Jun 16, 2022

Cards & Tankards - Emrys

Added faction based deck box cosmetics
6 hair styles can now be purchased for 500 gold instead of gems
1 facial hair style can now be purchased for 500 gold instead of gems
Hair/eye colors can now be purchased for 500 gold instead of gems
You can now pick creatures up at any time
Fixed sometimes not being able to grab deck boxes from the deck menu
Fixed being able to block creatures while other abilities are not finished executing
Fixed being able to end your turn while creatures are dying
Fixed dying creatures being able to get stat buffs
Fixed activating a creature not showing sleeping effect
Fixed being able to join a fake private tavern with code 0000
Fixed many draw card abilities skipping token cards
Fixed Potion of the Weald not preserving enhanced cards
Fixed Poison Bomb not getting banished after it comes back from Zealous Archivist

Jun 16, 2022

Glitz and Glam

Blush Blush - Sad Panda Studios

Hey Panda Peeps,

You know how Eli’s goal in life is to be as fabulous as possible? How would you like to help him out with that? All you’ve got to do is unlock his spectacular Masquerade Outfit during the Limited Time Event! Have him don his fancy apparel and spend the rest of your days painting the town rainbow-colored together. Because who needs a special occasion as an excuse to dress in full formalwear? Not Eli, that’s for sure!

You know the drill! Pony up to the LTE, collect your daily event tokens, and be rewarded.

We love you so hard!

The Pandas

Jun 16, 2022

Steam Next Fest June 2022 - Demo Update

Exophobia - Zarc Attack

Hey everyone!
It's been a really hectic week, isn't it? Lots of demos, player feedback, and all of that. Hope you all have been having fun!

I just uploaded a new version of the demo, where I tried to fix all the game breaking bugs that appeared from all your gathered feedback and playthroughs I have been watching you share!

Fixes:

Saving system is working fine now. There was a key card door blocking the elevator room that sometimes disapeared, so you could just skip 80% of the demo by getting into the elevator sooner than normal. Yeah not very fun...
Found out a bug that randomly teleported you into a new game when pressing pause. Fixed now.
Boxes should not get stuck in the conveyor belts or flicker anymore, yay!
Tweaked the level a bit, so players wouldn't forget to save in the terminals as much. Please, save whenever you can, that's part of the game!
This new version includes a brand new performance system, so it might have some bugs, but run better. Let me know if the game crashes. Also, it's a known thing that if you have the window minimized on loading, it will show a warning, this is ok and will be fixed next update.

Among other many small tweaks for a better experience.
Thank you all for your patience, it's not fun to see people give up on the demo because of these bugs, but I'm doing my best!
And thanks to all of the commenters on the feedback discussion thread. If you are having trouble, feel free to write there or on the Zarc Attack Discord.

Have a great rest of the week!
Zarc

Jun 16, 2022

Update v0.5.11

The Last Plague: Blight - originalstudios

Playtest was updated a bit ago, posting here for completeness

The Performance Update

Finally spent some time on performance which is something I've wanted to tackle for a while. Completely redid a lot of the internals of the game and really happy with the results, seeing solid framerate improvements (~34% improvement on my RTX 2080), as well as a fairly decent reduction of stuttering as the game loads and unloads chunks while running around the world. There is still some more improvement to be done here, but I'm happy with where it is for now.

A few other fixes and tweaks are included in this update. Please continue to report any issues you see! Thanks

Performance:

Completely reworked internal saving/loading system for much less memory pressure. This greatly reduces some of the stuttering seen before when running around and loading/unloading the world. New games will see the most benefit vs. loading a pre-v0.5.11 save
Tons of optimizations to rendering, culling, logic, etc. Should increase framerate by 5-30% on almost all configurations

Fixes:

Fixed water reflections quality no longer actually using High when Medium is selected. The difference between Medium and High is whether the reflections will render shadows or not, a fairly significant performance impact
Fixed rabbit snares losing their correct state sometimes when multiple are present in the world - some with and without trapped rabbits - when loading a game
Clamped contamination of harvested creature items to 100%
Fixed main menu background scene showing weird gray highlights if leaving an active game with heavy cloud cover
Fixed rare issue where the construction materials shown in the character's hands during the building process would actually have collision enabled and would end up pushing the player around during the animation
Fixed another cause of "ghost items" where trying to drag something like mud into the construction materials UI slot (instead of mud mortar) would cause a ghost item to get stuck in the slot

Other changes:

Soaking slots will always show on the Soaking Basin UI regardless of how much water is present, and the UI was reworked to be more helpful in figuring out what is needed to properly treat the hides
Times shown on things like remaining time for treating a hide are capped to 100 hours now to prevent overly large values from appearing in very inefficient treating setups
Add stockpile ability for soft clay
Slightly different looking bushes as textures/materials are consolidated as part of the general performance optimization above
More interesting looking player/bush graphical interaction effect while walking through them
Better transition between player character running and walking so it no longer appears instant
Long sticks are packed closer together in stockpiles, allowing for more to be placed per stockpile
Reduced how much impact each step has on changing grass to dirt over time