Herolike
Day 1 DLC (just kidding)
Also we fixed a problem with the 'Main Menu' button not working on death!
Have fun!
GamesHut
The Great Launch Day!
With grate satisfaction we present to you the launch of Herolike!
After 18 months of total development, balancing and bug fixing, our baby is out in the wilderness.
There are lots of subtle or bigger changes made to the game since the last version, so players that tried the game in EA can replay it as well.
We would like to thank the community for supporting us and trusting in the game. Your feedback was very important and a small team like ours couldn't do it without your help!
We love you!
Enjoy Herolike!
Launch update
As probably you all noticed, the game is not launched yet.
Well that is because in the last month we received a lot of great feedback, which mostly required fixes. Pairing that with the fact that there is always room for improvements of the current systems, user interface and tutorial update and we got to this delay. We are also working on a more professional trailer and marketing materials for the launch.
Ironically, we are still within the initial goal of launching the game in 6 months from the initial launch in Early Access, but we broke our promise we made in the last update. We are very sorry for that, but we hope this delay will bring a more enjoyable user experience for you guys!
Thank you for the wonderful support and patience.
GamesHut
Patch 1.4a and preparations for launch
Back in February, when we launched the Early Access we promised that game development will take another 6 months, but we will manage this sooner. If nothing unexpected occurs, Herolike is due for launch on end of July. Wohoo!
Now, returning to the current version 1.4a.. you will be pleased to discover that we have many new additions and some work still to do until Launch.
New Class: Barbarian - the barbarian has low health, medium armor and serious damage, mostly due to his weapons. His skills are less effective on their own, when compared to other classes, but they are design to enhance the hero's survivability and damage output.
New Class: Trickster - is an interesting hero class. While the damage output of the items is medium, she has no armor and no access to an armor merchant! The skills are devastating when used in the right situations and their efficiency increases as the number of enemies increases. It's not really recommended to try trickster class as your first play through.
- added special effects, interface icons for skills, sound effects and 40+ new items for the new classes.
- extended the Town, by redesigning NPC spawning and adding two new buildings:
- Town Crier - building that provides 150 renown / building level upon starting a new play through.
- Military Expedition - similar to the Altar of War in functionality, you can spend 150 materials in order to have the current encounter completed upon next time when you enter the town. In return, you receive a random gold reward and the normal materials reward based on your Keep level.
Please let us know your feedback on the new additions and on any other bugs you encountered, no matter how small. We are on the last stretch!
Thank you!
Games Hut
Patch 1.3a intorducing the Hunter class
Boy, this was a crazy month. I've taken up the daunting task of adding a second control scheme: mouse + keyboard and also a new character.
Upon starting a new game, you will be able to select which type of control scheme you want. The new control option, is playable by using the WASD keys and attack is done by mouse. There is no key-rebind support, yet, but it will be with the next patch!
By the votes you guys made, a new class is in the game: Hunter.
This new class focuses on taking enemies before they manage to get too close. So, the damage is high, the health is decent, but it has very little armor.
Also, what better proof that we listen to our community, than the fact that one of the Hunter's skills is healing over time? :D
We had to change tons of lines of code to make the new control work, so we encourage you to go all in, play and give us your feedback. We tested the new controls a lot, but could be uncaught bugs.
Additions:
- new class: Hunter
- 4 new skills for Hunter class: AOE attack, single target massive damage trap, healing over time and long cooldown, mana intensive AOE.
- 2 new item sets: Bows(weapons merchant) and Charms(armor merchant)
- option to choose between two control modes (this is done at character creation screen)
- the new control is based on keyboard for movement and mouse for attack / skill cast.
Thank you for your support and happy playing!
Games Hut
Patch 1.2a is here!
This patch was focused mostly on expanding on the friendly encounters as well as adding more variety to the defense encounters. We are introducing the Title system that works in conjunction with the friendly encounters to generate more gameplay value on the longer term. All the decisions you take during friendly encounters add now to the 12 titles currently implemented. Each title will bring your hero a bonus for the current game. Of course, it will not be possible to unlock all the titles in one game so go ahead and open up a new game!
Patch details:
- fixed minor AI path-finding issues that occurred when there were many AIs at one time.
- fixed minor typos in the text
- fixed a resolution issue, where the hot bar was not shown for high resolutions (2560x1440 for example).
- fixed some death animations for orc boss and orc engineer
- changed the ending interface and music for some encounters. Before some encounter types were ending too abruptly without providing any significant feedback to the player.
- changed lighting and mood in some scenes.
