Update 1.0.8 + Hotfix Changelog

[Blue]

General
Added a new Town layout based on the Town area of the Doom2 mod.
Challenges now have a daily bonus or reward reduction! Check next to the Challenge to see the affect on the Rubies.
Added a new Challenge: Sound of Silence. Enemies move around in complete silence.
Added a new Challenge: Hollow Monsters. Enemies are barely visible.
Added 5 new Totems, Demon Pistol Bullet, Demon SMP Clip, Demon Shotgun Shell, Demon Nails and Demon Railgun Bullet. They increase damage by 50% for the corresponding weapon.
General performance optimizations should result in up to 25% better framerates, especially on larger maps.
Spawning enemies should now produce less hiccups during gameplay.
Greatly optimized performance in the town area
Optimized performance regarding lights for the whole game
Personal Objectives now also include Nailgun Damage and Railgun Damage
Added new sounds for the Rotten Witch
Personal Objectives will exclude certain weapons if specific weapon challenges are played.
Personal Objectives will exclude the killing of specific enemies if any enemy restriction Challenge has been selected.
Totems will now exclude certain items if specific weapon challenges are played.
Added a minimum Join Level that a host can set when creating a new game. Players that do not have at least this level will not be able to see the Host's game at all.
Joining a game now also shows what Challenge is being played
All projectiles now have a maximum lifespan of 15 seconds
Gamma options now also increase image contrast

Balance
Increased damage bonus from Shotgun Serial Killer Choke and Shotgun Devestator Choke
Increased SMP damage bonus for Rank 3 SMP Trinkets.
Rubies now generate random heat per Ruby instead of a fixed value for every Ruby you collect.
Playing Challenges on Unearthly now gives 5 times the amount of Rubies (instead of 4 times).

Special thanks to Moki for giving me Trinket balance feedback, which some of these changes are based upon. Feel free to discuss these changes and give me more feedback about Trinkets, Totems or other things :)

Hotfix 1.0.8b Changes
Fixed Gamma and Contrast after a Witch Attack
Picking up a Ruby will now increase the amount based on the difficulty instead of giving just 1 (example: Unearthly Ruby gives 6 per pick up, Kill Em All gives 4).
Increased maximum armor, armor protection and armor pickups on Warlock Gauntlets
Increased Marine Glove ammo pickups and reload speed for every weapon
Increased Soulless Gladiator maximum Armor and added armor pickup bonus, decreased movement reduction
GunDude, GunGirl and Scythe Rank 3 Figurines now have more HP and Armor bonus
Pistol, Shotgun and SMP Evidence Trinkets now give an additional ammo pickup bonus.
Heister Gloves and Corrupted Heister Gloves now also increase interaction range of the player.

Hotfix 1.0.8c Changes
Fixed an issue with Interaction Range modifier not working in multiplayer games
Increased item hitbox sizes
Sound of Silence also removes alert sounds from enemies now
Sound of Silence base Ruby Reward increased from 20 to 30
Challenges are now displayed in grey on the multiplayer list
Fixed Witches spawning enemies inside each other / in walls / in players
Witches cannot be summoned by other enemies anymore

Hotfix 1.0.8d Changes
Sliver of Mercy, No Hope and Kill Em All got base Trinket rewards increased by 1.
Trinket Manager button to break Trinkets slightly changed
Players will now keep their health and armor values after rejoining a multiplayer game needs more online playtesting
Increased game stability that could cause game crashes when enemies get killed
Totems now have increased bonus on higher difficulty levels

Hotfix 1.0.8e Changes
Basement-Level-Only Curse lifted!
Players that rejoin a multiplayer game should(!) start with the same health and armor they had when they left. (needs playtesting and confirmation in online play! Please let me know asap if this is working as intended!)

[goldenmob72]

First and awesome

[potterman28wxcv]

I have a party tonight but I don't really want to attend.. I needed a good reason.. This one is good enough!

It sounds like an insanely good update :D

Thanks a lot Blue for keeping this game updated even after all this time. It's rare to meet game developers that do awesome stuff and also listen to the community.

Ursprungligen skrivet av Blue:

:heptagram: Added new sounds for the Rotten Witch

Now you're frightening me.

[OldGrey]

All sounds good
Thanks for the work Blue

Making a great game even better

[Blue]

Ursprungligen skrivet av CD potterman28wxcv:

I have a party tonight but I don't really want to attend.. I needed a good reason.. This one is good enough!

Glad I can help out ;)

Ursprungligen skrivet av |UKMD| oldgreydude:

All sounds good
Thanks for the work Blue

Making a great game even better

Thanks! I've seen your YouTube videos, love to watch these highly skillful plays, keep it up :D

[Relius]

I know what I'm doing for the next few hours before work. Thanks a lot, Blue!

[Mader]

It is just me or Sound of Silence does not work? I hear other sounds beside expected (attack, death) from monsters...

