Attention, freelancers!

So, I have another big update for the game. I've been reading over a lot of feedback, talking with players, messing with some different things, etc. Many of the changes you'll see in this list are based on community input. I was planning to have a new district available for this update, but I decided to push this out now and continue working on the new district aside from all this (ready to go) stuff.

A few notable things:
-Equipment choices (Weapon) for police and military backgrounds
-Inventory weights for items have been drastically lowered and make a lot more sense now (For example: a can of soda no longer weighs the same as a rag)
-New Psion Ability - Mind Siphon
-Dialogue options that you don't have the requirements for no longer show in red, they are removed from the list
-The reputation HUD is no longer always on so it isn't taking up screen space (It really wasn't necessary anyways to always be visible)
-Lots of flavor adjustments in language and terminology used to amplify the cyberpunk vibe
-Adjustments to how easy it was to get sick (It should be much less frequent now)
-Giving the main character some dialogue lines when walking around (Comments on the weather from time to time currently)
-Bug fixes of course
-Optimization improvements

Beyond that, take a look at the changelog below!

*Please note that these changes are not in any particular order.*



Please let me know of any bugs or issues you may encounter so I can fix them. This update will be available for download shortly.

A friendly reminder: if you're enjoying the game so far or have critiques you'd like to share, please consider leaving a review for me. This not only helps with much needed visibility, but also gives me important feedback for the game to help it become a better final product. Also, if you have questions, concerns, or requests, please visit the official Chaos Chain Steam Forums or join the official Discord Channel! I've also gone ahead and started an official Patreon Page to help bring in financial support for the game going forward.

For more info on the game, visit the store page below!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1536730/Chaos_Chain/

There's even a demo to try the game out!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2324430/

Stay Alert. Stay Armed. Stay Alive. Don't lose your humanity.

That's all for now, enjoy!

-Cryptic ːCStudiosː

* Some fight balancing issues addressed
* Introduced additional character
* Typos corrected

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In update 1.0.2, we introduced the following changes and improvements to available skills to enhance your gameplay experience:

- **Long Sword**: Extends the range of sword strikes, offering a tactical advantage during combat.

- **Elder's Staff**: Releases a powerful long-range attack with ice crystals against enemies, providing a new attack strategy.

- **Priestess' Staff**: Replicates the Elder's attack, firing in the opposite direction. Only available after purchasing the Elder's Staff, offering tactical variation on the battlefield.

- **Ring of Light**: Increases the player's health every 120 seconds, providing a resistance advantage at critical moments.

- **Falling Necklace**: Fires magical attacks upwards, expanding attack options in challenging situations.

- **Guardian's Shield**: Grants a protective shield against attacks, temporarily disappearing after being hit and returning after 20 seconds, offering crucial protection during confrontations.

- **Paladin's Helm**: Summons a whirlwind of holy water to destroy nearby enemies, providing a powerful AoE ability to clear the battlefield.

These abilities can be acquired during the match through the game's pause menu, where a window displays the items available for purchase, and once acquired, they are displayed on the game's HUD for the player's awareness.

Stay tuned, because in just 10 days we will have a new update, bringing with it new skills, the option to select stages and, soon, new clothing and character options to further expand your possibilities within the game.

Hello, Adrenaliners!

Many of you have helped with the playtests. You've played, survived, sometimes stressed, and of course, celebrated victories.

A big thank you for this help! With your gameplay videos, feedback, and your viewers' comments, the game has already become more cohesive and interesting.
If you want to participate in the closed playtest

• write in the community - https://steamcommunity.com/app/2419720
  
• on Discord - https://discord.gg/6YdF6hPS6X
  
• or email - http://ViPlayer@midhard.com

Four adrenaline-pumping months, we've battled hordes of mutants, bugs, and mysterious contraptions.

Here are the results:

• - New skills developed
  
• - New enemies created
  
• - Major changes to the interface
  
• - Added the first version of the base (with terminals where you can upgrade strength, luck, and other parameters)
  
• - Improved the overall visual style
  
• - New visual effects created
  
• - New sound effects and music tracks added
  
• - Controller support implemented
  
• - A multitude of bugs fixed
  
• - Weapon damage statistics added to the victory/defeat screen

How it all started (world story):
Somewhere in distant space, the Adrenaline Rampage squad was returning from a complex mission. Near Earth, they received a new urgent task - to scout a space station that had disappeared 30 years ago and had suddenly reappeared.

This is disappeared 30 years ago space station
The squad landed on the station and had just decided to start reconnaissance when the station disappeared again. Along with the Adrenaline Rampage squad. Now we face two important tasks:
- Figure out what is happening on the station
- Survive and return home!

This story is available in-game or at this link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNRGv3F2E9g

At the moment, the game is in a playtest version. This means it's a small part of the game with gameplay for about 2-3 hours. For the full version of the game, your opinion is very important. It will help us properly refine the rest of the game.

The game is currently available only in English. Other languages will be added in one of the next updates.

