Mar 4, 2019

Acceleration of SUGURI 2 - PhleBuster[Fruitbat Factory]

The 1-year anniversary of Acceleration of SUGURI 2 is this week, and there are 2 cool events lined up to celebrate it!

Thermodynamic Throwdown

Acceleration of SUGURI 2 is an official event at the Thermodynamic Throwdown in Essen, Germany, 9-10th of March!

You can sign up for it here if you're attending the event - the AoS2 tournament is on Sunday: https://smash.gg/tournament/thermodynamic-throwdown-a-dedicated-pokken-major-by-team-calyptus

Accel 21: Anniversary of SUGURI 2 tournament

And for all the online players out there, there's a community-run anniversary tournament as well!

"Accel 21: Anniversary Of SUGURI 2" tournament is on March 9, 2PM EST.

Sign up here: https://challonge.com/tournaments/signup/oCtsMVlRH6

It will be streamed on https://www.twitch.tv/suguri_tv

There's a great lineup of prizes include art commissions and games!

Hope to see you all in the events!

Mar 4, 2019

Breach Weekly Update - March 5th, 2019

Community Announcements - QC_OneLetter

Did you watch the Breach Invitational this past weekend? So much amazing competition, and luckily for you, you can watch the entire replay right here. Congrats to Team Carthh on their victory!

Along with that, we're still giving out some FREE access to Breach via our friends over at {LINK REMOVED} and if eligible, you could also win an Alienware Aurora Desktop PC, an NVIDIA GTX 1080, or even a snazzy blue Breach t-shirt. Check over here for rules and eligibility requirements.

Oh also, we revealed our next upcoming class, the Shadow Master!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rX7JcCifDo

This week may be a little light on bullet points, but we're working behind the scenes on some additional optimization fixes and improvements to make Breach run better as a whole. Yes, we are in Early Access, but we are committed to improving performance as we continue forward with development. We're also going to be taking an updated look at our Early Access Roadmap shortly and provide everyone with an update on what we've accomplished so far, and what's coming in the months ahead.

All that aside, here's the timing for the upcoming downtime, and the usual countdown clock for all of you in various timezones across the world. Please note that we've moved the update time one hour to 9 AM Central, instead of the usual 8 AM.

Servers Locked: Tuesday, March 5th at 9 AM Central
Service Downtime: Approximately 1 hour

Updates and Changes:

Kikimora Fiend Eggs will now properly display a warning ring around the egg
Watcher's Slow talent has been reduced to 30% from 50%
Miscellaneous backend updates and optimizations (more next week as well)

Known Issues:

The rewards for Veil Demon players winning a Co-op vs Player match early has improved with the win bonus applying regardless of duration, but we are still working on improving it beyond that.
Siphoning Skull's stun effect will sometimes end early.
Players may get caught in a longer load screen than expected when starting a match, and can hear a match starting in the background. This cannot be fixed by reconnecting, but the player will eventually connect within a few minutes
Some abilities are not tracking their score correctly on the in mission stat board, resulting in displaying lower than actual stat numbers

Mar 4, 2019

about graphics settings, FPS drop issues [temporary fix]

Slipstream - ansdor

Slipstream was featured in the humble monthly march 2019 package and that brought in a lot of new players to the game. And with the new players, new bugs are found. Some users reported huge FPS drops when using a bluetooth Xbox One controller, specifically when the game tries to make the controller vibrate, such as when you start to accelerate the car.

This issue seems to be happening exclusively on windows, with a wireless xbox one controller. Unfortunately I don't have a working xbox one controller with me at the moment, and we're in the middle of a holiday week here in Brazil. The earliest time I'll be able to send a definitive fix to this problem will be wednesday (march 6th), but thursday is a more realistic estimate.

For now, the only temporary solution I can suggest is to disable vibration on the settings menu. This seemed to fix the issue for everyone who reported it. I hope to provide a definitive fix as soon as possible.

Another issue that gets reported to me from time to time is that the graphical settings don't work, or something similar. Here's a step by step guide to the graphics options, i.e. it applies to all the options above the "apply graphics settings":

change the settings you want, such as resolution, fullscreen on/off and filters
go to 'apply graphics settings', press confirm
choose 'keep the current settings' on the next menu and press confirm again

that should make the graphics change as desired.

any other questions, please send me an email at support@ansdor.com

Thanks everyone, I hope you enjoy the game!

Mar 4, 2019

1.3 version Massive Update !!

Emitters - Drone Invasions - Emitters

- New drones movements
- Sniper bullet smaller and faster time travel
- Airstrike ready for Multiplayer
- Multiple texture ground for all maps
- HUD Health and perk new styles
- Maps optimizations
- Full game logic optimizations to gain performance
- Fixing Create / Join Session conditions (eg: when in a level and try to join a session it will fail) + conditional menu buttons
- Fixing WeaponBox for client-side replication
- Fix Replication of Random Perk Generator
- Respawn countdown message on dead zone
- Roll back to first weapon when respawning
- Fix outside map collision
- Bullets goes to crosshair location even for long / small distances (included dual gun system)
- New weather time (thunderstorms)
- Drone #3 new noises sounds
- Tutorial map updated + fix shadows for day cycle
- Grenade Effect less Epileptic xD
- Reduce Camera Shake on shoot
- Sniper and Handgun shoot sound effects update
- Rain collision
- Prevent grab health perk when 100% for better multiplayer gameplay
- Update Interactive Event (the crosshair doesn't need to be perfectly aligned with the object to interact with eg: weapon box)

Mar 4, 2019

Beta Update

Evolution of Ages: Settlements - Tormunda

The live update of the Beastmastery expansion is still due to release this Friday.
The latest beta updates are as follows:

Changed: When resource quantity reached or exceeds maximum storage, the resource tracker bar value will change to red.

