Horde Hunters News

Hello. When Early Access started over a year ago I created a poll asking what content you would like me to prioritize on. I think it's time for another one of those polls!

[h2]Poll[/h2]

Link: https://take.supersurvey.com/poll5192058xf81d4136-156

For more specific feedback or discussion please use the forum or join our Discord.

[h2]Review[/h2]

While at it please take a moment to fill out a short review even if it's only a few words. As a small indie game Horde Hunters relies on its reputation to sell copies and reviews encourage the Steam algorithm to show the game to more people.

Many thanks,
Antti

A small patch to fix a critical bug.

Bugs

• Crash on Tutorial and Road Town when opening the map
  
• Flyby enemies may get pushed by elite causing them to go off route
  
• Village Hardcore showed the Mountains ranking on Summary page stats
  

Hello. This update brings new content and various QOL improvements. Thanks to a few Youtube videos I was able to pick up a number of suggestions that make for a better run experience.

There's also a new endless map called Village Hardcore which brings the pain. Let me know if you'd be interested in some other endless type maps to compete in.

General

• NEW party member: Cat - Good girl jump attacks enemies and scares them away
  
• NEW item: Energy Shield - Blocks one attack then goes to cooldown
  
• NEW consumable: Disco Ball - Murder on the dancefloor. Enemies are hit with damage or stun
  
• NEW power-up: Lantern - Activates at night for better visibility. Chance to scare enemies away
  
• NEW power-up: Rabbit's Foot - Better odds for rarer weapon and item types on level up
  
• NEW mission type: Protect - Stay within the area and keep the subject alive
  
• NEW endless map: Village Hardcore - Very Hard difficulty, 5 Power-ups
  
• Maximum power-ups you can have on a run increased from 8 to 10
  
• There's a new popup when trying to purchase something when the inventory slots are full
  
• Weapon slot initial purchase cost reduced from 50 to 35. Incremental cost increased from 25 to 35
  
• There's a level up reminder every 10s above the player as these tend to be missed by players in the heat of things
  
• There's a new button on level up to stop leveling up (and do it later) if you have many level ups queued
  
• Mission arrows will display a name in the first few seconds for better visibility
  
• Activating a rune gives a random consumable
  
• Chickens will change target if it gets too far away (some faster enemies for instance)
  
• Attack rate for party members is no longer boosted by player Agility
  
• Mission maps are no longer available from the start. You need to complete the Village first
  
• Improved the tutorial (training grounds) with more information
  
• Adjusted bandit camp and library to scale better with their benefits
  
• Replaced character selection buffs/debuffs with simple class type texts
  
• Better visibility for the Bulk Discount option
  
• Backpack power-up max level decreased from 5 to 4. Now gives random consumables instead of the character default
  
• The low health warning under the player is more noticeable
  
• On the map runes are labelled with their number and there's information at the bottom with how many are activated
  
• Jumping and dashing enemies will have a line indicator before their action
  
• Slowed down the flyby enemy groups a bit (~20%)
  
• Haste will slow down all enemy types and projectiles as well. Movement speed reduced from +100% to +50%
  
• Leaderboard has attack mode and ability mode information when hovering over the character sprite
  
• Power-ups changes: Character power-ups are saved separately for each map (old ones have been reset), Additional information panel on power-ups page, Unusable power-ups can't be selected
  
• Some GUI tweaks here and there
  
• Ongoing mission description will take precedence if moving over to some other building
  
• Music will lower in volume while in level up and other reward screens
  
• Chaos Stone default multiplier changed from 2.5 to 2
  
• Added Israel flag to leaderboard
  

Bugs

• Alt-tabbing early on in the night can make the playable area really dark for a while so you can't see anything
  
• Pausing the game caused the sandworm pull force to reset for player and enemies
  
• Buying weapon slots open had some issues
  
• You can pick a party member from mission rewards even though slots are full
  
• The compared item could be different to the base item on some maps
  
• Priest's Cross weapon attack rate was multiplied by INT rather than AGI
  
• The 3 max ongoing missions was doing the opposite - affected every other map except normal maps
  
• You could open character and map in shop while the upgrades were loading making them appear in the background
  
• Vortex made enemies push through the Protective Dome
  
• Armor Piercer always inflicted a fixed 50% of damage
  
• Chaos Stone always did a random 1-5x damage
  
• Enemy could action their special attack while in the process of dying
  

Thanks to a player who reported that the game was broken on Steam Deck as of the latest big update.

Bugs

• Steam Deck crash on map start
  
• XP, Health and Ability bars were not fully aligned on Steam Deck
  

Hello. A small patch to fix a bug the previous update brought along. Sneaked in a couple of QOL requests as well.

General

• New missions will not appear while currently doing one
  
• On normal maps there is an upper limit on the number of missions that can occur at the same time (max 3 missions before 10min of game time)
  
• Backpack power-up opens 2 extra inventory slots in the beginning instead of 1
  
• Activating a rune let's you know how many there are in total on the map
  

Bugs

• If Sandworm was active when boss fight happened it would not despawn at all
  
• Stunned enemies would hurt player inside the mine
  
• Clock might disappear during reward screen