ALTERA News

The Royale oppressors have left PROXIMA and the future of Alterra is as bright as the stars by which it's surrounded.

PROXIMA UNIVERSE will be the start of a new era of multiplayer games. We can't wait to share our vision of PROXIMA with all of you. As we prepare more details to be unfold for the upcoming weeks please allow us to share some important changes.

We founded a new company called Vulkanic based on our success and efforts to scale and rebrand the studio and our PROXIMA game IP. The new direction and further expansion of the project is led by Denis Colovic (CEO & Founder) and Anton Romanov (Technical Director & Lead Programmer).

We will continue our journey with PROXIMA UNIVERSE (previously titled PROXIMA ROYALE). We are striving for perfection and innovation and we are working hard to make PROXIMA UNIVERSE the most unique, feature-rich and polished experience it can be. We want to take the time to thank all the people that supported us until this moment. All this would have not been possible without you! Also a big shoutout to all our business partners! Throughout the past and current development of our project we had the chance to meet, talk and work together with a lot of amazing companies and talented people.

The new PROXIMA UNIVERSE branding.

[h3]What is PROXIMA UNIVERSE?[/h3]
PROXIMA UNIVERSE is a large-scale next-gen Shooter that supports up to 100 players. A ground-breaking experience with dynamic weather system, seasons and a real 24-hour day/night cycle. It's pushing the limits of what's possible in real-time — both visually and gameplaywise.

The game will feature a brand new game mode called Warzone which will take place on a completely new map that we designed from scratch. We also significantly raised the quality of lighting, environments, visual effects, models and animations in order to achieve a more photorealistic look.

The new changes will be showcased in an upcoming trailer. Much more information will be available on the official game website as soon as we release it.

[h3]We moved to a new office[/h3]
We made a lot of changes to how we operate and we improved in many different categories. A lot of investment, time and resources went into rendering pipeline research and development as well as efforts for a much needed company restructure and expansion. The base work for a healthy and long history of the studio was done and we are committed to grow our in-house team in the near future. In order for all of these plans to work we needed to move to a new office location in the same city. Our old office was pretty much just one tiny room and there was barely enough space for two desks.

Our goal is to create a healthy and fun workplace for the people in our in-house studio without crunch and toxicity. After all we want to make more great games after PROXIMA. We have tons of ideas and plans for future projects and we will talk about them when it's the right time.

We are here to make great games and we want to do it as long as we can and for that we think transparency is one of the most important things. We wanna give you all an insight into how we operate and also on upcoming changes for the game and our studio.

Photo of the new office.

[h3]What's next?[/h3]
The next thing we will share with you is the trailer we teased. This is still going to happen very soon. So don't miss any future announcements or updates! Subscribe to our freshly made YouTube channel.

As previously said the development QA test sessions will be starting in Q2. You can sign up for it here. This is a voluntary position but humans that get accepted will be mentioned in the game credits and they will also receive exclusive in-game content for their profiles.

That's all for today. We can't wait to share more news with you!

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Hello there fellow human!

Before we all enter the year of 2020 we want to wish everyone great holidays but also inform you what's going to happen in the next few months.

Furthermore we are currently working on a new trailer and we will release it in the first quarter of 2020. This trailer will showcase a big improvement in visuals overall as well as the progress we made for the new game map. It will be released together with a lot of new information, gameplay gifs and also a big breakdown of what the Warzone gamemode is going to be. There are a lot of things to get excited about in 2020. You can expect a gigantic storm of news!

Sparky and his teammates are getting ready for the fight.

Hello there, fellow Human.

It took a while since the last development update and today we want to summarize all that's going on behind the scenes and how the development process was going the past few months. As you probably noticed there was no Beta waves this Summer and we also need to explain that among some other things.

So first of all, to dispel some doubts and rumors, we are still actively working on the game. If we go silent from time to time this doesn't mean that we canceled the project! This usually means that we are focusing on the development side of things even more.

The active phase of the Closed Beta is over now. Our focus is shifting completely towards iterating new content and polishing the game to make it ready for the public release. There will be more testing phases and waves but not in the upcoming months. We also don't want to specify any release window as for now. This is something we are going to do when we get closer to it.

But one thing is certain, we have been already working on this project for more than 2 years now and PROXIMA is our dream project. We are developing a game that we would love to play ourselves. We make the game not just for us but also for all other people who wanna play it and all the people that supported us so far. We want to take all time that's needed to make a great game and this is really important to us since this is our studios first title.

Another important thing: Right now is the time where we still can make key changes to the game without hurting it's core experience. We are currently making key decisions for the project which will influence the future of PROXIMA, the community and also us as the developer behind the game. We want to analyze everything carefully and adapt or change things, because those changes will be unrollabele in the future.

