Hello friends,

This new update comes just a year after the Bombing Quest Early Access release. Looking back it’s just amazing to see how much the game has improved during that time and how it became so much better than we initially projected.
The central point of this update is the new skill system, that allows for a quick development of new skills and their easy exchange between playable characters, mobs or other entities. That lays foundation for easy implementation of different game modes and heroes in the future.
The Ancient Paths biome got redesigned with an atmospheric new look. Many traps got introduced or improved. Many performance issues got resolved.

New Content:

- 4 new Skills: Ride Beast, Plant Pumpkin Bomb, Detonator, Throw Teleport Pad
- 5 new Gadgets: Beast Shoes, Scarecrow Head, Advanced Soul Emitter, Pad Recharger, Hide of the Supreme Beast
- Fully redesigned Ancient Paths biome, filled with the ruins of a forgotten civilization.
- 5 new traps: Pumpkin Plants, Smasher, Multismasher, Spikes, Energy Platforms
- 2 new types of activated gates
- 3 Updated Bosses: The Fallen Guardian, The Forgotten One, The Broodmother
- 1 Redesigned trap: Swamp Shooter
- 1 new GUI screen for skill binding and selection.
- 3 Removed Traps: Moving Platforms, Giant Mouth, Evil Egg
- 1 Removed Obstacle: Infested Rocks
- 1 Removed Quest: The Talisman

Changes:
Gameplay:
- The new skill system introduces changes in the controls and spell casting - now you must choose 3 skills to bind to your skill keys before using them.
- Gates opened by skills are added in some areas to introduce a little bit of a Metroidvania vibe.
- 3 additional Advanced Components (1 Upgrade slot) added.
- Lots of small balance changes in enemies and bosses.
- Fixed bugs related to functionality of some of the gadgets.

Graphics:
- Visual style of the game evolved in a more stylised, hand painted direction, replacing the realistic look.

Engine:
-Completely new player movement and animation system.
-Many objects manually culled or removed to improve performance.
-Some shaders were replaced/removed to improve performance.
-Performance reducing bugs fixed.
-Updated resolutions selection.
-Updated controls configuration.
-Modular loading system update: Made it easier to add new game modes and biomes in the future.

The stability and balancing of this version was hugely improved by the members of our Discord server who selflessly tested and provided great feedback. Thank you so much folks - you are amazing!

If you want to help testing or just keep a close eye on the development you are welcome to join us: https://discord.gg/nQjdRCM

Hello friends,

we are excited to announce the long awaited Bombing Quest Halloween update. It features a fully redesigned "Moonstone Hamlet Cemetery" biome to fit the Halloween mood. That's not all! "Guardians Temple" biome also got expanded with new challenges and enemies to tackle in the early game. The update also comes with a completely new AI battle and movement system and improved explosions & destruction effects. Last but not least are the new beautiful audio themes in "Guardians Temple" and "Whispering Valley" composed by Maura Melodies.

New Content:
- Fully Redesigned and expanded "Moonstone Hamlet Cemetery" biome with many new pumpkin themed enemies and Halloween vibe
- Expanded and improved "Guardians Temple" biome
- 2 New Bosses: The Resolute Servant, The Scarecrow
- 4 New enemies: Golem Smasher, Golem Bomber, Pumpkin Crawler, Scarecrow Stalker
- 2 Majorly Redesigned enemies: Temple Golem, Skeleton Sorcerer
- 4 Updated Bosses: The Soul Apparition, The Soul Guardians, The Blood Seeker, The Broodmother
- 1 New gadget (Soul Bug Egg)
- 1 New trap planted by enemies (Pumpkin Bomb)
- 2 Removed Enemies: Zombie Dwarf, Zombie

Changes:
Gameplay:
- Lots of small balance changes in enemies
- Hit points and cast rate
- Bomb explosion size changed and visuals greatly improved
- Destructible blocks now respawn
- Destructible blocks now spawn with 1-3 hitpoints with visually distinct appearance
- Destruction particles added to all destructibles, enemies and bosses
- New and Redesigned enemies use the new AI system, thus having smooth movement and turning, give audio and visual feedback to the environment and player

Graphics:
- More color and light added to many areas
- Visual style of the game evolved in a more stylised, hand painted direction, replacing the realistic look

Audio:
- 4 Beautiful new tracks (exploration and battle) for "Guardians Temple'' and "Whispering Valley" biomes

Engine:
-Completely new modular AI system
-Improved AI decision making and movement:Makes addition of new enemies and skills easier
-Automated audio system: No more manual placing of the audiozones during development, making it faster and easier
-Automated camera movement system: No more manual placing of the Camera overrides during development, making it faster and easier.
-Modular loading system: Made it easier to add new game modes and biomes in the future.

