Waves 2: Notorious News

I will be streaming some Live Dev of Waves 2: Notorious over on Twitch today from 3 PM GMT. These streams tend to run for 3-4 hours so feel free to pop in and say hi!

This week's project is making some changes to Buffer and Cache Programs to reward you with Stacks of certain Buffs when you use your Utility or Burst Programs.

You can join the Discord or follow me on Twitter for notifications on when I go live as well as just hanging out with other fans of the Waves games!

Over the last few Dev Streams, I have been working away on the new Attract Utility Program. Like the previously announced revamp of Glitch it uses the same slot as Slowmo but has significantly different functionality.



Attract gets dropped in the direction you are aiming and any enemies that come into contact with it will be sucked towards its core rendering them temporarily helpless.

Multiple Attract Programs can be active at once letting you herd enemies or cluster them together for a powerful Burst (Quake is a good fit here).

Attract lasts 5 seconds however if you want to end it early and get some energy back you can always collapse it by touching the Core causing a shockwave that knocks away enemies.

The downside? Attract has a limit on how many enemies it can manage at once. Go over this limit and it collapses early potentially launching those enemies right at you. If you plan on using this to counter Bosses in Dive then you might want to upgrade it so it doesn't collapse quite as quickly!

Attract will be replacing Rage so if you've already unlocked Rage you will automatically receive Attract in the next update.

I will be streaming some Live Dev of Waves 2: Notorious over on Twitch today from 3 PM GMT. These streams tend to run for 3-4 hours so feel free to pop in and say hi!

This is starting to become a regular thing! 4 in a row that I've Live Streamed some game dev and I don't intend to stop! Thanks to everybody who joins me it's great to have some company!

This week I will be working on Particle Effects for the Attract and Glitch Abilities as well as general polish on both of them. I will also be testing (and probably fixing) their related achievements.

You can join the Discord or follow me on Twitter for notifications on when I go live as well as just hanging out with other fans of the Waves games!

Thank you to everybody who is helping localize the game over on localizor!

Since we started I've added Spanish and Slovak by request and translations are underway for both of them already.

I also spent a few days going over the text strings in the game and pruning all the ones that either aren't used or won't be used as well as combining most of the duplicates together into string tables.

This means the word count has now dropped by two-thirds and the number of keys to translate has gone down by over 400!

I've also been responding to requests for contexts and providing screenshots where needed.



We still need translators for Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic (I'd really like to try and get Arabic right as it's almost always butchered in games).

We also need more proofreaders to vote up the accurate translations. Once a suggestion gets 3 votes it gets approved and once enough of a translation is approved I can start putting them in the game.

There will be more keys getting added as development continues but I will try and keep everything as up to date as I can.

Thank you again!

I will be streaming some Live Dev of Waves 2: Notorious over on Twitch today from 3 PM GMT. These streams tend to run for 3-4 hours so feel free to pop in and say hi!

The stream will mostly be focused on turning the "Attract" prototype I built last week into a working Item and I will also be fixing some bugs, and tracking down some localization issues.

You can join the Discord or follow me on Twitter for notifications on when I go live as well as just hanging out with other fans of the Waves games!