Project Amalthea: Battlegrounds
Monthly changelog
There was a lot of changes this month, some of them:
Graphics:
- taking damage damage now leads to shaking camera and red flashing at the edges of the screen
- indication of low HP, stuns, silence now with flashing at the edges of the screen
- additional anti-aliasing FXAA at High and Ultra lighting settings
- activated OpenGL 4.3 mode (including 4.5+) to speed up client loading
- significant changes in the display of the point of explosion of missiles
- changed animation of torpedoes and their trail
- a lot of changes in weapon effects (FX)
- various graphics improvements
Skills and Gameplay:
- added second rank to "Nanorobots" skill, which lasts 15 seconds instead of 10 and requires 11 talent points.
- "Full control" skill has been removed and moved to the "Repair" branch
- added one ot the top skills for Armor branch "Oil Cloud", aura that slows down all ships within a radius of 30 meters, and consumes 5 units of shield per second.
- skill "For wear" does not work if there are no machine guns overheated (you need at least one not overheated to work)
- reworked CTF 4x4 map, now there are passages from the Clone Station to the center of the map, closed by energie barrier that open from the inside. Opening is possible only during the battle and for 10 seconds
- added checks when buying a weapons, armor, ships, etc for presence of the necessary talents
- in the case of takeoff with a hull with missing talents, a slowdown debuff is applied
- changed the rules for the appearance of random items in trade at the station
- reduction of the effect of bonuses for long cooldown weapons starts from 2 seconds
- changes in damage and attack speed of torpedo weapons (DPS remains unchanged)
- reworked formula for damage from shots that remove shield
- fixed "Multi stage charge" - one charge hits one target
- "Destabilizing Explosion" now deals 100 damage
- skill "Silence zone" now has a radius of 40 meters (was 30)
- maximum deceleration now 80%, except stun effects
- the laser skill "Blind" now 10 second cooldown
- Specialist hulls now visible for sale
- NPC reputation no longer affects purchases in the BG store
- "Portable Pulsar" now resets cooldowns of spells and items that have less than 30 seconds of cooldown
- the Repairman class is available for the test
- classes icons are dynamical now and show its hull type, primary and secondary specialization
- "Reload" skill now restores both shield and HP
- invulnerability, acceleration, etc skills leads to flag drop
- "shield neutralization" absorbs 50-75% of total volume of the target's shield and does not depend on the equipped weapon
- Friendly Fire is turned off for training games
UI:
- if there are more than 4 active quests they are shown in a reduced mode
- fixed problem with a black screen on start
- character classes are now divided into 6 categories, instead of 3
- added item filters to shop
- changes in ships classes they are: military, armored, scout, command, scientific, special
- slot for the cloaking module is only available on the scout and special hull
- slot for the drone module is only available on the scientific and command ship
- in the combat log, different types of damage are shown in different colors (yellow - explosions, blue - energy, gray - physics)
- debuff icons are red now
Weekly changelog
- added lens flare from the sun. especially noticeable in 3rd person camera mode
- in 3rd person camera mode minimap rotation can be locked (not bount to camera direction)
- M, T, ESC, etc. keys work correctly during the game
- changed the color of asteroids on the new map
- the new map starts in 4x4 mode, not 6x6 as before
- fixed the problem with random properties of Aux modules
- Mark 3 hulls cost 30,000 each
- other changes and improvements
Build 0.4.300. Anniversary
- Fixed quests with a counter of more than 32768 (did not show correctly)
- fixed a situation where empty quest tasks were shown
- target selection has been redone - now you can press TAB to select any target that is visible on the minimap
- left-clicking on the cone of attack leads to the choice of target
- removed movement by pressing the left mouse button
- fixed problem with ESC and closing windows
- after entering text into the chat, it automatically collapses
- items that can not be dressed are shown with red dimming in the store and inventory at the station
- modules can receive random properties
- changed background color on CTF card 6x6
- rockets are visible on the minimap
- non-critical GOs are hidden on the minimap, loot size is reduced
- added random properties for modules
- other changes and improvements
Build 0.4.299. Test
- lighting quality settings and option to disable new lighting at all
- broken stations on the background
- fixed bug with invisible NPCs and players
- added another map for CTF mode
- various optimizations
Build 0.4.298. Graphics
Version with new background graphics and new maps. There are many possible bugs, especially with graphics. Also there could be different performance issues.
Build 0.4.296
- fixed problem with disappearing effect icons on characters name plates
- added visual effect for the acceleration bonus
- fixes for the correct removal of visual effects in space
- maximum zoom out by default upon entering the world
- spin effect is implemented - the target rotates and cannot control it
- talent 'Destabilizing blast' is now active, rather than passive, deals critical damage and stops the enemy
- talent 'Humanitarian aid' restores both the shield and the target’s hull points, can be used on friends
- changes in texture compression and their quality - the game now takes 20 megabytes less without quality changes
- significant changes in the synchronization of the position of players and NPCs
- slightly increased the radius of artifacts to take them
- other changes and improvements
Live stream
We're scheduling a live stream of gameplay video for today. You'll see a pro player fighting in CTF battleground and may be even few Battle Royale games if there would be enough players to make them interesting.
