Hi guys Thomas here! I hope you guys will enjoy the new update!! Remember to post your player feedback and share the news!
Also I made some new awesome friends and I'm doing a livestream:
http://steamcommunity.com/games/566860/announcements/detail/3388269626438340650
And now for the update:
Traps
All of the dungeons are now filled with traps you can encounter. These traps are randomly placed around set locations inside hallways and chambers.
Added: Fireball Trap
Fires a fireball in an area in front of the trap.
Can not be destroyed.
Recharges in between shots.
Can be tricked into activation by moving your weapon in front of it.
Added: Stalker Trap
Fires a homing fireball in an area in front of it.
Can be dodged by quickly moving out of the way.
Can not be destroyed.
Recharges in between shots.
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Added:Spike Trap
Spikes are activated when walking over or near the trap.
Located on floors and even walls.
Can not be destroyed.
Can be tricked into activation by moving your weapon in front of it,
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Drop-In Co-op
You can now activate Drop in Co-op when you are in the main chamber. This makes it possible to start a dungeon alone and have people join or leave while you play.
When someone else is hosting a public drop-in Co-op Session you will get notified in the main chamber with a sound and message above the multiplayer door. Stepping through this door takes you to the Drop in Co-op match of that player.
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Servant of the Necromancer
A servant of the necromancer appeared! He will try to make your dungeon runs a lot harder. He can appear at any moment, with a sole purpose of killing you and your party.
The first Servant added to the game is called the "Spectral Summoner". The Servant will spawn smaller enemies, teleport to safety when you get too close and shoot you down with stalker fireballs.
Get close and strike fast to drop him to the ground. Here you can slash and bash him for a few good seconds. If you don't manage to finish him he will try to teleport away to safety.
Defeating this Servant clears the "Mini Boss" Challenge and unlocks the Bonus Room at the end of the Dungeon. Servants spawn randomly and only appear when you get seen in a dungeon, making sure that stealth playthroughs are viable and not interrupted.
Abilities and Statistics
Ranged Only
Shoots stalker fireballs
1200 Health Points, a little more than the Red Orc or Big Bones enemy.
Can teleport at will.
Has a teleport escape when in danger.
Gets scared when you get too close, giving you a few seconds to strike.
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Weapon Changes
Changed: Short bow The Short bow is now bigger in size and needs to be pulled much further than before. The sounds have also been adjusted and rumble has been added to simulate string tension. Arrows now leave a trail behind them so it's easier to adjust shots accordingly.
Shorter pull range
Added arrow trail
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Changed: Pistol The Pistol model has been updated and now features a hand animation when you do a reload spin or do a grab spin from your belt.
Slower fire rate, but more damage (from 40 to 75)
Bullet now fly faster making far away targets easier to hit.
Added Bullet trail
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Changed: Light Crossbow The Light Crossbow now also features a hand animation when you do a reload spin or do a grab spin from your belt.The bolts also have a trail added to them and are now easier to make follow up shots.
Lowered Bolt range
Added Bolt trail
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Changed: Spellbooks All Spells can now be cast a little faster, making Group ambushes easier to clear. Reworked hand animations for charging and casting spells.
Faster cast time
Spell are less accurate
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Graphics Overhaul
The VR Dungeon Knight graphics are reworked and old effects replaced with new and more performance friendly features/image effects.
Added: HDR (High Definition rendering) The game now supports a bigger color range then before.
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Added: Horizon Based Ambient Occlusion This adds more depth to models and structures. Giving you a more robust experience. This option can be toggled on/off in the option room to save on performance.
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Added: Depth of Field This adds more depth to models and structures. Giving you a more robust experience. This option can be toggled on/off in the option room to save on performance.
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Added: Bloom Magic, lights and explosions now all light up giving a more real and epic look.
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AI Changes
Ranged enemies will now advance and get in your line of sight when you stay behind cover for too long.
Smaller enemies will now attack in groups.(Spectral clubber, Skeleton Archer, Spectral Summons)
Group enemies will try to flank you and attack from behind or sides.
