There can be only one winner! Test your might against these ferocious (well, sort of) foes set on stopping Kao’s journey before it has even begun!




Master the fist, embrace the power of the gloves, unleash Kaohaos!


Unleash powerful finishers, jab your foes into submission, and use what your momma roo gave you!
Kao The Kangaroo is back with a whole new adventure and a whole new set of moves!...and enemies! Take a look at some of the foes he’ll be facing in his journey for the truth!

Stay tuned to our social media for updates!

Twitter - https://twitter.com/Kaothekangaroo
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/KaoTheKangaroo
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaothekangaroo
Discord - https://discord.gg/D79aQUJXdM

Greetings pizza folks!

Today, we’re thrilled to take you backstage for another episode of our TMNT Shredder’s Revenge development diary focusing on Game Design this time.

Learn more about Tribute Games’ incredible work on game design and how they managed to capture faithfully the spirit of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and its classic games to deliver radical action-packed adventures!



Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge is coming this Summer! Stay tuned for more updates and incredible news.

🐢 Wishlist TMNT Shredder’s Revenge to kick some shell :

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1361510/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_Shredders_Revenge/

🍕 Keep up with the latest news and follow us on our social media:

https://twitter.com/TributeGames
https://twitter.com/Dotemu
https://www.instagram.com/dotemugames/
https://www.shredders-revenge.com

Patch 0.1.16RC (pre-release)

- Balance changes

It’s not a farming sim without a fishing mini game! Scattered around the world and dungeon of Pine Lily Village are fishing spots. Use your fishing pole on the spot to cast and hopefully catch a big one!



Click to stop the arrow on a colored area. Green will get you a fish but purple will get you bonus item along with a fish.




Talk to you soon,
Jenny

If you want to dive deeper into the development of this game and be the first to know about future alpha/beta testing, sign up for my mailing list here: Sign up here!

We glad to inform you that we've added extra Steam content to the game. Trading Cards along with a set of badges, profile backgrounds and emoticons, are now available for the game.

Best Regards,
Bart

• Event: Ultra Weekend May 20th – 22nd
• Duration: 3 days
• Starts: Friday, May 20th
• Ends: Monday, May 23rd

 
Important note: Unless otherwise stated, all events and activities start and end with the server restart at 02:00 UTC.

Tankers!




There will be a special mode, special missions, boosted funds and experience, Ultra Containers, 2 valuable special offers, and a themed design.

This Ultra Weekend will start on Friday, May 20th, at 2:00 UTC, and will last until Monday, May 23rd, at 2:00 UTC. 




From Friday, May 20th 02:00 UTC till Monday, May 23rd 02:00 UTC play in the special «Goldhunters» mode.

Everyone’s favorite Deathmatch mode is back! Along with the awaited return comes a sharp increase in the drop rate of gold boxes!

Special Event Parameters:

• Battle Mode: DM
• Maps: Sandbox, Skylark, and Dusseldorf
• Turret: Any
• Hull: Any
• Bonus boxes: ON
• Micro-upgrades: ON
• Augments: ON
• Overdrives: ON
• Drones: ON
• Modules: ON
• Supplies: ON
• MM Groups: ON

Of course, you can’t forget about Ultra Containers, which you can earn for completing various special missions as well as purchase from the shop.

Here are some of the epic prizes you can get from these containers:

• NEW Ricochet’s «Tectonic field» augment
• Ricochet’s «Helios» augment
• Firebird’s «Toxic mix» augment
• Unique XT skin for Ares in HD;
• Detailed Ultra skins for Vulcan and Viking;
• The famous «Crisis» drone and «Armadillo» module;
• Other prizes obtainable from common containers.

You can never have enough Ultra Containers. Complete the special missions to get them and… stars!