This was the biggest update so far, and it lays a great foundation for the future development of the game. We are excited to try all the new ideas that this update makes possible and hear your feedback on the things done so far. If you have any suggestions and want to help us shape the future of the game, we’re waiting for you on our Discord server: https://discord.gg/pP24YY4

Hello Friends,

This update took way longer to complete than we expected, but it is the biggest one so far. It is focused on improving the experience for the new players, with huge improvements in the first 1-2 hours of gameplay, Featuring a whole new biome and redesigned "Moonstone Hamlet". Quests are updated to reduce travel and navigation in the game world is seriously improved by a new map/minimap system.

New Content:
- A whole new biome - "Guardians Temple" with its own enemies and story is now replacing the old tutorial area.
- Moonstone Hamlet biome fully redesigned to encourage more dynamic play.
- 3 new enemies: (Soul Bug, Temple Golem, Zombie Dwarf)
- 2 new gadgets (Force field Generator, Soul Speed Boosters)
- 1 new trap (Piston smasher)
- Activators turned on by explosions are added to control gates and bridges
- Monster Rabits redesigned - now also having "Poisonous egg" ability. When the egg explodes, it gives poison effect in the area, slowing the player.
- Ferral wolves now have bloodlust ability, 2 hitpoints and improved movement pattern.
- Lots of new models, animations and redesign

Navigation:
- Minimap Added
- Navigation Beacons removed - now all you need is to go into a zone to explore.
- Map system redesigned with improved freeview and zoom options.
- Quest markers added to the map.
- Fast travel screen completely redesigned to have more natural navigations between the beacons and show travel connections.
- Quests improved to reduce travel.

Gameplay:
- Difficulty settings added (peaceful, casual, moderate, hard, nightmare)
- Battle grids now respawn the enemies, when you leave the area or die.
- More Soul beacons added, to make the respawning of the enemies less punishing.
- Soul drops from enemies and destructibles greatly reduced, but the new enemy the "Soul Bug" contains a lot of soul, so you have to make a strategical decision when to blast it.
- The new gadgets are activated when you do multikills. That gives more high risk/high reward options, and forces strategical placement of the bombs.
- You now start with 2 bombs (Automation core gadged is equipped by default).
- Enemies, bosses and gadgets have balance changes.
- Loot from the lootcrates is no longer randomised.

Graphics:
- A lot more color and life added.
- Completely new fog and halos shaders developed.
- A lot of calculation optimisations in the most used shaders to reduce the GPU load.

GUI:
- New "Pick a saved game" screen, that gives a lot more information about the selected save and displaying a map.
- New convert old save screen.
- New dificulty select screen.
- A lot of small visual improvements in all the menus.
- A lot of small improvements in navigating the menus.

General/Bugfixes:
- Save converter functionality improved, so that you can continue playing a game you started in the old versions of the game.
- Pausing Game does not stop the music now.
- Some dialogues removed/shortened
- Some Loading issues fixed
- Fixed the annoying audio bug that made the sfx disappear when you stop the music.
- Fixed the bug that displaces the gui in the top left corner.
- Many small bugs fixed.

Engine:
-Complete redesign of the loading system - that will allow different game modes and multiplayer.
-Complete redesign of the skill system - that will allow different skill options to easily be added and removed - adding capabilities for many game modes and multiple heroes in the future.
-Complete redesign and the gadgets and effects system - that will make it easy to add new gadgets and skills.

Running saved game from older version:

- Loading a save converted from a previous version will place you at the start of the new biome "Guardians Temple" as it is impossible to account for all the possible saving spots and terrain changes. - All your gadgets will be updated to 0.4.4 and unequipped.
- If you prefer not to play the new zone - you can just walk to the closest beacon and fast travel.
- To have the best experience when playing the new biome, starting a new game is advised, as having late game gear will make you OP.

We are really excited by all the improvements we made in this update and the huge potential for the future of the game that it creates!

