Steam Community :: Swordai

Swordai

All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos News Guides Reviews

Swordai

0 in Group Chat

Swordai is a melee extraction slasher with massive multiplayer dungeons, directional combat and a deep skill tree. Fight your way through monsters, bosses and other players in your quest to climb the tower.

Visit the Store Page

Most popular community and official content for the past week. (?)

Playtest 2 Starts This Week!

May 27

Update 0.5.3 is out and contains a lot of polish as well as a few significant gameplay tweaks for the next playtest which will start later this week. Be sure to follow the game and to click "Request Access" for the playtest on the main steam page. You'll get an email when you get access to the playtest.

Here are the full patch notes.

When you run out of tower time, rather than being removed from the tower immediately, you get the "Final Fury" status effect which drains your health continuously. The effect is removed if you do something to gain tower time (eg kill an something, loot a chest, etc). This allows you to potentially recover if you run out of time.
All red portals now send you to the same spawn point if you follow someone within 30s of them teleporting
You can now hold F or press and release F to interact with things like portals / chests / etc, before holding didn't work as one might expect
If you tap an offhand ability and immediately release the button to cancel it, it only has a 1s cooldown, to prevent you from accidentally blowing your cooldown
Significantly increased the time limit for inputting the code on puzzle doors
Made it more clear that you should leave your home and go to the trail of initiation after completing the first stage of training
Significantly increased the amount of tower time the killing most npcs gives.
Fixed a bug where chests weren't scaling the tower time given based on how long it had been since they were looted
Fixed a bug where leaving the tower server and rejoining could make your tower time not display properly
Added a slider to change the overall game volume
Added a new shrine buff that grants life steal on combo attacks only
You now steal shrine buffs with their remaining duration as well as soul keys if you kill a player who has one and loot their crystal
Made the initiation trial door only require 60 essence to open
A lot of decoration / minor cosmetic improvements
Increased shrine buff durations to 15 min
Increased the absorption and reflection on the molten edge buff to 3
Added achievements
Many minor bug fixes

Super excited for the next playtest to start. It should be just a few days!

Swordai

Patch 0.5.0 - New Miniboss, Dungeon Area, Traps, Puzzles and more

May 16

First of, I'm extremely excited to present the new official game trailer:

Update 0.5.0 is a major update as it has all the intended gameplay for the next playtest that should open up in roughly 2-3 weeks. All that is missing is some visuals / sounds and some polish. I will spend the next few weeks bug fixing / balancing / etc. based on everyone's feedback while I also flesh out the missing visuals / sounds.

Here are the full patch notes:

Added a new section of the dungeon that is currently inbetween the two existing sections featuring axe traps, puzzles, a new mini boss and more
Implemented a first pass at an intended loot mechanic. Chests increase in quality the longer they go with no one looting them. Right now this just affects essence, its mostly just to test out the code.
Redid some of the animations and AI for the claw based enemies (the new mini boss is of this type)
Added a knockback to kicks after finally figuring out the best way to make knockbacks buttery smooth. The mini-boss has a knock back based ability as well. In the future he will drop the ability shard for it and you will be able to equip it
Some AI changes / bug fixes
Implemented the randomization system for some aspects of the dungeon. Enemy spawns in certain areas and puzzle solutions randomize themselves as the game runs. This is pretty minor at the moment and mostly just testing out that the system works well.
Added a server select for the tower, and am testing out multiple instances of the tower running in parallel on the same server. In the long term in won't work that way (different processes will handle different areas of the tower so rather than 8 processes running 8 tower instances, it would be 8 processes each controller 1/8th of a single big tower instance) but the current parallelization will work well for the next playtest.
More sound customization for specific enemies including sounds for the claw lizards
Many many small changes to the pretty much every level
Some fairly minor performance optimizations

Swordai

Video

First Swordai Double Kill

castavernas

View videos

Video

Swordai: Memories Full Playthrough Part 1 of 2 (Castavernas)

castavernas

View videos

Video

Pattern vs SerGuillotin

castavernas

View videos

Video

Swordai alpha gameplay - month 10

castavernas

View videos

Video

Challenge of Mist Full (almost) Playthrough - Swordai

castavernas

View videos

Patch 0.4.11 - Boss Fight, Loot Crystals, Expanded Dungeon, and More

Apr 14

This patch includes a new boss fight, detailed decoration of the first tower section and the beginnings of the loot system. There is also substantial progress on the second section of the dungeon but that is hidden at the moment. Currently when you complete the first section, you skip the section section and go to the boss area.

Changes:

Finished the entire decoration of the first section of the dungeon.
Changed the "F to Interact" text to be contextual (eg the fountain says F to Drink) and removed some of the no longer needed instruction text.
Added some pretty awesome corpse SFX/VFX and gave various NPCs different death animations
Added a loot mechanism where some NPCs can drop a soul core and you can loot it and did the VFX/SFX for that
Added a boss section to the dungeon, right now when you complete the initial section you skip straight to the area that has the boss
Changed the end of "beginnings" to use the new loot mechanic on the lost soul that you defeat
Made it so that when there are sub objectives are part of a multi-step objective you get a notice when a sub objective is completed
Fixed a bug where you could sometimes crash when returning to the main menu (I think, if it happens to anyone, let me know)
Fixed a bug where the block trainer in home was feinting
Fixed a bug where if you went forward in the block trainer menu and then backwards you could access modes you hadn't unlocked
A bunch of other minor changes / fixes