Added procedural level generation

• - Each time, the level is assembled from different modules based on a special algorithm, so all levels differ from each other in geometry and module composition.

Improved gameplay pace

• - Mission time reduced from 30-40 minutes to 20-30 minutes
  
• - Now a mission consists of about 20 stages, approximately 1 minute each
  
• - Bosses appear 30 seconds before the portal opens
  
• - The game does not stop at the end of the stage timer (about 60 seconds); a portal opens that you must enter to complete the level
  
• - During each stage, you can collect experience and level up your character
  
• - Chests can be found on stages or dropped from bosses, each chest contains one skill point for upgrades
  
• - Between stages, upgrade skills and evolutions with skill points

Added a bonus time mode with Enforcers

• - If the character is still on the level after the portal opens, it greatly annoys the "System," and Enforcers come after the character
  
• - Enforcers are powerful enemies that are very difficult to defeat, especially at early levels

Added skills:

• Attack Rate - affects attack speed for:
  
• - saws
  
• - drones (excluding healing drones)
  
• - turrets
  
• - automatic weapon (the main weapon of the first character)
  
• Count - increases the number of charges/projectiles in various skills:
  
• - defensive shield
  
• - saws
  
• - napalm drone
  
• - plasma drone
  
• - maximum turrets (under certain conditions)
  
• - dashes
  
• - jumps
  
  
  Count skill - a lot of saws and dashes
  
  
• Grenades - scatters grenades around the character that damage enemies
  
  Grenades skill
  
• Stomp - deals damage and knocks back enemies when landing from a height
  
  Stomp skill

Skills that are already developed and some of which will be added in future versions of the game:

• - Echo Strike - fires a projectile that ricochets off walls
  
• - Blaster Fury - fires several energy projectiles one above the other
  
  Blaster Fury skill
  
• - Revive - revives the character a limited number of times with a small health buffer, pushing away nearby enemies
  
• - Rejuvenation Boost - increases the amount of life gained when leveling up and at the end of the stage
  
• - Thorns - deals return damage when the character is attacked
  
• - Shockwave - scatters enemies when leveling up
  
• - Plasma Charge - charges a projectile while moving; the longer the charge, the higher the damage. Full charge time - 5 seconds. To activate the projectile, the character must stop
  
  Plasma charge skill
  
  
• - Plasma Shield - adds shields that protect the character, quickly regenerate

• - Now experience does not disappear. If there are uncollected experience crystals at the end of a stage, the first crystals in the next stage give double experience (they are visually larger).
  
• - Time for the final boss fight increased from 1.5 min to 2 min
  
• - Improved enemy spawning - added teleporters through which enemies arrive
  
• - All dashes recharge at the start of a new stage
  
• - Skills with elevator upgrades removed (elevator speed and elevator lasers)
  
• - Life slightly restored when the character levels up and at the end of the stage
  
• - Life booster drops from the defeated boss
  
• - Dash now also an independent skill that can be upgraded (number of dashes, dash range)
  
• - Damage from saws and lasers to enemies highlighted in a special color
  
• - Elevator acceleration by default tripled - now elevators move very fast
  
• - Reduced enemy power increase with each stage, from 20% to 15%
  
• - Reduced damage from large bombs carried by bomb carriers, from 50 to 10
  
• - Reduced damage from saws on the level, from 20 to 10

• - Dash available on left and right controller triggers
  
• - Added mini-map
  
• - Added setting to disable/enable mini-map
  
• - Added setting to disable/enable auto-shooting
  
• - Added setting to disable/enable auto-aiming
  
• - Added an indicator for dash readiness
  
• - Added avatars for character selection screen
  
• - Locked avatars for characters under development
  
• - Player icon on mini-map replaced with a "smile" (this is a temporary solution)
  
• - Updated visual for location selection
  
• - Icons on the mini-map displayed above the fog
  
• - Removed invisible item with a question mark on the mini-map
  
• - Portal on the mini-map now displayed at any distance
  
• - Boss icon disappears immediately after its destruction
  
• - Cursor disabled during cutscenes
  
• - Added hints for using the controller
  
• - Changed the phrase for winning on the training level
  
• - Unlocking characters and skills: updated requirements and icons
  
• - Added descriptions for different skills - now it's clearer what the skills provide :)

• Rocket mutant
  
  
• Artificial humanoid
  

• - Added sounds for different boosters
  
• - Added sound when selecting a character on the controller
  
• - Updated music
  
• - Added dash sound
  
• - Added evolution sounds for the automatic weapon
  
• - Redesigned scattering of frozen enemy pieces
  
• - Small flying enemies fall and shatter on the floor after freezing
  
• - Countdown timer animation starts at 5 seconds
  
• - Removed weapon-to-weapon evolutions. This affected Force Field (evolution currently disabled) and Rocket Swarm (evolution moved to another perk)
  
• - Boss music now turns off if there are more than 5 seconds left in the stage, if less than 5 seconds, it does not turn off
  
• - Added "location selection" in the main menu. First location on easy difficulty level available
  
