Most people play the game without knowing that I've designed just about every weapon in episode 02 with a little side quirk, or cool ability! Here's a list of what they all are. Hopefully this can tide you over while I work on the tutorial.
The Special ( Machine gun )
Has an accelerator property that gains a damage multiplier the longer the fire button is held.
The Rattle Snake ( Shotgun )
Has a 35% chance to inflict a bleeding effect on enemies. Zombies will bleed to death over time.
The Lemat Revolver
( Has an Alternate fire that acts as an extremely deadly shotgun. )
Rocks
can be used to Stun cultists
Sailfish Repeater
- When holding the "SPRINT" while stopped you can aim the sailfish for continuous headshots. ( Deals critical damage when landed on cultists )
Bear Trap
- Undetectable by cultists.
Lantern
- can potentially kill as many zombies as a land- mine
and can be lobbed explosively at the tower.
Bug Lamp
***SECRET ( is extra useful as a trap if dropped in a certain spot )
Shovel
- Generally the most mundane melee weapon, but has high reach.
**PWR ATTACK = A smash swing that deals extreme damage at the cost of durability. ( I'll explain how to use PWR ATTACKS at the bottom. )
( can also be used in a secret spot to dig up the magic
Magic Charm
)
Mace
- Has a 20% chance to decapitate zombies.
PWR ATTACK - Every time this ability is used the Mace gains +3 damage permanently, it also makes the Mace immune to durability loss for 8 seconds.
Combat Knife
. The Knife can deal serious damage if used on enemies who are turned with their back facing you.
PWR ATTACK - The knife gains Flurry and can swing 3 times as fast for a limited time. The knife has a higher chance to cause zombies to recoil during a flurry attack as well.
PWR
attacks can be performed while using melee weapons. To do one you'll need 3 orbs on the PWR meter. After that: Hold "SPRINT" button down and press the "ATTACK" button. You must not be moving to perform a PWR attack.
This video goes over the Combat Knife extensively and how to perform PWR attacks!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLkjbjrbqJM&t=1s
I'm still working on the tutorial. And it's coming along but it is not finished yet. I'm taking this time to also add and fix some things that have been on my list for some time now. I think it will actually be a pretty exciting update even if you don't want to do the tutorial.
Also the zombie Raffle race will have two winners this week, and is being pushed back a few days. So if you want double the odds to win a free copy of the game. Do anything listed here, like Tweet at us.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=941944119
A side shout out and thanks to Vyper2040, I know the game is a bit difficult to learn at first and may have a bug here and there, but it's awesome players like you that keep me motivated to continue the repairing and adding content to make this everything we want it to be.
I'll see you guys soon.
If anyone's interested in seeing a fellow named The Hidden Object Guru play the game you can check it out here. He suffers quite badly in the beginning but ends up kicking ass and having a good time. ( I apologize for the rock bug ) I'm still working to figure out how to fix that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIpK4p7m__I&t=2s
[ News and Raffle Results ] Achievement text list too.
Hey guys, stopping by to give you this weeks zombie raffle results! I've been traveling a lot this week so I haven't got to work as much as I would have liked. I'm gonna work on the tutorial as much as I can tonight but I can't honestly say the update would be ready by then. It is getting there though!
So in about the last month or so 4 people have mentioned Achievements, I used to love hunting them on games with my brother. This is definitely and always was planned for STLD. I had some time while I was on a train yesterday to type out a list of what the first set of Achievements would be. There's nearly 50 listed. I think the most production time will be assigning them all Icons. Anyway, I'll mark it with the Spoiler thing but I don't really think there's anything too harmful on this list. I'll probably have more with the last patch.
1.Cultist Kill
2.Deerman Kill
3.Red Acolyte Kill
4.Priest Kill
5.Crush a Cultist
6.Reflect a Cultists Magic Missile
7.Reflect a Poison Bolt
8.Kill 5 Cutlists
9.Spend a Token
10.Earn a Token
11.Spend 10 Tokens
12.Spend 25 Tokens
13.Unlock all Rewards
14.Spend a Skeleton Key
15.Spend 4 Skeleton Keys
16.Beat 10 minute mode
17.Beat 18 minute mode
18.Beat 10 minute mode HC
19.Beat 18 minute mode HC
20.Earn an A Rank
21.Earn an S Rank
22. ** SECRET **
23.Blow up the Still Room
24.Knock Down the water tower
25.Crush Zombies with the Crusher
26.Kill the Dread Zombie
27.Kill with the Rocket Launcher
28.Kick a Bomb
29.Burn a Trap
30.Land a Rock onto a cultists head from the second story window.
31.Dig up the Magic Charm
32.Break a crate
37.Backstab a Zombie
38.Sailfish Headshot Zombie
39.Break a zombie attack
40.Break 10 Zombie attacks
41.Perform a Pwr Attack
42.Kill a Zombie with Lemat Alt fire
43.Kill 6 Zombies Simultaneously with a Land mine
44.Board up a door
45.Lithe Challenge:
Finish 7 minute Mode without using any guns except the Sailfish.
No Landmines
No Bow
46.Survive 10 minute mode unharmed.
47.Survive 10 minute HC unharmed or 18 minute Normal Unharmed.
48.13 Successful headshots with the Sailfish Repeater in 1 round.
49. Kill 7 Zombies ( or more ) at once with the Lemat Revolvers Alternate fire.
(Latest additions)
50. Kill a zombie with an electric surge from the bug lamp.
51. Achieve the largest tactics multiplier ( Golden light bulb )
I'll try to have those achievements ready within the next month.
