After 16 months in Early Access, Schism is now in v1.0! You can read this post from the developer if you want a fall breakdown of everything added during that time.
KEY FEATURES
Switch Frequencies to dodge through a red/blue bullet hell
230+ Relics to power up with
60+ Weapons with 40+ Mods and "Meta-Mods"
26 gods to worship, which serve in place of Classes
8 Main Stats to customize as you level up
Too many secondary stats to count
A pool of 12 Floors, mixed together for each new run
Thank you for ALL the support. We wouldn't have been able to do this without you, and we hope you have an absolute blast exploring all these new additions and pushing the game to its absolute limits!
1.1.0.8
Fix: Found the reason the voice lines weren't playing. Whoopsies!
Fix: Fixed 'damange' spelling mistake.
Fix: Statue of Metamorphose now properly applies Curse.
Change: Made it more obvious you need to click ON the arrows to adjust Overdrive.
Change: Monthlies and Dailies are unlocked by default now.
Change: The Chainsword will no longer 'automatically' unlock if you owned the associated achievement prior to the update. I wanted there to be a grace period where the majority of players could get it as soon as they booted it, but now that people are resetting their games, they're automatically being given the weapon no matter what - If you missed your chance to get the weapon AND you have the achievement already done, just go to the Credits screen and click the button that says 'Restore Save' and it will update your save with all rewards associated with the achievements you've unlocked.
1.1.0.7
Change: Moved dialog sprites back to Default texture page to hopefully fix the freezes and boss voices being cut off.
Change: Gave a notification saying Freeplay mode will disable progression.
Fix: Eludes will now check to see if they're within a certain range before dodging, to stop them running away forever if they're getting chased by Fireworks.
Change: Decreased the spawn-weight of Snipers, Warpers, Exploders and Droids.
Change: Higher antilag levels increases XP Cans 'xp sucking' size.
Change: Sentry 'circle' now has a maximum range, to avoid situations where there are so many that they are so far away that they are no longer viable.
1.0.1.6
Fix: Wrong number in outfit description.
Fix: Issues with Nothing items.
Fix: Fixed an issue where some achievements were tied to Cyl dying, not considering her 'returning.'
Fix: More changes in the Texture Pages
Fix: Fixed a variety of XP giving methods making it through the Solar Flare modifier.
Fix: Rigorous wasn't checking for Ghost kill.
Fix: Optional bosses will check to see if another dialog is already happening before spawning.
Fix: Fixed a bug where having auto-upgrade on while your mouse was over an upgrade would instantly select that one instead.
Change: Starting the process of swapping out all ds_lists for simpler arrays, for optimization. Tell me if you notice any weirdness!
Change: Banning an item will only return an item you already own now.
Change: The three upgrades that appear will be ordered by how many times they have been upgraded, so the most upgraded will be 1st and the lowest will be 3rd.
Change: Removed annoying sound from Worn suit.
Change: Disabled levelling up during 50 Mortality boss.
Change: Skulls can only split 3 times, even if they're a higher level.
Change: Added a little warning about performance about Overdrive levels above 5.
1.0.1.5
1.0.1.4:
Fix: Made some changes to how Picayune boss phases are done.
Fix: Temporarily reverted pixel perfect changes.
Fix: Fixed a crash relating to XP alarms.
Fix: Fixed a spelling mistake in the collection.
Fix: The Demon Horns circle didn't represent the real size of it.
Change: Demon Horns animation speed now scales with projectile speed.
1.0.1.5:
Added: "Save Nuke" in the credits will allow you to start the game fresh.
Change: There is now a 45 frame delay when you can select a suit, to avoid instantly clicking on one accidentally.
Change: Clarified some of the mission/achievement descriptions.
Change: You can no longer interact with a Statue if you have to level up/pick an upgrade.
Change: Adjusted some collection stuff.
Change: You can't ban 'Nothing' anymore.
Change: If you select 'Nothing', it won't actually add to your item array.
Change: You can now ban items that start off at a certain level, so long as they aren't in your 'equipped items' list - like how you start with 1 Core but its not actually "equipped". You can now ban those items.
Fix: Fixed an issue where the Chainsword wouldn't disappear if the player traded those items away.
Fix: Fixed an issue with the 50 mortality boss death dialog.
Fix: Added upgrading Core to the Elemental run mission banlist.
Fix: 'Instant XP' on Magnets was meant to be Antilag 1.
Fix: Demon Horns code description going over the edge.
Fix: Fixed an issue where gamepads couldn't use the analog stick to scroll in the Collection.