• Mission: Battle Elite
• Task: Be in the winning team of 1 battle in any matchmaking battles. 
• IMPORTANT: This mission is only available for «Premium Pass» owners.
• Reward: 1 Ultra Container and 1 unit of the «Nuclear Energy» supply

• Mission: Special Authorization
• Task: Finish 3 battles in any matchmaking battles. 
• IMPORTANT: This mission is only available for «Battle Pass» owners.
• Reward: 3 Ultra Containers and 3 units of the «Nuclear Energy» supply

• Supermission: The best at everything!
• Task: Complete «Medallist», «Team Spirit», «Earner», «Destroyer», «The Punisher», «Armageddon» and «Armadillo» missions.
• Reward: 7 Ultra Containers

• Mission: Medallist
• Task: Get into the TOP-3 5 times in any matchmaking battles.
• Reward: 1 Ultra Container and 50 stars 

• Mission: Team Spirit
• Task: Be in the winning team of 10 battles in any matchmaking battles.
• Reward: 1 Ultra Container and 50 stars 

• Mission: Earner
• Task: Earn 15000 crystals in any matchmaking battles.
• Reward: 1 Ultra Container and 50 stars 

• Mission: Destroyer
• Task: Deal 200000 damage in any matchmaking battles.
• Reward: 1 Ultra Container and 50 stars 

• Mission: The Punisher
• Task: Earn 4000 battle points in any matchmaking battles.
• Reward: 1 Ultra Container and 50 stars 

• Mission: Armageddon
• Task: Use overdrive 40 times in any matchmaking battles.
• Reward: 1 Ultra Container and 50 stars 

• Mission: Armadillo
• Task: Use boosted armor 330 times in any matchmaking battles.
• Reward:1 Ultra Container and 50 stars 

Got a keen eye for a great deal? Cool! We’ve created 2 special bundles that will set you ahead of the competition at really affordable prices.

These bundles will be exclusively available in the Shop for the duration of the festivities.


Special «Ammunition» offer

• 10 Ultra Containers
• 1 unit of the «Nuclear Energy» supply
• 5 Weekly Containers

Special «Radioactive beam» offer

• 290 Ultra Containers
• 3 units of the «Nuclear Energy» supply
• Ricochet’s «Blaster» shot effect
• Ricochet Mk2

During the event, get boosted funds and experience for every matchmaking battle! That’s a great chance to rank up faster to get access to new items if you haven’t unlocked them all yet or to get more crystals to upgrade your Garage.




Throughout the 3 days of the event, we’ll have themed decorations in the game:

• A holiday-themed paint
• Special skin for cargo drones
• Holiday-themed gold box drop zone
• Holiday-themed loading screen
• Holiday-themed billboards on all maps

So get ready to jump into the fray for three days of blazing combat starting with the server restart on Friday, May 20th.

1. Add custom rotation option for model: Select any loaded model on the theater page, uncheck "Always face forward" on the right panel, and then you can freely set the rotation of the model in the x, y, and z directions .


2. Add the distance option of model: Select any loaded model on the theater page, and adjust the model's distance option on the right panel.


3. Support directly dragging and rotating the model with the right mouse button: directly click and press the model on the desktop with the right mouse button, and then drag the model horizontally to freely rotate the model; left mouse button double-click the model to restore the original rotation.

OKAY BUT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
Compression is a big part of ever day computing. Images take up large amounts of memory and disk space, so we use compression techniques to store them when they're not being viewed. For example ".png" and ".jpg" are ways to store much larger information, just packed up neatly.
Particularly 2D games like Broken Sword 5, will contain tons of large graphical data and audio files that would take up obscene amounts of space without compression. To us it's important to keep an eye on the latest techniques and pass on those benefits to all of you!

🤫 FUN FACTS SIDEBAR:
Back when we finalised the frame of Broken Sword 5 the method of compression we used for such big files was z-lib, which is an industry standard super stable and quick default compression technique.
But then (dramatic music) a contender, a lone ranger, a rogue, open-source Zstandard appeared!!!

🤏 FILE SIZE REDUCED BY 10%
On mobile, as you might know, Broken Sword 5 was split into 2 parts.
And even then both parts are still MASSIVE!!! Especially for phones...
So we're always looking at the development of reliable compression, and Zstandard was used in our most recent overhaul-update of Broken Sword 5 on the Google Play Store. It's only fair that Steam should reap the benefits too. Therefore Broken Sword 5 now takes up 10% less hard drive space than it used to!


Apple have released their own CPUs known as Apple Silicon, or M1 chips.
This means Broken Sword 5 will now run natively rather than emulated!
It might not feel much different to you, but your Mac is LOVING this efficiency, and who knows, there might be a few more minutes of battery life in it for you too!
We felt like you deserved a little treat.


