HMS Queen Mary is a one-off British battlecruiser design built in the leadup to WWI. Coming as part of the Seek & Destroy major update, HMS Queen Mary will soon reinforce the top ranks of the British Bluewater fleet with the introduction of a powerful new battlecruiser!


Features:

• Powerful primary battery!
  
• Mediocre protection.
  
• Exceptional mobility.
  
• No anti-air protection.

Vehicle History
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HMS Queen Mary was laid down in March 1911 under the 1910-11 Naval Programme as the sole ship of its class. Completed in August 1913, the ship would become the last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy prior to the outbreak of WWI. The ship’s design drew heavily from the preceding Lion class, which featured a formidable arsenal and comparably good protection. Entering service in September 1913, HMS Queen Mary wouldn’t have to wait long for its first combat operation.

This came shortly after the outbreak of WWI, when the warship took part in the Battle of Heligoland Bight in which British and German forces clashed in the North Sea in August 1914. Under Admiral Beatty’s command, HMS Queen Mary along with other British warships sunk two German light cruisers during this battle. The next major operation saw HMS Queen Mary take part in the legendary Battle of Jutland in 1916. Being part of the largest naval battle of WWI, HMS Queen Mary managed to land several hits on German warships. In response however, the German battlecruiser SMS Derfflinger dealt HMS Queen Mary a lethal blow, causing the warship’s magazines to detonate. The major explosion which followed tore the ship apart and caused it to sink quickly. 
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In War Thunder, HMS Queen Mary will arrive at rank V of the British Bluewater tree as part of the Seek & Destroy major update, expanding this tree’s battlecruiser roster and smoothing out the progression to the current top British battlecruiser; HMS Hood. In today’s devblog, we’re eager to tell you all about this unique new imperial warship, coming to naval battles very soon!




Common for a battlecruiser, the warship combines superior mobility and firepower while featuring less impressive protection than battleships for example. The Queen Mary is is fitted with four twin 13.5’’ (343 mm) cannons, giving it ample firepower to comfortably engage any capital ship with relative ease, even at greater firing distances. Furthermore, the secondary battery of 16 4’’ (102 mm) cannons as well as two 533 mm torpedo launchers enable the warship to also engage smaller vessels or harass heavier opponents with their high rate of fire. Being a WWI era vessel however means that HMS Queen Mary didn’t receive any dedicated anti-air weapons. This makes the ship highly vulnerable to air attack, meaning it’s best to stick close to allies which can help fill this gap in the ship’s protection.

Interesting: HMS Queen Mary is the only ship of the Royal Navy to be named after the wife of King George V.




Speaking of protection, despite being fitted with less armor than a typical battleship, HMS Queen Mary still comes equipped with up to 229 mm of armor on its turrets, belts and barbettes. As a result, the vessel is well protected against shell fire from enemy cruisers but can not resist fire from battleships. HMS Queen Mary is by no means a sluggish ship. In fact, thanks to its very powerful propulsion system, HMS Queen Mary can reach an impressive top speed of 28.2 kts (52 km/h). This allows the vessel to easily keep up with more nimble allies and quickly respond to a changing tactical situation during battle.

In your matches by Keith (Scarper), Community Manager: “The guns of a battleship with the speed of a cruiser. When using this beastie, be the bully in the battle, pick on the smaller guys and manuever away from danger with the bigger slower ships like battleships. The lesser armour (to allow for speed) will not help when you meet something heavier so you cant slug it out. Keep ahead of any enemy firing turrets and think ahead before launching attacks - You aren’t a ‘Tank’. Air attacks will hurt as there is no dedicated AA, keep an eye on the sky.”

HMS Queen Mary has set course for War Thunder naval battles and is due to dock in player ports with the release of the Seek & Destroy major update. In the meantime, keep scanning the news section as we continue to release new info on the upcoming update. Until then, calm seas and good hunting captains!

Time for another update on development! We’ve been hard at work on the demo, and with Next Fest right around the corner, we figured now is a great time to show you some of our game’s Spells and how they combine with Elements!



REGINALD SHADOWCLOAKReginald Shadowcloak has the Astral Orbs spell. This launches floating orbs in the direction of enemies.


MOON MAGEMoon Mage has a very appropriately named spell called Moonerang, which is, well, a boomerang that travels through enemies and always returns to you.


SUN MAGESun Mage possesses Solar Pulse, which generates a constant damage zone around you that hurts all nearby enemies.


KEVIN THE KURSEDKevin the Kursed has Necro Whirl. It also generates damage zones, but in random places on the battlefield.


There will, of course, be many, many spells in the future. Each spell can be upgraded to increase things like damage, fire rate, reload speed, and more. Upgrading a spell enough times will allow you to infuse it with an element.



This is where the fun begins. You can infuse a spell with an element up to 2 times, meaning you can have a spell that is half fire, half lightning, or maybe double lightning. So far, we have only 2 elements, but you can see the potential for so many cool combinations already. Imagine what we can create with 3, 4 or 5 elements!



DEMO FEEDBACKSome people have already played the early version of the demo that’s live now and have given some great feedback. We’re very grateful, as this allows us to improve the demo for Next Fest. You can expect some patch notes this week, as we are fully focused on balancing, stabilizing, and optimizing the demo.

Some other things we’ve done:

• UI polish for the upgrade menu
  
• Localization for Chinese and Japanese (beta)
  
• Enemy effects like XP orbs and death explosions
  
• Lots of bug-fixing and balancing (more still on the way this week)

Be sure to WISHLIST and join our DISCORD where we post development updates DAILY (what?!).


That’s about it. Till next week!

BOLT BLASTER OUT

Here we go! It is official, Festivals - Headliners is now available in Early Access! I’m very proud of how far this project has come - and very eager to continue building, expanding and improving my very first, solo developed game.

There are still quite a few bugs to squash, the simulation is still fairly basic, and I still have a lot of ideas for content to add, but overall, I think the game is very fun to play, and I hope you will agree.

• Pricing
  As I’ve also mentioned on the Steam Store page in the Early Access section, pricing for the game will increase as the features of the game are extended and more content is added. Right now the price is set at $4,99, which I think is a fair reflection to the state the game is currently in.
  
  
• Launch Discount
  BUT - until the 10th of June you’ll get an additional 20% discount, so you can get the game and all future updates for $3.99 only, so it pays off extra to be one of the early-early birds 😉
  
  
• Updates
  The coming days / weeks I’ll be closely monitoring the issues and bugs reported by the community, and working to fix the currently known issues, with the most reported bugs getting the highest priority. After these initial weeks, development will be a mix between bug fixing and adding new features to the game. As always, I’ll keep you up to date on progress using “Development Update” posts on the Steam Community page.
  
  
• Bugs & Feedback
  If you want to report bugs or provide other feedback, you can use the online feedback form, or for direct contact with the developers, join our Discord and use the #feedback channel!
  
  
• Website
  The new website is online! You can now visit http://festivalsheadliners.com and read all about the game! The entire user manual (which is also included in the game) is also available, as is the list of known issues, which is updated automatically based on the bug tracker I use for the game’s development. More content, especially user manual documentation, will be added in the coming days.

All that said, I hope everyone likes what I have been working on for the past 3 years, and would love to hear what you think, over on our Discord or Steam's community forums!

Dear Explorers,

It’s been a busy period for the Goose Byte team as we have been madly responding to the feedback in our Discord (thank you everyone) and rapidly adding new features.

We’ve only got a few more days to go until the playtest is over, at 9AM EDT on Thursday 6th June we’ll be taking the playtest offline so if you haven’t already strapped on your helmet, crafted your hoverbike, and scanned some creatures, time is running out!

We’ve got big planet-sized plans for THE SIGNAL and we want to hear your voice! Pushing the boundaries of what we’re making is so important to us so please don’t be afraid to spread the word and help test the limits of what’s possible (and please don't forget to wishlist if you like what you see)!




We’ve so far had over 4,900 playtesters testing out the new capsule mechanic and diving into our hand-crafted world during this playtest and we’d love to break the 5,000 barrier mark! Please spread the word, share the game with anyone you think would get a kick out of our crafting and exploration mechanics, and join the Discord if you haven’t already (link at the bottom of this email).

We're also very close to an important wishlist milestone so if you haven't already please head to the store page and wishlist, it makes a huge difference!

We're always looking for more tailored feedback and we're trialling a playtest analysis platform called Live Aware! If you're interested in signing up and helping out, use this link.

Thanks to feedback we’ve received in our fab Discord we’ve been able to make some updates during the Open World Survival Crafting Fest including:

• Sensitivity Setting - Adjust your experience to your taste
  
• Updated Legend Icons - Cycle Through Capsules, removed Dodge, updated melee on gamepad
  
• Anti-Grav Fixes - Dismantle the fragment and add it to your drafts
  
• New Creature
  
• Butterflies 🦋
  
• Bug Fixes!

