Pro Wrestling X
V1.8 "Latest Bleeding Edge" build update
- Added the ability for AI to grab and pickup weapons available
- Added the ability of AI climbing platforms and grappling. Haven't included ragdoll falling just yet but will include it in the next build
- Fixed the sensitivity of using controllers and gamepads while navigating menu
- Added the New Chokeslam animation. This is a move that can send your opponent through the table so get close to the table and perform the move. Looks very awesome with flaming table
- Improved overall gameplay mechanics and polished the core gameplay to make things more fluid and smooth
- Fixed a few other bugs that help improve the quality of the game
KNOWN ISSUES:
-Sometimes player legs freeze during walk idle as you slide around. Pretend it's an outdoor Canadian venue on ice for now ;)
-If you play against one of the default "John Doe" characters you will experience glitches and bugs the likes of which your grandchildren will hear horror stories about.
Please let us know what other issues you'd like us to address as we're already cranking on the next update for ya. THANK YOU again so much for your kind and patient a support!!
Latest Bleeding Edge build updated!
New Build is LIVE!
The very latest bleeding edge build is ready for you right now on our "Latest-Bleeding-Edge" beta channel of Steam! It's been a tough few weeks with our lead programmer pushing through a serious case of COVID but together with our lead artist, Mr Rasslin X, we've got something new for you all to try out. Plenty of work to do as we continually upgrade to the new engine but here is the list of everything added since last bleeding edge update:
BUILD NOTES:
- Added Match preset menu for each match setup. Most speciality matches are not included yet due to AI not assigned yet but will be included in the next build.
- Added Championship mode. Win or Defend the Championship in this mode
- Added Riot as a new character
-Character Select menu updated
-Wrestler Edit feature in process of being added back
-New Ring editor added
-Options menu available from main menu and pause menu
- Assigned each wrestler a unique movelist
- Added addition Caw assets including the ref shirts
- Added more options in Ring Editor
- Disabled some content in this build until it is ready. In the edit mode you will see locked content on each item that is affected.
- Added the option of No Aprons and No Buckles in the Ring Editor
- Updated the Cardboard material with the new hi-res material.
- Added the chain Rope Texture to the Chain Ropes in Ring Editor
- Added the correct values to volume sliders in the Options menu from the main menu
- Added volume, crowd and sfx sliders in the In-Game Pause Menu, which now applies the correct values from the Options menu. You can now also select the sliders with the keyboard or controller in the pause menu.
- Fixed Grimhold Mask Texture issues in Character select
- Fixed the Two combined square posts in Ring Editor, it now only show one square post when you select.
- Added Animated Aprons, now when you slam your opponent to the canvas, you will see the Aprons animate
- Fixed the BIGTIME animated ring post issues
- Fixed the Exit button on Main Menu
-First Blood and Iron Man matches added back
-Exploding Candy Cane added as special random weapon
- Re added the build number stamp on Main Menu
- Scaled the Apron so that you can see more of the ring post
Lead Programmer "Burning Devil" note: So that is it for now guys. I'm still recovering at the moment but wanted to submit this for you all, so that you can play through and give feedback. Very very tired for now so I'm heading to bed for sleep, but I look forward to your feedback.
THANK YOU to everyone for your kind support and patience!
KNOWN ISSUES
-Strike/grapple button response during walk idle is is being a dick. Working on it.
-One tester is reporting broken character geometry in Character Select screen and we have not been able to reproduce this bug internally. If it happens to you PRETTY PLEASE let us know so we can get more helpful clues. THANK YOU!
-You will notice a fair ammount of features/content that still needs to be added back to this new engine compared to the old Unity 4 build that is our main public build here on Steam. But this build also has stuff that old build does not have. Enjoy the exploding Candy Cane if you get lucky and find it ;)
-Dave
Welcome to Newsletter #939!
New Moves
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The next playable update is being worked on by our code warrior, Burning Devil, as we speak. WOOO! While he does that Mr Wrestling 5 is cranking on adding more new moves to the game and this morning he sent me a fun little update in the form of an ‘old photo’ with a brief description that I’m taking as clear proof that he was at least five cans into a six pack ;)
“Hey guys, remember the time way back when Black Falcon gave Jack Blaze the Falcon Arrow in front of a capacity crowd to win the All Pro Japan World Championship! No?? Good thing we have this old photo of it. “
Pic attached. I love this crew. I love this community. I love this life.
