"The gentle waves, the cool breeze and the sunny sky, such a great place to take a nap, if not because of half a ton crocodile being your companion."

Added features

1. Added impassable walls.
   
2. Upgraded the dome shield.

Bug Fixes

1. Fixed a bug that the item stack count was not updated after using an item.
   
2. Fixed a bug that caused the prediction line to flicker.

From receiving our first piece of fan art to seeing our Discord members share gardening tips with each other, we’ve loved watching our community grow and thrive together.

Since we released our demo on August 2nd, we’ve had over 4,000 people play it, more than 300 people join our Discord, and over 150 pieces of feedback that we’ve reviewed 🌱




Credit: Tom Garden


As interesting as all of those stats are, today we really want to spotlight the amazing community that has blossomed around our demo, so we’ll be dedicating this post to showcasing some community gardens and fan art while discussing how we’ll be implementing some of the awesome community suggestions we’ve received 💚



Credit: Nilar


We’ve been busy collecting as much feedback as possible from both our Steam community and our Discord community, so that we can sort through it and see which suggestions we can consider for the final game!


🐸 Additional creatures that will help you with gardening tasks

💎 Buried treasure or chests throughout the map that could be found by digging

💥 The ability to shoot at pesky tumbleweeds with your magic mirror to defend against them and gather resources from them

📖 A journal to store all of the main story dialogue and the ghosts’ stories, so they can be read again later at leisure

🏡 Hedges that changed appearance based on the biomes they’re in

👒 Cosmetic clothing rewards

🌱 Different types and styles of planters

While we can’t guarantee that all of these features will end up in the final game, we’ll aim to include as many as possible. For the ones that we can’t include, we’ll try to think of creative alternatives 🌹



Credit: Such Kawaii (left) and löyly (right)



We’re currently working on our first devlog, which will recap the response we’ve received on our demo in more depth, showcase video footage of some gorgeous community gardens, and provide a few more details on what we’re working on at the moment.



Credit: Varangian Bard



“If I can have a pet pangolin, this game is gonna change my life” - SplatterCatGaming 🐱

“Even though it’s just a demo, I'm already in love with this game” - Nyghtphyre 🌃

“Having that sandstorm roll over for the first time was such a treat and wild experience” - Writer_A 🖋️

“As a forester/mycologist, I wanted to express my appreciation of the root sigil being a fungus and sharing water. This brought me a heightened level of joy” - Spring Finder 🍄

“Waits patiently for more game” - MicroFish 🦈


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1599330/Wildmender/


Want to meet the super friendly community behind these screenshots and quotes?

Join our Discord server to meet the Wildmender community and follow us on social media at @wildmendergame on Twitter or @wildmenderofficial on Facebook and Instagram for more updates 💬

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Bonjour friends, it’s your favourite Tech Lead again!
Last year already I wrote to you in the final weeks leading to the release of the Barbarossa patch, and we draw close to the go-live of the Avalanche patch, here I appear again.

Like the future, technology is always in motion. As new platforms arise, olders need to be taken behind the barn and put down.

Don’t worry, we’re not talking about Windows 7 (yet 😉). Despite the release of Windows 11, we have not elected to make a push to Windows 10 since Microsoft’s support for new tech on older releases is still fairly good.

The same cannot be said for Mac and Linux, sadly. And so, starting the new 1.12.0 release, the minimum OS versions will be macOS 10.14 (Mojave) and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa). You will still be able to play older HoI versions on older operating systems by rolling back to previous branches, but Avalanche will refuse to start.

Those updates are done in order to introduce new tech to our games (not just HoI) and ensure that all can be built on the same infrastructure within the studio.

Last year we introduced the option to run the game with DirectX11 rather than the venerable DirectX9. After a long period of observation and very few issues observed, we have decided to make it the default.

The first time you start the Paradox Launcher on Avalanche, the game will perform a one-time upgrade of your settings from DirectX9 to DirectX11. New installations will also default to DirectX11.

If you notice any issue due to this change, first, please make a bug report, and then simply go to the settings page and set the renderer back to DirectX9.


Visually the game should look absolutely the same, but internally the tools that come with DirectX11 have helped us find a few sneaky graphical bugs that will be fixed in Avalanche, such as weird white squares appearing on the side of some tank models.

