In just one week, Halls of Torment will enter Early Access! Later today we’ll stream a bit of gameplay, answer any of your questions, and respond to your feedback. Join us on Twitch (17:30 CEST / GMT+2) - If you can’t join, don’t worry, the VOD will be available later on Twitch and Youtube.

If you’d prefer to see more professional video content, also don’t worry, we’ll be sending out the first keys to content creators within the next 48 hours! For that we are preparing an update of Halls of Torment (not the PRELUDE) which is a preview of the Early Access version. However, there might still be rough edges, since we’re in the midst of finalizing and polishing the game for the EA release. If you are a content creator and would like to request a key, please contact us via pr@chasing-carrots.com or via keymailer

• A new stage with new enemies, bosses and characters to unlock
  
• It’s the first stage in which we want to try out different layouts and enemy behaviours.
  
• Enemy behaviours are tailored to the stage geometry.
  
• Forgotten Viaduct can be unlocked by defeating the 2nd boss on Ember Grounds.
  
• A new NPC to discover. (work in progress)

[note] Balancing is still work in progress and might not be final until the release.

• 4 new unlockable player characters
  
• Cleric: Built around debuffs and regeneration, has a magic short range attack that deals its total damage evenly spread among all hit enemies.
  
• Warlock: Can exchange health for attack power and focus on summons. Attacks with summon type projectiles that are chasing enemies.
  
• Shield Maiden: Has a shield besides her main weapon which she can also use to attack and knock back enemies. The attack of the shield scales with her block strength.
  
• Sorceress: Queen of Thunder, can cast Chain Lightning to either focus single enemies or spread it among the enemy rows.

• Ember Grounds enemy spawns got adjusted for new boss encounters.
  
• Increased number of Abilities that can be found on Ember Ground.
  
• Haunted Caverns have an upgraded look and design, making it more spooky.
  
• It’s possible to unlock starting abilities on all stages.
  
• Power ups can now spawn on stages. (work in progress)
  
• Hand of Greed now has a marker displaying its location.
  
• Each stage starts with a Hand of Greed spawned.
  
• The relative gold drop on stages has been reduced.
  
• Stages now reward gold based on defeated enemies and time survived.
  
• XP Curves have been adjusted for a more consistent levelling experience.

• Added 4 new abilities to the game. (Radiant Aura, Clay Golem, Kugelblitz, Meteor Strike)
  
• Abilities can be unlocked by finishing character quests.
  
• Changed the traits for all abilities, there are now 6 paths for each trait type.
  
• Each ability starts with 2 trait types unlocked, additional types must be unlocked.
  
• Abilities can be ‘levelled’ 10 times. The possible trait types for each level vary.
  
• When abilities reach level 3 and 6 they can be upgraded with ability scrolls.
  
• All abilities have currently 2 upgrades, most upgrades must be unlocked.
  
• Damage dealt and max. DPS reached for all abilities are now listed at the end of each stage.
  
• Damage from effects are listed separately as they stack and can influence each other.
  
• Added a new damage type: Lightning, which can cause Electrify status effects.
  
• Electrify deals damage based on the applied stacks. The tick time reduces with more stacks and the stack amount decreases with each tick.
  
• Abilities will now include information about important functions and have their types listed.

• Added over a hundred new quests
  
• All quests are tied to achievements on Steam
  
• New Icons for quests (work in progress)
  
• Locked quest boards are no longer displayed
  
• Quests without unlocks now reward gold
  
• Additional information about completion rate
  
• Completed quests are now displayed at the end of a run (work in progress)
  
• Endscreen also displays suggested next quests (work in progress)
  
• Bonus XP from quests are now displayed on the quest board and as a buff

• Added several new items with more to come over the next few weeks.
  
• Not all planned items are in the game for the current progress, yet. Expect more over the next few weeks.
  
• Added rings to summon minions to fulfil your need to play summon focussed builds.
  
• New items around the new Lightning damage type.
  
• Several other new items to be discovered.
  
• We are rebalancing items to avoid having totally over- or underpowered items. This is work in progress and we’ll adjust them over the coming weeks.

• Added the option to target while auto aim is on to override target direction.
  
• To override with the mouse, clicking the left mouse button is necessary.
  
