Estranged: The Departure News

There's a new update for Estranged: Act II on Steam for Windows and Linux, including story and content work!


I have been working on the current final level, extending out the current ending with content and destruction sequences, and adding details to the prelude and chapter 3 office levels.

There's additional story included in Chapter 3 in the addition of a slide presentation, similar to Act I. Localisation work for this presentation will be coming soon.


The update also includes various bug fixes, graphical tweaks (including more realistic sky for Chapter 3) and some playability improvements.

I would like to thank everyone that has played and helped with development so far - the community has been pivotal in shaping the game, and finding bugs.

As I have said before, Act II is drawing to a close - so this and the next few updates will be critical in finishing off and polishing the game so it can come out of Early Access.

Thank you for your continued support! If you'd like to chat with me and other members of the community, please join us at https://discord.gg/estranged

Alan

There's a new update for Estranged: Act II live on Steam for Windows, with Linux to follow in the next few days!





The position of the credits in the current final level has moved, providing more story content to play. The summer break meant that I wasn't able to spend as much time contuining this content, however future updates will continue to flesh this part out.





Bullets now ricochet from hard surfaces such as metal, rock and concrete. This can be combined with bullets travelling through infected - so you could kill multiple infected using a single bullet shot at a certain angle at the floor or wall.



There are now local and global statistics available in Estranged: Act II. The tracking of these statistics started with the previous update, and include things such as "headshots", "bullets fired", "items flushed" and more.

The new statistics can be accessed via Extras -> Statistics.

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That's it for this update! If you find bugs, have some ideas you'd like to see in Estranged, or just want to chat, head over to https://discord.gg/estranged -- we just surpassed 500 members!

Thank you for playing Estranged!
Alan

There's an update live for Windows including Spanish translations, 4 new achievements and fixes for AMD-FX players!



There are now 4 new achievements in Estranged: Act II!





Previously there were a series of mysterious problems with Act II and AMD-FX CPUs, with no obvious cause. After spending a long time researching the subject, I found that it was related to the DirectX XAudio API with AMD-FX CPUs, and Estranged: Act II was not the only game suffering from the problem.

The short story is that the problem is now fixed, and the game now uses a different audio engine which doesn't go via XAudio!



¡Saludos desde Inglaterra! ¡El juego ahora está traducido al español, incluidos todos los menús, subtítulos, correos electrónicos y noticias!

¡Si quieres contribuir a mantener la traducción al día o hacer alguna corrección, ponte en contacto conmigo en https://discord.gg/estranged !

As ever, thank you for playing Estranged! I'm always around on Discord, the forums, or via the in-game feedback if you'd like to suggest an idea or report bugs.
Alan

A new update is live on Steam for Windows, including Simplified Chinese language support.





The commentary option has returned to the Gameplay options menu, bringing with it a selection of strategically placed videos from the Estranged Development Blog series on YouTube.



该游戏现已翻译成简体中文，包括所有菜单，字幕，游戏内邮件和报纸！如果你想为简体中文的翻译做出贡献，请通过 discord.gg/estranged 跟我联系！



The music in Estranged now follows you through the loading screens, and fades out instead of ending abruptly. This improves the overall flow of the game, and I'll be looking to make more improvements in this area in future updates.



Estranged: Act II now supports 22 languages in total, with 10 of those languages 100% complete. The previous option for switching languages was in the Gameplay menu, but it used a side-scrolling control to switch between languages which made it difficult to do so. To improve this, there's now a dedicated options menu for picking a language.

That's all for this update. If you have any feedback, I'm always watching the forums, or I'm around at https://discord.gg/estranged.

Thank you for playing Estranged!
Alan

There's a new update on Steam for Windows! This update includes a new ending, and a complete Russian translation!





There's a new scene and more content at the end of the current build! This provides a glimpse at more of the story in Estranged: Act II.

This is a temporary ending that I teased in my last news update, and there is a bit more content planned after this point. To jump there directly, use the cheat "map TheBase#sp10".



Привет из Англии! Игра, включая меню, субтитры, электронные уведомления и газеты, теперь переведена на русский язык!

Перевод осуществлен переводчиками компании Gengo – если вы в дальнейшем хотите принять участие в переводе обновлений или предложить исправление ошибок, свяжитесь со мной: discord.gg/estranged



The game has also almost completely been translated into Japanese and Czech by members of the community, with more languages on the way. My next focus will be Simplified Chinese, which represents the second most popular language on Steam (Russian being the third).



Thank you to everyone that has helped out with the project, and those that are following the progress. If you have any feedback, want to report a bug or just want to say, head over to discord.gg/estranged

Thanks for playing Estranged!
Alan