Fix: 'See All Enemies' achievement didn't include Whisker.
Fix: Fixed an issue with the RPG sections while playing on gamepad/controller.
Fix: 'Restore Save' now works with the Duck Hunt achievement.
Fix: Fixed Slimespike looking weird between phases.
Buff: Spammer suit has increased scale, -0.75 > -0.5.
Nerf: Spammer suit reduced cooldown, 1 > 0.75.
Nerf: Tank suit reduced bonus HP, 100 > 75.
Update 1.0.1.3
I've been dropping hotfixes over the last 24 hours. ːGunfireRebornloveː Here is some of the changes:
Added: You can now opt into the compatibility VM build in the steam settings of the game.
Added: Suits now show their highest beaten Overdrive and Mortality.
Added: There's now two settings that can disable automatic ANTILAG as well as adjust the number manually.
Change: XP Cans are now orange/yellow instead of lime.
Change: "Freeplay" mode will stop 'most' of the data being saved to your account, to stop you from ruining your save if you just want to cheat for funsies.
Change: Pixel perfect adjustments, to allow different types of screen ratios.
Change: While wearing the Glass suit, ALL low HP effects are disabled.
Change: Made Necessary Evil and Low Battery Mode work together.
Change: Made some adjustment to the texture pages, to try to fix the freezes.
Change: Adjusted some achievement/mission descriptions to clarify.
Change: Sentries teleport 'puff' scales off Weapon Transparency.
Change: Fishstock will only fluctuate when enemies exist.
Change: Made 'Delivery' achievement pop immediately.
Fix: Spelling mistake in one of the achievements.
Fix: There was an immortal exploit against the 50 Mortality boss.
Fix: Fixed an immortality exploit with Doom Delay and Battery Saver Mode.
Fix: All the new songs were in mono instead of stereo.
Fix: Stopped more of the saving checks happening while the game is in Freeplay mode.
Fix: Profile level XP is now rounded when calculated.
Fix: Fixed dialogs where Infected Worm would use the idle sprite while talking.
Fix: Fixed the wrong variable being used for the 'highest' you got an upgrade.
Fix: Transparency issues with some of the weapons.
Fix: Players who had completed 'No Autoaim' achievement should get the mission unlock now.
Fix: The Face enemies were starting off angry, should be fixed now.
Fix: The achievement for sacrificing 25 crowns activating too early.
Nerf: Reduced ADD_DMG Picayune suit got from Curse.
Picayune Dreams: Contamination
Stepford, here! The update is out. Sorry it took a hot minute, but I really hope you will enjoy what we've been cooking up. If you have any issues, have any bugs or crashes or just questions, please come join the Discord and make a post about it so I can fix it ASAP! Thank you all for the love and support. ːGunfireRebornloveː ːNekoː
— - Added:
Added: New weapons! Added: New bosses! Added: New skills! Added: New suits? Added: New achievements! Added: New songs! Added: Freeplay Mode. Added: Just like Dailies, there is now a Monthlies mode for longer term bragging. Added: 3 new area modifiers. Added: 4 new tiers of Skulls, Gloves, Fish and Souls. The last one being an 'infinitely scaling' one. Added: A new statue. Added: 3 new basic enemies. Added: You can now prestige your Profile Level, raising the level cap by 1 and increase all Profile XP by +10%. Added: The ability to randomize the song. (Setting unlocks after you've beaten a run, make sure it doesn't clash with other binds you have set.) Added: ANTILAG autoscaling system that grows stronger if your FPS starts to dip. The higher the number, the more unnecessary details are removed. Added: Quick Restart, unlocks after you've beaten a run. Added: Some new stats in the Death Screen. Added: Borderless Windowed option. Added: Mute If Focus Lost option. Added: A new auto upgrade option to automatically choose an option if all three are already owned. Added: A new auto upgrade option that makes it prioritize the HIGHEST. Added: You can now block all controller input with a setting. Added: You can now adjust the dialog speed. Added: You can now see if your run is Flawless by looking at the Tab Menu mid-run. Added: The game will now make backups of your save periodically. Added: Some more stats to the collection. Added: Extra names to credits.
