Mark the date in your calendars: the Wastelands will open their doors to everyone very soon, so you better prepare for a deadlylovely trip. Don't forget to check your guns, grab some fancy slippers and get ready to slay the Horde!
Q&A With Developers: New Skill Effects, Recent Progress and More!
Hello, survivors!
Recently we’ve released a brand new Playtest for HordeCore! For this occasion, we’ve prepared a special Q&A blog with our developers to shed light on recent events around the game and tell you more about what’s next for HordeCore!
Enjoy!
How’s the team doing in general? We're doing great, thanks for asking!
As we get closer and closer to revealing our release date, we're all growing very anxious to unveil what we've been working on for the past few months, and it's really exciting to know that more people will get to enjoy the world we're creating pretty soon.
What have you been focused on for the last few months? It's been quite a ride, and we've had no shortage of things to do while getting our wastelands ready for new adventurers!
From bug squishing to creating awesome new weapons, new abilities, new places to explore, new threats to overcome, a couple of cool new UI features, and a myriad of funny hats, we're doing our best to ensure everyone can have a blast splattering hordeling brains over their favorite characters.
These new effects look cool - tell us more about them! We think so too!
An important part of the challenge in HordeCore is to constantly overcome the odds of being outnumbered by all kinds of threats, so we wanted to make sure there was some "oomph" to the player's abilities and weapons while they're doing so, without letting it become too overwhelming to control. We feel like we struck a good balance, and we're eager to hear what our players think - and to continue to improve on it.
Are you planning to add more classes? Oh, definitely!
We want to give the player the opportunity to explore our challenges with as many different playstyle combinations as they can think of, and that includes loot, character classes, and even abilities.
That's also the reason why you're not restricted to the same abilities in every class, in fact, one of our favorite additions to the game was the Ability Modifier system, which lets you modify your active skills way beyond their default behavior, to the point where you could have a full squad of Survivors with the same class but different abilities on all of them.
We have quite a few tricks under our sleeves that we can't wait to reveal, but you'll hear more about them in due time!
If you could implement any feature with a flick of a finger, what would it be? That's easy, pet costumes!
Everyone in the team feels very strongly about the idea of slaying hordes of enemies alongside our favorite pet in a shark costume! But don't get us talking about it or we'll end up taking longer to finish the game because we're too busy designing dog-sized outfits.
Last, but not least — how have you spent the Holidays? With the current events, we're all (unfortunately) aware of, we made sure to spend some time with those we love, be it physically, digitally, or on the other side of a phone call.
We also caught up on our favorite games, books, or shows, and we took some time off to reflect on the future of HordeCore, as well as everything we wish to accomplish on what we're hoping will be a very exciting year!
HordeCore will be coming out in 2022 on PC and other platforms. Wishlist and stay tuned for our upcoming announcements! Thank you for reading and stay safe!
We finished the update and you can continue playtesting!
Playtest is closed for a small server update!
Hello!
We are making some updates on the server-side of things, so we need to close the playtest for short time!
It will go back live tomorrow - we will put out an update when that happens.
Thank you!
Playtest is Open With the Brand New Version 0.19.25.0!
Hello, survivors!
Thank you so much for participating in our playtests! Your feedback is invaluable and helps us shape Hordecore into a much better game.
We are glad to present a new Playtest update! We've added a brand new class, a new biome, a new enemy, weapons, and lots more. We'll be waiting for your feedback, so enjoy the test!
General:
Many visual and code-related bug fixes;
A large batch of stability improvements;
Fixed a frame drop issue that occurred when the tutorial section asked you to open your inventory;
Fixed several blockers that could occur from finding a way to exit out of the Deck Manager when you accept to play a Tournament mission card game; (please try to find more ways to close out of the Deck Manager to see, if the issue is still present);
Content-related:
Removed all Halloween decorations (please any leftover to the HQ, and we'll get rid of them ASAP);
New biome in all game modes - The Factory;
New survivor class - The Scientist;
New class modifier skills (Scientist) - Energy Blast, Lightning Cloud, Frost Nova;
New enemy class — The Trojan. You will meet them in the Gauntlet and on later levels that would previously include the Hulks;
New weapons added to the loot drop table (Scientist) - Shock Gun, Plasma Gun, Ray Gun;
New 3D models on some skill modifiers (land mines, flame traps, shock traps, flying drones, flame turrets).
UI:
Improvements on UI functionality and formatting;
Updated Horde Tactics UI;
Added a warning in a multiplayer match when you're far away from the group and will be teleported to them;
Design improvements:
Multiplayer mode now features a brand new tutorial, which can be accessed in the Camp;
Local co-op players now have their own inventory and items;
Added an internal cooldown to controller interactions to prevent survivor skills from getting locked (interacting with doors, boxes, loot drops, objectives, etc.);
In Online Multiplayer, your survivor will now get their health reset if you die and fail the mission;
Controls:
Added a shortcut to quickly salvage individual items with keyboard and mouse (S + Click the object);
It is now possible to equip items by double-clicking them;
You can now hold the skip button to skip the comics fully, and most skips are now done with the "hold" interaction (UI is not yet adjusted to reflect this change).
