Hello guys! I am very sorry for not having given any news on Steam since beginning of September.
I really invite you to join the discord server to have all of the last news about the game. Discord link
I am still working hard on the game as you can also see in the Trello board here
Upcoming version v0.7
Add a laptop in the car. You will now be able to upgrade your gears directly from your laptop and navigate through the map on your radar. This also adds a new feature to be able to upload your photos and probe's data. With this change you will still earn points when you take pictures but no money. To earn cash you will have to upload your photos and probe's data to your laptop. This upload will last longer if you don't upgrade your bandwidth. Uploading your photos will also free up space in your camera storage. It is always better to upgrade your camera storage to avoid having to upload your photos right when you are chasing a tornado. Here is a short video of the new laptop feature included: [previewyoutube="0GLAdCTflFI;full"]
New "Home" interaction in free roaming. You will now have a home where you will be able to rest or to sleep. For now it is just a menu without an interior in 3D. If your house is destructed by a tornado, you will have to pay and wait (depending on damage amount) for its reconstruction.
"Feel the power" online versus game mode added. You have to destroy things to be able to increase your category. There will be a destruction bar to know how much you have to destroy to gain access to the next category. You can watch a small peak of this upcoming game mode here
Warn residents of close tornadoes. If a tornado is close to a house, you will now be able to knock the door to warn possible residents. It won't give you money, but a good amount of points.
Camera's battery management. You will have to take care of your camera's battery level. You will be able to charge it in your car and will have to remember to take your camera with you before getting outside of the car if you leave it charging.
Reducing scores when players are taking too many similar pictures.
Avoid player from being sucked by a tornado if he is protected behind a wall or similar (and the tornado doesn't destroy that wall ːsteamhappyː)
Car's lights have now a greater range and lights from street lamps are now wider
Offroad is now more complicated because terrain is no more flat outside of roads
Unity version updated to avoid some crashes
Better damage sounds when a tornado hits something
More violent physics when a debris is sucked up by a twister
And that's all for this upcoming version. I can't give an exact date of release, but the most difficult part have already been done so maybe in 2 weeks or so.
Again, thank you very much for keeping getting an eye on this game. I really hope that you will enjoy this new update.
Have fun!
Version 0.6.4 Hotfix is now available
Hi guys!
Another hotfix update is now available on Steam to fix more bugs.
Changelog 0.6.4:
--- ADJUSTMENTS ---
- Add names to the two small towns (Byrun and Corwan)
- Add a gas station in Wakota and another small one in Byrun
--- BUGFIXING ---
- Clean up data sent in Online Free Roaming to avoid time out disconnections
- In online Free Roaming, A LOT of tornadoes were spawning when another player was disconnected right when you was connected to the server
- Car was not turning well after getting lifted by a tornado
- Radar was making storms bigger when a tornado roped out
- In free roaming, after a long time chasing on the same server, tornadoes were not touching ground anymore
- When dying, the player was stuck without being able to move the camera
I will not be working full time on the game during this month because of the holidays.
I will take advantage of this break to rest my mind and recharge batteries to come back full of ideas and motivation!
Thank you so much for your support and for reporting bugs.
Have fun!
New small Hotfix version is now available
Hi guys,
I just sent an hotfix version that was ready last saturday but I wasn't at home to set it live.
--- BUGFIXING ---
- It was imposible to reconnect after leaving online game
- Tutorial was hiding the mouse cursor
- The radar was not showing during missions
- Storms colors were not rendering correctly when playing online
- Music was sometimes disabled while showing main menu
Nothing big this time, but it was a needed update.
Version 0.6.3 Hotfix is now available
Hi guys!
Another hotfix update is now available on Steam to fix a critical bug.
Changelog 0.6.3:
--- ADJUSTMENTS ---
- Make storms increasing and decreasing in strength on the radar
- Make tornadoes increasing and decreasing in strength on the radar depending on the distance with the ground (So it is impossible to know the strength of a tornado on the radar before it touched the ground)
- Improve flashlight range
- Decrease time between storms to avoid being 30mn without any tornado
--- BUGFIXING ---
- The radar was not working correctly after respawning car
Thank you for your help reporting bugs.
Have fun!
Version 0.6.2 Hotfix is now available
Hi guys!
Another hotfix update is now available on Steam to fix some of the bugs you have reported today.
Changelog 0.6.2:
--- ADJUSTMENTS ---
- Inactivity timer has been increased to 3mn in public servers and 6mn in private ones.
--- BUGFIXING ---
- Sometimes a server was not creating correctly the storms and never spawn any tornado
- The hour was changing suddenly when a player was joining the server
- The map marker of other players was disappearing over time
- Gas cans was not working when the car was running completely out of fuel
- Music in the menu was enabled even when the main volume was set to 0
Thank you for your help reporting bugs.
