Dear Beta Testers, we just pushed out a new beta with a whole bunch of improvements and bug fixes, thanks to all your feedback (Quest/Rift #1429, Steam #1428). This update has gotten kind of massive.
A full list of changes since the last beta are below, but I would draw your attention to the new graphics sliders, the new reset/unstuck functionality and the boss, which, for the first time in 3 years has seen a little love and attention. It's overall gameplay balancing has noticeably changed and we'd love feedback.
New Features and Improvements:
New Bloom Intensity and Effects Intensity sliders. Bloom Intensity controls the baseline "static" bloom strength. Effects Intensity adjusts the visual 'strength' of explosions and any other animated or dynamic effects.
Player is now reset if they fall out of the map. This should hopefully fix a large source of frustrations.
New "Unstuck" button in pause menu, which will reset you to the start of the level
Improved chip and weapon tool tips in homebase
Extra visual indicator for undiscovered chips
Increased Render Scale to 1.35 on default settings for Quest 2
Boss fight improved by fixing broken attack phases, improving visuals contrast and various smaller visual improvements
New Holster Settings Menu, unifying previously disparate options. Minor cleanups of other smaller inconsistencies. Does anyone use the horizontal offset setting?
Adjusted shotgun behavior to allow pumping if secondary hand trigger is held. Try it out, it feels quite nice
Improved the description of various weapons
Adjusted blaster chip explosions (less harsh now)
Adjusted revolver muzzle flash to avoid blocking sight lines
Improved readability of holo map with bloom active
Toned down glow of class hands
Balanced bloom on several environment assets
Performance improvements of certain rooms
Bug Fixes
Bloom no longer offsets to the right on SteamVR
Fixed list of chips in home base
Security bots no longer run out of ammo with certain weapons after one magazine (Grenade Launcher, Burst Handgun, Heavy Submachine Gun)
Fixed error when destroying an EMP'd turret
Fixed some chips (Speed Boost II/III, Overload, Overheating) not spawning in levels and unlocking properly when picked up
Fixed interaction of Blaster Chip with other chips that change bullet types (Firepower, Heavy Ammo, Acid, Mobile Malware)
Fixed already defeated (and exploded) turrets "respawning" inactive when revisiting a room
bHaptics suit works again
Hopefully fixed a possible crash for some users that may have been due to bluetooth permission
Fixed a number of null reference exception errors that had adverse side effects
Let us know what you think. Share with your friend
Thank you, The Salmi Games team
Beta Preview - Visual Overhaul - Update 10
We’re excited to share the next update to Sweet Surrender. You can try it right now in the Beta Branch (instructions below).
This update includes a full-fledged visual overhaul (with incredible results), long-requested improvements to the early game, a reworked weapon recoil system and a whole bunch of quality of life bug fixes.
The Visual Revamp
We’ve unlocked incredible visual improvements thanks to the addition of bloom and HDR tone mapping.
These new visuals are available on PC, Quest 3 and even Quest 2! How we’ve managed to pull off such effects even under such constraints as the Quest 2, well, that’s a topic for another post. For now we just want to share the results.
We’ve been going over the game’s visuals top to bottom to make sure we’re using these new effects to the best of our ability. In particular, we’ve touched up almost all the particle effects and material animations used in the game and added quite a few more. You will see improvements in the bullets, shot reactions, smoke effects, explosions, sparks, and in many more subtle places.
Honestly, you should just go try it. We think it’s such a huge leap forward, we’ve left the old visual mode in for comparison purposes.
You can toggle through the different options in the Graphics settings.
Horizontal Recoil
We’ve done a full pass on the recoil system of the weapons to implement a better feeling positional recoil. We’ve then re-tuned every weapon to make them feel extra juicy. Finally, we’ve done some slight adjustments to the recoil behavior of certain weapons to bring them better into balance with other weapon choices.
Jump into the improved tutorial to try some of the old/new recoils side-by-side.
How to Access the Beta
You can access the latest build on the beta branch by following these instructions: Steam - Right click on Sweet Surrender in your library, select properties > betas. Then select the “beta branch” from the list, then you should be good to go!
On PC, the new post-processing effects are on by default.
Give Us Feedback!
Do you like it? Please recommend the game to your friends.
Did you find some issues? Let us know! The most helpful way to give us feedback is in our Discord server.
We would love feedback on:
Which Graphics settings did you try, which did you like?
How do the visuals compare with and without post-processing enabled? (you can quickly toggle them on/off with the Y controller key in the Beta build). Do certain areas look better without the glow? Did you spot any areas that feel overly bright (or too dark)?
What other settings would you like to be able to control (intensity)?
