Hello everyone! or nobody haha! Not sure if anyone is still left around here but I am just making this announcement just in case at least one of y'all is still hanging around the backrooms of Steam! I have decided to retire this game as I honestly feel it doesn't have the quality a video game on the steam store should have. As I grew and learned as a developer over the past 6 years and I realized what a quality game should entail. I have no plans to come back and work on this game as I am working on a new project in my spare time called Sophonce. I will be developing this game for a very very... VERY long time and is the game I feel would be a representation of what a fun and engaging shooter should have. This will be my primary focus for the many years to come. I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to each of you awesome people who supported me by buying this game, giving constructive criticism and most importantly, taking time out of your day to play it. I intend to give everyone who purchased this game access to my new game Sophonce when it releases many years from now if Valve lets me! They are a very reasonable bunch of people so I assume they would. Take care and see you in the distant future when I release my other game!
I wish you all the very best, Sameer
Important!
Hello everyone who is still lurking around this part of Steam! I decided to not continue development on Sophont, it seems I failed on an epic level on my early access release. I got very little feedback on the game and hardly anyone bought it. I don't think it will be wise to stress over the development of this game if it will all be for nothing. Since I am no longer developing the game I decided to take it out of early access. I made a lot of improvements these past few months and it should reflect in the final product. Hope y'all enjoy! I guess I will probably get into modding as a hobby :)
Thank you to everyone who supported me thus far, it is great knowing that some people out there are enjoying my game!
Early Access Improvements
Hello everyone hope y'all had a great weekend. Big thanks to [AKA] decizion for giving me some helpful suggestions. I was able to make some of the changes over the weekend and uploaded the updated version to Steam. Your version of Sophont should be 0.3.3
Here are the changes:
Level selection in the menu for those who have completed the first chapter.
Improved the SMG and Rocket Launcher.
Added more ammunition around the maps and made sure to make them easy to find.
Dismemberment occurs on rocket damage.
Reload animation every 7-13 seconds to stop the continuous fire for the AI.
Reduced accuracy slightly for the AI ( I might need to reduce the accuracy some more, still testing it out).
Biotic Teleport for the AI where they teleport behind the player is reduced to a 1/5 chance every time it triggers instead of doing it every single time. This should dramatically reduce the frequency of it happening.
Fixed some small bugs I found while playing the game.
I'm working on getting the sound settings in the menu. Hopefully I will have it done by next Sunday. Thanks to Miku for bringing that to my attention. Thanks again to the people who are helping me out, you guys are awesome!
I also made a discord server for those who want to be actively involved during the development of my game! https://discord.gg/C7tx4Yu
I will try to post updates every 2-3 weeks to keep y'all posted on the improvements I have made.
