It has been a while since you heard from us, life has been busy, and we have had a bit of time away from development. At the same time, we focused on our jobs and personal life, but now we are ready to move forward with the V2 update with fresh motivation and a clear image of what we want and will be doing.
Laying the groundwork
Since our last official update, we have been discussing, working on, and thinking about this update for a long time. A full rewrite would benefit us as developers and you as players. We will be able to add new content much easier and quicker, and the result will be a much more polished and complete game. Every system is being redone from the ground up using the experience we gained from the last year of testing and experimenting.
Detailed Breakdown
1. The environments will be completely overhauled, the old ones will be scrapped, and new ones will be put in their place. Unfortunately, this will result in the removal of the snow environment, but I assure you the new ones will be a million times better. The current environments are large and clunky taking minimal advantage of the double jump or general movement/pace of the game. In contrast, the new ones will be much better visually and for combat.
2. A rewritten character controller will allow us to have much smoother and more polished movement to help compliment the new environments. However, the controls will remain the same.
3. Modding support, starting small with a few things being modded but eventually we want to add a lot more to this. It's an experimental thing, but we think it could benefit the long-term playability of the game and overall enjoyment. Ideally, we want everything in the game to be moddable.
4. Large amount of tweaks will result in a much better and more balanced game. We are working on tweaking how guns and enemies get their stats. This should help balance the game's difficulty and lower the chances of getting a near useless gun.
5. A new gun system will allow us cooler, faster, and more accurate projectiles for the game. This will make a huge difference in the user experience, and we are excited to start showing you guys what we have planned for the weapons.
6. Steamdeck and Controller support are also gonna be included in the v2 update!
Plus a ton more new features, tweaks, and bug fixes that are still being implemented and worked on.
If you want to talk to us, hang out, suggest fixes and features or keep up to date in real-time feel free to hop into our discord or check out our roadmap. Roadmap: https://walrushq.com/roadmap/1 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/8fW5QT2YHf
Update 3
Added
Added point system
Additional gun firing SFX for elements (fire, corruption, cryo)
Added outline to weapons and environment
Changed
Weapon pickup screen now follows the weapon
Upgraded unity to 2020.3.29f1
Bug Fixes
Potentially fixed enemies not dying when they are supposed to
Fixed when selecting the same gun while it’s doing the deploy animation causing the gun to stop and become non functional until you pull out a different gun and swap back
Major Refactor
Hello! The game is currently undergoing a major refactor and being made from the ground up. The models will stay the same but how the game functions will not. This is being done to add more to the game while making it more sustainable for future updates. This update will take a while to complete but below is a list of features planned to be added during this time period.
The game might have sales disabled but at this point I have not decided, but in order to test the new version of the game you must own a copy prior to sales being disabled. Anyone that owns a copy is eligible to sign up to test, the only exception is if you are interesting in working on mods then I may grant you a key to help with the testing of mod support.
This list does not represent all of the planned changes but shows some of the bigger things that we plan to do.
Mod Support
Controller Support
Better UI
Easier way to report bugs
Better Movement
Better Weapon system / Melee Support
More classes
A lot more perks
Gamemodes
There is no current planned release date for this, but if one is figured out then there will be a following update. If you are interesting in seeing the progress of the update you can join the discord as I will be posting progress when I have some to share.
Early Access 1
Endless Firepower Early Access
We finally did it, after month and months or hard work and learning we have finally finished the core of the game, enough where we can start allowing the community at large to try it and begin suggesting additions to make the game even crazier! The entirety of the core content is in and ready to be expanded on which is exactly what we want to do. New environments, new weapons, new bosses, new enemies, more perks, more classes, and more craziness. It's our goal by the time the game is finished to have numerous crazy possibilities in each weapon and environment that continues to get more and more insane as you go. With each major update going forward we wanna add some major new pieces of content.
This is our first game and we wanna make it the best we can so if you have ideas or suggestions we are more then willing to work on them and make this game just a wacky fun crazy amalgamation of community ideas combined with the roadmap we already have in place for future content.
