Hello everyone!

We're just about recovered from Gamescom 2023 where Horticular was chosen to be part of this years Indie Arena Booth (as well as taking part in the official stream schedule!)


This was the Gamescom 2023 team outside of the Cologne Cathedral! From left to right: John, Mike, Matt, Robert, Dan P, Liam

Robert, the developer of Horticular, was on hand to showcase the game (minus a couple of days due to being poorly) along with the entire Slug Disco publishing team!

You can hear from Robert in this below interview he did with Mike - you'll have to excuse the lighting making him look like a crazy scientist!



Over 320,000 people attended Gamescom this year and I think I'm only just now getting back to normal, but I can't get comfy as me (Dan P) and Liam are jetting off to Tokyo in two weeks to showcase Horticular at the Tokyo Game Show as part of the Slug Disco booth!

If you're there we will have a new stock of Horticular pin badges for you to grab as well as a Japanese localised version of the game.

Evil Nun: The Broken Mask has a new trailer and is premiering at Fearfest, the festival hosted by Feardemic. You can follow the event here: https://www.youtube.com/live/3kMdq9k00U0?feature=shared (Starting at 20h CET).

We'd also like to announce that, for this week only, coinciding with the event, you can grab the game at a 10% discount right here on Steam.

Hello Agents!

Over the last few weeks we've been working on a demo of the game, as well as a feature that will allow you to export and import your save game to make it compatible with the demo version of the game. We are very keen to make the game more accessible to everyone and to grow our community in order to gather valuable feedback and improve the game, and the demo is a step in that direction.

We've also been working on some localization issues and some user interface bugs.

We've also started work on a major update that will include a major change to the core mission loop, which we hope will be a fun addition to the game. However, it is still too early to talk too much about this feature. We will keep you updated on our progress over the coming week.

Have fun and best regards
Defend Earth: Xenos Survivors Team



- Added menu for resetting, exporting and importing savestates from files (including savestates from prelude)




- Fixed some minor localization issues
- Fixed UI overlap in In-Game options menu

Hey Everyone,

Today we're giving anyone interested access to the game's BETA branch, to preview the changes coming in season 2. To get access, follow these steps:

Go to your Steam library, right click the game entry and select properties.

Go to the Betas section, enter the code beta12345678, then hit the check code button.

Switch to the beta branch from the drop down menu.


You can freely change between the beta and live branches at any time. All cards will be unlocked while on the beta branch.

Aside from the changes from last week's post, what you can expect on the gameplay side is mostly changed players. There are too many to list here, and we'll leave you to discover them by yourselves, but here just a few from a high level perspective:

• Nicola Jokeric passive rework
  
• Joel Embiid passive and skill rework
  
• Paszcal Siacam full rework
  
• Dejonte Murrei skill rework
  
• Upgrade many cards to legendary and reworked they kits: Tireze Macsey, Marccus Smarrt, LaMello Boll, Donatas Saboniz, Cabe Cuningham, Laurin Mackanen, Jared Alen, Dezmond Bein.
  
• Partially added rookies from the draft

This not an exhaustive list, and we are not done with the changes. You will be playing on a development environment, and we will keep making changes over the next few weeks. Expect an update every Wednesday until the final release.

What is left to do:

• We still have a lot of players to remove, replace or upgrade
  
• Rarities for players are not final. Just as we upgraded many to legendary, and still have a few to do, many rare players will be upgraded to epic.
  
• Salaries are not final. Our approach to salaries is that every player's salary is relative to all other salaries, based on a formula that assigns value to their attributes, passives and skills. Before we can do the final fine tuning for salaries, we need all players to be close to final.
  
• Bot teams have not been reworked based on the new mechanics, players or salaries. They are the same ones as on the live environment. Same as salaries, this will be one of the final steps in the process.

Know issue: The tutorial does not work correctly as it's being reworked. Please concede the tutorial, after which you can play the game normally.

As Season 2 will also be our mobile release, we've updated the gameplay HUD to work better on mobile.

• Increased the size of the cards on the board
  
• Skill buttons are now aligned vertically on the right side
  
• Bench buttons have moved to the left side
  
• Box score button moved to the top right

You can reach us directly on the game's Discord server if you would like to provide feedback.

Thank you and good luck!

Hello all,

Patch 1.4.2 is live, with a small handful of big bugs fixed in the area of losing and duplicating Exiles. See the changelist below for details. We are not planning another patch between now and the first of our two content updates, still aiming for October. If some issues arise we’ll take a look at them.

One warning about the next update, version 1.5: this update will have new content and balance adjustments for the solar systems and procedural generation. Because of this and other technical details, when the update is applied any in-progress journeys cannot continue and will have to be restarted.

All progress you've made outside of journeys (game configuration unlocks) are unaffected.

We understand this is not an ideal situation, but due to the nature of procedural generation, the small size of our team, and general technical/scope details, it is unavoidable. We have spent a lot of time behind the scenes exploring and testing alternatives, but ultimately this is the cleanest solution for everyone.

We’ll be reminding folks on the Steam discussion forums and social media about the update going live.

(🌙 = community report)

• 🌙 Fixed a Exile duplication issue with larger ships
  
• 🌙Cannot create an engine in the Vault shipyard if the Vault Reserves are full
  
• 🌙 Fixed an issue with Exiles disappearing in certain cases
  
• Prevented entering hibernation while holding an Exile
  
• Prevented an exploit of teleporting Exiles across space
  
• Fixed a minor interface issue with the Exile hotbar

In certain cases, restarting a solar system does not clear a Chronicle entry if you got it in that solar system. A fix for this is ready but for some technical considerations we are waiting to implement it later.

Thank you!

-nic

Dear players,

Thank you for your feedback. The contents of this update are as follows:
1. The character interface now includes five sets of rune schemes that can be freely switched within the Hall of Heroes.

Note: To ensure the best gaming experience, please make sure you have downloaded the latest version of the game.

Hotfix v1.0.2:
- Fixed bug that made it unable to start a New Custom Game

- Disabled Boot and Feather Artifacts to be used in the Forge

Resolved Screenshot Gallery Picture Exception
Notice: Some Players Added Images to their Screenshot Gallery that we causing errors. With this bug fix we've managed to remove the cause of this errors.
Resolved Walkthrough Bug that occured in 4K/HiFi Upgrade.
Notice: Bug occured when players tried to access Walkthrough DLC in Steam Overlay from 4K/HiFi Upgrade version of the game.
Added possibility to open Walkthrough screen in Main Menu.
Added some new Voiceover audio files for Eve and Naomi in Episode 10.

Hey guys, do you have any plans for Wednesday❓ Of course, our community stream😁, Today at 8:00 PM CET, we'll see you on our channel, where we'll tell you what we're currently working on🤩 and showcase some (moderately) amazing vehicle driving and luggage carrying (throwing🏀) skills. See you there💪!

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