Howdy Guardians!

The 0.1.2 update is now out.

While we initially planned to do a small update, we had so many things to pack in that we've decided to release it as a major update.
We're still hard at work to bring you new content to experience and our plan remains the same to release this content in the Autumn update.

For now, we're here with a large set of system changes and experimental features that will improve the gameplay experience. As always you can discuss these changes on Discord or the Steam community forums.

Here are a few highlights of this update:
You've been asking for new movement mechanics for a while now, and here it is!
We decided to opt in for a slide rather than a dash because we needed a lateral dodge which could not be performed mid-air. We already had a very agile (and complex) mid-air movement and we did not want to add more complexity on top of that.
The polish level is low for now, we want to see how this mechanic unfolds before diving further into its implementation.



We pushed the first iteration of the system. It gives random bonuses to weapons you loot. There are over 15 different affixes for now and we plan to add more. We initially wanted to wait a little bit before releasing this feature but we figured out that you'd love to try it out and we'd be glad to hear your impressions and suggestions about it.

We implemented many modifications to existing systems: reworked Recon ability, cooldown-based ability, attribute rework, scope rework and health flow changes being the most important.
You can find a full list of changes below.

As usual, the localization process has been supported by kind members of the community. This time around, we kindly thank Flo, Tryyton (German translation) and Ria (Chinese translation) for their work!

🍉 Community Suggestion: These features have been asked or suggested by the community.
🚧 Experimental Features: These features are either a work-in-progress or something we would need your feedback about. They might be reworked or removed from the game over the course of the EA.

• Added a landing menu before going in the basecamp where you can modify your settings, view news, latest patch notes, incoming updates and reset your profile
🍉 Added new resolution and widescreen support (4/3, 16/10, 21/9, 32/9)
🍉 Added a field of view slider in the graphic settings
🍉 You can now press space to continue in the end and score screens
🍉 Added an option to remove onomatopoeia visual effects nearby the weapon when shooting and reloading
🍉 Added an option to remove camera shakes for people suffering from motion sickness
🍉 Alt Tabbing now pauses the game (in soloplayer) and disable sounds
🍉 An option has been added to enable sounds in background
• The game is automatically paused if you unplug your gamepad or if you open the Steam overlay (in soloplayer)
• Locked loadouts are now displayed and a tooltip explains how to unlock them
• The settings for mouse and gamepad have been split up and reworked
• Weapon tooltips now clearly display affixes and bonuses
• Added a "Reset Profile" button in the settings but you can only use it in the landing menu
• Several settings tooltip and validation window texts have been revisited
• Several Basecamp texts have been revisited
• Added an extra text font to properly display Cyrillic characters (please report any missing character)

🍉🚧 A powerslide has been added to the character movement tools
• You can press "crouch" while moving to trigger it
• It's available from the start (but it's not highlighted in the tutorial)

• Health pickup frequency increased by 50%
• Health restored from pickups reduced to 12% down from 15%
🍉 Cells last 1.5 seconds longer
• Burn damage calculation has been reworked. Instead of accumulating "stacks" of burn on the same target, you now deal burn damage depending on the base damage of the tool you're using to apply it
• Cryo effect has been reworked. You now accumulate cryo "stacks" on the same target up until it's completely frozen (and unable to move)
• Shock calculation have been modified and while you shouldn't perceive much changes, the shock power of the different weapons should feel more logical
• Homing projectiles now tries to prioritize the target you were looking at when shooting
• You can now reload while sprinting, consequently we've removed the option "sprint cancels reload"
• Arenas now have "invisible walls" on their doors, effectively preventing you and the enemies from shooting through (this means you now have to enter the arena to fight the enemies)
• New "toe snapping" system to better snap to edges when trying to jump on them
• Ruins key is now acquired by beating the first boss, in multiplayer both players must have the key to open the door

Developer’s Notes: Keys were a little bit too hard to retrieve (or understand what they were about) which resulted in players never finding the Ruins. This was never our intent so we're easing the finding process for that specific key. We'll be monitoring the others as well.

