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[ 2017-03-10 12:51:54 CET ] [ Original post ]

Good news for those who have wishlisted Reign of Bullets: Weve decided to reduce the price permanently! With this reduction we hope to introduce more players into the world of Troy and take on the Titan corporation. For all of those who have supported us, thank you so much! If you like the game, please consider recommending us to a friend, or better yet: send them Reign of Bullets as a gift! :sranking: :scrap: Reign of Bullets is now available for 9.99 instead of its original price of 12,99! :scrap:
Make sure to follow the news and updates from our other games on our social media channels: Twitter Facebook YouTube Official website

[ 2017-03-10 12:51:54 CET ] [ Original post ]

Some major bugs caught our attention. This resulted in fixes for said bugs. Now available to you. Changes since 1.0.4

• Fixed game crashes while playing without (a stable) Internet connection.
• Fixed survival mode milestone overwriting when playing on a higher difficulty.
• Fixed No more mr. nice guy achievement. It is now correctly unlocked upon saving the game while you have 10 epic weapons equipped.
• Fixed the unlocking of the Completionist achievement. To unlock this retroactively you have to complete a level on S-rank.

[ 2015-09-24 08:51:37 CET ] [ Original post ]

Some major bugs caught our attention. This resulted in fixes for said bugs. Now available to you. Changes since 1.0.4

• Fixed game crashes while playing without (a stable) Internet connection.
• Fixed survival mode milestone overwriting when playing on a higher difficulty.
• Fixed ‘No more mr. nice guy’ achievement. It is now correctly unlocked upon saving the game while you have 10 epic weapons equipped.
• Fixed the unlocking of the ‘Completionist’ achievement. To unlock this retroactively you have to complete a level on S-rank.

[ 2015-09-24 08:51:37 CET ] [ Original post ]

The wait for milestones is over. We added a milestone after each boss or mini-boss in the survival mode. The milestones are unique to each difficulty. Besides this, in the survival mode your rank is now determined by the health lost in that level. Changes since 1.0.3

• Added milestones to the survival mode; Players are now able to start the survival-mode from any of their reached milestones.
• Changed the way your health percentage is calculated in the survival mode; This allows for S-rank assignments even when you did take damage in an earlier level.

[ 2015-09-11 07:35:19 CET ] [ Original post ]

The wait for milestones is over. We added a milestone after each boss or mini-boss in the survival mode. The milestones are unique to each difficulty. Besides this, in the survival mode your rank is now determined by the health lost in that level. Changes since 1.0.3

• Added milestones to the survival mode; Players are now able to start the survival-mode from any of their reached milestones.
• Changed the way your health percentage is calculated in the survival mode; This allows for S-rank assignments even when you did take damage in an earlier level.

[ 2015-09-11 07:35:19 CET ] [ Original post ]

Since more and more people reached the survival mode we finally found the survival mode start bug. Of course it is possible this was just one of several, so if you still encounter this or any other bug, please report back to us through the game support forum/discussion. Along with the bug we fixed some issues that made it hard to see everything. Changes since 1.0.2

• Fixed some visual bugs in the hangar.
• Fixed a bug with the survival mode that made it impossible to start after dying in a previous round.
• Decreased the amount of splitting on the flak cannon.
• Increased the visibility of enemies and loot on top of the outrageous amount of projectiles originating from your ship.

[ 2015-09-02 16:50:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

Since more and more people reached the survival mode we finally found the ‘survival mode start bug’. Of course it is possible this was just one of several, so if you still encounter this or any other bug, please report back to us through the game support forum/discussion. Along with the bug we fixed some issues that made it hard to see everything. Changes since 1.0.2

• Fixed some visual bugs in the hangar.
• Fixed a bug with the survival mode that made it impossible to start after dying in a previous round.
• Decreased the amount of splitting on the flak cannon.
• Increased the visibility of enemies and loot on top of the outrageous amount of projectiles originating from your ship.