2) Quote of the Week
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The adventure Pro Wrestling X has taken me on is one I will always be grateful for. It has given me purpose, brought amazing people and experiences into my life, and taught me things about myself I wouldn’t have learned any other way. It has also left me crippled with fear and crushingly alone all too many times. But when I read the following it helped me realize it all had to happen for it ALL to happen, y’know?
“The Struggle is when you wonder why you started the company in the first place.
The Struggle is when people ask you why you don’t quit and you don’t know the answer.
The Struggle is when your employees think you are lying and you think they may be right.
The Struggle is when food loses its taste.
The Struggle is when you don’t believe you should be CEO of your company. The Struggle is when you know that you are in over your head and you know that you cannot be replaced. The Struggle is when everybody thinks you are an idiot, but nobody will fire you. The Struggle is where self-doubt becomes self-hatred.
The Struggle is when you are having a conversation with someone and you can’t hear a word that they are saying because all you can hear is The Struggle.
The Struggle is when you want the pain to stop. The Struggle is unhappiness.
The Struggle is when you go on vacation to feel better and you feel worse.
The Struggle is when you are surrounded by people and you are all alone. The Struggle has no mercy.
The Struggle is the land of broken promises and crushed dreams. The Struggle is a cold sweat. The Struggle is where your guts boil so much that you feel like you are going to spit blood.
The Struggle is not failure, but it causes failure. Especially if you are weak. Always if you are weak.
Most people are not strong enough.
Every great entrepreneur from Steve Jobs to Mark Zuckerberg went through The Struggle and struggle they did, so you are not alone. But that does not mean that you will make it. You may not make it. That is why it is The Struggle.
The Struggle is where greatness comes from.” -Ben Horowitz
3) Question of the Week
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Have you gotten used to watching wrestling without a live audience? I gotta admit that I never realized how much of what makes wrestling fun to watch comes from the energy of the audience.
In the meantime and in between time, that's it, another edition of
Wrestling Gamers United.
Thank you for your support,
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Bleeding Edge Update! April 24 2020
The next bleeding edge update is just a few days away as well. Also relatively minor (baby steps are always better than no steps) the next update will include resolution/quality options, increased controller support, and other bug fixes.
THANKS AGAIN for your kind and patient support :)
Bleeding Edge April 17 2020 UPDATED!
FINALLY! We're dusting off the cobwebs around here and giving the biggest damn collective middle finger we can give to all of the crap that slowed us down and tried to kill us for the last year or so. NOT TODAY SATAN!
You may have already heard about the $1 Patreon campaign we launched a few weeks back with the intent of cranking out regular build updates for our ass-kicking Steam community again. We pulled the trigger, launched the Patreon, and then the strangest thing happened...we started cranking out regular updates again!
The various Pro Wrestling X Beta channels here on Steam got a little convoluted and unorganized so instead of deleting or updating any of the existing channels directly (you never know who might have become attached to any particular one) I've created a BRAND SPANKIN' NEW Beta channel and uploaded a brand new bleeding edge internal developer update to it.
BUILD NOTES
If you know how to access the beta channel menu by right-clicking on Pro Wrestling X in your Steam library, you'll find a spot to enter a password. Enter "justforsteamsupporters" here and you'll be granted access to a new Beta channel named "latest-bleeding-edge". This new channel is not to be confused with the old "bleeding-edge-build" which is...confusing, I know right!?!
Once you're subscribed to this new Beta channel a brand new bleeding edge private developer build will begin downloading for you. Stay subscribed to this new channel, and you'll automatically get all of the new bleeding edge updates after our $1 Patreon supporters get a sneak peek at it for a few days. The builds in this channel will show you EXACTLY what we're working on at any given moment. For example, this new beta build is all about increasing frame rate performance and bringing all of the lighting, animation, etc. up to date. It contains just two wrestlers at this time for testing as well as the very beginnings of some new features such as pulling weapons from the crowd, selectable venues from the pause menu, and other little goodies.
PLEASE feel free to leave your feedback here and let us know how it performs for you in general. There will be bugs and glitches at this point, but once we can confirm the core gameplay is running strong we can begin adding in all of the match types, CAW, roster, etc. from the old Unity 4 build that remains our main public build here on Steam.
