SCP: 5K - Aden

https://store.steampowered.com/app/872670/SCP_5K/

MESSAGE FROM AFFRAY

Hey everyone, welcome back! It's been a while, but rest assured, we've been putting in some serious work into SCP: 5K. This latest update lays the groundwork for exciting narrative efforts that will soon find their way into the game — of which the narrative outline plans are now close to being relatively finalized behind the scenes. It's been a whirlwind period for us, juggling internal company restructuring on the Affray-end and the push for SCP.GAMES. There hasn't been a single slow day for our team!

But fear not, with this update, we're aiming to minimize the gaps between future updates. We've made significant progress on the groundwork, and the restructuring has given our overall efficiency a major boost. So, stay tuned and get ready to dive into the patch notes. We appreciate your continued support and hope you enjoy the update!

Expect a content patch in the coming weeks!

Ad astra,
Affray Interactive & SCP.GAMES

PATCH NOTES

NOTABLE
  • Added SCP-1262 Spitter (hostile)
  • Added SCP-7528 "Screen Anomaly" (hostile)
  • Added a sneak peek of SCP-840 (environmental, for now)
  • Added the Journal System, starting with some documents scattered across the facility
  • Added new Gore system (currently on soldier-based enemies), with blood spreading, pose-space decals, and gore meshes for accurate, positional gore
  • Fleshed out the Area-12 Cinema with the introduction of the Forde Education Center – with new objectives, content, and areas to explore
  • Added new Security Guard character models designed around the legacy of SCP - Containment Breach’s iconic design
  • Added new FBI UIU character models
  • Updated Outpost Axiom and its objective chain
  • Added first pass of in-game soundtrack.


Check out our submission for SCP-7528 on the SCP Wiki, it features a wealth of narrative we've been working on for 5K: https://scpwiki.com/scp-7528 (by Gabriel Kero, HarryBlank, and Placeholder McD)









GUNS
  • Added AUG
  • Added SA58 FAL
  • Added P320
  • Overhauled MP5
  • Added MP5SD and MP5K
  • Added MP5 Flashlight grip
  • Overhauled M1911
  • Overhauled Mossberg 590
  • Added PSO Sight
  • Added low Micro T2 mount
  • Added Wolverine PBS-1 Suppressor for AKs
  • Reworked M1014 to be the 7-round variant instead of 4-round









After this update, we will be slowing down on the production of gun-related content to focus more on environments, narrative, and SCP related content.

GAMEPLAY
  • Added canted sights to all rifles
  • Reduced fire rate of the stock MP5, increasing its damage to compensate
  • Added the ability to have pre-fire delay on automatic fire
  • Added pre-fire delay to LAMG, reducing its effectiveness as an all-round weapon
  • Made braced aim use the aiming sway instead of the hipfire sway
  • Moved locking to electronics from doors
  • Added keycard unlocking for certain doors
  • Added the ability for double doors to be broken down

AI
  • Added the ability for SCP-098 to eat bodies
  • Made SCP-098 flee and hide when threatened
  • Added the ability for Psi-Z Resonator to eat bodies
  • Added support for blending between crab movement animations and procedural
  • Improved crab walking
  • Improved targeting code for SCP-173-B
  • Made AI use automatic bursts by default


ANIMATION
  • Added new Third Person Animation system:
  • - Uses start and stop moving animations
  • - Better blending of weapon animations onto locomotion
  • - Better blending of shoulders and spine
  • - Improved braced aim animation blending
  • - Enabled TP hand IK (inverse kinematics) at all ranges
  • Added hit reactions and injured state to Psi-Z Resonator
  • Adding turning animations to the Psi-Z Resonator
  • Improved Psi-Z Resonator walk animations
  • Updated Pistol and Rifle Melee Animations
  • Updated M9, Tavor, Five Seven, AK, MK17, M1014, M19x, and M67 animations
  • Overhauled MP5 Animations
  • Added inspect to P90
  • Reduced forward ADS offset to reduce arm overextension
  • Improved melee hit timing
  • Added alternate grip poses to third person
  • Fixed foregrips being at wrong angles in third person
  • Added special empty reload animations for shotguns
  • Added support for grips on moving parts (i.e., pump-action shotguns)
  • Made braced aim and sprinting movement not affect sight alignment
  • Improved aiming transition
  • Made weapons switch to braced aim while reloading to improve sight picture
  • Added alternate grip poses to most rifles
  • Improved ADS fire with less latency and better responsiveness on auto fire
  • Improved recoil sway with sustained fire
  • Fixed stuttering on players even when they were nearby