All grouped enemies have their health reduced.
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Enemy Changes
Changed: Orc
Health has been changed from 900 to 1000.
Orcs now have a max spawn of 4 instead of 5.
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Changed: Bones
Health has been changed from 1200 to 1100.
Changed the model to be more grim and dark.
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Changed: Clubber
Health has been changed from 200 to 50
Now attacks in groups.
Will use teleportation to jump around the map at will, trying to flank you or attack from behind.
Damage reduced from 12 to 9.
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Changed: Sourcerer
Damage reduced from 14 to 9.
AI reworked to be more aggressive.
Will use teleportation to jump around the map at will, trying to flank you or attack from behind.
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Changed: Ghost When you enter a haunted room with ghosts, being present among them can cause a disturbance, turning off all torches and your lantern. Leaving you in the dark.
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Changed: Skeleton Archer
Now attacks in groups.
Health reduced from 100 to 25.
Skeleton Archers are now more aggressive.
Attack range increased from 11 meters to 18.
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Mechanics and additions
Dropping Items Lots of new players drop their weapons by accidentally holding the grip button. It now requires you to hold grip for 0.35 seconds minimum and press the trigger button to drop a weapon.
Hand Animations New hands have been added to the game alongside with new animations. Added new animation for climbing and items.
Blocking Blocking is more reliable when aiming for the enemy weapon.
Long attack strikes and fast Follow-up hits Striking the enemy with fast follow up hits now works better and does more damage. The faster you attack the less damage you do.
Hitbox reworks Hitting enemies is more reliable with melee and ranged attacks.
New Update, Bigger Team and Livestream!
Hi guys,
Thomas here, your hardworking one-man developer, now with a bigger team!
The guys from Wolfdog Interactive will be helping me in getting VRDK to higher grounds. Being able to work with a bigger team gives me the option to create more quality content. I will still handle all decisions and content updates but this time with help from the team at Wolfdog. This gives me space to create bigger and epic updates.
Speaking of big and epic updates, a new one update is live right now! I worked incredibly hard on it and I truly hope you guys like it! It introduces new traps, Drop-in co-op and much more.
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Bigger Team
Hello everyone, my name is Jesse and I’m the Founder of Wolfdog Interactive. Some of you might know us from the game Skyworld. A VR TBS that we made together with Vertigo Games (Arizona Sunshine). After a long time of preparations and hard work, we are proud to announce that VR Dungeon Knight is now a part of the Wolfdog family. It’s a great honor and pleasure for us to aid in the development of this ambitious game, which is created by a passionate developer and supported by an amazing community.
Thomas and the team worked hard to bring you one of the biggest updates yet! The Trap Update (0.8.1) is now live and brings hidden traps, new enemies, graphics rework, drop-in coop and many more features. We hope that you will enjoy this new update. Please send us your feedback in the comments, forum or on our new discord group.
One of the most important things about VRDK is the amazing community that surrounds it. In order to bring everyone even closer together, we created an official VRDK discord group. The discord group creates an opportunity to engage even more with the devs and community about the game. You can give direct feedback and ask for personal support, or use it to find a fellow Dungeon Knight for an epic dungeon run.
After all the love Dungeon Knight received from the community, it is time for us to give some love back. We want to do this with a Live VRDK community Q&A. The Livestream will take place on April 5th and will feature Thomas (Blackjard Softworks) and Jesse (Wolfdog Interactive), who will talk about the new update, coming features and more. You will also have the opportunity to ask any burning question you have. More details will follow next week.
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Giveaway
Besides a Livestream, we want to find even more ways to reward you for all your dedication and support. Participate in the Grand Giveaway and get a chance to win one of the 3 Copies of VR Dungeon Knight! One lucky winner will even be rewarded with a Steam Gift Card! Join the contest here:
If you have any more questions or feedback about the update please lets us know, or you can follow us on social media. Have fun with the new Update!
