Now we have finished our new feature in Dead Age 2 for veterans. This new feature is a completely free update for all players. After all, the difficulty for Dead Age 2 is designed for all players. There are three levels, and for those who find the game too easy after all, they can set themselves new challenges. Beware of too heavy settings. ;)
Don't forget our last big update. Here we have improved the higher skills & less travel encounters.
If you want to support us now, please write a review, so that we also survive on our huge quest. It's really hardcore difficulty level for developers to survive with masses of indie games on Steam.
Improvements
added survival options for a new run
changed bribe mechanic and values on bridges to match the bribe mechanic at outpost entries
Bugfixes
fixed that characters playing guarding idle animation (e.g. from "Return Fire" skill) would only use the return fire animation for their attacks instead of the correct attack animation
fixed AP behaving not correctly when stunned
fixed a typo in French localization
fixed that using "Liquid Courage" skill would qualify as a "ranged" attack and therefore unnecessarily fail the arena master challenge random event
fixed that the bridge guard bribing event with a hostile faction didn't work as intended when failed or having insufficient money
If you have any problems, please use the forum. https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/1/ And you can always visit us in discord: DISCORD
Have fun and stay healthy! Rayk (HolyAvatar in Steam Forum) & the Silent Dreams Team
In this update for Dead age 2 small improvements and bugfixes were made, which were discussed in the community forum. For example, we reduced the chance of ambush attacks on day. We are also slighty reduced travel encounters in unfriendly country. But remember, if you solve the area quest in each area, the area becomes friendly and then the chances of Random Encounters are much lower and you even get some friendly events.
Don't forget our last big update. Here we have improved the higher skills.
If you want to support us now, please write a review, so that we also survive on our huge quest. It's really hardcore difficulty level for developers to survive with masses of indie games on Steam.
Next week we finally add additional survival options. Nothing big, but small ways to make the game harder for veterans. If you are interested in that, just have a look here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/0/3104642254777784285/
Improvements
removed the "Development Build" label
added scrap to the goods of merchants in all Independent bases, added more scrap in scrap locations (We had community discussions that scrap was a little too low in the world)
added resources and seeds to the crafting material filter in inventories
slightly reduced the chances of random encounters while traveling
slightly reduced the chance of scavenger/punk attacks on the camp during day on normal difficulty
speech bubbles in combat regarding knock back success will now only appear if the attack threw the target back without obstructions
Bugfixes
stunned and knocked out characters will only regain a bit stamina / AP in combat. However we will optimize this feature next week.
fixed that the tutorial could get stuck after the very first fight when taking the loot
If you have any problems, please use the forum. https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/1/ And you can always visit us in discord: DISCORD
Have fun and stay healthy! Rayk (HolyAvatar in Steam Forum) & the Silent Dreams Team
In this update for Dead Age 2 small improvements and bugfixes were made, which were discussed in the community forum. For example, the additional HP for doctors in the escort quests.
Don't forget our last big update. Here we have improved the higher skills.
If you want to support us now, please write a review, so that we also survive on our huge quest. It's really hardcore difficulty level for developers to survive with masses of indie games on Steam.
In the next weeks we will work on additional survival options. Nothing big, but small ways to make the game harder for veterans. If you are interested in that, just have a look here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/0/3104642254777784285/
Small Improvements
increased the doctor's HP from the Bodyguard side quests / Office Dungeon a bit and also Nathalies's HP
improved handling of Tessa's quest when the player doesn't completes Lana's request and lets the time limit run out
Improved turn order when a new enemy wave starts
he Fatty's Sucker Punch attack now requires one round of charging so the player has time to prepare
updates to French and Russian localization
added a new dialogue for the leader room of the office dungeon base when there are no dialogue options left
the level up window will now wait instead of showing up when there is a transition between a cutscene and another dialogue
slightly adjusted the background graphic for the pinned quest area
during a cut scene some of the UI elements will now fade out as well
Bugfixes
fixed that one of merchant Joe's dialogue options regarding the Merchant guild was visible even if you already encountered the guild
fixed Denise's dialog asking if the player ever visited the Independent HQ was not correctly checking that state
fixed that in some circumstances the level up display could show a level up for the same character a second time although only having one actual level up
fixed a crash in combat that could occur when a Tough Brawler was killed by walking into one of player's traps
fixed that wolf enemies could visually get stuck at the back row when they got knocked back and stunned at the same time
fixed that the animation for climbing down the ladder of the hunting stand sometimes was misaligned when aborting the job
fixed that during the cutscene when chapter two of the story begins after the mutation fight there is a short moment the player was able interact with the menus when they shouldn't
fixed inconsistent spelling of Nathalie's name in several dialogues
fixed that the cooldown timer for a turret skill could get stuck if the turret was summoned in a fight before inside the same scene and that combat had ended with the turret still alive
fixed a bug where it was possible to skip the dialogue and start combat action even before the enemies arrived during mansion or shed entrance fights
fixed a crash that could occur when 2 enemies try to attack and the first one causes the second one to go KO by triggering a explosive trap
If you have any problems, please use the forum. https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/1/ And you can always visit us in discord: DISCORD
Have fun and stay healthy! Rayk (HolyAvatar in Steam Forum) & the Silent Dreams Team
In this update for Dead Age 2 there are a lot of improvements to the 3AP skills, making them a bit more powerful and useful. Most of the time you will use the 3AP skills in bigger fights. We now believe that all skills are useful, e.g. the jumping strike which now cannot be blocked as a melee skill. Also, for example, the defensive skills such as Give Cover or Return Fire, which have now become somewhat stronger.