Did the frame rate drop heavily? => please send us your logs
Send Logs
We’ve improved our bug reporting system, to make it easier for you to let us know about specific issues (framerate drops, broken AI. This sends us a log of your run (stripped of any identifiable data). Please reach out to us in our Discord server so we can look further into specific issues.
What’s Next?
We’re primarily fixing bugs and iterating on visual assets. The more we touch, the more there is to improve. Incredibly, we are still discovering more ways to both optimize our assets and achieve greater visual results. So expect further visual improvements and adjustments as we finalize the update.
We’re also working on removing some of the early game frictions that players can experience.
Wanna see more updates? Please share the game with your VR friends.
Thank you, The Salmi Games team
Omnituens Sweet Surrender Gameplay Stream
Hello everyone,
We're currently hosting a gameplay stream from Omnituens on our store page. Make sure to check them out at twitch.tv/omnituens.
Cheers, Salmi Games
Update 9: Long-Term Progression Update
Hello everyone,
we're excited to release our Long-Term Progression Update where our focus was on giving you, the players, more long term motivation. We wanted to include a way to reward you for playing the game regularly.
In this update we introduce:
Upgrades to the new Vending Station: invest the gears you can find in each level and unlock more vending machines, better loot and even discounts at later levels
Improvements to the tutorial to make it easier for new players to start with the game
Adjustments to the early-game balancing in the mines so that new players have it an easier difficulty ramp
Vending Station
You all know the vending machines at the end of a level. Well, now you can make them even better by investing the gears you can collect during a run. Spend gears to unlock new levels for the vending station. With this, you can unlock more vending stations, better loot, discounts, items for free and you can also unlock the option to reroll the items available to buy.
Tutorial improvements
We added visual indicators to many parts of the tutorial so that it’s easier for new players to follow it. Gears and Vending Machines are now explained in more detail.
Quality of Life
But that's not everything we worked on. We continuously improve the game and do our best to fix any issues reported by the community. Aside from dozens of smaller improvements, we focused on the following topics:
The amount of enemies that spawned in the first two levels of the mines was a bit irregular, it should be more consistent and easier for new players.
We also fixed an issue where some players became invincible when they died because of the acid in the sewers.
The chips on the left arm should now display their details properly.
We fixed an issue where the Electrostatic Spear didn’t scale to its normal size when buying it from a vending machine.
The leaderboards are now updating properly again. Unfortunately, we had to reset them to make this properly.
Thank You
As we mentioned last time, we regularly run community polls and dev discussions with our Discord community. If you want to participate in future polls (and have a say in Sweet Surrender’s direction), get access to beta builds or just want to talk to us about the game, you can do so by joining our discord.
We are always happy about everyone who joins and are very thankful for your feedback and support.
You can also check out our public roadmap, where you can get a better look at all the updates we've already released and what we have planned for the future.
As always, thank you for your support!
Cheers, Salmi Games
Full Patch Notes
Improvements
Upgradeable vending station
Unlock more vending machines
Unlock the option to reroll all vending machines
Unlock shop discounts for all future runs
Update to the tutorial to make it easier to understand for new players
Adjusted the amount of enemies at the beginning of the mines for a better start for new players
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue where some players became invincible when they died because of the acid in the sewers
Chips on the left arm should now be displayed properly
Fixed an issue where the Electrostatic Spear didn’t scale to its normal size when buying it from a vending machine
Fixed an issue where enemy robots got stuck in a level and stopped doing anything
Players don't accidentally clip into the ground after beating the final boss anymore
The console to summon enemies in the homebase isn't flickering anymore, it was also adjusted to fit the height of the player better
The last upgrade on the vending station now shows properly what it gives the player
Updated the ProTubeVR plugin which caused issues with disconnecting the provolver device
Long-Term Progression Update - Beta Preview 2
We're excited to announce a new udate for the melee update beta. Thanks to all the feedback and bugreports of our testers, we could identify and fix a lot of bugs and did some tweaks and changes to the melee weapons, so that melee combat feels better in general.
Changelist
Weapon Improvements
Fixes to the progression of the Reaper (unlocks now progress more reliably)
tweaked and added new sounds
more particle effects
improvements and fixes to existing rooms
the Reaper now has own unique gloves
There are still some issues we are working on, but we still wanted to give you a more stable version with the updated weapons, so you can give us more feedback on them. If you encounter an issue, feel free to report even if you did report the same issue before already.
Thanks for your help in this and enjoy playing with the new melee weapons.
Play the beta of our upcoming melee update. We did various fixes and weapon improvements to make melee combat feel a lot better.
Cheers, Salmi Games
Long Term Progression Update - Beta Preview 2
We're excited to announce a new update for the Long-Term Progression Update Beta. Thanks to all the bugreports we received, we could identify and fix a lot of bugs relating to all parts of the game.
