Update 1.2.1 is now rolling out, fixing the following issues:

• Fixed sync issues caused by DJ Benjammin’
  
• Fixed issue where switching to an older version of the game could cause a Dart Monkey to be selected as your hero.
  
• Fixed issue where purchasing an upgrade or mastery item with only Universal XP would not deduct the Universal XP from your balance
  
• Fixed issue where Benjamin would generate cash before he had been placed.
  
• Fixed visual issues with Dark Knight Supermonkey upgrade
  
• Fixed issue where Supermonkey was throwing darts from both hands.

Hello Captains:

Thank you to all captains for participating in the test and feedback of the playtest version of the Steel Ocean: Wolves of Deep Sea.

In order not to affect everyone's continued experience of the game during the bug fixing period, we will delay the shutdown time of playtest. The specific time is to be determined. Please pay attention to the official announcement and we will notify you in advance.

At the same time, in order to avoid the situation of waiting for the card machine in the experience game, please do not use the 9th-level ship for matchmaking for the time being. Please forgive me for the inconvenience caused.

Dear Crows,

Going into the second week of Early Access, we have to admit it’s very difficult to believe it has ONLY been about 10 days since the launch. Our team has been overwhelmingly busy working hard to make CROWZ better every day.

Seeing your constructive feedback as well as supportive words of encouragement have made us feel very grateful and incredibly humbled by the positive response. I speak on behalf of the entire team that we feel even more motivated to make CROWZ a better product.

As you may know, we are a very small development team with limited resources. By opening the game to the public during Early Access, it enables the team to better understand players’ feedback alongside supporting data points so we can identify vital areas of focus and address them towards the v1.0 launch. It has not been easy, but we truly believe this decision to have the game playable for people around the world via Early Access was one of the best choices we made. Thank you to all CROWZ players for their continued patience during this process.

Speaking of player feedback, we have been closely listening to you, organizing the most recent reported issues, and creating a plan of solutions. In this Dev Letter, I will be talking about some of the highest priority issues based on the data we have analyzed.


Frame Drop

After a number of internal tests alongside data analysis, we found that there are certain situations in the game where significant frame drop occurs. This issue happens due to several different factors and, unfortunately, a single solution cannot improve the performance across the board. In order to find the fundamental solution for this issue, we are in communications with Epic Games’ support team and engineers who worked on Unreal Engine 4 - the game engine that CROWZ is built on - and have begun a collaborative investigation. As I write this letter, both teams are working together to resolve the issue. Considering the complexity of game development, this issue is only going to be improved through a series of patches step-by-step - we expect that the patches will be deployed sooner rather than later, so please stay tuned for announcements coming very soon!


High Ping / Latency

We found higher ping issues are happening especially in Blood Zone, where there are many more users on the battlefield. This usually happens when the data transfer load increases. We are constantly looking for what causes this problem and will keep optimizing to improve performance. We encourage players to continue to play more matches, as it gives us more opportunities to find similar cases. We hope through this development collaboration with our players, we will be able to deliver the true amazing CROWZ experience - we appreciate our players for their time and commitment in this endeavor.


Server Stability (Network Error)

In the first few days, there were connectivity/login issues caused by multiple reasons. We already found those reasons and deployed some hotfixes and saw a significantly lower number of cases after these hotfix patches. Of course, our work is always ongoing during Early Access and we will keep optimizing the servers as we see an increased number of users in the future - things will only get better!


Anti-cheat

Cheating - and specifically using illegal third-party cheater programs - has been one of the biggest problems for multiplayer shooting games for a long time. Many game developers have been pouring significant human and capital resources to fight cheaters in order to maintain a normal and fair competitive environment. The Royal Crow dev team is also working very hard to prevent cheaters from undermining the fair gaming environment.

In this effort, we are working closely with Wellbia, a South Korean security company that has a proven track record of reliable anti-cheat solutions for 15 years, overseeing anti-cheat measures for over 270 games across 20+ million users. Through this partnership, we were able to detect illegal cheating software successfully throughout past beta playtests as well as the Early Access period.
Currently, cheaters in CROWZ are not significantly increasing at the moment, though we will remain vigilant as we believe anti-cheat is a continuous fight for fair online play. We will do more research and development to provide stronger and safer anti-cheat technology in the future.


