Official Wicked Vixen has expanded their virtual storefront! Check out our new Steam game, Silicone Scramble, to see what other novelties OWV has to offer. Tentacles, doggos, and unicorns, OH MY!
Link to dick slinging fun!

The above image is Revulsion using a level mesh that I imported from another project I had released awhile back. Its only meant as a raw example and not close at all to what I think anything will look like long term.

This level mesh has hand crafted materials that make much better use of the tech and overall style. Graphically this is a big jump in quality vs the stuff already in the game. But also it kind of shows that using meshes this way I can not only increase the overall quality visually but also I can improve performance as well. The meshes provide more varied spaces for combat too.

So my goals I think are as follows…

• Replace the walk slow mechanic with a Dash.
  
• Block out one new mission in blender using a mesh with static lightmapping.
  
• Try to reach a style of flow that is more organic like how Doom 2 plays. Have a more free flowing style in general.
  
• Put the in game level editor on hold.

For now it is best I think to put the in game level editor on hold and focus all energy on getting more levels in a functional state. Keep it simple and just get it done. Add more to actual levels and combat.

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This here is my discussions Blog where I will sometimes post my thoughts on things. Its my hub for content creation.
https://discussions.app/tag/blog/1k87ubdxgvdm4/so-you-may-know-have-been-assessing-the-prospect-of-revisiting-game-released-years-ago

An all-new VR experience, new desktop user interface, and collision fragments makeover. We are so excited to share our work-in-progress build and get your feedback!

1. If it’s open, exit Universe Sandbox
   
2. Right-click on the game title in your Steam Library
   
3. Click on ‘Properties’
   
4. Select the ‘Betas’ tab
   
5. Set the dropdown menu to ‘*community-test’
   
6. Close the Properties window
   
7. Steam will now update Universe Sandbox to the experimental build
   
8. Once updated, launch Universe Sandbox

• A completely new, fully-featured VR experience
  
• A brand new user interface, and a customizable bottom bar
  
• High definition object fragments, collisions got a makeover
  
• Countless smaller experience improvements and bug fixes

Leave your comments here in the thread, or come join our Discord server. We would love to see you there!

The purpose of a Community Test build is to help us learn what our users are most excited about, what’s working, what isn’t working, and gather valuable feedback about our new changes for Update 26 before we make it official. Find a bug? Let us know! We’ve also set up a survey for your feedback, if you would prefer that.

This is a work in progress, and features may be changed before we officially release Update 26.

Check out the full details of What's New

The wait is over - the Huntress boss fight has been uploaded to the closed beta!





Here to discuss some behind-the-scenes action from development is none other than our lead SHMUP programmer!

"Hello again, FOW fans – HungryJJ here.

I’m really happy with how the Huntress boss fight turned out. One thing I have learned working on games is that there comes a point where it's best to let a character's personality lead you to the gameplay.

Since this is a dogfight with an apex predator cephalopod, we implemented a vanishing system that allows the Huntress to compete with the F3N1X in terms of mobility. Her squid girl status influenced the look of the particles we created for this, making them resemble ink clouds in a space environment.

We also used spline tracks so the Huntress could effectively move relative to the player’s position. Getting this to feel natural required the use of spline movement, curves to control speed, the strategic injection of lag and finally...a lot of time obsessively staring at the screen to fine tune it all.

The goal was to make her feel evasive and deceptive while still allowing the player a chance to fight back and land damage once they figure out the patterns.

In terms of sound we wanted to achieve a bit of horror movie atmosphere with the action, which resulted in more deep, pulsing tones that shift along with the visuals throughout the course of the fight to invoke fear and intensity.

I can hear Fow-chan's stiletto's approaching, so it's time to go back to spending all day and night chained to my PC making cool shit for you all to play. Enjoy!"

Download the update now to face off with the baddest bounty hunter in Prodigium. As always, please give us your feedback about this fight. The one thing we're concerned about most is knowing how you felt about the difficulty. We intentionally toned things like boss damage and the overall length down due to previous surveys, so let us know how we did, and if this feels better or not.







We recently completed the final opti passes on all the rooms of the Mary Celeste, and they're looking absolutely fantastic. To us, this was a critical task. After all, the Mary Celeste is your home - this is where you'll be hanging out, planning and executing intergalactic revolution, and getting into your waifus in more ways to one. The game's central hub needed to look and feel right, and we're proud of how well it all came together.



The next dev diary on the 28th of September will feature the full release of the Kloi and Fuccbott factions in grid combat. This is a massive update! Until then, stay safe!

