Drifting Lands v1.0.1527.31781

Hi All! It's been a while since the release of Drifting Lands. 7 months, and I have to admit we gave very little news or spend very little time improving the game. To be honest, the game didn't perform as well as we hoped. It's probably my fault, and for multiple reasons, but the sales barely covered 20% of the development cost. I can't really give steam sales publicly (it's supposed to be under NDA) but you can get a pretty accurate estimation by looking numbers on steamspy.

Anyway... We're still around because Alkemi has another source of stable income and we finally found some time to complete unfinished tasks we had on the game! At this point though, it would not be reasonable to expect a lot of new content or any console port for Drifting Lands. We lost enough money in this project as it is.

In the future, Alkemi will still work on games but probably with scopes A LOT smaller than for Drifting Lands. At least until, we have proven to ourselves that we are not only able to make games but that we are also able to actually sell them decently :)

Here's a changelog for this update :

FEATURES:
* We finally changed the gamepad control in the menus. It's now a focus based control system. If like me you prefered the virtual cursor, you can still switch back to the old mode in the options!

IMPROVEMENTS:
* Most SFXs of weapons have been revamped and are now much more present in the global mix (stronger and louder pew pews!)
* There is now less notifications when you start the game. Some have been removed, others less important are triggered later in the game.
* 2 mandatory missions were removed in grade 1 to allow a quicker progression in those boring levels without suicide bullets :)
* There is now a helper window to remind you that you have cargo in your hold each time you return from a mission. You can empty your hold into your stash directly from this window.

BUGS:
* Fixed a bug preventing from using the Skill Harpoon (Spear) with a pad
* Fixed a graphical bug on the Guardian and Crusader

A major change today: mainly to improve accessibility we have to decided to allow mouse control during gameplay phases. Some people may also feel like it's giving a lot more control to dodge bullets efficiently. We also improved pad and keyboard controls by adding a slow movement mode you can trigger with a button or a key to move precisely with greater ease.

FEATURES:
* FULL mouse control. Even during the missions. (the cursor sensitivity now applies to menu AND mission controls)
* Slow move feature added to gamepad and keyboard controls. A new button to move at a third of your maximum speed to allow greater precision.


IMPROVEMENTS:
* Intro volume is now correctly using your sound settings

BUGS:
* fixed a bug causing notification titles to overlap with the close button

BALANCE:
* The fight against the 2 guardians is now easier: one of them will appear 30 seconds before the other. It may not be enough to finish him but you'll have two of them during a much shorter period.

не ошибается тот, кто ничего не делает..., это человеческий фактор

BUGS:
* The demo was ending with a cutscene ("Dissent") with missing assets. You can now watch correctly this cutscene in the demo. No more crash.
* The mission "witness protection" was automatically launched whatever you did after any attempt at any other mission until you finally succeeded. This was causing some players to get stuck because they didn't have good enough stuff to fight the Guardian at the end. This mission is not automatically launched anymore.
* Expert Blade and Expert Detonation were completely broken and were dealing waaaaaay too much damage. This is fixed.
* Fixed some typos or text placements in french
* A few achievements concerning equipment were not tested correctly. It is now fixed.

BALANCE:
* Guardians now wait an average duration 50% longer before fleeing.

проект вышел 5 июля 2017 года ?? из будущего чтоли