For more information: info@wolfdoginteractive.com
For Press Key request and inquiries : press@wolfdoginteractive.com
Swords and Sorcery VR Bundle is now released!
Hello Dungeon Knights!
I'm excited to share that Thomas (me) made some new friends! Karnage Chronicles and The Wizards! We worked hard and have created a awesome bundle for all fantasy players out there ːsteamhappyː
Swords and Sorcery VR Bundle!
Our bundle contains The Wizards, Karnage Chronicles, and Dungeon Knight VR at discounted prices, offering you all the very best of high fantasy VR experiences with a combined average of 90% positive reviews. This exciting, all-in-one package delivers hours upon hours of adrenaline-pumping action and unforgettable adventures!
The bundle is flexible, meaning that if you own one or two of the included games, you can get the rest with even more discount. All the games are playable on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift and comes packed with movement options that suit the needs of everyone.
The Wizards is a action-adventure VR spellcaster set in a rich fantasy world with a campaign featuring time travel, heroic battles and dragons, while Karnage Chronicles delivers intense combat with RPG elements and story. Awesome games and definitely worth every penny!
-You now turn 45 degrees.
-Turning is now changed to clicking left and right instead of swiping.
-Turning 180 degrees uses a top press on the touch pad instead of down.
-Option to use the old swipe turning mechanic
-Option to choose between 45 and 90 degree turning
-Updated the Game Engine to the latest version.
-Polished Combat.
-Added Swing Sounds to weapons. Blunt sounds and Sharp Sounds.
-Added Haptic feedback to swings.
-Added Enemy Death Animations
-Added Replay Tutorial Option.
-Added Steam Name of your last co-op partner in the multiplayer lobby. (From now on).
Added Volume options:
-2 Music Volume Levels (Low and Normal).
-Mute Music (So you can play your own).
-Blackmark Shopkeeper is now a pseudo random room. So everytime you don't get it you will have a higher chance you do next time.
Example: (1-50, 1-49, 1-48) etc.
-Increased Frames per second and Occlusion Culling Performance.
COMBAT:
-Added Physics to enemy limbs and overal body balance when you hit them.
-Added dramatic Death Grunts to enemies.
-Added Death Ui on kills.
-Changed the the ghostly Clubber enemy.
-Adjusted Combat to make combo's and faster hits more realible.
-Nerfed/removed Wiggling melee weapons.
-Larger and longer swings with melee weapons do increased damage.
-You can now throw weapons
-When you throw a weapon at the right distance at a enemy you can catch it again.
-Hand Axe, Daggers and the spear do increased throw damage.
-Added new enemy animations
-Added Different animations depending how heavy/big the enemy is.
-Added Blocking for enemies.
-Added Counter Attack for enemies. (When you attack their block move)..
-Added Swing Trails.
-Added HealthBars for enemies. (Can be disabled).
-Added Visable Hit Impact on weapons.
-Added New sounds.
PERFORMANCE & FPS INCREASES:
-Changed how lighting works.
-Removed some image effects.
-Reworked complex dungeon structures.
-Optimised Player.
-Optimised Enemies.
-Optimised Weapons.
HEALING:
-Adding Healing potion with liquid physics.
-Working on random healing stations around the dungeon.
The New update is released! This update will include the new combat system, healing potions, healing stations, improvements to performance and much more mentioned in this post.
The new combat took me a lot of time to get right, I have been in my room swinging controllers at my enemies for way too long. Broke my room clock and some other stuff along the way. (gets a little too immersive from time to time). All worth it in the end though ːsteammockingː
The new combat applies physics, blocking and counter attacking for enemies.
I would love to get your thoughts and feedback on the new update when it launches early next week.
I'm very excited to share the new features and improve the game, it's been a blast and I love working with you guys to expand and improve the game every update.
I'm so glad that I have a dedicated community to work with that gives me idea's feedback and suggestions, it really keeps me motivated and I'm happy I can do this for a living, creating a game that we all want to play ːsteamhappyː
Thanks again guys,
I hope you all have a nice day!
