We are thrilled to announce that we're participating in the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase this year! It's a steam festival that features hundreds of puzzle games - over 200 this year - and dozens of demos. It's running from August 3-7. More info can be found here: https://www.cerebralpuzzleshowcase.com/
We personally will be trying out as many demos as we can get our hands on. If you're on our page reading this during the festival, please try out our demo and let us know what you think. We're always looking for ways to improve the game!
We're finally releasing the long awaited Embassy update! With this update we'll be releasing loads of brand new items and content. Not only that, the summer sale is starting too! It will end on the next update on the 15th. Buy the chips while you still can!
-New alliance emblems and patterns (thanks Yannice!)
-Embassy -New items: Bulldozer, Advanced Spy Capsule, Laser Aim, Rock Skin, Chips Cube, Battle Support Cube, cubes for every troop and battle support recipe -New currency: Badges earned from wars -More info in the ingame info popup (click the "I" in the top left) -Advanced Spy Capsule -Has 2x radius (4x area) of normal spy capsule -Shows amount of resources in resource buildings -Shows troops inside bunkers -Bulldozer: clears all obstacles on the current planet -New powerups -Laser Aim: All your turrets have +40% range for 6 hours -Rock Skin: All your turrets receive 30% less damage for 6 hours -Changed Lightning Bullet icon and color to accommodate -New burn effect for Flamethrower, Fire Golem -Target is set on fire when hit -Additional burn hits when already burning increases the burn temperature (DPS) and remaining burn time -Target's color and damage ticks show temperature -Stats are visible on the upgrade & unit info popups -Reworked social media popup -Added Instagram & polls links -Added guidelines -Added patchnotes -Some defend NPC attack missions now have a survival requirement -Percent is visible on mission requirement and end of attack screen -Calculated from sum total damage, sum total building health -Some minor performance fixes -Changed alliance join requirements (polled change #4) -A couple minor anticheat additions -Better accuracy background deploy areas -Added button to clear current Base Builder buffer -Added item tooltips to building upgrade menu -Buildings in shop that have max 0 for current SB are now greyed out -Using mousewheel now works to scroll in most applicable menus -Minor visual tweaks/fixes in upgrade & unit info popups -Missions dropdown now shows a maximum of 5 instead of 3 missions -Fixed crash on upgrading level 3 trap (again) -Fixed rent & cancel upgrade issues with houses/mines -Fixed powerup visual layering issue -Fixed powerup incorrect default visual effect immediately after use -Fixed powerup timers appearing under other inventory items when opening cubes -Fixed turret flickering when obstructing mouseover -Fixed zoom inconsistency issues -Fixed exploits allowing opening the premium shop below level 10 -Fixed accepted friend invites never going away -Fixed a bug causing sudden extensive building overlaps -Fixed issues with ships AI in bunkers: disappearing and teleporting back to bunker when activated on retreat, Falcons hovering over troops out of range
-New event: Skull Seeker -Starts 2023-08-02 00:00:00 UTC and ends 2023-08-17 00:00:00 UTC
It's that time of the year again, it's time for the festival of death! Roam the galaxy searching for destruction the skulls you retrieve can be exchanged into great rewards!
