Rogues Don't Cry News

Hi everyone,

Game is coming out next week on October 30, really excited. In the meantime I'm polishing it and preparing its launch, so this week I didn't have time to note every little things I changed. There's always some little last minute bug no matter how hard you test.

GAMEPLAY

• Hyena speed reduced, mobility increased
  
• Made changes to some disease descriptions and names
  
• Changed AI behavior for ranged units: now they will switch to a melee weapon more quickly
  

FIXES

• Changelog button would not work in build
  
• Tough bug with attack missiles filter where the unit would not move out of his range to attack
  
• Items would sometimes duplicate in inventory
  
• Various UI glitches
  

Hi everyone,

This week is a regular update.

GAMEPLAY

• Tweaked respect gains
  
• Shieldmen no longer have fast metabolism but have more defense
  
• Tweaked blunderbuss stats
  
• Vision now correctly affects random events
  
• Improved engineer cloak
  
• Daggers are a little slower but have more armor penetration
  
• Town gates now have basic knives by default
  
• Reworked experience gain skill
  
• Heroes now have 100 loyalty for mental resistence purposes
  
• Mechanic trait now helps repair machines
  
• Ghost cave now has a 50% chance of spawning
  
• Quill rains now have a faster delay
  
• Nasty crown now hass mass self poison
  
• Some events power now scale with time
  
• Tweaked threat formula
  
• Can't sell items to arena anymore
  
• Ammo gloves now requires level 10
  
• Tweaked crippler formula
  

FIXES

• Issue with selecting multiple units in battle
  
• Fixed bug with mystical herbs
  
• Improved various UI stuff
  
• Big shotguns no longer show up in dungeons
  
• Rare bug with friendly units being too strong
  
• Hero animator had issues on worldmap
  
• Bug with targeting at the beginning of battles
  
• Luck was not working properly with level ups
  

Hi everyone,

The launch date of Rogues Don't Cry will be October 30! It will launch in Early Access, a few days after Steam Next Fest. The demo will be available until then, after that date it's not certain it will stay up.

During Next Fest, there will be a pre-recorded video of the EA version for those interested to see how it the game is.

In addition, here's a the weekly update.

GAMEPLAY

• Rebalanced disease contagion
  
• Improved script when enemies are scared
  
• Stick attack speed increased
  
• Rock in a sock has increased attack speed
  
• Rebalanced combat speed gains for all units
  
• Commander has increased traveler skill
  
• Bowmen now start with stone clubs instead of sticks
  
• Decreased shieldmen speed
  
• Improved final boss growth formula: now can have many different units.
  
• Adjusted spawn zones in town defense battlefields
  

FIXES

• Friendly units would be too strong
  
• Shortcut for logs in town would cause issues
  
• Monster generator would spawn forbidden monsters
  
• Freeze effect would give wrong values on speed
  
• Ammo regen would not work on some units
  
• Many UI small bugs
  
• Problem with attack missile units and filters
  
• Pacified monsters would stay pacified forever
  
• Problem with skill rerolls
  
• Animations would keep playing on death
  
• Missing items descriptions
  
• Time on map was not consistent
  
• Fixed bug where units would still shoot at faraway targets even when engaged
  

Hi everyone,

This week is a regular update.

[h3]GAMEPLAY[/h3]

• Primitive bows don't drop anymore
  
• Vampiric swords no longer appear in random events
  
• Reworked mantises defense stats
  
• Spiky faces start with higher thorn
  
• Vampire bats start with higher drain
  
• Explosives deal more blunt damage and less of others
  
• Ghost no longer has curse
  
• Reduce hammer price
  
• Improved fat toads stats
  
• Added mantis idle animation
  
• Help for final boss don't appear before day 60 in random events
  
• Wildebeest are a little slower
  
• Improved final boss model
  
• Improved roaming mobs travel speed calculations
  
• Blessed grandmas no longer give time blesses if days are below 10
  
• Improved some UI buttons
  
• Hammers have less range but hit harder
  
• Numbers of garrisoned units go up faster with level
  
• Improved treasure hunting skill
  

[h3]BUGS & FIXES[/h3]

• Bug with speed after battles
  
• Animation issues after death have been fixed
  
• Various UI fixes
  
• Battlefield facing on some battlefields
  
• Income bless was giving wrong income number
  
• Thieves would not flee battles correctly
  
• Dungeon music would not get muted
  
• Fixed problems with unlocks when not logged on Steam
  
• Rare bug where damage would equal 0 and cause some problems
  
• Glitch with attack effects
  
• Steel maces had same reqs as metal maces
  
• Fixed bug with insane and insane units causing issues with other selected units
  
• Problem with converted units staying converted after battle
  
• Fixed ugly bug with outlines
  
• Fixed bug with animations glitching on worldmap
  
• Some random events would make sounds when they shouldn't
  

Hi everyone,

This week is a regular update. Launch date should be announced soon, like next month.

[h3]GAMEPLAY[/h3]

• Help for final battle now spawns higher lvl units
  
• Final boss now has 20% of its army randomized
  
• Knights start with ponies
  
• Adde a bunch of new idle animations
  
• New sound for town gates destruction
  
• Roaming mobs now give random treasures
  
• New sound for roaming mobs
  
• Town markets now allow selling items
  
• New dungeon music
  
• Chests gold rewards nerfed
  
• Roaming mobs now chase 25% farther
  
• Alchemists now have more bad traits
  
• Banks max lvl is now 3
  
• Random events give more powerful friendly units
  
• Gold maker skill improved
  
• Herbalist now helps cure diseases
  
• Pavis now gives shield wall
  
• Spectres have faster travel speed
  
• Mobility now helps shooting while moving
  
• New knight model
  
• New elite archer model
  
• Added a ton of new weapon models
  

[h3]BUGS & FIXES[/h3]

• Rare bug where roaming mobs could spawn directly in player
  
• Issue with certain events not respawning
  
• Various UI issues
  
• Issue with permanent item drop bless
  
• Rage trait reworked
  
• Arena would give town defense to player
  
• Removed spawns from behind the player in the Pit
  
• Issue with angry summoned units
  
• Issue with summoned units locking the game