It's been 2 weeks and you know what that means, it update time! I know we haven't been able to release updates lately and I thank you very much for your patience! As we mention before, sometimes, a new system requires an enormous work under the surface, this was exactly the case here! Fortunately, we have been able to make it through!
As we hinted to before, this update is focuses mainly on reworking the progression within the game, the goal is to facilitate the onboarding of new players as well as give older players challenges to look forward to.
New player will start the game with a smaller pool of objects that are easy to understand and uses and will organically unlock new one by playing. This allows us to make sure that items that require a better understanding of the game will be unlocked once the player has a good grasp of the mechanics. Older players will, on their end, be rewarded with new challenges to take on. Indeed the number of achievement has gone up from 20 to 77. They will also be able to spend the excess gold nugget they might have accumulated.
Adding achievement has required us to create a new backend system (which took some time) that will also allow us to add more of them in future update in an easier fashion.
Last time, we also did a poll regarding objects that you would like to see implemented in the game, here are the 5 most upvoted:
With 156 votes : Ethereal Flame - Spawns an invincible minion that picks up coins for you, it also inflicts damage when it collides with an enemy
With 113 votes : Godly Die: Your re-rolls for upgrades now raise the quality of the choices you have (up to mythic rarity for any type of upgrade). Gain 1 re-roll.
With 62 votes : Last pull: When you take a hit, attracts all collectibles visible on the screen
With 49 votes : Panic attack: Throws 3 knives in random directions for each 2 meters travelled
And with 48 votes each : Desperate Burst - Whenever you get down to 1hp, kill all enemies on the screen (120 seconds cooldown). Relentless Momentum - Whenever you move, adds 10% to your area effect size and raises your damage by 5% for every 5 meter (max 10 times)
We will keep on creating polls regularly to know what you'd like to see in the game so if you want to take part in any of them, feel free to join our discord by clicking this button:
Finally, we fixed a few bugs here an there, tweaked a few things and updated a few visual assets, you know, the usual shenanigans.
That's it for today, you can check the full patch note below. See you soon!
Enjoy!
Content
Quality of Life
No Achievement Icon : An icon now appears when achievement are disabled
New menu pop up when starting a game with Redemption options enables
Achievements menu : You will now be able to check the achievements from within the game and they will reward you with various things
Super Black Market : You will now be able to spent your excess gold nuggets int the Super Black Market (don't forget that it will enable redemption options when you do)
Infamy levels can now be unlocked in the Nightmare Escape mode
Daily Challenge : Fence modifier and more movespeed for player and ennemies can not occur together anymore
Undertaker Fight : Undertaker's projectiles disappear when he dies
Progression
Many objects now need to be unlocked, this shouldn't hinder old player as they sill have unlocked or should unlock most quite easily but will help new player to understand the game with a more simplistic limited item pool to start with
Balance
Undertaker's life in Nightmare Escape mode : 25 000 -> 20 000
Bosses : All hitboxes have been reworked - You won't be hit by Undertaker's hat for example
Black Market : Price adjustments
Visual Updates
Serra's portrait has been updated to more closely ressemble her main menu counterpart
Ollin's portrait has been updated to more closely ressemble its main menu counterpart
Nigel's portrait has been updated to more closely ressemble his main menu counterpart
Serra's Bowgun unlock Icon has been updated
Nigel's unlock Icon has been updated
Ollin's unlock Icon has been updated
Roger's unlock Icon has been updated
Natoko's unlock Icon has been updated
R0B3RT's unlock Icon has been updated
Slight shade added on the map
Onion FX update
Seismic Dance FX update
New Achievements
Against all odds
Agendaddict I
Agendaddict II
Agendaddict III
I can do this all day
All over the place
Amazing feat I
Amazing feat I
Artemis' emisary
As long as it works
Billionaire Philantropist
Bury the dead
Catch me if you can
Climactic finale
Coffee High
Common feat I
Common feat II
Common feat III
Common feat IV
Demi-god
Deus ex Machina
Duel of Fates
Fastest draw in Greenhill
Get High on your Own Supply
Hanging by a thread
Impressive feat I
Impressive feat II
Impressive feat III
Impressive feat IV
Incredible feat I
Incredible feat II
Incredible feat III
Incredible feat IV
Jump Scare
Jumpy Behaviour
Lethal shot
The one with the loaded gun
Longjump Champion
Lucky Luke
Marathoneer
Overtaken
Pack Master
Party in the streets
Plague Bearer
Redemption Arc
Rest in peace
Science prevails
Six Feet Under
The start of something big
Sweet Revenge
Tag Extreme
Talented
Tireless
Trial and success
Untouchable
Unwavering
Vampire
Bug Fixes
Inventory now work even when player has no object yet
Nitro crit's explosion do the proper planned damage now
Hot Fixes in version 0.16
<*> Fixed issue with characters unlocks <*> Russian language is now selectable from the game steam properties menu
What we do in the shadows... (2)
Hello fellow outlaws,
It is been two weeks already and as per usual, it is time to talk about what we're working on at the moment.
