Into the Dark
Good news everyone, we are ordered to deliver this update to the planet of eternal doom!
http://www.gamestar.de/specials/spiele/3084061/gamestars_2014_p3.html#community-liebling-2014
Celebrating that, we will put out another free content update over the Easter holidays, and we let YOU decide what to include:
( ) An improved version of the Halloween Bonus Game "Into the Woods"
( ) Another shot at the Steam trading cards, even if that means removing cameltoes and boobies on the card designs.
( ) A totally insane new 1-level-bonusgame fresh from our new engine.
( ) All of the above, even if that mean we get sleep-deprivation and even more insane!
Post your answer here ;)
Patch 1.31a - now including an option menu!
Patchnotes v 1.31a:
- Added an extremely ugly launcher that allows the following custom settings:
* GFX quality (3 settings: abysmal - bad - bearable)
* resolution (from 1024x768 to 1920x1200)
* Brightness (3 settings: Into the Dark - Out of the Dark - Into the Light)
* Adjustable amount of boobs
* custom keybinds / controls
* invert mouse y
* invert mouse x
- Changed 83 references "press ENTER" to "press USE KEY"
- 3 new easter eggs
- 2 new newspaper articles
- 1 new very offensive joke
- Slight texturing / GFX improvements
- 25% more performance (FPS) on GFX settings high (berable) when played with GFX cards like Radeon 68XX or better
- 12% more performance (FPS) on GFX settings medium (bad) when played on low-end GFX cards
- 3-6% less memory consumption
- 25-40% less crashes due to memory overflow
- 80% less crashes when played on GFX settings medium (bad)
- Improved underwater shader
- Improved ragdolling on Zombie Hookers
Enjoy the trash!
Halloween Update - Celebrating 20.000 Steam players!
First of all, we start with the bad news:
The "real" patch, including the option menu with custom keymapping, is STILL in development. Although it already looks pretty good that everything will work as requested by our community, I will have more work and testing on that, the estimated release date for the patch (including also several memory optimization and crashbug fixes)
IS SUNDAY, THE 9th OF NOVEMBER 2014!
A minor tweak for the main game has been applied today. As we can´t ensure your savegames won´t be overwritten, please back up them unless you dont want top start a new game (what we encourage you to do after the final patch anyways).
And as we now that you already have shown a huge load of patience, and as we know that we are asking for a little bit more, we want you to have a reward for your patience, enthusiasm and loyality.
Therefore the team members who are NOT working on the Patch or on the Into the Ice Prototype, have created a free Halloween Game for you - called
"Into the Woods".
Some screens are already in the store page:
http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/266050/ss_c0c28b1e130c5c3419f0194049c30c152121e983.jpg?t=1414733386
Let´s just say you are playing a nightmare Pete has some day between Into the Dark ends and Into the Ice begins.
Attention:
This is a free game made with an early beta version of "FPSC Reloaded". It takes a quite sophisticated machine to run well, but it has configurable graphics settings.
AI and mechanics are very basic, and there might be bugs all over the place - but as an Into the Dark player, that should not be new to you.
WE CANNOT GUARANTEE ANYTHING ON THAT.
No boobs and easter eggs yet, but if you like the game, we might continue updating it.
We wish you good luck on finding your way out of the forest ;).
PS: Hit "F" for the flashlight if it´s too dark for you!
And as we are celebrating the 20000th steam player joining the Into the Dark madness, we give away 20 keys for free.
First come - first serve. Grab & Run!
E9Y24-PM7Y3-J0FRL
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EGHLA-X2WB5-6EFJE
ALW83-FLLH9-W4HVK
4IG2M-C3VCT-EEBTE
ZPZIN-8V3AI-BGWPC
HKVYX-DIZQN-BPL68
Q8YNX-BJ0F4-F6P0A
9JMFB-DB97F-XB0ED
PVHTB-VJNIE-Q6C79
IH7BG-4VBT0-AWDYX
5TC0Q-XERXG-TDC4Z
NR7AJ-QXELQ-M7NG3
WHQBV-2VXHX-E9H2E
M8PC0-M680A-JJRKI
7X8C5-KI4XD-HZBN0
2N5QM-BI0MN-F5JBX
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XEPJB-L6AHB-L25KL
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Achievement Changes
we have followed the discussion and the controversial opinions regarding the "From Poland with Love" achievement closely. We understand that there are people from Poland who reported it as "hate speech", while many Polish players wrote (and some posted in our forums) it shall remain in the game, and that it made them laugh.
