May 12, 2024

Under Dead - Paolomitas

Player

Attack, reload, and ability speed are no longer exponential, and are now uncapped
Leveling up is now +40% harder, but attack speed and reload increase by 40% instead of 25% each level
Now if the player only has 1 secondary weapon, it will get a 25% attack speed and reload bonus
Decreased player speed by 10%
Increased speed when the player is not holding a weapon: +10% → +20%
Accuracy is now negatively uncapped and can go below 0
Now, weapons have a small cooldown after switching so they don’t shoot instantly

New Mechanic: Dead HP

Now when the player hits 0 HP, he will not die but slowly start gaining dead HP, which blocks max HP
The more dead HP you have, the slower you move
If dead HP blocks all your maximum HP, you die
You recover 20% dead HP each day survived; that’s the only way to regain your HP

General

Now you can reroll the shop infinitely after using the free shop rerolls, but it costs coins
Now the price difference between quality 0 and quality 3 items is bigger
Items are slightly cheaper
The price of the food machine increases more each day
Increased length of day 15
Increased day length of days 5 to 9
Entrepreneur class now starts with big pockets item instead of coin roll item
Medical boxes now heal 20 instead of 30
Shield is more transparent so HP can be seen better
Follow HP is now darker
Game option “No reroll” has been removed
Hazard is now called difficulty
The game’s version is no longer shown on the screen

Enemies

Now more enemies will spawn when you return from the shop depending on the day and how many there were before
Enemies gain half less speed per day
Increased the maximum amount of enemies that can be at the same time, and now some small enemies like rats and spiders don’t count
Now the quantity of zombies in a horde is affected by difficulty
Fire spawned from fire zombies will last 50% less
Spider eggs now always spawn a minimum of 2 spiders, increased maximum spiders from 5 to 6
Rat groups are 25% less common
Decreased enemy spawning on days 5 to 9, but zombie groups spawn faster

Zombie HP changes:

Zombie: 90 → 80
Zombie fat: 150 → 160
Zombie weapon: 110 → 120
Zombie saw: 190 → 140
Zombie toxic: 320 → 220

Day spawn start changes:

Zombie scientist: 5 → 12
Zombie police: 5 → 6
Zombie military: 5 → 7

Survivors

Increased survivor speed by 40%
Now survivors will only go towards the platform if they are near it
Survivors will now return to follow the player if the platform closes
Now when survivors spawn, they will not go too close to the platform or too far
Survivor spawn immortality increased from 3.5s to 4s
Survivors now drop more coins depending on the day
Survivors now can’t spawn too early in the day or too late
Now only 3 survivors can spawn on days 1 to 4, and 3 on days 5 to 9

Items

2 new items
Moved drink items from the food pool to the general item pool
Renamed pocket shooter to Big Pockets
Added item descriptions for abilities and bullet items

Item changes:

Gun Guide:
- Attack Speed: +10% → +20%

Gloves:
- Reload: +50% → +30%
- Attack Speed: -50% → -25%

Stiches:
- New effect: -25% Lvl Stats

Backpack:
- HP per item: 2 → 4

Big Pockets:
- New effect: -40% XP

Flag:
- Daily Dmg: +20% → +10%

Piggy Bank:
- Daily Coins: 50% of bank → 25% of bank

Fanny Pack:
- Reload: +25% → -30%
- Speed while reloading: -10% → +20%
- New effect: +20% attack speed

Magazine Holder:
- Reload: +15% → +20%
- Quality: 2 → 1

Lucky Bullet:
- Last bullet is always special → effect removed
- New effect → +20 Luck | -25% Reload

Energy Drink:
- Speed: 3% → 5%
- Heal: 5 → 10
- Quality: 1 → 0

Educative book:
- Quality: 1 → 2

Vitamins:
- Food Healing: +40% → +60%
- Quality: 1 → 0

Water:
- Quality: 2 → 0

Curved Bullets:
- Dmg: x1.15 → x1.20

Beer:
- Attack Speed: +10% → +15%

Cigarettes:
- Ability Speed: +1% → +2%

Cat Charm:
- Luck is transferred to hp when dead → effect removed
- Now gives +1 Revive