As we mentionned last time, we're currently on a big rework of the progression within the game. Even though we were able to make significant advancements in that endeavor, it's yet to be perfect at the moment. However, we have come to a stage that will allow us to update the system onto the private beta test version very soon. I'll be sure to let you know as soon as it is up! By the way, if you'ld like to have access to the private beta version, please go through the following steps. Please remember however that the private beta is not a finished product and might contain bugs :
Join the discord and go to the Beta-test-version channel by clicking the following button
Check the pinned message of the channel
The last time we updated you on where we are and what we are working on, we also asked you to take a poll to see what we should focus on next. We have heard you and now have a clearer understanding of your needs and wants. Here are the top 5 choices within the poll (at the moment when I am writing this) :
New characters with 45 votes
New bosses with 45 votes
Map visual update and improvement with 37 votes
Full moon events with 36 votes
Quality of life improvements with 22 votes
As you can see, the votes have been extremely close and we will be sure to take your input into account when working on the forthcoming updates. Given the success of the poll, we decided to have another one, this time we would like you to choose between new items concepts. You can access the poll and vote for your favourite ones by following these few steps:
Join the discord and go to the Announcement channel by clicking the following button
Check the pinned message of the channel, the poll will be the last pinned message
As you may have read already, we also put together a bundle with our fellow Horde Survivor/Bullet Hell game developers.
You only buy games in the bundle that you don't own. Plus, you get an extra discount.
My Rogue Valentine Bundle includes :
Bounty of One
20 Minutes Till Dawn
Spellbook Demonslayers
Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde
That is all for today, we hope that we will be able to pussh the new update soon but again, there is no definitive due date ate the moment. We will be sure to let you know though.
Untill then, have a good one!
Enjoy!
My Rogue Valentine Bundle
Thank you for the continued support you have given Bounty of One!
To reward you for this dedication, we have put together one incredible bundle for all of you to enjoy!
You only buy games in the bundle that you don't own. Plus, you get an extra discount.
My Rogue Valentine Bundle — includes Bounty of One, 20 Minutes Till Dawn, Spellbook Demonslayers and Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde
Bounty of One — a fast-paced casual roguelite bullet hell that takes place in a cartoonish Fantasy Wild West. Play alone or locally with up to 3 friends.
20 Minutes Till Dawn — Shoot down an ever growing horde of Lovecraftian monsters to survive the night. Choose from a variety of upgrades to create unique and game-breaking builds. Unlock a diverse cast of characters and weapons with unique powers.
Spellbook Demonslayers — each living Spellbook has its unlockable Passives, active Spells, their evolutions, and illegal variants.
Spirit Hunters: Infinite Horde — Slay huge waves of monsters and harvest their souls for ever-increasing power.
It's been 2 weeks since the last update already and by now, you probably know that it should mean an new update is coming in today. Unfortunately, it won't be the case this time. However, that doesn't mean that we will keep you out of the loop quite the opposite, let's talk about what we're working on.