Sincerely,

Mr. Kristoff

- Senior Poonmancer

Please be aware that we will be conducting scheduled maintenance on Steam Knight Online Servers and service will be temporarily unavailable.

Maintenance time will be as follows:

Knight Online Server Time (EST): 21:00
South America (PET): 20:00
Turkey: 4:00

Patch notes;

* End of 16th Anniversary Event.
* War Hero Wing & Lunar Tattoo sale has been added to servers. 4 weeks
* Ibexs/Crisis Potion Sale Event Ends.
* Magic Attack Increase Scroll (Free 10 SC) Event Ends.
* Felankor HP/DEF 30% Increase.
* Knight Royale Event added to servers. (4 weeks)
* The Daily Game of Chance extended. (4 weeks)
* If player register Chaos while dead, player will be kicked out from list automatically.
* The location of bifrost creatures in the Ronarkland area has been changed.

Duration: Approx. 2 hours

Please note that the estimated duration of server maintenance may be less than or greater than the time quoted above and is subject to change without notification.

We may also update this announcement as necessary during or after maintenance has concluded. We thank you for your patience during the downtime.

NTTGame || Knight Online Team

Today's Patch 1.23.1 contains a handful of fixes and improvements to the overall performance and stability. We are still processing a lot of great community feedback, and are continuing to work on many of the adjustments and features have been requested. Today’s update has a few minor quality of life updates, alongside the stability adjustments, but keep an eye out for some of the larger items coming (some will hit after Early Access ends)!

As always, we appreciate your feedback and support as we continue to make Root the best digital experience possible. If you do encounter an issue or need help, please drop us a line at Support@DireWolfDigital.com so we can see what's up.

And if you're enjoying Root, please take a moment to rate & review the game to help spread the word to other players!

Thanks for playing Root!

• You can review the Discard Pile any time! Open the Supply during a game and press the “Discard” button
  
• Marquise de Cat will now have the option to use Field Hospital immediately when warriors are removed from their Keep clearing.
  
  • This is a first step we are taking to address some of the concerns around the differences between the digital and tabletop experiences of Root. We prioritized this to help prevent griefing the (poor, poor) Cats on some Turn 1 plays. Watch for more updates about an upcoming implementation of a Tabletop option.
• Previously selected game settings are now saved between games
  
• Save Icon has been improved and relocated
  
• Alliance players can now see the Supporter cost of a potential Revolt during Birdsong

• Players should no longer be able to get stuck in the second tutorial
  
• Evening ambient audio should no longer last forever
  
• During games, the chat window should no longer be overlapped by game menu elements
  
• Clarification added to rulebook instructions
  
• Vagabonds’ special abilities can now be cancelled properly
  
• Command Warren can be activated by the Vagabond even if they only have exhausted swords
  
• Favor cards no longer remove pieces of a faction in your Coalition
  
• Leaderboard layout now fits large numbers
  
• Improvements around reconnecting to and resuming saved games and other connectivity issues.

• Discard Pile does not appear to work in Online Play - this will be fixed ASAP.
  
• There is an issue where some cards are playing face up and face down when you expect the opposite. We are still addressing this issue, but have fixed the most egregious cases.
  
• We are still experiencing some visual and performance issues on Macs.
  
• There are some rogue notifications in rare cases.
  
• The discard pile menu does not resize properly in all aspect ratios. We’ll fix this soon, but in the meantime resizing the game via Settings should help.
  
• We are still investigating reports of players occasionally not being able to play cards, or being locked out of a game mode temporarily.
  
• Though we are making improvements to the AI, in this update they may still occasionally move between clearings in a silly manner.
  
• The settings menu looks off-center -- don’t worry, we’re adding things here soon!

The Heist expansion launches in just two days! To help you plan your builds even further, we've prepared gem data at level 20 with 20% quality for all the new and changed gems in 3.12.0.

Check them out in this news post!

Hello everyone,

After so many updates I am happy to announce the official version 1 (stable) of the game. I did a battery of tests with our QA and came to solve all the issues we could find. Here is the list of fixes:

• Fixed the weird behavior of the 3rd boss Demeb while trying to beat her again
  
• Fixed some Colorchemy Laboratories not being re-playable
  
• Fixed a bug when you die after entering a bonus on level 4-1
  
• Fixed the dialog skipping bug (constant fading)
  
• Fixed a bug with the achievements The Alchemist and Untouchable (sometimes the deaths were not properly counted)

The game is not over! Soon I hope to release a bunch of new content like new mounts, new artworks and small changes on the world map screen. Stay tuned! :)

We are back online!
Get ready and... Rush for the crown!
Including a special event to celebrate the opening of Crown Rush mode! Get Handmade Burger Set Food, Corn Lootbox, Kimbap Hat!

