Horde Hunters News

Hello. In this update we have character idle animations, custom super ability mode and a couple of new weapons and items. It also marks exactly 1 year in Steam early access!

[h2]Super ability mode[/h2]

You can now choose how the super ability works in the customize character screen. Similar to the attack mode this allows you to tweak the character more to your preferred playstyle or build type. Let me know how you find this and whether you'd like to see some more options for some of them.


[h2]1 year of updates[/h2]

It's been exactly 1 year since Horde Hunters launched in early access. The launch was admittedly a bit rocky with random game crashes and other issues. A lot has changed since then though and if I counted correctly there's been a total of 34 updates during this time. While some have been smaller hotfixes I'm proud of myself for keeping up a steady pace of updates and hope to keep it up for some time still.

Thanks to everyone who have played the game so far. As a reminder, one of the best ways to support the game is to take a moment to fill out a short Steam review, even if it's only a few words.

If you want to celebrate the 1 year anniversary properly go try the new festive weapon in the game!

[h3]Full changelog:[/h3]

General

• New character customization: Super ability mode
  
• New character idle animations
  
• New magic weapon: Fireworks - Celebration of gunpowder
  
• New melee weapon: Bowling Ball - Knock back enemies
  
• New item: Phaser - Projectiles go through non-destructible objects
  
• New item: Armor Piercer - Weapons inflict 50% of their damage through enemy shields
  
• Some of the character skins have been retouched. Thief has an additional skin
  
• Shield attack rate dropped from 1.5s to 2s
  
• Warrior's sword size upgrade dropped from 20% to 15% and poison upgrade from 2s to 1s
  
• Zoom level is "Closer" by default to new players
  

Bugs

• Shield 100% bonus "Health +1 on Kill" did not work
  
• Ability Damage power-up did not apply to Jester's Diversion ability
  

Quick update to fix a couple of bugs.

Bugs

• Rabbit may end up stuck indefinitely and never explode
  
• Weapons may duplicate in your inventory by some freak coincidence. I was unable to reproduce this so it's a rare bug but I've put in an extra check that hopefully avoids this
  

Hello. This update brings a new mission map, camera improvements and various general gameplay improvements.

[h2]Road Town mission map[/h2]

The Road never had its own mission map so here it is! It's quite a tense experience since it's a smaller map and the enemies never deactivate (like they do on all other maps). Hope you like it.

[h2]Camera Improvements[/h2]

The camera has been tweaked a little bit to hopefully provide a smoother experience both graphically and gameplay wise. There's a new setting that gives you 3 different ways to move the camera with the player.

[h2]General Improvements[/h2]

The character Charisma has admittedly been one of the weaker stats. It's now hopefully more beneficial by having the chance to scare enemies away!

Shop upgrades area has a new Bulk Discount button to buy all offerings at once.

Read below for more...

[h3]Full changelog[/h3]

General

• New mission map: Road Town (2 new achievements)
  
• New setting: Camera - "Smooth" (default), "Player Aim", "Static" (previous default)
  
• Camera movement is slightly more accurate and should help with the the occasional graphics flickering
  
• Charisma (CHA) increases for the chance to scare enemies away
  
• Shop upgrades area has a new Bulk Discount option to buy all with -10% and free reroll
  
• Mine enemy damage will come from the number of enemies inside the radius (1 health per enemy)
  
• Enemy loot dropped from Bandit Camp and Library will pull to the player
  
• Bandit power-up max amount increased from 15% to 40%. Camp gives additional 5% gold worth as well
  
• Roads maps may have Agave plants
  
• Road speed multiplier dropped from 120% to 110%
  
• Initial repair cost dropped from 50 to 25 gold
  
• Elite death explosion will bypass shields
  
• Undead party member attack rate decreased
  
• Added Portugal and Spain flags to leaderboard
  

Bugs

• Enemy spawning issues with some game speed settings
  
• Tutorial could soft-lock if leveling up before the end screen appears
  
• Portal and teleport left you vulnerable during the jump
  
• Undead party member attack had knockback although it shouldn't
  

Hello. This update brings a 24h clock, better performance, and several balance and bugfixes.

