绝世好武功 The Matchless Kungfu News

After intensive development following the Steam Next Fest in June, The Matchless Kungfu will be released on the Steam platform at 20:00 PDT on August 29th. This release will be in Early Access form, priced at 14.99 USD tier. ːsteamhappyː

Early Access remains a necessary step for independent game developers like us. We have conducted multiple online tests since January 2023, and the content and quality of the game have grown rapidly through these tests and communication with players. Therefore, meeting users earlier, engaging in more communication with them, and expanding and improving the game based on their feedback is the ideal approach for small teams like ours at HuanMos.

Of course, Early Access is an opportunity for us and inevitably involves some risks for players. So, if you are still hesitant about purchasing the Early Access version of The Matchless Kungfu, you can always follow our official announcements, update notes to make decision any time :-). After all, we still have a long way to go.

The Matchless Kungfu is not a traditional Wuxia game in any sense. It embodies our current understanding of "fun." Although we are filled with trepidation, we hope everyone can find joy in the world of The Matchless Kungfu! ːsteamhappyː

Compared to the previous version showcased during the Steam Next Fest, the Early Access version at its release day of The Matchless Kungfu includes updated contents:

Currently, player can create and switch between up to three characters.
They can generate mini worlds that already has 20/40/60 land masses with different stats. The characters you created can dive into any of them.
There will be no number limit on land masses this time.
The number of battle and internal skills has doubled, more sects can be chosen from.
There are also more adventures, special animals, as well as new mysterious challenges.

[h3]** For the English localization, considering the fast-paced updates of the game, we decide to use Machine Translation first for the updates and the early days of Early Access, and update the build with improved translation.[/h3]


We will gradually expand and enrich the world of The Matchless Kungfu. Please stay tuned for our future announcements and developer logs after the release of the Early Access version!ːGiftingː

Heroes, long time no see! ːGiftingː


After the Steam Next Fest in June, the development progress have received concern from heroes, so we wrote a developer diary in July to disclose our content development plan and Q3 release plan . For details, please refer to Developer Log 2 (←click me directly).

Driven by this goal and everyone's feedback, the team has entered an intensive development period that is more focused and directional than ever before.


During these two and a half months, the game has more than doubled the number of new unique skills and internal skills, added a batch of adventure events, and completed the development of main content such as multi-roles and automatic generation of mini worlds. In the EA version, you can choose to generate a mini map that already has 20, 40 or 60 land masses.
But there are still some work need to be added. Due to the large number of changes and new additions in the new version, there will inevitably be many problems that are difficult to traverse in our usual development QA and places that need to be optimized. Therefore, on August 18, we invited some old players who participated in the previous confidential internal tests to start the internal test again. This internal test will last for more than a week.

Since there are still some content that we need to develop in the final sprint, the allocation of manpower is very tight, and this version involves some "spoilers", so it is not possible to release the demo publicly for more players to test like the last Steam Next Fest. For now, what we can do, is to fix the existing problems and adding events & animation resources into the build, so to make the EA release version richer in content than the Steam Next Fest.

Due to the laggy translation progress, we are not able to post the daily bugreport here in perfect English. And to be honest, most of them are just making our self embarrased... ːsteamfacepalmː If anyone is interested, we post buglist pictures every day and you can see them by switch the steam page into simplified Chinese.

Are we are worrying about the English translation of the Early Access release version too. Since there will be on-going updates and content adding, it will be hard to update qualified English translation along with the pace of the updates. Our plan is to use machine translation first to keep up with the updates, then update with a better translation when we got them from the translators.

We are likely to announce the release date soon, so stay tuned!!

Hello, every Daxia and Nvxia, our dear players! Steam Next Fest had come to an end. During the festival, "The Matchless Kungfu" released its first open demo, which garnered unexpected attention and feedback. We are extremely surprised and delighted by this.

In fact, The Matchless Kungfu has conducted 3 closed beta tests in the past six months. This public demo can get a good evaluation, largely thanks to the players who have participated in these 3 closed betas. It is because of their enthusiastic sharing of their gaming experience, complaints about the unreasonable spots in the game, and the confusing things in the novice stage, that we have always had a relatively clear answer on how to improve the game.

However, as an open world non-typical martial arts RPG game that emphasizes high degree of freedom and high interactivity, blosed beta tests with around 200 players in each round cannot fully reflect the strange situations that players can encounter in their own games. Fortunately, during the past Steam Next Fest, we met the most enthusiastic players and friends. Not only were you willing to help novice players find various ways to solve the problems encountered in the demo in the community, but also contributed more than 600 bug reports worldwide, and discussions in steam forum.

While we are honored and excited, we also hope that players also had fun time during the fest. After all, it is our greatest wish to make a fun game!



After the Steam Next Fest 2023, the developer team took a short break, and has now returned to the development work of The Matchless Kungfu. Due to the unexpected number of downloads during the event, it took a lot of effort for us to collect and review everyone's voice on various platforms. Many problems could not be fixed in time during the open period of the demo. We apologize for those issues.
At present, we have re-digested and sorted out the suggestions and bug feedback, and arranged them on the development schedule.

For us, receiving these bug reports and suggestions is the most beneficial thing, while seeing the strange/awkward situation that some players have met during gameplay is the happiest thing in our busy work.

We were amazed every day by the complexity of the causes of bugs reported by players, and the variety of how players wanted to play the game.

