Steam Workshop: Episode Editor BETA now available!
Hey everyone,
Today is a very exciting day! Remember when, way back in 2013, Chroma Squad almost reached our Kickstarter stretch goal for an Episode Editor?
Back then I was just a backer like you. A few months later, I was brought on board to help the Behold Studios team in making this dream come true! Slowly, throughout the years, we kept improving the game, surprised and motivated by how much love it got from you, our fans.
You never forgot about Chroma Squad, so neither did we! Last year we saw the “Director’s Cut” free update, with lots of much-requested features such as the New Game+ and controller support. And today we are officially releasing the Beta version of our Episode Editor!
What can you do?
With the Episode Editor you can create episodes as complex (or even more!) as the ones in the game. You can create your own stories, dialogue, fights, giant robot battles, surprising twists and “funny” puns. Oh boy, I wish we had this tool back in the day - it would have made development so much easier!
But it is here now, and it is yours. It is still rough around the edges, and we need your help to test it and to tell us what we can do to improve it.
The only major limitation is that you cannot add your own media such as sprites and sounds (yet!), and you also cannot add or manipulate special objects in the environment (such as the bombs from Season 5 or Monster Portals). Apart from that, the sky is the limit - you have access to all maps, bosses, enemies, characters, sound, music, and special effects from the official Chroma Squad campaign!
You can create adventures that slot in the regular campaign, or create stand-alone stories or even campaigns - it’s up to you!
How do I use it?
If you want to create episodes or simply play the creations of other people, you just need to follow these simple steps:
1. Go to your Steam client
2. Go to “Library” and find your Games list
3. Right-click your “Chroma Squad” installation
4. Select “Properties”
5. Click the “Betas” tab
6. On the “Select the beta you would like to opt into” drop-down menu, select “public-beta”
7. Click on “CLOSE” to close the Properties window
8. Wait for the download and play the game!
After launching the game, the Episode Editor BETA can be accessed from the Main Menu on the bottom-left corner of the screen.
Documentation & Tutorials
These are under development! We will share them with you as soon as they are done. In the meantime feel free to ask questions here in the comments, in the Steam Forums, or tweet directly to me @markventurelli or @beholdstudios.
Example Episode
I have created an example episode that I will reference on the tutorials. It is a fairly complex episode, and it demonstrates the power of the Editor. I also think it is pretty fun :) You can download it by visiting Chroma Squad’s Steam Workshop page and Subscribing to it.
I have feedback / I found a bug. What do I do?
Please report bugs directly to us using the in-game tool. Just click on the top-right corner of the screen. Or email us on bugreport@beholdstudios.com.br.
For general feedback, you can use the comments below, the Steam Forums or any of Behold Studios' social network channels.
Go let your imagination run wild!
Thank you for your love and support throughout all of these years!
We can’t wait to see what you will create.
With love and imagination, anything is possible! Go, Chroma Squad!
_o\ \o\ |o| /o/ /o_
Cheers,
~Mark, Gabe and the Chroma Squad team
First patch for "Director's Cut" version is live!
Hi everyone,
Thank you for all the love and support you've given us since we released the "Director's Cut" super-patch! Also, thanks for the patience - we know there are still bugs to be fixed, and we are working on it. We've seen your reports in our bug report system, as well as on the forums, reddit and even Twitter. Thank you for helping in making this game better! :)
Today we are addressing most of the things you've reported, but there's still work left to do.
Especially, I'd like to talk about two things.
1) If you are on Mac or Linux and have been having problems launching the game, we figured out why - it's actually a Steam patch problem related to us renaming the executable. That's why we were having it work for some people but not work for others.
**TO FIX THIS ISSUE**
- Go to your Library, and right-click "Chroma Squad";
- Select "Properties";
- Select the "Local Files" tab;
- Select the option "Browse Local Files";
- Now, on the game folder, right click "chromasquad";
- Select the "Get Info" option;
- Open the folder Contents\MacOS;
- Rename the file "mac2" to "chromasquad";
Please let us know if this solves the issue for you.
2) If you are experiencing a freeze on the final boss (please avoid spoilers and don't mention the name of the boss on the comments), we have fixed an issue on that fight, but we have failed to reproduce some of the cases that you have reported - we've played this fight over 20 times and it seems perfectly stable on our machines now.
Please let us know if the freeze still occurs for you. If it does, send us a report with your email through the in-game system. We might ask you for your save game file to try and catch this elusive issue.
