Greetings! The bulk of this update actually came earlier this month (Sept 14th) over on itch. A few updates that have come since then will also be rolled into this post! I wanted there to be a record of it on the Steam page as I work to expand my presence here - and new updates will all be posted here moving forward!

This update some hotfixes and minor improvements based on the feedback from DD52 and others. hopefully I'll have a big build soon, but until then this should fix most issues.

• Combat Arts now function like Spells, and can be added to the Hot Bar Slot where only Spells used to go.
  
• Added Blocked state to enemies. Enemies that can't reach the player will move to the closest available position and wait until a path is opened up.
  
• You can finally right click to drink potions from the inventory. This one's for you, PATdev
  
• Changing keys in game will update hotkey text. And on the Help page, shortcuts will use currently bound keys instead of default keys
  
• Added a new item rarity type, "semirares". Semirares will include Wands, Staffs (Staves?) and Fetish Idols, which were previously considered rare alongside Rings and Amulets. Semirares will drop more often than rares, while rares will drop slightly less often. This is to address the cases of somebody wanting to do a wand build, but just never getting wand drops due to the low droprate. I'll experiment with this and tweak it over time.
  
• Added the "end of game" screen at the demo-checkpoint

• Door width changed. Doors are now slimmer, and enemies can be funneled through them. 2-3 enemies can fit in a door, and the rest will enter a Blocked state
  
• Slightly improved door highlight visuals for when the mouse-over part of the door is obstructed by a wall. It will now be properly highlighted.
  
• Defense is renamed to Dodge.
  
• Changed the way terrain works. This will allow for more lightsources, but it comes at a slight loading time cost on entering new levels. This is very much subject to change, adn can be reverted if the loading times prove too long.
  
• Added light source to fireball spell projectiles.
  
• Improved two-handed attack animation
  
• Evasion now has a visual effect and a sound effect. Normal miss on an enemy with evasion will trigger the evasion visuals
  
• Slight UI improvements, including new sliders and small hotbar changes, like being able to click the spell slot to open the spell book
  
• Changed the '% to get Mana on hit' modifier to 'Get X Mana every 10th hit'
  
• Added an "OK" button to NPCs to end the current dialog
  
• Minimap improved to make the player and doors more easily readable
  
• New Mimic SFX

• Fixed hotkey text on UI to show symbols (such as =) instead of writing out the symbol( such as "equal sign")
  
• Fixed bug with gloves not dropping off the equipment slot if the requirements for wearing them are no longer met
  
• Fixed Thrown Weapons always having 0 accuracy
  
• Fixed several issues with the Knightslayer weapon
  
• Fixed Mimic bumping into Barrels making them disappear
  
• Fixed +Resistance potions removing twice the resistance value they gave on expiration
  
• Fixed issues with the Always On outline
  
• Fixed the Fetish Idol resizing under rare scenarios
  
• Fixed Flaming Skulls jaws (their death visuals) leaving holes in the navmesh if the player loaded a save on the same level
  
• Many animation fixes/improvements
  
• Other minor changes

That's all for now. Some big news is coming soon. Stay tuned for more!
As always, feel free to report any issues you come across.

Today’s patch (September 26th) packs in a number of changes across the board – introducing balance updates including a rework to the Repair mechanic, stability improvements and preparing for a spooky seasonal event that kicks off next month. We’re also bringing a new map rotation to Ranked Season Five and have plans to extend the season overall (more on that in a bit!).

💬 DISCUSS: Official Forum
💬 DISCUSS: Steam Forum
🗣 JOIN: Official Discord

Thanks again to our amazing community members, all of whom have helped to make Age of Empires what it is today!

—The Age of Empires Team

This is just a small taste of what is coming in the latest update. For a more complete list, please visit our site and check out our blog. Happy Gaming!

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New! Seasonal Event - Hallow's Hearth

Starting next month, you’ll be able explore a delightfully spooky biome with our latest seasonal event, Hallow’s Hearth. This event features an eerie event-exclusive biome and 10 challenges to overcome for thematic rewards. We hope you have a hauntingly good time!

Hallow’s Hearth runs from October 3rd at 10:00 am PT through November 7th at 11:59 pm PT.