[ 2015-09-02 16:50:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

Quite a lot has changed since patch 1.0.1. Thank you all for your reports and feedback. We do our best to read everything, while we keep improving the game. Here is the list. Enjoy! Changes since 1.0.1

• Improved performance of a lot of weapons, projectiles and other game elements.
• Optimized and balanced a lot of weapons, for more info, see the Balancing section. In short: Generally, the max amount of projectiles on screen have been reduced. So properties like the maximum number of projectiles, splitting and fire rate have been nerfed. To compensate for these changes, damage has been buffed on these weapons.
• When you play on the three highest difficulty levels, the level of the items you find will also increase. (based on kill-percentage)
• The Luck-upgrade increases the chance a weapon has a higher level than the level you found it in (i.e. level 50 normally drops level 45-52 weapons, with maximized luck this is increased this to 50-57).
• You can now change the scale of the combat text in the options menu under gameplay.
• Added area specific loading-screens with a little more background story about the bosses.

Balancing:
• Drone swarmer
  • The drones no longer shoot at all targets that are in range. Instead it gets a target and will only attack this target, until it is either killed or out of reach.
  • Decreased max amount of drones
  • Decreased max fire rate
  • Decreased drone max range
  • Decreased drone max lifetime
  • Decreased drone max splitting chance
  • Increased drone starting damage and scaling
• Blaster
  • Decreased max fire rate
  • Decreased max projectiles
  • Decreased max splitting
• Energy blades
  • Decreased max fire rate
  • Increased damage scaling
  • Decreased max number of projectiles
  • Decreased max ticks/second
• Rifle
  • Decreased max fire rate
  • Decreased max splitting
  • Decreased max number of projectiles
  • Decreased damage scaling
• Missile launcher
  • Increased damage scaling
  • Increased targeting scaling
  • Increased max explosion radius (special)
  • Decreased max fire rate
  • Decreased max range
  • Decreased max splitting
  • Decreased max number of projectiles
• Flak cannon
  • Decreased projectiles scaling
  • Decreased max fire rate
  • Decreased reload speed scaling
  • Increased damage scaling
• Acid spitter
  • Decreased max fire rate
  • Decreased special scaling
  • Decreased max splitting
• Flamethrower
  • Decreased max splitting
  • Increased damage scaling slightly
• Lightning weapon
  • Decreased max splitting

Improvements:
• Daisy (desert boss) projectiles now have their own impact graphical effect.
• Improved the looks of the flamethrower DoT.
• Improved object pooling; increasing performance.
• Changed the name of the industrial area to Titan Corporation.
• Reduced the amount of log outputs, saves disc space.
• Tweaked speed of weapon placement when using the controller.
• Tweaked deadzone of weapon rotation when using the controller.
• Implemented d-pad hint in hangar.
• Improved graphics of the survival area in level select.
• Small graphical improvements to the intro and outro scene.
• Help system dismiss button is now always displayed.
• Text on generic buttons is now centered.
• When youre placing a weapon, the weapons on your ship become slightly transparent.
• Improved desert miniboss death animation.
• Minor changes to water area background (for Thomas).
• Ending cutscene credits now ends earlier (after the credits have rolled out).

Bugs:
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to change area when a level was already starting.
• Fixed a bug where play session data wouldn't get reset properly when quitting the game, resulting in possible lockups on a lower level profile.
• Fixed a bug where you couldnt get 100% kill percentage, even if you killed all enemies.
• Fixed a bug where mineplanters in the water area couldnt be hit by rifles.
• Fixed a bug causing a performance drop during the mini-boss deaths.
• Fixed a bug that caused the selection to go off screen, while selling weapons from a long list of weapons or mods.