There were a two things we felt the need to improve on in this matter:

🗔 SWITCHING BETWEEN FULL SCREEN AND WINDOWED MODE
Broken Sword 5 comes packaged with 2 completely different asset resolutions: 1080p (Full HD) and 720p (Regular HD). Which assets are displayed depends on the resolution of your monitor and whether or not you run the game in full screen, or windowed mode.
However when switching between full screen and windowed mode the game was previously allowed to switch between asset resolutions as well. This incurred a full tear down of the engine and a reload of ALL game assets. Not ideal!!! This resulted in the game going black and pausing for up to 10 seconds before displaying correctly. Imagine your computer just frantically recollecting every single asset like "Oh no, no. nonono I didn't know there was gonna be a test!?" while you get to stare into a black square! Many of you probably felt like the game was crashing - we don't blame you! But we do blame us!!!!!!!
When switching to windowed mode now, you get a single appropriate graphics solution.
So if your monitor is 1080p, the assets will remain in 1080p, even if displayed smaller in windowed mode.

📏 WIDE-SCREEN MONITORS
When using wide-screen monitors some of you experienced cropping issues with the game.
We've now made sure more aspect ratios are supported so the game displays without any cropping or stretching issues! It will now utilize black bar spacers when needed.

🎬 BLACK BARS EXPLAINED
Sometimes the question comes up, and we think it's super interesting to talk about...
Broken Sword 5 is a 2D game; It contains tons of hand drawn artwork, and the characters while modelled in 3D, were processed and exported as 2D sprites. The actual game engine in Broken Sword 5 only ever deals with 2D assets! It's a true 2D point-and-click adventure. This was a stylistic choice, and combined the charm of a hand drawn game we wanted, with the character flexibility we needed.
In 3D games there is the luxury of assets in a scene with environment and geometry, and while it still takes a lot of work, the "camera" in this engine can be tweaked, and view ports can be altered to accommodate different aspect ratios.
But in 2D, there is no "bit to the side" - the art was made to fit the game exactly.
This leaves us (and other games in our position) with 3 options:
💀 cropping issues that can get players stuck
📏 big stretch to fit
😭 stop everything, fund a huge overhaul, re-do the whole game, work years to finish, find out a new ultra ultra wide monitor dropped, cry, rise, and repeat
✔️ display black borders


We hope this sheds a little light onto how we make some of these decisions, and that it's not because we don't love you. We care so much about what you think and how you experience our games. Many of you reach out to us to tell us how much we changed your lives, well! You changed ours too!!
We think about your experiences all the time, and we really want you to feel appreciated, loved, and cared for.

Currently our plan is to look at our games all across the platforms they are currently on, and give them a spruce up, so if you're wondering if we're getting to the other games, we absolutely are.
Is there a timeline for that? Absolutely not! We don't want to overpromise. We're an indie studio with a tiny core team supporting our existing titles, which can mean that when things pop up it can affect our timeline. But the important part is that we want you to know it's happening, and we're actively, right now, working on it 💖


And last, but not least:
STEAM DECK, STEAM DECK, STEAM DECK!!!
Broken Sword 5 is Steam Deck compatible, and it looks ✨ STUNNING ✨

We added a handy function which lets the code know if you're running on a Steam Deck or not, which helps to natively adapt to the system once booted. This should assure a seamless experience of enjoying Broken Sword 5 on the Steam Deck

Shoutout to LowSpecGamer for making these pictures! Check out his channel for fun and informative videos surrounding the early journeys of the games industry. We honestly think you all would love it, especially the retrogamers amongst you!
Wait, one more! Last one, promise


Send us pictures of how it looks on your device, and let us know if you're happy with it!
Your feedback means the world to us.



Be vigilant, but stay kind.
Lots of love from all of us at Revolution

• Planned BR changes have been implemented.
  
• Su-22UM3K — a bug has been fixed that allowed the use of FAB-500 bombs on the internal wing pylons.
  
• F-104S ASA — a bug has been fixed where it was possible to fire the M61A1 guns while using the Aspide A1 missiles.
  
• J-8B — a bug has been fixed that allowed the use of PL-5B missiles on the internal wing pylons. The armament system of the jet fighter allows the use of up to 4 missiles at a time.

The current provided update notes reflect the major changes within the game as part of this Update. Some updates and fixes may be not listed in the provided notes. War Thunder is constantly improving all the time and certain fixes may be implemented without the client being updated.