Here's a quick YouTube video that runs down the various new and (hopefully) improved stuff to keep an eye out for in this build.
https://youtu.be/H4QPh1RE4BE
THANK YOU for your kind and patient support on Steam! Our humble little Patreon campaign has already helped us pump out more new builds in the last few weeks than we were able to release in the last few YEARS before that. We already have ANOTHER bleeding edge build ready to upload here (NEW WRESTLERS BABY!) for you which we'll do after you've had a few days to really beat the shit out of this one and let us know what you think.
Keep your eyes peeled my friends. Next update is already prepped :)
THANKS AGAIN!
-Dave, Mr Wrestling 5, Burning Devil
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A few notes about recent Patreon perks, Steam builds, etc:
I know some people were a bit confused about the new Patreon campaign we launched and some thought that anyone HAD to pay $1 to get build updates. OH HELL NO! Patreon supporters just get to play these bleeding edge updates a few days early. After Patrons kick the builds around for a few days/weeks they will be posted here on Steam for EVERYONE :)
Turns out I sometimes communicate with y'all even worse than I trim my ear hair. Steam customers get the bleeding edge updates, too. Patrons just get them a few days early in exchange for tossing our crew a dollar towards continued development. It's working well so far! Thanks to Patreon $1 supporters we've delivered bleeding edge builds to them TWICE already since launching the campaign just a couple of weeks ago. Development is speeding along comfortably again and EVERYONE wins!
Also, I think I failed to mention that $1 Patreon supporters get an early peek at these builds, oh it's true, but they do not get the main public build that you all purchased here on Steam. Patreon is really meant for those supporters who were asking to contribute a little more to the crew to help speed up development again. So far so good. It's working!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
"Bleeding Edge" build updating later today!
...kinda!
Later today I'll be opening a proper "Bleeding Edge" beta channel open to EVERYONE who purchased Pro Wrestling X here on Steam. I know some people were a bit confused about the new Patreon campaign we launched and some thought that anyone HAD to pay $1 to get build updates. OH HELL NO! Patreon supporters just get to play these bleeding edge updates early. After Patrons kick the builds around for a few days/weeks they will be posted here on Steam for EVERYONE :)
Turns out I sometimes communicate with y'all even worse than I trim my ear hair. Steam customers get the bleeding edge updates, too. Patrons just get them a few days early in exchange for tossing our crew a dollar towards continued development. It's working well so far! Thanks to Patreon $1 supporters we've delivered bleeding edge builds to them TWICE already since launching the campaign just a couple of weeks ago. Development is speeding along comfortably again and EVERYONE wins!
Also, I think I failed to mention that $1 Patreon supporters get an early peek at these builds, oh it's true, but they do not get the main public build that you all purchased here on Steam. Patreon is really meant for our supporters that were asking to contribute a little more to the crew to help speed up development again. So far so good. It's working!
Stay tuned. I'll post a proper announcement when the new bleeding edge beta channel and build update is ready for everyone :)
THANK AGAIN!
-Dave
Newsletter #934!
That was THREE!
Steam Shit Show
Guest List
1) That was THREE!
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Daaaaamn, son! We released our first Patreon update just a few weeks ago. Our programmer delivered the SECOND update to the crew earlier this week. And just this morning as I was preparing to share that build with our Patrons I got a message from our lead programmer, Burning Devil, asking me to wait until he can get a THIRD and even better update ready for them instead later today. Ahem. To paraphrase arguably the greatest marionette movie ever made, “Burning Devil! FUCK YEAH!”