This is I bet the bit most of you were waiting for, the usual question of “will the new patch make the game run faster than previous versions?”. And I’m happy to say the answer is yes.

The biggest improvement has been made to the map icons rendering (unit counters, factories, supply hubs, you name it). The number of icons potentially displayed on the map had grown a lot since HoI’s release 6 years ago and the historical algorithm wasn’t cutting it anymore.

For example, here are what the FPS and frame time look like on Avalanche on my work desktop (i7700, NVIDIA GTX 1060, vsync off and 150 fps cap):

Avalanche default zoom

And fully zoomed out:

Avalanche zoomed out

Finally zoomed back in, but with Speed 5:

Avalanche at speed 5

(If you forgot last year’s dev diary, you can pop up the ingame profiler by typing imgui show profiler in the debug console).

Contrast those numbers with the ones from the current live build (Barbarossa 1.11.13):

Barbarossa default zoom

Note that Barbarossa denotes rendering performance in “render time” rather than “frame time”, which is only the GPU part, while Avalanche counts both CPU and GPU rendering time, so the numbers look different.

Barbarossa zoomed out


Barbarossa at Speed 5

Since PDS games from HoI’s generation tie up rendering and game simulation, this will translate in faster tick speed (on top of a few smaller performance optimizations we added to the simulation itself). Although, to be clear, faster rendering does not translate perfectly in faster game speed. It mostly means a more fluid experience when playing (especially unpaused in Speed 4-5), and then some improvement to the speed of the game simulation.

Speaking of which, I have read and seen a bunch of “guides” to HoI performance over the past months sharing tips & tricks on how to improve the game speed, so let me give you mine: consider disabling VSync in your graphics settings, unless you have a high refresh rate monitor.
The way the game simulation waits for rendering to be done to continue, with a slow refresh rate your CPU might end up spending precious time waiting on your monitor VSync which is not ideal. This root of the issue is difficult to address on HoI4 especially with DirectX9, but with DirectX11 becoming the default we will see if there is a way we can address this in the future. No promises though.

Last year I had some extra French content to show, but I’m afraid this patch I was a bit short on time to bring you more. Although if you like Tech and History, I recently wrote a technical presentation on how to crack Enigma on a modern computer, with a focus on bringing the works of Marian Rejewski to light (as he and the Polish Cipher Bureau tend to be left aside in favour of Alan Turing and Bletchley Park in many stories). There’s no recording available yet, but I’m scheduled to deliver twice more this year at tech conferences so they’ll be on Youtube eventually.

Speaking of Poland, have you all found my secret event in Barbarossa yet? 😉


That’ll be all for today, but I’ll be happy to answer your questions, tech or otherwise!

Hello there!

After long and rigorous testing, we are now ready to roll out our biggest update yet! A new stage for the game with a new era of aviation.

First of all, we would like to say a big THANK YOU to our community. Your efforts in beta testing this update have been invaluable. This release would hardly have been possible without you.

Meet the heyday of the turbojet era and the massive emergence of large wide-body aircraft. This means even more passengers and cargo. To serve such a large flow, you need a well-established infrastructure. Therefore, we have added more research on modern facilities and vehicles.

Finally, we've added more modern cargo facilities for the past and new eras. Now cargo liners can be unloaded not in a building from 1930, but in a more modern facility with a bigger number of unloading spots.

One of the most anticipated features is here. Now you can plan and build a terminal with as many gates as you need. The terminal can be built with a rectangle tool or a poly tool for more complex shapes. The already built terminal can be edited, changing its shape to achieve the required shapes and sizes.

In addition, passengers themselves finally pick up their luggage from the baggage belts. We've also added amenities to satisfy the needs of passengers: Coffee, Newspapers, an Info booth, and others.

We once again thank everyone who has been with us for these months in the beta branch.

We managed to significantly improve performance (and we will improve it a little more very soon), reduce the size of save files, and fixed literally hundreds of bugs.

If you need more information, please check the patch note here.

Already working on the next update
Real Welders

Dear players,
The servers of NARAKA: BLADEPOINT will be suspended for maintenance from 09/14/2022 23:00 (UTC) to 09/15/2022 03:00 (UTC). We suggest that you log out in advance and enter the game again after the maintenance.