That's it for today :)
Cheers,
~Mark
**Patch Notes**
Fixed an issue where multiple pop-ups would stack on top of each other;
Fixed an issue where changing resolution in-game would freeze the game;
Fixed an issue where NG++ Bosses had more health and damage than intended;
Fixed an issue with Cloud Saving on MacOS;
Fixed an issue with camera movement not working properly with the mouse;
Fixed an issue where the game would rarely crash when launching the last episode of Season 5;
Fixed an issue where some gamepad labels would show up when playing with the mouse;
Fixed an issue where the mouse cursor would disappear if you used a touch-screen-enabled PC;
Fixed an issue where some Achievements were not working on Steam;
Fixed an issue where the Chromatize button label would disappear after failing an episode;
Fixed an issue where the final boss would freeze on its second transformation;
Fixed an issue where trying to Resume a paused Mecha Fight would result in the game freezing;
Fixed an issue where the Options menu would not close on the Studio screen;
Fixed the "Save My Telly" and "Episodes Hero" achievements;
Fixed an issue where the game would rarely crash on the final Mecha Fight;
Fixed an issue where you could skip an episode in Season 5;
Fixed several other minor bugs;
Free “Director’s Cut” Update Now Available
It’s finally here!
We’d like to thank you for your patience and support through all these years. To all the fans and backers: this game is not ours, it is yours!
The "Director's Cut" free update to Chroma Squad brings long-awaited new features and improvements to the game. Let's go through each one of them!
The adventure no longer ends after the credits roll - with the "New Game+" and "New Game++" features you can keep playing with your current party, facing randomized enemies and goals on the episodes, crafting new items, and perhaps making different story choices that could lead you to unexplored paths!
The Mecha Fights have been completely revamped to be faster and more fun, and the random chances were replaced by new reflex mini-games!
Difficulty levels have been completely rebalanced to offer a more customizable experience, including a new super-hard mode called "Heroic Difficulty"!
We have also tweaked a few encounters in the game that were famously unfair or long (*cough cough* Mini-Kaiju Squad *cough cough*)!
And that's not all - we also fixed some bugs and the game should be running smoother and faster overall!
**IMPORTANT: If you don't like the changes, the previous version of Chroma Squad will be forever available in the "Legacy" branch on Steam.**
And that's it! Oh, and if you like Chroma Squad, maybe you'll be happy to know that Behold Studio's new game, "Galaxy of Pen and Paper" is releasing this month, on July 27th. It already has a Steam Page:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/349790/
Cheers,
~Mark and the Chroma Squad team
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**Full patch notes:**
*Interface/Combat*
- Full Controller support;
- Drastically improved performance on combat, removed lag spikes that would occur in large maps;
*Mecha Fights*
- Random chance removed, replaced with reflex-based mini-game;
- “Hit Chance %” now represented as the difficulty of the mini-game (as Hit Chance gets smaller, click area diminishes and cursor speed increases);
- Old Defense mini-game replaced with a different one with new "Shield" art;
- Buff/heal skills now have a unique mini-game involving holding down and releasing the button;
- All animation times and intervals between actions reduced by 50%;
- “Defense” mini-game is now played only once per turn, instead of 3 times;
- Director’s Instructions have been implementend for Mecha Fights;
- New surprise features on Mecha Fights depending on the story branch you take (wink,wink);
*New Difficulty: Heroic*
- Enemies have slightly increased Health and Damage over previous Challenging difficulty;
- Enemies no longer try to “spread” their attacks across multiple Actors;
- Enemies focus their attacks on the weakest Actors;
*NewGame+*
- After completing Season 6, players can Load the save file to start over with the same party;
- It is possible to play the whole game 3 times (Regular, New Game+ and New Game++);
- All Studio Upgrades and access to Marketing agencies go back to Season 1 status;
- Studio Upgrades have increased acquisition and maintenance costs;
- Marketing agencies have increased hiring costs;
- Players keep their Income and Fans, but Shop and Fan Power costs scale up;
- Players keep all their Actors, Skills, Materials and Items (yes, even that bike you may or may not have!);
- All enemies are randomized on the episodes (except the Bosses);
- Director’s Instructions are randomized on the episodes;
