Patch Info & News

Version 0.5 is now available and contains the first Arena challenge and challenge versions of the Scenarios both with Leaderboards. There are also a number of major and minor changes to menus and backend systems that were required for the new and upcoming features. Over the past week we've had a public beta available to test the new menu and Leaderboards and we added the Arena a few days ago for testing. There are still minor issues, but we feel the build is solid enough now to release 0.5 in the main branch for all users. There are many changes that could cause problems for some users so if you do have any major issues you can go back to 0.4.4 by right clicking the game in your Steam library, going to Properties and under the 'BETAS' tab choosing the 'previousversion' beta option. The Arena will continue to be added to over time with new challenges. Right now there is a 10 wave challenge to try and beat and we should have a second challenge added next week. The Scenarios section of the menu is where you can play the existing Biker Bar, Disco, Prison, Pirate Cove and Sandbox levels, but now the non-Sandbox levels have 2 versions. Standard allows you to use the modifiers as before and Challenge is more difficult, doesn't allow modifiers and has Leaderboards. The new menu is a work in progress, but was a necessary change to handle the new and upcoming features and game modes. You'll see placeholder buttons and options for the upcoming features/modes like the multiplayer co-op, the rogue-like mode 'Beneath' and the Level Editor. As always, but particularly in this case as there are many major changes, please let us know on the Steam forum if you have any bugs or problems. Enemy movement and pathfinding is completely different on the backend to previous versions and we'll be continuing to improve this and work through any new issues that have come up due to this. If performance seems worse for you in this version you can also go back to the previous version ('previousversion' beta option) temporarily while we optimise. We'll be updating the translation database with the latest terms shortly and will work to get all new elements translated to all support languages.

Next Updates

Over the coming weeks we'll continue updating the game with fixes and performance improvements for the new features and we'll be working on updating the Sandbox with elements from the Pirate Cove and the Arena. We also intend on adding a second Arena challenge next week. The current plan for Version 0.6 is to add online co-op multiplayer which is something we've already spent a lot of development time on over the past couple of months. If you'd like to participate in early betas for the multiplayer we will be discussing development and any beta plans on the Steam forum. ----------- This is an abbreviated changelist. We'll attempt a more complete list of more of the minor changes soon. Version 0.5.0

• Added Arena Challenge 1
• Leaderboards for Scenario Challenges and Arena
• New Main Menu
• New pathfinding system (WIP)
• Added Challenge mode for Scenarios
• Replaced One Hit Kills modifiers with Weak Enemies and Weak Player
• Many other changes and fixes