes across many situations (too many to list and some quite nasty)
Fixes for audio decompression errors and stuttering on certain configurations
Collision and navmesh fixes throughout the game (Cats are liquid so it's difficult!)

Thank you everyone for the precious feedback. Oscar hopes you will enjoy this pawtch!

[h4]Hello, SacriFire community![/h4]

As promised in our first post, we’re back with some brand-new info about the game.

You might already know that SacriFire will let you visit multiple worlds. First and foremost amongst these is Antioch, the game’s primary location and main city, and that’s where we’d like to take you in today’s devlog. We’ll be revealing a bit of the area’s historical background, and there’ll even be a couple of teases regarding what you can expect there while playing SacriFire.

Let’s take a look, then, at the wonders that lie beneath the surface…





To discover Antioch, we need to go underground. The entire city is built upon the peaks of enormous stalagmites in a gigantic subterranean cave. As you might expect, the location has a drastic impact on the appearance of life in the city - flora is such as one would expect to grow in caves, and animal life (creatures known as “Sorrow-beasts") is mostly reptilian.

You may wonder how the question of light is handled in an underground city. Antioch’s answer is the Hellgate - an enormous portal that allows light to shine upon the city from the hell above.






You’ll be able to visit four of Antioch’s nineteen districts during the story presented in SacriFire - Ivanstone, Spire, Tundale, and Opus Peaks.

Each district of Antioch is unique, distinguished by its own laws, social structure, and customs. In terms of visual style, you will find a mix of fantasy and science-fiction elements visible in technology, architecture, and decorations of each part of the city. The cherry on the top is that these elements directly correspond to the city’s history and lore.






Most people living in Antioch are content - poverty and crime in the city are low. People work, and spend their free time in the crowded marketplace (trading with “lux”, the currency of Antioch), going fishing in nearby rivers, taking care of their chores, praying at nearby chapels and visiting the spirit world of Erebus.

While wandering through the city streets you can hear the citizens chattering about everyday matters, revealing snippits of interesting facts about politics, history, and everyday life in Antioch. As the story of SacriFire progresses, NPCs will also refer to the important events, so you will be able to get a new perspective on the adventures that you are participating in.

The streets of Antioch are also a place where you can get a glimpse of the sci-fi side of SacriFire and observe some mysterious creatures known as servers.

Let’s not forget about the rich variety of fantastic creatures living in Antioch, such as furry “feglings” (lizardcats), pterodactyl-like “flugels”, “moligs” (which look like a mix of a dog and a frog), and more!






It’s impossible to talk about Antioch without talking about the Church of Sheol, the centre of law and order in the city. While everyday criminal matters such as theft and smuggling are dealt with by city guards, the Church upholds the three divine laws: Doubt Not Thy God, Harm Not Thy Servant, Kill Not Thy Fellow Man.

The Church is helped in this task by advanced technology, such as the DIVOS (weapon-shifting technology) that you will be able to use in the game and prayer wheels (which let citizens travel to spirit worlds such as Erebus).

One of the biggest conflicts that the Church is involved in is related to heretics - mysterious rebels who are sworn to destroy the god Sheol. While heretics are considered to be a myth by many citizens, the fact is that Antioch is caught up in a centuries-long war between them and the Church.

To protect the city from heretics (as well as the sorrow-beasts), the Church of Sheol developed an elite unit of soldiers called bishops. The bishops’ home is Sanctuary (they alone are permitted to enter), where they study and receive training in the use of DIVOS weapons. And, of course, where they occasionally relax.

One such bishop is Ezekiel Ridan, protagonist of SacriFire.





As in any good RPG, we want you to enjoy your time in Antioch, so there’ll be plenty of fun activities to take part in beyond the main story missions and side quests.

You’ll be able to talk to the citizens you meet on the streets of various districts and learn some interesting bits of info about the world. Many of them will be happy to play Molig Mania, our main mini-game. You can collect “molig cards”, each representing various types of creatures with different stats, which will clash on a round board during your duels.

Merchants and shops are also available for you to visit and restock your items for use in combat or crafting. For lovers of cuddly creatures, we also have an opportunity to collect special animals which will let you unlock some cool stuff.






We do hope that you enjoyed this introduction to the lore of Antioch. Of course, we have plenty more to cover, and the city we described today is one of many locations that you will visit in SacriFire. There’s a lot more to come, but we don’t want to spoil the surprise too much!

