Hello, players! We had some bug fixes lying around, which we had not yet gotten around to uploading. So here you have version 1.1.6:

• Fixed rooms in the Factory that would not spawn normal enemies if a Big enemy had spawned already.
• Revert change that made FPS camera by default controlled with movement keys. It made playing using laser guns with gamepads difficult.
• Fixed an overlap in the tutorial with certain languages when playing in 1280x720.
• Fixed doors in many endless rooms not closing properly when returning from next room.
• [VoidInsanity] Slash Quest 2 chains disappeared if the player changed levels while the quest was active.

Hello. Once again, we bring a small update (actually, two in one, as we discovered a small issue that we rectified before uploading the previous version). The most important bit is that now the first person camera used by specific equipment will, by default, be rotated with the camera controls, instead of the movement controls. That means, by default, with the mouse or the right analog stick. Another relevant change involves fixing the explosion sound of an attack by B-DSS and the Super Elite bots, which was not configured. We have also made some small changes to configurations and code, to improve memory management a little bit. The difference is not that noticeable, but should avoid some stuttering in low-spec PCs. And we leave you with the changelog: Version 1.1.5

• Fixed bosses briefly dissapearing during their intro animations.

• Improved performance of animations.
• FPS camera is by default controlled with camera keys.
• Slight improvement to memory management, reducing ocassional stuttering.
• Fixed explosion sound in B-DSS and Super Elite.
• Adjusted the display of leaderboards, so the colours have better contrast and elements are easier to distinguish.

Hello. Once again, we bring a small update (actually, two in one, as we discovered a small issue that we rectified before uploading the previous version). The most important bit is that now the first person camera used by specific equipment will, by default, be rotated with the camera controls, instead of the movement controls. That means, by default, with the mouse or the right analog stick. Another relevant change involves fixing the explosion sound of an attack by B-DSS and the Super Elite bots, which was not configured. We have also made some small changes to configurations and code, to improve memory management a little bit. The difference is not that noticeable, but should avoid some stuttering in low-spec PCs. And we leave you with the changelog: Version 1.1.5

• Fixed bosses briefly dissapearing during their intro animations.

• Improved performance of animations.
• FPS camera is by default controlled with camera keys.
• Slight improvement to memory management, reducing ocassional stuttering.
• Fixed explosion sound in B-DSS and Super Elite.
• Adjusted the display of leaderboards, so the colours have better contrast and elements are easier to distinguish.

Hey A small fix for an issue introduced in the previous one, making Slash unwilling to initiate combat in the tutorial or if you hit it in the city or later. Plus, a small fix for the leaderboard, which could get stuck if the connection to Steam servers failed. We hope you enjoy the game and these bugs did not cause too much trouble.

Hey A small fix for an issue introduced in the previous one, making Slash unwilling to initiate combat in the tutorial or if you hit it in the city or later. Plus, a small fix for the leaderboard, which could get stuck if the connection to Steam servers failed. We hope you enjoy the game and these bugs did not cause too much trouble.

This is mostly a bugfixing patch, but we have sneaked a couple of improvements to enemy AI. As an extra, we've also made the encounter with COPGORE shorter. Now, three impacts should be enough to defeat it.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

BUG FIXES

• Character models were not displayed in the character selection screen of Story.
• [@Dettadeus, Nono Ohno] Added missing colliders in B-DSS and FRANK-Y rooms. Fixes HEART going through walls and camera getting stuck behind walls.
• Reduced number of hits COPGORE can take from 5 to 3.
• [Nono Ohno] Recycling a head while jumping would break the camera.
• [Blaise] Completing arenas while using rocket cam lock-on broke camera.
• [Nono Ohno] Slash quest 3 dialogue repeats and can cause an overlap.

This is mostly a bugfixing patch, but we have sneaked a couple of improvements to enemy AI. As an extra, we've also made the encounter with COPGORE shorter. Now, three impacts should be enough to defeat it.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

BUG FIXES

• Character models were not displayed in the character selection screen of Story.
• [@Dettadeus, Nono Ohno] Added missing colliders in B-DSS and FRANK-Y rooms. Fixes HEART going through walls and camera getting stuck behind walls.
• Reduced number of hits COPGORE can take from 5 to 3.
• [Nono Ohno] Recycling a head while jumping would break the camera.
• [Blaise] Completing arenas while using rocket cam lock-on broke camera.
• [Nono Ohno] Slash quest 3 dialogue repeats and can cause an overlap.

Happy new year from the aheartfulofgames team! We want to apologize for the bugs we introduced in the endless dungeon update. We focused a bit too much in that part of the game and the test runs we made of the story mode were subpar. Making things worse, we had already seen most of those problems when releasing Heart&Slash in other platforms, but thought they were either platform specific or affecting more recent versions of the tools we use. We were mistaken and your game experience was affected by that. We're sorry. This release includes Win64, Win32 and Linux. Mac builds will be uploaded once we return to our normal lives.

BUGFIXES

• Fixed potential memory leak involving camera shake.
• Fixed walls and floors the player could go through in sewers.
• Fixed some instances of Z-fighting in factory level.

IMPROVEMENTS

• Ambient color is 30% brighter in all rooms, by using a 30%-100% random distribution.
• Dynamic resolution can downgrade several steps at once if perfomance degrades significatively.

