Greetings, Outlaws!

The sign-ups for the closed Beta for Hood: Outlaws & Legends are now open!

To make Hood the best game it can be, we want to hear your thoughts and feedback! Keep in mind that spaces are limited, but even if you are not selected in the first round, there will be several more in the future!

This is a closed Beta, which means that if you join you will need to sign an NDA and not share anything about the game outside of the closed discussion channels we will prepare for the Beta.

More details about the exact schedule and more will be shared before the Beta goes live.

We can't wait to share this experience with all of you!

Join the Brotherhood: https://beta.hood-game.com/

Hello everyone!

Today we bring you some exciting news about our upcoming Species Pack! We’re happy to announce that our next species pack will be themed around death and should allow you to live death to the fullest! Check out the trailer below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0WbgYFvb5I&feature=emb_title

• 15+1 new portraits (the +1 being machine)
  
• 1 new Ship Set
  
• 1 new City Set
  
• 1 new Room background
  
• 1 new Origin
  
• 3 new Civics
  
• 1 new pre-scripted Empire
  
• 1 new Advisor Voice

We wanted to add ships that had a more sinister or evil appearance, and I’m very happy to say we’ve made something really great. We’ll go into more detail about the ships, and give you a peek into the art process, in a future dev diary.

True to the theme, we wanted the portraits to revolve around death, but not look outright undead or decaying. We never intended the Necroids to be specifically undead, but rather themed around death. Similar to the ships, we will be doing a dev diary in the future to give you a peek into the art process, and also reveal all the new portraits. Stay tuned!

Regarding the other features, we have already shown you some of them, such as the Death Cult Civic and the Memorialist Civic. The remaining features will be revealed over the next couple of weeks, and maybe you'll even get to learn about Jeff. But for now, let’s pass the Mishar Cabal into our memories.

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General Donnten threw her bloodied axe next to Ostiir’s severed head. The others in the Leadership Council would remember this the next time they considered interrupting her in the Mishar Althing.

She pushed past the acolytes that were coming to deal with the corpse. They were annoyed - the rites were always harder if the head was removed - but they would just have to stitch it back together.

Smiling to herself, she left the arena. At least Ostiir would be an obedient little soldier now.

Greetings Fellow Avatars!

This week’s update brings players of Shroud of the Avatar a new adventure scene! Now, adventurers can delve into Lord British’s Castle, the newest Episode 2 scene to be released! Among other amazing updates, the food system got a very significant improvements! For those wishing to participate in any community activities, new one-time and recurring community events have been announced! Also, be sure to also review the Players Guide and Known Issues list for additional information on recent changes and upcoming fixes. Now, let’s see what we have for you in this week’s edition of Update of the Avatar:

• New Adventure Scene: Lord British’s Castle!
  
• Latest News Q&A Friday Livestream!
  
• Food & Drink System Update!
  
• Agriculture Trophies: Pumpkins & Jack O’Lanterns!
  
• Maps and More Maps!
  
• Player Dungeon Creature Spawner!
  
• New Town Sizes Available!
  
• Lord of the Isle Fishing Expedition!
  
• New Store Additions: Faun Conversationalist, Ornate Round Setees, & More!
  
• New Vault Round!
  
• October Login Reward: Blood Spurting Headless Mask!
  
• R82 Rewards Program Login Items: Lord British & Spooky Themed!
  
• World & UI Changes
  
• Crafting & Economy Changes
  
• Combat Balance & Changes
  
• Updated Player-Owned Towns
  
• Bug Fixes
  
• The Bug Brigade Rides Again!
  
• Recent Shroud of the Avatar Livestreams
  
• Streaming Reward Program
  
• Lord of the Isle Episode 2 Bundles
  
• Upcoming Events Calendar
  
• Meretz: Win a Topiary Keep Dragon Statue (No Trade)
  
• Community Event: Catnip Games Weekly Fishing Tourney
  
• Community Event: TheAvatar.Express Needs You
  
• Community Event: Belly of the Snake Spotlight
  
• Community Event: The Poets’ Circle Returns
  
• Project to Support: Shadow of Valhalla
  
• Project to Support: Jar Wars
  
• Project to Support: Dragonfight
  
• Project to Support: Crowfall
  
• Project to Support: Avatar Express
  
• Resources: Players Helping Players

For more details about this update, read the full article at the official Shroud of the Avatar website.

Hi everyone!
How’s your day?

Today we’re back with a new devlog!
In today’s devlog, we will talk about our beloved worker. We plan to make a few changes to the worker. What are the changes? Without further ado, let’s go to today’s devlog!