• Abilities are now cooldown based instead of regenerating when you gather cells (they now recharge over time)
• Skill for Dummies (artefact): Now reduces ability cooldown by 15% (it was previously reducing ability cost by 25%)

Developer’s Notes: While "cell-recharging" was initially one of the ways to promote forward combat, it was really tough to build a sense of "ability rhythm" as the regeneration rate could sometimes be quite irregular. We think this change won't hurt forward combat, will help create that mental rhythm and will make "long-range" playstyles more viable.

• Assault attribute points now also increase Melee Damage by 2%
• Precision attribute points now also increase Critical Damage by 2%
• Demolition attribute points now also increase Firerate by 2%
• Technology attribute points now also increase Explosion Radius by 2%

Developer’s Notes: The attribute system was all about maxing out one stat. We expect these changes to make players think about what type of secondary stat they want.

• Polished Core now also decreases your ability cooldown
• Weapon Mastery has been removed and split into 6 other upgrades
• Each of these new upgrades increases a combo of 2 attributes
• When you'd have the choice to pick Weapon Mastery, you now have a random one of these upgrades as a choice instead

Developer’s Notes: Considering the attribute changes, "Weapon Mastery" became far too powerful (granting one attribute of each) and had to be split down into several smaller bonuses.

• "Mark" has been removed and replaced by “Stealth”
• Stealth: Instantly stealths you and creates a decoy in front of you. Stealth automatically ends after 6 seconds or upon dealing damage. All enemies you looked at while stealthed are marked when exiting stealth
• Marked enemies now take 30% additional damage from all sources instead of taking critical damage from all sources

Developer’s Notes: Mark had many issues, starting with the fact that it wasn't that much fun to use. Also, it was only enabling "longrange playstyle" if you were playing Recon. Finally, it was not really synergizing with critical hits (it wasn't buffing their damage in the end). We shifted the "longrange playstyle" enabler directly on Scopes, modified Mark debuff so that it can scales with Precision weapons and finally tried to find a funnier implementation of the Recon skill.

• No longer requires charging, now instantly releases a pulse dealing shock damage in front of you
• Has a 3 seconds cooldown
• Added placeholder sound

Developer’s Notes: In addition to lacking proper feedback, this melee attack was kind of tedious to use because of its charge time. We decided to make it way simpler to use and to counterbalance its power with a built-in cooldown.

🍉 Drones now properly follow you, teleporting to you if needed (that’s how much they love you)
• They shoot energy projectiles instead of bullet hitscan
• They persist even when switching levels

• Many weapons have received small gameplay and value tweaks to follow the new system update and metrics. Considering the amount of micro changes, we won't go over the details this time around, rest assured that we'll be providing more details as the EA progresses and the systems settle
• Most area of effect radius have been reduced by 10% (they were scaling too hard with the new technology area size bonus)
• Graviton Launcher: Now has its unique 3D model and animation set
• Grandma's Shotgun: Replaced secondary fire by Dual Rockets, it shoots two explosive rockets
• Heavy Crossbow: Added secondary fire Marking Blast, it shoots one explosive arrow marking all enemies around the impact point
• Heavy Crossbow: Primary firerate highly increased
• Handgun: Added an equip animation played in the tutorial, at the basecamp and in the Canyons
🚧 Weapons can spawn with random additional affixes
• You’ll have to craft a specific upgrade at the basecamp to unlock them
• Fixed a bug where Swift would apply its bonus twice
• Swift no longer grants 5% Speed, instead it grants 7% Movement Speed

Developer’s Notes: Like you, we felt like 5% Movement Speed was too small to notice, but with the previous iteration, buffing the value would also buff Firerate and Reload Speed, which we did not want. Making Swift only buff Movement Speed, makes us able to increase the value without risking to break anything else.

• Scope weapons critical ratio reduced by 25%
• Scopes now increase critical damage by 30% (when scoping)
• Scopes now automatically gather cells if you kill an enemy with a critical shot (when scoping)

Developer’s Notes: Balancing weapons is a continuous process and we’re carefully following your feedback on that side. And while there were (surprisingly) no clear under or over powered categories, we felt like Precision weapons could feel a bit underwhelming to use at times. With the changes on attributes and cell fade time we expect most precision weapons to already feel better without other changes. Though, scopes still clearly needed some love so we take this opportunity to revisit them a bit.