If you want to support us now, please write a review, so that we also survive on our huge quest. It's really hardcore difficulty level for developers to survive with masses of indie games on Steam.
One week later we will work on additional survival options. Nothing big, but small ways to make the game even harder. If you are interested in that, just have a look here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/0/3104642254777784285/
Skill Improvements
Blunt
Wary Stance: damage of counter attacks increased 80% -> 100%
Jump Attack: now has 100% -> 90% accuracy but can not be blocked by enemy block chance
Blade
Sensitive Strike: increased damage 210% -> 220% and 230% -> 250% with bonus
Heavy Turret's attacks: increased damage by 5 (as perception value)
Explosive Trap: Reduced chance for Stun 75% -> 50% but added 50% chance for Dented Armor
Pistol
Give Cover: added 50% chance of causing Wounded when executing the counter attack
Rifle
Return Fire: added 30% chance of causing Wounded when executing the counter attack (but 3 shots)
Hail of Bullets: increased damage: 95% -> 100%
Shotgun
Devastating Shot: increased the normal damage 300% -> 320%
Frantic Fire: increased damage 130% -> 140%
Other Improvements
Defence is now halved when you change the line to avoid endless DEfense tactics with 3 people.
removed the prompt for the revert action in skill and medals/upgrade menu
when trying to equip a weapon to character that doesn't have the required talent learned it will now deny the action and show a warning instead
changed Tessa's quest so that you can still try to save Lana's friend if you want after healing Tessa
Bugfixes
fixed i or I character in texts was converted to İ on OS with Turkish locale settings
updated InControl plugin for Unity to a newer version (could potentially resolve problems some users are experiencing when they have devices like pedals or thrust controller plugged in)
fixed a crash that could occur when 2 enemies try to attack and the first one causes the second one to go KO by triggering a explosive trap
fixed a crash that could occur in combat when Jack called the small hound
fixed no icon at target location showing during the briefing dialog of the savior side job
fixed that the target location for the Destroyer side job would be a different point every time one declines the job and retries it
fixed that in some cases side jobs could still lead to outposts of the enemy faction in chapter two of the story
fixed some nodes south of Freedom City West having missing connections after the tunnel got cleared
fixed party walks away to the right instead to the left on the bridges of the Army faction
fixed that the sound effect of using a medkit in combat was not affected by the effect volume setting
fixed a crash that could occur when 2 enemies try to attack and the first one causes the second one to go KO by triggering a explosive trap
If you have any problems, please use the forum. https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/1/ And you can always visit us in discord: DISCORD
Have fun and stay healthy! Rayk (HolyAvatar in Steam Forum) & the Silent Dreams Team
Shortly before Easter there is another patch that fixes various bugs, most of which were posted by the community. Thank you for your support, because this way the (smaller) bugs will be fixed faster. :-) Luckily our only programmer is very fast, so we got some stuff together this week.
If you want to support us now, please write a review, so that we also survive on our huge quest. It's really hardcore difficulty level for developers to survive with masses of indie games on Steam.