New Appearance
So, we plan to change the look of the workers. We got this idea when we saw the workers who seemed to blend in with the visitors which made them look like other visitors. Therefore, we had an idea to make a worker uniform. So it will be easier to spot them.





New Female Workers
Yup, we are also planning to add some female workers to the game. For now, the maximum number of workers you can recruit is 10, and they are all men. So, we are planning to replace 5 male workers with 5 female workers later. We want to deliver a fresh and more diverse impression with the addition of this female worker.



Apart from the two things above, we also made some adjustments to the existing animation such as the tree cutting animation, the water filling animation, and we are also preparing to add a new capability to the worker called cleaning the pond.





We are still working on these changes and also there are several feedbacks from the player regarding worker system and management that we need to discuss internally and try to prototype it. We hope everything goes well and we can show you this soon.

That’s it for today’s devlog. If you guys have any feedback or suggestions about Aquaculture Land, feel free to tell us. You can tell us in discussion section, reviews section, or maybe you can join to our Discord server.

Join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/yFgVxAe
Follow our Twitter here: https://twitter.com/MaulidanGames

Have a good day!
Cheers!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/858630/Aquaculture_Land/

Is this thing on? This is HYPERSTRANGE, the Poland-based sweatshop working on POSTAL: Brain Damaged for you, under the gloriour leadership and direction of Vince, MikeJ, Rikki, and the rest of the Running With Scissors team. Since the States and Poland are separated by the ocean, and the virus is preventing RWS to fly over here and hurt us, we'll be taking charge of this section of the PBD page. (What'cha gonna do about it, Mike? Send some more angry emotes over Discord?)

First point of disorder for today - freebies. After the announcement a whole lot of you tweeted, emailed, myspaced, and telegraphed both RWS and us about that Bisley-styled artwork serving as PBD's temporaty cover. You said you wanted it tin high-res. HERE YOU GO.



Secondly, a shameless plug. We won the trust of the RWS team with our ELDERBORN, a FPP brutal melee slasher (think Conan meets Doom and gets busy while Dark Souls is watching). Our debut game has been getting lots of praises from Steam players (nearly 90% positive reviews), but - while channeling 90s classic shooters like Quake, it wasn't a shooter itself. And yet - here we are, making a POSTAL boomer shooter spin-off.

Today, we've released CROSSBOW: Bloodnight, a small-scaled, frantic score-attack FPS arena shooter, as a way of introducing ourselves properly to the shooter fans crowd. And we're practically giving it away for the first week, at $1.99. You'll find a banner for it in the POSTAL: Brain Damaged Steam page. Try it, it's fun. Civvie said so.

That's it from us today.
Hyperstrange out,

We're proud to make Patch #3 Beyond A Steel Sky's biggest content update yet!

• Achievements
  
• French Voiceover
  
• German Voiceover
  
• 20% OFF: Return of the Launch Sale!

The Aspiration Day Bundle Releases with brand new goodies:

• -10% Discount
  
• a "Complete The Set" Option
  
• Original Soundtrack of Beyond A Steel Sky
  
• FREE Comics!!!

And of course as always

• Bug Fixes & Improvements

Rudeness? Spying?? Stealing?! - Yup, there is an achievement for all those and more!
We heard your cries! 32 Achievements are now activated and encourage you all to play the game in ways you might not have considered before..

Already played the game?
In order for Achievements to show up as earned, you have to play the game and actively unlock them.


Ah.. Paris in the fall.. WAIT, WRONG GAME!
Ah.. Union City in the fall.. Better.
You can now treat yourself to an artisanal café crème as you enjoy a freshly baked baguette in the Bistro, or slap on some lederhosen and Schuhplattler down to the October festivities where we serve up some Brezel & Lager!

German Trailer:


French Trailer:


No that's all nonsense, but you get to now play the game with native French and native German voiceovers!
We went above and beyond casting voices that we felt really fit Foster, Joey, and the rest of our wonderful characters, and we can't wait for you to experience them

#Discussions_QuoteBlock_Author

Revolution is humbled by the passion of its German-speaking community. Whilst other companies were using text translators to localise into German, Revolution has always sought out talented German translators, and insisted on high quality voice recording. This time around, the COVID pandemic delayed German voice recording - which meant that Beyond a Steel Sky was released with German subtitles but no German speech. We are delighted to now be able to remedy this with the release of an update which now includes full German speech.

