Terrordrome - Reign of the Legends News

[h2]This month's update will be a bit short, but there will be more to share soon! Let's dive in![/h2]

[h2]Coding[/h2]

[h3]Major Bug Fixes[/h3]

With the recent update coming out later than anticipated, it allowed our lead coder Brad an opportunity to include more in the update. This included spectator mode, new blood effects, and more. Following the release of the recent major update, the team has been actively hunting for bugs this past month. This is a constant endeavor, as you know. It is a time-consuming, yet necessary step in our project's life cycle. Recently, we have found resolutions for hard freezes, improper animation placement, and online connectivity issues. Please report any bugs found in our discussion pages here on Steam or in our Discord.

[h2]Animations[/h2]

[h3]Stage Polish[/h3]

This month marks the beginning of future stage polishing. We have heard the criticism of our stages, and we couldn't agree more. They are in need of love. As you may have seen, the Cemetery Crossroads stage has received a revamp, and we plan to add more to existing stages. This topic is placed here as our lead animator Marc is taking time away from character animation to focus on stages. More details will be shared in following updates.

[h3]Characters[/h3]

As mentioned above, character animations are set aside temporarily. The Invisible Man's animations are entirely complete, as all that is left for this character is integration. The first 2 of the 3 bonus fighters animations are complete as well. The final fighter has been modeled, however work on the final bonus fighter's animations has yet to start. More news on this topic will be covered in an upcoming vlog.

[h2]Other News[/h2]

[h3]Project Scope[/h3]

Recently, the team has made some significant decisions regarding the project's life cycle and road map due to increasing project scope and ambitions. The details of this will be further explained in our upcoming development vlog.

[h3]Dev Vlog 7[/h3]

Due to personal matters, some of our team had stepped away temporarily. This resulted in an unfortunate and unexpected delay in developing our newest vlog, which had been scheduled for October. The vlog is still underway, now with greater information and updates. We have very important news regarding the project scope, bonus fighters, teases, and more. So stay tuned!

We hope you had a great Halloween this year, as we certainly did. Reign of The Legends has received quite some recognition online, and we are happy to see it. We are continuing to expand and improve the game, taking into consideration the criticisms we receive. Thank you for supporting and following us!

- The TerrorTeam

We have found a fix to the freeze issue that was identified during Maximilian Dood's stream last night.

Please remember if you have found ANY issues to report them here on Steam or on our Discord!!

Some minor issues have been addressed in this update

1. Fixed an issue not allowing the controller config to display.
   
   
2. Fixed the right side corner of the Erase Warehouse blocking the fight.
   
   
3. Increased the height of Spring Heeled Jack's hit box
   
   
4. Fixed an issue causing Spring Heeled Jack's EX version of Somersault to use two stocks of meter.
   
   

This update includes a new playable character Spring Heeled Jack , two new stages and major bugs fixes!!

[h3]New Content[/h3]

1. Spring Heeled Jack is how selectable from the character selection screen here is his bio:
   
   Wheelchair bound engineer by day, spring-loaded master thief by night. Leroy Jackson has lived in poverty his entire life within the lower end of the streets and being amputated from the knees down made his life that much more difficult. One day after a traumatic event he decided to take matters into his own hands creating artificial legs and robbing the over privileged until one day his eyes were opened to the real world when stealing an artifact from Dracula himself, revealing to truth about the vampiric society that ruled over New York and potentially the world. With newfound knowledge he has joined Alex’s quest to take down The Count once and for all.
   
   
2. New Stage Added: Frankenstein's Sanctuary has been added to the game as a selectable stage, this is the home stage of Frankenstein.
   
   
3. New Stage Added: Erase Warehouse has been added to the game as a selectable stage. This is the home stage of Spring Heeled Jack.
   
   

[h3]New Features[/h3]

1. New Battle Settings for online play, Online has changed and no longer goes to the character selection screen or stage selection. The selected character can be set in this screen, along with the stage. The stage is only selected by the host, and can be changed in the lobby as well.
   
   
   
2. Online Lobby changes also include Battle settings you can change the selected character also within the lobby and also the stage. You can access this menu by pressing Y/Triangle while inside a lobby with more than one user. When both players ready up a count down will begin once it ends you'll proceed to the loading screen.
   
   
   
3. New post match lobby after ending a match a new option has replaced the character selection screen option to return to lobby. So you can select different characters and select a new stage.
   
   
4. Online play now allows for 2 extra users to be connected to a lobby, user 3 and 4 will be able to view the match as a spectator. This feature may still have issues so if you looking to spectate a match be sure to enter the lobby as soon as possible.
   
   

[h3]Improvements[/h3]

1. Updated Blood VFX are included in this update, some animations are still using the old blood VFX we'll be doing a pass later on to update these moves to include these new visual effect.
   
   
2. After some debugging with Steam Deck we have found the best settings was to keep the visuals at a Low Setting and while using the latest Proton version 8.0-4. This gives the game more stability while playing on Steam Deck.
   
   
3. Training Mode settings now save after exiting this game mode, current keeping Opponent State to AI will reset back to Stand due to a crash issue that's still being investigated.
   
   
4. On a previous update we had changed how the game would boot up, we found that this change caused the game to take longer to load in to matches. With that said we have greatly improved loading times between matches, in most cases match load will be almost instant when loaded from a SSD. We are still looking in to how we can improve loading times on a HDD but as of right now we still recommend installing the game to a SSD or M.2 drive.
   
   

[h3]Bug Fixes[/h3]

1. Fixed a major issue that would cause the games frame rate to drop when pressing more than one input. If you had low frame rate in previous versions of the game please give this a try you may find the game runs extremely better!!
   
   
2. Fixed an issue that would bring you out of block state after blocking a projectile attack.
   
   
3. Fixed a major issue when dodging certain projectile attacks causing a endless counter hit state, now these projectiles can be dodged as intended.
   
   
4. Fixed an issue causing certain moves to not trigger proper animations on hit.
   
   

Update to the Team.

During the month some of the team had to step back from the project due to life events.
September has been a struggling month for some of us and we apologise for the inconvenience on certain parts of development like announcements and trailers.

Spring Heeled Jack.



We have been working with our marketing partners to help release Spring Heeled Jack in a way that benefits the milestone achievement of his release.
There is no release date at this time, but stay tuned as we hope everyone will be able to enjoy the release as it comes.

New blood!





During September we've updated all our blood effects to make things really splatter.
These new visuals improves the blood effects, big gashes of blood exits the opponent and now splats onto the ground below before it slowly dissipates away.
These new blood effects will come with the Spring Heeled Jack update.

Spectator mode.

Our Coder Brad has developed an online mode to be able to spectate matches between other players.
This is a key feature for tournament organisers and online events and the mode will be available along with Spring Heeled Jack's release.

Other in development characters.



Similar progress is being made from the last months update with Invisible Man being integrated into the games engine as well as two of the secret characters in the animation phase which is almost complete, once finished the final character will enter the animation phase.

Despite the difficult month for some of us we thank you all for the continued support and appreciate all the comments and criticisms made as we listen and improve the game to create fun times for all of our players and we will continue to do so.
Thank you.

- The Terrordrome Team