Hey everyone! This is one of our largest content patches so far, bringing a bunch of new enemies, reworked patterns and new Dungeon modules. We also added an Easter egg themed talent. We wish you a Happy Easter! If you want to find out more about the new baddies (such as their elemental vulnerabilities), take a look at the Monster Manual (from the inventory or the title screen) :)
Here's the full changelog for 0.5.6:
New Features:
REWORKED enemy patterns: Mushroom mobs, Bees and Slime Spawns
NEW enemies: Black Knight, Black Mage, Black Bolt, Spooker and Sparky
Added seasonal “Bunny Eggs” talent
Added 9 new Dungeon modules
Fixes:
Fixed a crash when water was placed in the first frame of a new run
Fixed a crash caused by Honking Heal
Fixed mushrooms waking up instantly without taking damage
Fixed area indicator building unnecessary shapes in the background
Fixed a crash when the waterfall was dried out because of the heat modifier
Fixed an issue where projectiles could get weirdly large
Fixed the Frozen region mod name being broken
Ball lightning can no longer spawn inside objects
Fixed player being unable to cast when hovering over the healthbar
Fixed secondary wand popping in at the start of a run
Fixed blue flame popping away for a few frames after launch
Meet the Heroes of Redfall: Layla Ellison. A biomedical engineering student who interned at an Aevum research facility, where something went very wrong, leaving her with intense telekinetic abilities.
Her abilities give you all around versatility – Umbrella is perfectly suited for offense or defense. Use Lift to reach rooftops or launch enemies into the air. Then summon Jason to deal devastating damage to nearby enemies.
Redfall arrives on PC on May 2, 2023. Pre-order now for exclusive content - visit http://Redfall.com to check it out.
With great excitement, Bitfall Studios and publisher Toplitz Productions announce that TerraScape is now available in Steam Early Access.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our supporters who participated in the recent playtest and beta for TerraScape.
In addition to the current feedback, we eagerly await further feedback, which we can use to enhance the game during Early Access. We believe that your input is essential to help us build momentum, improve the gameplay experience, and identify those aspects of the game that should be expanded. We look forward to your ideas to make TerraScape even better.
During Early Access, you will be able to play challenges, scenarios, and the multiplayer mode, which we will continue to expand as we move through Early Access. A note: To get started, we recommend the tutorial in free-to-play mode to get tips on general gameplay.
TerraScape features procedural world generation, which allows you to always have new gameplay experiences. Place your buildings strategically to earn points, and look for opportunities to earn bonus points by gathering positive influences depending on the environment in which you've placed your buildings. But also watch out for negative influences and have fun strategizing and building to increase your score and thus earn medals!
We are convinced that TerraScape is a very entertaining and relaxing game that combines the ideas of a city builder with those of a puzzle game, while challenging the player.
If you decide to participate in Early Access, please keep in mind that the game is not finished yet and may contain some bugs. We will do our best to fix them as soon as possible. We would love to have you join us as we develop TerraScape.
We can't wait to hear what you think about TerraScape, and we're sure you'll have a lot of fun as you explore your creative side and build your worlds. If you have any questions, comments or feedback, please don't hesitate to contact us. We look forward to your input and appreciate your help in getting the most out of TerraScape.
We thank you for your support and look forward to hearing from you!
MINDHACK has been released on early access today! Right now, you can play up to chapter 3, and you'll be able to play the rest of the game after a free update to come later. If you purchase the game while it's in early access, you'll get the full game at no additional cost once it's released. Furthermore, the early access price is discounted.
The game's OST is also going to be released before long! More info coming soon!
As the demo includes content from the early access version, we'll take down the demo for a while. We're planning to put it back up once the game releases. Thank you for your understanding.
Thanks to the support of many kind people, we're finally able to let you play MINDHACK in its finished format. We hope you'll enjoy its story. We're going to keep you up to date with all MINDHACK news on the development blog. Stay tuned!
It’s been a little over a week since the Tools of Torment Mid-Chapter hit the Public Test Build (PTB), the server where we test out and fine tune upcoming changes before pushing them live. As always, our team has been combing through your feedback and identifying room for improvement before the update debuts on live servers.
We want to start by giving a huge thank you to everyone who took the time to leave detailed and constructive feedback. Thank you! Your feedback has helped shape this update’s release. In this month’s Developer Update, we’ll reveal all of the changes we’ve made to the Mid-Chapter between the PTB and live releases.
