Keep your wits about you, we've had intel of some spooky goings on inside the depths of the VRange lab! Whispers of disappearances, strange creatures and paranormal activity! This on top of the fact the worlds already falling to pieces!
In this seasonal update, we're pumping our undead with a vile full of pile, not to mention content, weapons updates, seasonal achievements and gameplay tweaks!
Halloween theme updates!
We've added some Halloween spice to each of the VRange maps. How many Pumpkins can you spot throughout the game? What happens if you shoot them all?
New Weapon: Shotguns
We've got some blasting good intel that the guys down in the VRange lab have got a new shipment of weapons! What's better for fending off the undead during Halloween? A 'boomstick' of-course! Make sure you check out the new REM SH5 on the ranges before taking using it to devastating effect in Horde Mode!
Content Updates and Fixes
We've added a ton of content updates and fixes! Too many to bore you with the details of which, but here's the start of an awesome list of fixes!
Halloween Content Updates
Sector 06 Horde Mode now enabled
CQB Bastion New Map Layout
REM SH5 Added to Horde Mode and Ranges
Performance Improvements to Training Range
Lighting Rebake on CQB Bastion
P90 Sound Replacement
Reduced Build size by 238mb
Main Menu Links Updated
Update - Hit markers and Horde Mode
Hi Folks!
We made a boo-boo. In yesterdays version 1.6 update, we incorrectly added an update that removed the functionality of the player's horde mode character in Sector 06. We have since corrected this issue by pushing an update tonight.
Further to this, we've also received feedback eluding to a lack of hit markers on projectile collision. This error, along with several bug fixes, performance improvements and content tweaks have all been pushed through tonight.
Thanks for the feedback folks!
-M
VRange V1.6 - Full Title Launch
Howdy Folks!
It's been an extremely busy few weeks here at Cannon Fire Games. We've been hard at work developing new content, plugging leaks and spending time on the range!
We've been steadily moving forward with the development of new content and today, with a fantastic grin on my face, I can say we've finally reached the Version 1.6 Milestone and, we're officially ready to release VRange from Early Access.
It's been a fantastic community achievement and from the bottom of my heart, I want to thank everyone that has taken the time to provide feedback, helped with development and gave their time and skill to the project.
Thank you.
Future Developments
We may have reached V1.6, but that's certainly not the end of updates to VRange. We've still got a ton of work to do, new content to add, features to implement and feedback to review and action. Rest assured we'll be working on VRange for a while longer to ensure we can action upon all of the fantastic feedback we've received.
We're currently working on our release branches for OCULUS and PSVR and the steam branch will of course benefit over time from all of these fantastic content updates. We've got new weapons, maps, and game modes in the works, currently being processed with our testing team and we've had a huge update in content with version 1.6.
What's New?
I'm going to keep things simple and dedicate another post to discuss the content released in Version 1.6 which I'll post this evening, but in a nutshell, we've got tons of new weapons, a new weapons training range map, new explosives, and radial damage weapons. There's a new explosive orientated map with dynamic destructible walls, an elevated firing position and along with that we've got an MG33 grenade launcher and new handheld explosives. We've integrated a new pause game system, new menu interfaces, and a ton of new weapons. On top of all this, we've been hard at work completing even more performance improvements.
Final Word
I just want to save a final massive thank you again to everyone who has helped get VRange to this stage. It's been a massive undertaking and we've still got a long way to go, but with the incredible support provided by everyone, it's been an incredibly fun journey.
-Mark
VRange - Version 1.5.11 - Weekly Notes
Hi Folks!
Just a small update this week to keep everyone in the loop. We’ve had an incredibly busy few weeks outside of the world of game development. Outside is a questionable term, outside of the world of our indie game development world, in the big bad world of AAA game development. Egh!, confusing I know!
Needless to say things have been quiet on the VRange front, apologies all round for this. Rest assured tho we’ve been steaming ahead with major developments behind the scenes.
I’ll drop some small update news below and get back with a bigger update at the start of next week!
New Zombies
We’ve been working on a great new update that’s going to bring in a selection of new zombie types. Zombie breeds will each have different strengths and weaknesses as well as differences in speed, attach strength, attack types and damage types! Just as always, don’t get the blood on your mouth!
New Weapons
There’s a heap of new weapon work going on. New LMG’s, assault rifles, pistols and sniper rifles. We’re progressing through a sound pass at the minute but this will be one of the first content updates pushed out next week.
New Ranges & Targets
This is a personally exciting one as I’ve been looking forward to getting this into VRange for a long time. What does every good shooting range need? Bottles of colored sticky soda of-course!
We've got a new map update coming soon featuring a range of new targets, everything from bottles of soda, to a heavy weapons and explosives range! To accompany that, we've got grenade launchers, shotguns with flaming ammo, rockets and dynamite! BOOM!
We'll be implementing these updates next week and will provide a more detailed overview then as to whats new and exciting! As always, we'd love to hear your feedback!
