Feisty Fauna News

Changes:

• Improved player selection UI by adding more buttons and keybindings
  
• Added tips that show up while the game is loading
  
• Increased the charging speed of sheep minions
  
• Twitch minions now start with lower health, but upon every death, the viewer levels up, and subsequent minions are stronger
  
• New Twitch viewer command: !sacrifice - sacrifices a viewer's minion to do AOE damage to nearby enemies
  
• New Twitch viewer command: !health - spawns a health orb for the streamer
  
• New Twitch viewer command: !experience - spawns an experience orb for the streamer
  
• Updated the color of Kernel Popcorn
  

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a visual bug where player buff options were not highlighted when using the keyboard/gamepad
  

Changes:

• Players can now actively dodge damage with the spacebar or gamepad buttons
  
• Damage done by players are now visible!
  
• Damage done by skills, and received from creatures now has some variance
  
• Coins earned from the Alpha demo are now transferred to the Beta playtest
  
• A sizzling sound can now be heard when players are on fire
  
• In-game menu pops up when the Steam overlay is activated
  
• Lightning bolt damage was buffed
  

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug where perk selection menu would not show up in rare situations
  
• Fixed a bug where loot can drop below the ground if a player teleports
  

Changes:

• Menu now appears automatically when the game loses focus
  
• Creatures should no longer get pushed by other creatures behind them, if they are charging a skill
  
• In multi-player mode, (mini)-bosses now spawn near players who are still alive
  
• If a player teleports away during a (mini)-boss fight, the (mini)-boss will teleport to them
  

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a typo in the welcome message
  
• Fixed a bug where minibosses stayed in their running animation while charging an attack
  
• Fixed a bug where the HP of summoned minions (e.g., cats, chicks) was too low
  
• Fixed a bug where the player would stop accumulating experience points
  

Changes:

• Welcome message has been edited to suggest trying out co-op mode 😉
  
• Creme Brulee has been buffed and now summons 2 cat minions immediately
  
• Kernel Popcorn has been buffed and now summons 5 airstrike birds immediately
  
• Dragon Punch damage has been buffed significantly
  
• Buffed cat minion's damage
  

We have launched our beta playtest! Thanks to those of you who have signed up 😊 Please try out the playtest version, and let us know what you think!

This beta playtest version is in active development, so bugs probably do exist. We are very keen to hear about any bugs that you encounter, so do let us know!

If you're interested to participate in the playtest, please click "Request access" above, and you should be granted access immediately. Our playtest is set to "Open" so all requests are automatically approved.

The playtest version doesn't have all the features of the beta yet (we're still developing some of them), but it does have the following:

• Multiplayer (local co-op and online with Steam Remote play-together)
  
• More skills to choose from
  
• A boss fight after the 3 minibosses
  
• Customizable difficulty
  
• and more!
  

Please give it a try and let us know what you think on the Steam Discussion Board.