We are amazingly happy to release Update #1 to everyone! It's been two weeks of hard work, over 50 bug fixes, three new levels and a metric tonne of tweaking and balancing. Thanks for all the feedback from the initial release. Smith and Winston is now EVEN better.
So what is in the update?
BUNKER BOSS
You meet this guy right at the end of this update. He's a recurring enemy, he lives in a bunker that belches out fumes and he protects himself with enemy spawners and massive cannons. Do you think you've got what it takes to beat him?
SWAMP OF THE REANIMATED
So who would have though that near a damp, dinghy womble infested swamp there would a maze of lava caverns hiding a few secrets? Games designers, that's who. Everyone loves a lava section and if you don't... well you might not even find it.
CANDY
It's not all dark and dingy in the shattered ring world future of dooooom. Candy is so colourful it might make you sick... after Halloween I think we can all relate to that... even us brits who have inexplicably started to dress as ghouls for one day of the year!
Why oh why is Smithy sitting in that strange hole though...
MAZE
Leave the dark and enter the light after the maze. This place must have been lovely before... well before it all went wrong.
COLLECTABLE HELMETS
THAT'S IT UNTIL THE NEXT UPDATE
We're, of course, very proud of what we're releasing to all you lucky people today. To be honest though it's so much better for all the feedback you've given us. From tweaking the controls to huge holes in the level design you've been fantastic partners in the making of Smith and Winston.
The next update is scheduled for the 6th of December, more levels, more destruction and more fun.
We're working hard on the next release for Smith and Winston. With the initial release we promised an "Update #1" on November the 2nd and we're on track to deliver.
The next release includes levels called Swamp of the Reanimated, Deep, Bunker Boss and Candy. Hardcore gamers amongst you may be able to tell one of those levels is a boss level!
As well as working toward Update #1 we're also looking far forward to Update #4 which will include Coop game play.
Coop is already great fun just because you can throw a grenade and destroy the floor your partner is standing on, watch them fall to their doom and the proclaim it was an accident!
Coop includes a special buddy mode.In buddy mode player 2 can't die from being shot. So you can hand the second half broken, sticky, mutant controller to your kid or younger brother and play the game with them. It's great fun and what gaming is all about as far as we're concerned. Of course you can still accidentally destroy the floor out from beneath them... for science or brotherly love :)
It should also be obvious that there are a lot of parents that will be playing as buddy to their far more capable child!
As well as adding these new levels for everyone to play we've fixed a number of bugs. Thanks to everyone who reported bugs via email, twitter, itch.io, reddit and to our faces in meat space. Here are a few other little feature requests that will be in this update:
Change weapon with the mouse wheel
Reset controller settings and keyboard settings to default
Pause menu has an option to return to game (you don't have to press escape or 'start' again)
Grave markers no longer pop up some text or appear floating in the middle of nowhere if you die by falling off the world
Cleaner font for the menus
Better glyphs for the controller icons (X, Square etc)
Option to turn off or lower the volume of shippy, poor shippy, so annoying.
High score table!
LAVA, well there is a level with lava, every game needs a lava level.
Thanks for reading, thanks for playing and remember to buy now because the price is gonna go up to $7.99 once Update #1 is out!