- Enemy health and damage gain a base increase per Season;
- Items are only updated twice on the campaign (Season 1 and Season 4), have higher costs;
- New Item Rarity Tiers: Legendary+ (white), Legendary++ (green) and Heroic (red);
- 80 new items to buy and Craft;
*Difficulty and Game Rebalance*
- Mecha Fight Kaiju Life reduced by 25% across the board;
- Mecha Fight Kaiju Damage increased by 20% across the board;
- Challenging Difficulty Enemy HP reduced from 1.7 to 1.5;
- Challenging Difficulty Enemy Damage reduced from 1.65 to 1.4;
- Heroic Difficulty Enemy HP set to 1.7;
- Heroic Difficulty Enemy Defense set to 1.2;
- Heroic Difficulty Enemy Damage set to 1.7;
- Heroic Difficulty Kaiju HP set to 1.2;
- Heroic Difficulty Kaiju Damage set to 1.7;
- Transitmancer HP reduced from 1500 to 1100;
- Transitmancer Dodge reduced from 0.05 to 0.02;
- Transitmancer Damage reduced from 30-35 to 25-30;
- Transitmancer no longer summons Ranged minions, only Melee ones;
- Huengel The Devourer's HP reduced from 3000 to 2225;
- Huengel The Devourer's damage reduced from 72-80 to 54-60;
- Sewer Turtle damage reduced from 80-120 to 60-90;
- Sewer Turtle HP reduced from 1900 to 1500;
- Grimmgarl damage reduced from 150-190 to 112-142;
- Grimmgarl HP reduced from 1500 to 1200;
- Muligahn damage reduced from 250-300 to 190-225;
- Muligahn HP reduced from 1200 to 1000;
- Degijon damage reduced from 70-82 to 52-62;
- Degijon HP reduced from 1500 to 1200;
- Villain X's HP reduced from 9000 to 6200;
- Villain X's Teleport cooldown increased from 4 to 6 turns;
- Villain X's Bring Me A Weapon cooldown increased from 1 to 2 turns;
- "Colin's Bear" HP on the Night Rider's story path reduced from 4000 to 2400;
- "Colin's Bear" damage on the Night Rider's story path reduced from 120-150 to 85-100;
- Sewer Turtle's Damage on the Night Rider's story path reduced from 60-80 to 42-56;
- Muligahn's Damage on the Night Rider's story path reduced from 150-170 to 100-120;
- Grimmgarl's Damage on the Night Rider's story path reduced from 75-90 to 52-62;
- Degijon's Damage on the Night Rider's story path reduced from 50-62 to 35-45;
- Starting income on Season 2 reduced from 2000 to 1000;
- Starting income on Season 3 reduced from 4000 to 2000;
- Starting income on Season 4 reduced from 6500 to 3200;
- Starting income on Season 5 reduced from 9500 to 5000;
- Base Income Conversion Rate increased from .25 to .40;
- Starting Skill Regen increased from 10 to 16;
- Skill Regen scaling from Gear decreased from 3,6,6,6,6,6,6 to 3,5,5,5,5,5,5,5;
"Director's Cut" Super-Patch now live on Beta realm!
Hi everyone,
We're very excited to finally have you play our biggest patch ever - the "Director's Cut" update!
**Major Features**
- Full Controller Support;
- New Game+ and NewGame++;
- New "Mecha Fight" system;
- New Difficulty: Heroic;
- Gameplay and difficulty rebalancing;
- Performance improvements and bug fixes;
If you want to help us test it and squash some more bugs before the patch goes live to everyone else, please follow the instructions below:
1. Right-click "Chroma Squad" in your Steam library;
2. Select "Properties";
3. On the new window that will appear, click the small arrow where it reads "default" and change it to "public-beta";
4. Close the window and wait for the update to download;
Please note that this *Beta version is Windows-only* at the moment!
Also, please report bugs using the in-game tool. It is located at the top-right corner of your screen!
Also, rest assured that this update will be completely free to everyone :)
Thanks a lot for all the love <3
_o\ \o\ |o| /o/ /o_
~Mark and the Chroma Squad team
**UPDATE**: Known issues for the patch:
- The game crashes when you leave it;
- Enemy info is not appearing during battle;
It all starts with a dream... PC update is coming soon!
It all starts with a dream... we gather a group of friends and start working hard everyday. This is not just the story in Chroma Squad, it is our story as well.
We know that you all expect so much from us, to fix all the bugs, to read all the comments, to release every possible feature and content...
We're actually doing everything we can. We're are a small team of indie devs from Brazil, living the dream of creating our own games. Everyday we struggle with our laws, taxes, burocracy, prejudice and lack of opportunities.
But today we achieved part of that dream. We're releasing a game on consoles! And we want to share this with you.
The console version has some long-awaited features such as New Game+ and major changes for the Mecha fights. These changes are coming to PC as well in our "Director's Cut" edition. We originally planned to release it today alongside the console and mobile versions, but porting to consoles turned out to be way more challenging than we expected.
