20220403 One of a kind gamers! Been waiting for us to release some new customization items? Well wait no more because the visor is in the store and awaiting your customization! There shouldn’t be as much of a time gap between those types of releases going forward, we’ve just been focusing on Zombots and other cleanup. Oh, speaking of Zombots, we’ve tightened up all the settings and it should be more fun to play than ever! What more could we have to share? Clouds! We’re aiming to complete our first new world/theme by the end of next week. It’s going to be a pretty basic environment with everything just being clouds pretty much but hopefully it’s a welcomed step away from the gloomy factory!
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Customize: Visor
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Customize: Capris, Fuggs
World: Clouds, Forest, Beach
Eyewear: 3D, 4.0, Don’t Care, Forgeolas
Ranked matches
Achievements
Weapon types?
Thanks! -Mac
Community and dev access https://discord.gg/BRqw8Ka
Z o m b o t s
20220327 One of a kind gamers! Well, the time is here… Almost! I know we already put Zombots in the “completed” area below but it’s coming out Monday, so… Close enough? We made a last-minute addition with the Tank zombot variation and it’s taking some refining, along with everything else, but it’s feeling really close! They’re lacking sound effects at the moment and we’d love to get those in as soon as possible but they’ll probably be about another week. Don’t let that stop you from checking it out though, because it’s a lot of fun! Let us know in the Steam Discussions, our Discord or Twitter if you’d like to see any changes. Thanks!
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Zombots
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Customize: Visor
World: Clouds
World: Forest
Achievements
Weapon types?
Thanks! -Mac
Community and dev access https://discord.gg/BRqw8Ka
Let’s set the mood
20220320 One of a kind gamers! We’re not sure how many people will make use of it but we’ve added an ambient track to the Factory level, with plans to have one for each of the future levels as well! It’s a cool little feature that really adds something neat but our guess is that you’ll probably put on some music you like after you get sick of hearing the one song we have for the 100th time. But who knows? Maybe you’ll love it! The important thing is that now you have the option for the all natural route and it’s worth giving a shot. In other news, Zombots is coming along nicely! After initially not being sure whether it’d work out, it’s definitely got its own charm as its own mode now. Hopefully you’ll check it out next week when it’s ready!
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Ambient world sounds for Factory
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Customize: Visor
Zombots
World: Forest
Rigging refined up so clothes look better
World: Arctic likely, but possibly something else
Achievements
Thanks! -Mac
Community and dev access https://discord.gg/BRqw8Ka
You’ve been hit by a smooth terminal
20220306 One of a kind gamers! We’re glad we had the opportunity to take a step back and polish up a few things that were beginning to become sorely needed while we were adding new features. The most important of the polished things? Online gameplay is now smoother than ever! It has needed a touchup for a while now but in the past month or two for some reason it had gotten even worse. Not anymore! We got to the bottom of it and it should be better than ever. Hop on with a friend and let us know if you agree!
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Online smoother than ever
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Customize: Visor
Zombots
Ambient world sounds
World: Forest
Rigging refined up so clothes look better
World: Arctic likely, but possibly something else
Achievements
Thanks! -Mac
Community and dev access https://discord.gg/BRqw8Ka
We’re in this together
20220227 One of a kind gamers! We’ve been wanting to get a co-op mode into NRG for a while now and we’re thrilled to announce that it’s finally here! We expanded what was previously just called the “Solo” game mode to include anything between 2-6 player cooperative play. It needs a little cleanup but it’s currently functional and waiting for you and a friend to play! There are also leaderboards for it so you can see how you compare to the rest of the field. What more could you want? Zombots? Fine! We’re working as diligently as possible on it but it still might be a week or two out, earliest. We could just release it without it being as finely-tuned as possible but we have standards, people!