The details for this update are as follows:
Brand-new Achievements System
I. Added a new Achievements System--Hero Badge
Their heroic legends shall echo across the plains for all eternity.
1. You can complete different Challenges to get Hero Badges, which will level up as the progress goes on.
2. You can check the conditions for reaching each stage via Profile-Achievement-Hero Badge.
3. At the same time, you will be accumulating Hero Badge Points to obtain rewards including legendary weapon skins, avatars and Dynastic Treasure Choice Gifts.
4. Hero Badges obtained can be equipped on the Personal Info page.

Hero Adjustments
I. Kurumi
The [Cleanse] effect of Kurumi's skills and ultimate, and such gameplay settings as Cascade now can remove debuffs only. [Ban] effects like "Dodge Banning" and "Sprint Banning", etc., cannot be cleansed any more.

II. Ziping Yin
1. [Aromatherapy] and [Aromatherapy: Embrace] now will produce an extra Health recovery effect when their effects are imposed to allies. (Previously, you got the effect only when an ally was directly hit.)
2. Increased the basic Recovery effect of [Saving Grace] from "30 Health/s and 20 Armor/s" to "35 Health/s and 30 Armor/s".
The extra Recovery effect was decreased from 30% to 20%.
Constant Rage consumption was decreased. (The duration with full Rage was increased from 20 sec to 24 sec.).
3. [Saving Grace: Aegis]'s basic recovery effect remains unchanged, but constant Rage consumption was decreased. (The duration with full Rage was increased from 12 sec to 16 sec.).

Ⅲ. Tianhai
Optimized the performance of some of Vajra's actions.

IV. Other Adjustments
Now the explosion effects (if with) of bullets can be triggered as usual when they hit Tianhai's [The Divine Bell] and Justina Gu's [Ice Core].

Weapon Adjustments
I. Greatsword
Slightly shortened the stagger caused to enemies when performing Airborne Horizontal Strikes with the Greatswords.

In-game Adjustments
I. Adjustments to Hero Changing Process in The Bloodbath.
1. In Solos, you'll get 5 more sec to finish your operation as long as you open the Hero Replacement page within the 5-sec countdown of rebirth.
2. In Duos and Trios, when the 5-sec countdown of the rebirth of the whole team begins, the original page will be closed automatically. You'll get 5 more sec to finish your operation as long as you open the “Change Hero” page during the 5-sec countdown.

II. Adjustments to Through the Fire
1. Players now can get bounties for the completion of Bounty Quests in Through the Fire.
2. Team's spawn location was changed from a random location to a fixed one. Signs of teams' flags were added to the scene.
3. The quality of initial equipment was changed from Common to Rare. Rift Dealer's equipment and the price were adjusted for better balance.

III. Mechanism Adjustments
1. Decreased the cooldown of Scout Bell from 120 sec to 60 sec and removed the max number of uses.
2. Adjusted the duration of disperse-the-Chill buff from Campfires to 240 sec.

IV. Spawn Point Adjustment
Adjusted some of the selectable areas of spawn points in Holoroth.

V. Bot Mode Adjustments
1. Optimized the behavioral pattern of AI opponents in combats greatly and adjusted the difficulty.
2. The deployment of AI opponents now is based on players' difficulty selection only, instead of their Rank scores.

VI. Cairn Adjustment
Added a new form of performance to Cairns without soul.

Out-game Adjustments
I. Feature Tag for Talent Descriptions
Added Feature Tags to Talent descriptions of all Skills and Ultimates for all Heroes.

II. More Hero Information Can be Showed
1. Added Hero Ability Radar, which can show Heroes' general rating in terms of Survival, Damage, Control, Motility and Support.
2. Added Hero Difficulty Rating.

III. Justice Chamber Adjustment
Added the Exit feature for members of Justice Chamber. Now players can leave by themselves or be removed by the Chamber owner.

IV. Free Training Adjustment
In the Free Training mode, all of Rift Dealer's items now are sold in groups.

Ⅴ. Friend List Optimizations
1. Now friend requests will expire automatically in 3 days.
2. Extended the expiration time of recent teammates to 3 days.

