Hello wonderful people!
As announced earlier this month, the open beta is now available for all of you, who own the game.
A little recap on what this beta is:
we are upgrading the game engine to Godot 4 which will allow us to add more content features while also improving the overall stability and performance of the game.
The primary reason why we upgrade this 4 year old game at all is the absolute mess that the code base grew into over the years which makes adding new content and features a real struggle.
The biggest features that were limited by the current game engine is by far the support for animations and crossplatform support.
With the new game engine we can finally add animations and also offer Steam Cloud saves to share your progress and saves across your devices, including a native Linux version and SteamDeck support.
The current beta stage has many of the existing features already working but some parts are still WIP, so here is a little overview of things to try in this beta:
working features
- play the base game content, with choices and path branching
- save/load your game progress
- unlock achievements
- change settings from the main menu
- use the Roadmap to replay parts of the game (WIP but mostly works)
- English translation
WIP
- skip/rollback dialogue
- Gallery
- change settings during gameplay
- input remapping (controller support)
- translation support (German, Brasilian Portuguese)
- Steam Workshop integration (for more translations)
- DLC support (works on the free Halloween2020 DLC already)
The above lists are just the main features so please expect some things to still behave a bit... unexpected.
tl;dr
Cool stuff, but how can you play the beta?!
You can activate the open beta with these 3 easy steps:
- go into the Midnight Ride properties
- select the Betas menu
- from this dropdown, select the "open_beta" (if you don't see this option, restart your Steam)
- close the properties menu and update your game
- enjoy
When all is set and done we would really appreciate feedback about this beta over here in the forums
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1210110/discussions/3/