• Average enemy damage increased by 20%
• Flying enemies can no longer be staggered mid-air (and therefore will no longer fall and explode), stunning them with shock damage still works though
• The rate at which enemies spawn in arena has been increased overall
• Stunning bosses will effectively stop and stun them for a short duration (but no longer deals extra damage)
• Bosses should no longer chain the same pattern more times than intended
• Diggy Mole: Now has a slight delay before going underground after using Shockwave
• Sniper Pod (Fields): Projectile speed modified to be dodgeable with a powerslide
• Gatling Pod (Fields): Damage increased but projectiles slowed down
• Guard Pawn (Fields): His melee attack now targets the player rather than an area (should make him less likely to randomly stun you from behind or upward)

• Weapon Affixes (4 levels): Unlocks or increases the amount of affixes weapons can get
• Healbot (3 levels): Increases the amount of health restored by the Healbot by 5%

🍉 General volume reduced by 40%
• Your brobot sounds are 30% quieter than before
• Fixed a bug where some weapon sounds playing in first person view would spatialize, resulting in hearing the weapon shooting “from the side” if you were moving while shooting
🍉 Jetpack overall volume reduced
• Cryo Explosion accumulated sounds nuisance reduced
• “Metal Hero” (landing screen music) now fades in and its general volume has been reduced
🍉 Fixed an issue where musics would fail to loop correctly when transitioning from one state to another
• Assault Sentry - Secondary Fire
• Engineer - Drone - Shoot & Rocket Perk
• Enemy Arena Spawn
• Ride Spline
• Chest Open
• Recon - Slash
• Assault Rifle - Primary Fire
• Grenade Launcher - Primary Fire
• Fire Flower - Primary Fire
• Junk Sniper - Primary Fire
• Mine Gun - Primary / Secondary Fire

(in multiplayer, the 'host' refers to the player inviting his friend to join his game, the 'client' refers to the player joining his friend's game)
• Potential Fix: Clients should no longer spawn outside of the map when switching levels
• Potential Fix: Clients should no longer see invisible enemies after exiting a safe zone
• Potential Fix: Clients should no longer be stuck in the boss safe zone after the boss cut-scene has played
• Potential Fix: You should no longer be stuck in a white screen when trying to play the after-boss cinematic
• Potential Fix: You should no longer be stuck in an arena without any enemy spawning
• Reduced the amount of crashes when restarting a game in multiplayer
• Fixed a bug which would prevent players with non-Latin characters in their nickname to create or join multiplayer games
• Both players now have the same rank calculation at the end of a level (previously, there was a chance for the client to earn a lesser rank)
• You will no longer be stuck in a black screen when opening the perk selector while switching levels
• Enemies can no longer be permanently shielded, even when the enemy providing the shield is dead
• Fixed an issue where the FPS Limitation setting would override the VSync setting (effectively applying a FPS cap lower than your screen refresh rate)
• You will no longer hear an interface sound popping at the end of the loading screen
• Optimisation: traps and other interactive items are now properly unloaded when out of sight
• The 'Difficulty Unlocked' text no longer appears if you already unlocked that difficulty
• Fixed various level design holes and get-out-of-map spots

This past month was crazy! Between the launch, the update we're preparing and the amazing suggestions that we're trying to implement, there's plenty of work for everyone here at RyseUp Studios!

And with all this, we haven't really taken the time to keep you informed about our update format and what you can expect going forward into this EA.

So we figured out... now would be a good time to fix this!



Some of you might have seen it already (on the store page).
During the 8-10 planned EA months, we'll be going through this roadmap pushing two sorts of updates:

The "Autumn Update" is the first major update we'll release and you can already see what it is going to feature.

We aim to release a major update every ~2 months.
They will contain one or more of the large "blocks" you can see on the right of the roadmap.
The release order of these blocks is not defined yet and will change based on your feedback and the evolution of the EA (the roadmap will be updated accordingly).
Some of these blocks will also be worked on progressively such as basecamp or FX improvements up until they reach the 1.0 level of completion we’re aiming for.

In addition, we'll always try to implement some of the most-wanted community requests in each update (whether it's a major or a minor one).

Note: As the game design structure is still subject to change, you can expect account resets over the course of the EA. We apologize for the inconvenience and we’ll keep you informed in advance when and if that happens.

We aim to release at least 1 minor update in between each major update.
They will most likely contain bug & crash fixes, balance changes and other quality of life changes. We might also push some experimental changes or mechanics to get your feedback on them.