Happy new year from the aheartfulofgames team! We want to apologize for the bugs we introduced in the endless dungeon update. We focused a bit too much in that part of the game and the test runs we made of the story mode were subpar. Making things worse, we had already seen most of those problems when releasing Heart&Slash in other platforms, but thought they were either platform specific or affecting more recent versions of the tools we use. We were mistaken and your game experience was affected by that. We're sorry. This release includes Win64, Win32 and Linux. Mac builds will be uploaded once we return to our normal lives.

BUGFIXES

• Fixed potential memory leak involving camera shake.
• Fixed walls and floors the player could go through in sewers.
• Fixed some instances of Z-fighting in factory level.

IMPROVEMENTS

• Ambient color is 30% brighter in all rooms, by using a 30%-100% random distribution.
• Dynamic resolution can downgrade several steps at once if perfomance degrades significatively.

Hi, all! Today we are finally releasing the Endless Dungeon mode of Heart&Slash. Follow Slash in its eternal struggle to escape from QUASSY's grip. It might be a never ending fight, but doesn't mean you can't have fun trying! This new mode is available to all players, and will pitch you against a maze of rooms, filled with ever stronger enemies and less and less equipment to support you. The deeper you get, the more scarce your resources. Use every trick and exploit every weakness, and climb to the top of the rankings! This mode will be released on consoles soon, so all our fans can expect to enjoy it in the future.

Nintendo Switch version released today, too

Hi, all! Today we are finally releasing the Endless Dungeon mode of Heart&Slash. Follow Slash in its eternal struggle to escape from QUASSY's grip. It might be a never ending fight, but doesn't mean you can't have fun trying! This new mode is available to all players, and will pitch you against a maze of rooms, filled with ever stronger enemies and less and less equipment to support you. The deeper you get, the more scarce your resources. Use every trick and exploit every weakness, and climb to the top of the rankings! This mode will be released on consoles soon, so all our fans can expect to enjoy it in the future.

Nintendo Switch version released today, too

We're publishing a small update to fix an issue with the leaderboards: the first time they were opened, they could stall indefinitely when requesting friends information. It should work properly now. And also, a reminder that once the Endless Dungeon mode comes out of beta, we will reset the leaderboards. There have been a few ups and downs in difficulty, so it's fair to start with a clean slate. Have fun!

We're publishing a small update to fix an issue with the leaderboards: the first time they were opened, they could stall indefinitely when requesting friends information. It should work properly now. And also, a reminder that once the Endless Dungeon mode comes out of beta, we will reset the leaderboards. There have been a few ups and downs in difficulty, so it's fair to start with a clean slate. Have fun!

New update for the Endless Dungeon. Mainly, the leaderboard is much easier to understand now. We've also adjusted difficulty a little, actually making the hardest enemies, Heartless, less common. In detail, this is the changelog:

• Improvements to rankings display, specially for the top 3.
• Removed Heartless enemies from all transitions minus the loop one in Endless Dungeon.
• Added new, hardest versions of the Heartless encounter in Endless Dungeon.

New update for the Endless Dungeon. Mainly, the leaderboard is much easier to understand now. We've also adjusted difficulty a little, actually making the hardest enemies, Heartless, less common. In detail, this is the changelog:

• Improvements to rankings display, specially for the top 3.
• Removed Heartless enemies from all transitions minus the loop one in Endless Dungeon.
• Added new, hardest versions of the Heartless encounter in Endless Dungeon.

After quite a long time since the previous update to the game, we're here to upload a new build of Heart&Slash' endless dungeon, and confirm its upcoming release outside the testing branch. For the time being, if you want to be part of the testing team, enter the code 4eWasASk8terBoy in the Beta tab of the game and then select the endless_test branch. In this patch, we've worked on fixing bugs and improving balance and stability of the mode. If you read the changelog, you'll see this:

• By default, camera speed is set to 50%, instead of 100%.
• Set Slash's theme as soundtrack for Endless Dungeon.
• Added new enemy Heartless on Endless Dungeon.
• Fixed rooms in Endless Dungeon which would not open after completing the combat.
• Fixes to Endless Dungeon rankings.
• Meat Cleaver no longer spawns in Endless Dungeon.
• Balance changes to Endless Dungeon.

After quite a long time since the previous update to the game, we're here to upload a new build of Heart&Slash' endless dungeon, and confirm its upcoming release outside the testing branch. For the time being, if you want to be part of the testing team, enter the code 4eWasASk8terBoy in the Beta tab of the game and then select the endless_test branch. In this patch, we've worked on fixing bugs and improving balance and stability of the mode. If you read the changelog, you'll see this:

• By default, camera speed is set to 50%, instead of 100%.
• Set Slash's theme as soundtrack for Endless Dungeon.
• Added new enemy Heartless on Endless Dungeon.
• Fixed rooms in Endless Dungeon which would not open after completing the combat.
• Fixes to Endless Dungeon rankings.
• Meat Cleaver no longer spawns in Endless Dungeon.
• Balance changes to Endless Dungeon.

After quite some time, we've finally managed to lock the endless dungeon mode down to something we think is close to our original idea. It's still in development, of course, so we'll keep updating the beta branch with changes and fixes, until it works as expected. In this first update we're introducing a new type of enemy (not yet in the codex): Heartless, a version of Heart which does not feel the same way towards Slash. They will be special enemies found regularly, with varied equipment. We've also tweaked the length of sections and adjusted the difficulty. The number of enemies and their speed scales a little slower now, so a whole cycle is relatively achievable. We've also fixed a couple of issues which might cause a room to remain shut after all enemies were defeated. In future updates we intend to introduce a finished version of the Heartless challenge room, further tweak stuff and teach Dogbot how to climb a set of stairs. Translations will come at a later time. Heartless also needs to be a little easier, or appear in lower numbers, but we need to do further tests. And, of course, if you find any issue, let us know. We'll create a thread in the forums, so you can report problems and propose ideas.

