Cog was designed as an emotive character, able to react to events around him in the world of Mechinus. In many games, the player is looking at the back of the protagonists head, or if their face is visible, it's often relatively small on screen.

Cog has a large, expressive face which is always pointing at the camera, providing a golden opportunity to build an emotional connection between player and character through his expressions.

During pre-production, we went searching for Cog's "voice". While Mechinus is designed in the spirit of silent-storytelling, which means no dialogue, we decided this didn't mean Cog should be voiceless. Even if we don't understand his language, we can understand his emotions.

Since Cog is a mechanical being in a clockwork ecosystem, we needed his voice to be distinct and unmistakable. The test we set ourselves for all of the audio design in Mechinus is that if you were to hear, but not see, the game - would you instantly know which game it is? The same applies to Cog's voice.

So, what do you think? Did we capture a unique mechanical voice for Cog? Can you feel the emotions he's expressing? How do you imagine Cog reacting to events in the game as he ventures through the mechanical jungle of Mechinus?

• Added race charts, available in the event stats window (for races) and when watching a race recording
  
• Added session point charts, available in the session stats window
  
• Customizer now has buttons to save and load all paint jobs, making it easier to create more than the default 4 paint jobs per a vehicle model
  
• Host list now automatically refreshes if it was opened so quickly that lobby pings were not known yet
  
• Not waiting for disconnected players anymore once everyone else has finished a race
  
• Number of connected players is now shown at session init and end - clicking the text lists the players
  
• Increased the maximum number of ghosts to race against when selected from leaderboards
  
• Increased the maximum number of custom trees in a level if not all default trees are included
  
• Added a car physics steering multiplier "Neutral return" to enable smoother return to neutral after steering (when not countersteering)
  
• Fixed a rare issue where collision model and visual mesh were not in sync with road side objects (in the first marker of a closed loop)
  
• Fixed a very rare spawn point position issue
  
• Fixed the default value for votable items not updated in dedicated servers when admin uses GUI to change settings
  
• Fixed ghost recordings getting broken if idling for over 10 minutes when hotlapping
  
• Look back button no longer does anything in the free rotation mode (e.g. camera mode 9)
  
• Miscellaneous other minor fixes and improvements

• you can craft them in the character's menu or buy them from a trader
  
  
  
  
  
• you can hang a lock on the gate
  
  
  
  
  
  

The following items have been updated. (Machine translation)

• Add one more furniture item.
  
• Lightening of some dungeons.
  
• Fixed text.
  
• Improved UI.

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🛠️Update 0.7.3 is live!🛠️

This time we focused on significant QoL improvements and bug fixes. Let's jump straight to the list of changes!

🔸[NEW] SQUADBLAST x DISCORD ACCOUNT LINK

We hope you had a chance to check out Discord presence in SquadBlast, which we introduced in the previous update.

Now you can also link your Discord account to SquadBlast to receive brand new SMG Esprit and take part in further promotions.

🔹[UPDATE] Spectator Mode Improvements

New controls:
Y: Enable/Disable focused player's HUD
"[", "]" - or mouse wheel scroll: Map zoom in/out
";" - or mouse wheel click: Reset map zoom

• Team colors are locked and won't switch depending on the focused player anymore.
  
• Fixed sniper scope boundaries and other visual effects that didn't disappear properly.
  
• You can switch between players by clicking on their portraits now or use F1-F8.

🔹OTHER UPDATES:

• New players will have only two tutorial battles instead of four.
  
• Added several new animations for Hantu. You can check them out on the Main Screen or Loadout.
  
• Updated visuals for the Account and Hero Mastery progression screens to make the rewards more noticeable.
  
• Reduced the movement speed of the Main Menu background.

🐞 BUGFIXES:

• Bots have the correct versions of the guns in their hands on the nominations screen.
  
• The over-glowing effect for eliminated heroes is removed. Now they properly disappear.
  
• Fixed Sonny's arm visuals.
  
• Fixed ice cube animation.
  
• Infinite timer can be enabled for all maps in Custom Lobbies now.
  
• The practice room is not available for the locked heroes anymore.
  
• Hero Mastery widget is back again in the Main Menu below your hero.

Message received.

Greetings to all survivors. In this update, work has been done to improve the performance of the game. There were a little reworked objects models, as well as improved LOD's. ːsapcelootboxː

And also by the comments of players from our Discord server, was fixed bug in the control associated with different speed of takeoff (Space button) and the rest of the control.

And do not forget to updated new game arts in the store. ːsteamhappyː

Fixes and new:

• Updated planet's texture, now it has a small relief
  
• Reworked inventory UI for playing with a gamepad in future updates
  
• Fixed Blueprint freeze bug
  
• Fixed bug of missing drilling effect
  
• Fixed "asteroid full screen" bug in the prologue

Yay, we're releasing Early Access! After a long 4 years of development and experimentation the game became something solid and playable, which we are happy to share with you. Sketch Crawler has evolved significantly, compared to the demo it added a lot of new mechanics, cards, locations, creatures and so on.

What awaits you in the early access?

The game is fully playable to the very end. It uses procedural level generation, has 4 main locations, 300+ characters and 300+ magic cards. There are also options to draw any card or item in the game, and even re-sound the characters.

What's next

Although the game is already passable, it's still not complete. We will continue to develop the game by adding new card mechanics, locations, quests, and characters. We also plan to add a user-generated content sharing system.

Please write us, what do you think about Sketch Crawler? How would you like to see it? What should we focus our attention on?

Thanks for playing!

Hello Citizens!
We are here with the second update of the week.

