New Bot Difficulty Levels

This version makes your skill actually matter. Last version bots would adjust their difficulty based on your K:D ratio. This was great for new players, but uninteresting for veterans because your skill didn't really matter. You were always going to get the same K:D ratio anyway, so why try? There was also no incentive to unlock more powerful items, either. This is now fixed! Bots come in 4 new difficulty levels - Playful, Standard, Hardcore and Insane - and if you want to beat the harder bots you will have to play well. Really well. There are rewards for beating harder bots too, such as earning more XP per kill and earning more victory points per win (more on that later). When you first play you only have access to the playful bots, but as you win games you'll unlock the ability to play on higher difficulties. This gives you something to work towards and wraps the entire game up with a meaningful progression system. Higher difficulties give more XP, which makes you more powerful, which actually mattters now because the bots are harder to kill. They won't go easy on you. Most importantly, you can now have a genuine challenge and be rewarded for playing your best.

Victory Points & Daily Leaderboards

You now receive "Victory Points" whenever you win games. These are only awarded to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd players in a match. Victory points are needed to unlock the new bot difficulty levels mentioned above. So if you want to play harder bots and earn more XP, you will need to actually win games! This all or nothing approach makes the final stages of each match far more exciting as the exclusive victory points are at stake. Even better, there is a new daily leaderboard system which ranks players based on how many victory points they have won each day. These leaderboards can be explored in-game, and the top 20 players each day will receive a bonus XP reward! You can also view previous leaderboards, allowing winners to be recognise in the game for all time!

Driveby Shootings

You can now shoot out the window of vehicles while driving at the same time! This buffs vehicles a lot and is just damn fun. You can also loot for items by driving over them with vehicles, which I think makes vehicles the new best thing to aim for when falling from the sky. Ch-ch-check it:

Anti-Zombie Circle

There's a new anti-zombie mechanic that kills zombies who try to reach the centre of the Battle Royale zone. This gives the remaining human survivors a ring of safety, and lets them focus on eachother instead of the incoming swarm of zombies. This really makes the game feel a lot more "last man standingy". It now comes down to a tactical heads-up between the 2 final players without zombies causing chaos all over the place. Zombie players still have plenty to do outside the circle however, such as looting for cash or placing chemicals.

Balance Changes

Here are some other noteworthy changes:

• Zombies move faster as the anti-zombie circle prevents swarming.
• Players in the circle of death are now revealed in the map.
• Newbie Checklist now awards +300xp instead of +30xp.
• The leveling curve is now slower, but goes all the way up to level 50.
• There are 4 new late-game unlocks which permanently buff your character.
• The first round of the Battle Royale is pistols only.
• Tweaked the rates that you earn XP from awesome points and kills.
• Awesome points now only happen if you do something actually awesome (get a kill with a vehicle, skill, explosive, etc).
• Grenades now do 100hp damage.
• The loot drop rate now depends on the difficulty level. Higher difficulties drop more permanent loot (like skill unlocks), but less temporary loot (like free weapons).
• You can no longer choose which ally to duo with if they are a bot.
• Challenges now require a certain amount of victory points to claim, which matches up with which difficulty level you have unlocked vs bots.
• The crosshair is now bigger and sexier.
• Missions are removed from Conquest games due to too much complexity.
• XP is no longer affected by your kill combo as it was too exploitable.
• Superweapons now cost 100% to refill ammo instead of 50%.
• Nerfed Spike trap.
• Fixed a bunch of bugs.

35% Discount

Geneshift will be on sale starting Monday, Feb 25th. You can fuel my chocolate addiction by buying the game for yourself or a friend! If you have any questions you can ask me in Discord at: http://discord.gg/geneshift

[ 2019-02-25 02:33:35 CET ] [ Original post ]