Safe:
- Now will only spawn on the next day instead of every day
- Increased coins dropped

Canteen:
- Heal: 20 → 10
- CD: 60s → 30s

Chips:
- HP: 10 → 5
- Reload: -5% → effect removed

Dog Food:
- Item removed

Shop Supplies:
- Free shop rerolls: 3 → 2
- Quality: 2 → 1

Wallet:
- Reduced wallets dropped significantly

Ear Necklace:
- Reduced ears dropped significantly

Bible:
- Now can only remove the luck that the item gives

Coffee:
- Attack Speed: +5% → +20%
- Reload: +5% → +20%
- Now coffee effect only lasts 1 day
- Heal: 20 → 10

Cola:
- HP: -5 → effect removed

Razor:
- XP: +30% → +40%

Suit:
- Increased coins dropped
- New effect: -5% Reload

Cookies:
- Quality: 2 → 1

Rubber bullets:
- Quality: 3 → 2

Piercing bullets:
- Quality: 3 → 2

Bandages:
- Quality: 0 → 1

Painkillers:
- Quality: 1→ 0

Educative book:
- Quality: 1 → 2

Ability changes:

ClockShot:
- Quality: 1 → 0

BearTrap:
- Quality: 1 → 0

Frenzy :
- Quality: 3 → 2

ClockShot:
- Quality: 1 → 0

Weapon changes:

Now snipers have built in bullet piercing
Weapons that only need reload will reload a bit slower when the magazine size is increased

Small Pistol:
- Magazine size: 17 → 18

Crossbow:
- Reload: 0.15s faster

Revolver:
- Reload: 0.3s slower
- Attack Speed: 0.16s faster

Old Revolver:
- Reload: 0.5s slower
- Attack Speed: 0.06s faster

Big Pistol:
- Dmg: 45 → 55

Automatic Rifle:
- Magazine Size: 30 → 80
- Reload: 1s faster

AK:
- Dmg: 17 → 27
- Attack Speed: 0.05s slower
- Reload: 0.45s slower
- Range: now the same as automatic rifle
- Quality: 3 → 2

Big Sniper:
- Range: now the same as rifle

Sniper:
- Attack Speed: 0.6s faster

Makarov:
- Reload: 0.6s slower

RPG:
- Reload: 0.5s faster

Fixes

Fixed some item description errors
Fixed bullet percentage stats being incorrect
Fixed nail bullet hitbox being too small
Fixed flag item giving bonus dmg without surviving 1 day
Fixed suit item not working on the first day
Fixed zombie skeleton having an incorrect sprite sometimes
Fixed gun shots being too loud when increasing magazine size
Fixed some misspellings
Fixed abilities progressing in the shop
Fixed some bullet types not applying the correct knockback
Fixed a bug that caused some abilities to have the wrong cooldown
Fixed some enemy behaviours being changed if the game was paused
Fixed survivors having the running animation when descending on the platform
Fixed healing being able to surpass max hp
Fixed backpack item denying healing sometimes
Fixed some items being activated in the shop
Fixed band-aids item being able to remove HP if player level was negative
Fixed a bug that made survivors get rescued without touching the platform
Fixed player being able to shoot while leaving the platform if he switched weapons

May 12, 2024

Dynasthir Demo Speedrun Competition

Dynasthir Playtest - Mireneye:Wishl Dynasthir NOW!

Begins 13/05/2024!!!

We’d like to formally invite you all to a competition of speed. It’s the first event of this kind for Dynasthir. And we are very excited to do our best in hosting it.

Shoot from the hip & end up on target.

In my years delving ever deeper into games; Few things have fascinated me as much as the true dedication and depth speedrunners will go to, preferably to avoid playing anything of a game at all.