It's PowerWash Simulator's 1st birthday, and to celebrate, we've launched Update 0.9!


Watch our new teaser to mark the occasion!


New Community Jobs: Explore 3 new special jobs suggested, selected, and voted on by the community! These are the Steam Locomotive.



Gnome Fountain



Mini Golf Course



Find all these in the specials section!


This update brings many game improvements that our incredible community has long requested. Here's the list:

Aim mode

Motion Sickness has been one of the biggest barriers to a minority but significant group of players. We've now added Aim Mode, a toggle to move your washer without moving your camera. We think most players will play with this mode to some degree, as many of us at FuturLab have opted to wash in this mode!

Revamped jobs

We've taken feedback on our current jobs, including a survey that over 3000 of you filled out to help us determine which levels and areas needed some more love. Several jobs have had a visual and design redux, including the Back Garden, Storybook Cottage, and Shoe House. Many jobs have had their details renamed to be more straightforward. Large areas like the Playground floor have been cut down into smaller chunks for more dings. Thresholds have been made tighter or slightly easier depending on feedback (the Skatepark floor no longer completes with a massive piece of dirt left).

Plus, many more small tweaks!



Earning beyond Career

We've listened to your requests to give incentives for multiplayer partners and replayability. Co-op partners and replaying levels will earn 25% of the total amount of the cleaning job. Player 1 in co-op will get the total amount if they are in career mode.

We hope this will help without ruining the economy!


With potentially infinite money, we have also added a soft gate on washers which should line up closely with how quickly you could unlock new washers in Update 0.8. For example, you will be able to unlock the Urban-X during the playground/bungalow depending on what you choose to do.

Tutorial Prompts

Tutorial pop-ups appear the first time you play in 0.9, and we hope it will help new players get the most out of the game the first time they play. Maybe some content creators won't be stuck realising they can rotate their nozzles over multiple episodes...

Controller Haptics

Did we hear a rumble? No, it's just your controller vibrating. Haptics are here for more controller-led washing immersion!

More:

• Multiplayer stability improvements
  
• Performance improvements
  
• Player-collision improvements
  
• Many bug fixes.
  
• Tree House has been moved further into Career Mode due to difficulty.

Any level with washing progress will be auto-completed when booting up the game for the first time after the update. The partially completed levels will auto-complete when you join the level. Though initially will appear at the percentage you left it at before the update. Also, the menu UI may not show fully complete, but you can ignore this and progress as normal.

We have tried to give an advanced warning to those affected, but we apologize to anyone who may be caught unaware.

The game has changed a lot under the hood (bonnet) since the first Early Access Launch and whilst this wasn't ideal we feel it was necessary to get on top of some issues that occurred with conflicting saves between the patches. This will bring everyone's save data up to date with the current version 0.9.

All money from the parts and job completion will be given to all players for any jobs that auto-complete. (The UI may show the incorrect amount like $114/$600 but the full amount + bonus will have been paid if you look in your shop.)


Special job soap:

If any player in a Specials job purchases soap, they will only be able to use that soap in that Specials session. When it is closed and the player moves to another mode, they will lose the soap and the money they spent on it.


Controller control scheme not updating to use aim mode (does not affect mouse and keyboard):

If loading with previous save data into Update 0.9 the game may not update to the new controller control scheme automatically. Go to options, controls and reset control defaults. This will return Aim Mode functionality. You can then also rebind to your preferences.

Audio doesn't sound loud/quiet enough

Just a heads up to everyone having audio issues. The last patch, 0.8, the master audio slider didn't work. This bug is now fixed. Though you may need to play with your audio settings to get them to your personal perfect spot again. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Level is super bright (Fariground Zone)

Some systems aren't processing HDR correctly, if you go into the graphics options and uncheck HDR this should fix the sun looking like it will cook the land. We are currently investigating.

Mouse/cursor acting oddly

Unplug every input device you have that isn't your mouse and keyboard which could include: a racing wheel, shifter, button box, etc. then restart your computer.

Have fun all! We hope you enjoy our Birthday Update!

If you want to vote on new game ideas, talk to the community, or help you with some tough dirt - then join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/powerwashsimulator

Keep up with everything PowerWash Simulator by following our channels:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PowerWashSim
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/powerwashsim
PWS Wiki: https://powerwash-simulator.fandom.com/wiki/PowerWash_Simulator_Wiki