Die by the Blade
Hotfix 1.0.6.1
Today we are bringing you a small hotfix for our recent update (1.0.6), since in certain instances players could unlock all customization options for free. This is now fixed!
Challenge your friends in our FREE DEMO! ⚔️
Dear Warriors ⚔️,
From today on, the Die By The Blade Free DEMO is available here on Steam. All new players wanting to get a feel for this fighting-multiplayer game before diving into the samurai-punk scenes and mastering the art of the one-hit-kill can now try out the free demo version.
As a reminder, in the Demo, you will find:
- 2 CHARACTERS (Yoshi, Butterfly)
- 2 WEAPONS (Katana, Naginata)
- STREET ENVIRONMENT UNLOCKED
- LOCAL AND ONLINE / RANKED MULTIPLAYER MODE
Rest assured that the team is tirelessly fixing bugs and working on improvements.
A new patch is coming out next week.
Thanks, fighters, for everything! It is a huge pleasure to have you around. If you haven't already, please join our Discord where we (the devs) are available to you and where you can chat with the community!
NEW UPDATE 1.0.6 IS OUT!
Hey fighters!
News for today!
Update 1.0.6 is out! Here is the list of fixes:
- Stance can no longer be changed mid-roll
- Roll attack no longer requires forward movement input
- Fade to black now occurs later after the player is killed in a round
- Player input display now correctly shows directions for both sides
- Server location info is no longer missing
- Sequence list now also contains stance input buttons
- Ranked matchmaking is now restricted to regions (you can change your region anytime in the game settings)
Important note on matchmaking:
We have introduced region-based matchmaking to improve your gaming experience. Upon starting the game for the first time, players are assigned a region. You can change your region anytime in the game settings. Matchmaking will now only connect players within the same region. The current regions are NSA (North and South America), EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), and Asia-Pacific. These regions may be updated in future patches.
And some more exciting news... From today on, the Die By The Blade DEMO is available on Steam. All new players wanting to get a feel for this fighting-multiplayer game before diving into the samurai punk scenes and mastering the art of the one-hit-kill can now try out the free demo version.
As a reminder, in the Demo, you will find:
- 2 CHARACTERS
- 2 WEAPONS
- STREET ENVIRONMENT UNLOCKED
- LOCAL AND ONLINE MULTIPLAYER MODE
Rest assured that the team is tirelessly fixing bugs and working on performance improvements.
A new patch is coming out next week.
Thanks, fighters, for everything! It is a huge pleasure to have you around.
Rating System Overhaul
Hey fighters! ⚔️
"Our newest update, 1.0.5, among many other changes, also aims to bring more accuracy and fairness to how player skills are assessed and ranked. Here’s a detailed breakdown of the changes to the rating system:"
- Accuracy-Based Rating: Player rating now incorporates an "accuracy" metric, which increases with the number of games played in ranked modes and decreases over time.
- Impact on Ratings: Due to this new system, player ratings will initially decrease for everyone after this update.
- Live Rating: A new stat called "Live Rating" has been introduced in the backend. This time-adjusted rating will be accessible in the next update. Live Rating reflects your rating decreased by the duration since your last game.
- Rating Display: The game uses recorded ratings for leaderboards and player stat screens. After each match, your rating is recalculated, which may result in a decrease even if you win. This is expected and is due to the difference between "Live" and "Saved" ratings, as the game readjusts accuracy.
In addition to this significant change, today's update brings many other changes, which can be found in the patch notes ⬇️
⚙️UPDATE 1.0.5. PATCH NOTES⚙️
- Combo system overhaul - Removed movement direction from all combos
- Perfect parry now affects attacker's stamina as well
- Reimplemented lighting for multiple levels. This should also increase readability of characters a bit.
- Fixed issue with leaderboard not showing the proper kill count
- S2 Attacks are now blockable
- Roll attack is now a bit faster - since it's S2 as well, it is now blockable
- Parry time is now increased to make it easier to perform in high ping scenarios
- Players can no longer move when parrying
- S3 attacks are no longer effective in tracking the enemy - can be countered by dash/rolls
- Stances can now be mapped to key/input - this should allow support for any (non-axial) input method
- Attack type as well as attack time are indicated using lens flare effects -
white = attack can be blocked, red = attack can't be blocked
- Players with more uncertain ratings (new players) will have lower ratings
- Added open-Discord button to the main menu
NEW UPDATE 1.0.5 IS OUT!
New patch 1.0.5 is out.
PATCH NOTES:
- Combo system overhaul - Removed movement direction from all combos
- Perfect parry now affects attacker's stamina as well
- Reimplemented lighting for multiple levels. This should also increase readability of characters a bit.
- Fixed issue with leaderboard not showing the proper kill count
- S2 Attacks are now blockable
- Roll attack is now a bit faster - since it's S2 as well, it is now blockable
- Parry time is now increased to make it easier to perform in high ping scenarios
- Players can no longer move when parrying
- S3 attacks are no longer effective in tracking the enemy - can be countered by dash/rolls
- Stances can now be mapped to key/input - this should allow support for any (non-axial) input method
- Attack type as well as attack time are indicated using lens flare effects -
white = attack can be blocked, red = attack can't be blocked
- Players with more uncertain ratings (new players) will have lower ratings
- Added open-Discord button to the main menu
PLAYER RATING SYSTEM OVERHAUL
- Accuracy-Based Rating: Player rating now incorporates an "accuracy" metric, which increases with the number of games played in ranked modes and decreases over time.
- Impact on Ratings: Due to this new system, player ratings will initially decrease for everyone after this update.
- Live Rating: A new stat called "Live Rating" has been introduced in the backend. This time-adjusted rating will be accessible in the next update. Live Rating reflects your rating decreased by the duration since your last game.
- Rating Display: The game uses recorded ratings for leaderboards and player stat screens. After each match, your rating is recalculated, which may result in a decrease even if you win. This is expected and is due to the difference between "Live" and "Saved" ratings, as the game readjusts accuracy.
SOME BONUS NEWS - For our new players, we are preparing a FREE DEMO to introduce them into the samurai punk world of Die By The Blade for the first time and give them the look and feel of the DBTB overall experience.
In the Demo, you will find:
- 2 CHARACTERS
- 2 WEAPONS
- STREET ENVIRONMENT UNLOCKED
- LOCAL AND ONLINE MULTIPLAYER MODE
Demo is coming out next week.
Once again, we can't thank you enough and stress how important your knowledgeable support and engagement are to us in this period. We're all ears to your thoughts, feedback, and ideas as we continue to fine-tune the game. Keep in mind that your role in polishing and grooming the DBTB into the experience you want to be a part of is IMMENSE! We, the whole team, are on plenty of tasks already in order to deliver new updates on a regular basis. So, keep those suggestions coming! Feel invited to our Discord anytime and bring ideas, comments, feedback… anything there (or here); we're eager to hear from you.
Let's reignite passion on the battlefield. SHOUTOUT TO ALL OF YOU!
UPDATE 1.0.4
We are working hard to implement your feedback as quickly as possible. Therefore, we are pleased to bring you a new update, version 1.0.4, which includes the following changes to Die by the Blade:
- Added "open combo" mode for free flow sequences. This also means that roll attack is no longer predetermined and uses S2 attack of given stance - only allowed in local, hosted and practice modes. If community finds this as preferred system, then it will replace default combo system.
- Roll combo can now be executed only in MID stance (in default combo mode) - This should eliminate situations where players were able to change stances during roll.
- Forward roll and Backward roll are bit slower now.
- Fixed death animations with dismemberment. Characters no longer limp without limbs, but fall to the ground.
- Increased maximum distance of camera to fix characters being off the screen in certain situations. This can still happen, but should be less prominent now.
- Player rating is visible in stats and also with his name in online modes.
- Movement and attack speed are now properly affecting characters.
- Characters were rebalanced for specific attribute or attribute combination.
- Server location info is now present in overlay.
- Added sanity check and update of Mouse sensitivity setting when the game starts.
- Added option to enable/disable depletable stamina in practice mode.
- Added option to turn ON/OFF haptic feedback for controllers.
- Added note to online lobbies that rating will be updated only when playing ranked online modes.
- Updated icon for Rating stat.
- Increased katana stagger state length after parry.
- Parry takes less time to recover from.
- Rolls and dashes are now using more resolve and can't be executed if resolve is too low.
- Increased warm-up frame count and active frame count in Chokuto top stance attack. It should be easier to parry/block it now.
- Fixed issue with mouse input not registered for some players. If problem persists, please switch game to fullscreen mode. Then you can go back to borderless and it will work. New installs will run the game in fullscreen by default.
