Hi!

We're thrilled to be participating in TwitchCon Europe 2024! You'll find us in the Indie Game Zone, showcasing Pool Party and inviting people to battle their friends in our beach themed booth. We have prepped with beach chairs, palm trees and beach balls, you can't miss it!

It has been exactly one year since the release of SlavicPunk: Oldtimer on PC platforms, and the development team at Red Square Games has decided to celebrate this anniversary by publishing a very important update for the game. This update addresses issues reported by the players and also includes a significant enhancement: the game engine has been upgraded from Unreal Engine 4 to version 5.3. This upgrade has improved the quality of the project and will enable further development of this Slavic universe.

As a team, we are hopeful that this update will breathe new life into the game, generate stronger interest from the gaming community, and lead to a reassessment of the product with an increase in positive reviews. We have put a lot of work into this project and want players to see us as developers who do not abandon their work but are committed to its future growth.

In addition to the game update, which will be released on June 27, 2024, we have another surprise: the game will be available for purchase on Steam at a 60% discounted price.

We regret to inform you that due to the engine update and work on the save system, it will not be possible to load existing game progress from saved files. Unfortunately, the updated technologies require starting the game anew.

We understand that this may be frustrating and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. However, we want to assure you that these changes are necessary to improve performance, stability, and add new features that will ultimately enrich the gaming experience.

We thank you in advance for your understanding and support in this matter.

Below are the detailed information about the Anniversary Update:
Patch Notes - Slavicpunk: Oldtimer Transition to Unreal Engine 5.3

• Updated Game Engine: The upgrade to Unreal Engine 5.3 brings significant improvements to graphics, physics, and development tools, allowing us to create more complex and realistic worlds.
  
• Performance Improvements: Optimizations in the game code and the use of new UE 5.3 features have significantly improved performance on various hardware configurations.
  
• Loading time reduction: Improvements in resource management and level optimization have reduced game loading times and transitions between locations.
  
• Game Stability: Resolved numerous game crash issues, especially during intense action scenes.
  
• Enemy AI: Enemies now behave more naturally thanks to improved artificial intelligence algorithms.
  
• Reactions to the player: Enemies respond better to the player's actions, which makes the gameplay more dynamic and realistic.
  
• Translation improvements: Updated and improved translations in various languages, eliminating errors and ambiguities.
  
• Keymapping: Added the ability to fully remap the keys on the keyboard and gamepad, allowing players to customize the controls to their own preferences.
  
• Default controls: Updated default controls to be more intuitive and in line with industry standards.
  
• Animation Smoothness Improvement: Thanks to optimizations and new EU 5.3 technologies, character and object animations are now more fluid and realistic.
  
• Animation bug fixes: Fixed numerous animation display bugs, such as objects clipping and characters getting stuck.
  
• Improved Save System: Improved the reliability of the game's save system, reducing the risk of losing progress.
  
• Controller Configuration: Enabled more advanced controller settings, including sensitivity and dead zone calibration.
  
• Achievement System Fixes: Fixed issues with recording achievements earned, ensuring all trophies are awarded correctly.
  

Summary
A total of approximately 100 bugs related to gameplay, enemy behavior, performance, level optimization, control options, location, etc. have been fixed. Every aspect of the game has been thoroughly analyzed and improved to ensure the best possible experience for players.

In terms of gameplay, issues that could affect the smoothness and satisfaction of the game were identified and fixed. The logic of interaction between characters has been improved, making the game more intuitive and addictive.
Enemy behavior has also improved significantly. Changes have been made to their artificial intelligence. Enemies now react better to the environment and player tactics, which increases the difficulty and realism of fights.

Game performance has been optimized, which includes better management of system resources and minimized lag. Thanks to this, players with different hardware configurations can enjoy smooth and stable gameplay.

Level optimization was a key aspect that contributed to improving the overall quality of the game. The number of unnecessary objects was reduced and the geometry of the environment was improved, which had a positive impact on loading times and smooth gameplay.
Control options have been expanded and adapted to the needs of different players. The ability to personalize the keys has been introduced, which allows for better adaptation of the game to the individual preferences of users.

