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πŸ“πŸΉ Very Berry Update - 1.3 πŸ“πŸΉ

πŸ“ New Weapon! πŸ“

[h2]The Strawbowry[/h2]
Charge your arrow to fire a strawberry across the map, piercing your foes or healing your allies!



🏹 LIMITED TIME GAME MODE 🏹

Play the new Limited-Time Game Mode:
[h2]Strawbowry Fields[/h2]
You won’t find any shotguns here! Everyone spawns with the new Strawbowry weapon in this Team Deathmatch style game mode.



πŸ‘Ό New Costume & Hat πŸ‘Ό

Unlock the brand new Holy Grain costume and Halo hat by getting kills with the Strawbowry!



πŸ† New Achievements πŸ†

Can you unlock these new achievements for the Strawbowry and the WatermeLMG? There’s a hidden one in there too πŸ˜‰



Left to right:
Heart Breaker
Berry Loved
Pro Archer
Pro Meloneer
Summers Here - Community idea by Meecha008
I Have The High Ground - Community idea by somenerd & Volcan

πŸ’€ Horde Mode Updates πŸ’€

Added the Strawbowry to Horde Mode Wave 35.
Weapon alerts will now appear in the HUD when a new weapon unlocks during Horde Mode.


βž• Changes βž•

Added the Strawbowry to Countryside, Westside, Graveside, and Darkside.
Added a search bar to find rooms in the lobby.
Removed being able to customize room names, due to too many rooms with bad words in them. You can find a room using the search bar now though!
Fire particle will now adjust intensity for lower quality settings.
Find Match will now not choose Horde Mode matches.
Shield bar will now always show in your HUD.

βœ”οΈ Fixes βœ”οΈ

Fixed bug where you can’t hold down the LMG to charge after harvesting it.
Fixed teammate having a red shirt if you join the match while they are in camo.
Fixed blue sparks when hit by a zombie.
Fixed red outline on enemy player with camo.
Fixed being able to switch weapons before throwing you gun away after running out of ammo.
Fixed zombies unable to climb the tractor in Darkside.
Fixed getting stuck in the slope of the ceiling in the second floor of the Darkside barn.
Fixed juggernaut health showing incorrectly in HUD.
Fixed β€˜master’ being censored in chat.
Fixed some zombies not showing hit FX.
Fixed power ups that are taken not syncing when joining a room.


I'm so excited for you guys to try out this new weapon! As always let me know what you think and how we can make the game better!

-Qazi



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β›„ Winter Update! - 1.2 β›„

β›„ LIMITED TIME GAME MODE β›„

Play the new Limited-Time Game Mode:
Hide & Freeze!
Available only during the Winter Event.
Sneak around the level in a snowman disguise, or be a farmer and hunt down those melting pests.



❄ New Shovel Skin ❄

Unlock the brand new Snow Globe shovel only during the Winter Event!



πŸ‘ Weapon Inspection πŸ‘

You can now press [F] by default to inspect your gun, shovel, or grenade!



πŸ‘• New CosmeticsπŸ‘•

New influencer hat and badge! Bit Gamer joins the battle.



πŸ’€ Horde Mode Updates πŸ’€

Keep your farm safe! Zombies now kill any plant they touch.
Rebalanced wave spawns for weapons.
Fixed collision on Zombok and OinkZ heads.
Bots will now stay in place while being revived.
Reviving an ally now rewards you 50 points.
Revives are now shown in the combat event list.
Scoreboard will now show your revives instead of assists.
Earn XP for reviving allies.
Boss Wave monsters no longer give you extra points.
Werewolves and Blood Wolves now run faster.
Fixed Zombies aiming too low.
Fixed Zombie mipmap texture bug.
Fixed being able to move faster while downed by aiming down sights.
Fixed disconnect issue when joining a room.

βž• Changes βž•

Added snow to the levels during Winter Event.
Improved gamepad support for menus.
HUD will now show the name of the weapon you are trying to harvest.
Improved harvest detection. You can now harvest plants that are right under or you very close by without having to look directly at them.
Major performance improvements across the board.
Improved performance on bullet hole rendering.
Improved performance on plant growth and ceiling detection.
Added emote prompt on victory screen.
Improved weapon drop physics performance by switching to primitive colliders.
Improved sound effects performance.
Improved AI performance.
Improved Carrocket Launcher sometimes freezing the game when killing multiple enemies.
Improved performance for all weapon plants.
Rockets and Seeds now don’t plant seeds if they directly hit an enemy.
Reduced Gnome Axe requirement to 200.

