Hello, Dominators!

The weekends are here, and so is the newest Dominance playtest — starting Nov 26th and until 11:00 pm PST Nov 27th! Join the battlefields and try out the first ever Bullet-hell Royale — solo or with friends!

Current Playtest Schedule

Saturday, November 26th — Sunday, November 27th
Saturday, December 3rd — Sunday, December 4th

We continue to improve the game — based on your feedback and game stats. And this version of the game will be special, because you will be able to unlock cosmetics by earning mastery exp on characters! It’s going to be interesting even if you participated in previous tests!

Main changes in the latest version:

• Cosmetic items — earn skins and other customisation items by earning experience on your favourite Seekers! During playtest 5x experience buff will be active!
  
• Rebalanced stats for a big number of weapons and artefacts
  
• Self-damage from ricochets was lessened by 50%
  
• Death recap and killer’s stats window

Read the full Patch Notes below! Let us know what you think of the game in Steam Discussions — your feedback is essential to us!

Leave Feedback

If you've participated in previous playtest, or at least got access and downloaded the game — just update Dominance and jump into the game!

If you're a new player — simply go to Dominance Steam page, click “Request Access”. After receiving confirmation press "Play the Game" to install the game’s client.

There are no restrictions on when or how long to play — simply launch the game any time you want and play as long as you want until November 20th at 11:00 pm PST! If there are not enough players in the match — the game will add bots for you to play against.

1. Open your Friend list and click “+Invites”


2. Type in the nickname of the player you want to add. IMPORTANT: Upon 1st launch the game will ask you to come up with a nickname — you have to write this nickname to add a friend and NOT their Steam nickname.


3. After your friend accepts the invitation, you can find them in your Friend list. Simply click on their profile in the list and select “Invite to Party”


4. Voila! Just click “Play” and you’ll be on the same team when the match begins. You can have up to 3 people playing on one team.

You can leave any feedback or bug reports here, in you’d like to share!
Steam Discussions! We would appreciate any and all ideas and feedback.

This error means that the game’s server is currently offline. While we do our best to make sure it works properly throughout the playtest — some hiccups can still occur. If you’re met with this error upon entering the game — just try starting it again a couple minutes later.

• Bullets and projectiles from ricochets now deal only 50% damage to their owner
  
• Stalker — skill changes.
  Fixed the problem causing Stalker’s scanning ability to freeze enemies in it’s radius
  Still grants defense bonus after using both of Stalker’s abilities
  Now slows down enemies upon use in a small radius around Stalker
  Broadened the radius in which Stalker becomes visible with his invisibility granted by 5th perk
  
• Now all projectiles a the same colored after their weapons respective grades
  
• Now to exit the “Ghost” state after the deployment you need to press Space

• Finn
  3rd perk granting dodge — shortened cooldown time from 12/7/3 to 6/4.5/3
  4th perk, granting Force after becoming invisible — raised the bonus from 40/80/140 to 70/110/150
  
• Veteran
  1st perk — raised the bonus to cooldown time reduction from 10/25/70 to 25 /50/75
  2nd perk — amount of damage converted into health recovery changed from 5/10/25% to 10/20/50%
  
• Valkyrie
  2nd perk — lowered the bonus consumables use speed on level 3 from 250 to 175
  3rd perk — lowered the bonus to maximum shields from 100/200/300 to 100/175/250
  
• Stalker
  2nd perk — cooldown time extended from 16 sec to 17 sec
  
• Artefact “Highlander”
  Lowered health regeneration amount from 10 to 9 hp per tick
  
• Artefact “Rosebud”
  Lowered regeneration amount from 10 to 9 shields per tick
  
• Artefact “Shadow Dance”
  Bonus movement speed for the team raised from 100 to 110
  
• Artefact “Bloody Mess”
  Raised Force bonus from 15 to 20
  Lowered Accuracy bonus from 70 to 45
  
• Artefact “Shroudmancer”
  Defense bonus while invisible raised from 50 to 100
  
• Artefact “Camelot”
  Reload speed bonus lowered from 75 to 65
  
• Artefact “Doctor Rage”
  Raised run speed bonus after using consumables from 100 to 120
  Lowered Force bonus from 100 to 60
  Lowered active time from 10 to 9 sec
  
• Artefact “LeadHead”
  Magazine/Clip size bonus raised from 25% to 45%
  
• Artefact “Stunmancer”
  Raised the effect activation radius from 200 to 700
  
• “Police” Armor set
  Reload speed bonus from full set raised from 10/20/30/40 to 15/30/45/60
  
• “Hazmat” Armor set
  Cooldown reduction bonus from full set raised from 15/30/45/60 to 20/40/60/80
  
• AK
  Magazine size changed — 35/40/45/50 to 40/45/50/55
  Damage changed — 31/35/39/44 to 33/39/45/51
  Fire rate raised from 750 to 850
  
• Revolver
  Projectile life time lowered from 1 sec to 0.7 sec
  Damage changed from 51/72/96/121 to 61/72/84/107
  
• Bow
  Main attack - lowered fire rate from 600 to 400
  Alternative attack - arrow speed adjusted from 2900 to 2400
  