After quite some time, we've finally managed to lock the endless dungeon mode down to something we think is close to our original idea. It's still in development, of course, so we'll keep updating the beta branch with changes and fixes, until it works as expected. In this first update we're introducing a new type of enemy (not yet in the codex): Heartless, a version of Heart which does not feel the same way towards Slash. They will be special enemies found regularly, with varied equipment. We've also tweaked the length of sections and adjusted the difficulty. The number of enemies and their speed scales a little slower now, so a whole cycle is relatively achievable. We've also fixed a couple of issues which might cause a room to remain shut after all enemies were defeated. In future updates we intend to introduce a finished version of the Heartless challenge room, further tweak stuff and teach Dogbot how to climb a set of stairs. Translations will come at a later time. Heartless also needs to be a little easier, or appear in lower numbers, but we need to do further tests. And, of course, if you find any issue, let us know. We'll create a thread in the forums, so you can report problems and propose ideas.

The long awaited, Kickstarter final stretch goal, ENDLESS DUNGEON MODE is almost here! We are just adding the finishing touches to the score system and fixing bugs with well, the endless dungeon generation. We've also added leader-boards, so you'll be able to compete with other players to reach the top (currently held by our very own ELIDEB). More details coming soon!

The long awaited, Kickstarter final stretch goal, ENDLESS DUNGEON MODE is almost here! We are just adding the finishing touches to the score system and fixing bugs with well, the endless dungeon generation. We've also added leader-boards, so you'll be able to compete with other players to reach the top (currently held by our very own ELIDEB). More details coming soon!

Happy New Year 2017 Today we're releasing a patch with changes to the game's ending, high resolution improvements and other improvements. We hope you like it!

ENDING

HIGH RESOLUTION FIXES

BUGFIXES

• Fixed respawning when falling off the level for a second time.
• Fixed issue with dialogues which might lock the game at very low resolutions.
• Fixed overlaps with cinematic sequence black bars in non-16/9 resolutions.

Quick patch! Thanks for all people who have reported the errors in the third level. We have finally managed to find the root cause of the remaining issues, so we expect no more serious issues in that regard. We have also introduced a quick fix for the UI, which did not render properly in very high resolutions (4K and such). Have fun!

Hell-o to all of you! We bring a new patch today, featuring a couple of smaller fixes and a request from our players.

HALLWOEEN REMINDER

LOCKED FRAMERATE

OTHER FIXES

• Updates to the Simplified Chinese translation
• COPS blockade no longer obstructs passage through doors in the second level
• Dynamic resolution could fail to activate because of a misconfiguration

Welcome to a new patch. This time, we're doing mostly bugfixing. The most important affects level 3, to which we have mda some modifications, trying to solve issues affecting modules which never appeared after an arena, or the current module going away, taking the player with it. We have used the chance to tweak some rooms, making them easier to navigate. We have also fixed an error cause by the water in the second level. It lead to some leaked memory, which might be the cause behind some player's having the level failing to fully load. We're still investigating if there are any other factors at play. The full list of changes is:

• Fixed Boomerang and American Shield floating away when hit enemies were destroyed.
• Fixes to the third level.
• Fixed null refs in sewers.
• Fixed water and vegetation shaders, broken in patch 1.0.2 (only affected Linux players which got the patched version)
• Fixed Z-fighting in first level.

• Beatstick hard attack broke character animations if used in two different levels.

Another week, another patch. This is a small one, only affecting Linux. We have managed to find and fix the cause of the crashes many players got when starting the game. We're very grateful to all testers who helped reporting the problems and testing the different fixes we attempted. This patch also includes a small fix for the Beatstick, which will be propagated to other platforms as soon as we fix a serious issue currently affecting the third level of the game. Until the next patch is up, we recommend not using the beatstick if possible in Windows or MacOS X.

We have just uploaded a new patch for Linux and Windows. The most important changes are fixes to the third level. The events in which geometry vanishes, making it impossible to continue progressing, should be fixed. We have also enabled support for 21:9 resolutions (and others), increased the safe zone for people playing on TV sets and fixed some issues with the minimap. We have some pending issues regarding the third level and crashes in Linux. We're looking into them and will release a new patch when they're fixed. MacOS X builds will be uploaded when we can. Thank for your support!

Hello! The first time Heart&Slash went public, it was to ask our fans for help in bringing this dream to reality. We did a crowdfunding campaing through KickStarter, which we completed successfully. As part of the campaign, we had several rewards for those willing to participate, one of them being a digital artbook. We are starting to work on it and the aim is to show how we've moved from our original ideas to the final version of the game you are playing now.
But since the release of the game we've seen such great fanart on twitter, Steam, mail and other channels that we came up with a new idea: why not include some of it in the art book? If it's supposed to show how the game has evolved, our players' interpretation of it is the final step. How you view Heart, Slash and the other characters is a part of this journey. And a very interesting one, too: we've seen re-imaginings of our robots that we never even considered a possibility, but loved the moment we saw them. If you want us to include your fan art in the book, send it to us. We'll select our favourites and include them in it. Those we select will receive the artbook, even if they did not take part on the crowdfunding campaign, and a Steam key. If you don't have the game, you will be able to enjoy it for free. If you already have it, you can send it as a gift to a friend or do as you please. What are you waiting for? Send your best hi-def Heart&Slash fan art to info@aheartfulofgames.com, indicating that it is for the Artbook. Thanks to all those who participate! Legal notice: As always, there is some legal stuff we need to be careful with: by sending the artwork to us, you grant us permission to reproduce it in the digital artbook. You also grant us permission to feature it in social networks or webs. Everywhere it is used, however, we will make sure you are acknowledged as the author. If we think a change in the wording or the legal requirements is needed, we'll update this announcement. Also, we will send you a confirmation mail, so we can make sure we're using the artwork with your consent. And, finally, those who send us art are declaring themselves as authors of said art. Any legal issues that might arise regarding authorship will be directed to whoever sent the art.