Aside from these updates, you can expect us to be pretty active on Discord and the Steam forums (as we already are). We're reading all your feedback, keeping the most relevant and requested ones and we're implementing them as fast as we can.
If you want to get involved in the development, our designers are often up on Discord, hunting for some gameplay feedback. So make sure to tune in if you wish to participate!

Some languages might become unavailable over the course of Early Access.
While we'd love to keep them up-to-date, the EA will be a place of many iterations.
It's hard to maintain translations in such a fast-changing environment.
We apologize in advance if your language is put on hold during the EA, rest assured that it will be back for full release!

Note: All translations have been made by kind members of the community so far. We likely won't be going over any sort of official translation process before the full release. Please report (and excuse! :D) any mistake, typo or spelling error you might see.

We'll always try our best to deliver everything we've talked about, with the quality we expect.
But there are times when iteration takes more time than anticipated. And a specific feature might not be ready... or up to our standards. If that happens, we’ll take more time to polish and test the feature before we release it to the community.
We'd rather deliver quality updates over quantity.

The team is working hard towards the "Autumn Update". That means new content and tons of community request additions!
We will go over the details of those in our next community update, within the next two weeks.
If you can’t wait until then, we invite you once again to join the Discord or start a conversation on Steam. We're reading all your comments and have dedicated channels for feedback and open dialogue with the team.

Hope you liked this community update!
Whether your did or did not, you can hop in the conversation to tell us why. We're all hear!
We'll be back soon, in the meantime happy robot bashing everyone!

Hello there!

Roboquest is featured at the EGX and the PAX festivals from September 12th to September 20th.

A free demo build of Roboquest is available from now on until the end of the festivals:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/692890/Roboquest/

This is an outdated build (the same you might have experienced before).
The demo does not contain many of the latest game improvements, modifications and fixes.

We've created a dedicated section to gather feedback from the demo build here on Steam:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/692890/discussions/7/

If you're currently playing on the Early Access, you have the most up-to-date version of the game.

Cheers and hope to see you soon!

Also, we'd encourage you to join our Discord and interact with the community and developers to get behind-the-scenes information on the game’s development and updates as they happen. We also have a newsletter and active social media accounts - we love seeing all your fanart, screenshots and videos - tag them with #roboquest for a chance to be featured on our official channels.

Hello and welcome to the first Roboquest update since the release of the game in Early Access.

The team has been hard at work adding new content and fixing game issues reported by the community - we thank you for the continued feedback and support.

Today we are excited to be releasing our first update containing bug fixes and addressing reported issues. Behind the scenes, we are continuing to work on the content outlined in the Roadmap and it will be ready… when it’s ready 🙂 we may share a few updates between now and then.

Going forward we plan to update the Steam community regularly, and in a few days time, we will share information about the current state of Early Access and our plans to update the game based on your feedback.

We would encourage you to join our Discord and interact with the community and developers to get behind-the-scenes information on the game’s development and updates as they happen. We also have a newsletter and active social media accounts - we love seeing all your fanart, screenshots and videos - tag them with #roboquest for a chance to be featured on our official channels.

We look forward to your feedback on this update, you can leave a comment below, post a feedback in the dedicated thread, join the Discord or continue to report issues using F10 in-game.

• Added support for resolutions: 1366x768, 2560x1440, 3840x2160
  
• VSync now works as intended
  
• Gamepad: You can now press "B" to exit the Loadout Selector
  
• Removed "Demo Build" image on the landing screen

• These weapons have been buffed: Assault Sentry, Shock Sniper, Sulfator Shotgun, Grenade Launcher and Grandma's Shotgun
  
• The perk Hero Landing has been removed (but might return in the future one way or another)

• Spawned sentries’ health bar now properly disappear when dropping the weapon
  
• Now properly scales with either Demolition or Technology (previously did not scale on Technology)
  
• The hologram always disappears when you're no longer trying to spawn a sentry

• You should no longer get stuck in the tutorial arena
  
• Added missing collision to the EV Station

• You should no longer be stuck in a black screen after the boss intro cinematic or before loading a level in multiplayer (you may still experience a long black screen when first launching the game, in which case we can only recommend you to let the game load until we fix the issue).
  