We can't wait to hear what you get up to out there, happy exploring!

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Hi all, Tom here!

This has been a bit of an odd month, thanks to being in the Puzzle Showcase, so let's debrief...


First off, a special hello to all the new wishlisters joining us! The Cerebral Puzzle Showcase was excellent for CRT7 this year, and there is over 1,200 new people here to explore the dark. If you didn't know, I'm Tom and I'm the solo (ish) developing the game in my spare time.

You also might have seen that The Escape Roomer gave CRT7 a lovely little preview as well: “I really, really enjoyed playing CRT7 and cannot wait for it’s full release. It’s part escape room, part detective game, part procedural music game and part Y2K retro goodness.”

As you might imagine, preparing for the showcase took up much of the month as I was polishing and fixing up the demo to get it ready! It did, however, act as a really good test of the the new systems, like the rebinding and hotspots - they seemed to work mostly well! Also, seeing a few more people streaming it has highlighted a few areas I would still like to tweak in the early game.

If you've not tried the demo yet, it's not going away in the next month or two, so I hope you get a chance to enjoy it!




So what's next? Well, I want to spend the next couple of months sorting out the next few large puzzle sequences. The demo allows you to find two door codes, but the later ones are going to be more involved to find... and it's time to get them sorted! In the next couple of weeks I'm going to figure out the order the next puzzles are revealed to players. This sounds easy, but with so many moving parts it can often have hidden complexity and needs a bunch of testing. I've already gotten started though tweaking some of the visuals, and working out what to do next.

So! Step one is for me to go and unlock the rest of the room. Step two, well step two is the fun part... it's time to bring more devices back to life...

- Amicable Animal

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Don’t forget to join our Discord and follow us on social media at @robobeatgame for even more updates!

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Watch the Future Games Show Summer Showcase this Saturday (June 8th) to get the first look at a brand new trailer for The Precinct!




You can watch live on Twitch and YouTube on Saturday, June 8th at 12pm PT / 3pm ET / 8pm BST.


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Happy June everyone! Here’s what we’ve been up to for the past month!


Yes that’s right you heard it – we finished off all of the interiors! (Well, minus a few special ones and some backer houses) We also “found” time to complete adding some puzzles for a dungeon, and doing a whole lot of cutscene work!

Since cutscenes don’t have anything visually to show without spoilers, we’ll be showing off the city of Olvia and it’s interiors this month, and talk about the puzzles next. Keep an eye out though since next month we’ll be talking about the next leg of development.




Olvia is a mining city located beside the Saren-Croix Mountain Range, which divides Gataela and the Ovion Empire. Lots of raw materials are available thanks to industry in the area, and so the city is also home to Steam-powered research, technology and advancements.



The Miner’s Association has a convenient break room in the quarry outside the mines for any workers to use. The entrance contains a register of current people working in the mines along with what equipment was rented. This room is usually filled with people coming and going, as well as those chatting. A quiet space/nap room is available in the back for those who need it.



Olvia is home to one of the most prestigious printing houses in the country – although they may not look it. Covered in paper, coffee stains and filled with overworked editors – this publishing house is famous for discovering and publishing My Fairest: Gataela’s most popular romance-adventure novel series.



The city may be covered in dirt and grime but the inn keeper will fight tooth and nail to keep his business clean and spotless. That being said, the children have taken this as a challenge and often try to barge in, make a mess and get out as fast as possible.



A warehouse was recently converted into a laboratory of some sort. They call it a “garage” – whatever that is. Rumour says they are making a horse-less carriage, but how can that be possible?


This month will be strictly focused on finishing off adding the MSQ cutscenes! Look out for more news next month!

Take care everyone! Happy Summer!

Hello Survivors!

We're happy to announce that the latest update with quality-of-life changes is now available.
Jump in and check what's new!🧟

🔹 Added flashlights 🔦
🔹Added Story Intro Video 🎥
🔹Added option to reset skill tree
🔹Allow to sell starting weapons
🔹Added custom cursor to the game
🔹Improved visibility of text on Steamdeck
🔹Other fixes and adjustments


Join our amazing community in our Discord and follow us on Twitter to share your experience and get to know other zombie enthusiasts!

See you at the Camp!

Wenkly Studio Team

>Minor fixes
>Leaderboard now working