The time has finally come. Two and a half years since we officially started working on the project, Heart&Slash is released on PC. It's been a long journey, including a successful Kickstarter, lots on iteration on the different ideas on how to properly tell Heart's journey and, most of all, lots of work. The release comes with the addition of the soundtrack as optional DLC. We are very proud of the final form the game has reached. Thanks to the feedback from our backers and Early Access players, we think we have managed to reach a level of polish we wouldn't have otherwise. So far, the Steam reviewes are there to back this impression. We hope it will remain the same and new players will enjoy it as much as we have creating it.

WHAT'S ON VERSION 1.0.0

• Chances of getting a piece of equipment are greater if seen less often than others.
• COPGORE encounter improvements, including speed, collisions and difficulty.
• FRANK-Y encounter can be completed faster with physical equipment. But FRANK-Y is also a bit more vicious in its attacks.

• Recycling heads with a target locked no longer breaks the camera.
• Steps sound in third level fixed.
• Disco Bomb plays in the music channel.

WHAT'S IN STORE FOR THE FUTURE

FOR PLAYERS OF OLD BUILDS

Hi. Quick update with fixes implemented during the weekend.:

• Fixed arena in third level that triggered from below.
• UI adjustments: cutscenes SKIP is visible again, map is hidden when returning to main menu, UNLOCK DESCRIPTOR is not shown at the start of each level.
• Old shooter camera no longer breaks boss cameras.

• Chasm rooms in the Factory's first section always have fences.
• Camera no longer gets inside walls on B-DSS encounter.

KNOWN ISSUES

A new update, in preparation for Tuesday's Early Access end. This time, we bring a much needed review of how heads work, some changes to COPGORE and balance improvements.

HEADS REVIEW

COPGORE

• If the COPS bots were destroyed fast enough, COPGORE could be trapped in a loop in which it did almost nothing besides dropping more bots to replace the defeated ones.
• The Big Missile collided with the space lift tether quite often, depending on how people preferred to face it.

BALANCE

BUGFIXING

• Smoother COPS mortar target movement.
• Reduced volume of Green Chasm rooms when spawning enemies.

Hi. With yesterday's update a bug crept into the input system. We didn't notice because it was settings dependant, and our settings were, unfortunately, correctly set. A fix has been uploaded for the issue and should be live now. In the changelog, present in the installation directory, it should be listed as version 0.9.5. However, some settings will still lack some of the new configurations, making menu navigation harder than it should be. We recommend removing the game's settings file for the controllers you're using. They are located in: The files to delete are:

• input[NameOfController].brw
• input[NameOfController].brw.bak

• inputSettings.brw
• inputSettings.brw.bak

Windows

• Depending on the language, Users might be Usuarios or something else.
• [useraccount] should be the name of the Windows account you're currently using.
• AppData is a hidden directory. You might have to enable system or hidden folders to see it. Other option is to simple append AppData in the folder address bar.

Linux

MacOS X

Hello, all. The date at which Heart&Slash will be released is close now! We have come a long way since we started the Early Access, and lots of things have improved. We hope you enjoyed the journey. Heart&Slash will come out of Early Access and be officially released on PC on 9 August 2016. The moment the game is released the price will drop to $15. As we have explained in the Early Access info, the current price was set to remain fair to our Kickstarter Beta backers, but it was never intended as the final price. If you want to play the game, but not RIGHT NOW, you can wait a little more than a week and get it cheaper. Together with the game we will release the Soundtrack, composed by Michael Chait, for $10, and a Heart&Slash + OST bundle for $20. All of these will have a one week discount of 10% starting the day of release.

LEVEL 3 CHANGES

Other changes

• Enemy spawning is a little bit more random, allowing less difficult combinations to spawn a little more.
• Dogbot dash is done less frequently. Reduced knife attack tracking.
• City spawners adjustments.

• Minor improvements to tutorial.
• One per Cent Body upgrades now cost 6 crates each. instead of 3. Total upgrade cost is now 18.
• One per Cent Arms only have two upgrades, instead of 3, and their cost is 3 crates, instead of 2.
• Combo Sword can spawn in the second level.
• Combo Sword upgrade 4 costs 2 crates, instead of 1.
• Combo sword icon reflects combo ratio, instead of combo time.
• Skip is only activated by actual button and key presses.
• Poison Dagger can be equipped as main weapon.
• Poison Dagger damage boost upgrade effect and cost reduced.
• Poison Dagger backstab boost cost reduced.
• Fixed memory leak.

• Fixed bug in which slash console in quest 3 would disappear.
• Freeze modifiers no longer stack.
• Players should no longer get stuck on a fall. A double jump is forced if too long on a fall without moving.
• Fixes Axes hard attack cancelling into jumps.
• Fixes misplaced particle in Slash attack.
• Fixes hard lock bug with Missile Launcher.
• Fixes typo in grenade weapon description.
• Fixes water splahes over concrete in Herbie's room.
• Fixes many holes in the city.