• Sawed Off Shotgun
  Maximum spread raised from 11 to 25
  Projectile life time lowered from 0.75 sec to 0.4 sec
  Damage per pellet changed from 20/22/24/26 to 27/31/35/39
  Fixed the bug which caused Sawed Off Shotgun to shoot 1 less pellet on 4th level rarity
  Alternative attack — hook fly speed changed from 2000 to 3500
  Hook size raised from 5 to 15
  
• Arbalet
  Arrow fly speed changed from 5000 to 3500
  Damage changed from 45/60/75/90 to 42/52/62/72
  Maximum spread changed from 5 to 13
  
• UZI
  Reload speed changed from 2 to 1.3
  Fixed the bug which caused lvl 4 UZI to have 50% smaller model than normally.

• Damaging mobs now displays damage numbers
  
• Added a message 1 minute before deployment, which notifies about turning off shooting and ability usage
  
• Number of teams left in the match changed to number of players left
  
• Killer’s stat screen/Death recap
  Upon 1st death a “Info about the Killer” button will show up. After pressing it you can see the Killer’s stats panel, containing info about his level, upgrades, buffs, equipment and stats. You can also see amount of damage dealt to you by each weapon.
  Upon 2nd death this screen is opened automatically.
  
• Now weapon reload progress shows above character’s head
  
• Enhanced pings display
  
• Added tips to artefact description, denoting if its effects stack or not

• Visual upgrades for multiple areas of the map

Thank you for your interest in Dominance and see you in the game, dominators!

• Now the hook is your best friend. You will no longer be able to safely swim in the ocean and collect resources in the water. Hungry mutant fish will not miss the opportunity to eat you! Create spears to fight them.
  
• At all difficulty levels, after death, the supply of food and water will decrease.
  
• At a high difficulty level, after death, all items from the inventory will disappear.
  
• Sleep - use the bed to sleep and skip the night.
  
• It gets cold at night, you will have to warm yourself by the fire.
  
• Getting wet in the rain and in the water. It intensifies the cold.
  
• Comfort - campfire gatherings and furniture around you create additional comfort. He restores health.

Follow the news.

I'm not dead yet!

Work continues on v1.1. I'll spare you the litany of excuses as to why every little thing is taking longer than promised. I'm sure you're as tired of hearing them as I am typing them.

In summary, life has continued to be unkind, and I've needed to prioritize my family and health over everything else. The good news is that the septic tank hasn't exploded again. So, you know, I've got that going for me!

In truth, the past couple weeks have been the best, most productive, and most tragedy-free I've had since last February. I'm a little nervous to admit it for fear of it going sour again, but I'm in a much better place than I've been in for a long time, and Village Monsters has benefited greatly from it.

This post will not be a deep dive into what I've accomplished - I just wanted to get something out to assure you that I haven't forgotten or abandoned the game. Here are the quick notes:

• All milestones for v1.1 have been finished
  
• In total for this release, I've completed 100+ new feature tasks, 350+ improvement tasks, and 200+ bugfix tasks. The update notes are very long!
  
• The past week has been focusing on new and existing tutorialization, both in written form and via Odd Jobs in-game
  
• v1.1 is now in the hands of playtesters. Feedback and testing is expected to last a while

Clearly, I cannot be trusted to give an ETA anymore. Even whispering a date to myself in a darkened room feels like it'd be tempting fate to come along and teach me a lesson.

I'm bending all my efforts and energy into getting it out before the end of the year. I can say this: it'll release soon, and with almost no warning.

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I hope everyone had a good week! For me, I had a very nice, if somewhat muted Thanksgiving, and now I'm working in my office enjoying the sounds of a November rainstorm.

Until next time, villagers!

SEASON FIFTEEN: HOLIDAY HAVOC!

Season 15 of Rocket Bot Royale is underway!! We are cheering things up for the Holidays, with a BRAND NEW GAME MODE! Squad Death Match brings the excitement of squad gameplay, and adds respawning, and a kill target, a timer, and a loadout that refreshes when you die, to create a frantic, yet strategic mode, which is sure to separate the veterans from the noobs.

We will once again be awarding a CUSTOM TANK to the Season Winner, designed to their specifications by our tank designer, so jump on the leaderboard and battle your way to the top of the Trophy pile!

OTHER:
• 🔫 New Game Mode: Squad Deathmatch!
• 🪲 Minor tweaks and bug fixes
• 🎄 Holiday themed season pass!
• 🍪 New Gingerbread themed level!


Hope you enjoy the new update and the new Season!
-Team RBR

We are launching a major update to Grow Flow! Thank you for keeping up with us and for supporting our game.

NEW in version 0.9:

• Added a new chapter to the game! Chapter 6 includes ten levels that will require a great mix of attention and precision.
  
• Added new Extras menu! Collect Prism Coins to unlock the extras. Unfortunately, the very first unlockable extra is not available yet, but do check out the other two!