Have fun!
Version 0.6.1 Hotfix is now available
Hi guys!
Here we are, the new hotfix update is now available on Steam.
Changelog 0.6.1:
--- ADJUSTMENTS ---
- Car collisions have been restored, but a collision between two cars will not damage the engine
- When you are in a car, you will now be able to rotate the camera horizontally to watch behind you
- In Free Roaming, players will now start with a simple GPS that will not show weather activity
- Good photos will no more show any comment from your avatar
- Mouse should remain inside the game's window during gameplay
--- BUGFIXING ---
- Online lag has been reduced significantly
- Tornadoes were sometimes appearing as spheres
- Other players were not showing on the map when they entered a car
- The hour was changing suddenly from night to day and back to night
- When a tornado was increasing or decreasing in power, it was not synced with other players
- Driver was losing car's control when the copilot player was getting out of the car
- Music in the menus was duplicated when getting an online error
- The number of remaining photos was red even after buying more photo storage
- The player's list was not ordered by score and by name
- The engine's RPM indicator was getting outside of the limits when driving backward
- When the player was dying, being crouched, he was respawning in a crouch stance
- The player was dying sometimes when jumping on his car
- Deleting single photos in the gallery was impossible
- The car was sometimes getting stuck in the mud right after starting a Free Roaming game
I really hope that those fixes will make the game more enjoyable. Thank you for your bug reports that helped me a lot for this hotfix version.
Have fun! ːsteamhappyː
Version 0.6.0 is now available
Hello storm chasers!
Version 0.6.0 is available at last on Steam!
Changelog v0.6.0:
--- FEATURES ---
- Online free roaming game mode added
- Portable gas can can now be purchased at the gas station
- Car can be respawned at the gas station
- Player will recover health over time
- In free roaming, your score will be reset at midnight and you will gain XP based on your day's score
- Your current score can now be converted into money at the gas station
- You can now give money to other players
- Driver's hands are now translucent
- Car's windows are also being replaced when repairing the car
- More musics added to the main menu
- Screenshots contest pictures added to the loading screen
--- ADJUSTMENTS ---
- Tornadoes can now get weaker or stronger more than one time. From now, an EF0 could become an EF5 over time even if it is very uncommon
- Slower day/night cycle
- Hail will do less damage to the car engine
- Hail will damage the player inside the car if the windshield is broken and the car is moving
- Fuel consumption reduced in free roaming
--- BUGFIXING ---
- Sun will now rise correctly from east to west
- Music was duplicated when getting an error during loading
- Sometimes there were violent winds without any tornado nearby
- Better auto focus on tornadoes
... And a lot of other small fixes
Thank you so much for your suggestions and bug reports. It is helping me a lot!
Have fun! ːsteamhappyː
Screenshots contest: Results
Here we are!
The screenshots contest is now over and I would like to thank you all for your submissions and votes.
With so many pictures, I have decided to select 10 screenshots instead of only 5.
After 138 votes we have our winners! Congratulation!
All of those pictures will be displayed randomly during the (long) loadings into the game.
You can see the full results here (sort results to get the ranking)
Again, thank you very much for being such an amazing community. ːsteamhappyː
And remember... online free roaming is coming!
Screenshots contest: Voting
Hello photographers!
The submission of pictures for the screenshots contest is now closed. So we can start the poll to vote for the bests screenshots. Sorry for the bad quality of the pictures, but be sure that the winners will be added in Full HD into the game ːsteamhappyː
Here are the steps to vote:
- Open the link below
- Select your favorite pictures from the huge list
- Click on the "vote" button once you are happy with your selection
Link: https://linkto.run/p/P7P9QM1W
Of course, please, don't try to cheat as If I see any strange vote number for a screenshot, I will remove it from the poll.
The winners will be announced in 5 days.
Good luck!
Version 0.5.4 Hotfix is now available
Hello everyone,
I had to upload a new upgrade to fix critical bugs that were making the game pretty annoying.
Changelog v0.5.4:
- Make tornadoes get weaker before dissipating
- Add Flashlight for your night walks
- Change Hide UI key to F1
- Reduce leaves particles
- Make music volume separated from main volume
- Reduce map border opacity
- BUGFIX: Tornadoes was getting stuck when reaching map border
- BUGFIX: When playing online 2v2 only 3 players were able to connect
- BUGFIX: Sometime there were violent winds without any tornado nearby
- BUGFIX: Player could throw the car in the air by just crouching behind it
I really hope that the next update will be the Online Free Roaming one.
Thank you so much for your support! ːsteamhappyː