• Added the affliction effect that makes enemies more vulnerable to damage over time effects.
  
• Upgraded endscreen with statistics and completed quests.

• New Blessings (Duration, Lightning Damage, On Hit Chance, Block Strength)
  
• New Traits (Lightning Affinity, Channelling, False Blessing, Multihit & Piercing Wind II, Demonic Exchange, Bulwark)
  
• New Pickups (Attack, Attack Speed, Invincibility, Food) (Work in Progress)

• Gold values will increase, more gold will drop and be rewarded in general.
  
• Blessings and Items will cost more gold.
  
• Some general base traits have been adjusted for more well rounded balancing.
  
• Critical Hits and other chances can now exceed 100% and be applied several times at once.
  
• All effects have increased chances to apply and can stack multiple times to increase effectivity

Don’t forget to wishlist the game if you haven’t done already:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2218750/Halls_of_Torment/

Also follow us:
Twitter, Discord, Youtube, Twitch

In just one week, Halls of Torment will enter Early Access! Later today we’ll stream a bit of gameplay, answer any of your questions, and respond to your feedback. Join us on Twitch (17:30 CEST / GMT+2) - If you can’t join, don’t worry, the VOD will be available later on Twitch and Youtube.

If you’d prefer to see more professional video content, also don’t worry, we’ll be sending out the first keys to content creators within the next 48 hours! For that we are preparing an update of Halls of Torment (not the PRELUDE) which is a preview of the Early Access version. However, there might still be rough edges, since we’re in the midst of finalizing and polishing the game for the EA release. If you are a content creator and would like to request a key, please contact us via pr@chasing-carrots.com or via keymailer

• A new stage with new enemies, bosses and characters to unlock
  
• It’s the first stage in which we want to try out different layouts and enemy behaviours.
  
• Enemy behaviours are tailored to the stage geometry.
  
• Forgotten Viaduct can be unlocked by defeating the 2nd boss on Ember Grounds.
  
• A new NPC to discover. (work in progress)

[note] Balancing is still work in progress and might not be final until the release.

• 4 new unlockable player characters
  
• Cleric: Built around debuffs and regeneration, has a magic short range attack that deals its total damage evenly spread among all hit enemies.
  
• Warlock: Can exchange health for attack power and focus on summons. Attacks with summon type projectiles that are chasing enemies.
  
• Shield Maiden: Has a shield besides her main weapon which she can also use to attack and knock back enemies. The attack of the shield scales with her block strength.
  
• Sorceress: Queen of Thunder, can cast Chain Lightning to either focus single enemies or spread it among the enemy rows.

• Ember Grounds enemy spawns got adjusted for new boss encounters.
  
• Increased number of Abilities that can be found on Ember Ground.
  
• Haunted Caverns have an upgraded look and design, making it more spooky.
  
• It’s possible to unlock starting abilities on all stages.
  
• Power ups can now spawn on stages. (work in progress)
  
• Hand of Greed now has a marker displaying its location.
  
• Each stage starts with a Hand of Greed spawned.
  
• The relative gold drop on stages has been reduced.
  
• Stages now reward gold based on defeated enemies and time survived.
  
• XP Curves have been adjusted for a more consistent levelling experience.

• Added 4 new abilities to the game. (Radiant Aura, Clay Golem, Kugelblitz, Meteor Strike)
  
• Abilities can be unlocked by finishing character quests.
  
• Changed the traits for all abilities, there are now 6 paths for each trait type.
  
• Each ability starts with 2 trait types unlocked, additional types must be unlocked.
  
• Abilities can be ‘levelled’ 10 times. The possible trait types for each level vary.
  
• When abilities reach level 3 and 6 they can be upgraded with ability scrolls.
  
• All abilities have currently 2 upgrades, most upgrades must be unlocked.
  
• Damage dealt and max. DPS reached for all abilities are now listed at the end of each stage.
  
• Damage from effects are listed separately as they stack and can influence each other.
  
• Added a new damage type: Lightning, which can cause Electrify status effects.
  
• Electrify deals damage based on the applied stacks. The tick time reduces with more stacks and the stack amount decreases with each tick.
  
• Abilities will now include information about important functions and have their types listed.