-Thomas Blackjard Softworks
New Structures, New Rooms, New Weapons, Splitscreen Fairy Mode, Combat Polish, Inventory Update and more!
New stuff! I have been working hard to create new area's in the game, and not just new dark hallways but bigger and open area's inside and outside!
Even more rooms and area's will come over time.
If you like the new additions, don't hesitate to leave a review! It helps me out more than you think!
You can now collect tokens around the dungeons (like gold and XP books) and trade them in for special enhanced weapon chests. These tokens are hard to find and require you to look around a lot more!
There currently is 1 special weapon that you can get, more will come over time.
Extra: 2 Handed Claymore was added to the weapons chamber.
A friend in the same room can now join in as a fairy on the same computer in splitscreen, the fairy sees the world as a map, (Topdown). So now you can play together instead of take turns playing at home!
The fairy is passive and can't attack or be seen but can do some other things like:
-Be a additional lightsource for the main player.
-Can locate gold, XP books and Keys on the map
-Perfect for scouting ahead of the dungeon knight.
-Can Reveal enemy positions and communicate where they move.
You control the fairy by using the keyboard. Press space to join in.
Even more rooms are being added and new locations.
You will now be able to explore demonic and larger rooms or explore the new temple villages or cross a huge bridge over a lake and knock orcs off them between 2 connected dungeons. Try and find your way trough cold ice caves and more!
The main theme of the new area's is "Bigger". A lot more area's can be played to avoid or flank enemies. We have enough small hallways already, it's time to experience some new big and fresh area's.
-New magical rare room was added to be found with a player upgrade
You can now collect tokens around the dungeons (like gold and XP books) and trade them in for special enhanced weapons. These tokens are hard to find and require you to look around a lot more!
A friend in the same room can now join in as a fairy on the same computer in splitscreen, the fairy sees the world as a map, (Topdown). So now you can play together instead of take turns playing at home!
The fairy is passive and can't attack or be seen but can do some other things like:
-Be a additional lightsource for the main player.
-Can locate gold, XP books and Keys on the map
-Perfect for scouting ahead of the dungeon knight.
-Can Reveal enemy positions and communicate where they move.
Even more rooms are being added and new locations.
You will now be able to explore demonic and larger rooms or explore the new temple villages or cross a huge bridge over a lake and knock orcs off them between 2 connected dungeons. Try and find your way trough cold ice caves and more!
The main theme of the new area's is "Bigger". A lot more area's can be played to avoid or flank enemies. We have enough small hallways already, it's time to experience some new big and fresh area's.
Let's get into some of the changes of this update.
Changes to Dungeons:
Normal Dungeons are longer and contain more monsters.
Nightmare Dungeons:
-A lot more dangerous.
-More Enemies in rooms.
-Changed Spawning methode from random amounts to always spawn the maximum amount of enemies. If there is enough space to spawn them.
-Increased movement speed a small amount of some enemies.
-Wishing you spawned a normal dungeon while hiding in a corner.
Since I needed to work on fixing some things, here they are:
-Pistols and crossbows are now angled 45 degrees down.
-Hand distance Teleportation is replaced by Controller Pointing Teleportation.
-Fixed a bug where sometimes you spawned in a wall.
-UI Changes.
-Fixed Private multiplayer hosting not being private.
-Fixed the double hands bug in multiplayer.
-Added new voicelines. Some help explain functions of the game.
-Adjusted Tutorial.
-Changed Enhanced pickup weapons to be less glitchy in multiplayer. (Work in progress).
The game is doing great! A lot more people have come in to play VR Dungeon Knight.
If you like the work of this one man developer, Support me by leaving a review. It really helps me out!
Have a very nice day!
-Thomas Blackjard Softworks
PART 2 IS OUT, MAGIC UPDATE, Public Online Co-op!
Hi Everyone,
I hope you are having a great day,
Let's jump straight into all the changes/additions.
New to the game:
-Magic Spellbooks. Now you can be a real Wizard.
