I am pleased to announce the release of v1.5.0 of the demo for Haunted: Attack of the Dead Men. This update delivers a significant upgrade for the weapon sprites and a redesign of the player character (in line with the cover art). Full release notes for v1.5.0:

• Updated the sprites and artwork for each weapon, providing enhanced visual quality and new animations
• Added dual-wielding for the Luger. This will be activated when finding a second Luger pickup (which can be found in every level), and can be toggled by holding down the "alternate fire" button (default is right mouse button)
• Redesigned the player character's sprites (both in the main menu and the head that appears in the default HUD layout)
• Refactored the weapon handling and enemy AI code, fixing many bugs and in some cases improving performance. Such a significant change may well introduce new bugs, so please report any bugs you find in the forums
• Tweaked the weapon "bobbing" logic. Weapons should now bob up and down even when the "head bob amount" in the gameplay menu is set to zero
• Increased the scale factor in Map 4 slightly. The map should still feel claustrophobic, but movement and collision issues are now much less likely
• Fixed some issues with windowed mode
• Updated engine to Godot 4.1.3, providing numerous bug fixes and performance and stability improvements. This update will also fix the decal problems with the Simple renderer
• Numerous additional bug fixes and improvements
• Some minor edits and improvements to the cover art

Known Issues

• Please be aware that this update breaks save game compatibility. You will not be able to load saves made with v1.4.0 or earlier after this update.
• The enemies that spawn in at the end of Maps 3 and 4 (when picking up the final keys in these levels) don't load correctly when loading a save. The bug is purely visual and shouldn't affect gameplay. I have some ideas about why this is happening but haven't been able to fix it yet so there will (hopefully) be a v1.5.1 update shortly to address this.

Planned Features

• 7+ hour single-player campaign in the style of first-person shooters of old

• 14 levels in the main campaign + 1 secret level (the first 4 levels are available to play right now in the demo)

• 8 choices of weapon to dispatch the many undead Russians

• Intense encounters with dozens of enemies all at once throughout the campaign

• Earn rewards for more aggressive play-styles

• 5 difficulty levels + 2 bonus difficulties that unlock upon completing the game on the hardest difficulty

• Many different types of enemy, all with unique attack patterns and fighting styles, to keep the action engaging

• An epic boss battle against a well known Russian mystic who has now been dabbling in necromancy...

• Steam Achievements

• OS: Any Distribution. Kernel 5.10+
• Processor: Quad Core 2 GHz+Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Graphics: OpenGL 3.3+ compatible
• Storage: 2 GB available space

• OS: Ubuntu 20.04+. Manjaro 21.3+
• Processor: Quad Core 3 GHz+Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Graphics: AMD RX 480 or nVidia equivalent
• Storage: 2 GB available space