Shark Attack Deathmatch 2 News

Early Access: ver 1.0.25 [19th January, 2016]
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It's been a long wait.. but it's finally here, the new build of Shark Attack with the new Predator Mode which allows you to play as the Great White as well as control up to four Mako Sharks to send them to hunt selected divers or help defend you.

[NEW FEATURES]
- NEW GAME MODE - Predator Mode (Play as the shark vs 3 enemy divers)
- Sharks can now eat off body parts (legs & arms)
- Added contrast enhancer post processor effect
- We now supporting more resolutions (work in progress, let me know if there are any issues)
- Microphone is disabled by default
- By default the games doesn't anymore hi-jack your microphone from Steam Voice Chat with friends
- Press Y to toggle Microphone ON/OFF
- Press M to quickly Mute all players ON/OFF
- You can now enable/disable your voice chat from the Lobbies
- You can now mute/un-mute all players from the lobbies
- Added text to the lobbie screens to show what to press to mute or enable voice chat
- Switched the Zoom & Sprint buttons on the Joystick, to sprint you now hold left trigger (much easier on the thumbs), Press down on the Left Thumbstick to Zoom
- In-Game Options Menu - Graphics Quality settings visual effects are now enabled/disabled in realtime instead of on next level loading
- Updated Loading screens to use new logo
- Updated initial Game Setup image to use the new Shark Attack Logo
- Performance improvements

[BUG FIXES]
- HIGH PRIORITY BUG that caused players under certain conditions to be invincible (in both Deathmatch and Shark Mode)
- When trying to Host a game if there was an error and you clicked Retry it wouldn't actually retry
- When trying to Host a game if there was an error and you clicked Back it would take you to an empty menu
- The Map Name under Available Sessions wasn't always showing the correct name
- Fixed issues & improved performance around switching between different types of lobbies
- Quick Settings wasn't always clickable in the Options Menu in Survival
- If the Predator Summary screen is showing and you press ESC it now auto hides the Summary Screen
- If you viewed Summary Screen and then closed it and then tried to open the In Game Options screen some of the options weren't clickable
- Inverted mouse now works correctly when zooming
- Many other bug fixes & tweaks

Let us know if you find any issues, it's a a big update from our side which has affected almost every part of the game so there might be a few issues here and there.

Enjoy

Development Update
Predator Mode is almost complete and we have progressed into our internal testing phase.We are on track to release a closed beta to a select few players within the next 2 weeks before we open up the beta to everyone else.We appreciate everyone's patience as we have been working flat out to bring you guys this massive update.

An Overview of Predator Mode.
Players will finally get a chance to play from the perspective of the Great White Shark. Its a Player vs Player Game mode, A player takes on the role as the Shark and hunts down the other divers, the other divers can either work together or against to bring down the Great White. Who ever brings down the Predator takes on the role and so the hunt continues.

A really exciting stand out feature that we have not revealed until now is that the Predator player has 4 Mako's that they are able to command. They can either be used to defend yourself with or send off to attack the other divers ( this really helps flush out divers who are hiding in places the Great White cant get into).

We cant wait for all you guys to experience what its like to be one of the oceans top apex Predators, the feeling of power and knowing how much terror you can cause is awesome .

Here is a sneak peak at what it currently looks like to play as the Great White Shark in the Predator Game Mode which we hope to release as the next big update. (excl. the HUD)

Let us know what you think.

[NEW FEATURES]
- NEW MAP - The Red Tide (Deathmatch, Survival & Co-op)
- NEW SHARK - Shortfin Mako Shark
- NEW SHARK - Tiger Shark
- All sharks now contain an idle mouth animation

[NEW FEATURES]
- Voice Chat support in CO-OP and Deathmatch!
- Each players Rank now shows in Lobbies
- You can now search for All Available games (returns all game types)
- In both CO-OP and Deathmatch the host now starts the game (used to be by time)
- Can Mute players in the Lobby (by clicking on the voice icon next to there name)
- Can Mute players during the game (via the Summary screen)

[BUG FIXES]
- Player Setup - Fixes issue where if you changed Wetsuit or Flipper type but didn't change the colours it would default back to white (even if another colour was selected)
- Unlocks any ranks that might have been skipped due to connection issues
- Fixed Rank showing as 1 (if player had changed there Wetsuit design)

Let us know if you find any issues, or would like to see some changes with the above.

We hope to have another update out later next week with the new map we've been working on, and some new shark species too.