This is an update that aims to significantly improve your experience with Hell is Others.
During these first few weeks since the release we constantly monitored the game balance and, also thanks to your feedback, we are now ready for the first round of weapon rebalancing changes.
Additionally, we are adding some quality-of-life features.


We listened to the feedback from the content creators too.
We adjusted the current status effects for the twitch polls and implemented new debuffs.

You can find the detailed patch notes below!

• Weapon Balancing
  
• Replaced in Twitch Polls “Heal all Statuses” with a “Wheel of…Fortune” feature.
  
• Twitch polls debuffs are now instantly removed when the streamer kills another player.
  
• Twitch polls debuffs are no longer raid permanent and have a 30~60 second duration time.
  
• Removed Bleeding from Twitch polls – Save that blood for the Bonsai!
  
• Added new twitch polls debuffs. (You can find the list below)
  
• Improved character stats and character belongings UI
  
• Wallpapers are now sold in stacks of 10 each
  
• Owners of the Good Neighbor Pack will receive 10 additional wallpapers.
  
• From now on, new Good Neighbor Pack buyers will receive 20 wallpapers.
  
• Added new sound effects to the map
  
  
  Changes
• Now, when using a syringe, only the first application of the effect over time can be heard by the Others.
  
• Added icon in furniture menus (basement and shop) indicating if an item can be used to sleep.
  
• Bullet requirements in the elimination quests are now shown only if the required weapon requires a specific bullet. (i.e., if any weapon can be used, including melee weapons and devices, the information regarding the bullet is omitted).
  
• New Debuffs for Twitch Polls – New Opportunities!

• Fixed Police Station printer not having searching time.

The biggest problem we had was a wide gap of damage output between wild bullets and modified bullets caused by the Rotation Speed Towards Target bonus that basically allowed to completely bypass the recoil of any weapon.
This resulted in players landing shots too consistently, making fights less skill-based and overly fast. To address this, we reduced the homing bullets' detection range so that it no longer interferes with the recoil and reduced the rotation speed cap too.
To further reduce the damage output difference, we also halved the critical chance cap and reduced the critical damage bonus to +25%.

Thanks to your feedback and our analytics, we then noticed a strong imbalance in weapon use, with ARs and fully automatic weapons in general being chosen over any other weapon type in most cases.
We proceeded therefore to slightly lower their offensive capabilities and improved those of the Shotguns, the least used weapon category in the game.

Another problem we felt needed to be addressed was Movement Speed. Players using pills and fungi were able to reach movement speeds so high it was too hard for others to escape when being chased.
To solve this, we reduced the movement speed cap to 20% and reduced the movement speed bonus from all weapons.

• Reduced homing bullets' detection range from 3 to 1.
  
• Reduced bullet rotation speed cap from 280 to 175.
  
• Reduced bullet critical chance cap from 50% to 25%.
  
• Reduced critical damage bonus from +100% to +25%.
  
• Reduced movement speed cap from 30% to 20%

Lady Butler

• Damage: from +30% to +10%
  
• Range: from +12.5% to +10%

Lady Marshall

• Damage: from +20% to +0%
  
• Range: from +25% to +15%

Lady Saunders

• Damage: from +0% to -15%
  
• Range: from +12.5% to +0%

Mrs Bell

• Damage: from +50% to +30%

Mrs Kelly

• Damage: from +100% to +80%

Mrs Powell

• Damage: from +70% to +50%

Mr Chapman

• Damage: from +300% to +400%
  
• Reload Time: reduced by 33%

Mr Watts

• Damage: from +250% to +300%

Mr Grant

• Both the bullets are now reloaded at once
  
• Fire Rate: from 2 to 5

Sir Lloyd

• Range: from +12.5% to +0%

Sir Morris

• Damage: from +280% to +240%

Fists

• Movement Speed: from +15% to +10%

Knuckle Dusters

• Movement Speed: from +15% to +10%

Baseball Bat

• Movement Speed: from +10% to +5%

Katana

• Movement Speed: from +10% to +5%

Tachirium

• Movement Speed: reduced from +1.5% to +1%

Pnerhinus

• Movement Speed: reduced from -3% to -2%

Pnetatus

• Movement Speed: reduced from +4.5% to +3%

Rhinotus

• Movement Speed: reduced from -3% to -2%

Somatus

• Movement Speed: reduced from -3% to -2%

Tachitus

• Movement Speed: reduced from +7.5% to +5%

Tacoftus

• Movement Speed: reduced from +3% to +2%

Brain

• Damage: reduced from -2.5% to -0.5%

• Required Blood Per Day: reduced from 50 to 10

Brain Oil

• Required Blood Per Day: reduced from 100 to 20

New events and scares for everyone

Hello everyone! This is Nimbus Games coming to you. Here are the patch notes for this new update to smoothen out the player experience based on the great and numerous feedback while adding some new scares.

• Added a new scare sequence and reset for the Calamity Puzzle
  
• Added bloody finger VFX when cutting body pile
  
• A new scene in ACT 2: Mines
  
• Added a new fail sequence for the end of ACT 1
  
• Added new village sequence

• Have Ito notes around the Seamstress room
  
• Adjusted the living room scare
  
• Reduce player’s interaction range
  
• Added audio for Mask in ACT 1
  
• Adjusted lighting for Seamstress so lantern is brighter
  
• Update Banquet Hall VFX
  
• Updated Secret Recipe with a new sequence

• Fix Maze Lantern not showing interactable reticle
  
• Fix spamming for puzzles which auto solves it
  
• Fix Camera Painting puzzle to feel more smoother
  
• Fix Return to Main Menu off centered

Thank you for your patience so much,
Nimbus Games