It’s already the middle of September, can you believe it? So while it’s not quite time to wake anyone up yet, we’re getting close!



This year has flown by fast, and forgers have not slowed down a bit. We have some more awesome maps to show off – from a floating experience, to roaming some fortress ruins, and more. Let’s take a look!

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Credits: ElphCrimLester, Smullepucke
Bookmark: Levitation



As a mouse modestly said once, we all float on okay.

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Credits: Le Frenchys, Galaxytivity
Bookmark: Warsaw



It’s not quite the Vistula River but the lava river fits the industrial aesthetic.

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Credits: WAR FH, I am a Luxury, W0lfR3ign, marka2263
Bookmark: Archon



A map fit for a king with all the gilded accents and abundant treasure to be found.

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Credits: MikRips, bullet2thehead9, Virus11010
Bookmark: Fortress



Have fun storming the castle Fortress!

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If you’re looking for some Halo: Combat Evolved remakes to check out, hop on over to Mr Metal Man’s video and see his top ten picks. And yes, Chiron TL-34 is here, which automatically makes this amazing.

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Don’t forget we’re still on the lookout for seasonally themed maps so if you got ‘em, let us know using the in-game tags.

• 343ask-Autumn
  
• 343ask-Winter
  
• 343ask-Summer
  
• 343ask-Spring

See you next time for future fancy forges!

Born from darkness and forged by tragedy, the shadow monk walks the path of vengeance, embracing the shadows as his deadliest ally. This hero utilizes his fast reflexes to pummel his enemies with quick strikes. Weaving in and out of combat he can unleash disabling combos.



We are in the final phases of balancing and testing the Shadow Monk. He will be joining the cast of playable characters this month, though we don't have a specific date as to when he will go live. All we can say is he will be in the game once he's ready, and that it will be soon.

Each class within Keeper's Toll offers a truly distinct gameplay experience. Our classes are characterized by their individuality, showcasing an absence of shared abilities, playstyles and stats. Each class boasts its own set of distinctive mechanics that truly set it apart.

If you're eager to delve deeper into the qualities that define the Shadow Monk, we invite you to watch a hands on preview video. (Not final and the class is still subject to change as we continue testing)



If you don't want any spoilers, here's some GIFs instead:






No new build this week as we decided to spend extra time working on the Shadow Monk so we can get him into testing. Next week we will resume weekly builds. The launch of the Shadow Monk will mark our transition from version 0.5.x of Keeper's Toll to 0.6.x. When we get to 0.6.x we will provide an updated Roadmap so everyone has a general idea of what content is coming and when it will be added to the game. We are planning to launch 0.6.x on October 1.

If you are updating from Soul Survivors to Keeper's Toll, there is a migration thread here, with full details:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2002220/discussions/1/5966762350807679166/


As always, thank you to everyone for your support. We appreciate you all joining us here in our Early Access journey. There's loads of new content to come. We're still early!

If you have any comments, questions or feedback please do not hesitate to reach out. Thank you.

Stingbot

A few other nice things are on the way too :eyes:

I’d like to start this by thanking everyone again for the amazing feedback and all the reviews I got for Plague of Yamorn.
The reactions have been unbelievable, literally, like damn, calm down, the game is not that great. ​

Anyway, the TL;DR of this news post would be that 1.1. is still coming, just a bit later than I had hoped and anticipated.

Being a game developer is not my full time job, most indie games don’t make a lot of money, and most game developers dont even make minimum wage (I think the number was around 85%). Me being no exception, which is fine, I have a regular job to pay the bills and I’m just starting out all this gamedev stuff, so I didn’t expect to make money.

What I’m trying to say is that I’m developing in my spare time and due to some personal reasons, that got reduced to a very small amount.
Basically I don't expect to be able to develop more than 1 day a week for the next 6-7 weeks.

There’s been some shake-ups at my regular job as well on top of that and you know how it is, it just do be like that sometimes, it is what it is.

The 1.1. Update is being worked on tho, check this out, some (2) peeks, a secret area that will be in the update, nobody will find it:


Some new effects for the newly upgradeable items:


So yeah, sorry for going radio silent and stay tuned for more updates!

Also, someone was asking about implementation of Steam Trading Cards in Discussions. They deleted the topic before I had the chance to reply, so I’ll do it here.

I’d love to add cards but the game does not qualify yet.
The option becomes available to me once the game reaches “certain player and sales metrics” and “engagement figures”. And what are these “certain player and sales metrics” and “engagement figures”? Well your guess is as good as mine but either way, the game is not eligible yet.