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An unexpected issue has occurred while the update. Please wait for another 1 more hour, please. Sorry for the inconvenience again.

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We need another 1 hour for an update. Sorry for the delay, see you soon!

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A new mode is coming everyone. Time to RUSH!
Scheduled maintenance will take place today.
- Server down at 5 UTC
- Down Time: estimated 3h 4h

Dear Hero Community!

We will be performing maintenance at 23:00 PM on 09/16.
We expect this mantenance to last about 2~3hours.
You can find detailed information in the followings below.

Maintenance Time : Sep. 16, 23:00 PM (PDT) - Sep. 17, 01:00 AM(PDT)

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Hero Update September 17th
Dear all Hero Plus community Members. Thank you for the long wait and appreciate all your patience with the updates. We will be performing a new update for the upcoming 5th anniversary for Hero Plus. You are all invited to this celebration and are all welcome. We have arranged new things for this Anniversary to give back to the loyal supporters of our Hero Plus game. We’ve listened to your opinions and decided to reflect on your thoughts and needs for this patch. Let’s do our best not only to change Hero Plus but also do something entertaining whilst beneficial to make Hero Plus enjoyable.

** Random 500% Bonus for 50 minutes + 300% EXP Bonus 24 hours **

1. Grand Cake Event

- Period: September 17th ~ October 22nd [5 Weeks]

Happy Birthday Hero Plus for the 5th year. However, as we all know the community has been declining and to bring back the livelihood of old Hero, we have organized a fun event to take a photograph in front of Grand Cake in Dragon Castle.

A) Screenshots Event!
-Screen shot with all of your friends (has to be minimum 2+ people from another faction) together either shouting Happy Birthday Hero. The more the people the more rewards you’ll receive.

B) Piece of Cake!!

- Mission: Players will get a Cake box by catching
+-10 monsters from your character.
- While the event goes on. A birthday is always in need of cake! We will divide and drop a cake box if a monster is slayed. If this cake box is opened you have a chance of opening a
“Pink Cake”, “Green Cake” and a “Purple Cake”.

- You can earn three different colored cakes



Each cake has different affects and when the box is opened and the cake is revealed.
Each cake has different affects and may be used

Pink Cake(2h): EXP 10%
Green Cake(2h): DEF/Arts DEF 5%
Purple Cake(2h): ATK/Arts ATK 5%

※ Note!
1) Event Quest Items will be deleted on 10/22.
2) Event Reward Items will be deleted on 11/05.


2. Daily Check In Bonus

- Period: September 17th ~ October 22nd [5 Weeks]
- NPC: Cake

Log in consecutively to slowly lead yourself to a bigger prize at the end. The more you log in the better the prize. Even a surprise gift at 15 Day mark for all members to keep Permanently.

- Reward
Daily : Defense Increase
Fireworks(with Canvas)
3 days : EXP Charm 20%(2h)
5 days : EXP Charm 30%(2h)
7 days : EXP Charm 40%(2h)/
Bag Expansion(3days)
15 days : Celebration Cake Hat(5th)
20 days : EXP Charm 30%(2h)
24 days : Socket Initialization
27 days : Eyeball of Earth Dragon(500mins)/
Western Pirate Costume Set(Normal)(20days)

We know this may be very mundane and common however we have given changes to other departments of the game and event. I hope you can considerate and will do our best to change this check in bonus next time. 😊

※ Note!
1) Event Reward Items will be deleted on 11/05.


3. Stay Playing & Make Hero Great Again

- Period: September 17th ~ October 08st [3 Weeks]

Stay Playing & Keep Social Distancing: We’ve noticed a deeply interested need of aid potions.
To address this issue. We believe many N-Cash users simply can buy this but many non-paying users have difficulties using this. It’s time for us to give back to you guys for being such pleasant users. To help with the virus and keep you guys playing and making yourself a part of social distancing. We have arranged an event to keep you to enjoy a bit of the quarantine & play a part in social distancing.
-Every 5 hours you play the game. You will receive 2-hour aid potion.
* Please be noted that your time will be accounted. It is a total of hours logged in.
ex) Logging in for 4 hours than logging off. Coming on later that day for 2 hours will be considered
Logging in for 6 hours. You will receive 1 potion after your 5th hour.


