• Fixed some localization issues ;
  
• Improved counterattack animation ;
  
• Fixed a UI issue where sometimes cards would overlap each other ;
  
• Fixed some minor UI & text issues ;
  
• Fixed an instability linked to steam achievements ;
  
• Fixed an instability linked to attacks’ SFX ;

This week at Bungie, we have a little chat about Guardian abilities and the next step of evolution. With a little side of candy, naturally. It is the last week of Festival of the Lost, after all.

This week, we’re diving deeper into what’s next for abilities with the arrival of Season 19 next month. It’s good to reflect sometimes, but it’s also important to not stay in the past. So come with us on a nifty little journey, if you will, into the world of abilities and where they've been, where they are now, and where they're going in the near future. We’re also teasing a new dungeon that’s ready to rock for next Season, a message to our console players, and another shot at shaping the next weekend of Trials of Osiris.

Read more about abilities, current console states, and more with the full TWAB here.

Hello fellow Tiny Rogues,
after some weeks of work, here is the first official version of the controller support for Tiny Rogues.
Try it out now on the PTR! You might have to restart Steam to get the patch immediately.

How can I enter the PTR?
In your game list in the Steam library, right-click Tiny Rogues, select Properties and then Betas. Use the drop-down option to select the public-test-realm branch of the game.

What's up with the schedule described in the "What I'm working on"-post?
Without going too much into detail, my originally given dates and the order for rolling out updates have changed a bit. A lot of stuff is going on in my real life and the implementation of gamepad support took more effort than expected. All in all, this just means updates come a few weeks later than expected. I will work on Cloud Saves next, then on the promised Cinder system.

What happened in v0.1.7a on the PTR?
I added a new tab to the options menu which allows configuring some options and all button bindings regarding the gamepad controll scheme.



I also want to mention, technically this update introduces "controlling the game without the mouse" and not just gamepad support. Which means you can now also play the game just with your keyboard.

While the new control scheme obviously makes it possible to control all menus with gamepad, the main part of gameplay consists of running around and shooting at enemies.
For this purpose, I have split weapons into 2 categories of how they are aimed.

• Aimed weapons
  
• Targeted weapons

Aimed weapons are weapons that shoot into a direction, e.g.: swords, bows, wands, ...
Targeted weapons are weapons that will target a specific location, e.g.: mortar attacks from spell books or rain attacks from staves. For this a sort of virtual cross-hair can be moved around.

Depending on the aim type, weapons will also be affected differently by aim assist.

Aimed weapons will lock to the nearest enemy in the pressed aim direction. If aim assist is at 100% the aim direction will be ignored completely, which means you can play the game without aiming at all.



Targeted weapons will lock to the nearest enemy to the virtual cross-hair. If aim assist is at 100% the lock-on range of the cross-hair is infinitely big which again means, effectively you can play the game without aiming at all.

Additionally, I have also introduced a simple movement prediction for these weapons which is active as soon as aim assist is locked on an enemy. The movement prediction considers how long it takes for the attack to impact (e.g.: until a meteor drops from sky) and then aim accordingly ahead of the moving enemy. It might not always be 100% accurate but it should help a lot to play these weapons.

For the true twin-stick experience, make sure to put aim assist to 0%.


I am looking forward to your feedback and I hope I can soon roll out the mouse-less control scheme to the main game branch!

Join the discord and give me feedback directly in the #ptr-feedback channel.

PS: I also know already about a bug, right now the credits panel in the title screen cannot be opened with controllers.

Add Pig airport, when the pig visits, pig unlocks some plants.
So this lock/unlock logic is more complicated than I expected.

Fixed raindrop plants grow bug, animal stuck at some position bug.
Fixed bunny might get stuck at new buildings.

Refactored code that controls bunny numbers.
I notice there are bugs caused by AI addon. I tried to fix them for a few days, but I couldn’t, that is beyond my capability. So I decided to live with it. And continue to do the art part.

Not many people play the book map, so I delete this map. That can save more time when I do VFX design.

I hope I don’t need to fight with bugs, especially, my major is art not coding. I hope I only need to do the art part. But, bug wouldn’t get me go. So, there is a long battle.

First challenge “Chasing the Rockfeller”

You are going to have to repeat the success of a genius entrepreneur John Rockefeller, who retired with the biggest net worth in the world by the end of the 19th century and who owned 95% of the oil industry in the USA, merging all of them into a single trust.




Agent can be applied only to a company.

If he succeeds, he will stop the ongoing strike in a company and temporarily decrease the chance of another strike.The decreased chance of the strike will be restored to the regular value during 4 quarters.

Though, if he fails, he will increase the chance of the possible strike twice.
The increased chance of the strike will be restored to the regular value during 4 quarters.




Now you will experience many more different events that will occur in-game.

• Shareholders now indicate their upside which they want to receive during negotiations
  
• In case of successful negotiations you can now buy shares at a lower amount then at the Stock Market. The maximum amount of discount that you might get, depends on the selected difficulty level of the game.
  