If it ever does become available to me, I’ll definitely add Steam Trading Cards!

And Unity is lucky I’m not making any money from this game otherwise I’d talk about the recent pricing scheme too. I wanted my next project to be a 3D one so I’ll most likely be using Unreal Engine to make it.

Aight' take care now,
DozenByte

Hello heisters,

We want to inform you that Denuvo is no longer in PAYDAY 3.

We look forward to seeing you in New York City!

Happy heisting!

SBZ_Almir

Hello everyone! Texture was kept making errors on materials, and we have remake these textures instead trying to fix the error, that didn't wanted to be fixed in some causes. This is also to be sure its not getting any issues with these Textures in the future.

• Fix of Texture issues.Texture on some materials kept making errors after they were tested approved. Instead of continuing to try and fix the bug, textures for included materials are remake. This helps to ensure that any errors will not occur again.

• Fix of Player VS Player UI. Player VS Player selection issues have been fixed now.

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Place pre-lit bombs in your dungeon! You can link to them to spawn them and adjust the detonation time! We'll test around with this brand new bomb variant.

We're halfway through the Kickstarter and starting to pick up a bit of momentum! We're still behind our goals so consider helping us out if you haven't yet. Thank you so much to our current backers for all of your support - we appreciate you!

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Hello,

Firstly, apologies for the delay in the next update, we have secretly been working on the BIGGEST update yet!

We are pleased to announce that after over a year and a half since the early access release and over 50+ updates in this time, we have finally released version 1.0 of The Backrooms: Survival! Version 1.0 comes to you with a massive update featuring entirely new mechanics, game modes, graphical changes, items, and a LOT more. Read below to find out everything that has changed!

Also, version 1.0 does NOT mean that the game will not receive any more updates. Working on The Backrooms: Survival and watching the community grow has been a fantastic experience, so there are no plans to stop updating it as of now. There are still more updates and other plans for the future (next one already planned for next month!), such as porting the game to other platforms, seasonal updates, any random updates/patches, VR, etc. Version 1.0 simply means that with the massive amount of updates we have released and this mega update, all the content added and new mechanics since the original early access launch, we feel the game has come far enough and fulfilled all that was originally set out to be completed back from March 2023 to simply no longer be considered early access.

Below is the list of changes in this new mega update. WARNING: There is quite a lot of content added to this update, and if you are an old player the new changes may make the game feel almost like a new game, so if you don't want spoilers and want to just go in blind, ignore below and launch the game and see what awaits you! Because there is quite a lot of stuff added, we will split it into categories (new items, weapons, blueprints, etc.) instead of just all together like a normal update. Read below for all the new changes:

New Game Modes:

Four game modes have been introduced. Now, when you start a new single or multiplayer game, you can choose one of four game modes that affect the style of play.

-Classic (Permadeath mode): The original Backrooms: Survival experience. One life, one chance. Die, and your progress and save file for this run are gone!

-Adventure Mode - Explore the backrooms without permadeath. Instead, the death penalty will see you lose random items and money and respawn a few random floors back, unless you choose to give up and accept the death

-Sandbox Mode - Sandbox mode gives you access to a whole list of console commands to do everything from spawning entities, items, god mode, messing around with things such as run speed, other player parameters, etc. A full list of console commands is available on the game's personal wiki. Steam achievements are disabled in sandbox mode for obvious reasons. No permadeath.

-Explore Mode - Think of it as a "peaceful" mode. No entities spawn, so if you just want to explore levels without fear of a monster jumping out, this is it. No permadeath.

-Classic and Adventure mode have their own leaderboards for each category (highest floor, lowest, etc.). Sandbox and Explore do not have leaderboards.

-Multiplayer rooms created for explore and sandbox are invite-only and thus do not appear in the global public lobby, as these are modes you typically would mess around in with friends.

-New save system: You can now save and load multiple different runs at once. When starting a new game, it will be saved to a new slot. You can then load any of these save files at a time, so for example, you can have multiple save files for each of the game modes. Unlocked blueprints persist across all saved files. Permadeath save files are automatically deleted upon death.

