The game's engine has been upgraded, unlocking a world of new possibilities and making development smoother.
We are moving into the next generation and you can now play 3rd person view if you wish so. Every view mode has its pros and quirks.
The game's content has grown significantly with the word count doubling. And many new features added. You'll now encounter a host of new NPCs with fresh dialogues, adding depth to the game world.
Join the ranks of fearless invaders in the new "Invasion" mode. With a simple click in the main menu, you can infiltrate other players' games, assuming control of a Loif spider. Rack up kills to earn rewarding spoils, and if you find yourself outmatched, you can always return to the main menu for another attempt. It's a chance to battle for currency and supremacy.
You can now collect wood, metal, and stone. Utilize these materials to craft a wider variety of items and even construct your own structures.
In a significant change, you'll now need to complete the game and start a New Game Plus to carry your character forward. This means you can't start a new game at any time and retain your items, anymore.
The enemies have HP bars above them now by default, it can be turned off in options.
We've introduced an in-game chat feature. Simply press "Enter" to open or close the chat, and you can even /dance to celebrate your victories :-)
Ladders have been added for various categories, allowing players to compete and showcase their skills.
Players who prefer a one-handed experience can now use hotkeys with the left mouse click. It's a convenient way to enhance your gameplay. Additionally, you can pick up items with a left click.
The "Epic" graphics setting has received a substantial upgrade. Keep in mind that it may require a bit more hardware power.
Added some more adventure/rpg features. Some riddles are "hard'ish" to resolve, but if you know what you are doing, its a snap.
New weapons, Grenade launcher and Minigun are the most visible additions.
Shooting mechanics have been refined for a more enjoyable and challenging experience. Weapon rarity now affects the grouping of firearms, and NG+ and cooperative play has been rebalanced.
You can now fill up your snake oil bottles :o).
Slots now display detail widgets everywhere, making it easier to manage your items and equipment.
Landing a headshot is now accompanied by a sound.
This patch includes around 500 ! significant and minor changes, quality of life improvements, and balance adjustments to enhance the overall gameplay experience.
Arachnophobia Relief: For those with arachnophobia, we've taken steps to make your experience more comfortable.
So there is a lot to discover and enjoy!
Soundtrack for Ark of Loif!
Eighteen Drum & Bass songs from the walkman and the theme song are released as a standalone dlc!
Let's swim up.
Sadly, we have lost one of our members in April. After a long sickness and many complications, when it looked like it's going to be alright. It was not.
In a bad turn of events, the issues started when we first released and been hampering us. Although we stood fast and tried to help as much as we could, it was not enough.
RIP.
The quick patches and upgrades we have planed turned into a huge one over the year and while it was basically ready in march, we were unable to go forward with anything at the time.
The delay may be for the better as we are now ready to deliver much more content all at once.
We absorbed all the feedback from you guys and considered all of it, many ideas have been integrated. Many QOL improvements are coming along the new features.
The game is much deeper on many fronts now, while being more accessible at the same time.
A Wiki has been made and the main page will link to it now. So information about stuff will be easier to find.
The game has been rebalanced slightly with the addition of many new features and items.
We have planed many new features and items for future updates,(^^spoiler)new engine gives us ways to build much faster and be more creative. The workflow has improved tremendously so we will be able to deliver some medium updates monthly mostly with content. And possibly even shorter maybe biweekly or weekly patches with some items or additions to the world along the yearly patches.
The elephant in the room (patch 2023) is literally here really soon, along with the soundtrack for Ark of Loif. Just give us a sec.
Play on and press F.
One more thing...
You can now mouse over your teammates in multiplayer to see their nick and rank. Your box will now follow you no matter if it sees you or not.
Disabled the caps lock button while you have a vendor open. Changed the model of the stone tablet. Fixed friendly fire not working properly in multiplayer. Fixed eye adaptation issue in first person.
Another round of small changes for Ark of Loif
Another round of small changes for Ark of Loif
The way how you die is changed, now you lose only money. If you pick up your cross, you get some back. This way, new players should not struggle so much. You could go in your base and collect the items there, but this concept was too unusual for many players. It makes it a bit easier.
The respawn buttons are also renamed now.
We've seen some people getting stuck behind the train in the base (who knows why, there are stairs and also why do you like it there so much?) So we added a plank to walk on.
Game on!
Little rebalance
You get punished a little less now.
Small Multiplayer fix
Fixed an error, in some cases the host crashed after travelling in multiplayer.
The Parallel Worlds update is here!
Parallel worlds are here!
Huge patch, long overdue! A lot of new content and mechanics.
Added procedural generation of maps and dungeons. Maps will change every time you restart to menu, or restart the seed with the portal.
Added new class of items - gadgets,
Added throwables, grenades.
Added melee weapons (also energetic) and combos.
The player can now dodge roll with double space bar.
Weapons now overheat, when its reaching its limit the weapon rate of fire will fluctuate untill it finally blows up the firearm
Weapons/Items have visible status and ammo in the inventory detail after using/equipping the item now.
Players can have more of the same weapon type loaded at the same time now.
Some items can be upgraded (or repaired)now with special tools.
Added quick travel menu to control the portal.
New possibilities to play the game, with currency collecting device in the base.
New crafting options, more of the items are useful now.
New unique weapons.
New loot.
New locations .
New npc with special items.
New enemies.
Enemies will try to dodge slower projectiles now.
Added teleport pads.
Optimized FPS dramatically over all maps.
Day/Night cycle.
Changed behaviour of the quick swap (q) it will now rotate only the first weapon in the inventory and equipped.
Improved the UI.
Most particle effects reworked to be prettier and more effective.
Weapon impact effects changed.
Most sound effects remastered and remixed along with 50~ new sfx.
Added higher detail models.
Changed behaviour of ranged enemies to be more natural.
Link to Quickstart video added in the main menu.
Dozens of QOL improvements.
Motion blur switch.
Ejected bullets changed.
Rubberbanding addressed.
Gadgets consist of those items at this moment.
Navigation, to lead you to nearest objective.
Blink device, teleport on short distance.
Personal shield, provides a rechargeable bonus to HP.
Walkman, plays music.
Radio for TPing to base,
Flashlight, provides light...
Lighter, usually lights up candles and such.
And probably some stuff we forgot.
What's next? In the near future (soon) a lot of sound effects will be added, we are still in the process of recording and mixing.
Have fun!
Why we have been silent?
Hello there!
One of us has been going through disease, nearly fatal. The whole year has been a rollercoaster and we are lucky to be where we are. We have been inactive on the internet and social media during that time.
We are sorry for the inactivity but we are back!
And how better to start than with the release of something big! We are going to release something special, and something long due. Working on this patch has been extremely hard due to the circumstances.
The whole situation affected all of us, sticking to the timeline was impossible, but the time has finally come.
Things are hopefully going to be changing for the better from now on.
We are glad to be back.
New Year Update
Happy New Year!
You can now play from first person view! Press <*> On numpad to change the view.
Along with this new possibility, we bring you refined ballistics and new content, remastered audio effects and many improvements to coop as well as some fixes. Detailed list is below.
FPS Mode Added!
New Audio effects.
Remixed audio.
Reprogrammed loading in multiplayer games-loading is faster now and smoother.
Weapons range and spread adjusted.
Characters sprint faster now at full hp.
Multiplayer games can be easily locked with password now.
Default aiming cursor is crosshair now.
Inventory closes after you run away from shop now.
The game should start in native resolution on all computers now.