If the tutorial isn't finished this weekend I am certain I will have it ready by next week. Then we can get moving onto funner stuff. That's all for now folks.
See you soon,
-Pyro
Tutorial Progess Part 4 !! [ Design , News ]
Hey there guys! I've been working when I can. I realize I keep mentioning this tutorial like it's exciting stuff, when you guys probably have all played the game enough to understand the basics. But regardless it's coming along. I'm out of the graphical stage and into the programming mostly so it shouldn't be too long now. Here's a screenshot ( Beta'esc )
I'll be adding these in to familiarize the user depending on how they prefer the controls :
Some side news, starting to sketch out templates for future character designs here's a shot of the work for fun. I'm pretty tired of the proportions I made for characters in this game ( gigantic heads with little bodies ) But hey, as Jake Paul would say.. Flip it.
The females still a rough sketch, I really was trying to work out the male for some new possible characters in the universe. Anyway if you guys are interested I'll post more of this stuff later on down the road.
I'll be working to finish the tutorial as soon as I can. There will also be some minor alterations to game-play mechanics in the same patch, which I will mention in the update announcement .
Thank you so much to everyone who's coming over from the summer sale. I'm happy to have you. Let's keep going!
See you soon.
-Pyro
Raffle Results! [Friday June 24th]
Hey guys, here's this weeks Zombie Raffle Race video!
Join next weeks by doing anything listed here http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=941944119
I'll be doing my best wrap up this tutorial level thing in the following week, I'll get progress shots in to you when I can . Thank you to everyone partaking in STLD's Summer Sale!
See you folks soon. Have a great weekend
-Pyro
Tutorial Progess Part 3 . [ More Design , News , Summer Sale ]
Hey.
Without going into details this has been a difficult work week. I've been squeezing things in, I'd say assets for the tutorial stage are around 80% completion. I'll work more on it when I can. Here's a sneak peak at what's been done lately, it should be pretty cool when all is said and done.
I launched a discount with Steam's Summer Sale. So if you have a friend or a tight budget this'll save you a rupee or two.
I'm pushing this weeks raffle release to Saturday. Here's this list so far:
I'll be working more on this in the mean time whenever I can. Thanks to all the fans who stick with me on this project. Some weeks are harder than others.
take care.
Raffle Results! [Friday June 16th]
Hey guys, this week was a double header. Congrats to the two winners and everyone who entered. If you didn't win feel free to try again next week!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhnLeenDyw4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jieG9UURzNA
As always the winners can contact me here Pyroklasticgame@gmail.com
or add me as a friend on Steam and I'll just message you the key.
A few folks got double entries, PhantomEagle and MilStratSur are breaking my heart, since they've been here since week one and haven't won jack.
The other dude was a mistake.
I'll be working more on the tutorial to hopefully rap that thing up ASAP. I'll see you folks Monday likely.
Cheers,
-Pyro
Tutorial Progess Part 2 . [ More Design ]
Hey there, here's some pictures of what I've been working on today.
Some graphical stuff and another room.
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I'll be back with the Zombie Raffle Results tomorrow, there's still time to get in on it if you want the game or want to gift it to a friend. Become a zombie!
-Pyro
Tutorial Progess. [ Design ]
Hey there. This isn't gonna be a wordy one. Here's a pick at the stage design so far for the tutorial. I'll more and more info later. Sound tweaking took a bit of back seat to this today. I'll get into that tomorrow.
see you soon.
-Pyro
[News!] & June 12th Work week layout.
Hey there!
Here to get some News on the project out to you and to let you guys know what's up and the order of things on the menu for STLD as of now.
This week I'm diving back into development for the game, Amber's voice effects are just about there, and I will consider them absolutely finished as soon as I tone down the character remarks after kills. It's a little tricky to get her to talk just enough but not too much.
I'm kind of excited in a weird way about the tutorial, I'm simply going to call it "Learn" and put it as an optional choice on the main menu. It will not be cannon to the story but will instead focus solely on getting the players foot in the door with the core gameplay and controls of STLD. Disthron left a pretty heated review on the controls and the folks at "Save or Quit" despite being overall positive about the game mentioned that it had issues as well.....
I don't want you guys to think I'm not listening. I've been racking my brain on how to make the game easier to pick up and understand for everyone. I think with the tutorial and some slight changes made to the way Amber interacts with the environment it should help stop some players from getting tripped up on the way things work. This week I'll be focusing mainly on these two aspects.. Let's call it a precursor to the patch. So that is:
- Buidling the tutorial
and
- Tweaking gameplay so it ( hopefully ) controls easeir.
If you're ever curious about what it takes to earn tokens or skeleton keys, you can now consult the FAQ. This goes into detail on just how many kills you need after death for tokens, along with how those elusive skeleton keys can be earned more than once. The FAQ is still nowhere near done.. As previously mentioned I'll do my best to update it whenever I can.
Jump in this week if you haven't already. Here's how: Zombie Raffle Race! You have till Friday.
I'll be back during the week with a patch fixing the sounds a few little things. I'll also be updating with the tutorial progress.
Cheers guys.
Zombie Raffle Results !! Week #3
Hey there guys, just stopping by with this Fridays Zombie Race results. Congrats to the winner, you can check and see who won in the video below.
As always email me Pyroklasticgames@gmail.com or add me as a friend on Steam to collect your key.
