Welcome to this week's development report :)

Level: Continued working on the materials as well as research regarding level building tools.

Code: Continuing to make progress on the processing range.

Character: Great progress on outfits and concepts. We will let the pictures speak for themselves.








Animations: Maya x Shiva minigame finished on the animation side this week and ready for implementation. Maya x Rad animation pack finished and currently being implemented into the engine. Transferred the Maya x Kral animations from last week to Shey x Kral.

Design: Finished a first pass of character progression design. Review done, but ultimately not yet approved. Continued to work on various cutscenes.
Started working on the "Sexy Quiz" quest for Sky Village. Test your knowledge on Kerpal history and you might be rewarded with a kiss!
Further topics on the Design workload this week were:

• Sky village cave system blockout
  
• Item list review
  
• Started Sky Village quest and dialog implementation

Thank you for all your continued support,

-Wild Life Team

I didn't quite make it for the stealth fest but 1.1 Resistance Supplies is now finally live!

You can now cause comms blackouts at any time with the jam pod, blind ships with the new dazzler gadget, silently disable them with EMP effectors or the new Hex-9 hybrid tool, link enemy reactors to eliminate multiple ships simultaneously or straight up blanket an outposts with various types of (expensive) fire support.
Passive upgrades also got many new additions, among other things now allowing for high accuracy builds via hard reductions of minimum weapon sway. Sonar can be modified to detect through objects, you can get free disguises each zone, or reactive dazzlers that blind anyone who looks at you too carefully. There are ways to increase your personnel and PS gains from missions now, but you can also spend excess PS on a one time run bonus or go into missions with a completely random loadout, using the new shuttle ship that gets crowd-sourced gear when deploying. Oh and there is a offense-focused salvager that can straight up disassemble wrecked CorPo ships to regain health.

If you have some PS banked you can add some of the new gear to your loadout immediately. Other items come with new unlock requirements, many revolving arround mastering the new and old ships. I also added a couple new training simulations to introduce some of the new items as well as previously existing mechnics. And TacHI can now give you random tips on the title screen. Cheers! Full changelog here.

As with all my updates, 1.1 is now part of the game for free. I hope you get something out of it.
A thousand limbs uplift you!

- Fixed mortar spawn issue on Castle Itter
- Fixed debug window opening on Shift-D
- Fixed mortar AI bug
- Multiplayer stability improvements
- Visual tweaks

Known issues:
- Internet connection issues when creating a new challenge can cause an issue
- Mortar AI needs further improvement following immediate bug fix
- 2D allied counters are over-exposed

Plus other reported issues! Many thanks to those who have provided feedback and suggestions.

Fixed some UI Inconsistencies.

Be sure to check out https://www.wildwoodthegame.wiki/wiki/Getting_Started for a guide on getting started in Wildwood!

New Stuff
-Added 3 new ships.
-Added 9 new weapons.
-Added 7 new gadgets.
-Added 18 new upgrades.
-Added 60+ mods for both old and new gear.
-Some of these options allow for randomized loadout runs and one-time run bonuses by expanding excess PS.
-There are also ways to accelerate personnel and PS gain now, if you can spare the deploy budget.
-Added a couple new training and challenge simulations.
-Added TacHI avatar to the title screen that gives random daily tips.

