Dear Sheriff,
We plan to launch the EA version on June 21, 2019. Players who have participated in the closed beta test will be rewarded with a "Space Cowboy Hat". In the Lobby's Book of Legends, we recorded the Sheriffs who have participated in the closed beta test and given us their great suggestions which have been adopted. Similarly, we will continue to adopt good suggestions from players in the EA version, and Sheriffs with good suggestions will also be recorded into our Thank You List. The sheriffs have helped us find a lot of areas for improvement after the two closed beta tests, so we are now preparing to launch the EA version and hope to improve Hopetown together with all our Sheriffs.
[Update Time]
June 21, 2019, 11:00
[Update Method]
Down Time and Update
[Update Range]
All Servers
[Update Content]
1. Sheriffs who have participated the closed beta test will receive a "Space Cowboy Hat" upon logging in.
2. Steam achievements are open. Sheriffs can earn set achievements after they have completed the goals for the corresponding achievement. The in-game interactive Achievement Photo Frame will open later.
3. Updated the Book of Legends and created a production team list.
4. Added a new obtainable skill: Cyber Virus. After acquiring this skill, you can make the enemy's left-hand Mini-computer continuously sound an alarm.
5. Added WMR support, WMR operation is now fully supported.
6. Added the sound effect for physical collision of objects. Now collision between objects will produce slight sound.
[Improvements]
1. Improved the physical system of firearms, each firearm will now produce the correct recoil force effect.
2. Improved the Rookie Guide and added an Item Bag usage and Setting interface guide. During the rookie guide, there will be ongoing voice prompts to remind players of the next step, each step now also has novice guide with light spots to guide players.
3. Improved the AI of aliens, they will be more aggressive, and will attack players with a sharp blade when they are near players. Improved the AI of the Patrol Bandit. Patrol Bandits may run away when attacked by players and will also attack when near players. All the actions of NPCs have also been improved.
4. Modified the Mist mechanism and replaced it with a new electromagnetic force field effect to reduce GPU performance consumption.
5. Removed the stealth effect on items when they're collected and improved the visual effects of firearms.
6. Reduced the refresh rate of various grenades in the scenario and increased the refresh rate of bullet boxes.
7. The number of projectiles per shot of the Stevens 311R sawn-off shotgun has been reduced and the damage of the sawn-off shotgun is reduced.
8. Improved area efficiency and memory usage, and improved the frame rate of in-game scenarios.
9. Improved Item Bag withdrawal, it's now easier to take items out.
10. Improved the VFX and SFX of punching and of the Laser Blade when hitting characters and items.
11. Improved automatic regional server selection logic.
12. Improved and added a cough sound after being hit by Gas Grenades.
13. Improved and added more text support for other languages.
14. Improved default language selection logic.
[Fixed Bugs]
1. Fixed the bug that made the Mauser C96 and Winchester 1895 not visible after loading bullets.
2. Fixed bugs in the player voice system and some audio bugs.
3. Fixed the bug that made the HTC Vive joystick movement slower than the Oculus joystick.
4. Fixed the bug of the bullet model residual effects on hands.
5. Fixed the collision bug in game scenarios.
6. Fixed the client death synchronization bug.
7. Fixed the bug that made players lose connection in the room, making them unable to enter.
8. Fixed the bug that prevented some players from entering the game.
9. Fixed some bugs in the team voice function.
10. Fixed the bug that made the Oculus unable to automatically turn on the microphone.
11. Fixed the bug that prevented the Dog Cage Key from being inserted into the Dog Cage lock.
[Update Events]
The Challenge Development Team Event will be available from July 5th to July 26th.
Every Thursday from 7 pm to 8pm (PDT time), the development team will open a 2V2 room on the US server that will await the challenge of players, the room number will be announced on Discord.
Join our Discord now! https://discord.gg/bkxQsYT
The 2nd Beta Test is Start!
The server is now open! Come and play with us in this beta test!
Please note that:
1. The server only opens for seven days(4/10/2019 8:00 pm - 4/16/2019 8:00pm PDT). Please check before you play.
2. We will open 1v1 and 2v2 modes for this test. The custom room is available.
3. The test key will be revoked and the players' data will not be recorded after the test. Thank you in advance for your understanding.