• You can no longer be stuck in jump pads
  
• You can no longer be stuck in "jetpack mode" after finishing a level
  
• Fixed missing audio on Diggy Mole introduction cinematic
  
• Several sniper weapons no longer have a slight shoot offset (Blast Sniper, Junk Arquebus and Shock Sniper)
  
• Fixed various multiplayer crashes when restarting the game
  
• Rocket 3D model is now properly attached to the Guardian's arm instead of flying around in third person view
  
• Removed various flying turret spots
  
• Arena health bar should no longer remain on the screen after clearing it
  
• Boss doors will no longer close before crossing them
  
• Fixed the line of sight which make it possible to see through the Boss door (in Act 1)
  
• Trading the Mine Gun with the other player no longer leaves "flying detonators" behind

Hey everyone!

After the overwhelmingly positive reactions we received about the action-packed soundtrack brought by Noisecream, we couldn't help but to bring it to Steam.

You can now experience the full 20 tracks from the album "Robocream".

The album also contains tracks from unreleased Roboquest levels!

We'll also be adding a bundle to the Roboquest store page to acquire both the game and the soundtrack at once for a discount.

Enjoy!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1400490/Roboquest_Soundtrack/

After spending the last five years building a studio from scratch, finding the best people for the job, and working tirelessly, we are finally ready to release Roboquest on Early Access.

Roboquest is a fast FPS roguelite in a scorched future world. You play as a rebooted Guardian, ready to kick some metal ass! Fight with your buddy in co-op or by yourself (solo) and annihilate hordes of deadly bots in ever-changing environments.

To make Roboquest, we decided that we needed to stay independent to protect our artistic vision for the game. Our vision was influenced by 90’s fast paced shooters like Doom, Quake, and Unreal, and modern roguelites such as Dead Cells, Enter the Gungeon, and Nuclear Throne.

Other influences included sci-fi books and films, as well as our fascination with robots. You can see how our experiences led us to Roboquest.

We have made other games along the way, but for Roboquest we spent years on the game’s core aspects before going into full production.
We designed, developed, and tested features, countless iterations to find the right formula.

• Balanced shooting, arcade like kinetic forward movement and combat, and roguelite inspired gameplay
  
• Create a compelling campaign that is equally satisfying to play Solo or in 2P co-op.
  
• Replayability - Gameplay that stays fresh, relevant, challenging, and most importantly...fun
  
• Procedural environment generation where every new playthrough feels organically different.
  
• Crafting a compelling story about the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence.
  
• A smart and fair meta-reward system that challenges and rewards players for their hard work with more tools, weapons and perks that will cater to each player’s unique style of play
  
• Destroying tons of robots in fun and surprising ways.
  
• Noisecream created an original soundtrack that takes the game to the next level.

We released a demo in June and alpha in July and received a lot of positive and constructive feedback.
The feedback was vital and helped us fine tune the game. It also had an invigorating effect on the whole team.

Now that we are in full production, we are excited to share Roboquest in Early Access ($17.99 USD) with you, and we are even more energized to release future content, new features, and other surprises between now and our 2021 release date.

Early Access was always our plan and we want to use the platform for what it was made for: community feedback which is vital for our indie studio and will help us achieve our dream of creating a game fans will love.

We are releasing Roboquest in Early Access today and players will be able to experience a part of the diverse biomes, enemies, classes, weapons and content already in production. We are hard at work to extend the game further with frequent and exciting updates.

Thank you to all team members, and thank you fans for supporting us. Now go kick some metal ass.

RyseUp Studios Team

The Early Access features approximately one third of the final content.

• 5 randomized levels with their own biome and enemies
  
• 3 loadouts with their unique melee attack, ability and set of upgrades
  
• 2 unique bosses
  
• About 40 unique weapons
  
• Online 2-players cooperation
  
• Upgradable basecamp
  
• A few persistent playstyle changing upgrades & equipments
  
• Work-in-progress cinematics and short ingame dialogues

Over the course of the Early Access, we wish to push these numbers up to:

• 12+ levels
  
• 6+ loadouts
  
• 6+ unique bosses
  
• More weapons, enemies and playstyle changing stuff
  
• Loadout creator
  
• New Game + / Run of the week
  
• Full story implementation
  
• Other reworked / new features