Launch Day Technical Update

[Hendricks266]

Hi all! Evan from Voidpoint here, Technical Director on Ion Fury. Today is a big day for all of us on the Fury team given the game's four-year development history and the bumps we've hit along the way. It's not easy wrangling a 20 year old engine! :D We've put multitudes of love and care into the full Capital Offense campaign we are sharing with you today, so we hope you enjoy playing it as much as we did making it.

Here are some status updates on some of the most requested things from us.

Controllers

Controller support is *in*! The defaults should be sensible and accessible for most players, but just in case all controls are fully rebindable in the Gamepad Setup menu. Do not hesitate to adjust the dead zone and sensitivity settings, as every controller is different!

(If you have issues, you may need to open the Properties dialog for the game and change the Steam Input Per-Game Setting to Forced Off, but this should not be necessary.)

Performance

We have continued to optimize the trusty Build Engine for modern players since the 4.1 Update, with particular recent focus on frame pacing. As always, if there are any remaining troubles please do not hesitate to report them so that we can patch them as soon as we can. We can't fix what we're not aware of!

Workshop

If our game gives you a creative itch or you just want to tinker, our level editor is available right now! Unzip it into your Ion Fury folder and run mapster32.exe!

http://voidpoint.com/public/IonFury_LevelEditor_20190815.7z

If you're just getting started, you'll want to do some introductory reading: the invaluable InfoSuite by Ryan Lennox will provide information about the basics. https://infosuite.duke4.net/ Beyond that, our in-editor scripts will help you understand the new and vastly extended capabilities we've added to level construction effects.

Our lead level designer Max (aka Dr. Effector, aka oasiz, aka Thornton Reed) will have more tutorial materials to share in the days and weeks ahead.

In the next few days we will flip the Workshop on-switch to allow sharing your creations with other players. For now, please sink your teeth into the main campaign!

Achievements

At launch achievements are currently not integrated into the Steam backend. However, fear not! The game is tracking all achievement statistics internally in its permanent save file. When we push an update with the completed functionality, all achievement progress will be relayed to Steam at that time.

macOS Support

We haven't forgotten about a macOS build! Due to some unforeseen difficulties this support did not land by launch day. We are very close to having this ready, so if you're a Mac user depending on a native build, hang tight over the coming days!

[K.I.L.E.R]

Domo Arigato Mr Robato!

Downloading the update now.

[Terreur des Abysses]

when i launch the game i have a black screen, i have the sound but no images, everything is black on the screen

[Griff]

why have you removed hold run?only a walk key is configurable.

[Oh crap, it's him!]

Congrats for the launch! Game runs like a charm :)

[Tagimura]

А язык то сменить можно? Или обещанная поддержка русского отсутствует?

[Cpt.ButtHurt]

Originally posted by Tagimura:

А язык то сменить можно? Или обещанная поддержка русского отсутствует?

Где ты увидел обещанную поддержку Русского языка? Даже на главной странице в описании текстом написано, что игра выйдет в релиз 15 августа, с поддержкой Английского языка. Точка.

[Doom64hunter]

Important:
To test your custom maps in mapster32, you will need to open "mapster32.cfg", search for the line that says

gameexecutable =

and replace "eduke32.exe" in this string with "Fury.exe".

[Tagimura]

Originally posted by Cpt.ButtHurt:

Originally posted by Tagimura:

А язык то сменить можно? Или обещанная поддержка русского отсутствует?

Где ты увидел обещанную поддержку Русского языка? Даже на главной странице в описании текстом написано, что игра выйдет в релиз 15 августа, с поддержкой Английского языка. Точка.

Да потому что раньше было написано "The game will fully launch in Q1 2019 in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Russian." Сейчас это убрали и типа не было, и так ранний доступ уже полтора года раньше было немного другое описание, язык не завезли, вруны!!!

[Franky4Fingers]

Just a minor nitpick, could you add the option for toggle run/walk? I think it had it before, but now it's gone for some reason.

[Diogenes]

Hello, Dev. Likely an oversight, but there doesn't seem to be a run toggle bound to caps lock and there's no way to bind it. there's also no option to toggle "always run". got me sprinting around the map. I go to make a jump and I instinctively hit shift before the jump to get extra speed and grind to a near halt while I plummet to my death. Shift to run has been drilled into my thinky bits enough that I cant seem to shake the muscle memory, making this fun game into a frustrating and annoying experience for me.

[RoboPond]

I get very noticable screen tearing no matter what graphics settings I choose. I didn't get it on the preview version.

[Tech Sgt. TooShort]

Hi Evan!

Thank you to you and your wonderful team for giving us Ion Maiden (always will be this in my heart). I am so excited to play through this a million times!!

Just wanted to let you all know that I did find one small error. It may be an intentional one (call back to Duke 3D?) but Shelly's mirror reflection in level one in Illuminaughty shows her carrying a shotgun way before you get one. I remember Dukes reflection always showing him carrying the signature rifle and thought it might be a callback to this, but figured it would be worth a mention anyways! Keep up the amazing work :D Thank you again!!

Edit: I'm seeing a lot of people mentioning graphical issues and I have not encountered a single FPS drop or screen tearing. Game runs extremely smoothly for me.

[Pentazer]

There is apparently screen tearing, vsync issues and mouse smoothing problems from what I saw. Haven tested myself yet. Will be playing tonight.

[Mr Flibble]

I get screen tearing when within g-sync range and even with v-sync turned on.

[VatsOfGoo]

Have a Ion Fury will be only in English? What about the promised support for other languages?

Earlier on the page was written:
The full ION MAIDEN experience will be available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Russian in Q2 2019.