- Fixed issue on character selection screen with some equipments being rendered with low-res textures.
- Fixed animation issue with LOW-VERTICAL chokuto attack which was not registering hit.
- In finisher tutorial, player no longer resets when hitting opponent with S1 or S2, making it easier to execute.
- Fixed several issues in Chinese, Korean, German, Spanish and Japanese localization.
Our Apology and Path Forward for Die by the Blade
As CEO of Grindstone, I want to personally apologize on behalf of our entire development team!
We recently released Die by the Blade, and after your feedback and reviews we have realized that unfortunately the game is not in the state it should be. We understand your frustration and disappointment, and we deeply regret any inconvenience we have caused to you all.
Die by the Blade has been in development for five years by a small, dedicated team and it was a very long and complicated journey. Somewhere along the way, we lost objective insight and made the very poor decision to release Die by the Blade fully instead of opting for Early Access on Steam. We didn’t want to fail our Kickstarter backers and community by delaying the full release again and now we realize how poor decision we’ve made. We well deserve all the negative feedback and reviews we’ve received so far.
If we could revert our decision, we would launch Die by the Blade into Early Access, gather your valuable feedback and make necessary improvements before a full launch. Unfortunately we can’t change already released game to Early Access but we still believe in Die by the Blade original idea and we are committed to work hard to make things right.
We are preparing the updates and fixes to address the issues you've encountered and your suggestions. Your feedback is invaluable, and we encourage you to share your thoughts with us so we can improve the game together with you and bring you the game you deserve.
If you want to be part of the process, we would love to talk with you on Discord and listen to your feedback to help us to deliver the quality experience you all deserve.
Feel free to contact the development team and me directly on Discord, here on Steam or LinkedIn and/or you can meet the development team at many events, including Gamescom, Digital Dragons, Game Access and others.
Thank you for continued support!
Yours,
Peter Nagy
CEO
Grindstone
DBTB 1.0.3. PATCH NOTES
The 1.0.3 patch is available. Take a look at the patch notes:
- Characters, weapons, stats, and all game modes are now unlocked from LVL 1.
- Added ping to server in current online session info panel.
- Controls option added to the in-game menu.
- Offline notification is less obtrusive now
- Fixed tutorial issue in which players might got stuck when killing AI character which resets arena configuration.
- Improved readability of input prompts in tutorial.
- Increased notification font size to be easily readable.
- Result screen shows player's name more prominently now.
EXPLORE DIE BY THE BLADE`S SHORT VIDEO TUTORIAL
Before diving into the samuraipunk mayhem of Die By The Blade, CHECK OUT THE VIDEO TUTORIAL covering gameplay rules, modes, navigation tips, and strategies for evading opponents' blades while conserving your stamina.
Keep in mind that you can also access a comprehensive in-game tutorial whenever you need it.
For more devlogs uncovering the secrets and rules of Die By The Blade's gameplay, follow us on Discord, Instagram, X and Tik Tok.
If you haven't already, get Die By The Blade on Steam NOW!
Let's clash blades for victory! See you on the battlefield!
Watch the Die By The Blade video tutorial here:
DIE BY THE BLADE IS OUT NOW ON PC!
THE DAY HAS COME! The long-awaited 1v1 weapon-based multiplayer fighter, Die by the Blade, IS NOW AVAILABLE ON PC. You can find it on Steam at the price of $19.99 USD / £16.99 GBP / €19.99 EUR.
Die by the Blade is a 1v1 weapons-focused fighter where the difference between victory and death lies in a single strike of the blade. Choose your weapon and character combination freely to define your moveset, then battle in neon-soaked back alleys and ancient forests. Take up arms and challenge your friends in local or online multiplayer, or test your skills against unknown warriors in online ranked matches.
Die by the Blade is a game with no health bars—every strike can mean death.
Console releases will follow in October 2024.
Let the fighting start! Master your skills in the bloody arena, spread the word about the title, and invite friends to multiply the fun of multiplayer!
And, don`t forget to share your feedback and impressions with us!
For more updates follow Die by the Blade on Discord, Instagram, X, Tik Tok and Facebook for the latest news and exclusive behind-the-scenes content. Stay tuned for more!
It is time to experience the true colors of the samuraipunk world!
Welcome to the battlefield!
Watch THE OFFICIAL TRAILER for Die by the Blade out now: https://youtu.be/iqfaHa0F6yA