The Swordsmen X: Survival
Maintenance Information
“The Swordsmen X: Survival” Operation Team
2023-5-4
(Restored) Launch Discount Disappearance Notice
“The Swordsmen X: Survival” Team
4/28/2023
Launch Discount Disappearance Notice
“The Swordsmen X: Survival” Team
4/28/2023
Launch Delay Notice
We appreciate your overwhelming passion for The Swordsmen X: Survival. As a compensation, people who buy the base game within the first two days after launch will get Glittering-gold Weapon Pack for free. This offer will be delivered within one week after launch. More details shall be revealed later.
“The Swordsmen X: Survival” Team
4/28/2023
关于《侠乂行》公测版本开放推迟至12点的通知
《侠乂行》项目组
2023年4月28日
Dev log #02 - The Swordsmen X: Survival
As 2021 is drawing to a close, we decide to share the latest development with the players who have always paid attention to The Swordsmen X: Survival on this special occasion of welcoming the new year, which is also a year-end review of our project team. Thank you for your concern and support!
1. The planning of the Open World
The Swordsmen X: Survival will build an open world of martial arts based on the real world, which will be divided into four major regions: Southeast, Northeast, Southwest and Northwest. Each region will be designed with different climate and ecological environment.
For example, in the Northeast plateau, the extreme cold is the biggest survival challenge, which requires you to prepare clothes and equipment against the cold, or look for hot springs hidden in various places of the region to keep you warm and maintain your life for better exploration and cultivation.
In the rainforest in the southwest, benefiting from the winding paths, the cultivation points are quite high-quality, and treasures can be stored for a long time. However, this place is also the location of Wudu Sect, the headquarters of the guinea pigs. It gathers a large number of guinea pigs, organizations and enemies who create them, which asks players to treat them with some sensitivity and be careful not to take water and food easy to make you poisoned.
We have planned a large number of contents that can be explored in each region, such as levels, exploration points, cultivation points, various main and side missions. Now the contents in various regions are under intensive development and production.
There are still lots of contents in the planning of the Open World, such as featured systems of celestial and astrological phenomena, which will increase players’ exploration contents and cultivation when corresponding astronomical events occur; a novice level created to ensure new players’ game experience; allowing players to build their own servers.
2. Realistic Combat
The Swordsmen X: Survival will present a battle with extremely realistic and expressive martial arts in the game. For this, we invited professional martial arts instructors and actors to record hundreds of real martial arts movements by motion capture, so as to make our game have a strong sense of hitting on the premise of reappearing the traditional martial arts. The whole process took more than six months, but we think it deserves.
The focus of our work now is to integrate and debug the motion capture resources of hundreds of new movements, as well as produce the supporting special effects and sound effects. We have carefully modified the previous recorded animation resources, including animation playback speed, the position of damage frames, the smoothness of movement connection, etc. In addition, we have also optimized the blowing performance and the rules of locking monsters. The following are some movements in debugging. You can have a preview first:
3. The Cultivation of Weapons and Martial Arts
In The Swordsmen X: Survival, various martial arts classics will be scattered in all corners of the world. Players need to explore and obtain them actively, and improve their martial arts level in the cultivation points. A road to becoming a peerless master may appear in front of you by chance.
We have designed different martial arts according to the different attack modes of unarmed combat, single sword, single saber, twin daggers, shuang yue, lance, long saber, twin hammer and great sword in order to let everyone better experience the unpredictable martial arts series in the real Jianghu. Now more than 200 different martial arts have been equipped.
Meanwhile, each martial arts can be divided into different parts for combination. You can create your own unique martial arts basing on your needs.
In addition, we have optimized the visual effect when you are cultivating yourself, and we will also enrich the forms of martial arts cultivation, such as reading the martial arts rubbings on the wall at the exploration point, so as to make your growing more diversified.
4. Challenging Martial Arts Bosses
The world of The Swordsmen X: Survival is full of crises and challenges. There will be strong bosses in each region waiting for your challenge. If you have made great achievements in martial arts, you can go to challenge them to test yourself!
At present, we have finished the related model designs of bosses, and we are now optimizing their AI, hoping their behavior can be more intelligent and complex. Here is a presentation of the design draft of some of the new bosses:
5. Forward-looking Art Design
When exploring and adventuring in the world of The Swordsmen X: Survival, players can customize their appearance and clothes after obtaining necessary items. New costumes and new scenes are under urgent development now. Here is a batch of art setting drawings related to the scenes and characters. Take a look in advance!
