Survival Quiz CITY News

Survival Quiz City, the multiplayer survival quiz action game is now exhibiting at TOKYO GAME SHOW 2021 ONLINE!
Catch up with the information about SQC, and try playing it at the upcoming Playtest!
Feel free to join us! We are currently accepting access requests and are looking forward to see you there in SQC!

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10/16（Sat）
- 04:00-07:00
- 13:00-16:00
- 20:00-23:00
※PDT

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Please visit the Steam page for Survival Quiz City, log in to your account and click the "Request Access" button on the page.
If you have participated in the previous Playtest, you can continue to participate in this one.



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Create your own room and enjoy playing with other players at any time during the period!
You can also set your room to be private with a password if you want to.

or you may want to serch for "Public" rooms! "Public" rooms, which do not have passwords set.
Just find them from the list and select one to jump in! "Public" room can be created by you, of course!

Please note that Quick Match feature(supported in previous version) will not be available for this time.


“Survival Quiz City’s Playtests have been tremendous for improving the game so far, and we’re excited to get feedback from our next Playtests,” said Yusuke Shigeta, Survival Quiz City Director and BANDAI NAMCO Studios. “We look forward to working with our contestant community to make this game the best it can be with your feedback!”


Be sure to add the game to your Wishlist on Steam and follow us on Twitter to stay updated!
Twitter：@SQCGame_JP

We are currently conducting the Playtest runnning through 25th 23:00 PDT.
Hope you all enjoy the game as much as you want!


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July 23th 18:00 ~ July 25th 23:00 PDT
Bounty hunting and Survival rules change every two hours.



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Please visit the Steam page for Survival Quiz City, log in to your account and click the "Request Access" button on the page.
If you have participated in the previous Playtest, you can continue to participate in this one.

Thanks to everyone who will participate in the next Playtest of Survival Quiz City!
The streaming/broadcasting is allowed during the Playtest and now it’s time for your experiences in this “CITY” to be shared to people through the WORLD! We sincerely hope that you have fun!

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At the request of the Publisher and/or Developer, the video(s) in question must be taken down immediately regardless of reason. Please note that we will not provide individual answers regarding our criteria etc. to the video(s) that you will upload(or uploaded).

Prior to the release of the multiplayer survival quiz action game Survival Quiz City, we will be conducting tests for the purpose of adjusting the game systems, balance, and testing the server load. Based on the information obtained through the tests, as well as your feedback and opinions, we will strive to further improve the quality of the game before its release.

Based on the feedback we received in the first playtest, we have adjusted the difficulty level of the quiz, increased the number of variations, and adjusted the game balance in this version.

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Bounty hunting and Survival rules change every two hours.

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The test will be conducted using Steam's internal functions. Please visit the Steam page for Survival Quiz City, log in to your account and click the "Request Access" button on the page. The winner will receive an email from Steam at a later date.
If you have participated in the first Playtest, you can continue to participate in this one.

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More information about the test will be posted on our Steam page and on Twitter. This is your chance to be one of the first to experience survival Quiz City!
Be sure to add the game to your Wishlist on Steam and follow us on Twitter to stay updated! We're looking forward to your participation and cooperation.

Twitter：https://twitter.com/SQCGame_JP

Hello Survival Quiz Citizens!

This is Yusuke Shigeta, Director of Survival Quiz City. I want to extend my sincerest thanks to everyone who participated in the last Playtest. It was exciting to set everyone loose in this wild Quiz City we've dreamed up.

And you won't have to wait too long to return to Survival Quiz City! Another Playtest is right around the corner! Please keep an eye on Steam and social media for more updates.

We learned a lot during the last Playtest by watching our Citizens use their wits and weapons to survive the barrage of questions and explosions. Based on your feedback, we have made a ton of improvements to the game that we think everyone will enjoy for the next playtest.

Riddle me this! Updates to Quizzes
The areas that we received the most feedback on were the difficulty level of the quizzes and the quiz answer method. Initially, we put more weight on action than quizzes in the development process, but at the time of the April Playtest, there were so many people who played the game expecting it to be a quiz game that we decided to raise the importance of quizzes and aim to create a balance where both quizzes and action can be enjoyed.

As a first step, we've implemented a new type of quiz: the Quick Push Quiz. We've also made some improvements to quizzes that were generally too easy and improved the overall difficulty balance and variety of the quizzes.