— - Change:
Change: Tons of various performance enhancements. Change: You can now play Overdrive scaling up infinitely, getting more and more skill points. Change: Dailies/monthlies now have a max 30 skill point limit, to make some of the other changes non-destructive to the gamemode integrity. Change: The game will better acknowledge that you've got the maximum experience and are at the max profile level, and ready to prestige (if you want). Change: Passives can now go down to 1% instead of capping at 20% minimum. Change: Made Gamepad aiming feel less garbage. Change: The damage stat on the sidebar midrun is replaced with an 'average' DPS, total damage is still present in the endscreen. Change: Some bosses have less health. Change: Some bosses have more health. Change: If you have seen the true ending, the main menu music will now always be changed to the alternate theme. Change: Just like the final boss, all bosses will now automatically reduce your weapon visibility and then return it to the default after the fight is over. Change: Newly purchased upgrades move to the bottom of the list, to make them easier to see in situations with lots of upgrades. Change: Statues will now show their contents at a much further distance. Change: Flawless boss kills without the use of blackholes are 'True Flawless'. Change: Exploding Enemies modifier no longer spawns bullets on death, rather the AOE effect itself is what can hurt you. Change: Exploding Enemies explosions get slightly smaller per chain reaction, to avoid multiplicative scenarios. Change: Added an indicator circle for when the Demon boss will teleport. Change: Since the Amnesia perk has been made redundant, it's been dealt with appropriately. Change: Memory USBs will now appear in the loadout as long as you have 1 kill on the boss that drops them. This should fix any issues people have had with them missing/skipping them accidentally or killing two bosses for the first time in one run. Change: Undying Horror Ghost will no longer be obscured by anything. Change: Enemy Immortality frames upon spawning are now influenced by GameSpeed. Change: By default, ‘Auto Upgrade at Full Build’ will now selectively choose upgrades that are the lowest of the three, to make your entire build more rounded and even. Change: Lowered intensity of 2x GameSpeed visual effect. Change: Dailies no longer make HTTP requests to get timezone data. Change: Tab Menu stats will draw over chosen upgrades and banned upgrades. Change: Children of killed Skull parents spawn with less immortality time. Change: Fixed a bug where the Daily would say you have already attempted it, even if you hadn't. Change: Fixed the Canister misspelling. Change: XP Cans can now be picked up by Parasights with the appropriate skill. Change: Fixed XP Cans sometimes not having XP_MOD applied to them. Change: Removed move speed Worm and Biker get from bonus speed that Cyl gets. Change: Statue of Discipline now costs Blackholes, and can be used multiple times. Change: Statue of Potential can be used 3 times. Change: Magnets pickups will also check to see if XP Cans exist to see if they should be spawned, instead of just XP drops. Change: Grenades be added to the pickup pool if the player is near a statue. Change: Curse doesn't increase Boss HP as much. Change: Monthlies and Dailies will tell you if you've got debug cheat mode on. Change: Statues should 'slow down' at a further distance. Change: Droid Enemy bullet speed halved. Change: Sniper Enemy bullet speed halved. Change: Droid Enemy bullet lifetime doubled. Change: Sniper Enemy bullet lifetime doubled.
— - Stat/Upgrade Adjustments:
Nerf: (The most important change to know, so I’ll put it here first!) Halo no longer blocks bullets, just contact damage. Buff: Solenoid Infusion now gives +3% XP Radius instead of +1%. Buff: Skull Crushing Distance scales with bosses killed. Buff: Gimmiko Dice scale with bosses killed. Buff: XP dropped by bosses should be much higher. Buff: Turret turn speed is now influenced by Proj Spd. Buff: Turret firerate increase, 15 CD > 10 CD. Change: Turrets will aim at the nearest enemy to you, instead of themselves. Buff: Core now gains +1 damage per version. Buff: Ultrabuster now gains +1 damage per version. Buff: Headphones damage increase, 15 > 20. Buff: Headphones knockback increase, 0.5 > 1. Buff: Soul Spear damage increase, 45 > 50. Buff: Soul Spear knockback increase, 2 > 3. Buff: Soul Spear cooldown decrease, 2 > 1.5. Buff: Static Satellite damage increase, 40 > 50. Buff: Dagger Glove knockback increase, 1.5 > 3. Buff: Dagger Glove damage increase, 45 > 50. Buff: Demon Horns range scaling increase, 2*version > 4*version. Buff: Demon Horns knockback increase, 4 > 6. Buff: Demon Horns damage increase, 100 > 125. Buff: Hunter's Bow knockback 0 > 2. Buff: Parasight knockback, 0 > 0.5. Buff: Parasights can latch onto people better the faster it moves. Buff: Parasights will now stay latched onto an enemy until it dies, no matter what. Buff: Yoyo speed increased overall. Buff: Walkman projectiles last twice as long. Buff: Walkman projectiles speed up after hitting something. Buff: Increased Snowglobe damage to 40. Buff: Snowglobe cooldown from 4 seconds to 3 seconds. Buff: Snowglobe is bigger by default. Buff: Increased Plasma damage to 40. Buff: Plasma Globe cooldown from 4 seconds to 3 seconds. Buff: Increased Static Satellite damage to 50. Buff: All frost slow effects last 2 seconds longer. Buff: Elemental Crystal also increases Status Effect duration now. Nerf: Overdrive levels now increase XP gain by 8% instead of 20% per level. Nerf: Angel Wing Knockback, 8 > 6. Nerf: Connect Call has been charged to Dial Tone, causing all XP to be magnetized towards you AFTER a boss kill rather than before. Nerf: Reduced Flamethrower Flame hitbox. Nerf: Flamethrower has 30% chance to ignite, instead of 50%. Nerf: Crit Explosions no longer deal damage twice to the enemy that caused it. Nerf: Telecom explosions can no longer trigger from C4 explosions. Nerf: C4 damage adjusted from 5 + (3 * version) to 10 + (1 * version). Nerf: Parasights damage reduced from 30 to 25. Nerf: Parasights move slightly slower.