Changes/Balancing
-Max tech levels increased (120-->180).
-Subsistence score (from taking excess SRM into missions) is now scored separately from loot score.
-HARP-R and SCRW SPINR now deal EMP damage by default and can be converted back to kinetic with mods.
-EMICRO base supf increased (30-->60)
-RPAM-7K reserve ammo increased and deploy cost reduced (14-->10).
-STAPL-R ammo print mod now works on a per-zone basis.
-TRIPWIRE ammo increased (12-->16).
-Tripwire can no longer damage shielded ships.
-EM TORP buffed (damage: 160-->200, damage fall off: -75% --> -50%, AoE: 2.5-->3, ammo: 4-->8).
-Increased EMP duration caused by EMP explosions by 100%.
-FLASH TORP now detonates silently.
-FLASH TORP ammo increased (8->12).
-CMND TKN ammo increased (12->24).
-Dazzler explosions no longer require guards to directly laze the dazzler source, instead they blind any guards that are mostly facing towards the flash (215°).
-When disguised, LP ui now shows your remaining disguise integrity.
-MIRROR VARNISh LP penalty reduced (+20%-->+5%)
-H-WAVE RADAR range increased.
-WHISPER CHIP now also shows CorPo force composition (on inventory tooltip.)
-FEED UMBIBLICAL now prevents weapons from ejecting their remaining loaded ammo on reload.
-Shield bonuses on multiple items rebalanced.
-Using melee on melee immune objects now causes longer melee cooldown.
-Reinforcements on high level missions might have their shields plugged into the G-Dock, allowing them to be continuously shielded while stored.
-Any guards that heard a threatening sound will now eventually attempt to report, if other guards closer to the sound are prevented from reporting.
-Specialist guards are now bold enough to attempt to report when you board them, as long as their ship hasn't been disabled yet.
-Specialist guards will now resist interrogation until their ship is disabled.
-Starting with zone 4, mission areas are now surrounded by core-fusion dead zones that prevent you from escaping off-grid.
-Killing an EBO ironically no longer count against no kills bonus (not sentient enough?).
-Bossfights spawn more guards now.
-Resupply no longer increases in price per use.
-Disabled state now removes blinded/deafened markers form guards. (Superfluous at that point.)

Fixes
-Fixed dazzler detonations not affecting guards correctly.
-Fixed melee sensory stun still affecting melee immune enemies.
-Fixed a situation in which player would be able to call evac even though evac is already in progress.
-Fixed a problem with triggering placed gadgets via lidar.
-Fixed unintentional multi explosions in certain circumstances.
-Fixed a problem with how certain passive and ship specific effects are applied.
-Fixed mine detection elements not being affected by convection. (?)
-Fixed MAG MINE detection ui not being removed correctly on detonation.
-Fixed WRNCH ARM not using up ammo when sabotaging comms stations.
-Fixed a problem with displaying wildlife help comms.
-Fixed vault crates being movable under lockdown.
-Fixed a problem with how certain spring sounds are initiated.
-Fixed a problem preventing escort ships from getting re-tasked if their lead is taken out.
-Fixed some instances of ship struct ejection fallback not taking effect.
-Fixed game re-entering fullscreen on return to title (?).
-Fixed player exiting deafened state not resetting certain engine sounds correctly.
-Fixed some problems with how elevator location text is handled.
-Fixed friendly ships using wrong intro TacHI intro text when boarded.
-Fixed selecting empty inventories showing previous tooltips.
-Fixed Puffstar sliding your an extra mag on deployment, leading to rediculous ammo gain on certain weapons.
-Fixed bad unknown value on CorPo Scaffolds.
-Fixed some typos.

- changed player run animation
- difficulty decreased a little (alerts range from 20 to 17.5, enemies now notice you a little slower, hostile AI view range decreased)

Happy Friday, friends!

Glad to be back at it! If you missed our last digest, Michael and I were helping run and teach a summer camp, Girls Make Games, for three weeks in July. That's why we've had a shortage of digests last month. Good news though, we are working hard this week!

Remember back before this latch patch when all the loot tables were iffy and we fixed them, but couldn't get the patch out because of navigation issues? Well those navigation issues were because we changed a setting to get dungeons working and changing the setting back didn't fix it. It was a long tedious process, but eventually got it fixed and patched out. My point in reminding you of this, is that dungeons are going to be a bit more tricky than we thought. We do want to make the dungeons procedural and a big part of that is having navigation for enemies to be able to walk around. We know that dungeons a HUGE requested feature. We'll be slowly working on it and other things at the same time. We want to get more updates out quicker, rather than spend months on large systems.

So with that in mind, we've been working on fishing! The basic system is about to go out to testers and then we'll be adding all the fish in the world! I don't have a timeline for you (it'll be soon!), but a cute tidbit - the fish are measured in Smidgens!



