Hello everyone! We're back this week with a showcase full of the up-and-coming weapons attachment system. It's a system that's similar to the launcher's attachment we've had before, but they work on your weapons instead. While we only have images to share today, we will provide more information expanding on how it works, and also to show some changes coming to the Launcher's attachment system as well! Stay tuned!

Discord: http://discord.gg/quS7E46

After a vote (on which 90% players responded positively or didn't mind) I have decided to change my original decision and implement Steam achievements for The Brawl Bar.

If you already got some in-game, they should unlock automatically at startup. (if not, go to the achievements tab in the menu)

They have separate color icons from the main game achievements.

1.5.3.4

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- BRAWL BAR: Achievements added on Steam!

- All achievements are now localized into Korean and Traditional Chinese.

- BRAWL BAR: Pressing "combo finisher" button during attack no longer picks up item if one is near player.

- BRAWL BAR: "Support challengers" stats are now more unpredictable to make it more interesting.

- BRAWL BAR: "Cinnamon chase" player speed is now limited to 300%.

- BRAWL BAR: "Arctic bear" it was possible to stand on the hole to the far right edge.

- BRAWL BAR: Added warning message the first time we switch character to inform about the impact on completed challenges.

- BRAWL BAR: Fixed tutorials of DLC breaking display outside the DLC rooms.

- BRAWL BAR: "King of the table / Friendly sparring" is now a bit less nerve wracking.

- BRAWL BAR: "Three little bots" are now a bit easier to defeat.

- BRAWL BAR: Fixed potential crash with Rooster if the opponent no longer exist when preparing to attack.

- BRAWL BAR: Fixed missing sound files for getting ads in the standalone version.

- BRAWL BAR: Fixed very minor graphical glitch with conveyor belts.

- BRAWL BAR: Fixed "struggling" animation missing for Rok's chokehold grab.

- BRAWL BAR: Fixed mods going into Brok idling animation.

- BRAWL BAR: Fixed one voice line.

- BRAWL BAR: Fixed Bubble's card missing lower body.

- BRAWL BAR: Creator mode: Added a "delete" button.

- BRAWL BAR: Creator mode: Fixed the flow of many options.

- BRAWL BAR: Creator mode: Added icons to some options.

- BRAWL BAR: Creator mode: Difficulty tag is now only applied if we export a challenge.

- BRAWL BAR: Creator mode: Fixed crash if the mod a character uses is not installed.

- BRAWL BAR: Creator mode: Fixed counter of collectables not resetting after the first try.

- BRAWL BAR: Creator mode: Rounding added for values displayed.

- BRAWL BAR: Creator mode: Missing detective Brok walk animation for modding.

- BRAWL BAR: Creator mode: Holes are now automatically placed at the bottom edge.

- BRAWL BAR: Creator mode: Saving icon on the popup is now centered.

- BRAWL BAR: Accessibility: Some gameovers were lacking accessibility speeches, causing a crash.

- BRAWL BAR: Accessibility: In rare cases where the player character wasn't in the room, accessibility repeating characters names could cause a crash.

- Fixed: If a dialogue happens exactly at the same frame the previous one gets killed, the new one doesn't display and it is softlock

We’re excited to announce that Shellborne is now available on Steam - and it’s free to play!

Shellborne was created as a student project with the goal to learn Steam. We are proud to share our progress with you. Right now it’s still in beta, so we’re actively polishing things.

If you’d like to help:

• You can share feedback we’d be very grateful - bug reports, performance notes, balance thoughts, or anything that feels great (or not).

• You can post on the Steam Community Hub or simply reply to this announcement.

• Or join our Swarmforge Community Discord.

Why this matters:
We’re learning as we go, so optional feedback from players helps us prioritize fixes and improvements.

Thanks for checking it out - enjoy the beta! ✨

Your Swarmforge Team

Due to a previous rewrite of how players are spawned and respawned some gameModes failed to respawn correctly. This issue is now fixed for all gamemodes except CaptureTheFlag. There are some issues remaining like player velocity not reset on respawn aswell as weapons being kept for gamemodes that should not let players keep weapons on respawn but these issues will be adressed in following updates.

This week I implemented achievements, some secret score challenges and a system for unlocking Souls. I also spent some time thinking about how I want progress towards the demo and will hopefully have some more interesting content next week!

If you'd like to be more in the loop or share some thoughts on the game join the Discord!

Here's all the patch notes!

✦ Added 7 different "secret" score challenges.

✦ Added 3 achievements.

✦ Fixed Death Tag rest choice not making the tag be seen in the compendium.

✦ Fixed Conduit +1 not properly showing its stack amount in its status effect.

✦ Run time should no longer tick on the run end screen.

✦ Fixed some odd edge case UI bugs. (Tooltips are still cooked.)