[ 2015-08-30 11:09:56 CET ] [ Original post ]

Quite a lot has changed since patch 1.0.1. Thank you all for your reports and feedback. We do our best to read everything, while we keep improving the game. Here is the list. Enjoy! Changes since 1.0.1

• Improved performance of a lot of weapons, projectiles and other game elements.
• Optimized and balanced a lot of weapons, for more info, see the ‘Balancing’ section. In short: Generally, the max amount of projectiles on screen have been reduced. So properties like the maximum number of projectiles, splitting and fire rate have been nerfed. To compensate for these changes, damage has been buffed on these weapons.
• When you play on the three highest difficulty levels, the level of the items you find will also increase. (based on kill-percentage)
• The Luck-upgrade increases the chance a weapon has a higher level than the level you found it in (i.e. level 50 normally drops level 45-52 weapons, with maximized luck this is increased this to 50-57).
• You can now change the scale of the combat text in the options menu under gameplay.
• Added area specific loading-screens with a little more background story about the bosses.

Balancing:
• Drone swarmer
  • The drones no longer shoot at all targets that are in range. Instead it gets a target and will only attack this target, until it is either killed or out of reach.
  • Decreased max amount of drones
  • Decreased max fire rate
  • Decreased drone max range
  • Decreased drone max lifetime
  • Decreased drone max splitting chance
  • Increased drone starting damage and scaling
• Blaster
  • Decreased max fire rate
  • Decreased max projectiles
  • Decreased max splitting
• Energy blades
  • Decreased max fire rate
  • Increased damage scaling
  • Decreased max number of projectiles
  • Decreased max ticks/second
• Rifle
  • Decreased max fire rate
  • Decreased max splitting
  • Decreased max number of projectiles
  • Decreased damage scaling
• Missile launcher
  • Increased damage scaling
  • Increased targeting scaling
  • Increased max explosion radius (special)
  • Decreased max fire rate
  • Decreased max range
  • Decreased max splitting
  • Decreased max number of projectiles
• Flak cannon
  • Decreased projectiles scaling
  • Decreased max fire rate
  • Decreased reload speed scaling
  • Increased damage scaling
• Acid spitter
  • Decreased max fire rate
  • Decreased special scaling
  • Decreased max splitting
• Flamethrower
  • Decreased max splitting
  • Increased damage scaling slightly
• Lightning weapon
  • Decreased max splitting

Improvements:
• Daisy (desert boss) projectiles now have their own impact graphical effect.
• Improved the looks of the flamethrower DoT.
• Improved object pooling; increasing performance.
• Changed the name of the industrial area to ‘Titan Corporation’.
• Reduced the amount of log outputs, saves disc space.
• Tweaked speed of weapon placement when using the controller.
• Tweaked deadzone of weapon rotation when using the controller.
• Implemented d-pad hint in hangar.
• Improved graphics of the survival area in level select.
• Small graphical improvements to the intro and outro scene.
• Help system dismiss button is now always displayed.
• Text on generic buttons is now centered.
• When you’re placing a weapon, the weapons on your ship become slightly transparent.
• Improved desert miniboss death animation.
• Minor changes to water area background (for Thomas).
• Ending cutscene credits now ends earlier (after the credits have rolled out).

Bugs:
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to change area when a level was already starting.
• Fixed a bug where play session data wouldn't get reset properly when quitting the game, resulting in possible lockups on a lower level profile.
• Fixed a bug where you couldn’t get 100% kill percentage, even if you killed all enemies.
• Fixed a bug where mineplanters in the water area couldn’t be hit by rifles.
• Fixed a bug causing a performance drop during the mini-boss deaths.
• Fixed a bug that caused the selection to go off screen, while selling weapons from a long list of weapons or mods.

[ 2015-08-30 11:09:56 CET ] [ Original post ]

First of all, thanks for playing Reign of Bullets! We've seen a lot of positive feedback on our game and that makes us both proud and happy. But ofcourse, the game isn't perfect and we've also seen that there's still things to work on. Since the next patch is coming out a little later then expected, here's a few words on our plans on improving the game. Coming patch:

• Performance! Especially on the survival mode and with a few very performance heavy weapons, the game can slow down to an unplayable state. It is our main focus to fix this.
• Balancing: There are a few weapons (looking at you drone swarmer) that just deal too much damage with the right stats. Besides nerfing some overpowered weapons, most balancing boils down to less projectiles that deal more damage. This also to improve performance and visibility on the screen.
• Bugfixing: There are still some serious bugs that we are fixing, next to a few smaller bugs.