Seasonal Biome: Hallow's Hearth Biome

A dark and spooky environment with bare earth and sinister-looking trees. The Hallow’s Hearth biome brings a sense of eeriness just beyond the fog of war! This special biome will be available for a limited time and throughout the seasonal event from September 26th through November 14th at 10:00 am PT!

Hallow’s Hearth Event

*The “Threatening” event challenge can be completed on any biome despite the in-game text.

Login Events

Don’t miss out on these login rewards, available for a limited time only!

• Cat in a Hat – October 2nd at 10am PT through October 8th at 11:59pm PT
  
• Pumpkin Head – October 26th at 10am PT through November 1st at 11:59pm PT
  
• Roses – November 2nd at 10am PT through November 7th at 11:59pm PT

Ranked Season Updates

Season Five’s Ranked Season will extend from October 23rd to November 13th at 11:59pm PT – enjoy the extra time to climb the ladder. Remember: For the first time Ranked Rewards will be given out based on the highest rank you achieve at any point during the season!

[h4]Map Pool Rotation[/h4]
Today’s patch also comes with a full map rotation for Ranked play, and some map-related changes for Unranked Quickmatches!

Unranked Quickmatch Changes

• Hill and Dale and Wetlands have been added to the map pool for Unranked Quickmatch.
  
• Unranked map downvotes increased from 5 to 7.

1v1 Ranked Map Pool

• Altai
  
• Danube River
  
• Dry Arabia
  
• Four Lakes
  
• Golden Heights
  
• High View
  
• Hill and Dale
  
• Lipany
  
• Prairie

Team Ranked Map Pool

• Dry Arabia
  
• Golden Heights
  
• Hideout
  
• High View
  
• Hill and Dale
  
• Lipany
  
• Prairie
  
• The Pit
  
• Wetlands

Queue Dodging

Today’s build invalidates some common forms of Queue Dodging that exploited the game’s menus and UI. The actions needed to execute these dodges can no longer be performed in-game.

Please Note: As part of updating to this latest build, any saved games and observable matches made on previous builds will be unable to be loaded or replayed.

This is just a small taste of what is coming in the latest update. For a more complete list, please visit our site and check out our blog. Happy Gaming!

:alertalert: DISCLAIMER

This list is subject to change and should not be considered a comprehensive list of all the known issues we’re tracking. The above is to inform you of the team’s current priorities, which will change as other issues arise or take precedence.

For the latest updates and announcements, please visit our social channels.

+ Redesign of the “Amboise Materiaux” store in La Reigneire
+ Redesign of the UFO Grill
+ The security gate is now functional -> can detect pistol, pickaxe, axe, knife and crowbar
+ Added a new item "Pile of sand" -> 1619 (Purchasable at the Presto Depot, Miscellaneous category)


- Correction of the terrain of the Amboise Nord gas station (Too small)
- Fixed missing collisions from some trees
- The connected screens ID 1437 / 1442 / 1443 are no longer usable
These objects were unstable and could cause big drops in FPS / crash, if used incorrectly
- Only PNG, JPEG and JPG formats are supported for RP screens and flocking
- Lowering the limit of RP screens to 1024x1024px (formerly 2000x2000px)
- Fixed trucks/karts that never disappeared in fake
- Minor fixes


List of ID items/cars : click here
Link of essential plugin (.dll): click here
Wiki NL : click here

Hello there, 👋🏻

While we've been hard at work all summer, eagerly crafting our next big feature, but we couldn't resist sharing some delightful improvements for you to enjoy in the meantime.


New Features 💫

Teleport Point
We're excited to introduce the latest addition to our UI Collection: the Teleport Point. This animated asset is designed to enhance your experiences and provide more engaging hints to your Space's players!



Improvements 👍🏾

Media Panel
We wanted to offer you the ability to seamlessly integrate Media Panels into your assets, creating a convincing screen effect. With our latest update, you now have the option to completely hide the borders of the Media Panel. Give it a try!


Also, in response to numerous requests, we've included a highly-requested feature: the ability to pause and resume Media Panel medias using the Play and Stop media nodes. Explore this exciting addition today!

Avatar Recorder
In June, we unveiled the Avatar Recorder, and after extensive feedback and internal testing, we identified a crucial missing piece: lip movement recording.