• - Updated modules with elevators (visual part)
  
• - Added asteroids to the background (temporary solution)
  
• - Added exit from the pause window on ESC
  
• - Unlocked skills, characters, and other rewards displayed only in the victory/defeat window
  
• - Added game story cutscene

• - Fixed character spawn in the air on some modules
  
• - Fixed various menu windows
  
• - Fixed stretching of the cutscene
  
• - Fixed enemy spawn on the training level
  
• - Fixed default controller layout on Steam for PS controller + display of Xbox controller support
  
• - Fixed gravity gun effect
  
• - Fixed sounds, music, transitions, and many others
  
• - Fixed enemy paths in some modules
  
• - Fixed victory window on the training level
  
• - Fixed controller when selecting a character
  
• - Fixed experience compensation
  
• - Fixed colors of enemies, drones, turrets
  
• - Fixed player collision during dash
  
• - Fixed menu settings
  
• - Fixed game start from the controller
  
• - Fixed auto-skip intro when controller is connected
  
• - Fixed "Select a level" text when selecting a location
  
• - And several hundred other small changes and fixes

Thank you for reading, you really help make the game better!
P.S. And if adrenaline is bursting out, don't hold it in - dash into the community, let's discuss :) - https://steamcommunity.com/app/2419720

Best regards,
The Midhard Games team

1. Optimized guidance prompts, now the Martial Hall and Martial Field will display the current maximum level, and the taskbar will show the refresh time of tasks.
2. Fixed a bug in the Purgatory difficulty tasks, now they can be loaded normally.
3. Equipment effects adjustment.

We're excited to announce the results of our Dreamland Art Contest, after a few weeks of intense judging from our developers and community staff! 🗳️

We tasked our community to create horizontal and vertical artwork pieces for Dreamland, our upcoming major content update. Each winner will have their artwork implemented as a painting prop placed within the map for you to admire (or transform into)! 🖼️


🥇 1st Place: Morinor
🥈 2nd Place: andy
🥉 3rd Place: DrRiptide

🥇 1st Place: Vissia
🥈 2nd Place: Fánkiii
🥉 3rd Place: gedankenkind

We are delighted that each of our talented winners and entrants took the time and effort to create such incredible pieces of artwork for our game. We can't express our gratitude enough! 💜

All entries can be found here, in order of submission: Imgur Album Link ⬅️

The paintings will be added with the release of Dreamland soon™.
Thank you for supporting our artists, and stay tuned for the update! 🎉

Greetings everyone, it's time for our weekly progress report.

Level:
Kick off for iteration of the Yterra blockout.
Working on organizational tasks regarding our freelance artists.
Working on a mini-location in Adûn.
Proceeded with mini location cave blockouts.
Iterating the Yterra blockout.



Code:
Combat hit detection is functionally done. Worked on weapon item editing workflow and movement during combat moves.
Sandbox:
Lots of QoL features:
Auto-expand for dragging an object onto another in the outliner will only trigger if the reorder above/below indicators are not present.
Using the search bar in the character selection will collapse all character presets that do not match the filter now instead of graying them out.
Added text alignment options for UI Text and Speech bubble.
Added new Lua function wl_set_object_name.
Material editor and undo history are draggable/resizable windows now.
Attachment selector has been improved with visual feedback and being able to click directly onto the desired bone in the scene.



Character:
Almost done with Taruk’s model. More work on various outfits.





Animations:
Further testing and iterating on attack animations.
Started work on stagger animations for the combat system.
Exported the last few NPC routine animations, so this huge task is now finally done.

Design:
Combat System: Continued to work on Ranged Combat (Technical documentation, Special cases).
Action Buffer v2 - Buffering both target and direction (for soft lock during attacks) also buffering quick items (e.g. for potions during combat).


Thank you for all your continued support,
-Wild Life Team

Now using a 3rd party asset called FSR3 to render the game at a lower resolution and then upscale it to give you higher fps. Some users are reporting up to a 50% increase in FPS.

Winter Falling is part of an event/sale showcasing Polish games! 🇵🇱
May 3rd is the anniversary of the first constitution in Europe. Polish-Lithuanian constitution from 1791.
Been celebrating the traditional way - drinking & chilling.
Wish the same for you 🍺

For people out of the loop, some game news:
I'm finishing up on art, battles, events and balance for the BIG update.
In a few days I'll send a silent update to some players with system features. Basically a beta test to check if everything works and make quick changes if people hate something.
After that period of testing and fixing is over (probably 3 weeks) the update will be open to everyone.
I wish it could be faster, but I'm just one guy and I don't want to annoy 10 000 people with a broken update.

On a personal note: thank you everyone for the support over the last couple months!
I had messed up my health real bad, couldn't work, couldn't develop Winter Falling. Anything other than laying down was pure pain. I was worried about my finances, worried about Winter Falling buried under negative reviews "developer dead". And yet things worked out. Miraculously.

I know you hear it all the time from marketing departments, but thank you,
Arek