Some quest mobs now have personal health bars with their names, so now they a kinda minibosses too
Some changes and replacements for levels 1-3, 2-3, 3-1, 4-3, 5-3, 6-4, 7-1, 8-3 for new minibosses
Slightly increased drop chance of scroll for Poisoner's second skill quest
Power Crystal "Bleeding Cut", bleeding increased by 25%
Removed sort oreder button form inventory and stash, now you can sort in both orders just pressing LMB/RMB (Gamepad - A/RB+A)
More noticable hints on items that they can be used, to read, study or open something
In the camp and Clan's Domain visible range of quest markers on map ("?" and "!") is unlimited
Fighter, Swifty Strikes, combo attacks with heavy weapons won't hit extra targets by default
Fighter's second skill quest, gobloids won't count anymore, 30 cultists are required instead
Sticks now STR/DEX based weapons, instead of being STR-ones, Vagabond's 1st lvl perk "Stick Fight" was removed (did the same thing)
Rogues now have a text message for non-planned loosing of stealth
Inborn trait "Oblivious" is now considered rare malus trait, updated image of it
All archetypes who use Rage Points can enter relax state only in home places like domain, camp and ally locations (relax makes you loose Rage Points quickly)
Fighter, passive skill, 1 tier upgrade, instead of medicine pot power => +50% combat passive RP regen
For rage classes skills like weapon buffs and crystal helpers won't require prepared RP before activating it
Skill Multi-Hit, blue quality won't reduce damage penalty from -30% tо -20% anymore, heavy weapons increase this penalty by 5%
Little changes for resistances page
Other minor changes
-Only for Alpha-
You can use several crystal helpers, they'll take their places based on what slot they were used from
Increased a bit quest drop chance of bloodied Thundercrown tokens
Crystal mobs from Trial of Cold aim better at the player
Fighter, Swifty Strikes, 2 tier upgrade, instead of +1 strike for dual-wielders, RP cost +10 -> all atatcks reach +1 target, RP cost +10 (upgrade for duals will return later with adding 3rd tier upgrades)
Equipment Reforging, risk of breaking items decresed by 5%
Electro, Electro Blink, 2tier upgrade, fulmination's damage increased by 80%
Other minor changes
FIXES
-Alpha and Demo-
Health bar of boss/miniboss is not overlayed with whole screen effects (for example, when poisoned)
Bugfix, after explosion of wasted crystal helper it could be instantly restored in a second and for free
Removed useless glitchy value of total weight of stash items
Correct visual of gamepad button for shield slam on a skillbar
Fixed decales of player's fireball hits, if it wasn't upgraded with explosions
Exit gate's texture is drawn in both sides, for cases when staying back to exit with 3rd person camera mode
Fixed places with wrong tent textures
Fixed when enemies could went through walls to get stuck somewhere (needs more checking)
Bugfix, when turning quest that give you new skills but your character is too low lvl, skill will be unlocked not completely, untill needed level isn't reached
Fixed dialog text going ugly for some GUI scale values
Bugfix, vital resistance and crit resistance had wrong numbers in pop-up info
Small text edits for a Manual
Correct RP regen numbers for Rage's pop-up info
Bugfix, explosions didn't break player's stealth
Other minor fixes
-Only for Alpha-
Bugfix, Trial of Cold, flying crystals on death explosions didn't disappear, but kept spaming explosions
Bugfix, game could crash when checking details of Power Strike crystal while wearing ranged weapons
Bugfix, fist strikes of work elves could deal microbleeds
Shamans that deal sonic damage with their screams also break barrels
Damage of electro explosions to hero also takes into account "Wetness" effect
Fast travel within Clan's Domain also moves pets with the player
Added option in config file to allow imported .pck files in a "mods" folder to overwrite files in the game, off by default
Added some basic strafing & jumping behaviors to AI in combat, plus some minor tweaks. AI feels a little bit more competent than before, and function better on maps like Skylines than they used to
Added ability to kick bots from match (but they will be re-added between rounds, todo)
Admin panel refreshes after kicking players/bots
Changed "Voice Volume" option to say "Dialogue Volume" to clear up confusion about voice chat (there is none)
Host Game menu shows a status indicator when starting a game, to let people know what it's doing :)
After 8 months of on-and-off development, Half Hour Hexagon has finally been made available for FREE on Steam, Newgrounds, Itch.io, GX.Games, and more!
The game is a vampire survivors-inspired swarming roguelite with tons of stuff to find an unlock! The steam version of the game also includes Steam Achievement and Steam Leaderboard support :)
It’s the second week of Series 64 as leaves scatter Britain’s roadsides to mark the Autumn season while additional opportunities to unlock exclusive cars and cosmetic rewards become available on the Festival Playlist.
Here’s the rewards you can earn until Thursday, August 10 in Forza Horizon 4:
50% Completion: 1967 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia
80% Completion: 1993 Porsche 928 GTS
Capture a photo of any Modern Sports Car in Mortimer Gardens to unlock a Super Wheelspin as part of the Photo Challenge. The Weekly Forzathon spotlights a snake charmer in the 2013 Ford Shelby GT500.
Leave retirement in The Trial and unlock the 1939 Auto Union Type D. Meanwhile, over in the Autumn Games, the Ken Block Helmet is rewarded to all participants.