After a few days of exchanging bugs with Easter eggs we will improve some skills from balancing. You can still give feedback here before we work on it. https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/0/3104642254775088723/ But we need to find a consensus of all different opinions here. It's kind of like a faction alliance xD
One week later we will work on additional survival options. Nothing big, but small ways to make the game even harder. If you are interested in that, just have a look here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/0/3104642254777784285/
Bugfixes & small improvements
fixed a crash that could occur during the merchant escort event when using Spanish language
changed entrance to Army HQ to not require the armor or reputation ONCE you talked to Charles
fixed that merchant Joe was still available in the outpost after certain story events
fixed that Steven and Hank in the final dungeon events would not have the same stats they had when being part of player's camp members
fixed that the game could get stuck if Jack was knocked out during a fight
fixed some occasions of side jobs that didn't make sense because of the faction alliance in chapter 2 of the story
fixed that side jobs from the outpost in Snake Desert could have the wrong quest giver depending on story decisions by the player
fixed a crash that could occur when clicking the right mouse button quickly while reentering the base in the office dungeon
fixed that the loot event with the injured person on the ground could get stuck when clicking through the result dialogues too fast
improved animations for Crawler when reacting to buff damage and while KO
improved Weapon Test Event: the pistol given to the player will now be called: "Experimental Beretta" during the test combat
fixed issues with progress count display of some quest tasks during the final dungeon
fixed a crash that occurred when leaving the game back to main menu during a loot event scenario
Suit zombie will no longer call reinforcement when the hit kills it
the Smuggler merchant portrait offering subway travel will now be exchanged in case the player made smugglers his enemy in chapter 2 of the story
improved handling of corrupted save files in the main menu when trying to load a game (if a backup is loadable it will replace the save with that backup otherwise the file is removed)
right clicking while the mouse is over an enemy during target selection will now go one step back instead of confirming the attack
when escorting a prisoner for the cop side job they will now show a speech bubble instead of a broken dialogue when loosing to much health
when killing a Tough Brawler the old body will now disappear as the Crawler is spawned in its place
fixed a bug where 2 enemies could summon a reinforcement on to the same slot
fixed that a character doing the hunting job in camp could sometimes visually try to climb up in the air through the hunting stand
fixed that the heavy armor of armored enemies didn't break properly if they got damaged by walking into a trap
fixed brief error logs when leaving the game back to main menu while in a scene with thunderstorm effects
fixed a bug where survivors could behave strangely when leaving the camp, then entering the final dungeon and then going into the first fight with them
fixed main survivors that were fighting with you while they didn't really belong to your party didn't properly show up in the combat inventory screen
fixed that some nodes on the map southern of Freedom City West didn't show their correct area color
fixed that combat equipment is sometimes visible spawning in the ground for one frame
If you have any problems, please use the forum. https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/1/ And you can always visit us in discord: DISCORD
Have fun and stay healthy! Rayk (HolyAvatar in Steam Forum) & the Silent Dreams Team
In this latest version of Dead Age 2 after player feedback we fixed problems with some quests. This includes the U.S. Army quest, which now offers a more obvious second option to complete the quest even without enough U.S. Army reputation. Buying reputation is another option, but it is only available in certain situations of some special quests. Furthermore, a nastiness has been improved in the final dungeon, I marked the entry with a warning spoiler.
If you want to support us now, please write a review, so that we also survive on our huge quest. It's really hardcore difficulty level for developers to survive with masses of indie games on Steam.
Next week we will improve some skills from balancing. You can still give feedback here before we work on it. https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/0/3104642254775088723/ But we need to find a consensus of all different opinions here. It's kind of like a faction alliance xD
A few weeks later we will work on additional survival options. Nothing big, but small ways to make the game even harder. If you are interested in that, just have a look here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/0/3104642254777784285/
Bugfixes & small improvements
added some additional quest tasks to help the player in some situations where the next step in the story was not so obvious (Lydia's Alliance Quest, Getting into the Army's HQ, Kira's first request in Forest Grave, Trevor's second request to find Terence's stash)
when entering the final dungeon, open quests will no be moved to failed since the player can't finish them anymore
when entering the final dungeon the resources and items stolen from the player will now be given back at a later point (although this doesn't work for saves that are already in the dungeon)
changed the combats in the cave of Fernando's Quest and Mary's Quest to be no ambush combat
fixed that it was not possible to correctly choose non enemy target slots in combat with controller / gamepad
changed hardcore difficulty back from +15% to +20% enemy strength
fixed a bug where a character could enter a strange walking animation during camp defense if he was infected and then healed with Zomdex
fixed that improving the bed room in camp did not provide any XP for the worker
fixed that the defense barricades' HP didn't adjust with the level of the defense post room
reduced the upgrade costs for the defense post room
fixed a bug where after startup of the game and on first time loading a save with a defense combat the first wave could have wrong enemies (caused by some data not being fully prepared and therefore the loading time had to be increased slightly)
fixed a possible crash when doing the weapon test challenge from an encounter
If you have any problems, please use the forum. https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/1/ And you can always visit us in discord: DISCORD
Have fun and stay healthy! Rayk (HolyAvatar in Steam Forum) & the Silent Dreams Team
Dead Age 2 has been released. With this new version, some annoyance features are fixed, less encounters in peaceful areas and the critical hit / block chance of enemies do not go to unnormal great heights when they have a higher level. We continue to work hard on the bug fixes and minor improvements that have been asked for.