But anyways, we will always be listening to our community. We have gotten some really criitical feedback regarding the game updates/news the past few weeks and the most notable one is that we need to try to communicate more then we do right now! We did regular development updates and we also did ship new patches alongside the Beta waves. But many of you think that this is not enough. Well, we have the same oppinion on this matter. The more we can comminicate the better! This brings us to another topic: PROXIMA live stream events. We are currently planning to do regular event/dev streams where you the community can ask questions or we show in-progress stuff that we are working on. These streams will be around 1 hour of length and they will be either hosted every week or every second week. Please keep in mind that we are still planning out the production scale for these events and there is certain things we need to prepare in order to do them. When the first event stream will go live we will let you know in advance. We will try to be more transparent in general what goes on with the project and also behind the scenes. So be prepared for regular behind the scenes tweets or random WIP screenshots.

NEW GAME MODE

Now to the some more game specific stuff! We are already working on the new game mode. It's a similar experience compared to the current one, but still different and unique. The WIP name of the game mode is "Warzone". This mode is going to replace the current game mode as we think that this will make a big impact on the overall picture of the game received by the public eye. As mentioned many times before PROXIMA is not a Battle Royale game and never was intended to only feature one game mode. The whole "this is just another BR" type of game not only demotivated us to continue working on that game mode but also led us to the decision to strictly just delete it from the game. It was a great game mode to test core game mechanics in the Alpha and Beta but it will be taken out of the game, for good. Many of these game mechanics however will be used further and will be altered/changed and improved for the other game modes we are wokring on.

This is a key change to the game and we know that. We were thinking a lot about this topic the past few months. But If you like BR type of games you will also like the new game modes. Same goes if you hate BR games. You will simply like Warzone. The entire set of Warzone will appeal to both types of players. This is really important to us.

We are highly convinced of this thesis. There will also be different or altered versions of Warzone which are the following:

• Casual Warzone
  
• Hardcore Warzone
  

Please keep in mind that we just started building the foundation of what is going to be the "Casual Warzone" game mode. We will post more info and updates about the progress of these game modes in the upcoming months.

And finally we want to share some smaller things we've been working on.

THIRD PERSON PERSPECTIVE

We decided to allow players to switch from FP in TP to let them play in their prefered perspective. It's still under discussion if we are going to add any disadvantages to the third person view for a better balance. Nevertheless, the character animation system has been reworked in order to minimize the difference between first and third person animations. We see this as a big problem in other multiplayer FPS games where different animations are used in FPP and TPP which is causing players to appear slightly different to their opponents compared to how they see themselves. This can cause annoying issues, for example a player who is standing behind a cover can be slightly visible to an opponent. We replaced most of the character animations with new ones for a more natural appearance and for solving clipping issues which were present before. We also fixed numerous issues with the robot model, such as shifted fingers position when holding a weapon, excessive back distortion etc.

Switching from FPP to TPP.

ENHANCED PHYSICS

We finally implemented the character ragdoll system to the game. When a player gets killed by an opponent a corresponding force will be applied to it's body to simulate a physically-based death animation.

Character ragdoll in action.

The character hitbox has been modified accordingly to improve physics and grant better hit accuracy. The damage model has been enhanced and currently looks like this:



Updated physics asset of Sparky.

SHIELD SYSTEM

We decided to add a shield system on top of the health stat. The shield will partly consume the damage that is being dealt to a player. Different weapons and grenades will have different penetration stats, which means they can deal more or less damage to health bypassing the shield. Players will be able to refill their armor by using shield cores.

GRENADES

We started prototyping grenades implementation to the game. Currently we are planning to add 3 types of grenades:



WHAT'S NEXT

The changes which are highlighted here are just small changes and features. We are working on much more. The next patch that we intent to ship for PROXIMA will be 2-3 times bigger compared to the one we shipped during the transition from Alpha to Beta. Those changes will be the result of over one year or work.

Stay tuned for further updates,
Vulkan Society team

Hello there fellow human!

Another Closed Beta weekend is on its way! Join the Proxima playgrounds this Saturday, 18th of May. The servers will go online for 3 hours this time.

You can get access to the Closed Beta by pre-ordering the game on https://proximaroyale.com.


Discord: https://discord.gg/proximaroyale
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProximaRoyale
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ProximaRoyale/
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProximaRoyale/

Hello there fellow human!

Don't forget to participate in the Closed Beta Wave 6 which will take place this Saturday (11th of May). The servers will be up for 6 hours.

You can get access to the Closed Beta by pre-ordering the game on https://proximaroyale.com.


Discord: https://discord.gg/proximaroyale
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProximaRoyale
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ProximaRoyale/
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProximaRoyale/