Black Paradox News

Update day again! Are you ready?


This week we've focused on adding a bit more content, balancing a bit and fixing a couple bugs.
As I mentioned before next week there won't be an update.
We need some summer rest and will get back to updating the game in 2 weeks ;)



So we have a new weapon, a new Powerup and a new Drone!
I won't spoil you the effects, just know they're all uncommon, so you might not find them right away.

The names are:
Weapon: Geyser
Powerup: Paradoxal Rage
Drone: What The Drone?



This time around we've buffed some of the less useful weapons, buffed a chip's effect and buffed a couple enemy waves that were underpowered and all around done some slight changes. I'll go into more detail into the Patch Notes.



Fixed some minor bugs. Again, read the Patch Notes for more info!




Chips

• Dodge chip's effect has been doubled. Now max dodge caps at 40% with all max level dodge chips. I'm thinking of maybe buffing it further if it's still not viable as a build.
  

Weapons/Powerups

• Weapon Geyser added!
  
• Item Paradoxal Rage added!
  
• Drone "What the Drone?" added!
  
• Granade Launcher's damage has been slightly increased.
  
• Railgun's damage has been slightly increased.
  
• Hedgehog's damage has been slightly decreased.
  
• Tesla's bounce damage now decreases less per bounce (from 20% per bounce to 15%).
  
• When firing a weapon that slows you down you can't rapid tap the button to avoid slowing down anymore. the slow down persists for a fraction of the recharge time.
  
• Blade drone's damage has been increased and its collider is now slightly bigger, making it a more viable powerup.
  

Enemies and bosses

• A few late game waves had long wait time between enemies. Made it a little shorter to avoid moments when there are no enemies.
  

Bugs

• Solved a bug that made background's elements not appear correctly when playing.
  
• Some bosses had some sound effects that would get stuck. Still haven't found out what makes them get stuck, but forced the sound to shut down after a few seconds of getting stuck.
  

Want to discuss the update with the devs or with other players?
There's a forum just for you!



Are you a videogame journalist, a Steam Curator, a Youtuber or a Twitcher and you want to make a review/video of Black Paradox? We have a Distribute and a Keymailer account! So contact us there!

Hope this update adds a bit of juice to the game and unlocks new build options!
Thanks for reading!

Friday is gonna be your favorite day! It's update day!



Another thing you're gonna love about Friday is our Mixtape , Galaxy Radio, featuring part of the update contents and letting you listen to good synthwave music.

This time around our main focus was mostly on Backgrounds and balance, but we also have a new powerup joining the lineup!





The game only had so many backgrounds... Well we added more! there's a whole new set of cool bagrounds that can appear in the game! Hope you like them and are looking forward to more in the future, since we're adding more in a few updates!





The "Life Hack" is now available as a new powerup. I won't spil the effect but let's just say it's pretty usefull... Hope to hear your opinions on it!


Our focus on balance was on weapons and chips this time around.
As far as weapons goes we buffed the darts punk and nerfed a few too powerful ones such as the laser and the hedgehog (I've personally seen players reach the last boss with just a couple chips and the hedgehog...).


Some minor bugs were fixed too! this time around the only big bug was really big and we had an hotfix mid week to fix it.



Chips

• Chip's shop randomizer is now more likely to select stronger chips.
  
• Triple shot chip change has been doubled. Now the max amount is 40% triple shot chance.
  
• Rear Shot chip chance has been increased by 50%. Now the max amount is 60% rear shot chance.
  

Weapons/Powerups

• Item Life Hack added!
  
• Charge Shot now charges its effect faster.
  
• Darts Punk now slows the players slightly less and has les delay from when the bullet is fired and when it takes off.
  
• Tesla now deals more damage on the first hit, then decreases the damage on each bounce.
  
• Laser damage has been nerfed.
  
• Hedgehog has slightly longer cooldown.
  

Enemies and bosses

• Enemies coming from the back of the player had their healt reduced.
  
• Some enemies that come from behind used to stop too far on the left area and couldn't be shot at. Now they stop slightly further.
  
• Bosses now deal slightly more "contact damage" than regular enemies.
  
• Warlock uses his rings attack only when lower than 50% health.
  
• After shooting missiles Shadow waits less before its next attack.
  
• The machinegun deals a bit more damages.
  

General

• New backgrounds!
  
• When starting a new level you no longer start with the base weapon selected (still need to select the one you had, but for now it's not the main one at least).
  
• Music doesn't bug anymore when fast pressing retry on gameover screen.
  
• Main menu is now only controlled by player 1.
  
• When a controller gets removed game will pause even with 2 controllers attached.
  
• In Co-op mode when the first player dies there are less explosions as not to disturb the player left alive.
  
• In Co-op mode the player pausing the game is the one controlling the pause menu.
  
• If a controller gets disconnected the relative player will get keyboard controll assigned.
  

Want to discuss the update with the devs or with other players?
There's a forum just for you!



Are you a videogame journalist, a Steam Curator, a Youtuber or a Twitcher and you want to make a review/video of Black Paradox? We have a Distribute and a Keymailer account! So contact us there!

Apparently Early Access discount only lasts for a week, as we promissed Black Paradox would be discounted for the whole duration of the Early Access we're dropping the regular price to the same as the discounted one for all the EA duration. So you won't see that beautiful -25% there, but it's still 25% off the full price!

Hope this update makes the game more fun to play!
Thanks for reading!

Starting today and until August 27th we'll be running a contest to make your weapon/powerups/drones ideas a reality in the game and get a chance to appear in the end game's credits!

We've opened a discussion in the forum for anyone interested in participating!
Please read the Rules and have a blast posting your ideas!!!

So some players have reported us a bug about the game getting stuck after collecting the end level powerup. Since the bug became game breaking for some of you guys we've proceeded to give it high priority.

The bug is really sly, and we had a really hard time replicating it. We've worked a workaround and tested it with all the team for hours. We hope this solved the problem and hope it will help you enjoy the game :)

If any problem still arise or if the problem persists feel free to open a thread or write in the dedicated one in the forum

So today is the great day! Black Paradox is finally available on Steam! we’re really hyped and hope you are too!


To celebrate we’ve put up a little podcast for you guys.
The podcast will feature Omega Radio, the one and only radio for bounty hunters.
The radio will go live weekly and will talk about the patch notes for said week. After that it will jump to around half an hour of amazing synthwave music! So be ready to hear it on every new update 😉


As many people told us they really loved the game’s Original Soundtrack we decided to add it as a purchasable item on Black Paradox’s page.
You can either purchase it separately from the game or get it together with the game in a bundle for a little discount!



We added our studio’s logo to the finished version. Of course it had to be in a cool 80’s style right?
Do you like it?



We fixed some minor bugs too. But bugs are always around the corner and are a developer’s number one enemy (10 little bugs in the code….. fix one…. 12 little bugs in the code…).
So we’d like to ask all of Black Paradox’s players to report any bug they might find.
If possible please report them on the dedicated forum we created here on Steam, we also have a Discord channel ! You can join us there too to let us know your feedbacks!



Do you have a cool fan art on Black Paradox?
either post it here on the community or tag us on Twitter or Instagram.
We’ll select a couple of the coolest ones each week and add it in our weekly devlog!

Hope everyone enjoys the game!
Thanks for reading!