4. The game is still in development and we welcome all of your advice. Feel free to broadcast, take screenshots or record videos about the game (we will be very grateful if you could note that it is a beta version when you upload any of them).
5. A survey about your test experience will be sent to your Email after this test, please leave your comment! We sincerely appreciate all players' suggestions!
If you have any questions while playing, please contact us on the Discord channel. Our team will be online all the time. The registration entrance is still open. Don't forget to tell people around you about this good news! And keep following our SNS for more updates!
Join Discord Now: https://discord.gg/bkxQsYT
Official website(beta test register entrance): http://ss.163.com/en/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Stay-Silent-305352753413812/
Stay Silent Devs Team
Developer Update | Why the invisible fight?
This time we will answer questions about the gameplay of Stay Silent
Why did you choose the invisible PvP game mode?
To be honest, this was created out of a coincidence. In the beginning, we planned to make a shooting game based on western stories. During the early stage of the development process, we didn't have any invisibility elements. One day when we were developing this original version, a bug made all the characters disappear from the game. After we fixed the bug, the idea of making players invisible to each other came to us. We started thinking that it could work and played around with the idea. The most important point is that this kind of stressful and thrilling atmosphere would be magnified in the immersive medium of VR. Afterward, we developed many game modes around the theme of invisibility since it requires all kinds of different strategies to take down an invisible enemy. Gradually, many of our members fell in love with this invisible mode, and we made it the core of our game.
What kinds of difficulties did you meet when developing invisible gameplay?
Actually, the greatest difficulty was probably the art design. We want to tell the players that when they are in the game they are invisible, everything the players pick up will become invisible too. But at the same time, we need to tell players what they are holding in hands. Obviously, we can't make items really invisible in the game, neither can we make them semitransparent. After several iterations within half a year, we chose a flickering visual effect to display a visible effect with the special effect of flowing light.
Which is the most anticipated or the most interesting part of the game?
I guess it should be the tense moments of shooting to finish off your enemy after sparing no effort (or taking some risks) to find the invisible enemy.
What plans do you have for the future?
We are planning to add a High Noon Time offline battle mode. Players will need to find the best position and adjust weapons within the allotted invisible time to see who is the best sharpshooter.
Are you going to add more story modes in the future?
In the current mode, players have a chance to get some items related to the background story. We have designed many more such items than those that are currently available in the game. We are now developing more story modes. We hope to find a method through which we can better infuse stories into VR interactions and battles.
That's all for this time! Stay on top of the new via the links below, and welcome to register for the next test on our official website:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Stay-Silent-305352753413812/
Discord: https://discord.gg/xCtwARW
Official website: http://ss.163.com/en/
Developer Update | Why the West?
We received a few questions related to our game theme. So let us answer them here together!
Why did you choose a western theme?
Many members of our developer teams are big fans of the old western classics. When we were kids, we watched many American movies and many were about the American Old West. The scene of riding horses and intense duels made a lasting impression on us. We have also played a bunch of games that have western stories. But we found that there few well-made western themed VR games. We feel that these stories are really interesting and worthy of being introduced to a new audience. So, we set out in the hope to infuse this kind of unique western experience into VR games. Just imagine that you are a great western hero where you use your trusty revolver to deliver your own brand of justice and you will know how cool it is!
What other themes did you consider before?
We have considered making an invisible sci-fi shooting game with the story happening on Mars. However, we think the operation experience brought by those old style guns will be much better than that brought by those sci-fi guns. Our interest and enthusiasm made us choose the western theme. We know that the battles on Mars will also bring players quite different game experience. We will work on it if possible in the future.
Why did you add the story of alien invasion?
We want to bring different kinds of gameplay into this game, which will definitely bring players more challenges and more changes. Imagine that at the moment when you hold your revolver tightly and are ready to shoot down your enemy when the enemy in front of you just disappears. Or like when you find a nice hideout and think you are safe only to turn around to discover the enemy is standing right behind. The element of invisibility enables us to make players more nervous and excited, which made us think about how a west cowboy would gain this ability to become invisible.