META team here and we’re excited to announce that our time-traveling puzzle-platformer Time Loader is out now! Join us in this exciting adventure about a tiny time-traveling robot trying to save its creator by traveling back to the ‘90s.
Time Loader is also 10% off until during the launch week and if you’re feeling like you could use even more robot puzzle action in your life, you can get the Time Loader + Biped bundle for an additional 10% off until November 10th.
Subverted perspectives Even the most familiar objects look different when you’re the size of a toy car. Will you watch your every move or dive head-first into this dangerous new world?
An arsenal to choose from Boosters, harpoons, screwdrivers… choose among dozens of upgrades to tackle each level and get the job done!
Dynamic and branching narratives Don’t just relive the past: change it! Every choice you make will influence the story and may lead to a different outcome. So do us a favor: change the past responsibly!
A complimentary dose of nostalgia Time Loader features music, references, and items straight out of the ‘90s. Relive your childhood or, if you’re too young for it, just gawk in awe at how primitive humanity used to be back then!
Join the Time Loader community to share your feedback with devs and chat with fellow time travelers :
This patch includes not only our favorite seasonal event — Halloween — but also a massive content update that reflects how far we've come with the development of HordeCore in the past months. The list is HUGE, so let’s dig into it!
CONTENT A strange green fog has appeared throughout the wastelands, and there are rumors of Survivors being taken away by red-hooded figures wearing unusual masks. We don’t know who they are but are advising everyone to fire on sight — just to be sure it’s not Hordelings playing tricks on us. After all, who wants to become their treat?
Dozens of new weapons, armor, and masks can now be crafted and looted throughout the wastelands.
Crafting improvements! Tons of new crafting recipes are now available to try, and there's a lot more to unlock through your Skill Tree.
New Salvaging system! You can now deconstruct any weapon or armor into useful crafting materials, anywhere, anytime.
New Healing system! Higher risks, higher rewards - you will now need to hold your healing key while your character heals, but it will also partially heal your entire party!
Carve your own path through the wastelands! Our new Map system allows you to make meaningful decisions while progressing through the story.
The new map means brand new side-quests and missions! Now you have lots of new ways to challenge yourself while you hunt for the loot you need.
Skill Modifiers — a new way to customize your Survivors' fighting skills! You can now combine powerful modifiers that will drastically change any Survivor's special ability, with LOTS of possible combinations available. Do you like your Hordelings nice and crispy or blown to bits?
More control over your team! With our reworked Party Management and Party Control systems, you can now access any of your survivor's skills at the stroke of a button.
Improved Skill Tree! A lot of unlockable passives have been re-worked to impact your play-through in more meaningful ways.
Legendary Items! That's right, from the deadliest headgear to the fluffiest slippers, legendary items can now be looted... and crafted!
CO-OP IMPROVEMENTS
Be more than a ghost! Local co-op players can now pick up items and interact with the world around them.
Your own inventory! Local co-op players can now open their own inventory with items and other fancy things!
Saved progression! New local co-op players are included in your local saveslots, so you and your friends can continue to play together anytime.
VISUAL IMPROVEMENTS
New blood effects! The art of extermination has never been this beautiful;
Several new ambient Particle effects;
New bullets and damage effects on different weapons. It would be boring if a pistol and a rocket launcher had the same impact, right?
Updated skill effects — new skill modifiers will drastically change their appearance;
New healing effects;
Improved scene transitions.
UI IMPROVEMENTS We’ll be honest — the old UI did the job, but it wasn’t the prettiest to look at. The good news is that we got rid of it and created a new one from scratch!
We’ve completely reworked all menus;
Completely redesigned in-game HUD;
Reworked Crafting & Cooking tables;
Created new Inventory UI & UX;
Added new Party Management UI;
HordeTactics got a new Deck Management system & UI;
New Map Navigation & detailed level information.
PERFORMANCE
Heavily improved performance across the board;
Improved visual fidelity on lower graphical settings.
Please let us know how do you like the new and improved HordeCore! If you don't want to miss big news, such as this update, - wishlist and follow us!
Thank you and have fun!
First Part of the Playtest is Now Over!
Hi, Survivors!
Thank you for participating in the first multiplayer playtest! We got lots and lots of great feedback from you. Time to review it and make adjustments to the game, in order to prepare a new version for the second round of testing.
We'll announce the date of the second playtest here at a later time, so make sure to follow us on Steam!
Thank you again and have a great day!
Multiplayer Playtest is Live!
Survivors!
Our new playtest is now live: join the Hordeslaying fun, now online!
We've implemented a special survey into the game, so please fill it out if you have any thoughts or feedback. It will help us immensely.
HQ is happy to announce that we'll be launching multiplayer tests sometime on Monday. We know that you have been waiting to try it out!
Apart from online content, we've added side-missions, lots of new weapons, improved crafting, and many other things for you to try and test. It will be super fun!
For all newcomers: come sign-up on our page! You will get a notification as soon as the Playtest starts. For everyone else: we'll post an announcement at the start as well so you won't miss it.