The game's localization has also been improved. Corrections have been made to the translations to make them more precise and natural in different languages. This makes the game more accessible to players from different regions of the world.
Each of these aspects of the game has been carefully analyzed and improved, resulting in a much better gameplay experience for all players.

Death screen, linked new maps

Greetings, demons and angels!

We’re opening the registration for our Closed Playtest.
We don’t have a date yet for the Playtest but we will give you more information as soon as we’ve got them!


Why a playtest?
We know Roguelikes need a lot of balancing and we want you to tell us what’s too OP and what should be nerfed.
On top of balancing, we’d like to test the game’s core mechanics and gather your overall feedback.

The best way to create Lost In Prayer is with you, the community. We expect you to tell us more about your expectations for the game once you’ve played it.

We greatly appreciate your support and can’t wait to have you play Lost In Prayer.

How to apply?
You can register by clicking on the link below our store page


You’ll get informed by mail via Steam if you are selected once we’ve started the Closed Playtest.


Follow us on Discord to get all the latest news on Lost In Prayer
https://discord.gg/9hPeCCvNJy

Thanks a lot,
See you soon in Heaven and Hell,
Matthieu

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where you could place landing zones on top of each other
  
• Fixed an issue where the production stats would not update immediately when switching time ranges
  
• Fixed a bug preventing graphs from showing in the production stats panel until they were full
  
• Fixed an exception in the technology panel when in Demo mode

Demo

• Changed verbage of "wishlist now" to "Buy on Steam" in various places
  
• Disabled several technologies in the Demo to account for all the updates since the last demo

• Yellow Small Asteroid
  
• Yellow Medium Asteroid
  
• Yellow Large Asteroid
  
• Yellow Huge Asteroid
  
• Yellow Triplet Asteroid
  
• Yellow UFO (Recruitments)

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- Various sound effect level moderations.
- Pointer offset removed for ruby power.
- Level 31 should now unlock properly.
- Fixes to keyboard movement in final level.

This hotfixes fixes some smaller bugs reported last 24 hours.

The bugs fixed

• Chinese usernames showing up blank
  
• Challenges not saving fixed, this was not logged within local user save data, from now on it will be logged in the save file.
  
• Fixed Commander Beam music not playing
  
• Fixed Commander Beam not using secondary laser attack
  
• Fixed map editor camera getting stuck if clicking too fast on perspective button
  
• Added Lazarus and Laser tank to custom tank music selections
  
• More settings added for creating mod pack objects for the map editor

It's been 2 years since our last update post. Wow.



We've always known that Poppers was a game brimming with potential, however the realities of the whole development team having day-jobs that have been pretty full-on these last few years meant that Party Poppers had taken a backseat -- and we didn't want to rush it out the door unfinished.

But we're back! We've been working hard in 2024 to polish the game, get the game modes we wanted in, and added a few quality of life features along the way. Check out the new trailer!



Party Poppers finally shows that it is a popper proper evolution of the "Party" series, building upon lessons learned in Party Golf and Party Crashers. There is much more of a focus on simple modifications through the mutators screen, which can now be "locked on" across the variety of different modes. Descriptions are clearer, visible in the scoreboard and pause menu, and the 2D graphics are so much more polished now than our previous titles (with 4K support too!).

We've added AI so that you can give the game a crack when your friends aren't around. They're better than some of the developers in some modes!



The team have worked hard on filling out all the game modes, curating the mutators, and squashing as many bugs as possible. The game also should now run at a smooth frame rate without slowing down over time.

The game features are the same on PS5 and Steam (minus controller sounds).



We hope you enjoy the update. We plan on launching on Switch later in the year, and any fixes to that will filter on through to Steam too.

Happy Popping!

• Increased default kill reward multiplier & passive income to amounts more suitable for multiplayer
• Reduced factory times of low rank aircraft
• Added more low rank aircraft to faction starting inventories
• Fixing desyncing when joining a second game
• Increasing timeout to 30 seconds
• Improving scrolling on multiplayer menu