Hey Guys,

This status report is full of numbers and charts about our progress and our future.





Thanks to the new artists that I recruited last November, we're making a lot of renders recently.



I'm working on improving these numbers and I believe the new animator we hired recently will help us reach the goal of 10 videos per week in episode 5.




The number of words is a metric that we weren't tracking until this Monday, and it came to me that we can make the game much longer just by adding more dialog lines. So that's going to be our focus in Episode 5.




Until Episode 4 we didn't have enough animations, so our sex scenes were mostly based on static renders.

But thanks to the new animator, we can now make animations the core of the sex scenes. This week was all about aligning the team for this new recipe.

Today the writer just finished the script of the first sex scene of episode 5, and the production will start soon. I hope you guys like it as much as I do.




Launching the game on Steam is going to be BIG for us. Steam has a huge audience, and if we can get into their hearts, we'll have the support we need to grow even further.




I'm trying to figure out what would be the next steps to grow our team from 7 people today to 50 people in the future.

And this book is giving me the knowledge I need.

I have a few ideas about where we are we going to, and the idea of having so many people working together is exciting as hell.

We achieved so much over the last 2 years, and we can achieve a lot more over the next 2.

Thanks for reading and supporting us. It's all happening because of your patronage.



Cheers,

Oppai-Man

Fixed the dagger not gripping correctly.

Fixed the game completion badge not appearing after starting a New Game.

Fixed some Gems not appearing.

Made the Main Menu 50% smaller

1. Changed steering method to be more smooth when controlled by keyboard. Please, change Keyboard steering sensitivity in menu if it's not good for you.
2. Fixed controls depends on FPS




1. Changed car colliders to be close to car meshes and updated their physic properties
2. Improved collision reaction for traffic (crazy steering, rolling :)
3. Added switchable real shadows for cars (see menu/advanced)
4. More improvements to car details
5. Tuned AI collision prediction methods
6. Updated exhaust backfires





1. Added tessellated curbs and extra terrain details: available via new option in menu/advanced
2. Added new scene with Seafront road: pretty and wide, ready for high speed race!
3. Visually improved roads (bridges, fences etc)
4. Updated lighting (better visual, less space)
5. Fixed tree shadow issues
6. Updated lighting/shadows in garage







Now it includes more powerful car and all the changes/fixes from recent build.

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- Controller’s VDFs are now bundled with the game
- Updated Steam controller configuration localization
- Fixed levers and gates visual overshoot bug
- Fixed gamepad disconnection message having a background
- Fixed problems with dynamic moving objects
- Fixed window bar not visible when in windowed fullscreen

[Updated April 21 at 4:32 PM PT] As mentioned in this post, we are asking our Maplers to fill out this brief survey about your experience with the channel performances in various worlds (Aurora, Bera, Scania, and NA Reboot). Please fill out this survey by Friday, April 22nd at 7:00 PM PT. Thank you!
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Greetings Maplers,

Just wanted to give an update on what we’ve done in the April 14 maintenance.

April 14 Maintenance
We have replaced all the Aurora world channels during the April 14 maintenance and will monitor the channel performances after the deployment.

Reviewing the comments from the survey, it seems there has been a noticeable improvement in the worlds that received the change. Though, we still saw a few comments about players experiencing lag on certain hours or channels so we will continue our investigation.

In addition, we will continue to monitor the channels in NA Reboot, Bera, and Scania worlds while we proceed to replace channels in the remaining worlds.

As usual, we will post another survey to gather information after this weekend, when the Aurora world channels have had some time to be played on for a few days. The survey link will be provided here in this post as well as posted on our community platforms. We’d appreciate your active participation and feedback on these surveys.

Thank you for your continued patience.

Sincerely,
Fantastic Hammers and the secrets of Mjollnir

There was a problem with not unlocking the achievements, and it has been fixed.

If you could not unlock your achievements and want to retrieve them, please go to Main Title/Setting/Achievement Reset, and click on "Achievement Clear" and then "Achievement Sync". Now when you go back to the story, you may use Ctrl/Tab to skip the conversations and reach the achievement points.

Sorry for all the inconvenience and thank you for your patience! If you still meet a similar problem please let me know! twi@spa_otter

A multitude of upgrades, informational guides, cameras and HUD additions now integrated:

> Shield Upgrades for all your aircraft and helicopters
> Ejection seat upgrades
> Motor upgrades for your attack helicopters
> Extended Fuel for Hawkeye allowing longer flight times
> Tooltips: are now integrated
> Tactical info on dealing with incoming Aircraft, Ships and Subs integrated
> Camera views of all aircraft and helicopters integrated
> Downed Pilot Tracking
> Runway Launch Status Hud integrated

Adding achievements that hopefully work.

After some delay, update 1.3.1 Beta is here!

10 more animations have been added for the following enemies:

-Pumpkor
-Frogbert
-Noxious Frogbert
-Torchi
-Ooze
-Boomablast
-Noxibear
-Snomus
-Beach Treant
-Pasir Thrall Berserker