If you have any suggestions and want to help us shape the future of the game - don't hesitate to join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/pP24YY4

Hello Friends,

This update is focused on the quality of gameplay experience - better GUI, more settings, smoother animations, alternative keys and bugfixes. We expect is to be the last patch of this type for version 0.4 Upcoming patches will be heavily content oriented ;)
Here's all that's new:

In Game GUI:

-Health and Soul bars over the player added
-Skill icons next to player indicating if they are possible to cast, their remaining cooldown and soulcost
-Health Bars over the enemies displaying their hitpoints
-Status bars over the enemies showing if they currently have any effect applied - for example bloodlust, block, speed, charge etc. We plan to add more and more such indicators, to make it easier for the player to predict enemy behaviour.
-Old health/skill/bomb bars GUI completely remade from scratch. Visually it should be almost the same, but the new way it is organised and displayed fixed some bugs.
-Boss health is now displayed over their heads - same as all the other enemies, previous health bar in the right corner of the screen replaced with the name of the boss.

Loading:

-Smooth loading screen transitions, animations, and audio added.
-Death screen added - providing you the very important information that you have died in case you missed it ;)
-Loading routine updated to be more robust.
-Portals between the zones remade - hopefully getting rid of the loading issues.
-Loading screen is now dimming the audio properly.

Settings:

-Alternative controls added. This was quite a big update for the controls system, and it is quite hard to guarantee every possible random configuration users had setup will be viable, so custom control configurations from the previous versions are reset to the new default.
-All controls are now listed - even the ones that are not edittable.
-Camera Shake eneble/disable option added
-Resolution list now displays the screen refresh rate options.
-Audio sfx configuration now also sets menu sounds.

Gameplay

-Punch algorithm updated - in the past versions it required the player to be orinented precisely in regards to the bomb in order to cast "Punch". It was hard for many players to do it in the heat of the battle. Now there is algorithm predicting the most probable direction in which the player wants to punch the bomb, making casts very easy.
-Dash cast improved for controllers having analogue triggers.

Enemies

-Trolls in the Garlog citadel now have improved punch ability - punching the bomb in different directions.
-Trolls health increased from 1 to 2.
-Swamp stalkers (the nasty swamp creatures that like to hunt you) pathfinding improved, so that they don't get stuck.

General/Bugfixes

-Some dialogues removed/shortened
-Some gui texts suggesting key usage improved/fixed
-Final screen audio bug fixed
-Fixed bug with the map where starting a new game after quitting to the main menu, will keep map masks and exploration from the previous game.
-Fixed bug with Zoran giving Dangerous Shores Quest twice.

Here's all that's new:

-Resoultions menu now gives access to all the resolutions the game engine recognises as compatible with your screen
-Windowed mode added
-Added new gadget - Emily Blessing, which you receive when you complete "Souls in the Stones" quest. It makes flowers grow around you during the battle. You can blast them for soul. If you've already completed this quest the gadged would be added to your inventory.
We know it is not much, but we've been in bugfixing/menus/drivers phase for so long, that adding this new game mechanic makes us smile.
-Soul Battery gadgets rebalanced
-Fixed Ugdus worshipping animations - apparently they were so bad, many players thought it is a bug :D
-Fixed the annoying shader visual artifacts that appeared when blast wave effects were casted by some enemies
-Fixed bugs related to appllying audio settings
-Fixed bug with not turning the audio off.
-Sfx sounds bar now also controls the menu sounds.
-Added definitions for Logitech F510 and Logitech F710 Joysticks
-Axis based joystick controlls now display +- to indicate direction


***We've been having serious issues with our internet connection these days, so we barely managed to upload the patch. It was so bad we were not able to upload the cover picture for this event - we had to use an old one.

That's why this version is not tested as well as the previous ones - so please report any issues you encounter on contact@team-puh.com

This update focused mostly on things under the surface:
-Brand new input system - I spend most of the time redoing the input system backend, to make it more configurable and reliable. It dealt with some bugs and improved responsiveness. Now it is also easier for me to add new controller definitions and configurations.
-Boundaries are updated - While I was having fun writing tones of code, Anna went over all the biomes looking for places where the player can go out of bounds and fixed them.
-Moonstone Hamlet Navigation Beacon position changed - Many players were passing next to it without seeing it. So they played withou a map, which is unpleasant. Now it is in a central location and everybody should find it.
-Key names added under the skills icons.
-Description for "Shadow"Achievement fixed.
-Lot's of typos fixed in the dialogues.
-Dash sound improved.
-Version name added to main menu.

I initially planned to add more resolution options + windowed mode for this update, but I didn't want to delay it any further - these are coming soon.

We are so excited to finally present you the adventures of our favourite Dwarf and his robot friend. Bombing Quest stays faithful to the classic Bomberman battle mechanic in a fantasy adventure setup, where you explore the ruins of an ancient empire. Will you dare to dive deep into the mists of this mysterious world?