In doing so, they often end up playing it more than anyone else.

This is the dichotomy I want to invite you to partake in. As a community I’d like you to obsess about details, talk about strategies.

Will you persist against a clock, heading towards the end of time?

Together with Retro Plus Games, who’s currently developing their dream tabletop game Dracula's Curse which is a crimson love child born of a lifelong passion for games and Goliath Guitars Game Development who is a solo developer who’s pushing the boundaries of tool design for use in Unreal with performance & usability in mind; We, the TwinlakeMinstrels have gathered up a price pool of 500 USD for the competition.

With these amazing people backing us up, we can confidently move forward and give back more to our community.

What follows is the allocation of the price pool & the rules for the competition.

Price Allocation
300 USD goes to 1st place winner
100 USD goes to 2nd place winner
75 USD goes to 3rd place winner
25 USD goes to best new speed tech as judged by the Jury

Rules

Runs have to be live streamed and available to the public
Practice can be off-cam
Runs have to be Completed in a time under sixteen minutes and thirty seconds (16:30) to Qualify
Qualify is defined as entering the Run into the competition to be considered for a Price
People may perform & submit as many runs they want. Significant runs should be linked and marked with the runners name and time
Timer begins after the Intro Cutscene
Timer ends after the Sovereigns end speech, right after the word “Crucible”
There will be a week of Discovery between 13/05/2024 ending at 20:00 GMT+1 on the seventh day
There will be a week of runs between 20/05/2024 ending at 20:00 GMT+1 on the seventh day
This is an Any% speedrun, meaning as long as the word “Crucible” has been spoken by the Sovereign NPC in the Scene at the “natural” end of the Demo. Anything goes until that point. And this counts as the Demo being “Completed”
Strategies found during the week of Runs are required to be shared on the TwinlakeMinstrel Discord
Links to runs have to be shared on the TwinlakeMinstrel Discord
Links to New trick discovery have to be shared on the TwinlakeMinstrel Discord
If any of the rules are wrangled by rule bending smart asses the Jury reserve the right to make a judgment call
External applications to tamper with the game code is not allowed. For example Cheat Engine, Unreal Unlocker, AI or any TAS tools

Access
Request access at the Steam Page at https://store.steampowered.com/app/2145210/Dynasthir/
Join the Discord to share runs & strats for eligibility
https://discord.gg/ExweE8Kutk

Jury
Mireneye - Creative Lead at TwinlakeMinstrels
Ulfgang - Animations, Combat & UI Lead Designer at TwinlakeMinstrels
John - Excellent exalted of Retro Plus Games
www.draculascurse.com
Jackson - Tools Developer & Tutor at Goliath Guitars Game Development
https://www.patreon.com/goliathgamedevelopment/

May 12, 2024

Patch 0.324a

Loya - Joyen

After pixel pitch, watching Asmongold and the juges play made me realize the starting area felt a little empty, and the animation could use some love.

I added 200 new playtesters, if you have the chance to play, let me know how it went, it helps me improve the game!

I'm also adding a new public server, this will allow me to see people playing directly and test how chaotic it can get!

New:

Added a public server! Check the public server tabs to see all public servers. (note that the experince in a public server can be degraded as anyone can destroy your buildings)
Added a permanent light on your character that only activates when you are in dark areas (dense forest etc...)
A chat bubble now pops up when you type in game. The chat icon also adapt to the chat content to an extend.

Changes:

Increased the trees density in the starting area (x2)
Added a yellow highlight for the tutorials UI
Changed the crafting UI background to transparent
The run animation without weapons has been changed.
Added a missing jump start animation.

Bugs

Fixed a bug with slimes where they would not properly synchronize their height.
Environmental damage sources will no longer be shown as "fall damage" in death recap
Fixed a bug with global entities (giant golem, giant snake) where they would not be properly synchronized when the player would be too far.
The npc update loop no longer blocks the main thread, an other source of freezes that was removed.