What is happening with D'LIRIUM and what to expect from Beta-1.

My month-long vacation is now over and it's time to get back to work. The development of Beta-1 is going really slow, because the most of our efforts are being put in the development of an expansion, but we are still going to tell you what is to be expected of the next version of the game. So...

In addition to the large amount of bug fixes and the new visual effects, and also changing some levels, almost all of the environment will become interactive. You'll be able to break the windows (already are in early beta-6), turn on the tap in the bathroom, break the pipes and release the poisonous gas at the monsters, open the boxes and take out the items (or nothing) from them, flush the toilet, turn off and then back on the torches with the fireballs. I think you've got the idea. The game will gain some new levels and a new complete story, a big one. There will also be a radio, but we won't tell you much about it. It won't be connected to the gameplay, but will be important for the story. By popular demand, the game will also get a map, but it won't be easy to obtain and won't show where the character is at the moment.

What not to expect from Beta-1 is the random events. The thing is, adding them to the game is a big deal. Not because it's hard to think of all the consequences. But because the random events will be ruining it for the speedrunners, since they'll make it so the luck defines how long the playthrough will be with the given set of random events. Say what you will, but keeping the game adapted for the speedruns and setting new records is really important to us.

Also, we can't really guarantee that Beta-1 will get the cutscenes, because creating even the shortest of them is really time-consuming. But we'll see what we can do.

This is far from the full list of what is going to appear in Beta-1, many things have been overlooked, but, indeed, it'll be a huge update. We don't know when it'll come out yet, because we're working on one more game that will become, let's say, "the opposite side of D'LIRIUM".

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