Gunheart
Weekly mission: Round-up!
Thank you to everybody who's provided feedback on the most recent updates - we're busy cranking on more features to release soon and really appreciate who's taken the time to share their feedback so far. Lots of exciting developments ahead, thank for your support!
11/20 Update notes
- Fixed an issue that would lock a mission, preventing it from ever being completed (encountered most often in Bug Hunt)
- Fixed Intravenous Bomb weapon modification not reliably applying damage
- Fixed certain weapons not triggering mod callbacks correctly, preventing mods like Intravenous Bombs, Bloodlust, and Easy Money from working with the crossbow, shotgun, minecaster, bow, or rocket launcher
Let us know if you encounter any other issues and we'll be sure to investigate for future updates. Also, we hope to have a larger update in a couple days that should significantly boost rendering performance for machines that are currently CPU bound.
Fall update!
Update video from Brian!
New campaign!
- Campaign has been overhauled, refitted, and rebuilt with new missions, bosses, and environments
- Entire new script and VO spanning 9 story missions
- 20 side missions available in addition to the PVP challenges (and ongoing weekly missions!)
Expanded Loot System
- Brand new loot smashing station in the Bent Horizon
- Existing mods tuned and compatibility improved, more feedback added for mod effects
- New weapon mods to discover, now 41 weapons mods to unlock, upgrade, and mix-n-match:
- Glass cannon, trades shields and health for big damage boosts, can stack with each weapon so be careful
- Bloodlust, gain a stacking damage boost with each kill that dissipates after some time
- Bubble shield, slows down incoming enemy projectiles for easy deflection and dodging
- Intravenous bombs, causes enemies to explode on death
- Easy money, when ya need the extra boost
- Berserker, chance to flip an enemy against it's friends for a few seconds
- Shielded, classic trading damage for shields to tank up your rig
- Flypaper expanded to work with all weapons, can use that sweet slomo ability with your favorite damage dealer now - 30+ new cosmetics items now available to discover
- PSA - you have to buy cosmetic items now with money earned from missions, no more freebies!
New world elements
- New environments! the Anthromite infection is getting worse and slowly taking over...
- "buzzbags" can spit out enemies and hatching eggs, take them out before you get overrun
- New 3D powerup printers throughout the world can spawn explosive barrels, extra ammo, and a few other useful items
- Datapads sprinkled about can provide useful info and background on the Gunheart universe
- Two new bosses have been added as part of the campaign
Enemy upgrades
- Dropships have been upgraded with several new behaviors, be on the lookout for the increased threat
- Buzzkills also have been improved, now will flock with other buzzkill to prevent greater challenge to players
- Ongoing improvements to the hoppers, grunts, and zombugs to quash the obvious bugs and improve coordination between the enemies
Mountain of improvements, bug fixes, and polish
- Audio overhaul - all weapons, creatures, and most objects in the game are have either received new sounds and been polished
- Gunstr weapon store has had a complete UI overhaul
- Payola-saurus loot station has replaced the beloved prototype station from last update
- Combo weapons no longer have infinite ammo (find those ammo kegs in the missions!)
- Combo weapons have had damage boosts as well to reflect their role as super weapons, so use sparingly
- Leaderboards track player's best runs on missions, global leaderboard added for the shooting range
- Trout have been added to the game!!
We hope everyone enjoys the update and as always keep the feedback coming!
11/3 Hotfix + Weekly Missions
Mission: Fly Tipper
Buzzkills have been getting into PalCo money pumps again and leaving a right mess, we're sending you in to clean up the trash and collect the missing cash! Shotguns and Sniper Rifles Only!
There are two difficulty variants available for this weekly mission, and we've kept last week's death disc themed missions around as well. Happy hunting!
10/19 Hotfix + New weekly mission
10/19 Hotfix notes
- Fix for jittery combo weapons when strafing
- Fix for arrow in bow jittery in hand
- Triple shot enabled for Arc Bow and Minecaster
- Burst fire no longer enabled for Minecaster (is replcaed with Triple shot)
- Fix for guns not staying consistently attached to hands depending on shoulder location.
- Drop rates for cash from rare/epic loot has been reduced.
Mission: Harvest
PalCo pumps across several homesteads are being plagued by an Anthromite invasion, worse still, they've come straight from the broken zone... Gunstr is also sponsoring this bounty by lending out rocket launchers.
New weekly missions: Fort Crag and Zombugs in the Mist!
Mission: Fort Crag
The Anthromites have taken Fort Crag, it's at a major intersection of our operations, PalCo suggests you clear it out.