In our next dev log we’ll jump into the prayer wheels and travel to the idyllic world of Erebus.

Till next time!


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FEATURE/ QoL REQUESTS:
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[⭐] Improve batch processing accuracy so you get more out of offline time. (may be slower now by default so speed up if it's too long)
[⭐] On hover dessert tray names.
[⭐] Added FAQ on Conveyor Belts, respec, and Midas Touch.
[⭐] Display times franchised in stats section.
[⭐] increase scaling for perks boost gift based on times franchised.
[⭐] Apply override button in main settings for trainer settings like the ask/batch/tray.

BUGS:
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[🔨] Challenges for display coins looped from display manager
[🔨] Corporate gets stuck loading leaving.
[🔨] Corporate stores sit at 99% for a while before moving to next when there is a lot of old time to process.
[🔨] CEO reverted to 50% when closing and reopening the game.
[🔨] trait reroll in corporate was broken
[🔨] Corporate amount processing wasn't accurate
[🔨] sometimes the speed up processing didn't show up ( will now show for all above 12 minutes of away time)
Clear desserts on purchase.
[🔨] Opening Gifts in a new store sometimes gave too many levels.

Are you interested in learning about how 3D models are created? ✈️🚗 Join us in our Developer's Diary, where our 3D Graphic Designer will walk you through the fascinating world of 3D Models. You'll get to see the process step by step – from shaping geometric solids to animations and optimizations. 🔝 We're also curious to know what you'd like to see in our upcoming Dev Diaries. Feel free to share your ideas in the comments below or through our Discord Channel! 👋🏻

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On Aug 10, 2023, post-maintenance, the Surfside Gacha will be released!

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Aug 10, post-maintenance – Sep 6, 11:59 pm (PT)

New Unit
Surfside Inventor Meredy (Voice: Tomoyo Kurosawa)

New Ark
Heat Wave Wars (LR)

Ark Trait (Ark Lv 15)
Ice physical attack damage +25%/ Break +50%.
When unit puts an enemy into Break, restore 1 SCT stock for all skills.
Each wave, gradually boost Ice attack damage cap (max +3500).

100% Ark Ether Reward


Event Summer’s Precious Memories Released!


In this event, when you clear a specific quest, one of six types of quests will appear at random.
These quests are a great way to train your units, so be sure to play them as much as you can!
Additionally, some equipment can be enhanced using alchemy for a limited time only during this event, so don’t miss out!

▼Summary
Meredy stood on the beach in her swimsuit under the hot summer sky.
With an invention in hand, she was intent on recovering something precious to her that had fallen into the sea.
But all of a sudden, Lilebette showed up and began questioning her.
Though flustered, Meredy accepted Lilebette’s offer of help, and the two ran towards the sea to search for the item that had been lost.
However, there was something fishy going on that Meredy was hiding from Lilebette…

Summer Sun and Fun! Last Cloudia Splashamundo Released!

The Summer Sun and Fun! Last Cloudia Splashamundo! is currently being held!
After this maintenance, you’ll be able to get a ark of your choice from the Last Cloudia Splashamundo! Gift Ark that will appear!

Last Cloudia Splashamundo! Gift Ark


For a limited time, the Last Cloudia Splashamundo! Gift Ark will appear on the upper left of the Home screen!
Earn an ★Ark Exchange Ticket to trade for the ark of your choice in the Trading Space.
Additionally, on this occasion, the limited arks Paradise Rubel, Simmering Sunshine, and White Knight’s Vacation are also available to be traded for!

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Aug 10, post-maintenance – Aug 23, 11:59 pm (PT)


Last Cloudia Splashamundo! Login Bonus

The Last Cloudia Splashamundo! Login Bonus Pt. 2 will be released.
Log in every day to get splashtacular rewards!

[Period]
Aug 10, post-maintenance – Aug 23, 11:59 pm (PT)

Redux Red Hot Gacha Part 2 Released!


On Aug 10, 2023, post-maintenance, Redux Red Hot Gacha Part 2 will be released!
In this gacha, the following units and arks are on rate-up:

Rate-Up Unit(s) / Ark(s)
・Leona, Princess Summer
・Sea Princess Lilah
・Simmering Sunshine (LR)
・White Knight’s Vacation (SR)

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Aug 10, post-maintenance – Sep 6, 11:59 pm (PT)

Thank you for playing Last Cloudia.
The Last Cloudia Management Team

Added Multiplayer
Added Level 1 The Poolrooms
Reworked Level 0

It's me, Mariusz, the sole Yet Another Zombie Survivors programmer!