VISUALS
  • Overhauled Muzzle flash visuals, with more impactful, performant gunshots
  • Added unique muzzle flash visuals for compensators
  • Replaced bullet casing effects
  • Updated scopes
  • Added the ability for attachments to inherit cosmetics from the items to which they are attached
  • Updated scope transparency
  • Improved reticle visibility
  • Updated Galil textures
  • Added depth offset to more materials for contact shadows
  • Added GTAO (Global Illumination)
  • Updated NVG (Night Vision Goggles) shader
  • Improved grunge shader
  • Updated camera shakes to be more consistent
  • Added camera shake for the fire selector
  • Improved holographic reticles
  • Improved telescopic sight alignment
  • Added custom bloom and lens flares, improving performance and visuals
  • Added subtractive fog volumes
  • Adjusted laser size when aiming at a distance, making it less prominent
  • Reduced smearing on grass
  • Updated grenade particles
  • Updated DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) to 5.1
  • Improved blood splatters
  • Improved outdoor post-process
  • Improved grass material
  • Made the sky material opaque and added stars
  • Improved rain shader to react better to light
  • Overhauled keypad visuals
  • Replaced swing doors with new assets







AUDIO
  • Reworked most gunshot sounds across the board
  • Improved supersonic cracks
  • Increased the distance at which bullet cracks occur
  • Reworked bullet casing audio
  • Added bullet casing sounds for .45 ACP and 12-gauge
  • Reworked MK18 sounds
  • Reworked M24 sounds
  • Reworked LAMG sounds
  • Reworked Mossberg sounds
  • Reworked Stealth Hunter sounds
  • Reworked 1911 sounds
  • Added SCP-098 footstep sounds
  • Updated MP5 firing sounds
  • Redid M1014 handling sounds
  • Added unique fire selector sounds for AK74, NATO, P90, and SMGs
  • Added new footstep and gear movement sounds for characters
  • Improved stereo on gunshot tails
  • Added new M19x and MP5 shots
  • Added 12-gauge casing sounds
  • Updated explosion sounds
  • Added thick occlusion traces to FMOD occlusion, better modeling sound absorption
  • Implemented simple music
  • Added sounds for when you take damage

UX
  • Updated the spectator camera to reduce nausea when going in and out
  • Made loadout items load asynchronously, fixing freezing during loadout
  • Made attachments load asynchronously, fixing long load times
  • Improved screen percentage on lower settings
  • Added magazine size to item description
  • Added ping to scoreboard

PERFORMANCE
  • Moved player state status to use C++
  • Moved first-person and third-person animation code to C++
  • Moved IK (Inverse Kinematics) animation code to C++
  • Moved check ammo and bashing to C++
  • Moved item and attachment code to C++
  • Optimized hunt memory usage
  • Optimized texture and material usage
  • Improved memory usage
  • Improved modular asset performance
  • Optimized some particles
  • Improved hunt performance
  • Optimized some shaders
  • Optimized and improved rain effects
  • Optimized puddles
  • Reduced overdraw on grass
  • Reused the same system for muzzle flashes and casing effects
  • Moved attachment code to C++
  • Moved item loading to be asynchronous
  • Fixed console log warnings, improving performance and reducing log file size
  • Improved animation performance
  • Improved CPU performance of other players and AI
  • Added LODs (Level of Detail) to important particles to improve particle tick time
  • Moved splatters to use asynchronous loading, reducing hitches in the game
  • Improved audio performance by stopping setting parameters and logging every frame
  • Optimized volumetrics
  • Overhauled pickup code for cleanliness and better performance
  • Fixed performance issues on hunt when zooming in due to shadows
  • Optimized clouds and fixed some shading issues
  • Disabled distance field shadows on medium settings
  • Disabled planar reflections

CRASHES
  • Fixed crashes related to level streaming
  • Fixed a crash caused by FMOD
  • Fixed a crash associated with object pooling
  • Fixed a crash that occurred when closing the game
  • Fixed a crash resulting from dismemberment
  • Fixed vending machine setup and achievement-related crashes
  • Fixed some occasional crashes related to animation
MergeCrafter - Havi
Hey everyone,

It's finally happening, Age of Invention Update is now available!

