Jul 1, 2022

Gataela - Atemly Games

Happy July! We’re entering into the swing of summer, which means we’re leaving the first half of the year behind. Let’s take a look at what we’ve gotten done over the past month and so far this year!

Province Update

One of our biggest focuses for the last half of the year was completing the final province/biome. In particular, the last two months we heavily focused on the capital – Ziacia. This month, we completed it.

June 2022

July 2022

Now doesn’t that look great? The province has also come along, and is looking quite good!

We’ve got just a handful of maps/levels left to knock out of the park! Transition maps along the upper left and right, and a little bit of the core province to the bottom.

Naturally we fell a little behind from the storm last month (which we are still dealing with), but we’re hoping to finish most of this during July. The areas that won’t be completed (mostly to the right) have some gameplay mechanics we need to sort out first so we don’t need to redo them later. No need to make them pretty if we need to move all the roads around for plot reasons.

However, all in all, this goal is pretty much completed, which means the overworld of Gataela is just about done! Wow.

Rewrite & Skits

A big big BIG thing we have also been working on over the past WHILE has been the end of game rewrite & their related skits. As a reminder, Gataela has been in active development for just over 10 years now. The development of the game also started plot-first. We didn’t start with visuals, programming or level design – just the narrative and the game script. As you can imagine, it’s the oldest part of the game and hasn’t aged as well as we would’ve liked.

The purpose of the end of game rewrite was to refresh everything, make gameplay adjustments, fix some logical inconsistencies among other things. We scrapped a lot of old dialogue, we rewrote entire sections, we moved the locations of events and all sorts of things.

It’s nice to now have this done although we will likely revisit over the next while and make small tweaks here and there as needed.

Passive Animals, SFXs, Portraits and More

Now as for all the other stuff the team has been working on – and there’s a lot. Here’s a quick round up of some of the other accomplishments:

Passive Animals – We’ve got cows, we’ve got pigs, we’ve got chickens, we’ve got sheep. We’ve got horses, dogs, cats, birds, bugs, squirrels, mice, crabs and even a capybara. Owen has done an amazing job getting all these different animals done and we’re looking forward to adding them to the game and getting the worlds to feel more alive.
Emote Bubbles, VFX and UI Animations – We’ve also been expanding the number of emote bubbles to express more in cutscenes. On top of that, we have more overworld VFX and even some UI animation designs to help everything feel more polished. Once again, thanks to Owen’s hard work. We’re looking forward to showcasing a lot of these things as we move into the second half of the year.
SFXs – We highlighted this earlier in the year, but thanks to Chris’ amazing work, all of the SFXs have been updated for the new battle animations!
Debate Portraits & Designs – We also can’t forget the great work Cie has been doing to finish up the remaining debate portraits and character designs.

Gataela’s Level Design

In case you missed it, we did a presentation about Gataela’s Level Design for Dirty Rectangles. The VOD is available here, and if you are just interested in the presentation slides they are available here. Thanks for everyone who came out to listen to us talk about our recent work!

What’s Next?

Now that a lot of our major projects for the first half of the year are complete – just what are our plans for the second half? Well – it’s something like this:

July will focus on finishing up about half of the remaining provincial maps that have not been updated. These are mainly the transitions to the left, and some of the central maps. We’re also planning to add some of the VFX work to the world, work on some usability features (ex. skipping skits) and a couple small bug fixes.

Moving out of July and into the second half of the year our goals are the following:

Add game controller support
Update UI to work with gamepad
Add some UI animations and polish
Features – Skip Skits & Cutscenes
VFX & visual improvements
Debate battle rewrites & improvements
TTBattle improvements, rebalancing and expansion
Add cutscenes & skits
Complete the rest of the province

That’s a lot coming up and we’re hoping to slowly complete them over the next little while. In the meantime, we hope everyone has a relaxing summer and we’ll see you next month!

Jul 1, 2022

PTR 2.14.2 (v.1)

CarX Drift Racing Online - Labus

General

Added the ability to turn on/off engine
Turbo sounds added and updated
Added two XDS configs to single mode on Mondello Park and Atron tracks
Fixed bugs in the DLC "Deluxe"

Cars

Added cars LAMBERJACK, MOON KNIGHT
Added MONO steering wheel for DTM 46
Added a new rim to the D-Spec category
Minor fixes for cars

Graphics

Fixed graphical artifacts on Parking A, East Touge and Pacific Hills
Added new vinyls in category JR, CX, Itasha
Added layers for vinyls in categories CBW, Drift Devils
Minor vinyl fixes
Minor fixes in the display of the shadow from the car
Improved reflections in photo mode
Improvements to switching lighting presets

Gameplay

First person camera adjustments
Added loading of vinyls in a new slot. Now the current vinyl slot is not overwritten if you load vinyls on top using the console command
Fixed installation of the previous sticker on the tire after adjusting the rim diameter
Fixed not applying dynamic camera settings
Fixed camera twitching in paint section
Fixed non-saving of dyno settings when exiting the track selection window in a test run
Minor fixes on the use of vinyl slots
Fixes and improvements in video replays