- Charles Cecil

Want to hear more? Join us for today's stream at 6PM (British Time) over on YouTube Live where Charles sits down with his old friend Jochen. Lots of Broken Sword talk, it'll be sweet :)

Bonne chance, habt Spaß!


We understand that many of you have been waiting to get this game for multiple reasons:
- For the German & French VO
- For Achievements
- For the game to be more stable
Well, those are all good reasons, and you shouldn't feel like you missed out on our launch sale, so just for you, we're bringing it back for a full week! Thank you all for being so passionate.


As a big surprise drop we present to you Beyond A Steel Sky's Aspiration Bundle:

What's in the bundle?

• Beyond A Steel Sky
  Shocking, right?
  
• The Original Soundtrack
  For the first time ever on Steam!
  
• FREE Beneath A Steel Sky & Beyond A Steel Sky comics
  High resolution PDFs illustrated by Dave Gibbons! Absolutely Free. Our treat because we love you!
  
• A "Complete the Set" option
  Already paid for some of this stuff without the Bundle? Upgrading to the bundle will get you the exact same saving as buying it whole! Pretty neat!
  
• -10%
  Oh yeah and the entire thing is 10% OFF (if you buy it this week, that's on top of the -20% discount on Beyond A Steel Sky, so that's a damn good offer!)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1146310/Beyond_a_Steel_Sky/


Here we go, what you're all here for. Some classic Beyond A Steel Sky Patch Notes:



NOBODY'S PERFECT
Songbird round 3: Fight! - This stubbourn NPC has truly bamboozled our poor QA team. Appearing fixed each time we ship, just to then misbehave. We can now with confidence say that "Yeah, Songbird definitely improved since the last update but-"


DESERTED NO MORE
When sliding against a specific wall, you could, against all reason whatsoever, wiggle your way between collision geometry just long enough to push through into the vast expanding desert and glitch through dunes to your hearts content. But no more! We think it best if you didn't wiggle into the desert to die.


SAUSAGES IN ODD PLACES
Please proceed with care, as you can never look at sausages the same way. There is no going back from here:

There is a sausage at the centre of the universe

No, really. There is only one sausage per level and it teleports around on demand. If not needed it is set to return to 0/0/0 and go invisible... Something that did not happen if you saw it lying around randomly in moats.

"If Foster doesn't have his sausage out it should be hidden from the level, but yes there is always a sausage. You just can't see it sometimes." - Matt, Sausage Scripter, numb to jokes

The sausage has now been realigned with reality.


GRETA SEE YA
If a character is in dialogue they are coded to look at the character they are in dialogue with. They will move their eyes a little, sometimes adjust their head when they're sitting. Nothing crazy, just enough to keep immersion.

So.. turns out kneeling is a little too crazy.
Made Greta go all Rosemary's Baby trying to kneel AND look at Foster.
It was all sorts of horrible - Matt
Y I K E S - Wendy


RECYCLING CRUSHER
You could re-activate the Security Droid whist he was in the crusher.
He didn't mind and stayed quite chipper but it almost made it worse. - Luke


JOEY BEING DIFFICULT
What else is new?
You can ask a robot to clean, but will he do it?
The answer is yes, he should, and thanks to a very elegant fix he now also will.

EMBER & THE DEET
When Ember is trying to help you on her test bench odds are that you want to see what she's doing and block her from accessing where she needs to go, so Ember gets confused and stops.
This was very bad news because her accessing the work bench is needed to progress organically.
We fixed it by slapping a cutscene on it. You would have never noticed. Smooth ;)

FOSTER GLITCHING INTO MUSEUM FLOOR
We talked about Unreal Engine's NavMesh before.
All across the world, invisibly, is a NavMesh, and on it we mark locators that tell an object (like Foster) to walk there. These locators are also used for cutscenes.
Most times the command checks for a floor, and then aligns the object to be placed on said floor. Not this time. For some reason Foster got stuck abs first in the Museum floor.

"It was definitely not an issue with someone getting the coordinate numbers wrong again." - Andy, programmer, innocent angel whomst we love

Foster has lost all automation privileges for this level and is now made to walk to the location manually. That'll teach him.


JOEY INTENSIFIES
Some of you mentioned they saw Joey vibrating. We found the issue!
There were 2 commands Joey was trying to observe:
1) Move [somewhere]
2) Turn around and look at Foster
Joey, despite wanting to, went to the marked location, but kept vibrating in disgust as he was made to consistently look back at Foster.
We've told him to never look back in anger.