Trailer


Devlog


Patch Notes
Features:
  • Added 4 Craftable Inventions: Palletron, ClawBot, MagniGrab, Punch-O-Matic
  • Added Mechnical Dungeon
  • Added Finnegan the Tech Gnome
  • Added 15 quests
  • Added 34 Achievements
  • Added TNT item line
  • Added Mechanical Chest line, Gizmo Box, & Explosive Chest
  • Added Mechanical Trinket
  • Added Shrouded Oasis land
  • Max Tool tier extended to T5.3
  • Max Reforge tier extended to T25
  • New Mini-Biome / Mining Feature
Improvements:
  • Significant performance improvements on Low Quality mode
  • Several balance improvements with Mini Drills
  • Furnaces now only ingests fuel when double clicking on them
  • Furnaces & Mini Drills now has a loot bag limits based on their tier or level
  • Improved visuals on Cave Chests to make them more distinguishable
  • Improved visuals on the Cave Dungeon entrance
  • Improved visuals on the Recruiter's Hub UI
  • Improved visuals of the Runic Shop UI
  • Improved sizes of certain Trinket trophies
  • Updated Event icons
Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where players could get soft-locked during certain tutorials
  • Fixed an issue where the Planter wouldn't show in certain scenarios
  • Fixed an issue where a Trinket wouldn't evolve while repairing on an Anvil
  • Fixed an issue where certain audio would not play correctly
  • Fixed an issue where Quests with x1 reward wouldn't be showing on the UI
  • Fixed an issue where the UI stalactites in the Cave Dungeon would freak out
  • Fixed an issue where an empty Status Effect widget would show with no buff active
  • Fixed an issue in the Trinket Store where the item name wouldn't be showing properly
  • Fixed an issue where tools could be lost
  • Fixed an issue with certain special font characters
  • Fixed an issue where the Mini Drill could not drill into certain grid cells
  • Fixed an issue where the Energy Bottle wasn't showing the correct material
  • Fixed an error related to Dungeon grid cells
  • Fixed an error related to Combo Merging

Official Changelog Website:
https://fiveamp.com/mergecrafter/changelog/



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Echo Point Nova - mattlarrabee
Hi everyone,

This patch is focused on the orb arena fights. I've given players more control over when they start, and made the fights more consistently intense. No more hunting down the last few stragglers!

I've also reduced some of the annoying traits of the enemy types and fixed an assortment of bugs.

And finally I adjusted the overall lighting of the world to give a little more contrast.

Please let me know what you think!

-MattWLA


Major changes:
  • Change how orb arena fights work: Players no longer need to hunt down last few stragglers. A high amount of enemies is kept stocked and players win when they hit a target kill count. Remaining enemies die and drop pickups for pickup extravaganza.
  • Changed how orb arena fights start: Players can activate instantly with button press, no longer proximity and wait based. All players on server need to activate.
  • Dimmed skylight, changed skylight color temp
Minor changes:
  • Limit 2 shield guys at once per arena fight
  • Reduced shield guy HP
  • Made shield guy look 50% more intimidating
  • Tweaked quest text for find the hoverboard quest
  • Slowed AR reload speed
  • Add sound to jumping units as they jump
  • Tweaked some ledges in first ruin
  • Lowered difficulty of second arena fight
Bug fixes:
  • Disable motion blur on fire particles (performance improvements near fire particles)
  • Can reliably interrupt shotgun and bolt action reloads
  • Fixed bugs where shotgun and bolt action would soft lock
  • HUD graphics are now immediately updated after binds changes
  • Fix countdowns counting down even in pause menu
  • Fix shotgun and sniper ammo going into negatives (not sure, untested)
Punzel: Chapter I - Toujours la Meme Histoire - imstuckinacastle
“Hear now, hear now, all Gobbos of SKULL!

the OVERLORD invites you to partake in an open AUDIENCE.
Thereinst a demo will be nstrated and selected questions might be answered."

Participate in the art contest using our in-game drawing tool.
And don’t miss out on the chance at exclusive prizes straight out of Punzel's world!

More information can be found here: https://discord.gg/HcEyFstqX9
And for even more tidbits, comics and video content go here: https://www.instagram.com/princesspunzelworld/


~Crows croak as they sail by in the wind.

"How do they feel? What do they need?"