• Added over a hundred new quests
  
• All quests are tied to achievements on Steam
  
• New Icons for quests (work in progress)
  
• Locked quest boards are no longer displayed
  
• Quests without unlocks now reward gold
  
• Additional information about completion rate
  
• Completed quests are now displayed at the end of a run (work in progress)
  
• Endscreen also displays suggested next quests (work in progress)
  
• Bonus XP from quests are now displayed on the quest board and as a buff

• Added several new items with more to come over the next few weeks.
  
• Not all planned items are in the game for the current progress, yet. Expect more over the next few weeks.
  
• Added rings to summon minions to fulfil your need to play summon focussed builds.
  
• New items around the new Lightning damage type.
  
• Several other new items to be discovered.
  
• We are rebalancing items to avoid having totally over- or underpowered items. This is work in progress and we’ll adjust them over the coming weeks.

• Added the option to target while auto aim is on to override target direction.
  
• To override with the mouse, clicking the left mouse button is necessary.
  
• Added the affliction effect that makes enemies more vulnerable to damage over time effects.
  
• Upgraded endscreen with statistics and completed quests.

• New Blessings (Duration, Lightning Damage, On Hit Chance, Block Strength)
  
• New Traits (Lightning Affinity, Channelling, False Blessing, Multihit & Piercing Wind II, Demonic Exchange, Bulwark)
  
• New Pickups (Attack, Attack Speed, Invincibility, Food) (Work in Progress)

• Gold values will increase, more gold will drop and be rewarded in general.
  
• Blessings and Items will cost more gold.
  
• Some general base traits have been adjusted for more well rounded balancing.
  
• Critical Hits and other chances can now exceed 100% and be applied several times at once.
  
• All effects have increased chances to apply and can stack multiple times to increase effectivity

Don’t forget to wishlist the game if you haven’t done already:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2218750/Halls_of_Torment/

Also follow us:
Twitter, Discord, Youtube, Twitch

Hi heroes!

Ayame's and Kensei's main quest during the game is to retrieve the Three Sacred Treasures to defeat Himiko and Amaterasu.

You might be asking what these treasures are:

⚔️ The Sword - Kusanagi no Tsurugi (草薙劍)
🪞 The Mirror - Yata no Kagami (八咫鏡)
💎 The Jewell - Yasakani no Magatama (八尺瓊勾玉)



Each relic represents one of the three primary virtues: courage, wisdom, and benevolence. According to legend, Ninigi-no-Mikoto brought them to Earth. He is a legendary ancestor of Japan's imperial line sent by his grandmother Amaterasu to pacify Japan. Ninigi eventually passed down the treasures to Emperor Jimmu, so you could say there is divinity to the ruler of Japan. In fact, these three treasures are a central element of the enthronement ceremony since 690.



It makes sense that you will need god-like powers to face divine antagonists like Amaterasu herself.

We hope you enjoyed this piece of trivia. If you want to know more, stay tuned for future updates!

See you 🔜

- Israel, PR & CM

- Added a new cosmetic type: Goal horns.
- Added a new bundle in the shop with a few boat horns
- Added a 'thunder' horn to the Norse God bundle. Everyone that bought the bundle before has received it for free.

- Added the Island arena. It is accessible from bot matches and custom games
- Removed Slapstation from the public game rotation due to performance complaints

- Created better balancing for the teams within a match
- Made matchmaker a bit stricter, avoids instant matches with suboptimal balancing

- Added native support for PS5 controllers, you no longer need to use Steam Input for it
- Added controller icons for DualShock and DualSense controllers (PS4 & PS5 controllers)
- Latency simulator has been made more accurate (take round trip time into account)
- Latency simulator is now on by default so new player experience in tutorial and practice is closer the online experience
-- It'll estimate the latency, then after having played a match uses the latency found in that match
- Region selector now shows the estimated latency to a region and color codes if it's good or not
- Added advertisements for premium and the leagues for your respective region
- Made some huge infrastructure improvements, making a bunch of operations significantly faster
- Added more server-side metrics and monitoring to find out about bad performing servers quicker
- When changing or adjusting camera settings, 'reset zoom' is used so settings are more accurate and less weird angle issues
- Added support for 800x600 resolution for the people with potato PCs
- Added the ability to view variants of items in bundles by clicking on the item, this'll bring up the item details UI