If all goes as planned we’ll have that build up for Patrons later today. NOICE! We’ll also be adding a new build for Steam customers who are not yet Patreon supporters as promised. On that note…
2) Steam Shit Show
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Pro Wrestling X supporter, Ivatopia, saved me from damn near nuking some of our builds on Steam today. I didn’t personally set up the various build depots we have on Steam and I’m now the guy handling that whole thing. So I nearly made a critically stupid error by assuming the ‘bleeding edge’ build channel was for actual bleeding edge builds. It is not. That’s what the ‘Discord Party’ channel was apparently set up for. I was about to rotate in the current Patreon bleeding edge build to the Steam bleeding edge channel and thereby nuke the build currently on that channel which is actually the last stable Unity 4 build...I think. I dunno that’s what it looks like. THANK YOU Ivatoptia for alerting me to that! I will therefore be creating an awesome NEW channel on Steam specifically for getting actual bleeding edge builds to our awesome Steam customers after our awesome Patrons have had their awesome sneak peek at them. Make sense? Not really? Don’t blame you. Short story: New Steam channel coming this weekend with a new build for y’all :)
3) Guest List
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So f’n glad everyone is digging the first few episodes of my new Talk Shit podcast! The Sanders Keel and Mat Dickie episodes seem like they really hit their mark and I’m happy to share a short list of upcoming episodes with you all that have already been recently recorded or confirmed to be recorded soon:
Zeron: PWX Discord server admin asks me HARD questions about how we pissed off a lot of fans recently.
RetroMania Wrestling: Creator, Michael Herman talks $$$, WWE legal threats, and more.
Graphic Content UK: Owner Rich Baker talks about making money designing cool shit for PWTees, musicians, wrestlers, etc
Patrick Hickey Jr.: Author of Minds Behind The Games book series talked about his new book featuring the creators of Revenge, RAW, Showdown, and Royal Rumble while giving advice on how a wrestling fan can hustle like a bad-ass to make a living doing what you love.
Chikara Action Arcade Wrestling: Creator, Dave Horn, and I gossip like old ladies about wrestling game development, wrestling in general , running a business, and why we even bother at all.
Sanders Keel Part 2: Gonna be a good one ;)
Secret #1: I interview the creator of an unannounced wrestling game in development. The unique way this game intends to focus where no other game does looks pretty rad. Rad is still a word, yes?
Secret #2: I interview the person behind the future PWX DLC they asked us to develop for them FINALLY :)
4) Quotes of the Week
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“A lion is fully capable of capturing, killing, and eating a field mouse. But it turns out that the energy required to do so exceeds the caloric content of the mouse itself. So a lion that spent its day hunting and eating field mice would slowly starve to death. A lion can’t live on field mice. A lion needs antelope. Antelope are big animals. They take more speed and strength to capture and kill, and once killed, they provide a feast for the lion and her pride. … So ask yourself at the end of the day, ‘Did I spend today chasing mice or hunting antelope?'” — Newt Gingrich
5) Question of the Week
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Got any suggestions for future podcast guests? Don’t be shy about aiming high. I like a good challenge.
In the meantime and in between time, that's it, another edition of
Wrestling Gamers United.
Thank you for your support,
Dave Wishnowski
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STOP BUYING PRO WRESTLING X!
This pandemic and quarantine is looking to cost a lot of people their livelihoods. The PWX crew wants to help but as a humble little game developer we don't have much to offer other than the games we make.
That's why we are announcing today that we are working with Steam to indefinitely lower the price of our game to just $1 and, if they'll let us, we'll start giving it away completely for FREE. So if you've been planning to buy our game for a little entertainment while locked down PLEASE DON'T just yet. Use the money for something more important while we work to get PWX in your hands super inexpensively or free asap.
It will take a few days to for new pricing to take effect and we'll announce it here as soon as it drops. If you've already purchased our game here at full price or at a discount THANK YOU! You will still get all of the regular promised updates as they become available. If you purchased recently but wish you waited for a price drop it's totally cool to ask Steam for a refund and come back after the price change.
You're probably asking yourself how in the hell can we afford to keep working on updating the game if we give up all revenue? Good question! Short answer: We'll earn it the old fashioned way, by putting out regular updates that give you value and if you want to support more updates you'll soon be able to that because...
We're finally opening a much requested Patreon to accept support for quicker and more frequent updates. We'll ONLY be accepting $1 from you on Patreon and ONLY after we give you a new playable update! We love this because we take no payment up front from Patrons, we have to earn your $1 by delivering the goods!
And as a special gift from us you'll be getting a FREE copy of our long unavailable first game, Pro Wrestling X: Uprising totally on the house and one or two other surprises as we build out the Patreon page.
This is honestly scary for us. Giving our hard work away for next to nothing is a risky maneuver. But it's the right thing to do for our community and it's the right thing to do for us by making us accountable to keep updating the game if we ever want to leave our day jobs to work on Pro Wrestling X full time again. That's the dream. THANK YOU for supporting us all this time.