Mission: Zombugs in the Mist
The broken zone has encroached upon PalCo sector 13 and several fusion towers have started to leak making things even more unpredictable. Clearing the area of hostiles will help to clean this mess up faster.
10/10 Hotfix
Release notes
- Fixed issue preventing certain objectives from completing correctly, preventing mission rewards from being given to players.
- Loot containers will avoid giving duplicate weapon mods when possible, either offering cash or a chance for a loot container upgrade instead.
- Fixed issue allowing players to sometimes fire their weapons inside the Bent Horizon (outside of the shooting range).
- Auto-reloader will now work correctly with the pistol and shotgun.
October Update is live!
Please let us know if you encounter any major issues or blockers so that we can be sure to tackle them in a hotfix asap!
Loot & Weapon Mods!
There are 20+ weapon mods to unlock by smashing open loot containers you've earned in the Bent Horizon. Purchase additional slots for your favorite guns to stack modifications and create your own unique weapon. Some weapon mods are exclusive to specific weapons while other can be used across multiple freely.
If you've accumulated mods in the previous system you'll get bonus loot containers as compensation. New loot containers are earned by killing Anthromites and completing bounties (harder bounties giving chances for rare and even epic loot containers).
Dash teleport option
We've added a dash teleport option for players who prefer it over the blink approach. Give it a shot and let us know what you think as we'll keep iterating and refining it with future updates. Hopefully at this stage we've got a good locomotion setup for every type of VR player!
New hats & Achievements
A salvo of new hats and hairstyles have been added, all unlocked by cracking open loot containers. Collet 'em all! We've added some new unlocks to the game as well, and all the previous unlocks that were tied to unlocking a specific weapon mod will now reward loot containers.
Limited player respawns
We've moved to a limited set of shared respawns for players instead of the paying to respawn approach we had. Hopefully this is more a fair solution for all players while also increasing the challenges for the advanced missions where you can no longer spend your way to the end regardless of the difficulty. You can also find extra lives mid missions with the new extra life kegs (looks like a milk carton with a heart on it) so keep an eye out if you need 'em.
...and even more to come!
Let us know what you think of the update and keep the feedback coming on what else you'd like added to Gunheart. We're cranking away on a ton of new content and additions for the next update, expect to hear some previews of the upcoming features in a few weeks. Join us in our Discord server to chat or check out the Gunheart subreddit for more.
New update preview - Loot!
Loot System
Completing missions and taking out the Anthromites gives you chances to earn loot 'eggs' right now which can be cracked open in the Bent Horizon for different rewards. There are different levels of loot 'eggs' (common, rare, epic,???) all with their own chances to unlock different stuff. You can earn new cosmetic items, bonus cash, and most importantly - weapon modifications!
Previously each weapon had up to 3 mods to unlock that all stacked on top of each other, essentially the equivalent of "leveling up" the weapon over the course of the game. Now each weapon can have up to 3 mod slots and we've created a variety of mods that all have different property changes. You can mix and match mods to completely change the function and feel of weapon, creating the ultimate loadout for your playstyle.
Some mods are tied to certain type of weapons, all mods can scale in effectiveness based on the quality you've discovered, and there are some unique mods to find as well. As you can imagine this system is quite complex, so that's why we've opted to release an early preview to help work out the initial kinks before we go live.
Testing the preview
Right-click on Gunheart in the Steam library, go to the 'Betas' tab and select 'alphastaging' from the dropdown. This will be using a separate profile from your normal game, so no progression will be carried over or lost. And we wipe the test player database on a regular basis, so don't get too attached to your temporary rig. You can switch back to the public release at any time by selecting 'None' in the same 'Betas' tab.
Send us feedback please! We have about 10-15 more mods planned right now and would love to hear community feedback for additional mod ideas. We'll also be pushing updates to alphastaging daily, so if you run into any blocking issues please let us know right away so that we can get it fixed immediately. Thanks!!
New weekly missions: Liquid Space Fine and A Booming Fruit Business
Mission: Liquid Space Fine
The liquid spacetime-enriched soil of the Broken Zone seems to have enticed some Flyguys into the Boom Fruit farming business. Unfortunately the elevated levels of liquid space time have shorted your shields. Good luck!
Mission: A Booming Fruit Business
We've noticed an increase in the Anthromite's Boom Fruit use lately, and have traced the source of this misfortune to a new farm in the Hollows. It's time to bring their productivity down one hundred percent!