Viscerafest
Autumn Sale is here and Viscerafest is 20% off
Autumn Sale has just started and Viscerafest is one of the included games. From now until November 29 you can buy the game for 20% off.
Also don't forget that Viscerafest is a part of This Is My Boomstick Bundle along with Forgive Me Father and Dread Templar, meaning you can combine the discounts. That's a hell of a bargain, isn't it?
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/23337/This_Is_My_Boomstick_Bundle/
Many more games from Fulqrum Publishing, such as fresh titles Lords and Villeins, Forgive Me Father or The Pegasus Expedition, are discounted as well, you can find all of them on our sale page.
Viscerafest 0.9.1.2 - The Fashionably Late OST and Halloween Update!
This update brings with it a host of changes tweaks and additions, most notably of course being Geoffrey Daigle's OST for Viscerafest chapter 2. We've been working with him on it over the last several months and are incredibly excited that we've finally gotten to put it all in the game! What's more, if you scroll down a bit we've provided links to all the cool places you can go and listen to the OST all on its own! So if ya just wanna support ol' Geoff, or acquire some nifty tunes to listen to on your iPod nano's and mp3 players, scroll down to the bottom of the page for all of those!
We do have a few more notable things to update you on, but we know the vast majority of you have likely clicked on this thread for the patch notes, so let's get to em.
New Features:
- Chapter 2's OST
- Enemy, Prop, and menu reskins for the holiday
- New Seasonal options tab under Graphics
- Bunny-Hopping now cuts all incoming damage in half (stacks with armor)
- New option to disable the Bunny-Hopping's damage resistance effect available in hud options
- Enemies can now damage/kill each other and destroy things in the environment
- Enemy projectiles now reflect off of shields
Tweaks:
- Improved Menu U.I.
- Improved Menu Art
- Various sprite and texture updates
- Various lighting tweaks across most maps
- Swapped out the doors in the opening room of C2L1
- Extra ammo pickups have been added in most maps
- The spawn rate of certain ammo types in chapter 2's final boss arena has been tweaked
- The spawn rate of stun barrels in the final boss arena has been reduced
- Removed a few save beacons to curve chapter 2's overabundance of them
- Enemies now make a more significant effort to evade each other's line of sight
- The enemy-type version of chapter 2's first bosses' health pool has been moderately increased
- The first boss of chapter 2 now maneuvers as intended
- The first boss of chapter 2's line of sight attack's windup sound's volume has been increased
- The firing rate of chapter 2's final bosses' standard projectiles has been reduced during the first phase
- The firing rate of chapter 2's final bosses' standard projectiles have been increased during the second and third phase
- The damage of chapter 2's final bosses' napalm rockets has been reduced
- The speed of chapter 2's final bosses' homing missiles has been reduced
- The Health pool of chapter 2's final bosses has been slightly increased
- The Warhounds explosion effects have been tweaked
- The BBQ Belters flames now better track the on-screen weapon
- The BBQ Belters flame effects tweaked
- Player's step height has been reworked which should make for a yet smoother movement experience
Fixes:
- Fixed C2L3 doors missing collision
- Fixed a C2L4 elevator Door interact being misplaced upon opening
- Fixed an unresponsive enemy in C2L6
- Fixed broken textures/materials in C2L7
- Fixed transparency issue relating to sky boxes
- Fixed the first boss of chapter 2's line of sight attack's detonation using the incorrect sound
- Fixed controller rebinding issues
- Fixed several bugs related to hud customization
- Fixed minor scaling issues and prefab non-conforming ammo pickups in various maps
- Fixed several bugs with the hud's ammo counter
- Fixed bug where stalker projectiles would not detonate properly once their timer was up
- Fixed an audio bug triggering the war hounds explosions to cause framerate hitching
- Fixed bug where stunning the first boss mid-LOS attack would cause particle effect to
stick around while the attack was not active - Fixed various bugs with the final boss of chapter 2
- Fixed Dashes I-Frames not working on spawnlings
Going Forward:
So in our last Lil update, we mentioned that this would likely be the last major update Viscerafest gets until full release, and that was no lie, but that's not to say there won't be any updates going forward. Most of what we do from here on out will just be significantly smaller in scale, bug fixes, minor tweaks and touchups, that sort of thing.