We are thrilled to announce this exciting enhancement, enabling the Avatar Recorder to capture not only your movements but also your lip sync, allowing you to create the most lifelike and immersive experiences.



Bug Fixes 🐞

• Fixed an issue where a player wouldn't be able to manipulate an asset correctly using the Transform Gizmo when the Gizmo would be hovering a locked asset.
  
• Fixed an issue in the Collections where some Collection name were scrolling in reverse.
  
• On the Quest - Fixed a bug where turning the microphone permission on or off while having StellarX opened would not be handled properly.
  
• Fixed a problem where Monorail videos were not playing in Play mode.
  
• Fixed a big issue where transparency through fade ins or fade outs would not work on imported GLBs and GLTFs.
  
• Fixed an issue where undoing or redoing an action in Multiplayer Create would close the Collections panel for all players.

Thanks again for being part of our journey! We're always striving to enhance your experience, and your feedback is invaluable. Stay tuned for more exciting updates in the future!! 🎉


Cheers,

- The StellarX Crew ✨

Gameplay

• Added red, blue, and yellow starfish to possible beach generated shells.
  
• There is a counter display now when you are next to mushroom showing how many shrooms in patch vs max amount if left to grow. Max shroom limits adjusted downwards a little to make Mushroom Ally blessing more interesting.
  
• Skilled merchant nerfed, bonuses halved. This skill was too much of a no brainer and caused money spike too early in game.
  
• Skill fisher, farmer, miner buffed a bit. First level starts with 30% chance instead of 15%. Can be boosted to over 100%, any amount over 100% adds to chance that an additional item is given, eg. 120% = 100% chance for an extra item, 20% for a third. These cards was previously too weak to be considered over skilled merchant.
  
• Reduced Healing Bond bonuses from 3 per level to 2 per level.
  
• Reduced Support drone health healing amount by 50%, and increased cooldown from 2.5 > 3 seconds at maxed levels.

Bugs

• Shells on beach did not show the correct sprite sometimes
  
• Mushrooms for the season had an equal chance of spawning fixed (now based off rarity)
  
• Reduced the range in which player responds to mouse direction so doesn’t always turn to face when mouse is relatively far away from player.
  
• Removed particle effects from pixies (except Pixie Friend), may help with performance.
  
• Toned down brightness in Aamy’s bathroom
  
• Fixed dungeon boss and enemies stuck on death stage

Known Issues:

• Pet can stop at base of penguin post when leaving
  
• Raining in greenhouse
  
• Caterpillars spawning in sky tiles
  
• HP bar doesn’t fill up even at full health after Max HP change

1、聊天设置里增加：屏蔽世界聊天(安心挂机不卡顿)，每6小时自动清屏世界聊天功能
2、增加仓库（批量卖、分解功能），历练和开福袋获得的东西改为全部进入仓库
3、在仓库里可以批量分解或卖出物品，也可以全部转移至背包
4、正确顺序应该是先转移想要的装备至背包，然后剩下的全部分解或卖出
5、仓库的总格数和背包共享，每升级一格背包，仓库也自动升级1格
6、背包升级格数从3500金币调至4000金币
7、增加灵草兑换丹药功能
8、每人每日通过精力丹和体力丹增加的上限为30，每日签到时重置次数
9、修为小于8000签到时额外补偿30精力，小于18500补偿20精力，小于33500补偿10精力
10、单双修 改为每次成功必获得2-5修为，几率获得2-5金币或灵玉或福袋

I am excited to include Reality Break in this year's SHMUP Fest, and I hope you check out the Reality Break Demo! Over the past few weeks, I've implemented a ton of quality of life features based on player requests, including but not limited to:

• New Option: Multi-Loot. It is now possible to hold down the Interact button on both gamepad and mouse+keyboard to hoover up all nearby loot. The Option dialog has a new entry under the Input category that allows you to select the multi-loot speed, which affects both the repeat interval as well as the initial delay.
  
• New Option: Screen Edge Ability Effects. This setting toggles whether certain powerful skills show effects on the edges of the screen while charged or activated.
  
• Made the game UI respect aspect ratios taller than 16:9, such as 16:10 and others.
  