Control

Fixed being able to assign gamepad levers/sticks to all actions
Fixed interaction with context panel before starting "one more time" in multiplayer
Added transition to the general category of body kits when exiting the disc installation section
Fixed incorrect camera zoom in vinyl editor
Improvements to switch the password in the window for creating a room

Minor UI fixes
Fixed camera rotation when interacting with lists
Minor fixes in displaying profile statistics
Protractor display fixes
Fixes to the display of the animation of the Drift Points Multiplier in competitions
Fixed layout of the list of players in the window for sending a complaint to the TOP-32

Sounds

Fixed click sound in multiplayer

TOP-32

Fixed missing hotkey for the next attempt in qualifying
Improvements on triggering autojoin
Fixed qualifying attempt being counted when exiting the championship screen

Multiplayer

Added a ban on car respawning in the XDS Drift Drift, XDS Competition and Drift Pairs

Jul 1, 2022

Update 0.26 released on the beta branch!

Wolfpack - Admiral Testbar

Hello, submariners!

We are happy to announce that update 0.26 has been released on the beta branch!
Detailed instructions on how to access the beta branch can be found at the bottom of this page.

This update includes the full interior of the german type VII U-boat, improvements to player interactions (friends, bans, ignores, etc), leakage effects, new periscope overlays, scales and distance tables, intercom telephones and quality of life improvements.

For this update we would like to give a special shoutout to our group of dedicated testers, without your indispensable support we would still be finding new bugs to fix.

As usual, we want to thank all members of our community for supporting us - your feedback and suggestions are invaluable to us and continuously improve the quality of Wolfpack.

Sincerely,
The Wolfpack Team

Highlights

The Interior

The full interior has been integrated and added to the game, various systems have been or are in the process of being added to the interior, our goal is for the entire interior to serve a larger gameplay purpose rather than just being pretty set dressing.

We'd like to emphasize that this is the first iteration of the interior, and not all interactable systems have been added or integrated yet.
Notably: the engines are lacking functionality as of this time, additional equipment and details will be added to the radio and sonar rooms.

Aft torpedo compartment, with the electric engines.

Forward torpedo compartment.

Engine compartment, with the main diesel engines on either side.

Player Interaction Menu

A new player interaction menu has been added, from this menu you can manage crew roles, add friends and manage bans.

Ring, ring, telephones

The telephone-style intercoms have been added and integrated in the various compartments to facilitate better and more immersive communications between crew members.

Leakage effects

Depth-based leakage effects have been added to the entire interior, this is a system we would like to expand upon in the future.

New periscope overlays, scales and distance tables

Periscope overlays, scales and distance tables have been reworked and added.

Quality of Life improvements

Brightness sliders have been added to various menues in game.

What now?

Most of the Wolfpack team will be taking some time off during the coming month, after that work will resume on remaining 0.26 features listed below.

Remaining 0.26 features

Up next is the fully animated and interactable engines, the new playable engine chief officer, adding the missing equipment and details from the radio and sonar rooms as well as torpedo reloading.

What's next?

Update 0.27

We will elaborate more on update 0.27 in due time, but the main focus will be on improving the ship damage systems, and effects.

Want to know more?

The best place for community outreach will always be on our steam page and in our Discord.

Known issues

Periscope and minor UI scaling issues when playing in aspect ratios taller than standard 16:9 - scaling works correctly in 16:9.
Incorrect click sound effect when using the intercoms.
There's an issue that can cause a crash to desktop when the host assigns the same role to multiple crew members. To avoid this isssue, don't assign the same role to multiple crew members. (Does not apply to passengers and sailors)

Accessing the public beta branch

Step 1:
Right-click Wolfpack in your Steam library.

Step 2:
Select “Properties” in the drop-down menu.

Step 3:
Select “Betas” in the menu on the left.

Step 4:
Select “beta” in the opt-in drop-down menu.

Steam should now prompt you to update Wolfpack to download the new version, if you wish to revert to another branch, you can use the same instructions.

Jul 1, 2022

Update v.0.10.2.11

Reality Mixer - Mixed Reality for VR headsets - Ray

Reality Mixer has been updated with the following changes:

Activate a camera box using a button on your VR controller. Select a different, or the same, button for several camera boxes, the floor viewer, the lap viewer or cockpit. (This is in addition to the button activation using a keyboard or joystick button.)
Leash: When editing the camera boxes a 'leash', or line, is shown from the Box Edit Panel to the selected box. This makes it easier to find boxes and to see which one you're currently editing on the Edit Panel.
The Box Edit Panel does not fade out anymore when resizing or moving boxes. Instead, it will show a 'panel is disabled' screen.
You can now click anywhere on the background of the panel to move/drag it through the world.
Brightness and contrast sliders are a bit less sensitive.
User can turn on/off keyboard editing of boxes (for move/rotate/size).
A different method for calculating a RoomID is now used, preventing lots of settings .xml files on certain systems.
Tip: Use Voice Attack to show and hide boxes by speaking commands such as "Show keyboard", "Show HOTAS", "Show drinks", "Show couch", "Show desk", etc.
Configure Voice Attack to press the same keyboard button as you have configured with "Activate by button" in the Box Edit Panel.

All feedback welcome!

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