VI. Now Extreme Weapon Skins can be equipped with special effects.
Players now can equip owned Extreme Weapon skins of the same type with special effects.

VII. [Longmen·Gargoyle Glow] Special Effect Adjustment
1. The form effect of "Vajra" changed by equipping Tianhai Accessory [Longmen·Gargoyle Glow] will be carried over by a new Legendary Accessory, [Longmen·Stone Statue]. Equipping [Longmen·Gargoyle Glow] will no longer alter the look of "Vajra" in Tianhai's ultimate.
2. [Longmen·Stone Statue] is now available in shop, along with a price adjustment to [Longmen·Gargoyle Glow].
3. For players who purchased [Longmen·Gargoyle Glow] before the updates, please kindly check your email to receive the new accessory [Longmen·Stone Statue] for free.

VIII. Out-game Inventory
Expanded the max capacity of players' Inventory to 300. Optimized Inventory display so that there will not be too many blank slots.
2. Changed the ordering rule to auto ordering for better user experience.
Feature Optimizations
I. Client
1. Optimized action loading speed and memory usage.
2. Optimized the memory usage of in-game drops, Ornament and the Grappling Hook.
3. Optimized the performance of some areas of Holoroth.

Shop Updates
I. Season Exclusive: Dawn Treasure Available Now
Dawn Treasure sells for 360 Gold. When opening it, you will have a chance to get Ziping Yin's Extreme outfit [A Chinese Ghost Story·High Heavens], Greatsword Extreme skin [Scorching Sun] and other rewards.
Minimum Guarantee
1. Players are guaranteed to receive at least 1 Red (Extreme) reward during the process of opening at most 100 Treasures. This can be triggered multiple times.​
2. Red (Extreme) rewards will not be repeated until all of them have been obtained.

Wishing Legendary Reward
Whenever you draw an Extreme cosmetic, you'll have a chance to set a Legendary cosmetic, which will be guaranteed when you draw a Legendary cosmetic next time. Times of guarantee can stack, but you can only have 1 cosmetic set each time.

II. Item Adjustment in Shop
1.Adjusted the transform effect of [Longmen·Gargoyle Glow], please refer to the Out-game Adjustments for more details.
2.[Longmen·Gargoyle Glow] will no longer alter the look of "Vajra" after the adjustment. Standard price: 900 Gold; Now: 750 Gold.
3.Added the new Tianhai’s Legendary accessory [Longmen·Stone Statue], which will carry over the previous transform effect of [Longmen·Gargoyle Glow]. Standard price: 4,800 Gold; Now: 3,000 Gold.

III. New Discounts
1.Added the new Tianhai’s Legendary accessory [Operatic Legend·Crown]. Standard price: 1,200 Gold; Now: 900 Gold.
2.Added the new Valda Cui’s Legendary accessory [Summer Party·Teashades]. Standard price: 1,000 Gold; Now: 750 Gold.
3.Added the new Tianhai’s Legendary pose [Operatic Legend·All Existence]. Standard price: 900 Gold; Now: 700 Gold.
4.Dagger Legendary skin [The Breaker·Myriad Edge]. Standard price: 1,500 Gold; Now: 1,250 Gold.
5.Katana Legendary skin [The Breaker·Dazzling Sun]. Standard price: 1,500 Gold; Now: 1,250 Gold.

IV. Discounts End
1.Justina Gu’s Legendary pose [Operatic Legend·Phoenix] has returned to its standard price of 900 Gold.
2.Viper Ning’s Legendary pose [Operatic Legend·Return] has returned to its standard price of 900 Gold.
3.Katana Legendary Skin [Soulbloom Gem] has returned to its standard price of 1,500 Gold.
4.Tarka Ji’s Legendary Outfit [Ill Omen] has returned to its standard price of 1,800 Gold.