- Added a camera helmet cosmetic for the creator program
- Added selfie stick, makeshift stick, skull cleaver stick, reinforced stick
- Added more variants to the premium hoodie, all existing and future premium users get these for free

- Better stability for game server startup
- Fixed an issue where if the server fails to start, you have to reboot to queue again
- Fixed the variants for the bird wing cosmetic
- Fixed playstation controller icons for quick chat not showing correctly
- Fixed an issue where sometimes the purchase confirmation UI would incorrectly assume you own a cosmetic already

We have launched a creator program to work with those that are creating content for Slapshot.
Oddshot Games is determined to help you create great content and want to support you in the process!
For more information check out the info page here: https://oddshot.notion.site/Public-Slapshot-Creator-Program-e869eda1d76e48bf91a13d40aff2703b

GLHF,
Oddshot Games

Class: Protector
Lvl: 10 - 20


Many heavy infantrymen dream of joining this squad, but only a few manage to do so. This is because the demands placed on candidates are very high.

However, the successful candidates are presented with opportunities worth fighting for - Legionnaire troopers are given access to the latest combat exoskeletons and advanced weapons.

This makes Legionnaire recruits feel like children in a sweets shop.

-added a new desert environment map. It was originally designed for a new game mode only but it was set up for the multiplayer ones as well (well except football)
-added a new cosmetic setting that allows the player to change their helicopter exterior skin to a digital camo skin (the colors of the teams will remain the same, red green and blue, but there will be a camo pattern on the helicopter)
-added a new cosmetic setting that allows the player to change the color of some objects from the helicopter cockpit
-added a new cosmetic setting that allows the player to change the texture pattern of some objects from the helicopter cockpit
-added a new game mode, Desert Strike, where the players have to destroy the defense AA sentry guns of the 4 bases present on the map. There are 4 difficulties: doable, maybe doable, nuts and insanely nuts. Depending on each there will be more or less sentry guns spawned in each base. The spawn points of the sentry guns are random for each game so that it doesn't feel too repetitive. Each time a sentry gun is destroyed a heal pickup will spawn in its place, allowing the player to restore their health points. Each time a player dies a revive pickup will spawn in the base that was closest to that player. In short, in order to revive your teammate you'd have to destroy all the defense of that base and then pick up the revive pickup. This game mode comes bearing gifts as well. The players who successfully fcomplete the mission on 'insanely nuts' difficulty will unlock the 3 new cosmetic settings mentioned above.
-fixed an issue with the altitude limit which made the helicopter pop down too fast if it reached the max altitude. Now the altitude limit should be smooth. It is also bigger now, 140 meters above the ground.
-added map voting screen to Co-Op game modes, so that there is continuity and the players don't have to go to main menu and recreate a lobby after a game
-made the helicopter sticks hitboxes larger so that they can be grabbed easier
-various code optimizations
-various bug fixes

Hi recruits!

As we approach to our first Closed Beta next week, we wanted to share with you some useful info answering some questions you may have regarding the beta. We encourage you to join our Discord in order to share your feedback with us during this first beta. Remember to add United 1944 to your wishlist to easily get info regarding new beta dates, updates and any important announcements.

Thanks for your support, and we hope to see you joining the battle on May 19!



The first Closed Beta for United 1944 is running from May 19 to 21 from 4pm to 8pm CEST (designed for Europe-based players) and May 26 to 28 from 4pm to 8pm ET (designed for North America-based players).

Just go to the United 1944 Steam page and click on the “Request Access” button just below the game description. You will enter a random selection process managed by Steam to select players.

You’ll receive an email from Steam confirming that you’ve been selected. Also, you will find the game UNITED 1944 Beta pop up in your Steam Library.

Due to high demand, we have made the decision to split the beta into two territories and two weekends to accommodate more players and guarantee better quality of service. Here is how things will work:

• The first weekend (May 19-21), the servers will be based in Europe (Frankfurt).
  
• The second weekend (May 26-28) the servers will be based in North America (East Coast).

Please note that if you’re based in one territory, and decide to play when the servers are based in another, you’ll experience ping & lag issues and we may not be able to guarantee optimal network performance.