There is no exclusivity deal or any hidden motive or agenda behind this delay. We are trying our best to release these console changes on PC, and will do so as soon as it is done.
Someday we'll be as good as you deserve, but today, we can offer you this: a game made from the heart! <3
Thank you for supporting us through all these years.
What we've been up to...
Hello guys and girls :)
We’re so happy with Chroma Squad and the amazing community is has created. So I’m here today to make some considerations and keep you updated with all sort of things.
As soon as Chroma Squad was launched we started a new project and some of you already know, we are a very small indie team, so the beginning of a new project ended up putting on hold some of the updates we wanted to make for Chroma Squad.
Also considering that the game is licensed by Power Rangers, it makes everything very slow and bureaucratic to add new stuff. So you can have a sense of all the paperwork involved, the contract to port the Chroma Squad to consoles and mobile took more than a year to be signed. Yeah. That’s how slow things move around this license!
But today the team is way more focused on Chroma Squad and things are finally flowing. We want to resume our contact with this amazing community so you can expect updates for the next months.
As always we’ll be here in case you need us
ːranger_assistː
We know that Super Sentai are popular in many countries. That is why we wanted to localize Squad Chroma in more languages.
Now it’s available in English, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Spanish and Japanese. How awesome is that?!
***** Change Log v1.10 *****
- Added new languages to the game. Now we have English, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Spanish and Japanese!
- Fixed a bug that ocassionally destroying bombs and doors would cause a soft crash during the episode.
- Added Automatic Crash Report. If the game throws an error, we will automatically receive it in our cloud service and be aware of.
*****
This was a victory for all of us, and we appreciate all of your enthusiastic suggestions.
Let’s Chromatize!
ːranger_assistː
MacOS keyboard input - Update v1.075
Hello guys and girls :8bitheart:
This is an update we've been working hard to bring for you. And it's here now!
We've fixed the issue on MacOS that some users couldn't write text on input fields. It' was out of our hand for some time, because it was a problem with a plugin that we use in the game, now it's fixed. yay o/
***** Change Log v1.075 *****
- Fixed all passive atributes that actors had, such as Shop Discount, Global Audience, and some others.
- Fixed issue on MacOS that some users couldn't write text on input fields. Problem with a plugin that we use in the game, now it's fixed.
- Optimization through the whole game
- Updated sprite rendering and animation scripts
- A lot of small bug fixes
*****
We've been working really hard lately on porting the game for new consoles and making new partnerships to bring more quality for you.
Cheers!
:ranger_assist:
New patch available! v1.073
We patched our Unity version and rebuilt the game, now there's a new patch available to download that would fix grey screen / resolution bug that some of you were experiencing.
Sorry for the time, we spent too much time thinking it would be something in our project but it was just beyond our hands to fix. We had a problem with the new 5.2 version of Unity. Sorry guys and girls :/
Thank you for your awesome feedback on it.
Keep on Chromatizing!
:ranger_assist:
New update with controller support and a bunch of other things!
Hey folks! What a pleasure to give you this update 1.072. The game was incredible well received by the community, with more than 50 thousand downloads and 97% positive user ratings. This is awesome! We're really glad that you all liked the game.
But we want to go further with it. We've fixed every bug that annoyed the community and we also added some new things, like partial Controller Support, so you can enjoy playing the game in Big Picture mode. _o\ \o/ /o_
Here is the list of fixes and improvements:
- Now in Unity 5! Everything working smoothly \o/
- Hid mouse cursor when not in players round and character is acting
- Fixed same character appearing on studio's background
- Fixed invisibility attack bonus
- Fixed unwanted white cells staying in the scene
- Health percentage on HUD
- Better feedback for fast forwarding
- Performance Optimization and better Loading time
- Removed fps hiccup when creating a new game
- Load balloon texts on loading screen, improved loading time and reduce hiccups during episode
- Localization fixed and updated
- Touch Input improvements
- Fixed problem on missing buttons for Mobile (touch based input)
- Removed resolutions configs in Settings Screen for Mobile platforms
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Joystick support (fixes in beta version)
- Questions dialog fixed for Joystick input
- Joystick sensitivity increased a little bit
- Cancel Skill by choosing Joystick Back button
- Hide cursor with joystick when on Story Mode
- Any joystick button pressed skips Cinematics
- Challenge Screen before combat also has joystick input now
- In-Combat Menu button hidden for joystick input
- Fix bug when closing popup Menu with joystick, that made the cursor disappear in battle