Hi all, today we are bringing the first significant patch that resulted from us releasing to consoles. As you might have noticed, console release brought in our first press reviews. While we are happy with the overall reception (we are a very small game and accept our limitations) there were a couple points that almost every reviewer raised, even those who really liked the game. Moreover, now we have a larger playerbase to receive feedback from, and some of the players' complaints overlap with those of the reviewers. Thus, we've been rushing through some sorely needed fixes to those issues, in the hope of bringing up a new patch that addresses (but doesn't cancel) some of those issues.

CAMERA

PROGRESS BREAKERS

THIRD LEVEL IMPROVEMENTS

BUGFIXES

TESTING

Hello, all. We have recently released the game on other platforms. This is great for us, but also good for you. New issues have been brought to our attention, which will help us improve the game. For starters, we bring a series of adjustments and fixes for the game. A difficulty balancing for the first section of the game and the City is the most noticeable, but there are other improvements under the hood.

Difficulty balancing

• There are less spawn points for enemies in its rooms. At most, 5 enemies at once, and only in one or two specific versions of big rooms.
• Increased difficulty rating of biggrunt's chainsaw, flybot's laser and smallbot's flamethrower, missile launcher and shield. They won't spawn until a few rooms into the level.

• COPS units are now weak to physical attacks, instead of resitant to every kind.
• Smallbot's kick attack is now 33% slower in all variations, except on the Elite troops.
• Flybot's missile launchers only fire three missiles now.

Recycling

Bugfixing

• Improved framerate when lots of particles are present in the scene.
• Thunder Hammer electric explosion attack would lock character in place if used after changing scene.
• FPS counter no longer visible.
• Moved Pickup menu explanations out of the monitor overscan zone.
• Weapons should not become invisible because of an in-attack switch.
• Fix city lights when reached in a second consecutive run.

As many have already noticed, Heart&Slash has been recently released on consoles worlwide. Obviously, that triggers some questions regarding PC and why it is still not out of Early Access. We'll try to answer some of those doubts with this post.

Is the console version more polished than the Steam Early Access?

When will the PC version of the game be released?

Why was the game not released on PC at the same time as consoles?

Will that content be PC exclusive?

Will Heart&Slash be released in Steam only?

Hi! Today we are bringing an important update to Heart&Slash. For a long time, the layout of the city & sewers level has not been completely to our liking. The city part felt too long, boss placement was too arbitrary and there was not much sense of progression in the level. We were always thinking of ways to fix these issues. However, we were also afraid of implementing any of those fixes while we were making other considerable modifications in the rest of the game. Things could break, and the cause might not be evident if we had too many moving parts in the game code and configuration. But the game is a lot more stable now and we are focusing on bugfixing, so we had the opportunity to try different things out. After a week of tests, modifications, crashes and head scratching, plus a couple of weeks of internal testing, we are confident that the new version is a lot better. So, what have we changed? For starters, the general layout is now closer to our original idea. The city and sewers are built in smaller sections of under and overworld. Once each section is completed, it can connect to the next set, which can be, once again, under or overworld. What this means is that, in order to progress through the level, you are more likely to have to go into the sewers and back into the city from time to time. And we have a little more control over which rooms are generated as you progress. The second improvement is that the chances of getting to fight either HERBIE or COPGORE are pretty much the same. In fact, it is quite common for both to spawn in the same level. Previously, COPGORE rarely spawned, because of how it's connections were configured. With the new sections approach, their rooms work exactly as FRANK-Y and B-DSS's in the factory level. Another important change is that there are now a lot less big city "rooms", so navigating through it is less repetitive. We have also made a better selection of which rooms appear in each section. The other big change is that the stat upgrade pickups that could only be found in the city are pretty much gone. We have left a couple floating around, but only those most significative. The number of crates spawning in the city and sewers has been reduced, too. You can still find lots of new equipment, but not as much as in the previous builds. You will have enough to recover hearts and optimize your build, but not as much as to always get exactly what you want. We think this changes make the city level much better, but we'll still look for ways to improve things. Let us know your opinion on this update! P.S.: Of course, there are some bug fixes in. The most important is that the repeater gun has been fixed and does no longer auto-fire when reloaded. We are also working on having Heart&Slash available in more languages and regions, but we cannot say anything else for the time being.

Hi. We have a good list of updates for today. We delayed this update in an attempt to include a couple of extra improvements, but they will take a bit more than planned. But they'll be ready for the next update. Regarding this one, we have a fix for excessive friction against walls, a few text fixes, upgrade balancing and input improvements.

Friction

Input improvements

Upgrade costs

Text improvements

Screenshots

Hello again! Today we bring even more improvements: better memory efficiency (again), fixes to gamepad configurations and a much needed fix to how the combat camera behaved. Let's check them one by one.