[KINGKICKASS1552]

Doing great work, thank you so much for putting in all this time and effort. I really love your game, it's fast paced, really fun and surprisingly easy to pick up. What I like the most about it is it's a good mix between quake and doom with lots of extra flavor, high skill ceilings and unlike other shooters where you get used to meta and it becomes safe and boring, this game constantly throws "oh ♥♥♥♥" moments at you to keep you on your toes. I actually bought it when it first came out, but my computer was too wimpy at the time to run, so I waited 2 years to finally play and I have to say it was well worth the wait. TL;DR, Blue you made a fantastic game and we all love the work you're doing at making it even better, thank you.

[Blue]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Mader:

It is just me or Sound of Silence does not work? I hear other sounds beside expected (attack, death) from monsters...

Currently only the "idle" sounds are cut out, making enemy encounters much less predictable. I think death sounds add good flavor, so I wanted to keep them. Should I cut the alert sounds out as well? I think they add to the surprise element of the Challenge. Let me know :)

Ursprungligen skrivet av KINGKICKASS1552:

Doing great work, thank you so much for putting in all this time and effort. I really love your game, it's fast paced, really fun and surprisingly easy to pick up. What I like the most about it is it's a good mix between quake and doom with lots of extra flavor, high skill ceilings and unlike other shooters where you get used to meta and it becomes safe and boring, this game constantly throws "oh ♥♥♥♥" moments at you to keep you on your toes. I actually bought it when it first came out, but my computer was too wimpy at the time to run, so I waited 2 years to finally play and I have to say it was well worth the wait. TL;DR, Blue you made a fantastic game and we all love the work you're doing at making it even better, thank you.

Thanks so much! Glad you like it so much and I'm happy to keep adding to the game :)

[Mader]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Blue:

Ursprungligen skrivet av Mader:

It is just me or Sound of Silence does not work? I hear other sounds beside expected (attack, death) from monsters...

Currently only the "idle" sounds are cut out, making enemy encounters much less predictable.

I think death sounds add good flavor, so I wanted to keep them.

Oh, I have nothing against death and attack sounds. I expected them to stay. :)

Should I cut the alert sounds out as well? I think they add to the surprise element of the Challenge. Let me know :)

IMO alert sounds should go away. I think unexpected sound of attack will be enough surprise. ;)

While we are at it, I wonder if you could add sounds of footsteps both to player and nearby monsters? Very silent so to not bother, but hearable to make it more atmospheric. I would imagine at least three kind of step sounds: player, small monster (Servant or Cutter) or big, heavy monster (Faceless, Doc). Ideally, of course, every monster should have their own step sound, but that may be too much work. ;) And then you could make standard idle sounds a little rarer.

I am speaking about it because without footsteps normally present in game, Sound of Silence will be even more striking for player used to be able to hear walking/running monsters nearby. I even would go as far as removing player's footsteps (only this sound from non-monsters!) in Sound of Silence.

Note about other new challenge: invisible monsters are a little too invisible IMO, especially at greater distance they are 100% invisible.

[Jim]

Bugreport.

"Gamma options now also increase image contrast" - this feature breaks when a witch attacks you. When the screen goes monocrome the contrast goes back down and doesn't come back untill you change the "gamma" value in the settings screen.

Video evidence on demand :)

[Blue]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Jim:

Bugreport.

"Gamma options now also increase image contrast" - this feature breaks when a witch attacks you. When the screen goes monocrome the contrast goes back down and doesn't come back untill you change the "gamma" value in the settings screen.

Video evidence on demand :)

Thanks for pointing this out. I've fixed it internally but I'll wait a bit with the release so maybe some other issues can be fixed with the same update.

[potterman28wxcv]

My thoughts after the first hour of gameplay:

Hollow Monster is no joke. From a distance you can't see anything, you have to guess where the monster is. It gets sometime to get used to it, but I'd say it's arguably on the same level of challenge as the Rotten Challenge. I had to go down to Time to Die to complete a run with my Unearthly equipment.

The problem of rubies in low difficulty games is that they don't drop. We spent 30 minutes in a Time to Die challenge that had 80 rubies in it, we had only 20 taken and the game was coming to a halt in terms of spawns.

In the higher difficulties I feel like they drop a lot easier

[Relius]

Hollow Monster is pretty intense, yeah. I encountered a rotten witch in my first round with HM, and that felt pretty harrowing. Having an SMP proved pretty useful in helping locate an enemy (spray and pray!) so I could switch to a more appropriate weapon. I also found myself spending more time waiting at one end of a hallway to help corral the enemies for murder.

As for the lower difficulties not dropping rubies often, I was in No Hope, Arcade, Hollow and only found 10 rubies with 358 kills in 36 minutes before I couldn't reliably generate more heat. This game definitely does not reward cowardice. =)

[WTBacon]

I use to have to play the game with shadows turned off, but everything is better now.
Thanks Blue!

[MR. MIME420]

♥♥♥♥ yeah Blue you're awesome. I'm prepared to be terrified.