First of all, if someone really and honestly feels hurt and offended, I apologize.
Honestly.
And because we want to make people laugh and not cry, I decided to remove / change it.
Second, please keep in mind that EVERY SINGLE LINE that targets a specific minority is the idea from and has been written by a member of this minority / community.
Yes, the one who had the idea for this joke some of you complained about, is actually a regular citizen of Poland. I contacted him early morning to tell him about the complaints and about my decision to have the achievement removed. He now asked me to post a personal note he has written on that, and I feel I owe him that. As those who complained owe him to read it:
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[I]
Hello.
My name is Wiktor. I am a 38 years old IT specialist from Poznań, where I live with my wife and my children. I am working at a company IT department in Berlin, Germany.
I dont play many video games and I have never made my own game. I found the Into the Dark development project at very early stage when taking a look at mobile application software from TGC and offered my help.
I gave some textures and I did help optimize the health script and the collection script for the hentai pictures. I was surprised when Ivan offered me to implement an own achievement if I bring the idea because my work was really no big deal. It was my chance to be immortalized in a game, at this time I couldn’t risk being in credits because of complicated contract with my company.
I thought during a weekend and came up with the “thief” idea called “From Poland with Love!”
Why?
Because the parts I made for the game came “From Poland with Love”.
And because the thief and the stealing is an ongoing running gag I often hear here in Germany. We all know it’s a stereotype. We all know its also some little bit truth inside from the late 80ies and early 90ies. Sometimes it can be offending, but so can we.
We all laugh or grin when French people are drawn with ridiculous hat and moustache and giant baguette.
We nod and smirk when Russians in cartoon drink Vodka and ride bear into battle. (By the way, polish Vodka is better!).
We still depict Germans with Prussian spiked helmets 100 years after World War 1. We laugh about their habit of always complaining and occupying beach chairs with towels when on holidays. Its also a stereotype. AND its funny.
Sometimes, when colleagues at work miss their purse, cell phone or watch, someone jokingly says “ask Wiktor”. I am NOT offended then, I get it’s a joke and nothing more.
When Homegrown made their so-called “sanity check” before they released the game, they asked me once again if people wont find it “too offensive”. I honestly answered no. I believed in the sense of humor of my compatriots. I did not think anyone would be hurt.
Sad to see I was wrong.
Right now I feel kinda betrayed and backstabbed by my own people.
Homegrown Game promised me that I will have the chance to include something else in coming updates or their next game. So I guess all will be fine in the end.
Enjoy the game!
Greetings from Berlin,
Wiktor
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Again, we apologize to all of those who were really offended and / or hurt by this achievement. We already received several suggestions for a replacement, right now we switched it to something most of us can agree on ;)
However, good ideas are always welcome, the crazier, the better.
Best regards
Ivan Ertlov
Homegrown Games
Sommer Sale!
That means you can get the game for less than $6!
Modding Into the Dark
Want to try something crazy?
Then let´s mod!
As you might have already noticed, Into the Dark is very modder-friendly. After having some emotional internal discussions, we decided to place all game data files unencrypted into the game folder.
Keep in mind that modding can screw up the game and you may have to reinstall from steam! We suggest you copy the game folder to another location than your steam library and start here. or even another pc (as there is no DRM, it works fine as long you have a steam client installed, can be in offline mode).
So, what can you change and what do you need?
Quests, Scripts, AI, Script Logic, Weapon specs, Shaders:
Can be changed by altering the scripts in the folder "scriptbank". All you need is the Windows Notepad, although Notepad++ is better.
Ingame posters, Overlays, Hints, Textures, Normal, Spec and Occlusion maps
Gimp with DDS plugin is sufficient.
3D models
Any program that can load DirectX format with embedded animations. Keep in mind that modding static elements of the level architecture can destroy the pathfinding, collision and Lightmapping!
Sounds, Music, Voice overs
Any program capable of editing .ogg files.
Good luck, have fun!
We are live!
We wanted to release our ultimate trash edition on Midnight (Austria / Germany), however, late afternoon we got a phone call that our game is already being sold.
So, we were a little bit late on making the stickies in the official discussion area, we had some time figuring out if there is still something on the storepage that could be misunderstood (actually, it was).
But right now all is good.
Get your ULTIMATE TRASH EDITION!