Gunsmith
More vehicle fixes
- Fixed a bug where you couldn't place belts while you had negative funds.
- Fixed a bug where Kevlar Sheets were invisible.
- Fixed the cookbook recipe of the Humvee.
- Improvements to collision, couch nav and belt collision.
- Fixed incorrect globe rendering on desert map.
Hot fix
Hotfix
Fixed incorrect icon on cookbook showing end of line not heater
Fixed racks not clearing!
VEHICLE UPDATE!
This is Gunsmith's biggest update by a long way. This update introduces a multitude of new features, content and changes. Your old saves will likely not work correctly.
Enjoy making a vehicle factory. This is such a huge update there’s likely to be some bugs so please be patient while we work these out.
You have multiple configurations to make vehicles with, and a new giant map in which you can create the most epic sized factories.
We are also implementing our new belt system today which completely overhauls how the game works.
Please let us know of any issues you get!
Have fun!
Heres some insight as to what we have done...
Firstly, we've gone over all the old content and revamped it big time. Now it looks really nice.
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As you can see, a much higher level of quality here, youll see that all over the game.
We've also added a giant level in the Desert for you all.
This map is absolutely insane. We are eager to see what you can create here.
Theres also a tonne of new content with Vehicles being introduced.
Overall a massive bunch of changes and thats not even taking into account all out belts spline now! This is a really nice click and drag, creative fun system!
Theres so much awesomeness to check out. I'll leave you with a Change Log below as we are all spent here and need to rest!
Best
Rich and SCT
The app not closing correctly should be fixed. We think this was due to an old Microsoft Redistributable being installed with the game. Game might require reinstalling to fully fix the issue.
Hopefully the game should close now. Please let us know if you are still encountering this issue. You may need to try reinstalling the game first.
Made a tonne of enhancements to the game both graphically and gameplay wise.
Completely reworked lighting to use sky atmosphere and optimized lighting for better fps. The game now uses Unreal Engine 4’s dynamic atmosphere completely rendered in real time with volumetric clouds, fog and lighting.
Added chromatic aberration to the game.
Added or corrected ambient occlusion shaders on multiple levels.
Added or corrected exponential height fog to the game also added to multiple levels.
Fixed incorrect texture issues inside the basic factory.
Fixed lens flare that was way too powerful in factories.
Redesigned line control models. There's now three awesome ones that are randomly picked each time you place.
Fixed floor issues in factories you could buy these are now the correct default factory floors for people to customize.
Redesigned the UI to be much less intrusive and over taking. Alpha has been applied and colors have been added.
Added sound effects to machines with custom attenuation. This now makes the factory sound awesome.
Designed a new texture for spline belts so they can be stretched.
Added new machines for flow control such as splitter and merger.
Added a new end of line machine.
Designed new icons for multiple machines.
Designed and added a new particle effect for placing items in game.
Created and added a new music track for the game.
Redesigned the main menu for the vehicle update.
Fixed a lot of sound issues of various nature.
Modified and added a new map for vehicle creation.
Updated menu UI to match all changes.
Fixed henchmen issue with a particular small factory map.
Improved the first starting map, added auto pimp, chemical companies, logistics companies. Improved concrete on ground and overall added more detail to map.
Added a new UI for all of the new items.
Designed and added an ambient wind/environment sound that fades in and out with height.
Added ambient noises to worlds to make them more immersive.
Improved description of items.
Completely revamped the belt and item movement system as well as how machines accept and output items.
Refunds on demolishing objects is now always 100%
The multi-selection feature isn’t compatible with belts at the moment, we will add this soon.
Fixed a bug with wall placing which wouldn’t allow flush walls.
Fixed a bug with starting a launder mission while the car hasn’t left the map yet.
Fixed a bug with the henchmen after exiting the car.
Fixed a bug where sometimes powering a machine on and off would add double the amount of maintenance cost and utilities.
Work in progress
Adding a filter for special items in the orders automation.
Adding belts to the multi-selection feature.