If you want to support us now, please write a review, so that we also survive on our huge quest. It's really hardcore difficulty level for developers to survive with masses of indie games on Steam.
If you have any problems, please use the forum. https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/1/ And you can always visit us in discord: DISCORD
We will work on additional survival options. Nothing big, but small ways to make the game even harder. If you are interested in that, just have a look here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/0/3104642254777784285/
Bugfixes & small improvements
fixed wrong scaling for block and crit chance of enemies
reduced the chance of hostile random encounters when traveling in peaceful areas
less melee buffs while standing in the back row
changed that bribing outpost guards would take the money if the bribe wasn't successful
fixed that punk intruders were always hurting a camp member ignoring the guarding result
fixed displaced labels in crafting gui
slight improvements to enemy AI: melee fighters will more quickly try to step into front row and use less melee buffs while standing in the back row
added an option (accessible in the settings.json file) that allows the combat button hot keys to be swapped in their mapping order (from column first to row first)
updated Brazilian-Portuguese, French and Chinese localization
fixed that “Risk of Death” debuff could persist on characters after fights
some armors improved for afro american skin
Have fun and stay healthy! Rayk (HolyAvatar in Steam Forum) & the Silent Dreams Team
Are you ready to survive? Here is the release of Dead age 2. Finally we made it after over 3 years of sweat and tears. Here is a press link to the news if you want to share it: https://mailchi.mp/headupgames/dead_age_2_full_release_link
Thanks to all who helped us , there were many bug descriptions from the community. Without you we would have taken much longer! :)
Of course we will continue to fix all bugs that are reported after release. Dead Age 2 is our baby!!! You will still see the "Developer Version" in the game. This is an automatic feature of the engine that helps us to find crashes accurately.
If you want to support us now, please write a review, so that we also survive on our huge quest. It's really hardcore difficulty level for developers to survive with masses of indie games on Steam. I think we will manage to reach 80% together with you, In Early Access we started roughly with *cough* 45% ... After that we fixed and improved countless of features and then we climbed steeply upwards to 79%. :)
We have tested a lot, but if you still find bugs, please report them directly to us in the forum. This saves us a lot of time. https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/1/ If you find a bug, please don't write angry reviews, just report it to us in the forum. There are only a few developers like Silent Dreams who fix bugs at a furious pace. :)
Newsflash: If you use an "integrated card" laptop, you can finally play Dead age 2. We were lucky to find the bug. Nevertheless, these graphics cards are often rather weak, so reduce the details in the options menu if necessary.
In case you have not noticed the last big update before the bugfixes were the formation button and the "Replacement Survivors" A "Replacement Survivor" enters the camp only when someone has died, because the game is built around a certain number of survivors.
We are also fixing bugs that the community reported, here is the area: https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/1/ If you have found a serious bug, crash or blocker, please let us know. Sometimes when you find a serious bug it is good to stop immediately and send us the data.
You can send us the crash zip or the save and the backup files save1 for slot 1, backup1 and backup1b Please send us to contact@silentdreams.de In this case we can check the bug better and maybe repair your save.
you find the saves here: just copy it to the Windows Explorer %appdata%/../LocalLow/SilentDreams/DeadAge2
Have fun and stay healthy! Rayk (HolyAvatar in Steam Forum) & the Silent Dreams Team
Dead Age 2: The Final Release is on Friday. Are you ready to survive? Just be careful, then you can survive longer.