We will continue to add content to the game in the next phase of developement. Since the follow-up To Do List is a bit long, here we will first preview a few content that players are generally concerned about:

● The generation of the mini world will be improved, the types of land masses will be more diverse, and the number of sects and forces will increase according to the increase of landscale.

● A Sandbox Mode that was not available in the demo: Players can set the environment bias of the mini world and directly generate a mini world that already has settled land masses. For example: if the player chooses a snowy environment, then 60% of the area of this mini world will be a continuous snowy environment, and special land masses will appear due to other mechanisms; in this mode, what the player experiences is a relatively completed big world and unique challenges.

● New special land resources: such as decorations, monsters, martial arts, inner kungfu, treasures, enlightenment stones, etc.

● More sects: Beggar Gang, Shaolin, Wudang and other sects will be added in subsequent versions. In addition, sect buildings will be more diverse, and there will be other land masses connecting between sects as intervals.

● More identities: We will provide players with more identities, such as lumberjack, fisherman, miner, farmer, etc. These identities will bring more adventures...

● In response to the fact that [NPC behavior] was not smart enough or even self-contradictory, we will quickly improve the basic rules of NPC behavior according to various problems encountered by players during the Steam Next Fest, and increase the trigger preconditions of adventures. As long as enough situations are considered and rules written clearly, NPCs will become smarter and behave more reasonably.

• Test Branch that will be accessible after game release.
  

As we listed in the "Development Plan" in the main menu of the demo version, The Matchless Kungfu will be released on the Steam in the form of Early Access. The reason for EA release is because we know that games like this need to meet players as soon as possible on the premise of a certain degree of integrity and gameplay, and gradually improve and progress. This is also the ideal release form that many indie game studios is using.

Our goal is to make the Early Access launch version greatly improved compared with the demo version, with more abundant and reasonable content, and more surprises and challenges in the later stage of gamplay.
The Matchless Kungfu is a non-linear, highly interactive open world game. And after the game’s Early Access release, we will continue to add new content. This leads to more and more possible situations/conditions a player may meet during gameplay, and the demand for testing is growing huge.
For such games, ordinary QA teams and processes cannot expect all act that may be done by the players. So we will start a long-term test branch after the EA version is released. This method of branch testing has been proved to work fine by many strategy game predecessors. Players who are willing to experience new systems, new functions, and new bugs that have not yet been implemented in the main version can directly enter the test branch and complain about new content 😊. When the content is stable, we will update to the main version.

• A peaceful and enjoyable community
  

During the past Steam Next Fest 2023 in June, we got some attention from influencers very unexpectedly, which gave us the opportunity to appear in front of the public together with the names of many excellent works. While we were surprised and moved, we were also apprehensive.

We have always positioned ourselves as a indie game that everyone will play differently. In fact, many old games that have been developed for many years, or games that have been released soon, or even new games that will appear in the future, are designed and pursued towards this goal.

The DEMO version was to verify the core mechanism and the optimization scheme summarized in the previous internal test, and there are still many deficiencies in the content. Although there are players at home and abroad who want us to release right after the fest, but in order to live up to the support of players, and to make the EA version more interesting than the demo version, we still hope to calm down to develop and optimize the content for now, and plan to release it someday in Q3 of this year.

Whether it is before the game's release or after the release in the future, we hope or implore players to help us maintain a friendly and peaceful discussion atmosphere. For any news about The Matchless Kungfu and our own thoughts and situations, please refer to the posts published by our official social accounts.



Thanks again for your support and help!

from Huanmos Game and bilibili

Dear players, the Steam Next Fest Demo of The Matchless KungFu will officially close at 10 AM (PT), on June 26th. We are pleasantly surprised by the enthusiasm of all the players. Watching everyone in the community chat about various questions related to the game motivates us to update and optimize the game even more. We are aware that there are still long way to go for The Matchless KungFu, and hope that everyone can give us time to adjust the experience of the game to be even better!

During Steam Next Fest, we received a lot of feedback and suggestions from players. While looking at the bug list, we published 12 patches during these days and the patches mainly focused on:

1. Bug fixes
2. NPC logic optimization
3. Experience optimization

For the issues that have been pointed out but have yet to be fixed, we will continue to optimize and fix them after the demo closure, and strive to bring you a better game as soon as possible.

Recent Development Plan

1. Sandbox mode
It is straightforward to create a random large world with the base size and orientation of the world set by the player. The current mode in demo is more suitable for novices to get familiar with the game system and players who want to build their own world block by block, while Big World is suitable for players that are already familiar with the gameplay and want a unique experience.
The big world will randomly generate special land masses, sects and related skills, inner kungfu, treasures and resources.

2. Multi-Heroes
Multiple heroes can exist in one or more mini worlds. The hero a player is not controlling at the moment will be taken care by AI just like the NPCs. It allows players to interact with their own heroes.

3. More sects, skills, internal kungfu, weapons, land masses, AI behaviors, etc.

4.Filling and optimization for relationship, attitude, reputation, adventure, battle, construction, identity, building mode, etc.

We’ll share our progress on this project later via our official social accounts. If you like the demo, please add The Matchless Kungfu into your Steam wishlist, and follow our Twitter or join the Discord channel!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheMatchlessKF

Discord: https://discord.gg/SVRbJpFwdf

The Matchless Kungfu is an open-world sandbox Wuxia game that has unique battle gameplay and no-plot world building RPG content. Try out demo now!