I just wanted to give a quick update for all of you who are waiting for the content update for YAZS - it's possible that it will take one more week or so to be pushed into the public beta branch.

The reason is that I've just had a minor right-hand surgery this Wednesday. Unfortunately, I'm right-handed, so this event reduced our team's coding ability by about 86.9%. Fortunately, there were no complications, so I think I'll be fine soon.

For now, I'll continue to code the zeros and ones with my left hand, taking a few more breaks along the way. This might affect the release date of the content update a bit, so sorry about that! I hope you'll understand. We'll see you again in the August content update, hopefully soon!

Pinky promise... but with the left pinky this time 😅💦


My two dogs (Bekon & Figa) are helping me out with the coding work, but they're distracted easily 👀

PS you can read more about the upcoming update in the last announcement, in case you've missed it: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2163330/view/3657537107635416926

ㅤStay healthy,
ㅤㅤMariusz & Awesome Games Studio

Here are the added features:

• Added the feature for the "写真の中の彼女" parts to appear after the TRUE END, along with expanded scenarios and the addition of one new ending
  
• Added 4 types of body parts, with expanded scenarios
  
• Added a screen size of 1200×900 and improved the smoothness of rendering when changing screen size
  ※ Please note that this feature is not available if your monitor size is smaller than the screen size.

Here are the fixes and changes:

• Fixed the issue where the color tone of the name box in the backlog turns pink when returning to the screen
  
• Fixed the issue where the angle of the 2-shot photo differs between the game screen and saved images
  
• Fixed inconsistencies between choice description text and background images
  
• Fixed the issue where names are not displayed in some dialogues
  
• Changed the achievement conditions for the Steam version of "彼女マニア" and "明日、初めて彼女と❤" to match the added features
  ※ This change won't impact achievements you've already earned.
  
• Fixed the issue where images could not be saved with "ツーショット写真を保存"

Please enjoy your first date with your unique girlfriend! 💕

We’ve been working on a new free update for Transport INC! We're thrilled to announce this special cross-promotion with our recently released game, Delivery INC.

We would like to introduce you to the new game mode called “Single Missions”. Get ready for six new challenges that will put your transportation skills to the test. Each mission is inspired by the campaign mode of our new game, Delivery INC. We plan to add more missions in the future to extend this mode even further.

We hope you enjoy the new content, and if you haven’t already, check out Delivery INC available now on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1793260/Delivery_INC/

Thanks for playing!
- Digifox Team

🎮 New From Games Operators 🎮

Help support more great games by checking out Dust Raiders! This new post-apocalyptic manager game has just been announced by our publisher Games Operators and we are sure you’ll want to wishlist it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2397450/Dust_Raiders/

The Walking Dead: Betrayal closed beta begins August 10 at 9am Pacific and runs until August 14 at 9am Pacific! Before you start taking on hordes of walkers (and your friends), there’s a few things you might want to know.


If you have already redeemed a beta access key to your Steam account, you can start playing the beta right away!

If you did not manage to snag a key prior to the beta, head to our Steam page. That’s where you can wishlist the game and hit “Request Access” to submit your account for potential access to the closed beta.

Please note that pressing “Request Access” does not guarantee access to the closed beta. We’ll begin rolling out access to those that request it in waves starting on or after August 11.



“In The Walking Dead: Betrayal, you'll be part of a group of survivors racing against the clock to repair your cart of supplies and make your escape. You'll only have 30 minutes before you're overrun by an oncoming walker herd. But be warned... walkers aren’t the only threat out there. There are incognito traitors in the group who are trying to sabotage and prevent the escape at any cost!”

For more info, check out our handy tutorial video below or read through the written version in our guide!




The best place to submit feedback is in our Discord! Members of the team will be keeping an eye to answer questions and gather feedback as they come in. It’s a great place to chat and group up with members of the community too!




We are focusing all our efforts on getting the game ready for a launch into Steam Early Access sometime later this year. Make sure to add The Walking Dead: Betrayal to your Steam wishlist to get notified when it’s available!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1877320