A trio of Super Wheelspins can be yours in this week’s Seasonal PR Stunts. Take on the Ambleside Edge Danger Sign, the Hythe House Speed Trap and the Brookside Speed Zone.
We continue to race through the years in this week’s Seasonal Championships as we spotlight the 60s, an iconic era of motoring! Complete all three events to unlock the Ken Block Race Suit, the 1967 Volkswagen Type 3 1600 L and the 2015 Lexus RC F.
That’s it for the Autumn seasonal events. Be sure to get snow tires ready for next week because Winter is coming. See you at the Horizon Festival!
News from the Forza Franchise
Add Forza Motorsport to your Steam Wishlist
With Forza Motorsport launching October 10, be sure to visit our new Forza Motorsport Steam page and hit Wishlist to be notified of its release.
Check out the Forza Horizon 5 Horizon Racing Car Pack
Discover your next favorite car in the Forza Horizon 5 Horizon Racing Car Pack, featuring 4 incredible new-to-Forza cars for you to collect and drive! These high-performing cars are perfect for all the unique driving experiences the Horizon Festival offers:
Please be aware that we will be conducting scheduled maintenance on Steam Knight Online Servers and service will be temporarily unavailable.
Maintenance time will be as follows: Knight Online Server Time (EST): 21:00 South America (PET): 20:00 Turkey: 4:00
Duration: Approx. 4 hours
During this server maintenance;
* Come Back Events Have Started! (4 Week) - Call of Logos and Appreciation of Logos items have been sent to players. - 1+1 Event has started.
19th Anniversary event have started.
- Quest have been reset.
- Veteran Member Achievements; By talking to NPC Juliane, you can have your account unlocked by achievement year.
* Ronark Land double Contribution and Leader point event has started.
* 19th Anniversary Thanks Event; (4 Week) - Once you kill the "Baby Dragon" creatures in front of Moradon and bring 10 Orange-flavored Onion items to the Aset NPC, you can get the (Account based) rewards once. - 10 Duration Items - 3 Ascent Scrolls - 3-Day Magic Bag (Becomes Active) - 3-Day Wings of hellfire wings (Becomes Active.) - 3-Day Oreads (Becomes Active.) - 3 Days VIP Key - 15 Days Anniversary Emblem (Becomes Active.)
** Dropped event items will be deleted with August 31 update. **
* During the 19th Year events, 30% EXP Event will be active.
* Twisted Moradon event has started. (4 Week)
* Battlefield Hero's Wing and Lunar Tattoo sales event has started via NPC Aset. (4 Week) - War Hero Wing (30 Days) and Lunar Tattoo (30 Days) - 190m Coins - War Hero Wing (30 Days) - 90m Coins - Lunar Tattoo (30 Days) - 120m Coins
* Daily Login event has started.
* The "Item Arrange" button has been disabled during the Knight Royale event.
* 2 extra monsters have been added to Eslant Satiros, Nightmare, Apostle of the Storm, Half Troll Berserk, ironclaw, Doom Knight, Death Wizard and Giant Golem monsters.
* The Shadow Piece has been added to Akara's Altar.
* Weight of the Hero's Wov item has been updated to 1.00 >0.10.
* Felankor's AOE skill cast frequency has been reduced.
* A new UI window has been added that will appear when shopping on Merchant. - Premium users can automatically receive information about whether the item is sold more expensive or cheaper, through the "Market Price" data.
* The Ronark Land kill quest area has been extended.
* Knight Royale event has ended.
* Coin event has ended.
* The sale event of Aset Ibex, 90%, 100% Resurrection Scroll and Pet Buff Scroll has ended.
-Barrels now have shorter Y selection detection. -Tooltips no longer get cut off at screen edge, improved color. -Perfected position camera function, allowed increased zoom-in for hi res. -Fixed more hi-res bugs, centering character, map scroll borders, weather, etc. -Foraging for resources with Naturalism can now only be done at campfires (not stoves, etc.). -Lockpicking more advanced doors and chests now requires higher level of Cunning. -Improved contract item descriptions and included respect requirements. -Added objects: lightLamp, chest4, sandDune, plantDesert. -Added item: broom (break in half to get 2 sticks).