-Console commands for Sandbox mode:
-SPAWN ENTITY - spawn entity in front by id
-SPAWN ENTITY RANDOM POSITION - Spawn entity random position on level
-(spawn a random entity by setting ID as -1
-SPAWN ITEM - Spawn item by ID in front of the player
-UP FLOOR - Go up 1 floor
-DOWN FLOOR - Go down 1 floor
-TOGGLE GMODE - toggle god mode
-SET STATUS - Set status on the player for 60 seconds by ID
-SET STATUS MAX - Set status by ID for its maximum time
-RUN SPEED - Set player run speed
-WALK SPEED - set the player's walk speed
-JUMP HEIGHT - Set player jump height
-SET HUNGER - Set player hunger
-SET THIRST - Set player thirst
-SET SANITY - Set player sanity
-SET MONEY - Set player back coins
-ADD ITEM - adds item directly to inventory by ID
-ADD MATERIAL - adds 100 of material by ID
-SET MAX MATERIAL - Sets 9999 of every material
-GIGACHAD - ???
-PURGE ENTITY - removes all entities of that ID
-PURGE ENTITY ALL - removes every entity
-PURGE ITEM - removes an item of that ID
-PURGE ITEM ALL - removes every item



-Entities now have stamina. This means they will be unable to endlessly chase you. Instead, they will fatigue just like you and will have to walk for a few seconds until their stamina recovers allowing them to run again. Bigger entities generally have less stamina than smaller ones and creature-type entities

-Blocking with a melee weapon is now more effective. Previously damage was reduced by 50%, now it is reduced by 70%

-Weapon stats such as damage are shown when selecting a blueprint to craft

-Armor stats are shown when selecting an armor blueprint

-new weapon enhancement effect: Poison. Add poison damage to your weapon

-A settings option to disable the HUD. Useful for taking screenshots and just for messing around

-Critical hits: there is a small chance to deal a critical hit against entities with both melee and ranged weapons, dealing twice the damage. (the damage number will show "critical")

-Headshots: Striking entity heads with melee weapons or ranged deal a headshot and deal extra damage. The damage number will show "headshot"

-New pickup system: You can now pick up items just by standing over them and pressing the pickup button, whereas previously you had to select each item with the cursor/crosshair. This makes it
significantly easier to pick up smaller items, items you may miss (as if you walk over them the prompt appears), or lots of items at once (i.e. enemy loots). You can still use the crosshair to pickup manually or specific items, so for example, if you are standing on an apple but look at a banana, you will pick that up instead of the apple, so the crosshair is primary while the new pick up is secondary.

-Text chat overhaul: Text chat now has a dedicated window where all sent chat messages are displayed, as opposed to the old system where text chat appeared over the player's head. It is now possible to scroll through old messages also. When the text chat is closed, if a message is sent by another player you will receive a small notification on the corner of the screen alerting you of new unread messages.

-The current level you are on is now moved to be under the hotkey bar and is hidden when inventory is open

-The maximum number of players for an online game is increased from 6 to 14. While a high number, it is useful if you want to create a large room with lots of friends for chaos

-Loading screens have been added during level transitions. A random tip is shown on each loading screen. Players will need to press a key to proceed when the level is finished loading.

-The current game most is shown in the bottom left corner of the inventory

-Added a playable "Hound" skin character

-The Obituary records are spaced out and in a darker font so easier to read. The game mode is also shown for that run

-The "time survived" stat pauses while you are incapacitated/dead.

-Added a main menu button linking to the wiki

-Main menu GUI overhaul

-new level 0 wall texture

-changed the look of the "drunk effect" to be more of a drunken blur than a white fade

-New Pause menu GUI

-disable background UI while the pause is open

-Dead entity corpses will despawn after 30 seconds. This is to reduce clutter, lag, and corpses piling up blocking passageways rendering some players stuck or trapped.

-Durability for weapons/tools is shown on hotkey bars also

-When highlighting an item on the ground with the crosshair, its name will now be shown above the use and examine buttons. (This was previously the case for weapons only, now it is for all items).

-A chance for the default backrooms theme (level 0 ) to be more open and wide similar to the original OR the standard backrooms survival narrow corridors

-Headshot kills on entities will decapitate their head clean off with bloody effects also

-Changed some pistol reload animations (i.e. flintlock)

-Improved the torture room floor texture

-short "RE: CODE" logo intro on starting the game

-Main menu BGM added

-graphical improvements to lighting

New Status Affects:

-Haste: increases movement speed

-Ward: protects you from being inflicted with negative statuses such as poison, bleeding, etc

-Energized: prevents stamina from reducing

New Weapons:

We have added a few "modern" weapons as this is something that has been heavily requested. For balance reasons, they are of course not too OP and they are quite rare to find and expensive to buy. They are similar to the nail gun but slightly better.
-9mm Pistol

-308 Hunting rifle

-44 Revolver

-38 Snub revolver

New Items:

-Venom Enhancement Kit - adds poison enhancement to your weapon

-Protection gem: bestows "Ward" on the player. Can be found.

