Community Newsletter October 9, 2020

 
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PROGRESS

  • The playability of the game has advanced dramatically these past two weeks.  A ton of much-needed bug fixes combined with rapid improvements to the existing base classes has made combat a lot more fun in a short period of time. One such improvement added new features to our melee attacks that allows the hit boxes to much more accurately match the visual for the attack.

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  • One of the most impactful features added this sprint was game state logic that enables two teams of four kinfolk to compete in “best two out of three” matches. The round ends when all the members of one players party is defeated, and the first player to win two rounds wins the match. There’s also a new escape menu in-game that lets you change settings, leave the match, or exit the game. It will warn you about incurring a loss for leaving when a match is in progress and ask for confirmation

  • We hit another important milestone when Joey successfully integrated Kindred Fates into Steam. No, you can’t download it yet :P, but it makes it much easier for the team to send updates and upload new builds for testing.

  • We also re-implemented the lock-on camera mode this week. You can now focus on a particular opponent even while you move and jump around. Your melee attacks will automatically aim in their direction, but skill shots and other ranged attacks will still need to be aimed.

  • The recent improvements to combat have made play-testing a lot more enjoyable and prevalent among the team as a whole, but we still have some important issues to fix before we’ll be ready to launch. John is working on improving our latency compensation code so that what you see matches what your opponent sees. We still have some work to do here, but it's feeling better. Sheila is also fixing a bug that throws off the player’s aim without them realizing it. 

COMMUNITY

  • The team had a lot of fun playing Among Us with community members on our last Chill With The Devs stream! You can watch recordings of the stream from Rob’s POV and Crank’s POV.

  • Our next stream will be Kindred Talks 8: The Converging of the Cravens! Our special guest will be none other than Andrew and Rob’s dad, QA extraordinaire, Rob Sr.! We will be featuring Berry Bandit as our host, and of course Rob and Andrew will be there as always. You can look forward to the livestream on Saturday October 17 at 3pm EST! If you have questions for Rob Sr., you can submit them here!

Thanks for checking in with us! We’ll see you next time, on October 23!

Skymill Games