— - Fixes:
Fix: Statue of Gamble's price and the amount it took were not aligned properly. Fix: Leech Education can't proc when the game is slow/paused. Fix: Fixed an issue with pausing the RPG memories on gamepad. Fix: Clicking on a USB in the loadout screen will save your current selected skills. Fix: Hopefully made it so that Autoupgrade wont pick a 'Nothing' upgrade if it appears. Fix: Parasight showing it scaled with Cooldown when it didn’t. Fix: Some weapons weren't being influenced by Weapon Transparency. Fix: Fixed a bug where Crit Explosions would apply their damage to Telecom every time. Fix: Fixed a bug where damage wouldn't be added to the stats if it killed the enemy, only if it 'hit' and left them alive.
— - VM or YYC?:
Picayune Dreams runs on YYC, which is an export option in Gamemaker that cranks some extra performance but makes things a bit more 'locked down'. There are other very popular Gamemaker games that run on VM, and so some modding tools have been built around that. We'll be adding a VM build as an optional 'opt in' build in the betas setting after a few days have passed and any issues that arise with this big release are fixed - so keep your eyes open for that if you'd like to run that version for whatever reason.
COMING MARCH 7th
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We need some more time!
Stepford here, and I've come to share some bad news. The content for the update is about 90% complete. We could probably reach 100% completion by the date I set in the last post, but we haven't had any time to playtest it. I just know there is gonna be some bug that'll totally cause computers to explode and stuff, so I just don't feel comfortable shipping it the second its ready, so I'm asking for more time. The new release date is going to February 20th, which will give us time to playtest as well as polish some rough edges. If you have any questions about the update, feel free to ask below and I'll try my best to answer them. ːNekoː
In some better news, the trophy arrived!
its so awesome. goddamn. Thank you so much for making it reality. ːGunfireRebornloveː
365 Days
It has been 365 Days since we put out Picayune Dreams. It's been such an amazing year. The best year of my life, even. It's a dream come true. Anyone who has been following our socials will know that we won the Gamemaker awards - Game Of The Year, which is all thanks to you.. its crazy unbelievable!! I wanted to make a post about that earlier when the trophy arrived, but it still hasn't. I think they had to take a bit of time getting it assembled, but its on the way and I'll make another post showing off pics when it gets here. Sorry about that! ːdos2skullː
Andyl4nd and Milky have been working hard on Endacopia, and I (Stepford) have been chipping in with a few coding bits over there. He put out this teaser, announcing that the game wouldn't be releasing this year - but to look forward to 2025! You should check it out:
Where is the Picayune Dreams update!?
It's still being worked on! Since this is our first time making a game and releasing it to be sold, it's been a learning experience. I think it's been the first year of my life where I felt like I wasn't constantly gluing leaking pipes or running from an upcoming bill to pay -- but Picayune is still on my mind all the time, 24/7. When I'm in the shower, I push my head against the glass and imagine what I need to add or change or what people are saying online.
I'm drawing a line in the sand. Unless some horrible computer exploding bug pops up, the update will be out on January 31st. Perfect is the enemy of great and I want to release this to all of you. Mind you, if it does need to be delayed, I'll poke my head up to let you all know. Sometimes shit happens, there are still some screws that need tightening; so I hope you all won't be too angry if that happens. But a fire under my ass and some brewing excitement towards a specific goal date is exactly what I'm hungry for!
Fingers crossed the GOTY awards gets here soon, and I'll see you all soon! ːNekoː ːGunfireRebornloveː