At the moment, we're hard at work remodelling the progression and the metaprogression within the games and that means a lot of work that, sadly, often goes unoticed so let me show you.
First off, in order to implement the many changes we want, we made a change to how Gold Nuggets are earned. Indeed where earlier you would only earn Gold Nuggets depending on your scores in game, achievements will now reward you with some of that rare currency depending on how difficult they are to obtain. This meant that we are implementing a looooot of new achievement for you to chase as you can see in this voluntarily blurred teaser :
Secondly, in order for this new progression to be a full experience, we feel like you guys need a way to check on the achievements from within the game and not have to always go back and forth between Bounty of One and the Steam Achievement page. We are, therefore working on a new ingame menu of which you can see a tease here :
Finally, and to complete the experience, we will be introducing a small surprise for you once you buy out Roger's Black Market. We wouldn't want all those Additionnal gold nuggets to go to waste would we?
At the moment, it is hard to evaluate when this update will be out but rest assured that we will keep you update of advancement and or drawbacks.
While we're working on this new feature, we're always, of course, working on parallel content such as new items or character. Don't worry, you can expect to see more new things once we're done reworking the progression system. Wanna tease? Here you go :
To wrap things up, we wanted to end this news on a poll for you, our players, to take. Once we are done with our current task, we would like for you to let us know what our priorities should be, what we should focus on and what you want for Bounty of One going forward. In that spirit, you can take the poll on our discord, click on the image below to reach it.
That's it for today, Sorry for the lack of update this week, we hope that sharing what we have planned for you did make up for it though!
Untill next time, have a good one! Enjoy!
Hotfix 0.16 (2) Characters unlocks working again
- Characters and achievements bind to characters can be unlocked again.
Sorry for the inconvenience, we are working on a new unlock system and didn't think it would bug the current unlock system. We couldn't test this in our beta version as most people already unlocked everything there.
Hotfix 0.16 (1) Characters unlocks and russian language
- You should get back your characters if you lost them in the last save - Russian language is now selectable from the game steam properties menu
Patch 0.16 : A bag full of small improvements
The new update is here!
Hey fellow outlaws!
It has been two weeks already, time for the new update.
This time, it is all about quality of life and balancing. First off, we finally added an inventory! Indeed, you'll now be able to see the objects you have chosen along your run through the pause menu or the upgrade or object selection menu.
This feature was heavily requested and we are happy that we finally could take the time to bring it to you. When it comes to quality of life improvements we also added a few more options in the settings for you to personalize your experience. You can, for example, toggle the catchphrase texts on or off.
Secondly, this update comes with a big balance change. Indeed, since the implementation of the undertaker and the game duration increase that came with it, we noticed that critical chance and critcal damage had become a must take in every run. This didn't suit well with our game design as we want players to be able to not invest in criticals if they so choose. We, therefore, decrease the efficiency of critical chance and critical damage upgrades but brought down enemies health in general to balance things out.
Moreover, and as you can see in the preview image for the update, we took the opportunity to add yet another language : russian.
Finally, and as per usual, we got rid of a bugs that arose in the last update as well as other older ones.
We are also working on the side on a bigger change to the game but it is a bit early to let you know. You'll see soon enought. :)
Anyway, that is it for today! See you in 2 weeks.
Enjoy!
Content
New system
Inventory system - You can now access your inventory while in the menu or when choosing upgrades or objects. In the inventory, you can see all the items you've already collected in a run.