• Improved positioning of certain UIs on ultrawide aspect ratios.
  
• Reworked collision damage, which is now in large part mitigated by ship survivability stats such as Armor and Shields. The guaranteed damage taken, based on a percentage of ship health, has been reduced to a maximum of 25%.
  
• Increased visible play area by about 20%, and made enemies not aggro unless they are at least 15% of the way in from the edges of the screen (up from 5%).
  
• Moved all ambient-only asteroids farther away from the plane of gameplay, and reduced the intensity of visuals for ambient asteroids on Haze maps so that they don't look collidable.
  
• Improved the visibility of the aiming cursor in mouse+keyboard mode. It is larger and brighter, with an extra highlight as well as contrasting background.
  
• Made several early campaign mission maps 10%-20% more compact, with slightly higher enemy density. (Courtney's note: I want to speed up the first Cycle slightly so that players can get to the good stuff faster, and this is the first step toward that goal.)
  
• Added a new option to control the visibility of damage flyouts: All, Crits, or None.
  
• Implemented Inventory Sort Modes. There's a second button next to the Sort button that allows you to cycle through the following sort modes: Overall Upgrade (current default), Damage, Survival, Type, Rarity, Scrap, and Rewrite.
  
• The Area Scan now also shows dropped loot, fate pulses, and credits.
  
• Weapon and Drone tooltips now show their damage range and rate of fire.
  
• Added first pass at an Info Readout in the upper-right corner. It shows a variety of info, such as the current sector, map level, difficulty level, and actual time.
  
• Added an option to control Game Cursor Size.
  
• Added an option to control visibility of enemy health bars. They can be set to show always, show never, or the previous default of showing when an enemy is damaged.
  
• Added an option to control visibility of the laser sight. It can be set to show always, show never, or the previous default of showing it while in combat or for some time after firing weapons.
  
• Added an option for mouse & keyboard to allow toggling Auto-Fire Primary Weapon rather than needing to hold the input binding to autofire.
  
• Added support for alt-cycling Equip Compare through all equipped Drones and added it to rebinding menu. The default is Alt.
  
• Added support for various ways of dropping a picked-up skill without having to slot it, drag it out of the pilot dialog, or close the pilot dialog.
  
• Exposed alternate MMB binding for Rewrite. (Courtney's note: this has always been in the game, it just wasn't visible.)
  
• Added new "Rewrite" inventory sort mode, which sorts in the order "can afford at least one rewrite", "cannot afford any rewrites", "all rewrites maxed", "not rewritable".

I am excited to keep making substantial improvements to Reality Break, with community feedback at the top of my priority list. This is just the beginning -- now that I've gotten through dozens of bug fixes, balance changes, and performance improvements in addition to the above QoL changes, I will increase the amount of new content I add to the game.

I hope you check out the demo, which will get a lot of the new content I mentioned above, and send me your feedback!

Thank you,
~Courtney

Made region selector controller-friendly

Hello everyone! Just letting you all know the Studio has asked Steam to remove H-Hour and its saleable DLC from the store effective Friday, 29 September 2023. This will not affect those who already own the game. You will continue to be able to download content from Steam as needed and play H-Hour as usual.

This decision was not made lightly. The original Studio plans included seeking out serious investors to rebuild and update the game further and take it to other platforms. However with the economic situation world-wide this never materialised. As the game has aged, interest has also lessened and sales have not covered Studio operational and infrastructure costs for some time now. As a result, the owners met and agreed to cease operations. Rather than leave the game up without support of any kind, they decided to remove the game from the store as well.

The Studio asked that I pass along their appreciation to the H-Hour community for their help and support throughout the development, release and post-release periods of the game. H-Hour could not have existed without this community, the volunteer developers and the dedicated players so thank you!



Though official support will no longer be available, there is a group of dedicated players who have opened a discord server for H-Hour: World's Elite. Within you will find support for the game from the broader community, a place to organise play times, vote on maps for their servers and just hang out. I encourage current owners to join the linked community based discord.



We acted on some suggestions you made and significantly reduced the price of the game so if you are interested, grab the game now! We also released our server files to all game owners and will post an instruction guide in the Community Hub soon.