Vindictive Drive
Definitive version of Vindictive Drive
Changes:
*New areas and new pieces of the story revealed
*General bug fix
*Spanish language now available!
*Big graphic improvement(Portraits, hud, sprites and CG)
*Animated scenes improved
*New animated scenes
*Chapter 7 big Puzzle nerfed
*Added a bonus game, after reaching the good ending you will be given a code for it, in this new chapter you play as Eureka and Xera, an older hybrid, trying to escape the Seiten labs, here you will learn a lot of new details of Eureka's origin, Amy's plot, and more. This bonus game also contains two new bosses.
Thank you for following the development of Vindictive Drive, special thanks to SometimesYou Publishing, as they did a splendid job as publisher, and to Morgan, who was an incredible support for me all this time.
A big thank you to my testers and reviewers, who helped to make this a better game too. It took some time to make, and it makes me feel proud to see some of the reactions it caused, I appreciate all of them.
I hope you like the new things and feel free to let me know what you think, even though I couldn't include all the things I wanted, I listen to my players and they have a lot of influence in the things that changed.
-Bal
:Great changes coming soon:
I have been watching the reactions of the community, and just like the first time I did, with the help of your suggestions, bug reports and feedback, I am proud to say Vindictive Drive will be now a better and more enjoyable story to play.
Some of the changes in progress are:
*Bugs fixed, some of the most notable being the ones related to helper robots
*The difficultly of some puzzles will be changed, including that big one in chapter 7.
*New areas added with more information about some characters' background stories.
*Animation scenes fixed to be more fluid
*Some scenes completely remade to make the game flow faster where it should do it.
*Language options.
*Changes in tools, weapons and helper robots .
*If given the conditions in your session, Eureka will be available as usable helper robot for more time.
The update will be announced with a small animation featuring Luna Herz, voiced by the wonderful and talented MikuLeRoux.
Also, a few special surprises I have been preparing for a long time that I want to keep a secret, I can't give you an ETA right now because lately my free time has been changing a lot, but I read all your posts and I have all of them in mind to make a better game, thank you immensely.
- Bal
Vindictive Drive just updated
The next update will be a big one, translations to spanish and korean are coming!
Thank you very much for playing Vindictive Drive and helping me to improve it! Thank you for sharing your ideas, videos and screenshots! Suggestions are always welcome.
Changes:
> Only one helper robot can be used after the upgrade
> Eureka’s battle bug with the helper robots fixed
> Minor dialogue changes to improve the overall feeling and atmosphere of the game
> Added alternative boss battle for Liz Barrett in the end of the Merciless route(not Pure Evil)
> Liz Barret’s Zanzoken skill now deals much more damage and consumes more battery to encourage the use of correct timing between attacks.
> Eureka is a bit tougher(as boss and as helper robot)
Vindictive Drive released on STEAM!
After 4 months in "Early Access" Vindictive Drive is finally available on STEAM today! Here's developer quote about the final update:
This update extends the game to ten chapters, completing the story and I also had in mind the critics and reviews of the Early Access version to make the game more balanced and enjoyable.
This version also adds a good bunch of weapons and tools, and also gives the player the choice of acquiring one of the two helper robots that will guide the gameplay mechanics into either stealth or action shooter scenarios depending on which they like the most, and a secret hidden character they can unlock near the end.
This is a story driven thriller game with dark themes and a very sour, suicidal main character who has nothing to lose and it's obviously not an average heroine, in a stealth/action game;not the easiest story or the easiest game to make, but I'm very grateful with the players, they literally helped me build this game, one of them even became involved in the project as a tester/proofreader.
I am also grateful with those who will play it after this release, it took quite a lot of work and time to make, and I hope people enjoy it as much as I do.
- Balthasar