You'll soon be able to spend your days on the docks finding those rare fish or just hanging out with your friends bonding over the water.



TLDR: Dungeons will take longer, but are still coming. Fishing is very soon!

See you all next week!

-Janna & Michael

When the game was announced in March 2021, I promised four chapters and three realms to explore, today I'm glad that I could honor that promise, the Final Chapter is available now alongside the transition to the Final Early Access Phase.

Members of the Alder Forge Community, We Are Hereby and Officially at the Start of the Final Early Access Phase and the Final Stretch to Launch.

• The Final chapter is completed and unlocked, members of the Alder Forge Community who finished Chapter 3 (They're in Story Point 3.F) can progress further in the story until the end of the game.
  
• Status ailments, buffs, and debuffs tracking icons are added in combat to the stat details UI.
  
  
• A Freebie Gift DLC folder is added to where you installed the game and includes the following:
  
  1. PDF file: The detailed full continent map.
     
  2. PDF file: Val Fiery Netherwave Sangréal Bloodline.
     
  3. PDF file: De Roy Netherwave Sangréal Bloodline.
     
  4. PDF file: Sieg Vulpes Netherwave Sangréal Bloodline.
     
  5. 4K Artworks folder for the majority of the main characters appearing in this game.
• Removed the combination to execute the Anima Latent Skill and replaced it with one button that you can freely set in the Main/Pause menu key binding section. (It is recommended for members of the Alder Forge Community who modified their key bindings to check both Keyboard/Combat and Controller/Combat Tabs before resuming their adventure.)
  
• A full VFX and SFX pass is done for all the party members and guests as well.
  
• A full VFX and SFX pass is done for the mobs alongside a few bosses.
  
• NPC's Dialogue boxes and Optional Conversation Events' A or Enter buttons will fill the dialogue first then skip afterward. (If it is not filled already). The Text speed controls were added as well during Phase 3.
  
• The Soundtrack from the start of the Prolepsis has changed from the "Fourth Squadron - Disc 1" to "Battle of Voxenhold - Disc 3".
  
• Multiple Conversation sub-events were added to the Pax Residence during the Purple Night in the Final Chapter.
  
• The Anima Latent Progress Bar is redesigned.
  
• VFX and SFX pass for the characters' animations during exploration.
  
• Some of the skills' SFX and VFX have been reworked.
  
• UI SFX and VFX during combat are updated.

Here are the rest of the updates and extra optional events added during Phase 3:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1575590/announcements/detail/3642885826022242943
Royal Weapons Pack Optional Event

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1575590/announcements/detail/3704812854410605010
Fragments sub-events and the optional boss "Azure Eques"

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1575590/announcements/detail/3717201017015447421
Combat Plus Update: Anima Latent Skills and Anima Bar

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1575590/announcements/detail/3705943193598859866
Optional Boss Event: Third Round of Sanctus Nuntius



Video Subject: Finale Gameplay Trailer


Video Subject: Battle Soundtrack Demo



During the Final Stretch to Launch, I will go back to the start of the game for a quick final quality pass starting with the Prolepsis and Chapter 1 and moving forward until the Final Chapter.


I hope that this Final Early Access transition has brought you a complete digital entertaining experience, and thank you for your continued support for this world, characters, and story.

Kind Regards,
Zine. E. Falouti

Welcome to the 57th edition of our biweekly newsletter! Today, we will share one of our community's highly requested topics, the upcoming customization in Ready or Not.

Remember that the following is an early preview of our customization system, and everything that the players see here will look entirely different later. This will incorporate the community's involvement at various stages rather than just during the final touches.

Introduction

The VOID Interactive team constantly uses their brushes and canvases to expand the clothing combinations so you can distinguish yourself easily when approaching the dangerous streets of Los Sueños.

Mery.G (Gerard), an ambitious character artist at VOID, will be joining different parts of our news to share more information about the process.