Grab your popcorn and soda and be ready at your screens at 2PM EST!
Client update
Version 0.4.294:
- fixed bug with invisible missiles
- fixed GameObjectError when putting down the flag
- Flurry of Fire talent launches 4 missiles instead of 6
- changed and significantly accelerated the rendering of stars and the sun
- additional price balancing
- the character retains its orientation upon resurrection
- some resurrection and death tweaks
- new non-intrusive soundtrack
- sounds and music are loaded in parallel (removes jerks when the sound first appears)
- other changes and improvements
Version 0.4.295:
- fixed a problem with registration and the account log in issues
- the skill Breakthrough makes a volley of 10/20 missiles instead of 12/24 as before
- possession of an artifact gives -30% to speed (there was a bug in build 294 that gave +25% instead of -25%)
- fixed a bug in the English locale when it was stated incorrectly which team lost the flag
- changed some workings with flags in Russian locale
- torpedo talents reviewed, optimized and are now in RC state for next builds
- replaced artifact icon while carrying it
- added player team icon for all CTF battles
- the Fast and the Furious skill reduces maneuverability not by 100%, but by 80%. Ship control is now allowed during the skill effect
- added another soundtrack, music will now be repeated
- highlight the artifact when it is lying on the playing field
- different colors for effect icons at the character’s life strip
- no BG bots with stun effects are created
- minor price changes
- other changes and fixes
Build 0.4.293 live now
Changelog for v. 0.4.293
- PVP rank formula is now 1 + log10 (games) with rounding. That means you'll get Rank 1 (Legionary) after first battle, rank 2 (Duplicarius) after 10 battles and so on
- players with the Duplicarius rank and above can enter the FFA battle
- reduced radius of missile detonation by 20%
- bots on the BG are added with 10 sec delay
- the Redeemer machine gun is slightly weakened
- additional check to avoid multiple death messages
- Critical Shot talent of Sniper class consumes the entire shield, requires 100 shield points to activate and guaranteed to crit
- Strobe talent in the Lasers tree requires a 15/30/45 shield depending on the rank
- carrying the Artifact slows down you ship by 25%
- some language changes in client
- other changes and improvements
Steam Summer Game Festival
We are delighted to inform you of our participation in the Steam Summer Game Festival. During the festival everyone is allowed to try the Demo version of our game called Project Amalthea: Battlegrounds.
Battlegrounds is a spin-off from our main project focused on arena fights - short team battles with other players. You start on Amalthea station on Jupiter orbit with a level 10 character and a ship packed with guns and modules.
There is a quarantine declared throughout the orbit so all the pilots are grounded except for the few ones allowed to participate in training battles.
Join their ranks, play different arena battles, upgrade your weapons and buy new ships! There are 50+ supporting quests, 12 skill trees, 16 game classes (only 9 of them are available in the Demo) and much more!
Feel free to follow this link and click Download demo button:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/715810/
P.S. Work is still in progress on the Battlegrounds game and we're doing our best to provide smooth gameplay, timely bug fixing and even add more game classes and arena types during the Festival!
With The Best Regards,
Project Amalthea team
Changelog for Version 0.3.212
- added version number to login screen
- fixed UI error with clone message
- new stealth mode graphics
- changed autoshot mechanics
- fixed station appearance in 3d mode
- messages «No mail» and «No quests» in corresponding windows
- reputation reward is properly displayed
- misc fixes
Build 0.3.210 live!
- fixed tooltips for top panel
- fixed issues with absent Station menus after relogin
- fixed buttons in trader dialog
- added hotkeys for game windows (b- backpack, p- paperdoll, r- reputations, etc.)
- fixed eperience/levelup/route server messages;
- other fixes
Changelog Version 0.2.107.2
Version 0.2.107.2:
- now it is possible to buy or sell items in different quantities: hold Shift to sell or buy 10 items, hold Control to buy or sell 100 items, hold Ctrl+Shift to buy or sell all items in a stack;
- added support for Control key operations;
- fixed shaking screen issue introduced in 0.2.107;
- misc client fixes;
Changelog Version 0.2.107
Version 0.2.107:
- fixed issues with final parts of Gas Station quests;
- more changes to asteroid penetrating issue;
- fixed quests that failed to consume questgiver item;
- added replacement items to loot when taking not needed quest item;
- temporary fix for rotation period issues and time synchronication;
- other changes and improvements;