Changelist
Fixed an issue where enemy robots got stuck in a level and stopped doing anything
Players don't accidentally clip into the ground after beating the final boss anymore
The console to summon enemies in the homebase isn't flickering anymore, it was also adjusted to fit the height of the player better
The last upgrade on the vending station now shows properly what it gives the player
Updated the ProTubeVR plugin which caused issues with disconnecting the provolver device
If any other issue occurs to you while testing, feel free to tell us about it. We would also appreciate it to get more feedback about the vending stations and the upgrades. Do the upgrades feel rewarding? Are the costs for an upgrade acceptable?
Thanks a lot for helping to test the game and make it better for the final release.
We are happy to announce that Sweet Surrender’s beta branch is now updated with a preview of our next major update - The Long-Term Progression Update. If you're interested in testing and giving feedback about it, feel free to try it out. Any feedback and bugreports are highly appreciated.
Here is a list of what you can expect in this new update.
Upgrade the new Vending Station with the gears you can find in each levels and unlock more vending machines and better loot
Improvements to the tutorial to make it easier for new players to start with the game
Adjustments to the beginning of the game in the mines so that new players have it easier to get into the game
Additional bugfixes like the issue where players became invincible when they died in the sewers because of the acid effect
Since this is only the beta preview of the update, everything is still subject to change. However it should still give you a good idea on what the final release will look like and you can already try out all the new features.
We look forward to your feedback!
We hope you’ll try out the new beta update and share your feedback with us. We are always happy to hear what our fans think and you can chat with us on our Salmi Games Discord Server: discord.gg/salmigames
Cheers, Salmi Games
Update 8.2 is Live!
Hello everyone,
We just released our latest patch, addressing a few issues introduced with the melee update.
The most important points that we worked on are:
The Reaper class progress will no longer reset when using ranged weapons on subsequent runs (a few edge cases remained)
Fixed a bug that would cause bullets to always ricochet back to the player when shooting shielded enemies
Your progress in adventure mode will now no longer be deleted when you start a daily run
Removed the destructible wall and explosive barrel from the elevator to the final boss
Lowered the range at which bulky enemies start pushing you backwards
Fixed some interactions between old chips and melee weapons
Fixed an issue with the spider hive hologram in the homebase
Added some improvements to the tutorial
We hope that these fixes address the issues that some of you encountered. As always, we are very thankful for any problems that you report to us, as it helps us out a lot in improving the game. If you want to try out the beta and let us know what you think, you can join our Discord.
Thanks for your support, Salmi Games
Patch 8.2 - Beta Release
Hello everyone,
We just released a small beta update, which is a preview of the next patch we are working on. There were a few issues, which were introduced with the melee update, that we wanted to address before the next update.
The most important points that we worked on are:
- The Reaper class progress will no longer reset when using ranged weapons on subsequent runs (a few edge cases remained) - Fixed a bug that would cause bullets to always ricochet back to the player when shooting shielded enemies - Your progress in adventure mode will now no longer be deleted when you start a daily run - Removed the destructible wall and explosive barrel from the elevator to the final boss - Lowered the range at which bulky enemies start pushing you backwards - Fixed some interactions between old chips and melee weapons - Fixed an issue with the spider hive hologram in the homebase - Added some improvements to the tutorial
We hope that these fixes address the issues that some of you encountered. As always, we are very thankful for any problems that you report to us, as it helps us out a lot in improving the game. If you want to try out the beta and let us know what you think, you can join our Discord.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, Salmi Games
Patch 8.1 - Beta Release
Hello everyone,
We just released a small beta update, which is a preview of the next patch we are working on. There were a few issues, which were introduced with the melee update, that we wanted to address before the next update.
The most important points that we worked on are:
- The Reaper class progress will no longer reset when using ranged weapons on subsequent runs (a few edge cases remained) - Fixed a bug that would cause bullets to always ricochet back to the player when shooting shielded enemies - Your progress in adventure mode will now no longer be deleted when you start a daily run - Removed the destructible wall and explosive barrel from the elevator to the final boss - Lowered the range at which bulky enemies start pushing you backwards - Fixed some interactions between old chips and melee weapons - Fixed an issue with the spider hive hologram in the homebase - Added some improvements to the tutorial
We hope that these fixes address the issues that some of you encountered. As always, we are very thankful for any problems that you report to us, as it helps us out a lot in improving the game. If you want to try out the beta and let us know what you think, you can join our Discord.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, Salmi Games
Nominate Sweet Surrender for the Steam Awards!
Hey everyone,
The Steam Autumn Sale just launched and with it comes the return of the Steam Awards. Sweet Surrender hasn't been released this year, but we have released a variety of major updates ever since its release (and quite a few this year alone), so we think that Sweet Surrender is deserving of the Labor of Love award.