Current spellBooks:
Fire Spellbook.
Poison Spellbook.
Storm Spellbook.
-New Enemy added called "Clubber".
-New Locomotion added: Controller Direction Movement.
(Only used when you disable Arm Swinger Movement).
Also Added:
-Online Public Matchmaking.
-A online arena while you wait for players to join your session.
-Snow Area's. (Included with Part 1).
-Cave Area's. (Included with Part 1).
-Weird Rare Area's.
-Mini Boss Room.
-Restock Area's. Containing: Enhanced weapons that you can use untill the end of the dungeon. Gold and XP books. Quivers.
Enhanced Weapons that you can find:
Storm Spear,
Flame Sword,
BlueFlame Demonic Staff,
Cursed Mace.
Tweaks:
Added Stairs to one of the dungeon rooms. Making monsters able to come up to kill you when you annoy them with projectiles.
Projectiles are now less performance heavy, (Sometimes projectiles from the pistol or bow would cause lag in single player and Online).
Frames per second Increases:
Enemies are more optimised.
Players are more optimised.
Projectiles are more optimised.
And that's about it.
Very fun to work on new stuff in VR Dungeon Knight. I think we have more then doubled the original content by now. ːsteamhappyː
Although.. I'm not making enough Sales to pay the bills (Unfortunately ːsteamsadː), I do want to continue development for you guys. I'm really having a blast making new additions.
( EDIT: Thanks to the amazing support of the community the game is actually doing a lot better! I would like to thank everyone for posting, streaming or leaving a review. It really helped/helps me out a lot! Keep it up guys! )
If you like all the work I'm doing, support me by leaving a review. That really helps me out a lot.
Thanks to everyone who already helped me out with feedback, reviews and awesome idea's. You are the best!
Have a very nice day guys,
-Thomas Blackjard Softworks.
New Big Update PART 1 is out!
Hi guys,
Just a quick update, I'm going to post a patch note in a couple of days containing all the new things this new update brings.
Open matchmaking is still a challenge and not added but will come, I'm working very hard on it. Don't worry. Multiplayer Friend Co-op play does work.
Im also still working on some new locomotion options so look for that and the open matchmaking later this week.
But since I didn't want you guys to wait any longer I uploaded a PART 1 Version, containing a lot of stuff like:
New 3D player rendering.
Classes,
Snowy Outside Area's.
Dark Cave Area's
Small Mini Bosses.
New weapons. One of them is a Flintlock pistol. Pretty neat.
ːsteamhappyː
I will do a official release with the new locomotion options and public matchmaking soon.
Since this patch is pretty big, let me know if you find any bugs, I will try and fix them as soon as I can!
For now, have fun! Good luck looting!
-Thomas Blackjard Softworks
Price increase, Biggest update so far incoming, Oculus Support.
RELEASE DATE: 7th of JULI
Hi everyone,
I hope you are all doing great!
Making a Virtual Reality Online Co-op RPG on your own is a lot of work, but it's shaping up to be something special thanks to you guys and the amazing feedback.
This is just a quick message to keep you guys up to date, the game is doing fine and I have added so much new stuff for the upcoming update.
Some things you can expect:
-New Area's
-New Traps.
-Classes. (Like: Warrior, Ranger, Mage,Assassin and more).
-Outfits (Armors).
-New Full body rendering methode.
-New Weapons.
-Public Co-op matchmaking.
-New locomotion options.
And much more!
This update contains so much new content. But I really need to take the time to polish them. So stay tuned, it's going to be worth the wait!
I bought a Oculus Rift and will start support for the Oculus rift next week.
In the last week I invested a lot of money for new content, it will help the game to be even bigger and better over the coming months.
Since the game is getting bigger and more expensive then I originally expected I have to adjust the pricing.
The game will increase in price over the coming months. So if you want to get the game for the original low price, now is your chance.
And that's all the news I got for you guys!
Now I'm going to try and relax this weekend. Any movie suggestions?