PIAZZA NPCS ON LOWER LEVELS
Where no player must ever go, the NPCs are roaming free of the bounds and rules of mortal society.
In fact too free..
In fact oh no...

It won't have affected you at all, but it was a massive renovation of realigning the NavMesh, cleaning up and redesigning collisions, and overall revamp of the environment. No wonder the NPCs were confused. We hope they will love their new Piazza levels!


EPIC SCRIPTING VS ANIMATION SHOWDOWN
Charming as can be, Reginald often moves his tablet from hand to hand to scratch his head and wave his arms enthusiastically. This action would often lead to his tablet glitching out and acting possessed.

To not have to add movement to the tablet itself, it is common practice to "socket" items into character hands, meaning the item adjusts to wherever the hand goes. Easy! Except when both the Scripting team and the Animation team had commands for Reginald's tablet. Then it would, understandably, become possessed.

We had to remove one and you might wonder who won:

"No one won, I think we just picked the one that worked better" - Sooch, Technical Artist & Animation Lead

"Animation won big time! I'm not a sore loser but I did lose" - Matt, Scripter


GAME CRASHED AT SPECIFIC ENDING
Surprisingly had nothing to do with the ending itself.
Blueprints works through visually displaying text boxes that are tied together by a string. If you move them around, they will still stay attached.
Now, imagine you tried to switch 2 boxes around. You'd need to visually change their position, and then properly retie them so they wouldn't just be dragged out of place, strings still attached!

You should definitely not do that and then create a NEW string link to the box you just changed places with.
That would create an infinite loop. :)
And we all know what computers think of infinite loops (:



KEYBOARD MAPPING HAS ARRIVED
Sick of the WASD tyranny???
Due to popular demand you can now just change it.
Nothing too fancy, but a little can mean a lot to some of you. Take it for a spin, see what you think!


MORE RESOLUTIONS!! COMPUTER! ENHANCE!!
This one goes out to all you wide screen users!
The game's default range is set to 85 degrees, and now lets you adjust the ranges anywhere between 80 - 110 degrees! We hope this will work for up to 21:9 displays.
Please note that this affect the game & player controlled camera only. Our cutscenes will be played with black bars to suit the range they were recorded in originally. But it has a very western feel to it, so there is that!


UNDER CONTROLL
All elements should now be smoothly interactable with controllers alone. No more backup mouse. Get outa here mouse!!
We also tidied up a lot of issues UI related surrounding the controller, but all you need to really know is that it should work smoothly now!


MINOS TERMINAL
The Bonsai App now responds appropriately
There was a weird conflict involving Bluetooth controllers and navigating the MINOS interfaces around Graham's Apartment, but they have all been addressed and fixed.


SHADERS
Smoother than ever! Heck yes!



We can not overstate how important these markets and communities are to adventure games. We should know. We have 30 years of experience in appreciating them.

Please join us for a wonderful stream today as we focus on the German communities, and touch on all things Revolution, including a bunch of Broken Sword stories! Charles is a wonderful story teller, and we'd love to have you chat to us on stream.

6PM UK time (BST) over on our YouTube Channel via the Live feature! You can turn notifications on, or follow us on Social Media where we will throw out reminders:


https://discord.gg/revolutionsoftware

No.. really! We’re there all the time!
We help with puzzles, troubleshoot obscure system errors with you, and generally like to feel closer with people who play our games.

We’re so grateful to have such a strong, vocal, and passionate community around our games, and we know we can not ever say it enough, but we deeply appreciate every single person who has reached out and been in touch with us.

As you've probably already guessed because of where you're already reading this, RuneScape is coming to Steam!

Whether you are a past, present or future explorer of the magical world of Gielinor, we're excited to bring one of the world’s largest MMORPGs to Steam on October 14th, 2020.

Whether you choose to play right here on Steam, the desktop client or on Mobile, it's the same unique experience - and with cross-platform play, you can pick up from exactly where you left off no matter where you are or what device is at your fingertips. At launch, you'll be able to use your own Steam account to play or, if you already have an adventure in progress in Gielinor, you can link your existing RuneScape account to your Steam one!

We know that there are certain goodies you expect on Steam, and we've got them all for you - expect Steam Achievements, Badges, Emoticons and Trading Cards!* (*Trading Cards are planned for release shortly after launch)

This is just one small, yet momentous part of a bigger future for RuneScape as we look to continue growing the incredible world we all love for years to come. Over the weeks ahead, we'll have plenty more to share on Steam, so stick right here on our Community Hub for all the latest. Start the clock, 'cause there's just 20 days to go till launch! See you there.