VRange V1.5.10 - New Weapons, Optimization, Locomotion and Demo
Hey Folks!
That time of the week again, I've compiled the latest developments in VRange into a handy news post! We've had a really busy week making quality of life improvements and adding new content. It's hoped that with these changes, and the next few upcoming, we'll start to develop the play-ability of a lot of VRange features and remove some of the 'clunkyness'.
Looking forward to hearing the feedback on this weeks changes, you can always grab me for feedback or support on the steam forums, or pop along to the VRange website/social media accounts and get in touch!
Locomotion Updates
This week we've gone ahead and made some changes to the locomotion and movement systems within VRange. In previous builds, once you were holding a weapon or object, were unable to use that active hand for movement. This limited a players ability to only holding one weapon and moving.
We've done away with that now, and you can dual wield two objects/weapons and still have full control of character movement. While doing this we've made a small change to the speed of the character once items are gripped. Now you'll move faster when you have empty hands, so make use of that inventory system.
Inventory Updates
A small update this week brings changes to the inventory system. While still very much experimental in it's current state, we've been developing upon feedback and have changed a few things around. Now you'll only have access to holding a sidearm and a melee weapon in your inventory. It was found that AR weapons were causing glitch issues when held within the inventory, so more things for us to work on in the future but we'll have improvements soon.
New Weapon Drop
We've got new weapons this week! The SCAR-L and UZI have now been added to the arsenal. We're really excited about the new weapons and feel they can help the player level the playing field ( when it's full of zombies ).
Looking forward to hearing feedback on these new weapons systems, we'll make any changes necessary in smaller backup updates.
Optimization
In our continued efforts to improve performance and optimization within VRange, we've completed another performance pass. With this, we've undertaken more work on materials to lower their rendering cost and worked on heavily improving the rendering of effects.
While these changes may make only a subtle change on higher-end PC's, it's all part of our work to improve quality of life elements within the game! One thing you will notice, we've reduced the build size of VRange by almost 4GB! Whoo for hard drive space!
VRange Demo
Exciting news! We've released a demo build of VRange which is available on the Steam Store page! The demo includes the new Sector 06 horde mode content. We'll be updating the demo as new full release updates are built, but content will be severely limited.
Get your friends battling it out on the scoreboards now for zombie killer of the week!
Next Weeks Updates
It's been a busy week but we're already looking forward to next. As always we'll be developing more upon the feedback from the community before adding new content.
We've got some new weapons lined up for next week, further additions to the player inventory system, and a new player tutorial section!
Until next time!
-Marrick
VRange V1.5.9 - Zombie Horde Updates - Sector 06
Hey Z-Slayers!
We've got exciting update news from the CFG Bunker. Version 1.5.9 of VRange is now live, crawling with the undead!
With this update, we've cleared the way into Sector 06 - A disused supply area of the bunker. We've heard noises, shuffling in the darkness, maybe you could check it out for us? Great! Thanks for volunteering!
Sector 06 offers a terrifying new horde mode environment, plenty of dark tunnels and corners. Be sure to take a flashlight with you down there!
VRange Horde Mode Leaderboards!
They're here! No not the undead, the VRange Horde Mode Leaderboards! A simple way to track who's zombie killer of the week! We've added in leaderboards much like those featuring the CQB course times!
When you've fired your last bullet and took your last swing at those pesky undead you'll now be able to update the world on your zombie killing prowess via the Horde Mode leaderboards! Who's going to be the top killer from your country?
VRange Weapon Pass 3 - V1.5.9
This week we completed a difficult pass on the weapons of VRange. We're prepping a bigger update soon to bring in the latest weapon drop however it was common knowledge that we needed to get a good pass on the weapons to clean things up a bit. You'll now find it easier to operate all of the weapons and we've added some simple instructions for new players in the briefing room!
With this pass we've also worked hard to add some interesting attachments to weapons! Different weapons will feature everything from sights and silencers to activatable attachments such as laser sights and torches! Instructions for these additions have been added to the briefing room also!
Melee Combat - Updates and Feedback
We're still working hard to improve and add further support for melee combat within VRange. If you haven't already, be sure to look around for Melee weapons in the Horde mode environments! We've got knifes, axes, bats and even a meat cleaver!
That's it for this week! As always be sure to send in your reports from the field on things your enjoying and things you loath! I've always got an open ear to the community!
-Marrick
VRange V.1.5.7 - A welcome to the Lab and Melee Combat
Hey fellow Z slayers!
We've got our latest update coming this evening for VRange, updating to version 1.5.7 and bringing with it a wave of new and exciting updates!
Welcome to The Lab!
In this update, we're bringing access to The Lab! A new training and development area we've designated inside VRange HQ to bring all the latest changes and updates to light within the game.