βœ”οΈ Fixes βœ”οΈ

Fixed shotgun muzzle flashes and corn pellets not pooling.
Fixed animals missing winter hat in the main menu.
Fixed maps not awarding correct stat for shovel unlocks.
Fixed switch team breaking player health bars.
Fixed prompt for getting off the pig being wrong.
Fixed Moolotov not resetting after camo.
Fixed player with wrong animation during victory pose.
Fixed players being able to pick up shield before other players joined.
Fixed shovels having wrong rotation on player’s back.
Fixed both teams sometimes having the same name.
Fixed Linux games not saving.
Fixed Popsicle shovel camo bug.
Fixed Axe showing ammo count in Jugg-Or-Not mode.


We hope to have achieved some major performance improvements in this update, so please let me know here or on Discord if you got any benefits from it! I'm always here to hear your feedback and ideas, so let me know what you think!

-Qazi



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πŸ’€πŸ‘¨β€πŸŒΎ Horde Mode Update! πŸ‘¨β€πŸŒΎπŸ’€

Watch the trailer:

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⭐ Updates ⭐

Take on 50 challenging waves of the all new Horde Mode campaign, in single player or co-op. Battle zombie farmers and infected animals in the all new map: Darkside!



πŸ‘• New Outfits πŸ‘•

Unlock two new outfits, the Cornstalker and Werewolf costumes!

Community ideas by Mr.Waffle and baconandx

πŸ₯› New Powerup πŸ₯›

A new powerup can be found around the farm, the Mini Milk!
Pick up the new low-fat Mini Milk to get 50 Shield and revive you when downed during Horde Mode.

Community idea by Mr. Waffle

πŸ•Ί New Emotes πŸ’ƒ

Applaud your fellow farmer or just say hi with these two new emotes!

Community idea by Niko and Pichu808

πŸ“› New Badges & Achievements πŸ“›

New badges: Cornstalker, Jugg Stalker, Lithuania, Buffalo Game Space, Survivor, Master Survivor
New achievements: Complete Waves 1-50, Quit Horsin’ Around, Getting Started, and Gnome Thief

Community ideas by Cyberspacer18, Gooigipie, and CrazyWS

βž• Changes βž•

Horde Mode co-op campaign added. Play through 50 waves against zombies and monsters.
New UI for selecting game modes.
Updated UI artwork.
AI will now react to weapon and explosion sounds.
Peavolver cylinder now animates.
Improved overlay for spectating tournament matches.
Improved gamepad support for menus.
Sniperagus headshot now does 4x damage instead of 2x
New spectator tools for Tournament Mode

βœ”οΈ Fixes βœ”οΈ

Improved performance for lower end PCs.
Fixed underwater damage timer not always resetting correctly.
Linux fullscreen option is back.

I want to give a special shoutout to Slothinator5000, HeyStijn, and BramB1 who helped test the update and gave great feedback. I also want to thank our amazing Discord community who keeps coming up with great new ideas I get excited to add to the game! You guys truly rock! I also want to welcome our newest member to the Shotgun Farmers team, Arnaud Tegny, who did the artwork for the new zombie models!


We've been hard at work on this update for a while but its finally done! I really hope you enjoy it! Let me know what you think in the comments and on the Discord server!

-Qazi



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πŸŽƒπŸ‘»Happy Halloween Farmers! πŸ‘»πŸŽƒ



The Halloween event is live in Shotgun Farmers meaning you have until Nov 5th to unlock Halloween only badges and hats. You'll also find Bokbok in her spookiest costume.



I’ve been working on a big new update for the game that I wanted to get out in time for Halloween. We’re so close but we’re gonna need another 2 weeks to get it finished. I really wanted to get this update to you as soon as possible! This is the biggest update we’ve ever had for Shotgun Farmers, so I want to make sure it’s just right for you guys! Here is a little sneak peek from part of the new update, the new map: Darkside



Along with the new map, this update will contain a new mode, new costumes, new taunts, new badges, new achievements, and new daily challenges!

The game is 25% off for the Steam Halloween Sale! If you’ve got some friends looking to try the game please let them know!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/604240/Shotgun_Farmers/

Thank you so much for all your support! More info about the new update soon!
-Qazi

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Steam Summer Sale on the farm!



Summertime is here which means Shotgun Farmers is on sale!

If you already own the game thank you so much for your support! We've got lots of new content in development for you!

Now is the best time to convince that vegetable loving friend of yours to get Shotgun Farmers for 25% off!


http://store.steampowered.com/app/604240/Shotgun_Farmers/

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Happy farming!
-Qazi