Security Programs

We found that some anti-virus/security programs have falsely detected CROWZ as malware or virus because the game is new. It is technically possible for players to turn off their security software and run our game with no problems. However, for the sake of players' safety, we are testing a lot of security software to find more possible cases and collaboratively working together with the security software developers to whitelist our game.


First-person Only Mode

We know a lot of FPS enthusiasts want First-person ONLY mode and the feedback has been especially enthusiastic from some of our hardcore fans! Interestingly, based on our data analysis, a surprisingly large number of players are enjoying the game with a third-person perspective ONLY when they can switch to first-person.

Since we are in the Early Access period where we are testing many different things, we will keep gathering more gameplay/user behavior data to find an ideal answer to create the best and most satisfying CROWZ experience. We know it is impossible to make everyone happy, but we will try our best to make a good choice with your help.


LATAM Server

Muchas Gracias! Muito Obrigado!
We would like to show our gratitude to Crows in Latin America/Brazil! We are very well aware of the increasing number of players in this region and we are actively looking for ways to support you better. However, deploying more servers in a specific region requires a large amount of investment and we need a bit more time for us to find the best solution. Until then, please keep playing and supporting us!


In addition to the aforementioned high-priority issues, we are working on more content in our initial development roadmap, UI improvements, SFX improvements, and much more. We will be able to share more details in our Patch Notes soon.

Once again, we want to thank everyone for joining us on this journey - we are determined to make all Crows proud that they joined and continue to be part of this adventure. We want to give a special shout-out to the contributors and content creators who are actively supporting our game in the Steam Community, Discord, and many social media platforms.


With gratitude
Team CROWZ


Direct link to the official CROWZ website

Can't get enough activities? or perhaps, wants some thrill while earning rewards. Hop in to our newest event.
Hermit's Super Quest will let you decide any type of Quest in exchange for a variety of rewards.



Hermit's Quest is divided by Daily Goal and Weekly Goal so make sure to complete
them before the quest duration ends.



Daily Goal Quest can list 3 quests while Weekly Goal Quest can list 7 Quest.
Show 'em that hardwork beats talent!



Here's the reward list in case that you want to know what will be the fruit of your hardwork. Goodluck!

- FreeStyle 2 Team

Updated game engine
Made some tweaks in code
Made some tweaks in graphics
Some changes in UI
Some changes in gallery
Added navigation with arrow keys in gallery
Replaced images with croped left side
Small various improvements and tweaks
Added 6 new backgrounds

Good afternoon,

Thanks to everyone that have been leaving feedback to help improve Barton Lynch Pro Surfing 2022.

We're taking some inspiration from Hopoo Games and going to start putting a ‘🌊’ icon in front of the changes/fixes that have been brought to our attention by fellow players. We're hoping this will illustrate the contribution that you're making towards the game.

Bug Fixes:

- 🌊 Fixed bug that prevented player from progressing to main menu after selecting a new character
- Fixed bug that prevented player from returning to main menu after selecting shirtless option
- Fixed some navigation issues in customisation
- Fixed physics bug when the player jumps whilst leaving wave
- Fixed blendshape issues with jerseys when certain tops are equipped

Additions/Alterations:

- 🌊 Changed logic to camera to help improve vision when surfing in the tube
- 🌊 Increased amount that stalling decelerates the player to aid in getting into tube
- Removed F1 hotkey that deleted players' saves (oops)
- Localization changes

We'll have one more patch coming out tomorrow before the long weekend so be sure to keep an eye out!

The Bungarra team.

Greetings! Luminarians,

We would like to inform everyone that the scheduled server maintenance is over and servers are now up and running.


•Server Refresh [Zeus server | Hestia server]



[Hestia Town Opening]

- Sambara
1. The stocks of Sambara Town will be offered for public.
Date: April 17, 2022
Time: 7:30pm PST/PDT

Hestia Login issue compensation
- Hunting EXP increased 400%
- Manufacturing EXP increased 400%
*Increased bonus for 1 day

Dark Army Invasion
[Ended]

New Event Coming Soon!
- To be announced

We greatly appreciate the patience and relentless support for Steam Luminary: Rise of the GoonZu.