But we do have one major change planned
that will likely sneak its way into an update
prior to release...
A Weapon is Changing:
Now with Viscerafest's arsenal, we've striven to make sure everything has a role and a place in the combat space, and I'd say we've succeeded at that. However... I've never really liked that the game has 2 relatively standard shotguns...
Now functionally the Bunker Buster and Deus Mortis are indeed distinct in the role they play in combat. The Bunker Buster is your nice all-rounder, a workhorse in the combat space, and the Deus Mortis a wonderful 1 shot damage dumper great for dealing with tanks and crowds. But at the end of the day, they are both shotguns, that both fire a spread of normal projectiles, and that's not good enough for me...
As a result, the Dues Mortis is changing.
We've planned to make the Deus Mortis not only have its shots pierce through enemies regardless of how many it hits, but you will also be able to call the projectiles back to your current location. This will allow you to effectively hit enemies more than once with the same projectiles, or even do fun trick shots because... why not?
With this, the Deus Mortis will also be getting a new look, as you can see here!
Now when will this be added to the game? Don't know. We'll be adding it as soon as we get the all-clear that there are no major bugs in this update, but when it will be added to the public version of the game is hard to say.
Regardless, we hope you enjoy the new music, the new update, and your holiday as a whole!
Stay safe, have fun, and a wonderful day to boot!
OST Links:
Buy OST on Bandcamp: https://geoffplaysguitar.bandcamp.com/album/viscerafest-chapter-2-original-game-soundtrack
Listen on Spotify: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/geoffplaysguitar/viscerafest-chapter-2-original-game-soundtrack
Listen on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/geoffplaysguitar/sets/viscerafest-chapter-2-original-game-soundtrack
Listen on Youtube: https://youtu.be/20nzO4BmJO0
Viscerafest is a part of Fulqrum Publisher Sale!
We are so happy to announce that the Fulqrum Publisher Sale just started and Viscerafest is a part of it with an amazing discount!
ALL of Fulqrum Publishing's games are discounted by up to 90% for an entire week! The sale ends on October 27.
Besides, we have just launched a brand new game into Early Access, that being The Pegasus Expedition. If you have not checked it out yet, now is the perfect time!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1521070/The_Pegasus_Expedition/
Enjoy the sale, buy as many games as possible while they're discounted, play The Pegasus Expedition and don't forget to follow us on our Social Media so you never miss any important info!
Have you tried GRAVEN already?
As fans of Viscerafest, alias FPS lovers, have you ever tried GRAVEN? If not, now is the perfect time, since the game has received a second Content Update that adds new quests, a region, weapons and even a boss!
To check out the whole changelog, follow this link:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1371690/view/3326493366179455544
TRAILER:
GRAVEN:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1371690/GRAVEN/
Viscerafest: Known Issues and Stuff
And I've got something a touch out of the ordinary to talk about...
So Viscerafest, as I'm sure you are all well aware, is a WIP game, and as a consequence, there's a lot we have yet to do. Beyond missing content, we're talking known bugs, half and un-implemented features, stuff that's old and needs to be updated, etc... So I wanted to make a post to help give you guys a glimpse at some of what will be changing between now, the games full release, and potentially post release.
TUTORIALS:
Naturally teaching players how to play a game is very important and if I may be honest I think Viscerafest's current tutorial level does not do a good enough job of introducing the basics to new players. So we'll be revising both the intro level itself and how tutorials are handled to make the player's abilities easier to comprehend. We'll also be providing visual examples through said tutorials of the game being played to help newcomers better understand what they should be aiming for.