MEMORY IMPROVEMENTS

CAMERA

GAMEPADS

TRANSLATIONS

BUGFIXING

• Black planes visible in 3x3 4 doors factory rooms
• Translators added to credits
• SpaceLift pause menu progress meter
• Some weapon issues
• Check that the five security stations spawn
• Gopgore is bugged
• Thunder Hammer weird issues
• Incorrect marble room configuration
• Remove wings from QUASSY's satellites
• Last boss has issues
• Saved data backup in Win, Linux, MacOS
• Main menu is not painted sometimes
• Slash can be defeated in tutorial before ROBOLUTION
• [TiZ] White water (fixed on PS4, but could never reproduce on PC)
• Slash triggers weird particles in tutorial
• Reduce the XP multiplier in Space Lift
• [The Almighty 404] Camera goes out of lift.
• [(ISIG) JDEzekude] Ricochet stars dissapear eventually...
• Fix tutorial loop - After beating the tutorial, go to Factory right away

Ok guys, so, along with the usual small bugfixes adn QoL improvements, for this update we bring a fix a nasty memory leak issue we were having that was increasing memory requirements of the game for over 1GB. This was found during the porting process to consoles, that are more fickle than PCs and thus allow us to see problems much more clearly. It's the perfect example on how the process of porting is helping improve the PC version till the final launch!!!! This means the game should be now much more stable in systems that just meet our recommended specs. The game caps at about 2.6GB of RAM at the highest we have seen, so 3 free GB should be more than enough to avoid fatal issues now (before the fix, we could go up to 3.6 and maybe even touch 4GB in rare occasions). Other than that, we bring several bugfixes. Below I list most, but not all of the fixes:

• [Tutorial] Lowest set of stairs has collision issues bug
• z-fighting in sewers entrance bug
• Herbie intro audio plays with a few seconds' delay bug
• Remove platform central pillars in Marble rooms task
• BDSS much, much harder to stun-lock
• Blockers in Elevator collide with player blockers bug
• Steel slicer air hard down attack stood still over Biggrunt's shield bug
• Water cannon turret attack is wrong bug
• Fire Blades strong attack cycling animations are misconfigured bug
• Turrets don't sound when they hit the ground bug
• Funny turret placement in 8-Square_Room enhancement
• Null ref on water particles bug
• Equipment can spawn twice (or thrice) in a run enhancement
• Fix chinese Tutorial translations on PC bug
• Missiles rotate in weird directions bug

Hello again. Some users were reporting issues playing our latest Linux builds. We haven't been able to replicate the problem, so we've tried generating new builds from a different development machine. Hopefully, this should fix the issues. Also, since this Linux build has been generated from our most recent development code, it comes with a few changes and improvements. The most evident ones are that we now display our publisher's and aheartfulofgames' logos at the start of the game. Also, to adhere to console requirements, we have removed the PRESS START text. We're very sorry, but having that co-exist with the console development would have been a considerable headache. And, for the same reasons, cinematics can now be skipped pressing any button. This change is quite minor. If Linux builds still fail to run, please get in contact with us. We've tested them on a Debian Stretch machine.

GENERAL PROGRESS

ENEMY BEHAVIOUR

BUGFIXING

Ok, so after the holidays, we have been busy with the ports and further polishing bugfixing. The known issue list is getting smaller, although we still have a couple of outstanding issues we are having a hard time reproducing...

CHINESE IMAGE TRANSLATION

WIN 64

INTROS AND FADES

BUGFIXES

• [TiZ]Reduced maximum fog in the city so Copgore fight doesn't become too much.
• [TiZ]Fences in city should be more visible now.
• [TiZ]Normal Shinken base attack should have less delay.
• [(ISIG]Ezekude]Electric guitar should not crash anymore
• [[Agartha]H.T.W.F.] robnin should work now...
• [Leudic] Explorer hat should be able to be repicked
• Start is no longer a confirm button (except in the keyboard where enter remains one)
• You can no longer exit the first room without an effective weapon equipped
• Flybots will fly more stable now, and won't drop to the fllor while firing.
• [morgankitten] can't access menu before initial cutscene anymore
• When killing flybots laser sounds should go away faster now

As we keep marching on with the ports, we are finding unreported bugs, and fixing them as fast as we can. Of course, we are also looking hard at those bugs you guys report here and fixing those as well. So this is primarily a bugfix update. Below is the list of bugfixes (most of them, some fixes might not be listed, since there were a lot):

BUGFIXES

• Fixed visual error in sewer cross room
• Fixed Quassy stairs collision
• Fixed 2 Slashes appearing when being gratuitously violent
• Fixed Flybots quickly dropping to ground level when spawned
• Updated Chinese translation
• Fixes boomerang and american shield getting stuck
• Fixed missile launched HUD icon not disappearing
• Fixed Wind Wand particles staying on
• Fixed Combo katana description and behaviors
• Made Madbat stronger
• Rebalanced Pan
• Fixed Stiletto infinite air attacks
• Fixed collision meshes in first room
• Fixed collision meshes in second room
• Fixed potential crash bug with kinetic accumulators
• Fixes Bdss equipment, which was somehow broken in a previous update
• Fixed [morgankitten] COP security screen not possible to be destroyed
• Fixed hole in FRANK-Y's room
• Fixed some bugs in Level 3 that sometimes made it fail when reaching the top
• Updated Spanish translations.
• Fixed some typos in English text.
• Removed Beta Warning screen
• Fixed [BADLAND] Problem when picking a gun as the first thing you pick
• Fix nullref when disabling rooms and destroying rooms, caused by an undesired update of the minimap icons.

Hello. As is the norm now, the new builds of Heart & Slash include several bugfixes, of diverse severity. Also, as usual, the MacOS build will have to wait a little bit longer.

LANGUAGES

LINUX

BUGFIXES

• The screens in the first weapons room were not rendered.
• [danielpal] Freeze when using Steam Overlay and returning
• [MJRMasqu3rade] HERBIE intro out of sync
• FPS Counter might stops appearing after playing for a long time
• [morgankitten] Improve lifebar (clockwork lens) visuals
• [The Almighty 404] [(ISIG) JDEzekude] Copgore Issues
• [TiZ] Mesa driver with Intel integrated cards disables everything

We were expecting this to happen, but even then it doesn't make it better. The shift to Unity 5 introduced another blocking bug that was deemed major enough to merit a hotfix. We managed to fix some other less critical issues too.

