Steam news21 Dec 2021Public Playtest Event: Samurai Royale WIP Mode - Wednesday Dec 22nd @ 10pm ESTSamurai Royale Test - Details Tonight we will begin testing gameplay changes, new features and more. We will be testing on a BETA BRANCH during these events, which require some action in Steam. You can opt-in to our testing branch following the steps below: Step 1) Right click on Hanako: Honor & Blade in your Steam library and click Properties. Step 2) Click the Betas section. Step 3) In the "E…
F2P Patch Testing - Details This is our last test before the F2P patch ships on Friday. We will be testing all of our current features, bug fixes, etc. to make sure the build is stable for release. We will be testing on a BETA BRANCH during these events, which require some action in Steam. You can opt-in to our testing branch following the steps below: Step 1) Right click on Hanako: Honor & Bla…
We are going Free-to-Play We have decided as a dev team that is in our best interest, as a small independent game, to go Free-to-play as soon as possible to give our multiplayer title the best chance at reaching more players. Why F2P? We worked on Hanako, with everything we have, during our free time for 14 years and our launch, quite frankly has been a tremendous disappointment because we thin…
Defeat the Devs - Details Tonight we will begin testing gameplay changes, new features and more. We will be testing on a BETA BRANCH during these events, which require some action in Steam. You can opt-in to our testing branch following the steps below: Step 1) Right click on Hanako: Honor & Blade in your Steam library and click Properties. Step 2) Click the Betas section. Step 3) In the "Enter…
We would love your nomination for Labor of Love. Hanako: Honor & Blade started as a tribute to my late mother, who passed away from cancer. The game's backstory of samurai lore serves as a metaphor for al lost loved ones battle against disease. Over the course of our journey, many of our dev team have lost a parent to cancer and our game expanded as a growing tribute to many of our lost. We wor…
Defeat the Devs - Details Tonight we will begin testing gameplay changes, new features and more. We will be testing on a BETA BRANCH during these events, which require some action in Steam. You can opt-in to our testing branch following the steps below: Step 1) Right click on Hanako: Honor & Blade in your Steam library and click Properties. Step 2) Click the Betas section. Step 3) In the "Enter…
Defeat the Devs - October 13th @ 10pm EST Tonight we will begin testing gameplay changes, new features and more. We will be testing on a BETA BRANCH during these events, which require some action in Steam. You can opt-in to our testing branch following the steps below: Step 1) Right click on Hanako: Honor & Blade in your Steam library and click Properties. Step 2) Click the Betas section. Step…
Defeat the Devs - October 13th @ 10pm EST Tonight we will begin testing gameplay changes, new features and more. We will be testing on a BETA BRANCH during these events, which require some action in Steam. You can opt-in to our testing branch following the steps below: Step 1) Right click on Hanako: Honor & Blade in your Steam library and click Properties. Step 2) Click the Betas section. Step…
Defeat the Devs - October 6th @ 10pm EST Tonight we will begin testing gameplay changes, new features and more. We will be testing on a BETA BRANCH during these events, which require some action in Steam. You can opt-in to our testing branch following the steps below: Step 1) Right click on Hanako: Honor & Blade in your Steam library and click Properties. Step 2) Click the Betas section. Step 3…
Defeat the Devs - September 22nd @ 10pm EST We would like to thank everyone for their support and interest in our launch. We are currently compiling feedback lists from reviews, posts, etc. to roadmap what we plan to do next. In the meantime, we will continue our weekly events on our Discord where the community and dev team can meet in-game and play through the game for a few hours and enjoy th…
Bug fix for knockdown animations breaking when you get hit. · Bug fix for ninja bots not playing weapon animations during status effects. · Added ability to re-bind movement keys on keyboard. · Increased AI difficulty game-wide. Servers will patch and restart.