Healing
Possibly the hottest topic since it was announced, the PTB raised the base healing time to 24 seconds from the usual 16 seconds. Some tweaks were made to Med-Kits with this in mind. Changing such a fundamental part of the game is a very touchy subject, so we kept an extra close eye on this change to see how it would play out.
After reviewing player feedback, we found that many of you agreed that the speed which you heal others was already in a good spot prior to the update. This change also had knock-on effects elsewhere in the game, making effects like Mangled and Hemorrhage stronger and making ‘slugging’ (leaving Survivors in the dying state) even more effective.
Therefore, we have reverted the base healing time to 16 seconds.
On the other hand, we found there was a lot of support for tuning down Med-Kits in particular. Med-Kits allowed Survivors to heal themselves multiple times whenever it was convenient to them, leaving their teammates free to work on Generators while they do so. We have decided to shift our focus to Med-Kits with a series of changes.
First and foremost, all Med-Kits will have a total of 24 charges (the same as the PTB).
Second, we’ve increased the healing speed bonus when healing others across all Med-Kits. The new bonus is as follows:
Camping Aid Kit: Increases the speed that you heal others by 35%,
First Aid Kit: Increases the speed that you heal others by 40%.
Emergency Med-Kit: Increases the speed that you heal others by 45%.
Ranger Med-Kit: Increases the speed that you heal others by 50%.
Third, all Med-Kits will now have a 33% speed and efficiency penalty when used for self healing. This will reduce the number of times a Med-Kit can be used to heal yourself and make it take longer to do so. This means that a Med-Kit will by default grant one self heal over the span of 24 seconds (before factoring in Add-ons).
Combined, these changes will decrease the power of Med-Kits when used for self healing, but increase their power when used for healing teammates in return. (We all know you’ll probably continue using them for self heals, but at least the choice is there!)
Last but not least, in light of the tweaks above, we’ve made some adjustments to various Med-Kit Add-ons:
Rubber Gloves: New effect – Increases the Great Skill Check success zone by 10%.
Butterfly Tape: Increases healing speed by 5% (was 3%).
Sponge: New effect – Increases the Great Skill Check success zone by 20%.
Needle & Thread:
Added effect – Increases progression bonus for succeeding a Great Skill Check by 5%.
Removed effect – No longer provides bonus Bloodpoints for hitting Great Skill Checks.
Medical Scissors: Increases healing speed by 10% (was 12%).
Surgical Suture:
Added effect – Increases progression bonus for succeeding a Great Skill Check by 10%.
Removed effect – No longer provides bonus Bloodpoints for hitting Great Skill Checks.
Abdominal Dressing:
Increases healing speed by 15% (was 20%).
Rarity increased to Very Rare (was Rare).
Gel Dressings:
Adds 16 charges to the Med-Kit (was 14).
Rarity increased to Ultra Rare (was Rare).
Anti-Hemorrhagic Syringe: While this Add-on is unchanged, please note that its healing speed will be reduced by the Med-Kit self healing penalty (resulting in a 24 second heal by default).
We hope these changes will tone down Med-Kits when used for self healing while making them more appealing for altruistic heals.
The Hillbilly
On the PTB, we tested out some changes for The Hillbilly, both toning down the overheat mechanic and adjusting two of his top performing Add-ons. While the overheat mechanic felt less oppressive, many of you raised concerns with the changes to the Engraving Add-ons, reminding us that these Add-ons allowed The Hillbilly’s power to be used in more situations. This overshadowed the overheat adjustments and made the whole package feel like a downgrade.
For the release, we have reverted the changes to the Death Engravings and Doom Engravings Add-ons.
We have kept the tweaks to the overheat mechanic to make it less limiting than before, making The Hillbilly feel better to play.
Perks
The PTB featured updates to various Perks, including some meta options for both Killer and Survivor. When it comes to toning down a powerful Perk, some level of contention is expected. But with that said, we’ve heard some very convincing arguments for a few of these perks, so we have done some fine tuning before the changes go live.