BUGFIX

Hi all, As you know from our previous update, we were expecting a couple nasty bugs to rear their head now that we moved to Unity 5. We have already fixed some of these bugs, so we are uploading a small hotfix. Linux seems broken in Unity 5, we are looking into it. Also, no Mac build yet. We will upload it tomorrow.

BUGFIXES:

Hi all. Steam ate my previous post, so here we go again... It's been a long time since the last update, but that's because I didn't want to do another update until I could say that we are now CONTENT COMPLETE. That means the game is finished, and now looks very similar to how it will look in release (it's lacking bugfixing and polish). Of course, it's been a while, so we did work on many other things. So let's go through today's update:

CONTENT COMPLETE

SOUND WORK

CHINESE AND SPANISH

UNITY 5

BUGFIXING

MOVING FORWARD

Hi all, I know it's been a long time since the last public build, but I didn't want to do another update until we had all the game content in. That is, we got the final pieces of music and cutscene art into the game! The game is not looking very similar to how it will look at release, except for bugfixing and polish work, which is still needed. So, what's in this update?

NEW MUSIC AND CUTSCENES

PLENTY NEW SOUNDS

CHINES AND SPANISH

UNITY 5

BUGFIXING

THE WAY FORWARD

Hi all, Today's update it's pretty big in many ways, so let's get started on what's new.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND CLOUD SAVES:

CUTSCENES

SOUND WORK

THIRD LEVEL REVAMP

CHINESE LOCALIZATION WIP

BUGFIXES

• Eclipse doesn't work.
• Electric guitar special attack has misconfigured priority/type.
• XP particles move faster than the player
• Franky's hitboxes are small
• Nimblebot rocket does not hit Heart
• Player does not fall from sewer
• Improve level loading feedback, times and memory consumption
• Air drop attacks on top of quest screens pushes Heart out of room
• Vampire sword recovers life on enemies friendly hits
• [EclipseHusky] Baton cops first attack
• [EclipseHusky] Typo
• [Abomination Jones] Frankie legs bug out when scrapping
• [Abomination Jones] Floating stop signs
• [Abomination Jones] Wall can be walked through in city
• Settings must be saved soon after they are edited
• [(ISIG) JDEzekude] Ricochet stars dissapear eventually...
• Implement audio player for cutscenes
• [Bro. S= Frostymm] Should save using Persistent data path
• [Bro. S= Frostymm] Equipment keeps displaying in pickup menu when scrapped
• [Bro. S= Frostymm] Camera zoomed in too far
• [Bro. S= Frostymm] Almost Invincibility and Copgore armor buffs staying without copgore armor
• [Bro. S= Frostymm] Quassy invincible to melee
• [Bro. S= Frostymm] Problem with last slash quest on level 2
• [K-BIT] Sometimes the door of the first weapon quest does not open.
• Improve alarm sound in First Weapon Room
• Explorer hat remembers upgrades between runs in the same session

TO DO TILL CONTENT COMPLETE

This week we are showing the game at Madrid Games Week, so progress has been all right but not spectacular. However, we managed to fix a good number of the new bug reported since the last update went live, although the elusive armors flying away bug has not yet been fixed (it's a tough one to find, since it works in our tools OK, but not when we build). BUGFIXES: Among others we have fixed: -Fixed a probable cause of framerate drop on level one. There might be other causes, though, so the bug might persist. Please let us know. -[r.kachowski] Xbox controller not recognized on Macs -Heart's bodyparts tended to dissapear on death. -Ice sword now has less particles. Still looks cool, lags less. -Lifter laser head keeps laser aim active when killed -[Abomination Jones] Backstabbing teleport -[Abomination JOnes] Some broken dialog (names being replaced by code strings). -[Eclipse husky] BDSS equipment needs to reset rotatio -[Abomination Jones] [Winter is better] Weapons still have visual issues when deactivating (weapons tended to appear when not held) -[Abomination Jones] Mech body pickup texture. -[Abomination Jones] Upside down sign in the city -Franky made less weak to elemental attacks. -[Abomination Jones] issues with Slash last Quest not working Anyway, we are back of to MGW to keep showing the game. We'll be back next week with the final pass to the third level. After that, we are planning on entering testing this month for PC!

Hello there! This weekend's is one of the last big updates left for Heart&Slash. We have released the two final extra characters, fixed lots of issues with QUASSY's final encounter and many other bugs. We've also added a new option to the graphics configuration to adapt resolution dynamically if framerate drops too much.

CHARACTERS

• Robnin is a wandering samurai robot which refused to accept its time had passed. By remaining faithful to its swords, it has mastered their use and can tackle any obstacle without hesitation.
• Eclipse is the final version of another HeartTech prototype. This robotic dog has a limited set of moves and weapons, but can deal lots of damage in non-standard ways.