CHAPTER 1:
Viscerafest's first chapter is... old... the first versions of the chapter 1 maps were created in 2016 and whilst they've been updated a lot over the years they're currently getting completely remade behind the scenes. The layouts will be pretty similar but there will be minor additions, new areas, altered secrets (Hi pagb666 teehee...) tweaked elements of the overall layout, and of course, they will be much more handsome devils with updated geometry and texture work.
The Great Divide Maps:
So for those of you who don't know "The Great Divide" is a plane in the Viscerafest lore that binds the differing realms together. It's that void space with the bloo balls and white architecture. Yeah, all of those maps (which there are currently only 2 of in the EA) are getting remade. Specifically "C1L6 - Wayward Watchers" and "C2L5 - Ceremonial Sacrilege". C1L6 is as stated prior, pretty old and a couple of its segments need to be touched up, as well as its visuals updated. But C2L5's *current* version was... rushed... and as a result, it's a bit of a rough map to play particularly if you struggle with the game's movement. Various tweaks will be made to help mitigate the frustrating elements, introduce some of its more unique mechanics in a gentler way, helping the map play more smoothly and of course, look nicer.
Le Hub:
In a similar vein to the chapter 1 maps, the hub is old, it's a bit empty, a bit ugly, and in general needs a facelift. A lot of its planned features were never going to be present until full release anyways and as a consequence, it being remade was pretty much planned from the moment it was added to the game.
Lighting:
So here's a weird one, ambient lighting tends to look very flat when it's not broken up by dynamic light sources, and it can be a big issue in maps like C2L4. As shown below in areas where there is lots of one color (or similar colors) the flat lighting causes things to visually blend together. The way we hope to address this is by basically doing what the original doom did. In dos doom, things that are further from the player are darker, which helps to create a sense of visual depth that we hope to loosely functionally replicate. We'll also be doing a second lighting pass on a bunch of the maps which we hope should help to alleviate this as well.
Gotta Go Fast:
I don't want to elaborate too much on what we're doing for this one just yet as it's nothing is set in stone. But in essence, we want to provide more incentives for players to engage with the already existing systems in the way that we intend them to. Giving things like bunnyhopping more advantages than just purely going fast and making you harder to hit, so that players (particularly ones who play more cautiously) have more reasons to take advantage of them.
Overall Balancing Changes:
There are a fair few issues I personally have with the game's current balancing. For starters, I feel the ramp-up in difficulty is a pinch too extreme, so we'll be aiming to level that playing field a bit. Secondly, the pacing of enemy reveals primarily in the early game will be getting sped up a pinch, as the first two levels can be melee only'd with ease. And finally, the difficulties, in general, will be getting reigned in a bit. Nightmare will be going from an intentionally unbalanced mess to something a bit more playable and consistent, and the easier difficulties will be getting a bit more love and restructuring as it seems that's where most players will be spending their time.
The Ammo Situation:
Viscerafest's balancing when it comes to ammo is quite obnoxiously meticulous, with the intent being that players are forced to think about what they use before they use it. Viscerafest is not a game about spraying and praying, it's about pushing the resource management and enemy prioritization side of the retro shooter subgenre to its logical extreme, this then, of course, is tied in with the game's focus on aggression and close quarters bruiser combat with the necessity of melee having to be factored into ammo balancing. Because of this, we will pretty much always expect the "Why is there no ammo?" complaint to be a common one amongst players who don't understand what the game is going for, picked a difficulty they can't handle, or who shoot at NPC's with the Quad Shotgun not understanding why that is a bad idea. We've had this argument many times, and our stance on the matter is not changing. *However* we are going to be making a slight balancing shift going forward.
Ammo will be getting slightly more abundant, not by much, but in general, we plan to make things *slightly* more forgiving. But part of addressing this issue will also be dealt with in the tutorial changes. I feel a part of the issue is we've just done a poor job communicating some aspects of this part of the game to players, and that in making the utility of melee and the intentions of the games core clearer, this alone will help to alleviate some of the complaints on this front.