Dead Hard
Since reducing the Endurance effect any further would make Dead Hard too finnicky to use, we instead opted to limit the number of times it could be used by requiring a safe unhook to activate the Perk. While this had the intended result of limiting the number of times it appeared in the match (and prevented it from being used in the first chase of the match), some of you pointed out that this new design indirectly encouraged the Killer to chase the unhooked Survivor. This makes a lot of sense; the unhooker may have activated their Dead Hard, but you can be sure that the unhooked Survivor does not have it.
For the update’s release, we have changed Dead Hard to instead activate when you are unhooked or unhook yourself. This way, the unhooked Survivor becomes less of a clear target for the Killer.
Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance
On the PTB, Pain Resonance was changed to only activate the first time each Survivor is placed on a Scourge Hook. This change was specifically made to reduce the number of times Pain Resonance could activate in a given match, especially later in the match when one or more Survivors were likely to be sacrificed. While this did have the intended result, many pointed out that this left the Perk in a fairly weak state, not quite stacking up to other regression Perks.
Considering Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance can now only activate four times in a match and requires the Killer to target different Survivors, we feel comfortable making it more rewarding for Killers who choose to take on the added challenge.
Therefore, we have increased the regression amount of Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance to 15/20/25% (was 11/13/15%).
We hope those who choose not to chase the unhooked Survivor will find this perk much more rewarding.
Boon: Circle of Healing
Since this Perk no longer grants the self-heal ability, Circle of Healing found itself in an awkward spot. The altruistic heal speed bonus was nice, but when you crunched the numbers, Circle of Healing rarely provided any benefit. A 50% healing speed bonus would only shave roughly 5 seconds off of a heal, but it’s easy to spend that much time running over to the Boon’s area of effect- and that doesn’t even begin to factor in the time it takes to set up.
With this in mind, we have increased the healing speed bonus on Circle of Healing to 50/75/100% (was 40/45/50%).
While this won’t make setting up or running to the Boon the optimal choice in every situation, we expect this to make it more impactful if the Boon is nearby.
Autohaven Wreckers
Last but not least, we managed to sneak one more change into the Autohaven Wreckers map updates. A while back, we added some new tiles to the realm. One of these new tiles- which featured a window and pallet- ended up being fairly unsafe. We rebalanced this tile, but it unfortunately didn’t make it into the PTB in time. However, an updated version of this tile will be available upon release. Take a look!
With that, we’ve reached the end of the Developer Update. We want to once again thank everyone who gave the changes a try and left detailed and constructive feedback. Our team will continue to keep a close eye on things once the update goes live to ensure that everything goes smoothly.
The regular version of the game has been updated! The new features are the same as those included in the Alpha version until 5th, April 2023's Update. The list can be found here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1797490/discussions/0/6202034451744528101/ WARNING: After updating, you must start a new game. Old saves won't work.
- Fixed issue with improperly setup NPC textures - Fixed issue with Pat's Apartment door not loading Pat's Apartment level and instead loading Main Menu - Evidence section of Inventory now clears after each case is done, Persons of Interest remain - Evidence board now clears after each case is done - Covered hole to the white void where you fall forever and the horizon never changes - Increased speed of Hills walking animation to match speed of movement - Bato will now properly respond to evidence shown - Fixed issue with Mary disappearing/not following after changing maps
Update 1.1 Hi everyone, I've updated the game with the following changes: - Performance improvements. - You can slow down the game as long as you hold the space bar. This can be used 20s in a level. You can gain slow down time by collecting coins and stars. - You can limit the FPS in the settings menu now. The FPS are limited to 60 while loading. - You can see a small animation on the coin and start counter when you have collected all coins or stars in a level. Thanks for playing!
Prick up your rabbit ears and ready your Easter baskets! The annual EGG HUNT will take place this Friday, April 7, for 4 days! To participate in the Egg Hunt, your character must have reached at least level 75 to be able to find the pet nest on a quest. The most diligent collectors can look forward to beastly colourful surprises up to and including Easter Monday!
Moreover, get ready for the following EASTER EVENTS from Friday to Monday: Crazy Mushroom Harvest, Exceptional XP Event, Sands of Time Special, Fantastic Fortress Festivity, Assembly of Awesome Animals, Forge Frenzy Festival & Tidy Toilet Time. You can then also find Easter Epics and the Easter Pet after defeating it in the habitat.
And don't forget that the LEGENDARY DUNGEON "Fantastic Legendaries and Where to Find Them" is still open until Monday 20 CEST!