About "Quick Push Quiz”
At the start of the game, a series of quick quizzes will be given. The top few players who can answer questions first will be able to leave the gate early. During the quiz, there is no need to move the characters or perform any other operations; it’s a test of how fast you can answer the questions, not get to the correct platform like the regular “Dash Quiz” at the start of every match.

As you'll see in the next Playtest, we've improved the balance of "Quick Quiz" and "Dash Quiz" questions. We'll continue to increase the number of variations of quiz answers with each Playtest.

About the Quiz Questions
The questions that were used in the last playtest were designed by the development team, but for the upcoming playtest we've enlisted the help of Cubist Inc., and CIT-Quiz Research Group! They've been hard at work crafting a range of questions to test our eager Citizen's mettle.

Win, Lose Or Lose: Adjusting Game Balance
Another area that we received a lot of comments on was the disparity between the "winners" and the "losers" after the Quizzes. Many Citizens who failed to answer the Quizzes correctly were left to lose, with no way to climb back up the rankings. We tried to make the disparity between the "winners" and "losers" enjoyable, but once you're on the losing side, it's quite difficult to turn things around.

Therefore, in the upcoming Playtest, we've made various adjustments so that the balance will be such that Citizens can become a winner even if they fall into the losing group.

More Money, Less Problems
On the loser's course, we've placed a coin in front of the goal that can only be won by the Citizen who gets there first. There’s a 3000-point coin in Round 1, a 4000-point coin in Round 2, and a 5000-point coin in Round 3. These coins won’t respawn once picked up, so only those who reach the goal quickly will reap the reward!

We’ve also shortened respawn time for all the coins on the loser course so more money can be earned. There will be more opportunities to increase your net worth and rankings while you're dodging bombs and bullets from other Citizens now.

In addition to the above, we've also added a new feature to allow you to collect more expensive coins in the lobby and store area. Among the regular low-value coins that spawn, high-value coins, such as 500 or 1000 coins, will now randomly appear.

Someone Set Us Up the Bomb
Explosive weapons were too strong in the April Playtest, so we’ve weakened the bombs and bazookas a little and strengthened the machine guns, which had a poor usage rate. We also adjusted the mines, which were not so easy to use, so that they explode immediately after stepping on them.

Here are more details on Weapon balances implemented:

[Machine gun]

• Increased the bullet speed
  
• Reload time has been shortened
  

[Bomb]

• The explosion range has been narrowed and the power has been reduced
  
• Shortened the time it takes for a bomb to explode
  
• Reload time has been shortened
  
• Reduced the number of bombs that can be thrown during the "chance time" at the end of a round
  

[Bazooka]

• The explosion range has been narrowed and the power has been reduced
  
• Reload time has been shortened
  
• Increased the bullet speed
  
• Reduced the number of bazookas rounds that can be fired during Chance Time
  

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• If Citizens step on a mine, it now explodes immediately
  

Welcome to the Next Stage
During the April Playtest, lots of Citizens who failed Quizzes were forced to brave the losers course were often stuck at choke points created by smarty-pants winners raining down destruction with bombs. This made it almost impossible to proceed for some. Construction crews have redesigned those areas to account for this by widening the paths or creating alternate routes.

We’ve also added more Quiz City Approved Respawn Points to the stages. If you fall to your death in the middle of a stage you can now respawn from one of the several, more convenient respawn points. This is yet another example of your Quiz City Tax money being put to good use!


Push the Tempo!
Quiz City Citizens can be a demanding bunch, which is why we strive so hard to keep them entertained! In the last playtest, we received some comments that the game tempo was a little too slow, so our City Engineers have made some adjustments to event timings throughout Quiz City.

• Shortened the waiting time before the quiz starts.
  
• Shortened the time between the announcement of the correct answers to the quiz and the start of the game.
  
• Shortened the time limit for stages.
  
• The results display has been simplified and the display time has been shortened.
  
• Shorten the shopping time between rounds.
  

And what would an update for our next playtest be without some general Quality of Life improvements for our Citizens! We've listened to your feedback and improved the following things:

• You can now open the menu in the in-game and adjust the sensitivity of the controller.
  
• When the camera sensitivity is set to low, the camera will not rotate too much.
  
• The colors of the names of the winners and losers have been changed.
  
• The names of other players can be toggled on and off by pressing the CTRL key / L stick.
  
• In the survival rules, if you leave the game after becoming a spectator, the result screen will now be displayed.
  
• We've made it so that spectators can't emote.
  
• In the final round of the survival rules, a bug that allowed people to survive by getting caught on a slope has been fixed.
  

We're looking forward to welcoming everyone back into the Survival Quiz City for the next Playtest!