- changed the powerups spawn rate to balance out hostile encounters to the rest of the encounters.
- added new combat tracks for all the encounters. The music is set to play at a lower volume than the rest of the sounds.
- added traps in the game. You and your enemies alike can now be set on fire, smashed, sliced or impaled. Use the traps to your advantage.
- added two new defense encounter variations. One is an escape level where you must navigate through traps and the other is a 'capture the flag' style map.
- added the Titles system. Now each decision you make during friendly encounters, impacts the game even further.
Thank you for playing guys and thank you for the awesome support!
Games Hut
Quickfix 1.1.1a is out
This is a small update aiming to fix the final boss battle and change the Early Access 'coming soon' road map in-game.
Also, you can vote here for the next hero class to be added:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/409040/discussions/0/392183857634362809/
Thank you,
Games Hut
Patch 1.1a is out
Once again I would like to thank the community for the nice support and feedback, here on the forums as well as on email and chat.
This patch was focused mostly on content. We worked hard to make the game feel even less repetitive and spiced everything up with the chance to get artifacts! Furthermore, we removed the quick cheat where you could exit a mission my returning to the world map.
Patch details:
- fixed the bug where dialog missions where auto-translating to supported languages depending on the language installed on player's Windows.
- fixed a bug where monsters did not die from exploding traps in the forest encounter
- fixed sound volume for electricity burst in aspect of the storm
- fixed some typos in dialog text
- changed: Storm Aspect skill movement speed scales with skill level
- changed: improved Storm Aspect damage and radius
- changed: back to 'World Map' button with 'Resume'
- changed: now clicking on the 'Level Up' button will pause the game and activate the Skill and Status windows
- changed: 'World Map' button in the Town level has been replaced with a building located near spawn point functioning like the other building
- changed: made dropped potions bigger and more visible
- made numerous small balance changes
- added 4 new Victory goals. Powerup a massive war machine or cleanse a corrupted Altar.
- added mana potions are now sold by Survivor Merchant
- added 8 new enemies, all part of the Orc race. They are mostly focused on speed and damage skills.
- added 6 artifacts that have a chance to drop upon the defeat of a Boss.
- added 10 new friendly encounters containing moral dilemmas and logic puzzles
- added the Jungle environment with it's luxuriant forest
- added 22 more sounds and sound effects for the orcs, demons and the new Jungle environment
- added more information through the GUI, so the player can get better feedback on what is happening.
- internal: restructured the code with the hope to improve performance, stability and also preparing it for the future addition of the hero Titles feature
Thank you for playing guys and thank you for the awesome support!
Games Hut
Patch 0.84a rolling out
If you get any new crashes, please send the crash and player log to contact@herolike-game.com. It's really important to obtain these logs for easier troubleshooting.
Patch details:
- fixed: multiple displays(monitors) issue
- fixed: Earth Armor skill gave 460 armor at level 15
- fixed: crashing when spawning the wealth rune while game is paused
- fixed: crashing when using potions from inventory
- fixed: typos in mission text and skills description
- fixed: runes are now unique items, meaning that you can only have one of each at any time. This prevents the exploit where you could obtain massive damage or armor just by spamming runes
- changed: merchant text in shops is now easier to read
- changed: Guardian Shield Bash scales better in the first 10 levels (more damage), and reduced mana cost in later levels
- added: potion description (how much they heal)
- changed: killing fog damage had been re-scaled
- changed: Aspect of Storm skill damage and AOE range
- changed: friendly missions, no more chance of bosses
- changed: Defense Missions now should pose more difficulty in later levels as I doubled the spawning points and spawn times now scale with level.
- changed: Seeking Spirits skill was too powerful, scaled down damage and raised mana costs
- added: skills based on duration now have the duration shown in description
- changed: power-ups spawn more often and give better bonuses
- changed: bosses are now more dangerous (their skills are more efficient and bosses have better survivability and damage)
- changed: item prices, so they are cheaper at lower levels but more expensive at higher levels
- changed: changed stats and their attributes to better reflect hero Classes
- added: more information in the hero Status window so players understand better the impact of each stat or attribute
- fixed: minor texture display issues
- fixed: Scavengers Guild Level 1 display bug where it shown that materials are available also for level 1
- fixed: some display bugs for Shaman's weapons
Thank you for playing guys and thank you for the awesome support!
Games Hut
Herolike 0.8a is live in Early Access!
I have butterflies in my stomach just looking at the live Store page :D
Please read though the Early Access QA, check the game's features (and future features) or just contact me directly in the Herolike Discussions or at contact@herolke-game.com.
Enjoy it!