V. Spectral Silk Store Updates
1. Added the new Dawn Treasure: 3,600 Spectral Silk (purchase limitation: 1 purchase per 24 hours, a maximum of 6 can be purchased in total).
2. Added the new Ziping Yin’s Legendary hairstyle [Poria]: 12,000 Spectral Silk.
3. Added the new Legendary Avatar [Lunar Beauty]: 6,000 Spectral Silk.
4. Added the new Valda Cui’s Epic pose [Swing]: 5,000 Spectral Silk.
5. Added the new Valda Cui’s Epic outfit [Carapace]: 6,000 Spectral Silk.
6. Added the new Dagger Epic skin [Silver Prajna]: 5,000 Spectral Silk.
7. Added the new Epic hairstyle [Male Hairstyle 06]: 4,000 Spectral Silk.
8. Added the new Epic hairstyle [Female Hairstyle 06]: 4,000 Spectral Silk.
9. Added the new Wuchen’s Rare outfit [Noble Apparel·Dui]: 2,400 Spectral Silk.
10. Added the new Repeating Crossbow Rare skin [Sterline Bane]: 2,000 Spectral Silk.
11. Added the new Temulch’s Rare accessory [Engraved Dagger]: 1,200 Spectral Silk.

Bug Fixes
I. Battle-related Bugs
1. Fixed an issue where there was a chance of obtaining Stash Keys and bag capacity expanding items from Troves in Shadow Surge-Holoroth.
2. Fixed an issue where Quick Counter didn't work after rolling up from the ground.
3. Fixed an issue where when Takeda Nobutada casting [Demonic Strike], his blue Focus Strike might get into clash with the enemy’s common attacks.
4. Fix some scenario issues of Holoroth.

Today we will talk about the weather, the diary, early access and the cardboard virus.

Weather and time of day

In the world of DarKnot, weather and time of day operate according to unknown laws. Are they controlled by someone or something?



How do the time and the weather react to the game events?



The answers are not found yet. But, as everyone knows, thick fog and darkness are filled with many dangers ...

The diary? This is what you need!

It's not uncommon for players to start by looking for clues in the diary -- they're doing absolutely the right thing. In the diary, you can check your vital signs, find out information about enemies and find clues on what to do and where to go next. The diary will always be with you, it will help you find answers to many questions. You can also find tarot cards in it or, for example, learn how to create explosives.



As you progress, you will insert the pages you find into the diary, and you will be able to better understand the intricate history of the dark world of DarKnot.



Early Access

DarKnot is still in development and we plan to go into early access later this year.



In early access, more locations will be available. We will optimize the game and fix all possible bugs. We also plan to add localization for German, Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Where has all the cardboard gone?

And finally, let's talk about the most important thing.

Many people believe that cardboard boxes are only good for sleeping in or for using them as coffins for the burial of allied insects who fell in battle. But you can make a lot of useful and interesting things out of cardboard. For example, cardboard zombies!



Now cardboard will take revenge on everyone who did not respect it. Perhaps it will infect opponents with a Cardboard Virus (aka CardVID) or even bite them to death. The vaccinated individuals need not worry, but just in case, wear masks in places with a large gathering of cardboard creatures.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1371560/DarKnot/

With love,
Cardboard Virus Department
of the DarKnot Team

Hello everyone,

We are proud to announce Valkyrie of Phantasm’s imminent introduction to Steam’s Early Access on 23rd October, 2022.

Soar through the skies freely, dodge a rain of enemy fire gracefully, and counter with a variety of dazzling spells in Valkyrie of Phantasm, Area-ZERO’s (Touhou Sky Arena) latest Touhou Derivative Project that’s faster and more thrilling than anything before.

Control characters from the Touhou Project series in this shooting action game featuring high-speed aerial versus combat! Bullet hell battles faster than you've ever seen will unfold in the skies of Gensokyo as you use your mobility to dodge countless bullets flying at you with a variety of spells.



We've also got a playable demo at our TGS booth, so come try it out for yourselves.
You can find us at Hall 1 Booth 1-C03.
We hope to see you there!

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Hi all!

Based on feedback from 1.91, we've now updated the game on the main branch to 1.92 - the beta branch also reflects this.

This continues on the set of changes already made to the game to deliver some fixes to commonly mentioned issues, such as high refresh rate instability, item persistence, and many other bugfixes.




The list of changes is as follows - this list also includes fixes from 1.91:

- High refresh rate time scale fixes - FPS logic has been changed to be more frame independent, with behavior shifted to a fixed timescale. This is the biggest change and should make the game far more comfortable for many players, esp. those playing at high FPS rates who found issues with things like bouncing or grappling.