Added
Added crystal projectile
Added plasma projectile
Added orb projectile
Added mine projectile
Added grenade projectile
Added spool up fire mode
Added spool down fire mode
Added two round burst fire mode
Added three round burst fire mode
Added to the snow environment
Added new recoil system to the weapons
Added player hit and death sounds
Added engineer class
Changed
Increased speed of roller and bomb bot
Increased force of weapons/shields being dropped by the boss
Inverted vending machines SHOULD be fixed
Slightly increased shotgun damage drop off range
Soldier Class Balance
Grenade now throws further
Grenade has slightly bigger explosion radius
Grenade will now explode on impact
Walker Boss Balance
Changed sniper laser to yellow and it now turns to red 1 second before firing
Homing missiles explode after a few seconds
Lowered damage of homing and normal rockets
Sentries ability has higher cooldown
Removed
Removed crouching
Bug Fixes
Fixed roller heads not being able to be damaged
Fixed grenade showing double damage numbers
Fixed weapon and shield stats displaying even after death
Fixed drone dropping to much money
Fixed bomb bot merging into each other
Fixed being able to scale the walls in the snow environment
Fixed phaser ability having damage drop off
Fixed shield recharge showing better when it's actually worse
Fixed roller and bomb bot not moving properly
Fixed bomb bot showing health inside of the bomb
Fixed bomb bot not always detecting the player when on slopes
Fixed weapon and shield stats not showing the correct interact message
Fixed restarting run / starting a new run in a different map causing the game to break and never start a new run
Fixed enemies not always hitting the player when they should
Fixed projectiles going through enemies and not damaging them
Fixed items hovering above the ground
Fixed projectiles with homing infinitely circling roller bots
Fixed grenade ability not counting as ability kill
Hotfix 1
Changed
Lowered roller robot health
Increased boss loot
Minor performance tweaks
Disabled shotgun from having grenade and mine projectile types
Change room size from 3 parts to 2 but increased the amount of rooms from 3 to 4 so runs will be ever so slightly longer but a lot more optimized for late game.
Removed
Removed crouch key from options
Bug Fixes
Fixed homing projectiles not working
Fixed sniper scopes having infinite zoom
Fixed guns having a scope but not being able to use it
Fixed winter boss room boss aggro
Hotfix 2
Bug Fixes
Fixed holding sprint button while not moving still giving accuracy penalty
Fixed battle buddy damage drop off
Possibly fixed enemies sometimes going into the walls
Possibly fixed rollers sometimes going into the crates
Possibly fixed enemies falling into the thruster pit
Beta Update 2
Added
Added current exp and exp needed to level up to the hud
Added basic steam and discord rich presence
Added 30 achievements
Added roller enemy
Added bomb bot
Added delay to picking up loot
Added Snow Environment (alpha)
Changed
Damage done by perks now has pink damage numbers
Sniper now shoots projectiles twice as fast
Increased projectile speed
Experience is not dropped anymore and gained instantly
Adjusted experience drops for each enemy
Boss drops considerably more experience than before
Walker boss sentry box range decreased by half
Bug Fixes
Fixed inverted controls not being the correct sensitivity
Moved cliff02 3 feet to the left in room06
Fixed perk values being off by one upgrade
Fixed hitmarker not showing when damaging enemy shield
Fixed some perks not triggering when shield is damaged
Fixed cryo spelling mistake
Fixed boss sniper showing laser after being killed
Fixed projectile weapons not having damage drop off
Fixed loading level text being lowercase
Fixed options menu having incorrect font
Fixed level progress bar resetting to 0 until you get more experience
Fixed level progress bar getting stuck at full when you have 0 experience after leveling up
Fixed if you set your ability key to mouse being way to long
Fixed shield bar not updating properly
Fixed weapons despawning when picking them up while reloading
Fixed some instances where projectiles do not collide with enemies
Fixed weapon dispenser spawning the guns inside itself
Fixed weapons spawning under the ground on slopes
Fixed weapons spawning weird in buyable chests
Fixed enemies/loot/weapons/machines not despawning when you enter the next room
Beta Update 1 Hotfix-2
Added
Perk screen button can now be rebound
Added Invert controls for Mouse X/Y
Changed
Renamed Piercing Shot to Piercing Phaser
Removed
Removed machines from connectors
Bug Fixes
Fixed machines not displaying price when restarting runs
Fixed disable rarity rays not affecting shields
Fixed conformation messages staying on screen after closing pause menu
Possibly fixed enemies spawning/moving into walls
Fixed boss running into walls
Fixed boss sniper damaging twice
Fixed boss sniper only working on the first shot
Fixed max shield capacity not being a rounded number
Fixed rockets dealing more splash damage on bosses
Fixed infinite ability glitch
Fixed wrong ability perks from being listed
Fixed player gravity accelerating when standing on certain objects
