Chaos Chain News

Salutations, dwellers...

I wanted to stop by and leave a quick announcement for everyone to let you all know how progress is coming on the next big update to the game. It still has a ways to go, but I'm making good progress, but it's going to take time. It's a lot of work.

Last time, I spoke about Cassia, our new companion. She'll be coming in the next update. You can find out more about her here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1536730/view/5347478711995090821

Cassia

This time, I plan to talk about the new city sector and some other stuff.

The new district is the Industrial Zone. It's still a heavy work in progress, but I have some early screenshots to show off. A lot of details have yet to be added and most the characters are only placeholders or generic, but it's coming along nicely.

Shanties in the Industrial Zone

Landfill in the Industrial Zone

A Place to Drink Your Woes Away

Hab Block in the Industrial Zone

Aside from the new zone, of course there will be a lot more content like quests, characters to interact with, equipment, and more. One important new piece of equipment is the Neural Link.

Neural Link

Basically, this headset allows you to use hackpads without needing to have a processor implanted - meaning you can either stay non-augmented or you can get bioware augments instead. This also solves the problematic question "What if I want to be a (combat) hacker but without getting chromed?". Now you can.

That said, the regular hacking system will also be hopefully implemented for the next update as well. This system will be the base framework for hacking into systems, getting past security doors, etc. Like I said, I have a long way to go.

Other improvements and upgrades have also taken place such as a more user friendly HUD in terms of objectives and questing, colored floating labels for events and characters in the environment based on their importance or type, and a lot more.

There is a lot of other stuff to note, but I'll save that for another time.

I'll have more info soon!

That's all for now, enjoy!

-Corrosion ːCStudiosː

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Enjoy!

-Corrosion ːCStudiosː

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Enjoy!

-Corrosion ːCStudiosː

Greetings, Dwellers...

Hey guys, I just wanted to stop by and let you all know what I've been working on recently.

First and foremost, I worked more on the HUD interface to make it more sleek, less invasive on screen space, and more intuitive.

HUD 3.0

Objectives that are completed will now turn green to let you know when they're accomplished, you'll no longer see a "0/1" next to ongoing single objective quests, and objectives with more than just one task will count until they reach the maximum or higher and then turn green and remove the counter so it's more obvious which ones require more.

You may also notice that the HUD is smaller on screen - I removed the topmost outer window bar from the HUD so it looks more like it's coming from the top. It saves some screen space and matches how the Stamina window is on the bottom. I also more neatly organized the HUD elements on the top bar and spaced them out more evenly and removed AP (ability/action points) from the list because they were unnecessary there. I spent some time optimizing the HUD refresh rate and factors that cause it to refresh and update so it should be both smoother and quicker.

I also made it so that there are now 5 quickslots instead of just 3 so you can hotkey more items for quick use.

Another thing I did was make combat a bit more engaging by making improvements throughout the system including the screen flashing a faint dark red when a character or companion on your side takes damage, the interface is a bit more focused now with a slight vignette effect, and extended width for the background images in battle to make them fit the scene better when the screen shakes upon taking damage.

Next, I'd like to introduce you to our new "Netpunk" companion, "Cassia", who will be coming to the Slade City sprawl in the next update. As you can probably guess by the name "Netpunk", she's a computer hacker. Ideal for dealing with cybered opponents, she is a great support character who can even handle herself in combat if she really needs to.

Cassia

Known only by her alias, "Cassia" is a brilliant hacker and tech specialist with a knack for dealing with computers and electronics. She comes with some serious hardware, too. A high grade processor, enhanced hearing through the new Spatial Analyzer CyWare, an ECM Link to protect her against interference and glitches, plenty of high tech accessories and gadgets, and the all new Tech Jumpsuit which contains tools and equipment necessary for someone in her field. You'll have to wait and see all that it offers, though. ;-)

Cassia's Starting Equipment Loadout (Not including Augments/Cyberware)

Now, what bonuses does she get as a Netpunk? She's highly intelligent, so she get's an extra skill point to begin with. She's harder to damage with interference and cyber-based attacks, has higher resistance to her tech becoming unstable and becoming glitched, and she's also better at causing her opponents to glitch-out. So we know her background, but what about her edge? Well, her edge is that she's nimble - light and fast. She gets bonuses to avoid being targeted in combat, evasion bonuses, and she's pretty quick so she'll get initiative bonuses as well. Like everyone, she's not perfect however. She has the flaw of being weak - in body, but not of mind. She gets 1 less toughness and muscle.