Infusing sci-fi elements into a retro world view can always excite many game makers, and many movie makers too. Cowboys & Aliens, while some may say is trash, we think that it is a cool movie with many of our team members really enjoying it. We have to admit that great works of the same theme did have a great influence on us developing this game even those they are not the source of our inspiration.
That's all for this time! Stay on top of the new via the links below, and welcome to register for the next test on our official website:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Stay-Silent-305352753413812/
Discord: https://discord.gg/xCtwARW
Official website: http://ss.163.com/en/
Developer Update | What we are going to do
Thank you so much for all of you who joined this beta test! In those 5 days, we received many valuable suggestions about our game. We are so confident that with all of you, we could make this a great game!
Here are feedbacks about some of your suggestions that we would like to share with all of you.
1. Phil4853: Can't figure out how to load a gun or leave the lobby. Why are there no instructions?
Yes, we will add instruction or handbook in the following version. And so glad that most of our players like the "swing" way of reloading, just, more instruction are still needed.
2. walkininfected: The speed is quite low though I did seem to manage to run once
Of course, players could run in our game. And we are going to change the way to active running action to make it more friendly.
3. DalekLIVE: so grabbing items is extremely difficult. The shotguns Gave me no problems but the revolver sometimes wouldn't allow me to grab it from the wall. Similarly, the ammo box and grenade box seems to have colliders that prevent me from picking up the item unless my hand is actually touching it.
Thanks for that! We already changed that in our game by enlarging the active zone of grabbing items. And the different hitbox of different guns will also be fixed in the future.
4. haplomega: The dog creature... when it was set loose, lagged about and did some weird animation that looked like it was being snapped by Thanos and reassembled over and over. The Behemoth monster thing that randomly spawns kept pathing into a box and would never move away from it, in one instance.
Those scenes are fun to imagine, to be honest, but we will take them seriously! The AI and reliability of NPC will be enhanced in the next version. Please try again next time!
5. Shadow_at_iSimuVR: This is a really cool game! I definitely think more players and/or a story mode will make it more fun.
Sure! We already wrote a great story for this game before we actually make it. The storyline will be embedded in our feature version of the game via diary, collections and even game mode.
6. Falibu: right now when I press up on the trackpad, the character moves forward based on my gaze and I would rather the reference point be the controller itself, and not my gaze. pressing up on the trackpad should move me forward, relative to the controller.
Thank you for the advice! Actually many other players also raised their question about movement. That will be one of our key points to optimize the game.
7. haplomega is brokenprism: the gas grenade having that cartoony effect.
That's not what we intended for sure. A better Particle Effects are expected in the next version!
8. haplomega is brokenprism: I think there should be a number of hat-related achievements tipping your hat, throwing your hat, throwing it and shooting it there should also be a juggling achievement.
There will be more achievements in the future. But...do not expect that many of them will be related to hats!
Here is the whole updating plan for the offical version of Stay Silent!
Improve interaction experience
Improve movement experience and add more ways to control movements
Implant the whole tutorial in the game
Add 4-8 new guns
Add 6-8 new items and skills
Add more maps: there will be 4 maps in the final version, including a huge map mode.
Add more game modes: including 2v2 and other multiplayer modes. The custom game room will be supported.
Add "mission system": players who level up or finish "mission" will receive a story related collection.
Add a ranking system.
Hats and more skins will be customizable.
Suppurt Oculus, WMR. And a PSVR version is in progress.
Do you have any expectations on our game? Or do you have anything that would talk to us? Leave your comments below! We will select ONE LUCKY PLAYER randomly to give out a KEY for the official game!
Welcoming Feedback! | Share Your Thoughts About Stay Silent Beta Version
Dear players,
Thank you so much for attending the beta test of Stay Silent!
The beta test has begun for a few days and we believe you guys might have a lot of thoughts and advice towards the game. We'd like to invite you to accomplish a survey about your test experience and feel free to tell us what is in your mind.
Join In The Beta Test Survey And Sign Up For In-Game Rewards!
