Small fix to Steam Remote Play, it should now work as intended by streaming the desktop camera when playing a multiplayer game.

[ 2021-05-13 20:56:57 CET ] [ Original post ]

[previewyoutube=k7tTojVqqhk;full][/previewyoutube] Hello everyone. We're back with a new update that adds 11 new levels, some balance changes, a new long range bow weapon, new healer enemy type, and bunch of bug fixes and some new features.

Eleven new levels!

We've added 11 new levels, levels 11 to 15 share the same style as the first 10 levels with a little bit more complexity with more doors and paths enemies can take, then levels 16-21 take place in the floating offices above the atmosphere of the planet, these have new map mechanics you can interact with.

New Map Mechanics

Some towers can be moved from one position to another by activating the linked device, the desktop player can click a botton to activate it while the VR player can shoot at it to activate it. This opens up new strategic challanges on those levels.

New enemy type: The Repair Bot

This Automata has a nanobot aura around it that will constantly heal nearby enemies making it difficult to kill the group so be sure to target them first, you will encounter it in the new levels!

New Weapon: The Plasma Bow

This long ranged high damage weapon comes equiped with a scope, it's a two handed weapon so you'll have to aim with one weapon while pulling with the other, damage will increase the more distance the arrow travels.

Single player tactical teleport

Now you can teleport your combat armor from the map view to any part of the map, just press the weapon change button while in the map view mode and point to a destination, it has a few seconds cast time so be careful when using it to escape from a group of enemies!

Balance Changes

• We made changes to the overal difficulty of the game in all difficulty ranges:
• Remade all the Hard and Insane waves for all levels.
• Increased the health of the VR player in Normal mode.
• Increased the amount of enemies that can escape before loosing a level in Normal mode.
• Increased the money gained after each wave for all levels in all modes.
• Increased the damage done by the swords.
• Adjusted the health of some enemies.

We hope you enjoy the new content, the game is still very much in development and we appreciate all the feedback we can get as it will helps us craft a better game.

[ 2021-05-12 22:41:24 CET ] [ Original post ]

The spookiest time of the year is here and Pumpkin Head Studio wanted to celebrate with you all! That's why we are releasing a Halloween themed mutator called "Halloween Spirit": when an enemy dies, it spawns a Ghost that can go through walls and roams the map until it escapes. Towers can't see ghosts, so you gotta hunt them by yourself before they escape. If you finish any level with this Mutator active, you'll earn the "Halloween Spirit" achievement and a Halloween Skin for both players! We added a new button on the mutator selection screen to change skins, once you've unlocked the skin you can change it there. Be safe and have lots of spooky fun!! [previewyoutube=l7J_lnLaEIU;full][/previewyoutube]

[ 2020-10-29 09:01:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey Everyone! First of all we would love to thank everyone who is supporting us on Early Access, you are the best and we will be working hard to make Automata Break the best game it can be! Here are some of the things we have been working on and that are going to be available on the next patch this very Thursday: We noticed there is a big disparity in the difficulty between the Single Player and Multiplayer mode, so we will be doing a complete overhaul to the pacing of the game in terms of difficulty and progress, that means a few things: -We are going to redistribute the level order because some of the early levels were where more complex than some of the later levels. -Weapons and Towers will unlock gradually throughout the first 4 levels. -Each enemy type will be gradually introduced throughout the first 7 levels. -The first few levels will be shorter and will have less waves, the length of the levels will gradually increase throughout the first 5 levels. We are adding a new "Insane" difficulty level for people who are looking for a greater challenge. We are adding Steam Cloud Save and Achievements support to the game. We are adding a gameplay options menu with two new options initially: -Option to turn off damage numbers. -Option to always keep the same weapon on both hand when changing weapons. Unfortunately, as a consequence of the redistribution of the levels, we'll need to restart the progress of the game to all players. We hope this will make the pacing of the game better going forward. We know this can be quite disheartening to some of the players who have progressed through the levels, so as a thank you for playing the first version of the levels we will be unlocking Golden Skins to everyone who has finished the first level in any mode:
[previewyoutube=Ej_qlVw2mpk;full][/previewyoutube] There will also be legacy achievements to people who progressed through the older version of the levels: Legacy Operator: Beat level 5 in Singleplayer on Normal Difficulty Legacy Elite Operator: Beat level 5 in Singleplayer on Hard Difficulty Legacy Containment Team: Beat level 5 in Multiplayer on Normal Difficulty Legacy Elite Containment Team: Beat level 5 in Multiplayer on Hard Difficulty Legacy Executor: Beat level 10 in Singleplayer on Normal Difficulty Legacy Elite Executor: Beat level 10 in Singleplayer on Hard Difficulty Legacy Annihilation Team: Beat level 10 in Multiplayer on Normal Difficulty Legacy Elite Annihilation Team: Beat level 10 in Multiplayer on Hard Difficulty We will add other ways to get these achievements and golden skins in the future for people who missed out on them through a "Legacy" level mutator that will make these levels considerably harder. We are also adding a new Halloween mutator on this patch, we will announce it on a separate thread. Again thank you so so much for being with us in this Early Access journey! We will be more active on the Steam Community Hub with announcements from now on, all feedback is greatly appreciated, and if you would like to chat with us more directly you can always find us on our Discord server: https://discord.gg/ZRcdzpj

[ 2020-10-28 04:06:15 CET ] [ Original post ]