Greetings and salutations, Mr. Z here with a small update on our progress currently.
We've been super busy behind the scenes preparing the game for launch, so we apologize if things have seemed quiet lately. The biggest thing to report is that the engine upgrade has been completed and we're now on UE5.5. This version of unreal came with a lot of optimization improvements and stability fixes that we've been needing, as well as some new features we're making use of. Generally speaking the engine just runs a little faster, but we'll be making use of some new features that will make the character rendering a bit more performant.
Unfortunately combat had to be put on hold to do this upgrade, which is why we haven't been seeing much progress on that front recently. It took a little longer to upgrade the engine than expected but we're back on track now. In the last demo, we had a lot of complains about performance, and the combat gameplay. These two things are actually intrinsically tied, if the performance is bad, the combat noticeably suffers. Going forwards to launch these 2 things are the top priority. I'm going to start putting out regular patches with combat tweaks, new animations and possibly new/overhauled combat mechanics.
If you would like to help test the combat mechanics before launch now is the time to jump in and start giving feedback. As soon as we've reached a good level of combat improvements we'll be getting ready for more large scale playtests. We give our thanks to our backers, both new and old who have helped us get this far. Early access is only just the end of the beginning for us at RDBK, we still have a big journey ahead of us.