The Runescape Team.

• Bug with balls sometimes clipping through board was found and fixed
  
• During Switcharoo power-up balls are moved towards center a little bit so after rotation is over ball won't be INSIDE anyone's base
  
• Multiplayer menu and Singleplayer menu layouts changed a little. Color pickers are bigger now.
  
  Mobiles:
  
• Max frame limit disabled
  
• Ad banner shows only in menu and not in game... It was supposed to be like that from the beggining ;)

Free Balls Royale Steam codes will be posted on our Facebook and Twitter at random times! Follow us ;)

Steam and RuneScape Growth - A Message From Mod Warden (Executive Producer, RuneScape)

We've wanted to scream this from the rooftops for a long time, and today is the day we can finally say it... RuneScape is coming to Steam!

As you read this, we’ve just hit the publish button on our Steam Page, making it official. We can also confirm our launch date: October 14th, 2020 (oh the emotions!). 

RuneScape is a game like no other - a deep and engaging living world that is welcoming and accessible, filled with the many beating hearts of our incredible players. You are the citizens who bring Gielinor to life.  

To many, RuneScape is more than just a game or an escape. It is a place to form friendships and relationships (marriages, even!) or be part of something bigger, like the buzz of a Lumby Crater event. RuneScape, in so many ways, is defined by the experiences we have with one other as we share our adventures, quests, years of boundless mastery and achievements together. We believe this is a world with so much more to give, and with many years ahead of it yet to unfold. 

As we look to the future, we are not just committed to improving the world of RuneScape but also to making sure that beating heart of the game - the presence of players - is as prevalent as ever. To do that, we're setting out on a new mission; bring RuneScape to new places, find new adventurers from new locations, and make RuneScape a more accessible, more cross-platform MMORPG that you can enjoy anywhere.

That journey begins with our arrival on Steam. It brings RuneScape, one of the world’s largest MMORPGs, to one of the world’s ultimate gaming destinations. It connects us to a huge new community of PC gamers that we can appeal to for the very first time. Together, we can welcome them and show them just what RuneScape and its community have to offer.  

We won’t stop here either - we will continue to work with our partners to bring RuneScape everywhere we can, and to make it more accessible than ever. You will see us integrate with alternative account services, on new platforms and become available in different stores. This is all about offering new ways to access RuneScape and appeal to new communities of players.  

We also know that reaching new audiences makes modernising RuneScape, scaling our operations and improving accessibility are even more important than ever before. I am asking the team to double down and focus on these areas to better support the influx of new players we'll be welcoming together over the years ahead.

Our mobile launch is likely our next big step on this journey. While we have many testers today, before we unleash RuneScape fully into the greater world, we want to make sure we take the essence of RuneScape and allow it to sing as best it can on smaller devices.  

This means improving the early game experience, onboarding and readability, and optimising our UI – from refining text, content, interaction and hitbox sizes, to engine improvements and stability that support flexibility across the widest array of possible display sizes. While some of this work will be focused on making the mobile experience the best it can be in these areas, much will improve the experience on whatever platform you choose to play on.

This work will set us up for a stronger launch on mobile that keeps more players around and provides a better experience for everyone. While we were on track to deliver this in 2020, this additional work pushes our mobile launch to 2021. We know so many of you are super excited for the full Android and iOS release, and we hope you will understand this additional wait to make sure we kick this off from a much sturdier starting point. 

After that, our mission to keep bringing in new adventurers and deliver on the cross-platform MMO vision that will continue to unfold. We can't wait to tell you more about it all... in time. 

On behalf of the entire RuneScape Team, thank you for joining us on this journey so far. We hope you’re as excited about the future of RuneScape as we are, and we can’t wait to launch on Steam.

Tell your friends, and let's give those new adventurers a warm welcome on October 14th! See you in Gielinor. 

Mod Warden 

Hey everyone!


After 10 meme-filled weeks, we have selected our 10 grand winners, but the All Time Winner has yet to be chosen – the community will decide by vote on who gets crowned as the absolute What If meme-MASTER.

The All Time Winner chosen by the community gets to walk away with the ultimate reward: the ENTIRE SEGA PC games library!



How to vote:

• Log in to your G2G account.
  
• Look at the 10 What IF memes at http://whatif.humankind.game
  
• Pick the one you think is best.

Everyone participating in the vote has the CHANCE TO WIN a free Humankind Steam key – two winners will be selected at random.

Voting is open until October 1st at 4pm (GMT) – It is only possible to vote once.