With all that said, the changes to the balancing itself will largely be as follows.
- Ammo in the open will be
- slightly* more abundant
- Ammo in secrets less so
We actually don't balance Viscerafest around secrets anyways, when playing myself I actually never get them. I don't think it's fair to expect players to find something blatantly out of the way, so they're treated more as a light reward for being vigilant. But it's quite easy to overstock on ammo if you know where they all are due to their accumulative nature, which is something I've never liked. So in that, we'll be shifting the scales a bit.
Step Height Jank:
So as of writing, this has already been addressed in our dev builds, it's just not been pushed to the public ones yet. Step height in games effectively detects the height of a surface an object is moving to and whether or not when it hits that surface it will climb up atop it, or stop against it like the object has hit a wall. This is why the player for example is capable of climbing upstairs without needing to jump. Up until now, we've been using unity's default systems for this, and it's caused some janky awkwardness, particularly with objects that are just high enough that the step height is kinda unsure of what to do.
With the tweaks we've made, movement around scenarios like this feels much more fluid, we may refine it more, but where we have this stuff internally is already a massive step up from where it was prior.
Boss Jank:
Both of Viscerafest's major bosses currently have some light jank to them that I don't care for. Things like the Banshee's spinning laser attack clipping through the pillars, her AOE sigil attacks spawning in midair/lava, or just the way Mortice moves and or occasionally gets stuck on level geometry... just lots of little edges that could do with some smoothing out and refining.
Enemies Sliding:
Enemies in Viscerafest have hard-coded states during which they are supposed to stay absolutely still and not move. Like, say if an enemy is winding up for an attack, or if they get stunned. Sometimes they, however, they don't... and it can occasionally lead to things like thunderbirds just homing in on you and getting a cheap hit (and often kill) in. This is a bug and we're currently working to address it.
The Pung Cannon:
The Pung Cannon's hit detection at close range seems iffy... sometimes projectiles will just fly straight through enemies which is... not ideal... it's very rare but it's also incredibly annoying when it happens. Once again a bug we're looking to address.
Explosive Inconsistencies:
Hit detection on explosives is kinda borked sometimes. Sometimes explosions will clip through walls and damage you or enemies, and sometimes they'll think the tiniest ledge is a brick wall in the way of an enemy, robbing you of a kill or damage you clearly should have gotten/dealt. This one is much harder to address but it is something we are aware of and want to fix.
Enemy Interactions:
Currently, enemy projectiles can only hurt the player, and will just discharge into anything else having no impact. For me, it leads to them feeling jankily disconnected from the game world in a way that I don't care for, so we'll be aiming to address that. The plan is to allow enemies to do damage to each other (within reason) and damage or destroy props in the environment. Depending on how this plays out we may exclude barrels for... uh... obvious reasons. But ultimately we won't know how it will play until we try it.
And Probably More:
What's mentioned above makes up a great deal of what we consider to be some of the most important things that we need to address. However, naturally, being that this is game development there are likely more that will crop up, and some that we've not listed here for one reason or another.
We should have a new patch coming out likely within the next month that will aim to address some of the issues that have been reported with the most recent public build, as well as one or two of the smaller things mentioned here. More than likely, however, the bulk of this stuff will be addressed down the road.
We'll be aiming to give you updates and sneak peeks as we move forward, but note that after this next patch things will likely get a bit quieter around these parts us as we put our noses to the grindstone.
If you'd like to stay up to date on all things Viscerafest, or just hang out with us and the community we've got a nice lil discord you can join here: https://discord.gg/E2pUkxe
And a twitter you can follow here: https://twitter.com/Awesreek
As always we thank you for your support! And we hope you have a wonderful day!
Viscerafest 0.9.1.1 - The Options Melee and More Update!
Featuring much-requested features such as subtitles, Anti-Aliasing options, Hud Customization,
an alternate heads-up display, and more!