This means up to 4.5 potion a day. Meaning if you stayed logged in for 2 days, you’ll get 2 Hours Aid potion x9. (48/5 = 9.6) The Longer you stayed logged in and keep playing the more aid potions you get. So, stay logged in. Of course, get your priorities (school / family / work) first! Then enjoy our games as long as you can 😊

※ Note!
1) Event Reward Items will be deleted on 11/05.


4. Golden Coin Store

- Period: September 17th ~ October 22nd [5 Weeks]


You’ve been waiting a long time and been tired of not being able to spend your war coins from the wars you have participated. We have finally implemented a Golden War Coin Store to help you. To many users asking why only for 3 weeks. This is due to our Golden Coin Store updates. We noticed many users require different things at different periods of time. Therefore we shall update the store in need of the favors. The Silver Coins will be added on additionally.

So please do not worry, we’re putting our attention towards the participation rather than the who’s victorious and whose not. Also to continue on explaining about the advancement of the game. We’ve noticed many AFKers during the war just to earn coins. We admins will be over-seeing and kicking AFKers and if the actions continue will suspend users for hindering the honest game play of many users. Soon we will input an AFK system within war to determine more accurately however if you are proceeding in actions like this I believe you should stop yourself before getting into penalty 😊.

Golden Coin Shop
Lunar Bear (Gold 7D): Gold Coins x 20
Western Pirate Hat(7 days): Gold Coins x 30
Western Pirate Costume(7 days): Gold Coins x 35
Western Pirate Boots(7days): Gold Coins x 20
Rice Ball(Event): Gold Coins x 50
Bag Expansion(3days): Gold Coins x 60
Mystic Pill: Gold Coins x 60
Exp Charm(+40%): Gold Coins x 60
Exp Charm(+20%): Gold Coins x 30

Silver Coins
Lunar Bear (Silver 7D): Silver Coins x 30
Exp Charm(Silver +40%): Silver Coins x 75
Exp Charm(Silver +20%): Silver Coins x 50

※ Note!
1) Event Reward Items will be deleted on 11/05.
2) Players cannot trade/store golden coins.

[Golden Coin to Golden Coin Statue]


- Map: Order/Chaos District
- Npc: Battle Officer
- Period: September 17th ~ October 08th [3 Weeks]

Golden Statue: Golden Coin x 450
Advanced Golden Statue: Golden Coin x 600
Premium Golden Statue: Golden Coin x 999

※ Note!
1) Players can exchange one Golden Statue / Advanced Golden Statue / Premium Golden Statue per account.


5. FireStorm/PotionRevitalize Pill

- Period: September 17th ~
- NPC: Jangbo


With the random box on sale we are also correspondingly selling FireStorm Potion and Revitalize Pill separately for user who do not wish to gamble but to purchase our products directly. As a GM I would highly recommend going for whichever you feel enlightened to. The box has as much equal opportunities even maybe even more to test your luck and earn better prizes.


6. Premium Shop Update


- FireStorm Potion(1day) (09/17~10/22)
- Super Revitalize Pill(3days) (09/17~10/22)

- Hero Plus 5th Anniversary Hat (09/17~10/22)

- Golden Sack(5th) (09/17~10/22)


Sky Dragon Shield
Western Pirate Costume Box
Rabbit Accessory Box
Socket Miled Stone(+3)
Legendary Horse(NEW DIVINE PET)
Sky Dragon Scale
Firestorm Potion(10 Bundles)
Charm of Luck x6
Soul Stone 3Kyu Charm of Luck
Enhancing Discrimination Package
Red Dragon Pet Set
Super Revitalize Pill Box
Pet Box
Full Sky Box(Advanced Heavenly Flower Ginseng + Advanced Grain Wine)
Bag Expansion(100 days)
Shout Arts(100)
Firestorm Potion(3 Bundles)
WindSwift(30 Bundles)

※ Legendary Horse (Divine Pet)

Legendary Blood Horse (1st Evo.)
LBH Unstoppable (2nd Evo.)
LBH Heavenly (3rd Evo.)
(!Beast/Empress Class cannot use the Legendary Horse!)

※ Red Dragon Pet Set
- Red Dragon Chul
- Red Dragon Armor
- Red Dragon Claw

- Golden Sack (10+1) Package (09/17~10/22)

※ Note!
1) Player's who purchase this box is only able to get one item per box!
2) Notice that the probability of some of the items (Rare) are very low!

Link > http://hero.netgame.com/news/view.mgame?idx=3145

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Best Regards
Hero Team