Swordsman VR News

🎁 Win a Quest 3!

Enter the Training Grounds map and visit any challenge to compete and win a Quest 3! The contest is active until December 15, 11:59pm (Eastern Time). To learn more, join us on Discord!

⚔️ Training Grounds:

• Added new map! (see left door in hub)
  
• 3 main challenges: Archery, Tatami Mat, and Punching Bag
  
• Cross-platform, competitive leaderboards!
  

🛠️ General:

• Implemented AI hit cap so that enemies can't be permanently stun locked by players
  
• Ranged enemies that lose their ranged weapons should now default to using hand to hand combat
  
• Achievements should now correctly unlock on Steam and Playstation
  
• Replaced tutorial enemy with regular knight
  
• Fixed an issue in which Crossbow can collide with bolts shot by it
  
• Fixed an issue with the seated mode height changing if headset is put to sleep
  
• Fixed an issue when weapons are thrown out of bounds and are now returned to the center of the level correctly
  
• Fixes an issue in which players lose the ability to grab objects if headset goes idle
  

Join our community!

🏹・Get ready to unleash your skills in the highly anticipated Ranged Combat update!

🎯・The update features new ranged weapons, multiple arrow types, ranged AI, and an archery range. Take your combat skills to the next level in completely new forms of gameplay! Try out the infinite arrows and manual Chronokinesis modifiers, challenge yourself with increasingly difficult archery range settings, spawn movable targets in Sandbox mode, or test your skills in "Ranged Only" Arena mode. The new archery range is perfect for practice, equipped with a scoring mechanism and adjustable targets. Check out the trailer below to see what's in store, and get ready to "Draw, Aim, Fire" like never before!

Watch: Update Trailer

🙏・Your feedback and opinion are invaluable to us, and we can't wait to hear what you think about the new update in ⁠💬general . Thank you for your support and patience as we work towards perfecting combat in VR. If the trailer wasn't enough content for you, then you must watch Rhy's playthrough of the new update.

Watch: Rhy's Playthrough

Swordsman 1.77

[Improvements / Content Update]
- New Sandbox mode lets you create custom combat scenarios! Spawn any enemy / weapon combination (including multiple bosses at the same time), experiment with modifiers, and more!
- Improved AI navigation; the AI will feel more real, strategic, and won’t bunch up together when there’s more than one of them
- New, improved gloves for the Light and Medium armors

[Bug Fixes]
- The rain rendered on top of menus on the pirate map
- The intro cinematic cutscene could not be skipped
- Misc. minor visual issues in the intro cinematic level
- Spoon couldn’t be telekinesis gripped after player dropped it
- Snowballs didn’t auto-recharge with the specials modifier enabled
- While spawning, snowballs had the pick-up indicator on them
- Hearts in Horde (hard mode) fell to the ground when grabbed.
- Hearts in Horde also couldn’t be telekinesis gripped after dropped
- Some weapons were mislabeled as 1-handed, but are 2-handed
- Enemy health bars didn’t follow knocked out enemies
- In-game patch notes were visually cut off (and outdated)
- Sometimes opening a hub menu caused hands to spazz out

Roadmap: https://trello.com/b/nDGVDca9/swordsman-vr-roadmap

Between December 16 and December 28, use the Candy axe to kill 5 enemies in Finisher state (execution) to be entered into our Christmas live stream prize draw! We're giving away x2 PS5s, x2 Meta Quest 2s, and x4 studio merch packages.

To enter the draw and learn more about the contest, check out the Contest channel on our Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/sinnstudio

Swordsman 1.74

[Improvements / Content Update]
- 2022 Holiday Draw
- AI can't be stunned by weapons while attacking, prompting you to parry
- AI attacks less often, but moves around more
- General performance improvements
- Some Holiday decorations added

[Bug Fixes]
- Fixed some weapon item descriptions in shop
- Permadeath failed to delete certain progress
- Some users were not seeing UI text
- Doomfist could fail to kill enemies in certain situations
- Skin color failed to load correctly on VR hands
- **(PC, PS4/5)** Horde map failed to load

Roadmap: https://trello.com/b/nDGVDca9/swordsman-vr-roadmap

Swordsman 1.71

[Improvements / Content Update]
- Boss Weapons Remastered: (Solis, Stormbringer, Tombstone, Kodoku, and Hellfire)
- Improved wind-up for enemy light attacks
- "Hard" Horde mode added (default)
- Nerfed Horde rewards (per level)
- Improved enemy two-handed grips
- Improved Telekinesis gripping (traces from palm, easier to use)
- Lowered cool-down for Telekinesis gripping weapons after dropped

[Bug Fixes]
- Enemies decapitated while entering Finisher state stayed alive
- Enemy bodies sometimes jittered (especially the arms)
- Kicking an enemy in Finisher state did not kill them
- Touching things in Hub could trigger sounds even when body not visible
- Pause menu could clip into objects and hide behind them
- Blood decals from enemies could render on top of Gun Sword's barrels

+ 1.72 Hotfix
- Weapons in hub could spawn sounds even when not visible (on player)
- New boss weapons were not in the correct weapon category in shop
- Arena victory screen showed contest win screen instead
- Weapons on the ground could still damage enemies
- The game crashed without an internet connection

Roadmap: https://trello.com/b/nDGVDca9/swordsman-vr-roadmap

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