✦ Now Grob and Ragnarra are locked behind victorious runs. Any previous stats you had earned will be kept even when they are locked.

The following improvements and fixes were implemented:

- Fixed bug of dark reflection on some texts depending on camera angle.

- Fixed bug with missing translation of resistance bank panel.

- Fixed bug in the tablet maintenance app where scrolling text would exceed the visual limits.

- Fixed bug with the fuel loading time of generator sets, where it was not affected by the game speed.

- Fixed bug of AO reporting false danger situations right after loading saved progress.

- Fixed several out-of-bounds translations (English).

We are waiting for you in the game's Discord!

• Balanced shopping logic – customers now more often choose lower-quality products.

• Fixed an issue where components from the component box might not be added correctly.

• Fixed a bug where products in closed pallets had no price after loading a save.

Build 0,81

Today's update includes a new boss, Charon, some added passives and an increased bucket selection for the roguelike mode. This one took a little longer - working on changing the popup system to instead be a chat box that lets you scroll through events, so you've got a history of what's gone on without having to stare at the screen and catch every popup. Next update won't feature a boss due to that - it'll be that upgrade. Stay tuned for that.

Ferryman of the underworld, Charon's primary mechanic revolves around him shuffling 15 obols, the currency used to pay the ferryman, into your deck. Charon initially starts out quite strong and is a T2 difficulty boss, but the more obols you play the easier he becomes. Manage to find (or duplicate enough obols) to play 15 of them, and you automatically win the game.

He only plays a single card per turn, save for one card he has that allows him to play 3 for that turn alone, so you don't often have to worry about him chaining off several strong effects, but the cards he has are particularly dangerous if you don't find the obols. Make sure you've got a little card draw, and if you're in the roguelike mode, pray you found a little card draw lmao.

• Divinity Toxin: If you end your turn with a full hand, the boss gains 5 mortis.

• Death's Calendar: When you play your 60th card, win the game.

• Smoke Break: At the end of your turns, if you have 50+ mortis, lose 5 mortis.

• The Button: The first time your hand is empty, stun the boss.

• Mortis Rebate: After you play a card, lose 2 mortis. (Note - this will NOT prevent you from death by playing a card that would take you to 100 mortis.)

The Barghest boss lacked a few QOL features like a howl counter on the background and, I don't know if anyone else did, but I found the background too bright at times, and sort of annoying, so both have been mended.

More buckets have been added to the roguelike mode, to further diversify what you might be able to build in the roguelike mode. Do report any issues!

Till next time!

Fixes & Changes:

• Improved item placement system.
  
• Fixed font rendering issues in certain languages.
  
• Big Crate can now release/dump its contents, like the Crate and Bucket.
  
• Fixed interaction between Crucible and Furnace.
  
• Minor adjustment to how collision sound effects behave.
  
• Character collider slightly reduced in thickness.
  
• Optimized overall physics performance.
  
• Improved physics interactions (especially between items and containers).
  
• Simplified physics model for crate containers.
  
• Fixed issue where items could disappear from carts after loading a save.
  
• Fixed save/load handling for items stored in larger containers (e.g., carts).

Known Issue:

• In some cases, containers (e.g., crates) may immediately cause items to stick inside; saving and reloading the game resolves this issue.

+ New special effects - godrays for speedup, and CRT for redeemer shot.
+ Reskue: Added 2 new weapons
+ Redeemer - starts controlled flying rocket can do extremely high damage for many targets and 20 shards.
Rocket automatically blows when strike with enemy, any item, even with reflector, and even scientist.
You can avoid walls and clean up dangerous rooms. If you have enough agility of course. Using ICE you can immediatly blow up rocket in any time.
Warning - You cannot walk until rocket is fly. Use in safe space and wisely.
Redeemer can be found only on 1-st level, on yellow card doors.
+ PowerRifle W17 - create acid burst, spreading dangerous very slow clouds until line of shot. Do normal damage but
clouds exists some time. Dont try entering cloud.
+ Enegry weapons now have self-recharging ability and not use standart ammo shots. On panel shows magenta color.
Combo shot with energy weapon slow down ALL existing enemies on room.
+ Train level enabled as Level 13. For NOVICEs
+ Fixed: part walls cannot be get damage. (visuals)
+ Grenade launcher now have own patrons colored red instead green. Maximum ammo euqal maximum normal ammo
+ Fixed: Freezed hero can unfreeze by using "L" key or teleport ability.
Redeemer shot also remove freeze status.
+ Added yellow doors can be opened only yellow keys already existed in game. Yellow safe doors dont remove your key-card.
+ Code,Editor: wTTL time to live ammo.
+ Reskue: Added new music
+ Reskue: Radioactive fuel if damaged can cause damage in other nearby fuel tank