Next patch Next thing after performance is working on the survival mode and making it a bit more player friendly. Changes we have planned here:

• No more restarting from level 41! We're implementing milestones each 'x' levels.
• Balancing hp increase per level and scrap gained per level.
• [strike]Better rewards from playing at a higher difficulty level: Besided having a higher chance on rare/epic loot, playing on a higher difficulty also increases the level of items that you find in a level.[/strike] This is already adressed in v1.0.2 for the top 3 difficulty levels.

We hope you like the planned changes, please let us know what else you would like to see on the discussion board!

[ 2015-08-25 09:12:52 CET ] [ Original post ]

First of all, thanks for playing Reign of Bullets! We've seen a lot of positive feedback on our game and that makes us both proud and happy. But ofcourse, the game isn't perfect and we've also seen that there's still things to work on. Since the next patch is coming out a little later then expected, here's a few words on our plans on improving the game. Coming patch:

• Performance! Especially on the survival mode and with a few very performance heavy weapons, the game can slow down to an unplayable state. It is our main focus to fix this.
• Balancing: There are a few weapons (looking at you drone swarmer) that just deal too much damage with the right stats. Besides nerfing some overpowered weapons, most balancing boils down to less projectiles that deal more damage. This also to improve performance and visibility on the screen.
• Bugfixing: There are still some serious bugs that we are fixing, next to a few smaller bugs.

Next patch Next thing after performance is working on the survival mode and making it a bit more player friendly. Changes we have planned here:

• No more restarting from level 41! We're implementing milestones each 'x' levels.
• Balancing hp increase per level and scrap gained per level.
• [strike]Better rewards from playing at a higher difficulty level: Besided having a higher chance on rare/epic loot, playing on a higher difficulty also increases the level of items that you find in a level.[/strike] This is already adressed in v1.0.2 for the top 3 difficulty levels.

We hope you like the planned changes, please let us know what else you would like to see on the discussion board!

[ 2015-08-25 09:12:52 CET ] [ Original post ]

Thank you for the feedback. The fixes are listed below. As always, enjoy! Changes since 1.0.0

• Fixed the S-Rank achievements. If you encountered this issue, you will have to replay one of the levels on any difficulty and acquire an S-Rank. You will properly unlock the achievement.
• Fixed a bug that made it possible to unlock ship upgrades at lower levels.
• Fixed texts with exotic symbols (like the -sign) that didn't render on Mac/Linux.
• Changed the Desktop-icon (thank you POOTERMAN)

[ 2015-08-21 09:27:25 CET ] [ Original post ]

Thank you for the feedback. The fixes are listed below. As always, enjoy! Changes since 1.0.0

• Fixed the S-Rank achievements. If you encountered this issue, you will have to replay one of the levels on any difficulty and acquire an S-Rank. You will properly unlock the achievement.
• Fixed a bug that made it possible to unlock ship upgrades at lower levels.
• Fixed texts with exotic symbols (like the °-sign) that didn't render on Mac/Linux.
• Changed the Desktop-icon (thank you POOTERMAN)

[ 2015-08-21 09:27:25 CET ] [ Original post ]

The wait is over, you can finally take to the skies with Reign of Bullets! It's been a great journey and we're happy to have finally reached this point. But it's not the end! The coming days we'll be ready to read, hear and see what you think of the game, and where needed we will improve the game to create a blasting experience for everyone! So start playing, shoot stuff, upgrade stuff, upgrade even more and tell us what you think! Post your screenshots, videos, discussions and we'll be around to listen to what you have to say. Godspeed pilots!

[ 2015-08-19 12:59:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

The wait is over, you can finally take to the skies with Reign of Bullets! It's been a great journey and we're happy to have finally reached this point. But it's not the end! The coming days we'll be ready to read, hear and see what you think of the game, and where needed we will improve the game to create a blasting experience for everyone! So start playing, shoot stuff, upgrade stuff, upgrade even more and tell us what you think! Post your screenshots, videos, discussions and we'll be around to listen to what you have to say. Godspeed pilots!

