As most of you already know Wednesdays are for us to connect with the community. Make sure to join with us on Streaming services or even in game! Will be playing and having a conversation with all of you.
It's getting cold, so we could have some more time to stay at home playing. Yaay!
Enough of the chit-chat, these are exciting times for Cradle of Sins. Christmas is knocking at the door, we are doing ANOTHER Giveaway and also new Community Tournament!. We also released an in depth Tutorial for you and lot's of new game updates in the past weeks, trying hard to release one big Update next week.
Under development:
Major AI overhaul
Solving the connection issues
In game shop upgrade
Oculus Quest 2 Link cable support
Full Oculus Quest 2 Support planned for the future.
We'll be live on Twitch and YouTube, waiting for all of you to come watch and join our matches with us. In addition we will be giving away 2 Cradle of Sins T-Shirts randomly throughout the stream. Some topics may include the contents of the upcoming update, some future plans and bug discussions.
Now all Wednesday streams shall contain a Giveaway/Drop, yaay!
Everyone is welcome to the feedback and tutorial stream today at 20:00 +2GMT.
We'll be going through the main objective of the game. How weapons, abilities, and store items work etc. Voice channel can be joined through our Discord server! Also you can join us in game, after collecting the beta key from our Discord server if theres any left!
From now on you can expect Streams from us on Wednesdays.
This update adds adds the anticipated minimap feature back to the game. As well as character icon changing system, minor environmental updates, some visual changes and bug fixes.
Visual Updates:
Damage indicator and currency number visuals changed
Kyra's ultimate impact visual overhaul
Wizard dome visual changed
Particle effect optimization
Minor visual bug fixes
Landscape visual improvements
New Features:
Hud
Minimap
Game Mechanics:
Tower Crystals now updating and disappearing when Tower has been defeated
Discovered Bugs
Some of the hand animations still need corrections
Minimap holding animations have not been created, wonky animations currently.
First of all, we want to Thank all of you that accompanied us at this event. It was a hardcore showdown for all of our staff and people from outside that helped us orchestrate the tournament. We had enormous scope and ambitions plans and our biggest enemy was time.
The event took 10 days to set up in the studio hall, huge thanks to our incredible event organization team Videal Productions for helping us. From camera and stage rigging to everything ivolving the Twitch live stream.
The whole event was hosted by Estonian legends Daniel Levi and Erkki Sarapuu, music came from DJ-s Amando Harkimo and WATEVA also from Daniel Levi’s band. The eSports commentators were René Buttler and Marek Pihel aka Envision.
Now let’s delve into the Battle side of the Tournament!
Our UI mechanics pretty much dictated the event. That the game needs to be launched from the desktop and only when full screen appears players need to put on the headset, in some instances the game could’ve crashed and the match needed to be reset.
Round 1 Team Spider 0 / Team Turret 1
First teams that ran against each other’s were Team Spider and Team Turret. Where Team Turret made an entrance by defeating Team Spider. Their team consisted of Swedish DJ Milwin and two VR eSports players Rexar (the previous tournament champion) and Troqdoran who came in third at the Qualifier matches.
Hexoth
Round 2 Team Barbarian / Team Nexus 1
The second round-up was between Team Barbarian and Nexus. That was the moment the event schedule started to go downhill. Starting with Yassuos dog that ate through his VR headsets cable. They also had teammates with game crashing multiple times and we could not delay the match. So funny enough this match went 2v2 with our backup players for fairness, and Team Barbarian became victorious.
Kyra takes down Harpy
Round 3 Team Magic 1 / Team Stone 0
Round where "girlpower" dominated and Team Magic came on top with Loserfruit and Amanda Harkimo against Will Sparks and Carms. This was the other match that ran 2vs2 because of connection issues with our lads and lasses from Australia.
Kyra defending a lane
Round 4 Team Crystal 1 / Team Dragon 0
The last round before the semi finals was the most anticipated one Team Crystal VS Team Dragon. These teams rocked superstars like Steve Aoki, xQc, Headhunterz, Sodapoppin. The game ended with Team Crystal triumphing.
Hexoth takes on Kyra
Finals
Team Crystal 0 / Team Turret 1
We had to choose between the 4 semi-finalists because of time delays that had occured. So through lottery Team Turret and Team Crystal were chosen. In this fight Team Turret came again towering and claimed the upper hand in the match against xQc, Steve Aoki and Pesky Cashew. Team Turret's biggest advantage was having two professional Cradle of Sins players Troqdoran and previous tournament champion Rexar.
Hexoth and Kyra clearing the last tower
Summary
The event was as much stressing as it was fun. We had our fun and difficulties, but the setbacks are only new challenges for us to conquer. Besides the feedback has been tremendously funny and meaningful.
Stay conquering the battlefield and maybe we'll see you in our next Tournament!