Regards,
Luminary Global Team

亲爱的音速觉醒家人们：

感谢你们对《R2Beat：音速觉醒》的支持与关注，删档测试将于4月14日14时正式开启！希望各位家人们对游戏提出您的宝贵意见和建议，为了给家人们更好的游戏体验对于目前玩家反馈的字体问题，我们会不断的进行优化，给家人们呈现出更完美的游戏产品！

删档测试时间：2022年4月14日14:00 ~ 4月18日18:00

在删档测试期间为家人们准备了一波儿福利活动，具体内容如下：

活动时间：2022年4月8日14:00-2022年4月18日18:00
活动内容：召集《R2Beat：音速觉醒》新老玩家在VFUN论坛“综合讨论区”发帖（图文皆可），畅所欲言，增加热度，抽取5名幸运作者公布并发放奖励：熊猫闹闹*7天

活动时间：2022年4月8日14:00-2022年4月18日18:00
活动内容：用户游戏中遇到BUG可及时反馈到VFUN论坛“综合讨论区”或私聊官方QQ群客服，对于有价值反馈的玩家发放奖励。奖励道具：ebisen星星杖*7天

活动时间：2022年4月8日14:00-2022年4月18日18:00
活动内容：以产品未来展望为话题，请各位玩家在VFUN论坛“综合讨论区”提出产品或运营策略相关意见和建议，择优发奖。奖励道具：momo火球*7天

活动时间：2022年4月8日14:00-2022年4月18日18:00
活动内容：删档测试活动期间，玩家在商城内消费G币购买道具，正式开服后，将根据所消耗G币总数量的120%进行G币返还，所返还的G币将添加至删档测试期间玩家使用的账号内。未消费的G币数将保留在原账号内，正式上线后仍可继续使用。


如有疑问请加入官方QQ群进行查询！

Hello, Ballers!

We would like to thank everyone for your awesome feedback regarding our recently released feature: Growth Mode!

Most of the feedback that we received from our users is the Match duration which for some, is a bit lengthy.

Well guess what? We heard you and this update will definitely make you use this feature more often!

Now, let's discuss the changes that will be implemented starting today.

1. Match Duration reduced to 30% (From 4/13 ~ 5/11)



- We understand that some users prefer longer match duration to get favorable rewards
- Now, regardless of the match difficulty, the match duration is reduced!

REMINDER: The 30% reduction will be in effect from 4/13 ~ 5/11 only.

2. Get Growth Mode related Items from various Events!

Cherry Blossom Collection Event



FS2 Coin Shop



Aside from winning Growth Mode Matches, users can also participate in Cherry Blossom
Collection Event and FS2 Coin Shop and redeem your desired valuables!

We hope that you're thrilled to take advantage of this update as much as we do!

- FreeStyle2 Team

Have you ever wondered how the Special Thanks section in a game's credits is formed? There are people who's help had significant positive impact on a game project but who were not participating in actual development process nor making one-time work related to the production of this game.

I want to inform you that there is Special Thanks section in the credits of the Titanium Hound game now, and you can get your name inside it in two different ways:

(1) Draw large amount of attention to the game (or its demo version), using posts in various social networks or forums. What could these posts be? For example, a video or an article with a game guide or review, a beautiful video or a screenshot. The main thing is not to try to impose such a post aggressively, but collect a lot of likes and comments in such post. Whether the help to the project will be significant will be clear, if the number of fans of the game increases noticeably soon after the post was made.

(2) Find a critical bug in the game (or its demo version), and describe the steps to reproduce it in as much detail as possible. If I didn't know about such bug at all, or was aware of it, but did not know under what conditions it arises, then your detailed description will be considered a significant help to the project. Different people evaluate the criticality of errors in different ways, so send everything that you consider critical, and I will sort each individual case out separately.

At the time of publication of this post, there is only one person in the Special Thanks section. I hope that over time the size of the section will increase.