We highly encourage you to play with servers located in your region.

Yes. If you don’t get in this time, you’ll still have an opportunity to play, as more beta tests will follow in the coming months with more capacity. Make sure you also follow us on Twitter to be up to date.

Content creators are welcome in this Beta. However, keep in mind this first Closed Beta is small, and access will be managed via Steam Playtest. Hence, the participants will be randomly selected by Steam. We plan to do one fully dedicated beta for content creators, so stay tuned to the Discord server or Twitter to be up to date.

Yes you can. We just ask you to be aware and communicate to your audience that the footage you are streaming is from a beta test and may not be representative of the final game. All music is owned by us, so you should not get any copyright strike.

No. These are only tentative and subject to change, as we still didn’t work on optimizing.

We will be collecting feedback from the Closed Beta through Discord. You can join the United 1944 Discord with this link. Go to #feedback channel and share your feedback with us. Dev team is always checking the channel and will use a reaction when the feedback entry is seen.

Go to the bugs reporting channel in the Discord server and use the template that is pinned. DO NOT open a ticket for a bug.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2152790/UNITED_1944/

The abandoned frozen waters of Franz Josef Land welcome our captains! Meet the first location with destructible fortifications!




The new location for naval battles called “Franz Josef Land” will become one of the northernmost locations in War Thunder. Here, players will witness the harsh lifeless expanses of plateau-like islands covered with basalt and permafrost glaciers. But even these uninhabitable islands have been mastered by man. Here you can find two polar stations, military bases, as well as a few abandoned villages.




In the Dominance mode for this location, we plan to add fortifications with a different set of weapons that provide fire support for bases. Destruction of such fortifications will grant players additional points. We want to make naval battles more varied and dynamic, and we're interested in your opinion of the new gameplay option. We look forward to your feedback as soon as the update is released!

This update is for the Public Test branch of Valheim, and may therefore be unstable. Before we launch this update to the Default version of the game, we want to make sure to have a chance to discover bugs and adjust the balancing, to give you the best game experience possible.
Access the Public Test branch by right clicking Valheim in your Steam library, and then select ‘Properties’. In the new window, select ‘Betas’ and type in the code “yesimadebackups”. The Public Test branch should now be available for you to choose from.
As always, remember to be considerate towards players not partaking in the Public Test, in case they want to avoid spoilers.
As the password indicates, please make sure to make backups of your save files before playing.

This patch includes a lot of optimisations for many underlying systems of the game – this to improve in-game performance for both small and large worlds, network performance, load times and to drastically decrease save file sizes. We hope that these changes will be a significant improvement for some of you.

This does mean, however, that this patch is extra prone to have introduced some new and obscure bugs that we have yet to find, so any additional testing and bug reporting on this is greatly appreciated! Be sure to report them in our Discord in the public test channel or by filling out this form.

On a very important note, this patch makes your saves significantly less backwards compatible than other patches, so make sure you really do make extra backups this time. As always, we will do our best so that you will be able to continue with your save files when this goes live, but there is always a risk that you might have to restore your backups when playing on the public test.

Should this patch not be problem free, we will roll it back for the time being, and return to it at a later date. Therefore it is extra important that you make your backups this time.


* Many performance, memory and networking improvements for both small and large worlds
* World save file size greatly reduced
* Fixed hitbox issue for close combat and spear throwing issue
* Minimap pin input fixed on steam deck & big picture mode
* Added "UI scaling" to settings on Xbox
* Fixed endless loading of save manager when switching tabs too fast
* World save files that are corrupt, have load errors or have missing meta files can now be restored from the most recent backup directly from within the Select World menu by pressing the "Start" button.
* Save file stability & issues fixed
* Decreased load times in the Manage Saves menu.
* Fixed a bug that would cause the GUI to not update when deleting the bottommost backup in the Manage Saves menu.

Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where selecting to not help Karl in Level 5 lead to being stuck in the decision screen
  
• Fixed cigarettes icon looking stretched
  
• Fixed drop button not disappearing when consuming an item
  
• Fixed drop button not disappearing when closing the inventory

Other changes:

• Adjusted music audio levels in various scenes