Now it's worth noting a lot of this stuff is very very very new and as a consequence there may
be some rough edges. In particular, there's some more refinement of various elements I would like
to refine with the priorly mentioned alternate HUD. So just keep in my mind you may run into
some hiccups, and if you do please let us know so we can take care of them ASAP.
But we know what you're here for...
SO ONTO THE PATCH NOTES!
New Features:
- Melee attacks now drop armor pickups.
- Hud customization options.
- Retro/Centered hud.
- Keybinds to disable and enable Hud.
- Weapon position and scaling options.
- Options to tweak weapon auto swapping behaviors and priorities.
- Anti-Aliasing and options to enable/disable it.
- Various Audio visual options to help enhance the awareness of players.
- Subtitles.
- Quit to Desktop button added in the pause menu.
- A new message from Gianni!
Tweaks:
- Chapter 2 has received a second art pass.
- All levels have received various minor and major tweaks, balancing changes, and additions.
- Various sprite and asset updates.
- Most of the environmental props breaking effects have been improved.
- Melee attacks now have more notable impact effects for both the environment and enemies.
- Uppercut has been removed from standard RMB tapping.
- Dash icon on hud now darkens whilst dash is recharging.
- Pistol has received a very minor damage buff.
- Pistol shots now consume 3 Cells instead of 2.
- Pung cannons explosion buffed.
- Tweaked the animations and timing of stun states on
low-mid tier enemies to be more consistent. - Tweaked the animations and timing of stun states on
high-tier enemies to be more consistent and useful. - Hitscanning enemy's aim delay has been rebalanced.
- Several Projectile enemies now have a delayed aim.
- Rebalanced the first boss of chapter 2's aggression levels.
- Nomads have received a minor damage and aggression buff.
- Nomad priests have received minor aggression and projectile speed buffs.
- Enforcers' health nerfed.
- Enforcers and Grenadiers now have melee resistance.
- Enemies with melee resistances now have an alternate sound and impact effect to make their resistances more apparent.
- Changed weapon wheels default binding to R.
Fixes:
- A few acid related fixes
- Fixed a bug where enemies could phase through a door in C2L6.
- Aim delay system has received various tweaks and fixes.
- Various tweaks to improve performance.
- A few Linux-related bug fixes.
- Fixes related to loading save profiles.
- Controller bug fixes.
- More stuff we probably forgot because we've been working on this patch forever...
But Wait... Hold on... We're not done just yet...
So Viscerafest has one more major content update we'll be pushing prior to release,
and after that, we'll mostly just be sticking our noses to the grindstone wrapping up...
well... lots of stuff...
Realistically we believe the game's full release will likely be around the Summer/Fall of 2023,
though obviously, I'm not making any promises. With that said a lot inside of Viscerafest
is going to change between now and then. Likely in September, I will be aiming to release
a brief summation of what our plans (ignoring new content) for the game will be.
A list of known issues, tweaks to the design, and just general updates to pre-existing content
that we hope will give you a vision of how the final game will differ from what you can
currently play. I was hoping to include that in this update, but holy crap will that post
be a beast in and of itself.
Regardless, we hope you enjoy this update,
and we cannot wait for you all to see what's in store!
Thank you all for supporting us and playing our game!
And we shall see you again *soon*
Viscerafest is 20% off during Steam Summer Sale!
Viscerafest is a part of Steam Summer Sale! You can now get the game for 20% off! You don't want to miss this chance!
The sale ends on July 7. To check out all of our discounts, follow the link to our sale page.
Viscerafest is also a part of the following bundle, check it out below and buy the game for even higher discount! The additional discount applies in full even if you already own some of the items in it!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/23337/This_Is_My_Boomstick_Bundle/
Steam Next Fest 2022 has arrived!
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Steam Next Fest is now live! From now until June 20, you have the opportunity to try free demos of The Pegasus Expedition and Diluvian Ultra!