At last, I would like to say something to all players:
This is the first time that we have made an open world martial arts survival game, so we grope forward most of the time. For example, concerning the design of bosses, we hope to show the realness and fluency of the action performance as much as possible since our game is a martial arts game. In addition to taking more time to adjust and upgrade AI, we also have to consider the limitations in the networked environment. When designing a level, we hope it can be an open instance that allows players to explore freely instead of a traditional one, but we need to consider the mechanism design in the network environment when multiple players enter the level to challenge.
There are many formidable gaps between imagination and reality. We can only work long hours to overcome difficulties so as to create our ideal “World of Jianghu”. Considering the above situation and the quality of the game, we decide to postpone the release time of The Swordsmen X: Survival to 2022.
At the same time, a new plan has also brought into schedule. We plan to start a new round of game testing to players after the Spring Festival in 2022, and there will be more new contents for you to experience at that time. If you are interested in our game, you can join the official Discord server to learn the latest information of the game and participate in the subsequent testing.
I wish you all a happy new year in advance. We will continue making an effort to optimize our game so that it can meet you successfully next year!
The Swordsmen X: Survival Production Team
Twitter：https://twitter.com/TheSwordsmenX
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Dev log #01 - The Swordsmen X: Survival
Since the release of The Swordsmen X: Survival on E3 2021, we have felt the enthusiasm from players who are passionate about the game. We would like to share the future plan of development with you in the form of dev logs.
Development Focus Area 1: Technique Cultivation and Combat
We consider technique cultivation and combat to be one of the unique core features of our game. Our future development plan will focus on the following key points:
1. Variety in Techniques: Apart from hand-to-hand combat, swordplay etc., the range of techniques available for javelins, polearms and concealed weapons etc. will be expanded. Qinggong (a kind of movement ability) and other legendary techniques are also in the works.
2. Flesh out mantras and Chi and optimize the experience of custom techniques
3. Expand the technique cultivation mode and mechanism: e.g.: The addition of Yin or Yang elements to techniques; possibility of adverse effects in the event of unsuccessful cultivation attempts etc.
4. Upgrade the photorealism and flow of action animations: adjust combat action attributes based on data gathered.
5. Upgrade action flow: includes action SFX, combat action impact, airborne combat and pursuit mechanism etc.
Development Focus Area 2: PVE Exploration Content
We would like to make the exploration of labyrinths and rahsya a key component of the gaming experience. You may explore ruins within labyrinths and Rahsya in the company of fellow players. Try your luck and discover manuals left by those who came before. You may even come across prime spots for cultivation to improve your skills by leaps and bounds! Combining riddle-solving with compelling level design and sounds effects, players who tried out the Honglian Temple Labyrinth pointed to this as a memorable experience during beta testing.
Major zones on our maps are slated to contain a certain number of medium to large-sized Labyrinths and Rahsya, as well as dozens of mini-checkpoints which can be triggered by meeting certain conditions or requirements. Successfully clearing these will yield rewards or information relevant to the story. These features are currently under development.
Moreover, efforts are also being made to design a world quest system that is steeped in the lore of the game.
Development Focus Area 3: Survival Experience
It is our aim to bring an immersive and unique experience of surviving in the chaotic world of martial arts to players. These are some of the things that we have been working on:
1. Sect-building and other relevant gameplay functions
2. Optimize the building mechanism: includes improving gaming experience when erecting buildings. More buildings and furniture will also be added
3. Optimize AI enemy combat mechanism and behaviors: includes improving realism in combat behavior and response to player's moves
4. Increase variety of geographic features of maps in order to provide more challenging gameplay: for example, add a slowing debuff to swamps, frostbite effect to frozen lakes and pockets of miasma and toxins etc.
5. Optimize basic controls and new player tutorials
Development Focus Area 4: Other concerns:
1. Both single-player and multiplayer LAN versions are being developed
2. Player party system is under development
3. Optimize Performance: The Nvidia GTX 1070 graphics card is currently capable of maintaining a stable framerate above 60fps with a high-resolution graphics setting
Our team is working around the clock in hopes of bringing The Swordsmen X: Survival to all heroes out there in 2021. What we have shared above is only a small portion of what is in the pipeline. If you have any suggestions or feedback for us, we welcome you to join the conversation in our player discussion groups. We will continue our efforts to make your experience in the world of The Swordsmen X: Survival a better one each day!
See you at E3 2021!
The Swordsmen X: Survival will participate in the E3 showcase of Yooreka Studio at PDT 15:20 on June 15th. Looking forward to seeing you then!
Yours truly,
Dev Team