[ 2015-08-19 12:59:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

Just a few hours now. Here are the change notes for the final version: Changes since 0.9.2

• Updated graphics in the Hangar.
• Made it more obvious that weapons can be upgraded.
• Added and changed a couple of Twotter messages.
• Added and changed some sound effects.
• Tweaked volumes of sounds.
• You now no longer encounter as many laserwall enemies in the Industrial area as before.
• There are slightly more enemies in the water area.
• The water area boss phase 2 has been improved by showing warnings before artillery fire.
• Guido is back!
• Weapon icons have a spiffy new look.
• Changed the droneswarmer graphics to be less obtrusive.
• Decreased the health scaling per level of enemies.
• Lowered the default volume of the music.
• Gave more people credit.
• Several graphical tweaks and bug fixes.

[ 2015-08-19 11:39:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

Just a few hours now. Here are the change notes for the final version: Changes since 0.9.2

• Updated graphics in the Hangar.
• Made it more obvious that weapons can be upgraded.
• Added and changed a couple of Twotter messages.
• Added and changed some sound effects.
• Tweaked volumes of sounds.
• You now no longer encounter as many laserwall enemies in the Industrial area as before.
• There are slightly more enemies in the water area.
• The water area boss phase 2 has been improved by showing warnings before artillery fire.
• Guido is back!
• Weapon icons have a spiffy new look.
• Changed the droneswarmer graphics to be less obtrusive.
• Decreased the health scaling per level of enemies.
• Lowered the default volume of the music.
• Gave more people credit.
• Several graphical tweaks and bug fixes.

[ 2015-08-19 11:39:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

We're nearing release and fixing the last things before we go live. Here are the changes for this patch: Changes since 0.9.1

• Changed the graphics of all missiles so that they are better visible (especially the smaller swarmer missiles).
• Increased acid spitter performance.
• Implemented and updated some more sound effects.
• Added music to the intro cinematic.
• Changed drone swarmer drone's explosion graphics.

[ 2015-08-18 10:04:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

We're nearing release and fixing the last things before we go live. Here are the changes for this patch: Changes since 0.9.1

• Changed the graphics of all missiles so that they are better visible (especially the smaller swarmer missiles).
• Increased acid spitter performance.
• Implemented and updated some more sound effects.
• Added music to the intro cinematic.
• Changed drone swarmer drone's explosion graphics.

[ 2015-08-18 10:04:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

It has only been a few days since version 0.9.0. Though already we have improved some more features we would like to show you. Changes since v0.9.0

• Increased the luck bonus on higher difficulties
• Lowered enemy damage on higher difficulties
• Lowered the spread on guns that shoot multiple projectiles
• Tweaked the explosion ripple. It was often mistaken as screen-tearing
• Increased enemy hp scaling on higher levels

[ 2015-08-07 12:22:12 CET ] [ Original post ]

We're nearing release so version number has increased dramatically! We've been reading the forums and playtested some more (and more, and more). The result is Reign of Bullets version 0.9.0. First a short summary of what we changed, full patch notes can be read further down this post.

In short

Main focus of this version was adding more sound effects. A lot of sound effects have been added/changed/tweaked but there are still some sound effects that still have to be implemented. The acid spitter has gotten a big makeover, visually and gameplay wise. It now has a very low firerate, but the damage is increased a lot. This makes the lobbing mechanic a bit more interesting since it is harder to hit an enemy, but if you hit, it will do a lot of damage. The autogun damage has a big effect on the difficulty in the earlier levels. In the previous version it felt like the autogun would obliterate everything in the first few levels, even on the higher difficulties. That's why we lowered the standard damage of the autogun, but increased the effect of an upgrade. Hopefully this will balance out the difficulty in earlier levels. We have also been working on a lot of visual changes, both ingame and in the UI. For example we have added special explosions to all the mini bosses. Ofcourse we've also been working on a lot of bugfixes and performance issues that surfaced on the forums and during our own play sessions.