Fixed: Character List tools now correctly update without the need to reopen the panel.
Fixed: Correct skill information for the new skills now display correctly
Fixed: Merchant +% coin now shows correctly when a game is loaded
Fixed: Skill 16 & 17 now display correctly
Fixed: The list of feats no longer have random spaces appearing
Fixed: Screen docking issue
Fixed: The skill information sheet was not bound to the client
Fixed: The skill information sheet size and text did not scale correctly.
Fixed: Some issues with the skill information popup when you right click on character skills or world skills.
Fixed: Settlement number on the character portrait option did not update the settlement number when the character changed locations.
Fixed: The challenging difficulty option was hidden when starting a new game.

Mar 4, 2019

Dev Update (Current Status, Lots of Game Changes, Price Change) [4-3-2019]

Jidousha Shakai - CloudWeight Studios™

Hello all.

Some new information to those who asked for it, and what not. I will be detailing the recent changes, price change, and some failures from the last announcement I had posted. If you only care to see the game changes, scroll to the bottom of this post to see the videos.

Current Status

JS is currently in a limbo due to it's map status and not having a set map to be able to play on. Due to this I recently brought up the possibility of bringing the old map back from the early days of JS, you can read more about that below.

Map

Though my efforts were not in vain, I have failed in porting the map back from the old versions of JS. This is mainly due to how unoptimized, and badly the mshes were made back then. I had not realized this until now and the newer lighting and PBR flow doesn't fit or just plain doesn't work sometimes with the older meshes. I had been furiously over-optimizing, cleaning, and fixing the meshes, but this was much too big a task for such a small map size. This just plain wasn't going to work out like I had originally planned. So while this didn't work out like I had hoped, I learned a lot of new techniques for map making and what not that will help me in my future endeavors.

New Map Ideas & Proceeds

Recently I had been talking with my volunteers and brought up the idea of using an outside program to make the maps instead of doing everything inside the game engine. Most game engines don't have specialzied tools to handle specific racing game map needs and this shows in a lot of the previous map attempts. It might also just be my lack of skill, but there are no significant optimizations that can be made within the game engine compared to outside software. So I decided to try and find a program that might let me create a map easily from real world data.

I ended up finding such a program that would allow me to create a map, draw tunnels, etc with realtive ease. I can then send that map data to my 3D program of choice (Blender, Cinema4D, etc) and work on optimizing and generating colliders.

For the time being I will be evaluating the success of the map design in this program to make maps for JS from now on, and if this workflow sticks, JS should be having decent maps from now on.

Price Change

I've updated the price of JS to refelct the amount of content available within the game. There were lots of complaints and/or feedback about the price not being worth the amount of playability within the game. I fully agree with these statements and have adjusted the price to reflect this. I do not plan on changing the price again until JS is out of Early Access or until JS has a sizeable amount of content to back up a price jump again. This will be my promise to all new and current players.

Game Changes

Discord integration has been improved generously to show more information about play, play time, and the current activity. This update was mostly server-sided and should be immediately noticeable following the small updates received on Steam (100kb+, update your game if no update was received.)

Click The Links Below To See Changes In Videos

License Plate Changes (Added some more options for License Plates)
https://youtu.be/GTwnKF-q1Cs

Paint Changes (Completely rewritten paint system allwos more flexibility)

Dyno Mode (For accurate power numbers)
https://youtu.be/8rN6oLCYuWE

Interior Upgrades (Upgrades as well as more in depth interior simulation)
https://youtu.be/ay1-atp0Hjo

Improved Collisions (Jumping is still very wonky, but it is less wonky now)
https://youtu.be/XQ8cDatQ-Uk

Map Editor In Progress (Still very WIP, needs more integrating)
https://youtu.be/k8HGhMhVchc

Improved Dealership & Realtime Reflections Method (Realtime reflections on all windows is being worked on, this method can also translate to car mirrors and more, high performance shader algorithm)
https://youtu.be/oTZbSjDBNPQ

Breakable Items (Framework and base in place, just need more and actual items)
https://youtu.be/d9K6SJDfItI

Deform/Bend/Auto-Sculpt Upgrades (Framework ready and in place, can also be levereaged by mod support very easily)
https://youtu.be/IphJwDHdlRg

New Cars
https://youtu.be/aFHDcInMpz0

There are more features also being worked on. I guess you could even call this feature creep in a way, but I feel it contributes overall to JS to make it a more feature complete game.

All in all, I'd like to hear your feedback and comments on what you think about these changes and also what you would like to see from JS's new map(s).