In The Lab, players will have access to the latest weapons, gadgets and get a clear understanding of all the latest changes to come to the game. We've layered all our latest changes on top of a fun new experimentation area where players can get to grips with all the latest tech before taking it to the wasteland.
Melee Combat Update
With this update, we've dropped our first batch of Melee combat weapons into the Lab. You can now, smash, wallop and crush with these killer new weapons! Dice up your targets with a meat cleaver, or smash some crates with a crowbar!
It's a developing system and we're looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback on the update! For now, give melee a combat in both The Lab and Horde game-modes!
We've got tons of smaller updates, weapon tweaks and new content, but you'll now be able to find out all the juicy details in-depth inside The Lab! Check it out now!
Thanks everyone!
-M
VRange V1.5.1-6 Content Updates and Patch Notes!
Hi All!
We've got a series of new content updates coming throughout today taking VRange up to version 1.5.6. You'll notice a few changes that i'll detail in more depth below, but the overall concept is we're completing some much needed performance improvement and optimization work throughout VRange, we're adding in the latest weapons tweaks and map improvements, and finally we'll be dropping some brand new weapons to the armory!
As always, we're taking on board all community feedback, keep your ideas and feedback coming! Feel free to shoot us a message on the steam forums or get in contact!
VRange V1.5.2 - V1.5.4 Performance improvements
With VRange version 1.5.4 we've been doing a full performance improvement pass over several areas of the game. You can now expect to find vast performance improvements throughout Low - Mid systems.
We've made changes to the rendering techniques used for environment effects, lighting and detail rendering. Improvements to map design to sure up some weak spots and a rework of Level of detail settings have had a big improvement and gathered up a lot of lost FPS.
We'll be continuing this on an ongoing basis to ensure VRange runs at it's most optimal ensuring you get dead eye shots on all those targets!
VRange V1.5.5 Map Rework
In VRange Version 1.5.5 we've taken a look at our current map list and began the process of re-purposing and reworking some of the less favorable maps. We''ll soon have several new training ranges, but for the mean time we've taken Grandma's China and Sniper Range off of the map list. We'll be replacing these with new and exciting training ranges including a ZLab map that will allow players to blast apart zombies!
In terms of the CQB courses, we've been thrilled with the popularity of the bastion training range. We're making some small target tweaks based of player feedback and we're policing up a lot of a spare brass to improve map performance.
VRange V1.5.6 Weapons Update
With version 1.5.6 were updating the armory with some fantastic new weapon systems. Take the tactical option with the new SCAR-L with tactical optics and angled grip.
Perhaps the new UZI-S is more your style, with a 32 round extended magazine and front grip support
Maybe you want to make an entrance with the new EG-51 entrance granting shotgun with it's polymer body and options for fire shot and buck shot rounds?
Whatever your taste, we're sure this latest weapons drop with cater for all your zombie dispatching needs! More weapons expected from HQ over the coming updates as we add to the ever growing armory!
That's all for today's update news! We'll aim to have new updates posted every Friday, from performance improvements to content updates! As always, keep the feedback rolling in!
VRange V1.5.0 Update! Zombie Horde Mode, Spawn System and Artificial Locomotion
Howdy Folks!
We hope your all doing well, we've had a busy few months with VRange development getting ready to release Version 1.5.0. We've tried to pack in as much new content as possible to this update including our new artificial locomotion system, a new and improved weapon spawn system, hundreds of performance improvements and on top of all that we're introducing our horrifically exciting VR Zombie Horde Mode!
We've detailed some of the latest updates, changes and new content below! As always we hope you enjoy and we look forward to hearing your feedback!
VRange - Zombie Horde Mode
They're here! We've worked really hard to bring you this new update to VRange, pooling our resources from all areas of the team to resurrect one of the most terrifying VR experiences we can muster.
In VRange Horde Mode, players assume the role of a stranded member of the Melon Protection Force! With only the aid of a one Robert Bradley, an ex-soldier turned weapon dealer, for support. How long will you last against our ever growing zombie hordes!
https://youtu.be/lufu1V98EIQ
Artificial Locomotion
We've completely reworked the navigation system in VRange, removing the clunky teleportation system we were using previously. Now players can experience the immersive new Artificial Locomotion system, giving much greater freedom of movement and rotation.
https://youtu.be/rWZcpwBiVzQ
New Weapon Support Platform
We've reworked our weapon spawn platform, providing a clean, slick and easy to use platform for spawning weapons and ammo in VRange. You can now easily scroll through our growing armory of weapons.
Achievements
We've added in our first batch of achievements to VRange with more on the way! From hitting targets, to using different weapons platforms, there's all sorts of goodies for the achievement hunters in the community.
We're Really excited about our latest updates, and will continue to deliver a few further updates across the coming days. We look forward to hearing feedback from the community and working together with you to improve on VRange.
Care to take a sneak peak at the latest updates with the VRange Zombie Horde gamemode? We've compiled a quick gameplay video from our latest test build of horde mode.