Rest your wings and comewel to the feed. ~
Kingsblood - Kaeltar
Bugfixing:
- Fixed an issue where refunding Skill points would not reduce the characters attributes, leading to unlimited stat allocation
- Fixed an issue causing characters to appear permanently dead after they died in an Invasion, making them unavailable in future quests

Balancing:
- Slightly reduced chance for traps to spawn in dungeons
- Slightly buffed Shrine effects in dungeons

Features:
- Added the possibility to turn the camera in combat formation / combat left and right with the Arrow keys (Left Arrow, Right Arrow)
Codename CURE - Hoobalugalar_X
We are excited to announce the release of 'Gemini: Binary Conflict' into steam early access!

The passion project from the creators of ‘Codename CURE’, Gemini has been a labour of love for a number of years. It's now finally ready for public release and we invite those who would enjoy a good scrap on a hostile alien planet to come and check it out!

Sling black holes at each other and slice people in half! Rebound projectiles around the corner and take down snot pelting gunships - or get shoved around by giant robots; to name but a few of the features.



With up to 16 player PvP, 5 player Coop or even just offline play with full AI bot support (plus a smattering of the five player class DNA that made CURE so fun), there's something for everyone when it comes to a battle arena shooter. Come and support our projects (both current and future) and join the action of an interplanetary war!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1293660/Gemini_Binary_Conflict/
Dark Deity - Ashe
Hi everyone!

It’s been over 2 years since Dark Deity’s release, and it has truly been a wild ride. If you tuned into the Guerilla Collective Summer Showcase earlier this month, you would have seen that we are hard at work on the second Dark Deity! We are extremely grateful to everyone who has played DD1 so far and given us a chance to improve our skills and make the sequel better.

If you haven't seen it, we posted a developer statement speaking on many of the improvements we're hoping to make with DD2, which we think is worth a look if you played the first game and are curious about the second.

I will still be active and taking feedback for DD1, especially since it informs so much of how we're approaching DD2, so keep it all coming in!

Thank you
I want to reiterate a huge and heartfelt thank you to everyone who helped make Dark Deity 2 possible. Thank you for all the feedback, all the support, and for putting us in a position to make a better game 2. We’re proud of the work we did with Dark Deity as our very first title, but we know just how much better we can do. We can’t have gotten here without you all, so thank you so much!

If you loved Dark Deity and are excited for a Dark Deity 2, make sure to check us out and wishlist us! If you want to be kept up to date with progress on the game's development and connect with our community, you can check out our Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, or Discord!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2446600/Dark_Deity_2/
Jun 22, 2023
Frigato: Shadows of the Caribbean - Muaddib
Ahoy pirates🏴‍☠️

A new update has arrived.



What's changed?

  • Correction of duplicate characters in Cutscene 1 in the Jungle
  • Fixes for the Skip button in different resolutions
  • Improvements to the animation of placing bodies in barrels (Atzi and Char Li)
  • Minor animation fixes for Atzi
  • Fix for a bug with wall detection that sometimes occurred
  • Fix for a bug with enemies having an infinite range that sometimes occurred
  • Bug fixes and improvements for the parrot's behavior
  • Bug fixes and improvements for the bottle's functionality
  • Fix for double ammunition of the skill below deck (Level 2)
  • Fixes for missing translations in certain places
  • New translations in the Italian language
  • New translations in the Portuguese language
  • Improvement of camera zoom functionality
  • Scaling fixes for certain texts in different languages

Have fun,
Frigato team.
Jun 22, 2023
A Whisper in the Twilight: Chapter One - Inorganic Visions
Hi everyone!
This message is just a reminder that, in addition to the game, you will download some extra bonuses from Steam:

1 - A Graphic Novel that acts as a PROLOGUE to the game's story.
2 - Some digital wallpapers and a personal thank you for purchasing the game.

This is the path to follow to find these things.

WINDOWS
SteamLibrary ▸ steamapps ▸ common ▸ AWITT_Chapter_One

MAC
Users ▸ Your Name ▸ Library ▸ Application Support ▸ Steam ▸ steamapps ▸ common ▸ AWITT_Chapter_One

Or, if you prefer, you can download the images directly from our Discord here:
https://discord.gg/kecH3N7erM

Thank you all!!!
Islands of the Caliph - MKSchmidt
I hope you will join me playing Islands of the Caliph during Steam Next Fest!

I will try to answer any questions about the game during this event, and give an overview of the gameplay mechanics.



One of the big questions I want to answer during Next Fest is whether this game should go to Early Access or not.
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