- Made items collected except for obsidian skulls persistent in a single run through death - this experimental change was much asked for by players and was implemented on our end in response to feedback.

- Made vases with coins that were collected respawn, but empty

- Shoot/Camera 45º snapping options

- Made “Stomp” attack by Prickly never get out of the platform

- Added a note icon on the results screen during the emblem completion phase

- Made vases which don’t contain coins to have a red colour pattern instead of green, adding a visual differentiation

- Removed redundant death areas at the start of Running with fear

- Fixed bug that prevented L's model from appearing in the bestiary

- Set checkpoint spawn camera direction to correct direction on all levels

- Fixed death animation able to trigger when resetting, which caused a timer bug

- Snowball collision improved

- Wintry shouldn't get stuck in columns anymore

- Changed Wintry’s start animation so it’s inside the ground and not floating outside

- Fixed death area in steep descent

- Made enemies restart their alert status on respawn

- Fixed bug that would cause fly enemies to not register the hit at specific angles

- Fixed Hexy’s tiara not unlocking the doppelganger medal when used against Hexy

- Dying without reaching any checkpoints resets the death counter to zero - this was a much asked for request especially among completionists and speedrunners

- Moved “Restart Level” option in pause menu to 2nd from top

- Moved camera sensitivity X, camera sensitivity Y, camera damping, drop shadow, and character normal shadow to graphics instead of gameplay

- Added "Reset to checkpoint" option in pause menu

- Fixed a bug that would prevent level music doesn’t play again after dying in some bossfights

- Added invert x-axis option to menu

- Removed coins at the start of the skull path in Pushy Hallway

- Fixed sound issue so audio channels aren’t filled in Wintry’s intro

- Removed an arc which caused Renata to get stuck under it on Trap Hall

- Made Jake jump correctly after respawning, and improved Jake race behavior on certain levels

- Fixed hollow trunk with hole collider so Renata cannot slide down the sides of the hole

- Fixed hat models still displaying a shadow if character shadows were disabled

- Made tar bubbles hook area bigger and more forgiving

- Made jump after tilted shrooms in At the finish line shorter

- Made health not get to two lines if the text is too long

- Added deadzone option (sensitvity) for movement in addition to camera if possible; also increase general movement deadzones - another much asked for change for accessibility

- Removed wrong column in Race at the topside

- Refined camera damping/smoothing behavior so it dampens the Y-axis more than X, so the camera doesn’t have the current problem of “trailing” after the player

- Added ability to skip dialogues- another much asked for change for accessibility

- Made spike vine hitboxes smaller

- Removed trees from dialogue area on Mountain Jog

- Hexy’s icon in level select is now that of a boss level

- Fixed Wintry's hitbox sometimes hitting the player when ramming into her

- Fireballs don't have blob shadows anymore

- You can't zipline towards fireballs anymore

- Various other small tweaks & QoL changes

- Fixed internal timer bug that affected all of the bosses.

- Fixed bug that prevented 45º Snap options to save/load correctly.

- Fixed bug that prevented Hide Timer option to save/load correctly.

- Fixed Wintry's hitbox during her floating state.

- Fixed bug that would make the input used during pause the moment the pause menu was closed.

- Coin chests’ break sound is now assigned to the sound effects audio volume slider.

- Added nullReferenceException error handlers in UI Control code.

- Renata can now shoot the Frogun twice in the air, if the first shot misses.



This update is possible thanks to all of your feedback, and more is coming soon! Thank you everybody!

And last, a big announcement!
I'm super happy to say, that not only will it have its own booth for those of you who can assist to try, but also will be featured in the associated Steam Event, and get a special offer! :)

Finally, thank you all for keeping up with the Frogun updates, and I'm looking forward to sharing more news soon! 🐸💙

Version 0.7.5.230

Beta version is available in Betas tab(Right-click on Sky Haven in Library -> Properties -> Betas -> beta. In case if version is not shown in the list, restart steam)

* Improvements
- added to modern gate and luggage gate some vehicle compatability with old vehicles
- slightly optimized loading time from a save when a lot of objects on walls

* Bug fixes
- fixed terminal navigation issue
- fixed dark room's floor bug