Defeat the Devs - September 22nd @ 10pm EST We would like to thank everyone for their support and interest in our launch. We are currently compiling feedback lists from reviews, posts, etc. to roadmap what we plan to do next. In the meantime, we will continue our weekly events on our Discord where the community and dev team can meet in-game and play through the game for a few hours and enjoy th…
Virtual Release Party: September 14th from 9pm EST to our MIDNIGHT Release September 15th. After starting Hanako: Honor & Blade as a college project all the way back in 2008, and releasing to Early Access in October of 2017. We are proud to finally announce we will be releasing fully on Steam, graduating from Early Access at September 15th at Midnight EST. Our launch trailer will promptly launc…
Event Details We'll be starting at 10pm EST / 2a UTC on the US-Mid Official Server and voice chat on See the testing initiatives below for what we'll be testing tonight. Testing Initiatives/Test Patch Notes - Bug fixes to verify -- MAJOR Fix - Ninja grappling causing input lock/movement failure. -- MAJOR Fix - Server crash that would occur during most matches. -- MAJOR Fix - Movement animations…
Event Details We'll be starting at 10pm EST / 2a UTC on the US-Mid Official Server and voice chat on See the testing initiatives below for what we'll be testing tonight. Testing Initiatives/Test Patch Notes - Bug fixes to verify -- Overhaul of Duel queue system. -- Fixes for bad camera positions if walls were too close to spawn points. -- Major bug fix for animation issues with top/bottom body…
Event Details We'll be starting at 10pm EST / 2a UTC on the US-Mid Official Server and voice chat on See the testing initiatives below for what we'll be testing tonight. We'll be recording b-roll for GIF and trailer creation so we'll need players to help coordinate! Testing Initiatives/Test Patch Notes - Bug fixes to verify -- Abilities with stun immunity should no longer be interrupted by parr…
Event Details We'll be starting at 10pm EST / 2a UTC on the US-Mid Official Server and voice chat on See the testing initiatives below for what we'll be testing tonight. We'll be recording b-roll for GIF and trailer creation so we'll need players to help coordinate! Testing Initiatives/Test Patch Notes - Bug fixes to verify -- Knockdown/Knockback/Stun animations properly follow priority (KD > S…
Event Details We'll be starting at 10pm EST / 2a UTC on the US-Mid Official Server and voice chat on See the testing initiatives below for what we'll be testing tonight. We'll be recording b-roll for GIF and trailer creation so we'll need players to help coordinate! Testing Initiatives/Test Patch Notes - Bug fixes to verify -- Knockdown/Knockback/Stun animations properly follow priority (KD > S…
Event Details We'll be starting at 10pm EST / 2a UTC on the US-Mid Official Server and voice chat on See the testing initiatives below for what we'll be testing tonight. We'll be recording b-roll for GIF and trailer creation so we'll need players to help coordinate! Testing Initiatives/Test Patch Notes - Bug fixes to verify -- Knockdown/Knockback/Stun animations properly follow priority (KD > S…
We added support for German today, you can change it from the Language settings in the game OR it will inherit your Steam UI language. Hanako: Honor & Blade also supports the following languages: · Portuguese (Brazil) · Russian · Simplified Chinese · Japanese Coming soon · French Other Hotfix Items · FX improvements to Nagi abilities. · AI improvements to fix AI standing in place. · UI improvem…
Event Details We'll be starting at 10pm EST / 2a UTC on the US-Mid Official Server and voice chat on See the testing initiatives below for what we'll be testing tonight. We'll be recording b-roll for GIF and trailer creation so we'll need players to help coordinate! Testing Initiatives/Test Patch Notes - Bug fixes to verify -- W + Jump out of meditate input lock -- Jump/falling input lock -- In…
Event Details We'll be starting at 10pm EST / 2a UTC on the US-Mid Official Server and voice chat on See the testing initiatives below for what we'll be testing tonight. We'll be recording b-roll for GIF and trailer creation so we'll need players to help coordinate! Testing Initiatives/Test Patch Notes - Bug fixes to verify -- W + Jump out of meditate input lock -- Jump/falling input lock -- In…
We added support for Japanese today, you can change it from the Language settings in the game OR it will inherit your Steam UI language. Hanako: Honor & Blade also supports the following languages: · Portuguese (Brazil) · Russian · Simplified Chinese Coming soon · German · French
We'll finally be graduating out of Early Access on Steam into full release September 15th. I started this project 14 years ago to honor my late mother and fast forward to now most of our dev team has lost a parent to cancer as our game as a tribute has grown to honor more than just my mom. We've worked on this at night, after game/software jobs, in our free time with no budget for the last 10 c…
Event Details We'll be starting at 10pm EST / 2a UTC on the US-Mid Official Server and voice chat on See the testing initiatives below for what we'll be testing tonight. We'll be recording b-roll for GIF and trailer creation so we'll need players to help coordinate! Testing Initiatives/Test Patch Notes - Fixes for "hit glows" getting stuck on the player. - Audio updates to destruction. - Langua…
We added an update today that adds support for the following languages for the full UI, all text, etc.: · Portuguese (Brazil) · Russian · Spanish · Simplified Chinese They can be set from the game's properties in your Steam library or it will auto-detect this language if your Steam client is already set to one of the available languages. As budget allows (sadly our budget is very, very small) w…
Event Details We'll be starting at 10pm EST / 2a UTC on the US-Mid Official Server and voice chat on See the testing initiatives below for what we'll be testing tonight. We'll be recording b-roll for GIF and trailer creation so we'll need players to help coordinate! Testing Initiatives/Test Patch Notes - Added loadout ownership checks. - Variety of HUD, menu, UI/UX updates to HUD, menus and in-…
Event Details We'll be starting at 10pm EST / 2a UTC on the US-Mid Official Server and voice chat on See the testing initiatives below for what we'll be testing tonight. We'll be recording b-roll for GIF and trailer creation so we'll need players to help coordinate! Testing Initiatives/Test Patch Notes - Localization roughly working for Portuguese (Brazilian) add -culture=pt to your launch opti…
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