• Now “Diplomacy” skill affect the amount of opponent’s irritation, when selecting “Insist on my terms”
  
• If you irritate the opponent, who won’t leave negotiation, but will suggest to buy shares by his first offer.
  
• Loyalty fine, when leaving negotiations will vary from time to time during different negotiations.
  
• Now the amount of purchased shares will be determined by the price
  of agreement from the beginning of negotiations. The price that was offered will be fully spent, if that is possible.
  
• The better price is by the end of negotiations, the bigger amount of shares will be bought.

• Character context menu | Now the cost of using a particular agent will be displayed on a hint while hovering over the “Influence” option.
  
• Candidate sponsorship | Added the display of increasing chance of candidate’s victory from sponsorship.
  
• Candidate sponsorship | Added the display of loyalty level on portrait of sponsored candidate and his opponent
  
• Company voting | Added to the header the name of the company and its location.
  
• Bank credits / Character loans | Fixed several bugs in the mechanics of the work.
  
• Updated agent images.
  
• Updated images of luxury items: horses, cars and parts of houses.
  
• The interior of the personal cabinet has been updated.

• Technologies | Now the “Diplomacy” skill of the CEO doesn’t affect the technological upgrades, but the “Economics” skill affects the technological upgrade twice then the regular value.
  
• Influence | The received influence from different sources is balanced, as well as the costs of influence on various actions.
  
• Companies | The distribution of the number and types of companies across different states has changed for all sizes of the world.

• Fixed a crash, that was caused while saving the game after active politic is bankrupt
  
• Bankruptcy | Added extra terms for bankruptcy of characters and companies.
  
  1. All outstanding debts are bigger than all assets owned
     
  2. Cash/reserves are less then quarterly debt payouts

• Influence | Fixed influence loss, that is caused by puppet-politic going bankrupt
  
• Ambition “Own company shares” | Fixed an error when the character wanted to buy more shares than he can afford. When completing such ambition shares weren’t transferred to the new owner.
  
• Companies | Fixed errors in graphs “Income”, “Market share” and etc.
  
• Company statistics | In the technology development card, only the portrait of the CEO is shown.
  Shareholder’s portraits who support other technologies are hidden to avoid confusion.
  
• Finances | Shares of other companies are now listed as assets of the parenting company.
  
• Chamber list | The chart is reorganized and contains only politics related info.
  
• Agents | Fixed infinite usage of “Debt Collector” to the debtor.
  
• Mail | Fixed the amount of unread news and mails by sections.
  
• Loans | Fixed an error when quarterly payouts are twice bigger than intended.
  
• Minor cosmetic changes.

Warning! Saves made in previous versions of the game may not work correctly or may not work at all. We recommend starting a new game.

Watch those Wrist Rockets! 🚀

Take your game to new worlds with Star Wars: Sagas, a total conversion mod for Insurgency: Sandstorm.

Join their Discord to learn more! -> Link

Remember the haptic suit from 'Ready Player One'?

In the movie, that gorgeous piece of tech allowed you to feel punches and kisses as if the virtual-reality stimulus were coming from the real world.

Today, the future is one step closer, as STRIDE now supports bHaptics devices!
Including haptic vests, arm sleeves, and a face cover.



VR parkour is getting even more intense with haptic feedback delivered to every corner of your body. Jumps, gun recoil, hookshots - to name a few haptic scenarios.

Get a chance of winning the top-tier TactSuit X40 vest, participate in a giveaway here: https://gleam.io/WXf9d/gamertag-vr-x-stride-x-bhaptics-giveaway

Cheers,
Joy Way

Changes

• Halloween Items no longer purchasable.

Soon

• Option to enable player collision for yourself
  
• Toggleable Live Leaderboard
  
• Currently experimenting with spider tethering.

We added the Mechanicsburdh windmill port, where players can now buy and equip Element Shields, Bombs, and EMP's onto their Blimps. In addition, the Pirate Battle room has been updated to a more involved battling experience. The HUD now includes your Blimp's Arsenal pop-up menu, and players can tell if their CAPS lock is on for the cheat codes to work on their console prompts. The HELP computer and Local Stork Market have been updated as well. And last but not least, we added the Selection of the King mini-game to the world of Blimps on Wrensdays. We hope you enjoy the game. Thanks for playing!

Heya friends,

Great news for all you adventurers out there: It's AdventureX time again, celebrating narrative-driven gaming - both here on Steam with an event page and physically in the Stockwell Street Building, University of Greenwich!

And Crowns and Pawns is part of the AdventureX event page including a discount of 25% off! So, if you haven't got in the adventurer boots of Milda yet, this is your chance! Milda is a girl from Chicago who unexpectedly receives an inheritance from her grandfather – a house in Lithuania. She sets off to Europe and gets dragged into a dangerous search for a long-lost mysterious relic and the secrets of the king who was never crowned.

Oh, and if you want to meet us in person (which we would be very pleased about!), join us at the AdventureX in Greenwich. We would be very happy to talk to you about Crowns and Pawns, Adventures in general and stuff.

Looking forward to see you at AdventureX - either in Greenwich or here on Steam!

Have an adventurous time everyone!
Mingailė & The Tag of Joy Team


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