QUASSY

DYNAMIC RESOLUTION

PROGRESSION

CAMERA

SLASH CITY QUEST

BUGFIXING

• Fix camera shake
• Slash quest 2 (no evasion) music starts a little too late
• Maximap/Progress panel overlaps sub-menus
• Read and write saved data feedback
• [AbominationJones] Balance is off, game becomes too easy in the later levels/once you played a lot
• [AbominationJOnes] Copgore set is OP
• [AbominationJones] Ice Sowrd creates too much experience?
• [AbominationJones] Satelite bugs
• [EclipseHusky] XP feedback
• [EclipseHusky] Kinetic Repeller
• [EclipseHusky]B-DSS head laser shot got a bit weird when fighting Herbie, it aimed at the floor
• Quassy dialogue stops because of missing translation
• Clockwork lens upgrade texts are outdated
• Kamikaze nimblebot particles are misplaced
• Deflected missiles select dead enemies (turrets) as targets
• Improve Clockwork lens icons (same as stats) and behaviour
• Uncertaintifier effect remains active if player knocked
• Adaptive resolution
• [Abomination Jones] Slash security terminals quest might not be working
• Dog character
• Samurai character
• [Fernando Badlands] Bug with first Doctor quest
• [Abomination Jones] Combat feedback
• [Abomination Jones] Slash events
• [EclipseHusky] Zaber hits Quassy
• [Alzola] It is not clear how to beat Quassy
• [Alzola] Camera in Quassy fight does weird things
• Tutorial displays spacelift intrussion indicators
• Quassy can be hit twice in a row
• New equipment improvements
• Combat Pass 1

Hello there! This weekend's is one of the last big updates left for Heart&Slash. We have released the two final extra characters, fixed lots of issues with QUASSY's final encounter and many other bugs. We've also added a new option to the graphics configuration to adapt resolution dynamically if framerate drops too much.

CHARACTERS

• Robnin is a wandering samurai robot which refused to accept its time had passed. By remaining faithful to its swords, it has mastered their use and can tackle any obstacle without hesitation.
• Eclipse is the final version of another HeartTech prototype. This robotic dog has a limited set of moves and weapons, but can deal lots of damage in non-standard ways.

QUASSY

DYNAMIC RESOLUTION

EXPERIENCE

CAMERA

SLASH CITY QUEST

BUGFIXING

• Fix camera shake
• Slash quest 2 (no evasion) music starts a little too late
• Maximap/Progress panel overlaps sub-menus
• Read and write saved data feedback
• [AbominationJones] Balance is off, game becomes too easy in the later levels/once you played a lot
• [AbominationJOnes] Copgore set is OP
• [AbominationJones] Ice Sowrd creates too much experience?
• [AbominationJones] Satelite bugs
• [EclipseHusky] XP feedback
• [EclipseHusky] Kinetic Repeller
• [EclipseHusky]B-DSS head laser shot got a bit weird when fighting Herbie, it aimed at the floor
• Quassy dialogue stops because of missing translation
• Clockwork lens upgrade texts are outdated
• Kamikaze nimblebot particles are misplaced
• Deflected missiles select dead enemies (turrets) as targets
• Improve Clockwork lens icons (same as stats) and behaviour
• Uncertaintifier effect remains active if player knocked
• Adaptive resolution
• [Abomination Jones] Slash security terminals quest might not be working
• Dog character
• Samurai character
• [Fernando Badlands] Bug with first Doctor quest
• [Abomination Jones] Combat feedback
• [Abomination Jones] Slash events
• [EclipseHusky] Zaber hits Quassy
• [Alzola] It is not clear how to beat Quassy
• [Alzola] Camera in Quassy fight does weird things
• Tutorial displays spacelift intrussion indicators
• Quassy can be hit twice in a row
• New equipment improvements
• Combat Pass 1

August has been a little slower than usual thus far, but still a very productive month.

NEW WEAPONS

LOADING SCENES

CREDITS

SLASH AND OTHER GUEST CHARACTERS

BUGFIXING

• Copgore doesn't drop enemies [fixed]
• Slash moved to white rooms [improvement]
• Combat Shortgun ignores armor and shields [fixed]
• Recycling the current weapon does not change iddle animation [fixed]
• Improved grenade behavior [improvement]
• Subway has wrong markers configured [fixed]
• Roborang is not visible when collectible [fixed]
• B-DSS equipment triggers pickup menu in other equipment [fixed]
• Duelist gun is hard to figure out [fixed]
• Enemy visibles in menu even when they shouldn't [fixed]
• Kinetic repeller sphere remains active when dropped [fixed]
• 1% legs feet where inverted [fixed]
• Some typos [fixed]
• Explorer hat indicator texture wraps [fixed]
• Frankie shots dissapear if far away [fixed]
• Reducing extra health and base health takes away health [fixed]
• Some unlocks are incorrectly configured [fixed]
• Factory chain boxes spawn weapons not available to player [fixed]
• Equipment without upgrades breaks menu [fixed]
• RocketCam target locking is bugged [fixed]
• HUD feedback improvements [improvement]

PROGRESS UPDATE

Hello all. Today we have a small update focused on fixing some of the bugs found in the last 2 weeks. This is what we have fixed:

• [Abomination Jones] Scavenger Queen Herbie parts don't have upgrade descriptions
• [Abomination Jones] Meat cleaver descriptions have typo
• [Abomination Jones] After completing the no evades quest, Slash's room fails to appear again.
• [Abomination Jones] Sticky legs allow you to climb city.
• [KCrossX] Bug: Enemies failed to shoot projectiles.
• [TiZ] Black screen if pressing start too fast on level load.

Hey, The previous update included a bug with particle and shots pools. They would not appear and thus enemies would not shoot you (plus there where no ground particles). This was due to a strange bug (only happens in builds, not in editor) created during the pre Unity5 integration proccess. We have just uploaded a fix. Thanks!

• OS: Linux 32-64 bits
• Processor: intel i5 or betterMemory: 4 GB RAM
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Graphics: nVidia 550 or better.
• Storage: 1 GB available space