We have tested a lot, but if you still find bugs, please report them directly to us in the forum. This saves us a lot of time. https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/1/ We have a few days to fix all the bugs in the new southern area, so it would be great if you can write us in the forum.
Newsflash: If you use an "integrated card" laptop, you can finally play Dead age 2. We were lucky to find the bug. Nevertheless, these graphics cards are rather weak, so reduce the details in the options menu if necessary.
If you want to support us now, please write a review, so that we also survive on our huge quest. It's really hardcore difficulty level for developers to survive with masses of indie games on Steam.
Bugfixes
fixed a crash that occurred when survivor Hank got a level up
fixed that the player could get stuck when entering and clearing the mine dungeon with 0 minutes left for the day and then being forced to retreat to camp afterwards
fixed a bug in Snake Desert
fixed a bug where quest Total Destruction could spawn a second time
fixed wrong dialogue when completing a map node faction war quest
fixed Isa is already assignable in camp when she have to arrive there first on next day
fixed a bug where some location nodes on the map like bridges behaved incorrectly and blocked the player although they should be able to pass
fixed a bug where the threat reduction quests in the south would ask the player to clear 0 locations
improvements for German, English and French localization
fixed dialogues with Steven in the Smuggler HQ not working properly
reduced the amount of soldiers the player has to fight for the Soldier side job
fixed a bug where the new "Old Friends" achievement did not recognize saved counter progress from previous runs
fixed that the leader had an empty dialogue left active when finishing their quest in the office dungeon
fixed that Hank appeared twice during some events in the final dungeon if he is assigned as a party member
fixed that the Cop side job could not be assigned while Jane's quest requirement was active
fixed that the game could get stuck when trying to finish the Cop side job for Independents or Smugglers
fixed that the romancing quests would not fail when the partner died during the quest
fixed that visiting quest related locations or very generic locations like crossing a bridge contributed towards the threat reduction quest progression
In case you have not noticed the last big update before the bugfixes were the formation button, a new lovely hero portrait
and the "Replacement Survivors" A "Replacement Survivor" enters the camp only when someone has died, because the game is built around a certain number of survivors.
If you have found a serious bug, crash or blocker, please let us know. Sometimes when you find a serious bug it is good to stop immediately and send us the data.
You can send us the crash zip or the save and the backup files save1 for slot 1, backup1 and backup1b Please send us to contact@silentdreams.de In this case we can check the bug better and maybe repair your save.
you find the saves here: just copy it to the Windows Explorer %appdata%/../LocalLow/SilentDreams/DeadAge2
Have fun and stay healthy! Rayk (HolyAvatar in Steam Forum) & the Silent Dreams Team
Are you still alive? Well, this can change, because here we go: The final story update for Dead Age 2 awaits you. Final Release date of the whole game will be 28 weeks ...eeh wrong... one week later, the The 12 March 2021.
Be careful, especially during the final hours. We have thought up something special there, where you should really be very clever. (Man, I love to design survival features ;))
We have tested a lot, but if you still find bugs, please report them directly to us in the forum. This saves us a lot of time. https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/1/ We have a few days to fix all the bugs in the new southern area, so it would be great if you can write us in the forum.
Newsflash: If you use an "integrated card" laptop, you can finally play Dead age 2. We were lucky to find the bug. Nevertheless, these graphics cards are rather weak, so reduce the details in the options menu if necessary.
If you want to support us now, please write a review, so that we also survive on our huge quest. It's really hardcore difficulty level for developers to survive with masses of indie games on Steam.
In case you have not noticed the last big update before the bugfixes were the formation button, a new lovely hero portrait
and the "Replacement Survivors" A "Replacement Survivor" enters the camp only when someone has died, because the game is built around a certain number of survivors.
We are also fixing bugs that the community reported, here is the area: https://steamcommunity.com/app/951430/discussions/1/ If you have found a serious bug, crash or blocker, please let us know. Sometimes when you find a serious bug it is good to stop immediately and send us the data.
You can send us the crash zip or the save and the backup files save1 for slot 1, backup1 and backup1b Please send us to contact@silentdreams.de In this case we can check the bug better and maybe repair your save.
you find the saves here: just copy it to the Windows Explorer %appdata%/../LocalLow/SilentDreams/DeadAge2
Have fun and stay healthy! Rayk (HolyAvatar in Steam Forum) & the Silent Dreams Team