Quality of life
Seismic Dance's effect is now disabled when disabling explosion fxs
Added controller haptic vibration
New togleable settings in parameters : "Show enemies deathrattle texts"
New togleable settings in parameters : "Show catchphrase texts"
Balancing
Endless - Enemies' health stops scaling 15 minute after defeating the Undertaker
Sheriffs' chests - Chests droped by bosses will only give you either epic or legendary loot from now on
Nitro'crit - Area damage : 40% of damage -> 100% of raw damage
Hawkeye - Rarity : Legendary -> Epic
Hawkeye - Critical Chance gained : 60% -> 40%
Hawkeye - Damage reduction : /2 -> no damage reduction
Hawkeye - Critical Chance upgrades stop showing up in level ups after it has been taken
MachineLearning - Rarity : Rare -> Epic
Bloodlust - Rarity : Rare -> Epic
Undertaker - Energy Ball speed : 3.5 -> 3.9
Undertaker - Energy ball spawn delay : 0.8 -> 0.7
Undertaker - Gun shots delay : 1.4 -> 1.3
Enemies - Tier 2 Batmen health 600 -> 500
Enemies - Tier 3 Batmen health 800 -> 600
Enemies - Tier 2 Orcs health 800 -> 750
Enemies - Tier 3 Orcs health 1000 -> 900
Enemies - Tier 2 Ilithids 700 ->600
Enemies - Tier 3 Ilithids 1000 -> 800
Visual Improvements
Upgrade and Object Selection Frame asset update
Bugfixes
Mezcal Grenade will now ALWAYS be affected by cooldown reduction
Turret Map indicator will now ALWAYS be visible when the turret is not within the camera
Multiplayer score submit issues are resolved
Unlocks will now be double-checked to make sure you don't get achievements such as "Become the turret" without unlocking R0B3RT
Patch 0.15 : New year, new objects!
The new update is here!
Happy new year to all!
I hope 2022 has been a well-filled year for each and every one of you. For Bumpty and myself, 2022 has been a year full of exciting challenges that we have managed to overcome. We started the year by getting into video game creation and, thanks to Bounty of One but especially thanks to all of you, we were able to end the year by creating our own independent studio: OptizOnion. Once again, we thank you for your continued support without which none of this would have been or would be possible. We wish you all the best for 2023! May this year be full of emotions and adventures!
For this first 2023 update, we're starting off slowly, given the festivities, by bringing you a new set of 6 items to complete your outlaw arsenal. I hope you will like them.
As usual, we have fixed a few issues and other bugs occurring in Bounty of One as well as worked on balancing the game.
We are also working on new features that you have often asked for such as the ability to see your inventory during a game.
For now, that's it for this update, we'll see you in 2 weeks for the next one.
You can read the full patch notes below.
Enjoy!
Content
New Items
Binary System : When your current health is a even number gain +20% damage, when it is odd lose -20% damage.
Bloodlust Idol : Picking up hearts no longer heals you, however you gain 3 base damage each time you pick up a heart. Heals you completely and gain 3 max hp.
Espresso frenzy : Gain +20% move speed and +1% attack speed for 0.3 sec each time you pickup a collectible. (Max 50 cumulative buffs)
Lucky Belt : Gain 10% more experience from future and past coins.
Machine Learning : Everytime you kill 30 enemies gain +1% crit chance. You lose 50% of the buff when taking damage.
Mezcal Grenade : Shoots an explosive grenade towards the nearest enemy. (Cooldown : 4 sec)
Balancing
Undertaker - Base life : 60 000 -> 100 000
Coop : Resurrected allies now come back with full health
Reckless Rush - Max use : 10 -> 15
Bugfixes
Fixed an issue with Dark Revenge achievment requiring you to beat the game instead of just beating Denzel
Fixed an issue with Sherrifken and Spreadshot where projectiles would get stuck in the air indefinitely. They will now disappear after a while
"Hotfixes" in version 0.14
Fixed an issue with steam tech turret and 3 is the magic number / 180 no scope (triple shot and back shot) causing the game to crash.
Hotfix 0.14 (1) Crash fix turret and 180 no scope / 3 is the magic number
- Fixed an issue with steam tech turret and 3 is the magic number / 180 no scope (triple shot and back shot) causing the game to crash.
Major Update Version 0.14: The Undertaker!
Hello fellow outlaws!
It's been two weeks and you know what it means, a new update is here and it is a big one! As you may have guessed by the title and the preview and the tease and... He is finally here, the Undertaker has come to oppose you as the final boss of every run so without further a do, let me introduce him.
