Development Diary: Veteran 1
Hello Bounty Hunters! Dani here, Game Director at Novarama.
After a few rough days due to the coronavirus outbreak, I’m here to tell you everything we’re working on for our next major Killsquad update. A ton of cool stuff ahead, we hope you enjoy this post.
Last time we spoke, we explained how we are fixing variety in Killsquad first, to then move into progression. Variety has to do with giving you guys rich missions, adventures and enemies. And progression, which will come right afterwards, is all about giving you heroes that grow and evolve and loot.
We already updated Recruit on the Genesis update. Our next 2 updates (coming in April and June) deal with Veteran. The first update will come second half of April, and it’s full of cool stuff. Here’s all I can share as of today:
First, you will be embarking on a long quest versus the Plague, a hidden infection that is spreading throughout the galaxy. Plague is an unknown force. First, it appears as mysterious seeds that arrive from space, and slowly begin infecting a planet. Here are the seeds of the Plague, from which Plague emanates:
Plague affects all lifeforms, infects everything you see. Soon, planets become blobs full of pulsating danger:
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As Plague advances, it brings its own set of deformed monsters. You have met the Nightbringers before. That’s the first stage of the infection. But expect things to get way worse this time around, with new Plague-themed boss battles, including or most epic boss yet:
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
Speaking of bosses, with Helldörren, Abomination and Moggoth now gone, we can now infiltrate their territory to reap the benefits of their disappearance. To name one, hatching eggs of a Queen Moggoth in a military facility has become a serious research project. So, our friends at Biosystems Labs will send you in a zoological quest to find these eggs, and ship them back in an escape pod for further research. As usual, things won’t quite go as planned!
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
You will also expore new areas of our game world, such as the breeding grounds of the mighty Vasperiath. To summarize, in a month from now we are going to be giving you 9 new contracts, full of content for you guys to enjoy.
And of course work never stops. We’re already coding our next update, Veteran 2. This is centered around the Federation, and their brand new battle station planet, Skua. You’ll be of course meeting the Federation in our first update. But Skua is where things will get serious, and you’ll encounter the Armed Forces of the Federation. Here’s a sneak peek of one of their units just for you guys:
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
As you can see, the horizon looks great, with one update weeks away and another one right afterwards. With these two, we feel our work to make the Killsquad world rich and varied will be mostly done, and we will move on to progression.
So, before departing for today, let me take a couple lines to tell you we at Novarama are all safe and working from home, and we wish you all safe times during these next few weeks. As you know we’re based in Spain, which has been hit quite hard by coronavirus. Our region wasn’t the worst luckily (Barcelona), and we were careful enough to move all teams to remote work before the infection began.
As the virus spreads around the world, stay safe guys. Social distancing is the name of the game here. And we are doing our best to give you a fantastic game to spend these weeks at home. Let’s focus on killing monsters on a game screen. In the real world, we need to work together to break the infection chain.
Dani out!
After a few rough days due to the coronavirus outbreak, I’m here to tell you everything we’re working on for our next major Killsquad update. A ton of cool stuff ahead, we hope you enjoy this post.
Last time we spoke, we explained how we are fixing variety in Killsquad first, to then move into progression. Variety has to do with giving you guys rich missions, adventures and enemies. And progression, which will come right afterwards, is all about giving you heroes that grow and evolve and loot.
We already updated Recruit on the Genesis update. Our next 2 updates (coming in April and June) deal with Veteran. The first update will come second half of April, and it’s full of cool stuff. Here’s all I can share as of today:
First, you will be embarking on a long quest versus the Plague, a hidden infection that is spreading throughout the galaxy. Plague is an unknown force. First, it appears as mysterious seeds that arrive from space, and slowly begin infecting a planet. Here are the seeds of the Plague, from which Plague emanates:
Plague affects all lifeforms, infects everything you see. Soon, planets become blobs full of pulsating danger:
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
As Plague advances, it brings its own set of deformed monsters. You have met the Nightbringers before. That’s the first stage of the infection. But expect things to get way worse this time around, with new Plague-themed boss battles, including or most epic boss yet:
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
Speaking of bosses, with Helldörren, Abomination and Moggoth now gone, we can now infiltrate their territory to reap the benefits of their disappearance. To name one, hatching eggs of a Queen Moggoth in a military facility has become a serious research project. So, our friends at Biosystems Labs will send you in a zoological quest to find these eggs, and ship them back in an escape pod for further research. As usual, things won’t quite go as planned!
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
You will also expore new areas of our game world, such as the breeding grounds of the mighty Vasperiath. To summarize, in a month from now we are going to be giving you 9 new contracts, full of content for you guys to enjoy.
And of course work never stops. We’re already coding our next update, Veteran 2. This is centered around the Federation, and their brand new battle station planet, Skua. You’ll be of course meeting the Federation in our first update. But Skua is where things will get serious, and you’ll encounter the Armed Forces of the Federation. Here’s a sneak peek of one of their units just for you guys:
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
As you can see, the horizon looks great, with one update weeks away and another one right afterwards. With these two, we feel our work to make the Killsquad world rich and varied will be mostly done, and we will move on to progression.
So, before departing for today, let me take a couple lines to tell you we at Novarama are all safe and working from home, and we wish you all safe times during these next few weeks. As you know we’re based in Spain, which has been hit quite hard by coronavirus. Our region wasn’t the worst luckily (Barcelona), and we were careful enough to move all teams to remote work before the infection began.
As the virus spreads around the world, stay safe guys. Social distancing is the name of the game here. And we are doing our best to give you a fantastic game to spend these weeks at home. Let’s focus on killing monsters on a game screen. In the real world, we need to work together to break the infection chain.
Dani out!