Fixes and Tweaks:

• Fixed a bug where all the levels were unlocked from the get-go
  
• Made several tweaks to Chapter 3 level 6 on many sections that would previously require walljumping to get through
  
• Made a tweak to Chapter 1 Level 4 where you would likely die right after completing the level
  
• Fixed a bug in Chapter 5 Level 2 where several Switch Cubes were active and grown by default
  
• Fixed a bug where Anna's body color wasn't being animated properly in plenty of levels

1. 2 two-handed spells can be triggered consecutively

2. Shield performance is now a separate UI

3, can adjust the double speed in battle

4. Strafe description bug fix: Added arrow tag

5. Avatar Description bug fixed: Summon 1/2/4 Avatar

I hope you are all enjoying thanksgiving and finding heat here in this cold season. We have a daring discount going on, and will be accomnanying this with a software update to boot.

+ Fixed some issues related to the Impostors (thanks Igorious and Dyex)
+ Fixed some issues with name-based requests (thanks Sky Dreamer)
+ Some corner cases during puzzle generation have been fixed.
+ Fixed misaligned fireworks.
+ Improved random seed storage for easier debugging.
+ Fixed some resolution issues on either very small or very large monitors.
+ Resolved some Steam Deck issues.
+ A ton of spelling fixes.

If you would like to drop your keys in our bowl and join the fun, you are more than welcome to write to us and get a cameo in the game. All you need to do is send a picture of yourself to orgynizergame@gmail.com with the title "Orgynizer Cameo" and add a couple of lines about what would be your best features. If you are lucky, our pixel gnomes will turn you into a local resident inside our little game.

Rituals

Careless Caltrops - Enabled

Bug fixes

- One significant change in this hotfix is how nested events are handed during battle simulation. This may have knock on effects that I haven't been able to replicate when testing. Let me know if you see any strange behavior in fights, especially with regards to execution order or units not dieing when they should etc.

This in turn should resolve the bug with targeted strike not destroying a barrier and hitting the unit underneath (amongst other bugs, including what I think was causing caltrops to break).

- Fixed Large Stars. If you do somehow still see a large star, please F8 and let me know what happened!

- Fixed Osiricles giving his buff to units after they have moved out of the slot

- Fixed Razcal Text - Even number slots give +2 Health and Odd Number slots give +2 Attack

- Updated Fire Sale and Sacrifice text to warn the player they cannot be multiplied.

- Fixed a bug where a player could select an AD, reroll, then ready up without selecting an AD. This was causing the 7 player lobbies where you would fight yourself.

- Fixed a bug where rituals were not being removed upon death of a player causing them to be re-cast in ghost fights

Hello, guys! Here are the fixes for today.

1. Redone the entire parkour level, including the mechanics and visual effects
2. Reworked the attack method of "Plague Root", now it can even punch you with its fist!
3. Redid the skeleton mechanics in "Crashdown: Residence", now it is more flexible
4. Fixed the bug that the collision volume of respawn points is wrong
5. fixed a bug that some of the sound effects do not work
6. fixed the bug that some of the blood back props are not the same size
7. fixed the bug that props are occasionally stuck in the wall
8. Optimized the feel of some enemies' stomping
9. Balance adjustment for the distribution of blood-returning props

Welcome to actively give us feedback bugs!
Thank you for your support and feedback, we will continue to work hard to do more repairs and optimization.

Hi everyone

We have a new update ready for you all, packed with new systems and balance changes!

We focused on improving the world map, but also made major changes to the Shard economy, reworked shops, sanctuaries and rewards, improved map-generation, and added several minor new features.

One important feature to notice: Sanctuaries now reveal 4 “Gift” options to pick from: a guaranteed healing option, a disassemble spell option and 2 random reward options. The disassemble option is particularly useful as it gives back any shards spent on a spell, which makes transitioning a build much easier.

Also, there are now more shards spread across the map, but also more to spend shards on. Each wizard now starts with room for 5 spells, but can unlock more room using shards. Maybe more importantly shards are now used for gaining additional dice. These changes should allow you to tailor your preferred upgrade path, by spending shards where you see fit.

This update contains a bunch of tweaks to the general balance as well. The game should in general be a lot less punishing than the previous version (no promises though, as balancing is an ongoing task).

Please let us know what you think of the changes, and if you find anything in the game overly difficult/unfair/boring etc. We really appreciate any feedback from y'all!

We hope you enjoy!


World map example.

• Reworked combat rewards: Normal combats no longer use randomised rewards. Elites now give either a shard or an artifact.
  
• Reworked Shops: Two different types of shops, each with a unique selection of items.
  
• Reworked Sanctuaries: Random selection of "gifts". Multiple sanctuaries now appear across each map.
  
• Reworked Shard economy.
  
• Bosses are now visible on the world map from the start.
  
• Added option to sell spells in shops for gold.
  
• Added option to reroll drafts for gold.

• Improved map generation.
  
• Reduced and tweaked enemy health and damage values (especially in Act 2).
  
• Tweaked a few spells, relics, artifacts etc.

• Converted Main Menu to 3D and added new intro animation & music.
  
• Added non-gameplay Fog of War to the world map.
  
• Improved Artifact presentation and icons.

And many other undocumented changes and bugfixes...