The world is changing. We can give up, blame this new reality, and no one would blame us.
Or we can choose to accept, adapt, and stay in the arena to fight another day with the best damn community of supporters on the planet.
We choose to fight.
THANK YOU!
p.s. Psssst Wanna have a heart attack and see some BRAND NEW stuff we're adding to PWX right NOW before anyone else? The Patreon page is officially LIVE right now even though we have more work to do on it before officially announcing it. If you check it out now you can see a video showing a few new things we've been working on and the last 30 seconds will show you something we've been dreaming of adding since we watched Ready to Rumble in 2000. Everyone who's seen it so far has lost their shit ;)
https://www.patreon.com/ProWrestlingX
And if you decide to sign up today for free you can snag the Uprising download right now. Should be working fine. Can you sign up for free, download Uprising, and then cancel before our next update? Yup. But you won't. Because Pro Wrestling X supporters are not twat waffles
Newsletter #928
1) Trashed
2) Congrats Mat!
3) Quote of The Week
4) Question of the Week
1) Trashed
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Why is the massive engine upgrade we’re in the middle of so important? More reasons than I will bore you with here. But overall performance is the main reason. Our current Steam build chokes hard and frame rate drops from all of the physics and things we ask of it. But check the video attached to this newsletter for a peek at a bleeding edge build in the new engine. How many weapons can you grab from behind the crowd barrier? ALL OF THEM! Even with the physics reactions set to 10 and things flying out of the way the frame rate holds. This matters now and will matter even more as we add more wrestlers in the ring, more moves, more interactive environments, more more MOAR :)
2) Congrats Mat!
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I fucking LOVE Mat Dickie! His recent award from YouTube is not well deserved...it’s well EARNED. Do we agree on everything under the sun? HELL NO! Who cares? Fact is, he didn’t let pussy internet trolls deter him from pursuing his vision and his goals. I can relate. Visions may differ and our unique life perspectives as well, but I would proudly fight alongside this man in any and every war against the keyboard chikenshits bleaking “give up!” while doing absolutely NOTHING to make the gaming world a better place.
https://youtu.be/fWnn5fj47wY
3) Quote of the Week
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“We hire people who want to make the best things in the world” -Steve Jobs
4) Questions of the Week
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AEW: a serious contender to dethrone the empire or another ‘ATM Eric’?
In the meantime and in between time, that's it, another edition of
Wrestling Gamers United.
Thank you for your support,
Dave Wishnowski
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Newsletter #927
1) Come Together
2) Refreshed
3) Quote of The Week
4) Question of the Week
1) Come Together
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Big thanks to the Pro Wrestling X crew for all coming together to Skype last week. It can be a real challenge with the team being separated by four time zones. Usually we all plan and discuss over development and funding strategy but I had to leave the meeting early and it was actually nice to have the art and programming guys just talk shop without my dumbass on the line all the time. They worked out a little hiccup with the main character file that was preventing some update progress for the programmer and it just went to show how much more these guys can get done when they can literally work together and communicate in real time.
The next meeting just a few days ago was without our lead programmer, unfortunately (damn his day job crunch). But we all agreed that getting crew paid to work some guaranteed hours is obviously important but we must also work towards getting people to work together at the same time as much as possible, especially for troubleshooting testing things back and forth.
Proud of the baby steps these guys consistently take for PWX. Just foaming at the mouth knowing what they can do when unleashed to work on PWX more often. Love these guys.
2) Refreshed
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Thank you to everyone and your positive reactions to the fresh coat of paint we’ve been putting on our social media stuff. We updated the classic PWX logo a while back and recently updated our N64-style header images as well. I love that image so much. It instantly and simply conveys the DNA of the project to anyone with a fondness for the AKI classics like we do. Huge props to our lead artist, Mr Wrestling 5, for helping freshen everything up especially with all of the new Steam page art asset requirements we needed to comply with. He da man!
3) Quote of the Week
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“Until you work as hard as those you admire, don’t explain away their success as luck.” -James Clear
4) Questions of the Week
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New Sony and Xbox consoles are on their way. Hearing a lot of people are in no big hurry to grab them at launch this generation. A real trend? Are people still perfectly happy with current gen? What about you?
In the meantime and in between time, that's it, another edition of
Wrestling Gamers United.
Thank you for your support,
Dave Wishnowski
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