Her beginning skills allow her to use small guns if she can get her hands on them, she gains experience quicker, is harder to hit with melee AND with ranged weapons, she can dodge criticals a bit better than others, and she has a high mettle maximum to keep her in the fight longer and it also allows her to use more of her combat hacks.

Aside from the new companion and the updated HUD, a lot more quality of life and user friendliness changes will be in the next update, a bunch of new content including new locations/enemies/quests/equipment/etc, and continued fixes and improvements!

I'll have more info very soon, so stay tuned!

-Corrosion ːCStudiosː

Salutations, dwellers...

Hey guys, this is another medium sized update. Nothing major, but certainly nothing too minor. ;-) I've finished up adding in the enemy grenade skills, updated the CyWare weapon damage calculations based on player feedback, fixed a few small issues, added some new stuff, and did a few other things here and there.

I'll be starting work on the next major update which will released WHEN IT IS READY. I'm not going to put a definite time-frame, but it's gonna be a few weeks at least. I plan to add the next companion, finally add a bunch more to the main storyline, add new enemies to encounter, more side quests, and of course a bit of everything else. That's going to take time. So, for now... Check out the change log below for this update!

*Please note that these changes are not in any particular order.*

[h2]Update 1.3.4 Change Log:[/h2]

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed Pounders Cyware weapon damage being rupture instead of impact
  
• Removed a leftover testing event
  
• Fixed pipe bomb giving +5 initiative on use instead of +3
  
• Fixed smoke grenade not always applying status to allies
  

Changes & Additions:

• Cyware weapon attack skills have been given updated damage formulas to make them a bit stronger (They felt a bit weak before due to how their damage is calculated, but they should now be more consistent with other attacks/weapons)
  
• Cyware weapon attack skill mettle costs have been reduced by 1 point each
  
• Enemy thugs/bandits now have a small chance to drop molotovs (You should be able to loot them if they have access to them so it's fair, right?)
  
• Enemy corrupt police now have a small chance to drop flashbangs and concussion grenades (Same as above basically)
  
• Increased priority chance for all base enemy attacks by 10% (They should be using their standard attack more often - They were using their abilities a bit too frequently)
  
• Added Throw Frag Grenade enemy skill (Not used by any enemies at the moment)
  
• Added Throw EMP Grenade enemy skill (Not used by any enemies at the moment)
  
• Added Throw Gas Grenade enemy skill (Not used by any enemies at the moment)
  
• Added Throw Smoke Grenade enemy skill (Can be used by corrupt police only right now)
  
• Added Throw Thermite Grenade enemy skill (Not used by any enemies at the moment)
  
• Added Throw Pipe Bomb enemy skill and added it to some enemy skill lists
  
• Pipe Bombs now have their own animation (They had the same as the frag grenade before)
  
• Added a small chance to drop pipe bombs to several enemies
  
• Updated EMP Grenade animation
  
• Updated Gas Grenade animation
  
• Increased size of Smoke Grenade animation
  
• Updated some item descriptions
  
• Updated some item icon art
  
• Plug now offers the Bio Harmonizer BiWare implant (+15% Health Recovery, +2% Health Regen, +5 Health)
  
• Added Bio-Plastic Bone Coating BiWare implant and added it to Plug's shop list (+5% Health Recovery, +1% Critical Evasion, -1% Evasion, -1% Ranged Evasion, +1% Health Regen)
  
• A few other quick tweaks and changes here and there
  

Please let me know of any bugs or issues you may encounter. The update will be available shortly.

For more info on the game, visit the store page below!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1536730/Chaos_Chain/

If you're enjoying the game so far, please consider leaving a review. This not only helps with much needed visibility, but also gives me feedback for the game to help it become a better final product. Also, if you have questions, concerns, or requests, please visit the forums!

That's all for now, enjoy!

-Corrosion ːCStudiosː