Apollyon: River of Life News

Hello players! Thank you for your patience with the development of Apollyon.

With this update comes a number of UI fixes, from the ability to minimize the chatbox, see another player's stats in multiplayer, and more! Additionally, the Twilight Projection Intention has been broken up and extended, with a new story arc for unlocking it!

Save the Cistern from an attack by the Empire!

Due to bug reporting on the Apollyon discord, a few minor bugs and quality-of-life issues have been resolved!

Most namely:
Load time on the initial loading screen nearly fully eliminated for those not using mods.
Game initialization time after the mods screen now ~15% of the delay it used to be. Should be less than a second now, in my tests, it was around a third of a second.
Spoiler-card blocking issues.
And a few other minor issues.

Found a few miscellaneous issues with controller support, and due to a bug report discovered an unusual issue.

Steam and Unreal perform startup on any VR device currently connected, if the VR plugin is installed within the game package (which it is so by default, even if it is never used). Nonetheless, as VR is not a part of Apollyon, I have removed said plugin and solved the issue.

On that note, those new and old to Apollyon are encouraged to report bugs to the developer here on the Steam community, or on the Apollyon discord. Replies and hotfixes will be coming within a few hours on weekdays, in this case!

Now then, have fun meeting only the darkest of spirits!

Due to a complaint I heard, I discovered that loading times were significantly worse upon lower-end PCs. This is honestly not something that should happen in a game like Apollyon!

Preloading the array of images and text files directly is an added step, but shaves nearly 30 seconds off of load time on lower pcs. It should be much snappier now!

Apollyon: River of Life has been released, with some minute-one hotfixes for achievements, UI, and multiplayer.

Thank you to everyone checking the game out! If you encounter any bugs, please get in contact with the developer on the Steam Community, or the Apollyon discord!