We will send out a commemorative in-game item to you when official launch. Please make sure leave the correct In-Game Name and Email Address at the end of the survey.
You could also leave your thoughts here or join our Discord and directly share the ideas with the dev!
Discord: https://discord.gg/RaE4Pt
Thank you for all of your support!
Stay Silent Dev Team
The Beta Test is Going to Start at 10:00am 24th(PDT)!
Hi everyone, our beta test is going to start from tomorrow!
Please note that:
1. The server only opens as the following time schedule. Please check before you play.
2. We currently only support HTC Vive during the test. Oculus and PSVR will be added in the future.
3. We only open 1V1 mode for this test. And you could only team up randomly with other players. If you want to play with a particular person, please try to start the match at the same time.
4. The test key will be revoked and the players' data will not be recorded during the test. Thank you for your understanding.
5. The game is still in development and we welcome all of your advice. Feel free to leave your opinion here or our official Discord channel: https://discord.gg/bkxQsYT. We sincerely thanks for all players' suggestion and would like to add you in the game credit of the official version if your advice was accepted.
Test Schedule
PDT (San Francisco): 10:00-14:00，18:00-22:00 from Jan. 24th - Jan. 29th
EST (New York): 13:00-17:00，21:00-01:00 from Jan. 24th - Jan. 30th
UTC : 17:00-21:00，01:00-05:00 from Jan. 24th - Jan. 30th
UTC+1 (London): 18:00-22:00，02:00-06:00 from Jan. 24th - Jan. 30th
UTC+2 (Berlin): 19:00-23:00，03:00-07:00 from Jan. 24th - Jan. 30th
UTC+3 (Moscow): 20:00-24:00，04:00-08:00 from Jan. 24th - Jan. 30th
UTC+8 (Beijing): 02:00-06:00，10:00-14:00 from Jan. 25th - Jan. 30th
UTC+9 (Tokyo): 03:00-07:00，11:00-15:00 from Jan. 25th - Jan. 30th
Challenge Devs!
You may challenge the best player from our dev team in the Discord channel during this test. The winner could receive an official key of Stay Silent as a reward. Get in the Discord channel for more information! Good luck and have fun!
Stay Silent Tutorials for Beta Test
I. Object of the game
Using different skills and items, find the invisible enemy and kill him.
II. Game controls
Touchpad：Touch it and you will move in the corresponding direction.
Grip Button：Press the button and you will pick up or throw away an item.
Trigger：Press it to use the item in your hand.
Turn/Squat：Turn/squat in reality.
III. Holsters
The holsters on either side of your body can hold guns.
Move a gun close to any of the holsters and press the grip button to holster the gun.
You can store items in the bag in front of your body.
Move an item close to the bag and press the grip button to place the item into the bag.
IV. Skill
Kill the NPCs and you may get some high-tech data boards.
Scan the data board with the mini-computer on your arm to download the skill it contains..
The skills you got will be displayed on the mini-computer on your wrist.
V. Guns and tools
Revolver
Sawed-off Shotgun
Full-barreled Shotgun
Grenade
Laser Blade
Syringe
Flashlight
Spray
Dog cage key
Welcome to Stay Silent & Beta Test Recruitment!
Hi everyone!
We are so happy to finally bring Stay Silent to Steam!
Stay Silent is a western-themed FPS game for VR only. You will become the sheriff of a western town of the 1880s... and fight against brutal aliens! Remember, you and your enemies both have stealth equipment - you cannot see each other, but the moonlight, the voices, and some useful gadgets may help you out about enemies' location! Use your shooting skills, your ears, and your brain to seize victory!
The game will be officially launched in the coming months. Before that, we are holding a closed beta test for you to try out our game, and gathering bugs and ideas for us to better develop the game.
We sincerely invite you to join this closed beta test of Stay Silent! Just leave your reason about why you are interested in this test, and Email address below, we will send you the key via Email when the test begins. Also, make sure you have an HTC Vive, and your computer meets our system requirements.
Interested? Join our official Discord channel and leave your messages! You may also sign up for beta test there! https://discord.gg/bkxQsYT