Full change list since 0.6.9

Changes

• Reworked the acid spitter, visually and gameplay wise.
• Added subtitles to the intro animation to give some clarfication about the background story.
• Added a lot of soundeffects, not all soundeffects are final.
• Added shadow to floating combat text for better readibility.
• Desert boss sand particles now have better visibility.
• Desert boss projectiles have a graphical update.
• Added hints to the level select screen (you can change area with controller bumper buttons).
• Level select screen has a small graphical rework.
• Added uncommon, rare and epic variations of the weapon icons.
• Added feedback to the grass area first miniboss before it fires its big cannon.
• Minibosses now have their own unique explosions when they are defeated.
• Decreased the size of the loot pickup floating combat text.
• Recreated mouse button hints in hangar (you can use shift to quick-sell!)
• Added an error message when you want to equip a weapon while you have no available weapon slots.
• Outro cinematic now has it's own music!
• Animated the mechstache enemies.
• Added smoke trails to a few more enemies.
• Enemy rifle projectiles have been graphically updated.
• Tweaked flak cannon visually and performance wise. Now your whole screen shouldn't be completely filled with smoke when you have a few upgraded flak cannons.
• Visually changed the icon for equipped weapons in the hangar.
• Changed the names of a few epic weapons.
• Locked upgrades have a new graphic.
• Added variations of the train flamethrowers and laser wall enemies.
• You can now see on which level certain upgrades can be unlocked in the hangar.
• You can also see the current level of the upgrades when unlocked.
• Rocket cycles now pass tanks instead of driving through them.
• Made the unlock confetti a bit nicer.

Balancing

• Acid spitters fire rate is waaay lower but its damage is much higher.
• Decreased the hp of the desert boss.
• Decreased the maximum chance to jam from the lightning gun from 90% to 50%.
• Decreased autogun starting damage, but increased the damage per upgrade.
• Increased the costs of all upgades.
• The industrial level now spawns a bit less energy pylons.
• Increased the hp of trains.

Bugfixes

• Rifle description now fits in unlock popup.
• Fixed desert boss z-depth issues and death animation.
• Corrected some typos in area unlock popups.
• Fixed laser z-depth sorting.
• Fixed a bug where a weapon would turn yellow ingame.
• Second miniboss in the grass area is now spawning correctly (as in, it actually spawns).
• Fixed some z-depth issues in the minibosses in the grass area.
• Dust from the grass area miniboss is now not visible until it actually enters the screen.
• Fixed a bug where quickly equipping 2 weapons shortly after eachother would cause errors.
• It is no longer possible to return to the hangar in level select screen while a level is chosen.
• Fixed an issue where some enemies would magically disappear when shooting at them.
• Fixed a bug where you could no longer press certain buttons after quickly salvaging some mods.
• Fixed a bug where the players ship was visible shortly after the outro animation ended.
• Fixed some visual bugs in spectacular deaths.
• Fixed some issues with the jam icon showing up when it isn't supposed to show.
• 'Press any key' on loading screen shows on top of twotter messages instead of under it.
• Fixed a bug with weapon selection and upgrade selection.
• Now shows an explosion for enemies that are attached to others (for example flamethrowers on the train explode when the train itself explodes).

[ 2015-08-05 12:06:47 CET ] [ Original post ]

The wait is almost over! It's official. The store page for Reign of Bullets is live! And as you can see on it. We'll release the game on the 19th of August. Our game is already fully playable, but we are just polishing some of it before launch. Here's something our beta testers can enjoy very soon :

• The interface in the hangar will get a little more polished
• Together with some more hints which will help you with what you can do there (more efficiently)
• We'll add lots more sound effects too
• Polish some animations
• Add a little bit more story

Of course the people who bought and will buy the game will see this also in the final version being released the 19th of next month.

[ 2015-07-23 19:31:35 CET ] [ Original post ]