Now you can go on a trip, visit friends or just go for a walk and continue to help the inhabitants of the island to restore the farm and resist the raids of pirates. Farm Frenzy: Heave Ho is now available on Steam Deck!
We're into Part 1's third week after release and I can't thank you all enough for the kind messages, comments and Let's Plays! π It's been really lovely getting a few glimpses into your experiences with the game.
There have been a few minor bugs which I tried to address as soon as possible with a bugfix updates. These things just happen no matter how lengthy your testing phase might be and overall I'm quite happy and proud of my testing team that we had no major issues. But if you're experiencing issues or need help progressing, consider joining our Discord (link). There's a help section there with loads of friendly folk willing to help π
Onto updates on Numina Part 2 which is planned to be released near the end of this year. The exact release date & pricing isn't set yet because I'm still working on Part 2 and it's not yet in the testing phase. Part 1 is around 2/3 of the game with Part 2 containing the last third which should also give you a rough idea on expected playtime & pricing range π
As I already explained before, I decided to not release the full game at once because some betatesters felt the later stages of the game felt rushed. Even though it put me into a bit of a dilemma I had to agree with them.
So while I was also fixing some post-release bugs on Part 1, I also kept working on Part 2! It will begin with a different, fun little interactive recap of Part 1 to freshen up your memory once it releases. There are a lot of important plot beats along the way and I wanted to give players the chance to jump right into Part 2 even if their playthrough of Part 1 has been a few months ago.
βΉοΈ If you want to go into Part 2 completely spoiler free I'd suggest to skip the next indented section. There are only minor notions of what might await you and no concrete story points.
Another big topic I wanted to delve deeper into were the rebels. We get a few glimpses of them in Part 1. They were already playing a bigger role in Part 2 but I originally cut some bigger parts out which I'm now adding back in & extending. Part 2 will contain new places which previously were only mentioned in dialogue. I won't be giving away where exactly the journey is headed, but I'd love to hear what corners of Alterna you'd like to see in Part 2 πποΈ
No spoilers from here π
A big undertaking with Part 2 are the repercussions from player decisions in Part 1. If you played Part 1 I'm sure you can think of at least one decision that has a big impact on the plot. From a developer perspective this is a bit of a nightmare because in Part 2, basically every cutscene has at least one variation and it gets even worse the later on π Even though many these changes might seem small it's still a lot of effort even just to test all these plot branches.
I mentioned this only getting worse (for me) as Part 2 progresses but another important bit are the multiple endings where things really drift off in different directions. I'm planning on extending most of the endings to hopefully make each ending feel distinct and a worthy conclusion even if it's a bad or dark ending for the story.
What's a bit hard for me to accept is that there's a lot of effort on my side which you might not even get to see if you only play the game once. There might be compilation videos of the endings somewhere on Youtube but some people might just look at the average playtime and not really value that there's a lot of additional content you just don't get with a single playthrough.
Overall I'm working hard on polishing things up, adding more character moments, creating new locales such as dungeons or towns, exploring the lore and adding some interesting new fights βοΈ I hope you're as excited for Part 2 as I am and I hope I will be able to soon share some more content with everyone π
We have spent the last week or so tearing apart the code looking for bugs and performance issues.
Some minor issues, like the cursor being wonky on the Upgrade Screen and some more major issues, like Achievements not working, and missing weapon attacks, etc.
We've also added a few features - mainly the option to change between Windowed, Fullscreen, and Borderless Window Fullscreen, and the option to toggle Damage Numbers on/off (if that's your thing).
Hopefully many of these fixes are things you won't even really notice - but you'll have a better experience in general playing the game.
Moving forward, we think it's time to take a closer look at the general game balance. Enemy stats and level difficulty are all over the place right now, and character talents are, well, not that interesting.
We're going to take some time rebalancing everything for the next Major release - so you might not hear from us for awhile... we'll try to share updates on our progress as we go, but, ultimately, we hope that the game will feel vastly better when we're done!
After seeking further clarification from Steam, they have informed us that there was a miscommunication regarding the banning of keys already distributed.
They now confirmed that, keys that have already been distributed to users do not need to be banned whether they are redeemed or not.
Please kindly disregard our announcement on 16-Jul-2022, as it is not applicable anymore.
Let us know if you will be with us during the premiere. π
Also that day we prepared together with Steam a special promotion! The promotion will be available for players who already have Animal Shelter in their Steam library and for those who want to start their adventure with our game. So, stay tuned we will be back with more information soon. π
Do you have any questions? Join us on Discord! π
We've been so thankful for the positive feedback we've received and have been listening intently to what the community has been telling us. This patch introduces changes to how the camera tracks the player and new location notifications to hopefully make your Witch Strandings experience smoother.
General
Clarified mouse sensitivity
Added a slight delay for when location notifications appear to avoid notification spam
Assorted bugfixes
Camera
Tightened radius for camera movement
Added a new behavior to activate vertical camera movement sooner
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