The Undertaker
The Undertaker was once a powerful and respected necromancer, renowned for his skill in harnessing the dark arts. But as he delved deeper into the forbidden corners of magic, he became consumed by an all-consuming desire for power. He began to see the value of life as nothing more than a means to an end, and he began to use his magic to control the spirits of those around him.
One of the first victims of the Undertaker's corruption was his beloved dog, whom he brought back to life using dark magic after the animal grew old and died. This act of desperation only served to further fuel The Undertaker's descent into darkness, and he soon found himself using his magic to control the spirits of his underlings, binding them to his will and bending them to his every whim.
As his power grew, so did his ambition, and The Undertaker began to set his sights on becoming the boss of the underworld in Greenhill. He knew that to achieve this goal, he would have to eliminate any rivals standing in his way, and so he began to plot and schemed to take out anyone who stood in his path.
Over the years, the Undertaker worked tirelessly to build up his power base in Greenhill's criminal underworld, using his dark magic and cunning to attract and recruit the most dangerous and ruthless criminals in the land. With the help of his controlled spirits, he was able to secure his position as the undisputed boss of the underworld in Greenhill.
Now, the Undertaker rules over his criminal empire with an iron fist, using his right hand man, Crazy Denzel, and his controlled spirits to enforce his will. Despite his fearsome reputation, The Undertaker is constantly haunted by the memory of his once-loyal dog, whose undead form now serves as a constant reminder of the terrible price he has paid for his ambition.
We know you have been waiting for the Undertaker to finally show and we wanted to thank all of you for your continued support and enthousiam, we hope it lives up to the hype.
The Undertaker's arrival comes with quite a few change to the way a run in Bounty of One works. Where previously runs were composed of 2 acts (pre-Rex, Brutus and Cupcake and pre-CrazyDenzel), a run will now have 3 parts. Moreover, the enemy types are now gonna be distributed in a different way within those 3 acts. The Goblins, Mages and Golems types will be limited to the first hald of the run whereas the Batmen, Orcs and Ilithids (that were introduced in the halloween update) will populate the second half. Having more acts also means that you will collect more chest before the end of a run and that each will last longer. As you may remember, we had posted a poll regarding your opinion on how long you thought a run should last, well despite a small majority of you wanting for the game to last for 24 minutes (not counting the boss battles), we decided to make them last for 20. Indeed, after testing the 24 minutes length, the game felt way slower and didn't keep that hectic rythm we all like. It will remain like this for now but we are always open to your feedbacks on that matter.
Finally, as usual, we've worked on patching small issues and balancing the game. Anyway, that is all for today, you can check the full list of changes hereafter.
Enjoy!
Content
New Boss
The Undertaker: The final boss of every run is here!
Quality of life
Player no longer shoots when the boss shows up
Balancing
ROB3RT - Gain an automatic turret, it fires 2x faster than you but cuts your attack speed by 3 -> Gain an automatic turret, it fires 1.3x faster than you but cuts your attack speed by 2
ROB3RT - Difficulty level : 1 -> 2
Batmen - Speed Bonus modifier max : 0.8 -> 0.5
Bounty Rush mode - "Level impacts game advancement" modificator level max set to 36
Intimidating reward - Slow efficiency 50% -> 35%
Guided shot - If the target of the first pierce is killed before the guided reaches it, it doesn't change direction anymore
Bug fixes
Fixed an issue with Natoko's animation only doing 1 out of 2 different slashes
Fixed some issues with translation
Nigel : when taking Steam Tech turret, the turret's projectile will not inherit Nigel's projectile rotation
Fixed chest indicator icon showing up for half a second on chest spawn
Fixed taking damage from enemies' area effect when it does not hit (rare)
"Hotfixes" in version 0.13
Updated arabic language to include new objects
Coins bag now hold 200xp instead of 100xp
Fixed indicator icon showing up during a frame when chest appear