Fixing a bug with laundering items and tables sometimes not recognizing the consumed items
The real VEHICLE UPDATE!!!
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VEHICLE UPDATE!
Vehicle Update coming 11th FEBRUARY!
We've also finished our version 1 of spline based belts! We've done alot more polish now and its working really nicely!
We have finished up with our production line designs and we will be dropping a nice teaser on the 4th of Feb.
It's not just vehicles however, We've done a tonne of work with user interface making that feel a lot nicer to interact with.
This will be a massive update for GUN$MITH and we cant wait to let you all play it.
Im not going to give away too much here as I want to save that for next week but for now. This is the date!
See you soon!
Rich - SCT
Gunsmith Vehicle Reveal!
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Gun$mith Development Update
Over time as the game has grown we are starting to feel like Gunsmith is requiring larger and more complex updates that take longer than four weeks to make. So we are adjusting our update drops to be slightly longer in production but ultimately larger chunks of game improvements when they do come out.
Secondly, we want to change large parts of the game, since our launch we have improved as a team, become far more professional and far more advanced in our engineering and artistic respectives. As some of you may know, when we first launched the game we even had individual bullets that would crush everyone's computer. It looked great but also an amateuristic oversight on our part.
The one major flaw of Gunsmith is also that we needed to create it quickly and therefore a full game plan was being created on the fly. This is something we want to rectify before we leave Early Access.
The third major factor is, as a business we have desperately needed to get more titles under our belt to support the company and its growth. We expanded the team to work on Gunsmith and drop better and larger updates, however the game has not expanded as we expected in tandem with this goal. Therefore, we are trying to release more products to help with that balance. Some of you will know we released a game called Kinetic Edge, that didn’t do so well. This has left us with a major predicament. Therefore we had to make a move in a new direction.
So there’s good news and bad news, the good news is, we have made another game that we think people will love, including the Gun$mith fanbase. The bad news is, this has delayed the next major update for Gun$mith for some time.
We know the Gun$mith community is super supportive and you’ve been behind us now for 3 years. We need that same support for us as an indie company on the whole and not just on Gun$mith.
I can completely understand why this will be unfortunate news for many of you, but I can guarantee no matter what we will finish Gun$mith, get it out of Early Access and support it into its twilight years. But as a business, and as a business owner, I truly feel the way we can give that the best odds of success is if we have more games to support us so we can stop having to focus on finances all the time and focus on making a great game.
So what is our plan…
Well, this is where things look promising. We sat down as a team and we realised we needed to play to our strengths, take what we know we can do really well and make a new game.That game is called JUNKPUNK. We took our factory management experience, reworked it, made it much better, more efficient and more fun to play. We designed a game plan from start to finish including its balance. We’ve gone over our existing systems and refined them to get much more from them. Junkpunk is a Survival factory RPG, where you have to restore a polluted planet and prepare it for habitable life. The Steam page is here and we would super appreciate your support.
Now why is this good for Gun$mith?
So, we plan to re-pull these reworked systems from JUNKPUNK, back into Gun$mith. Which means many things.
- The VAST majority of FPS issues will be gone and you will be able to make thousands of items without FPS loss.
- We have reworked our conveyor belt tech so you can simply click and drag to machines creating a much more dynamic and fun game.
- We have reworked how items travel on belts, allowing far more precision and most importantly, this will allow us to move into the next stage of Gun$miths development by building larger more complex objects such as missiles and vehicles etc.
- We have reworked how the manufacturing process works to make it more fun and less tedious by placing too many machines with too many ingredients.
- We have also reworked how mission systems work so we can start to integrate a proper missions system into Gunsmith.
There's even more benefits to all of this, but i'll stop there. So with that being said. JUNKPUNK will be releasing in November so watch out for it and hop in if you think you’ll enjoy it.
We expect the next major update for Gunsmith to come in December this year. So not too much longer of a wait. But this is our predicted timeline for now.
I hope you can understand our situation and we will come back soon with major improvements to Gun$mith and an awesome road into the future.
Best
Rich