Today’s new images reveal a few of the many dangers your green anti-hero will have to face during his journey.
One of the hostile factions you will meet in the huge underground city of Korrangar is composed of the Dark Elves. Dark Elves were previously Elves who had to live without any amber for multiple generations. Slowly, they have been turning into fanatic and bloodthirsty creatures. They became masters in Quartz fabrication, a new, much more dangerous, source of power.
They are also experts at goblin hunting and the Exterminator Dark Elf is proof of that. He has honed his skills to perfection, and is able to flush out pesky creatures hiding in dark corners and hard-to-reach places with toxic bombs.
If there’s an even more dangerous place than Korrangar, it would be Wildoran, the city of goblin hunters. Wildoran inhabitants are stout people wearing heavy armour – the powerful Dwarves.
Styx is unable to breach their impenetrable defence, so you must innovate and adapt to disable or avoid them. Every dwarf also has a supernatural sense of smell, and is able to slowly track Styx as he moves from cover to cover.
This is only a small example of the many enemy types Styx will face in his journey. Each faction has many unique classes of enemies and will require you to creatively utilize all of Styx’s tools to overcome them: assassination, amber powers, talents and skills, equipment, etc.
But that’s not all! Deep in the most dangerous of areas lie greater foes and obstacles that are epic in size and scale – monstrous beings that overshadow anything Styx has ever seen!
Infiltrate your way with Styx: Shards of Darkness on PS4, Xbox One and PC.
NEW STEALTH GAME STYX: SHARDS OF DARKNESS
Styx sequel comes with more ambition, bigger budget, new engine, and more!
Following its positive reception from press and players, Focus Home Interactive and Cyanide Studios wanted to delve deeper into the world of Styx with more ambition! The centuries-old goblin assassin Styx returns in a new stealth game, Styx: Shards of Darkness, with a bigger budget, bigger ideas, and a new engine: Unreal 4. Revealed in the first official screenshot of the game, check out a nimble, more refined Styx, built from the ground-up. Master of Shadows was a valiant exploration into the world of the green goblin thief, but in Shards of Darkness, delve deeper into a more complex narrative and fully realized world.
Having been in development for 6 months, discover in this first screenshot the new Styx, putting his skills to good use within the heart of Körangar, one of the many extensive mission areas to explore and creep around in Styx: Shards of Darkness.
Following the fall of Akenash tower, an extraordinary matter has forced Styx out of hiding to infiltrate Körangar, the city of the Dark Elves. Supposedly impregnable, a diplomatic summit offers Styx a chance at slipping in unnoticed, as he learns that the event is nothing but a mere façade... Moreover, the Elves have joined forces with the Dwarves, and the only thing both races have in common is a mutual hatred of the Goblins...
Embark upon a stealthy adventure with new enemies, new environments, and a plethora of new mechanics aimed at refining the abilities and movement of Styx; grappling around corners, climbing ropes, and using his trusty knife as a zip-wire. Shards of Darkness aims to offer unparalleled freedom of movement, along with refined stealth and assassination mechanics, expanding and improving on the strengths of Styx: Master of Shadows - which is coincidentally the Midweek Madness deal on Steam, until Friday 16, with an exceptional 66% discount off the price! A great opportunity to discover the origins of Styx.
Styx: Shards of Darkness comes to PS4, Xbox One, and PC next year.
STYX AND FOCUS HOME INTERACTIVE WISH YOU A MERRY STYXMAS IN VIDEO!
Thank you for the beautiful year you spent with us. We wish you all a Merry Styxmas with a trailer featuring our favorite goblin! If you want a festive surprise, watch the video until the end...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITLCazCjGik
UPDATE - THE LEADERBOARDS
Hi everyone,
We’re offcially releasing a new update for Styx : Master of Shadows.
This update has been in beta mode for few days, but it's now ready to be released. We're introcuding the leaderboards where you can find the time you spent in each mission and compare it to the other people.
Enabling leaderboards (visible in the Steam interface) for each mission, the fastest time for each player will be displayed on the leaderboard
Reducing the distance of the last-chance mode to match with the backward roll distance. (You can use the backward roll to escape from fights!)
Slight increase in the action area of the ledge-kill (murder when you are attached to a ledge).
Slight increase in the action area of the clone-trap.
Fixed a bug where sleeping guards awake when reloading a party in front of them: the guard now remains asleep when reload a save before him.
Fixed bug where two guards are close to a clone-trap: Now, the clone-trap catch only one single guard.
Fixed a bug with the clone-trap where the guard was not killed when he was in some state of detection: now a guard is always killed when caught by a clone-trap.
We hope that this update will please you!
Happy sneaking.
Cyanide Studios & Focus Home Interactive.
Update - Gameplay and aesthetic improvements
Dear Goblins,
Thank you very much for your support and your feedback following the release of Styx: Master of Shadows.
To improve your gaming experience, we are pleased to announce the release of an update containing both gameplay and aesthetic improvements.
