'Tis the Season of Robot-Chickens with Santa Hats!
Christmas has arrived a bit early in Holodrive!
This Holiday season is full of joy and fun, everyone who logs in the game from now until January 5th will earn a special Giftpack!
Go open yours and see what you'll get! ;)
Oh, we also have 2 special events going on this time! We have Double EXP where you will all receive Double Experience points when you complete a match!
We also have a special unique event called Mission in Double! Every mission in the game is now awarding TWICE the amount of bits! What are you waiting for? Go complete your daily missions, it won't last long! :D
Have fun and as always, you can find the entire dev team on our Discord.gg/Holodrive ! Come talk to us :D
Cheers,
Server issues fix and an update on our next Update!
Hey everyone!
Over the weekend we received a bunch of reports from you guys about some servers issues you were having (on US servers mainly). I'd like to tell you that we've identified and already fixed the issue.
This happened on our side, so there was no need for any game files update. We also took the time to strengthen our servers on both US and EU and make matchmaking a bit more reliable :)
Also, we've been working really really hard on our next major update, it's going to take a bit more time to ship it than we previously thought, but it's going to fundamentally change how you play the game. There are some new mechanics coming and some old mechanics being retired. We can't wait to show you all more next year!
Have fun! :D
Quickfix - Party System!
Hey guys and gals!
We've just updated the game!
This time is a not-so-quick fix to the game in regards to the Party System.
Some of you reported that the party system had some issues and when we were tracking them we realized these issues were way bigger than we thought. So we had to make big adjustments to the party system, even rewrite part of the code.
Hopefully everything is better now, if you find any more party system bugs please let us know in our official Discord.gg/Holodrive !
Cheers,
BitCake Studio Dev Team
Discord Rich Presence is official!
Yes!
We are a launch title of the new Discord Rich Presence feature!
You can Join Parties, ask to Join Parties and stalk your Holodrive friends in discord as much as you want!
See what the news has been saying about it: https://venturebeat.com/2017/11/09/discords-newest-tool-enables-players-to-jump-directly-into-a-friends-game/
Oh, join our Discord so you can do this cool stuff too!
Discord.gg/Holodrive
Have fuuuun!
:cocobot::cocobot::cocobot:
Quickfix - Cocoball + Spanish fixes
Hey everyone!
Today ends our Halloween event, when you log in the game you'll see the regular menu back in action :)
We took this time to fix the exploit where players were able to take Coco, the chicken ( :cocobot: ) and leave her inside their base in Cocoball matches!
We also made a TON of improvements to the Spanish localization! Thanks a lot to Gamnem who was kind enough to do a proof-reading of our Spanish localization!
Sorry this took a while to fix, but we appreciate all you guyses report :) More fixes coming this week.
As always join our discord to talk to the developers and send us your feedback! We don't bite Discord.gg/Holodrive
Cheers,
Halloween Update: Free Gifts, Bugfixes & Special Sale!
oooOoOooooooOOOOOoooOo!
Halloween has arrived in Holodrive!
If you log in the game during the event you'll get a special Gift in the form of a Halloween Holopack!
When opening this pack you'll receive a special Halloween-Themed Jetpack!
But that's not all! During Halloween if you purchase anything from the Store you'll receive DOUBLE the amount of BITS! Oh, and did we mention we have a special sale in the Store?
For 7.99 you can get:
- Unique exclusive "Chills" victory pose!
- 6.000 Bits!
And we have even more stuff on this update:
- Added a new type of Victory Pose that plays an animation when it appears in the Post Game (the first one to have this is the Chills victory pose)
- New Sound Effects!
- New Victory, Defeat and Draw voice lines!
- Fixed customization bug where your customization would change
- Fixed some party bugs
- Fixed the reversion of entropy where energy was being created out of thin air in Collectors.
- Fix bug where sometimes you needed to double cick to skip the Mission Popup screen
- Fixed the red barrier sound bug
- Changed the Icon an the Model of the 7th day prize to properly match the reward (it was showing a regular Holopack an now it shows a Rare Holopack)
- Some more bugfixes :)
As always join our discord to talk to the developers and send us your feedback! We don't bite :D Discord.gg/Holodrive
See you in game!
BitCake Studio Dev Team
Changes are coming! Read here ;)
Hey everyone!
We’re here today to talk to you about some changes that we’re planning for Holodrive, these changes are not something minor like adding a new weapon or power-ups, but are major changes that may shake the very core of how the game is played.
We have been developing this game for quite a while and everyone that has been following us knows that we’re pretty open when it comes to the development of the game. We love talking to you guys and gathering feedback, we make videos of prototypes that we’re developing and we were never shy about changing or removing features from the game.
Learning and evolving is part of the process and the team has been thinking a lot on many of your feedbacks in regards to weapons and gameplay. Feedbacks that range from the game being very random because of power-ups, to very frustrating because of Health Pickups. Not only that but we thought a lot about Holodrive’s core mechanic: of having 7 weapons, a basic weapon, having weapon pickups on the map and all that. We decided that we need to be better, we need to evolve Holodrive’s gameplay to be something more engaging and more deep, we want everyone to be able to pick up the game and play but realize that there’s more depth to it than it seems.
On this post we’re going to outline the Core Mechanics that we feel are in need of a second look, we won’t get into specifics now. We will do that in future posts.
These are the mechanics that we’re considering changes:
- 7 Weapons Loadout
- Basic Weapon
- Weapons Categories
- Pickups in the map
- Health pickups
- Ammo system
The systems outlined above could see changes that could range from major to minor (we could also not change a system at all), but the end result should be a vastly different game than what you guys play today.
So you may be asking when will the changes come? Well, they are still in prototype phase so we don’t have any date for you yet. We have lots of stuff to test, and we want your help in doing it! As of right now we’ll be creating a special Community Role called “Super Tester". These special players will receive access to every change before anyone else in order to help us test them before they are officially unveiled to the rest of the community!
Our first test is going to be tomorrow!
Wanna become a super tester? Join our discord @ Discord.gg/Holodrive and talk to the Devs or Mods! We have open spots ;)
Best Regards,
BitCake Studio Dev Team
New Update! Party XP Bonus, new Sound Effects!
Hello Holodrivers!
We've updated the game for you all! But you're asking what's new? I'll tell ya whats new:
- Party XP Bonus added for those grouping up!
- New Sound Effects all around
- Fixed a bug where while playing in a party people would end up on different games! (crazy, no?)
- Other bugfixes!
Also if you find some bugs, hop onto our discord @ Discord.gg/Holodrive and report it directly to us, the developers! We'll be there to listed to what you have to say, be it good or bad!
Best Regards,
BitCake Studio Dev Team
New Update & Double EXP is back!
We have a double for you today!
A new update with a bunch of bugfixes and we have Double EXP back this weekend!
What's new:
- Fixed the UI Bug where 2 menus would be overlayed on top of each other
- Improved 4 Players party flow :D
- Fixed dropping the entire Weapon Pickup model when you died (you should only drop your weapon again)
- Fixed not being able to change servers in the settings menu
Have fun you all! And as always, join our Discord so you can talk directly to the developers and the rest of our community @ Discord.gg/Holodrive
Cheers!
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