Kicking off with a practical but essential clothing piece for SWAT members, the players can choose from a long list of gloves through an available UI. We understand that aesthetics play an important role in an immersive game such as Ready or Not, so you will have the freedom to add or switch parts for your character while combining your favorite colors.

After talking to Gerard, he decided to dive a bit into his key references that make all these assets possible.

"When I started getting into the whole 3D creation realm, I started making content for a competition called 'Make ArmA not War.' The premise was simple: just create content. The better I got at it, the more I realized how simple and fun it is to be able to just replicate things you see or have used in real life, and that just stuck with me. I love anything art, painting, or music, so this is my way of expressing and enjoying myself, and I'm happy we have people excited about and enjoying the things we've released. Also, I love collaborating and working with others and, when possible, helping or teaching them, as I feel like I always learn something new from everyone I meet."

━ 🎨 Mery.G

Above: Multiple images representing some of the many skins when talking about gloves.


Can't chase Los Sueños suspects without something to support your agility. Originally, this section was not planned for the early preview due to the shoes still catching up with the attention and love compared to the other ones but we believe that this will still give an idea for future reference.

"It's important to us that we tell the stories of those who place their lives in danger to help those in need. No matter how gritty and terrible these scenarios might be, it is part of what makes them
realistic.

This feat also finds people utilizing different tools and equipment for the specific jobs, and While I know it might not be as exciting for some to play 'Dress Up' it is a way for us as Developers to offer players their own way of expression within our game, Giving the players the option to choose How the game looks in first person so that the stories and things that develop as they play our game become their stories too."

━ 🎨 Mery.G

Above: A work-in-progress look at something slick and sporty, together with a splash of texture as partial conclusion.

Presentation: Glasses

The department managed to experiment with a variety of accessories as well. As seen in this development update, we are trying to step away from the "choose a full outfit" format since that can automatically block a lot of freedom regarding character customization.

"It's really exciting to work in this area, mainly because I can't wait to see people using a lot of the things we create in their videos or reviews. I'm always humbled to see things I've helped create in people's content; it is quite surreal.

The tools we've been using for a lot of the creative work being done have been things like Autodesk Maya, Blender, Adobe Substance Painter and Zbrush."
━ 🎨 Mery.G

Above: Different color tints and types for one of the accessory sections, glasses.


As an experienced member of the Special Weapons and Tactics team, your duty is to serve and protect the citizens of Los Suenos, placing yourself in extreme scenarios where mere seconds are deemed essential. With that in mind, showing an imposing presence through strategies is not out of the question.

Gather your friends and let your ideas flow with fresh additions to the tactical masks collection.

"I've been a longtime collaborator with Modding projects and Groups, Red Hammer Studios, and USP. It's always a pleasant experience to see how talented all these artists are. Those who don't know that I source and try a lot of the gear we use as references, and I love going to different airsoft events here in the States like MSW, so there's also that. Shout out to TFM!"

━ 🎨 Mery.G

Above: A few examples connected to headgear that allow the player to have more doors toward preferences.

Feel free to explore a seamless blend of designs as you mix and match across your gameplay. We look forward to showing our members the final versions of this system in the near future.






This concludes our 57th briefing. Be sure to tune in next time for more development news!

If you’d like to help us test new content during playtesting periods on the Supporter exclusive experimental branch, provide us with your game feedback, and keep up with the Supporter community; you can become a supporter at www.voidinteractive.net or at our Steam store page.

Are you a content creator on YouTube or Twitch looking for new games? We got you covered; Ready or Not has officially partnered with Lurkit to elevate gameplay! Make sure to follow us here: https://www.lurkit.com/games/ready-or-not

Make sure you follow Ready or Not on Steam here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1144200/Ready_or_Not/

Over and out,
VOID Interactive

• Improved companion system, creatures won't run away if the player
approaches while holding bait (except when player running)
• Interactable items are highlighted
• Easily export your photos from the photobook to your pc
• Quest conversations are more easily readable by letting you skip
• Underwater particles and water surface shader fix
• Added volumetric clouds option
• Input prompt icons