Change Log:
· Improved ledge detection when jumping toward ledges.
· Enhanced the anisotropy option.
· Refinement of the mouse sensitivity of the camera when it is set to maximum (100%).
· Added new bindable buttons (mouse button 4 & 5, Home, End, Ins, Del, PageUp / Down, Alt, AltGr).
· Quick-save / quick-load controls are now displayed in the options menu.
We are thrilled that many of you are enjoying Styx: Master of Shadows and hope that your experience will be even more enjoyable with these improvements.
Stealthily,
Cyanide Studio & Focus Home Interactive
[STEAM FOCUS WEEKEND 09-13 OCT]
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Styx: Master of Shadows Now Available for download on PS4®, Xbox One® and PC at €29.99/£24.99.
STYX: MASTER OF SHADOWS, THE LAUNCH TRAILER!
Become the master of shadows!
Ready to pounce on October 7, the launch trailer for Styx: Master of Shadows - your new infiltration game from Cyanide Studio - releases today! Meet our short and nimble protagonist and learn a little of his story, its location, and the characters you meet as you clamber up and around the Tower of Akenash, home to the life-tree.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pacPaPfCbXs
Styx: Master of Shadows marks a unique entry into 2014's global gaming catalogue, with a very short and very. green antagonist, and hardcore stealth gameplay designed to reward player skill and strategy. Its new mechanics bring the stealth genre not only back to its roots, but also brings a breath of fresh to it. Vertical level design, organic player path finding and fluid movement, and the constant threat of being overpowered by the enemy makes Master of Shadows a tense and strategic stealth game like no other before it.
Battle your way to the top of the lofty Tower of Akenash through immense and vertiginous levels that highlight the vertical perspective. You will complete numerous missions with various objectives as you climb – murder , information recovery, theft of precious artifacts, etc – and gradually reconstruct the puzzle that provides the key to the mystery of your origins.
The levels are open and the objectives can be completed in various ways: you are therefore free to choose the best way to proceed and the most suitable strategy to employ to achieve and complete your mission objectives. But remember you’re a Goblin: if your target is twice your size, or more, you're better off eliminating them silently… and in the back!
Styx: Master of Shadows releases October 7 for download on PS4®, Xbox One® and PC at €29.99/£24.99.
STYX TAKES ONE MORE SKULK IN THE SHADOWS BEFORE LAUNCH IN THE "ASSASSIN'S GREEN 2" GAMEPLAY TRAILER!
On October 7, become the master of shadows!
Styx: Master of Shadows, the infiltration game from Cyanide Studios, is a challenging and subtle blend of stealth, exploration and assassination, with many opportunities to use the environment to subdue your enemies, or simply pass them by unnoticed, above, or below them. Coming October 7 for download on PS4®, Xbox One® and PC, gain a little inspiration before you begin your ascent of the Tower of Akenash with a new Assassin's Green gameplay video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDZF-jIhhbk
In the fifth gameplay video shown today, we take another look at the dynamism and flow of Styx's treacherous ascent, having discovered clones, tactics, skills, and styles. Using all of these to his advantage, Styx manages to poison guards, blind them with his clone, climb vast heights, and reach his objective unseen - the way a goblin should!
As discussed in the gameplay making of video, being a 200 year old goblin, Styx is unique in that his nimble frame and athleticism lets him dance around his environment, relatively quietly with deadly speed and agility. However, while he is fast, agile, and cunning, he is also small, weak, and at constant risk of being surrounded should he knock over a vase, or land noisily, attracting the attention of the guards.
With release rapidly approaching, in what style will you infiltrate The Tower of Akenash?
Styx Master of Shadows is downloadable on PS4®, Xbox One®, and PC on October 7.
[MAKING OF] A VISIT BEHIND THE SCENES OF STYX: MASTER OF SHADOWS IN VIDEO!
Embrace the shadows, reveal your past
Styx: Master of Shadows, the infiltration game from Cyanide that will be available for download on October 7 on PS4, Xbox One and PC, today invites us behind the scenes in a new video!
Commented by Julien Desourteaux (Game Director & Level Designer), Guillaume Blanchard (Project Manager) et Mathias Chataignier (Game Designer) from Cyanide Studio, this 5 minutes video lets us learn more about the game, its mechanics, its level design, as well as the intentions of the developers when they designed its infiltration gameplay.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abMrB0uq4JU
We learn how the developers created the mechanics to make of Styx: Master of Shadows a challenging game, back to the source of infiltration games. The playable character – a fragile but resourceful goblin – played a huge role in this task, as much as the level design, which is both open and highlights the vertical perspective, and prompts players to experiment to reach their objectives in very different ways.
This is only one video among a series of 4. The 3 other videos, that you can watch below, are focusing on the sound design, the music designed by Game Audio Factory, and on the team. They will let you know even more about the game, waiting for its release on October 7!