[h2]Day/Night cycle[/h2]

All maps now go through a real-time clock where a full day (24h) equals to 10min in game time. There's a couple of major benefits to a system like this:

• Natural to the game world that looks and feels good as the day turns into night and vice versa
  
• Gameplay elements can be tied to specific time of day e.g. something only occurs at night time
  

[h2]Change your weapon bonus at the Forge[/h2]

This was requested in the Discord channel. The 100% bonus that you choose when maxing out a weapon can now be changed at the forge with gold. This means you're not locked into your choice anymore and may alter it during the run if the build benefits from it.

[h2]Performance improvements[/h2]

This is an ongoing battle but I've managed to make good headway with this update. Performance is better overall but especially more stable later on when things get a little hectic.

[h3]Full changelog:[/h3]

General

• New Forge functionality: Change your weapon 100% bonus with gold
  
• New day/night cycle - Full day (24h) is 10min in gametime. Maps randomly start at different parts of the day
  
• Performance improvements all around and especially for weather events and certain weapons/projectiles
  
• Wind and Rain event changes: Both have a light version, wind direction will change every time and these won't occur at the same time anymore
  
• Blood Moon occurs only at night but last longer. The effect has been changed as well
  
• Sandstorm occurs only during daytime
  
• Enemies spawned at night get a 10% bonus to stats
  
• Sky (clouds and mist) setting can be toggled on/off at any time during play
  
• Active consumables and their timers will be listed above the icons in the bottom right
  
• Rabbit will have a blue arrow on top so it doesn't get lost in the crowd
  
• Chicken will target the big flying enemy as a priority if one is around
  
• Divinity and Cyclops will bypass shields
  
• Library and Bandit Camp circles are slightly bigger and have a maximum time of 30s when activated
  
• Presents dropped by enemy will show up as actual presents. The drop chance is now higher at start of game (1%) but decreases over time (minimum of 0.1%)
  
• Supplies on the map have a lower percentage to be found over time
  
• Regular enemy fireballs home in on their target for a short time when fired
  
• In case of a game crash the error is saved to a text file and a message displayed to user about it
  
• Game end difficulty information is always displayed but more condensed
  
• Added kills and game speed information to leaderboard
  
• Added Mexico and Romania flags to leaderboard
  
• Improved the submenu design on main menus
  
• Splash and main menu background changes colour like the other pages
  
• Endless leaderboard score changes: The Difficulty options no longer each give a multiplier for the base score but an average one
  

Bugs

• Higher Game Speed had several timing issues where events either occurred late or not at all
  
• Chaos Stone disables weapon multiplier bonuses for AOE weapons
  
• Weapon penalties did not apply for many weapons
  
• Weapon attack mode bonuses were applied to other weapons beside the primary one
  
• DPS hit timer for enemies and destroyable objects did not adjust for faster game speeds
  
• Stun +2s weapon bonus only gave +1.5s
  
• Changing master volume when music volume is 0 the music will start to play
  
• Enemy projectiles only targeted the player and not other targets such as rabbit or diversion
  
• Game end screen buttons may go under the results area
  

Hello. It's been wonderful to follow the first ever competition we had for an endless map this past 2 weeks.

Here are the winners. Congrats to all, I don't know how you did it but you did it. Thanks to all for participating and as this was such a positive event I'll be sure to do similar ones in the future!

• Winner - MuskelBiber (25e Steam gift card)
  
• 2nd place - Joo Caju (10e Steam gift card)
  
• 3rd place - Noohs (5e Steam gift card)
  

The best part for me as a developer is the added activity and since it's a competition the game is pushed to the breaking point. And sure enough many bugs and unbalancing were uncovered as a result. I didn't want to push any updates while the competition was ongoing but there will be a juicy update tomorrow so stay tuned for that. Cheers