-Energy Nut: eat it to bestow "Energized" on yourself

-Speed Seed: eat it to bestow haste on yourself

-9mm Ammo box: contains a handful of 9mm bullets

-308 Ammo box: contains a handful of .308 bullets

-38 Ammo box: contains a handful of .38 bullets

-44 Ammo box: contains a handful of .44 bullets

-Ascension Crystal: used to instantly ascend to the next floor. Can only be found. Very rare.

-Descension Crystal: used to instantly descend to the below floor. Can only be found. Very rare.

-Warp Gem: used to warp to a random spot on the current level instantly. Can only be found. Quite rare.

New Blueprints:

-9mm Pistol

-308 Hunting Rifle

-44 Revolver

-38 Snub

-9mm ammo

-38 ammo

-308 ammo

-44 ammo

New Achievements:

-Achievement for using any teleport gem/crystal

-Achievement for headshotting an entity

-Achievement for acquiring the haste effect

-Achievement for obtaining a modern weapon

Bug Fixes:

-Fixed clicking the resume button on the pause menu sometimes not unpausing the game (before had to press escape if this happened)

-Stopped the safe level spawning items. This was a bug as it led to an exploit of being able to farm items without threat

-When going to a new level, players no longer "fall" while the level is loading but are set to the correct position instantly

-Fixed the death animation where the player ragdolls not working in singleplayer (previously the player would fall instantly without transition)

-Fixed a bug where you could use hotkeys while text chat is open

-Fixed blueprints being lost to corruption

-Fixed starting a multiplayer game deleting single-player saves

-Fixed ladder spawning in trees in winter whiteout (snow) level

-Fixed a bug where the battery/oil life of flashlights/lanterns will persist to new ones. I.e you have a dead flashlight, pick up a new one, and that will also be dead. They all now have their own independent life.

-Fixed the stamina slider disappearing sometimes, usually when alt-tabbing out of steam

-Fixed a bug where if you fall/do not clip out the level in multiplayer, you wouldn't respawn to a random position (as is the case in singleplayer)

-Fixed instantly dying to lava in multiplayer levels sometimes when entering the level

-Fixed a bug preventing you from passing floor 100 in multiplayer

-Fixed a bug that sometimes caused you to not be able to pick up items

-Fixed a bug preventing locked doors/bars appearing to close when starting a single-player game

-Fixed item duplication bug

-Fixed items sometimes not spawning on low levels

-blueprint backup for extra protection: If somehow you do lose your blueprints in a crash, just reload any old save file saved with them and they'll be restored globally

-Fixed gunpowder sprite showing as "wood" incorrectly

-Moved some inventory GUI around to stop some elements from overlapping





Thank you all who have supported the game during the early access period, and were there to help with suggestions and feedback through the many, many updates we have released, as always, we'll see you in the next update!

Cheers!

• Avalonia converted to stable release cycle.
  
• Interrupts work in battle now!
  
• Added "Held" and "Description" to Shop Items.
  
• Fixed an issue with importing data under bad circumstances to Statistics.

Hi everyone,

Now that we've got our first EA stability patch released we'd like to give a quick roadmap update so you know what to expect in the coming few weeks of early access development. This won't be a roadmap for the full EA period, just for the next 3 patches.

Patch 1 - Scaling difficulty levels past Insane - This will be an incremental difficulty toggle that you'll be able to increase as you beat each subsequent level. Each difficulty level will add an additional modifier to the map that will increase the difficulty in some way or another.

Patch 2 - Content Updates and improvements - We've been gathering a ton of data on augment / blueprint / deployment / relic usage and average scores and winrates as more and more people play games. This patch will focus on making improvements to balance, as well as adding additional augments (and possibly some new buildings).

Patch 3 - Scenarios + Groundwork for Map editor - Scenarios are a feature that existed in our earliest playtest versions of the game where you could load maps that other players had abandoned or failed and attempt to complete them from where they had been left off. We'll be making improvements to this feature concept and releasing it back into the game. At the same time we'll also be laying the groundwork for the map editor which will be released in a later patch.

Throughout this period we'll also be doing bug fixes, and polish tasks so expect a lot of additional improvements in the coming weeks! (And don't worry, Infinite mode is under way, but it's a huge project and will take some time).

Thanks a lot for playing everyone and we hope you enjoy the upcoming content!

P.S. If you'd like to chat with us or give us any direct feedback, or get help with strategies from other players, or even just share your games, we'd love to chat with you in our discord server: https://discord.gg/BVwxN3pa