Crunch Element News

Hello everyone! Lot's of exciting stuff in this update so don't sleep on this one!

Features
• Added a tutorial! This is the largest addition to this update, and is the first iteration and I can't wait to hear your thoughts
  
• Station rework! The menu room got a face-lift
  
• Sandbox rework! The firing range and detonation testing area is now accessible directly from the station (and is much more consistent thematically).
  
• Grenades now do plenty of damage, and have a pin to pull with the trigger!
  
• Queued charge detonation! Press the detonate button multiple times to detonate multiple charges sequentially
  
• Breaching charges do AOE damage
  
• Added charging handle animation on m4-style rifles
  
• Updated player watch health display
  
• Added another holster and updated holster material
  
• Empty mags do not show bullet graphics
  
  Fixes
• Updated the input handling for charges (should fix the issues with charges not detonating)
  
• Reduced the size of holsters
  
• Fixed bug with player sometimes being able to jump unlimited amount of times
  
• Fixed issue with the M4ISR moving the player around when close to body
  
  The Future
• Immediate known fixes (IE: Gun spinning)
  
• New breaching charge (more info coming soon)
  
• A new experimental mode which I am super excited about (info also coming soon)
  

I want to give a massive thanks to everyone who is supporting on the Patreon, which has helped will dampening development costs to bring more features into the game such as the tutorial and quick-turnaround bug fixes. Your help is directly bringing this game towards its potential and you will see some big changes coming soon. This is just the beginning of something great!

Thanks everyone for your thoughtful feedback during testing. We have taken your criticism into consideration and have began the first of many improvements of AI. There is still quite more to improve but it has come a long way!

• Enemies now have suspicion meters that increase based on vision, loud sounds, and taking damage
  
• Enemies will walk towards sounds or last seen location of player when suspicion is high enough
  
• Enemies communicate with each other (if one enemy is engaging, other enemies should target player and move to cover)
  
• Jumping!
  
• Improved interaction with the lever and door knobs (yes, they are knobs now)
  
• Increased enemy damage and accuracy
  
• Added holographic emotes on enemies that broadcast their suspicion
  
• Dropped the "dropped" text and replaced it with a skull emote
  
• Climbing haptics and sound
  
• Weapon grabbing haptics and sound
  

• Magazines now automatically attach when close enough to weapons
  
• Updated help screen for reloading
  
• Fixed level 9 spawning location issue
  
• Decreased enemy ragdoll/floppiness unless dead
  
• Fixed issue with enemies occasionally shooting through walls
  
• Fixed issue with players being able to move outside of the truck if they move the joystick while in loading screen
  
• Fixed issue with pistol slide being racked when hand is far away
  
• Fixed issue with being able to use magazines on any gun
  

Thanks for your patience as we do our best to knock out these initial bugs in a timely manner. Below are the changes in this update

• Implemented a ledge-assist which allows players to pull themselves over a wall easily
  
• Fixed issue with holster behind head being grabbable outside of edit mode
  
• Fixed issue with breaching charge being tracked to the player if it was released inside of a holster
  
• Added additional front holster
  
• Fixed issue with door closing while player is inside the truck
  
• Fixed issue with help menu moving the player when the player's hand was lowered
  
• Added haptic feedback on both hands when firing a gun with both hands
  
• Lessened pull distance of lever (hand-grabbing and easier interaction coming soon)
  
• Added slider to adjust smooth turn speed when smooth turn is enabled
  
• Added option to choose number of degrees to snap while snap turn is enabled (30/45/90)
  
• Lowered damage on the Mac 10
  
• Pre-loaded all the weapons in the armory
  
• Increased enemy accuracy
  
• Adjusted pointer angle on Oculus and Index for a truly groundbreaking and organic pointing experience
  
• Distance detach when grabbing weapons is now an optional setting
  
• Flipped the direction of guns in the armory for a less-spinny gearing up experience
  

Hello everyone!

I'm excited to announce the addition of four new weapons to Crunch Element! These work modeled by the extremely skilled artist, Vextric They are currently active in the latest build and I hope you enjoy them!










As I mentioned in a devlog in July, once the fundamentals are present, more content such as weapons and compounds will be added. That time has finally come! While adding these last 4 weapons, I have also been creating many new and improved compounds which will be released in the next update now that the skeleton of the game is proving itself to be robust enough due to consistent improvement. A testing build will be available in 1-2 weeks for everyone who joins the Discord

Super excited to announce the newest feature update to Crunch Element! Below are some of the highlights of the update.

• Magazine-fed weapons use bullet chambering functionality! Insert a magazine and rack the slide back using the trigger to chamber a round.
  
• The last shot fired from a magazine will leave the slide open.
  
• Either manually pull the slide back or release the slide using the new “slide release” binding (Touchpad up on Vive, double click eject button on Rift and Index).
  

• The first iteration of climbing has been introduced into testing!
  
• Use the grip buttons to grab onto a wall and alternate hands to pull yourself up
  
• Added a parkour section to the sandbox level for testing
  
• All buildings are climbable, however some floors are neither grab-able or destructible (changing it up during the next update)
  

• Adding settings menu so players can toggle settings such as holster placement, head-oriented walking direction, snap/smooth rotation option, and more.
  
• More weapons! Now that the fundamentals are (finally) in place for weapons, you can expect to see a whole slew of weapons to join the party
  
• Enemy overhaul. Don’t worry, the enemies ARE getting better. This is being done in parallel with this update. Expect to see improvements in animation, realism, and less-jankyness overall.
  
• New compounds. It’s about time that more levels are added, as well as giving the current compounds a face-lift. Expect to see 10 stages available with the release of closed beta (coming mid-September), as well as short-term experimental stages with new architecture. Closed beta will available to everyone who joins the Discord