We would be really happy if you decided to play our DEMOs and perhaps add them to your wishlist so you knew about everything that moves around the games! Thank you and enjoy the gameplay!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1306970/Diluvian_Ultra/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1521070/The_Pegasus_Expedition/
Viscerafest gets a new music composer!
There is something very important we need to tell you. As you know, one of the most outstanding features of Viscerafest is its soundtrack. Until recently, it had been worked on by Michael Markie. Over the course of this past year he has been working with 3DR on music, sound and level design, for several of their upcoming titles, and he'll soon be getting a full time job at a different studio as a full time level designer. As a consequence, whilst he will still be a part of the project, he will just be less involved, taking on a more advisory role.
The reins of the OST will now be taken on by Geoffrey Day!
Check out the video he made about joining Viscerafest along with his conversation with Noah aka Awesreek, the lead developer of the game.
Viscerafest: Early Access Anniversary!
guys a Lil peek into what's going on behind the scenes right now!
For starters, chapter 3 has effectively begun production, with C3L1 currently in the works and C3L2 in
pre-production.
We have a brand new suite of 11 enemy types brewed up for the game's final chapter
(because I hate myself) and we'll be showing off those lil stinkers in the coming months.
We have the concept art for the final bosses complete as well as their general mechanics pinned down.
Additionally, we have a new cutscene in the works which will appear toward the late middle chunk of the chapter.
Now we don't want to showcase too much of that stuff just yet as its a bit early so we're only giving
you a small taste of what's in store on that front. However, there are more immediately pressing things
regarding currently available content that we can talk about a bit more liberally.
For starters, tutorials! Everybody's favorite part of every game. In all seriousness, one of the bigger
struggles we've been facing internally is how to communicate vital pieces of information to the player. There are alot core design decisions players need to be aware of going in. Because of what kind of a
game Viscerafest is a lot of players have false preconceived notions of how the game is supposed to
play, even among some positive reviews, it's pretty clear a portion of our audience doesn't entirely
understand what the game is trying to do so we've been re-evaluating how we communicate alot of
that stuff.
So when exactly this stuff will be added to the game is hard to explicitly outline but here is generally what our plans are.
- The entire first map is going to be remade and restructured with certain mechanics requiring mandatory use for progression purposes, things like melee, using the dashes I-Frames, etc...
- Tutorials will now contain video footage showcasing the ideas, concepts, and mechanics involved with
what they are referring to
Next up, melee! Melee is in general receiving some tweaks. As far as some more subtle changes go
there will be a bit more feedback when it comes to the impact of melee. Whether it be punching walls
or enemies.
On a more substantial front, we have 2 major changes coming. For starters, the uppercut has now been
removed from standard RMB tapping. Prior if you didn't charge your punch, and instead just spammed
the melee button you'd do a 3 punch combo, with the final punch being the uppercut which did double
damage but had a longer cooldown.
Now, tapping the melee button will only do standard left hook right hook punching, with the uppercut
being exclusively accessible via charging your punch.
The second major change, (and what I'm sure will be everyone's favorite) Punching living enemies
will now cause them to drop armor pickups. Armor reduces all damage taken by 50% regardless of
how much of it you have, so now there's a bit more reward for actually charging in to make those jabs
beyond the hefty damage you'll be dealing
The next uh... "MAJOR-ish?" patch is scheduled for July, and with it will come a few other substantial
tweaks and additions, so! SPEED ROUND TIME!
- Chapter 2 is receiving a second art pass with improved texture work to make everything pop a bit more.
- We plan to add some more HUD customization options! including the ability to turn individual hud elements off, and alternate hud, weapon scaling and placement, etc...
- Some new options and settings including Antialiasing,
- and some general quality of life stuff.
So uh yeah... lots and lots of stuff in the works, none of this is to even mention that in the background
chapter 1 will be getting a complete facelift. But when that will be finished is up for debate, might even
be post-launch. Regardless thank you all for your support so far! And please have a wonderful day!