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Targets Co-op
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Customize: Visor
Zombots
World: Forest
Rigging refined up so clothes look better
World: Arctic likely, but possibly something else
Achievements
Thanks! -Mac
Community and dev access https://discord.gg/BRqw8Ka
Any colour you like
20220220 One of a kind gamers! It had to grow on us but the new menu button layout feels more and more like one of the better changes we’ve made as time goes on. Initially it was kinda jarring with the new positions for old familiar things but after letting it settle in, we feel it really executed the ambition to make things as clear and consistent as possible! Besides that, it’s been a lot of cleanup to make sure everything is running as tightly as possible, as well as correcting some new issues like trails disappearing sometimes among other things but it’s getting there! There’s also a new “Energy” color selection option for clothing that should really help customization be a lot quicker. Excited to see what you come up with!
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Online matchmaking cleaned up
Menu reorganization (constant buttons on left now, variables on right)
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Customize: Visor
Zombots
Targets Co-op
World: Forest
Rigging refined up so clothes look better
World: Arctic likely, but possibly something else
Achievements
Thanks! -Mac
Community and dev access https://discord.gg/BRqw8Ka
It’ll clean up nicely
20220213 One of a kind gamers! So, the whole online lobby system has been reformatted but it’s a bit rough at the moment. It works for the most part but we’ll get it completely ironed out and looking better throughout next week. We appreciate your patience while we continue trying to make it the best it can be! Hopefully it doesn’t take up too much more time so we can get back to wrapping up Zombots but that mode also has some question marks around it. Functionally it’s nearly there but we need to sort out a stable progression and all the different enemy stats so it’s as fun as challenging as possible! We’re confident we’ll get there, it should just be a matter of additional playtesting and tweaking. We hope once we get it squared away you find it a worthy addition!
Completed
Online matchmaking reformat
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Zombots
Targets Co-op
World: Forest
World: Arctic likely, but possibly something else
Achievements
Thanks! -Mac
Community and dev access https://discord.gg/BRqw8Ka
Not breaking the streak
20220206 Not breaking the streak One of a kind gamers! Have you ever done something every week for like… a year and a half or something… and you can’t imagine just skipping it for a week? Welcome to this week’s update! Typically we like to focus on one item at a time and knock it out before moving onto the next thing but we were working on the new Forest world, then we transitioned to Zombots, now we’re reformatting the whole online matchmaking system. I blame management, but there’s hope! The new online system should be wrapped up by the end of next week, and the new Forest world shouldn’t take too much longer. Zombots is coming along but it’s going to need some more time to feel completed. Something’s just missing with it at the moment but we’ll find it! So, given this update was just a whole bunch of fake news, how are ya? Everything going well in your life? Are you on your way to the best version of yourself? We hope so!
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Pff, nothing really
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Online matchmaking reformat
Zombots
Co-op
World: Forest
World: Arctic likely, but possibly something else
Achievements
Thanks! -Mac
Community and dev access https://discord.gg/BRqw8Ka
They’re coming to get you, Botbra
20220130 One of a kind gamers! This one’s a little more about what’s changed than what’s new. There are now only 2 stage sizes instead of 3! Addition by subtraction, bb. We felt it was a little unnecessarily crowded with 3 so we made the large and medium stage sizes a little smaller and just threw the old small stage size out so now you play solo on the medium. We thought it’d feel a little empty but turns out it works maybe even better this way! Now there’s enough space for 2 targets in solo mode, and we expanded their idle taunts, so there’s a lot more going on. What else? Oh… We’re working on a Zombie-like mode called “Zombots”! It might sneak in before the end of next week but it’ll probably be 2. It’s coming together pretty nicely!
Completed
Stages reduced from 3 to 2
Cleanup
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Zombots
Co-op
World: Forest
World: Arctic likely, but possibly something else
Achievements
Thanks! -Mac
Community and dev access https://discord.gg/BRqw8Ka
Target acquired
20220123 One of a kind gamers! When we first made the solo mode, it was about giving players literally anything to do if they couldn’t find a match, so it wasn’t all that deep. Little did we know how quick we’d be able to include a basic enemy of a dancing bot for players to test their shooting capabilities. How did it turn out? WOW does it change things for the better! Running around and collecting canisters was sorta kinda fun but running and gunning down targets had more of an impact than we ever imagined. Hop in a solo game when you get a chance and check it out!
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Solo bots to shoot
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World: Forest
Zombots
World: Arctic
Achievements
Thanks! -Mac
Community and dev access https://discord.gg/BRqw8Ka
