Investigators!
With this news announcement, we would like to give you an overview of what's happening with The Devourer & what else is happening around it. We'll be as transparent as possible with the informaton we're giving you.
To start off, we would like to apologize for the long wait. For all players that have been around here since the demo's release, they might remember that the implementation of Chapter 1 took around 6-7 months. This being said, we assume around the same amount of time needed for Chapter 2 including playtesting and bug fixing. For you this would mean the expected update for Chapter 2 should be around Mid-End of May!
What can you expect?
- Of course, Chapter 2 as the next story chapter which will have its own flair to it. You can again expect around 2 hours of playtime in this chapter - more if you want to walk around the forest and do everything, but as done with Chapter 1, this will have its own location - which we are showing you in a few screenshots attached to this post :)
- New elements in the forest to discover
- New dangers / entities
- Fully redesigned menu system including technical fixes
- Reworked saving / loading system - which unfortunately means you'll need to play the intro with the graves etc. again, but Chapter 2 will be accessible without playing Chapter 1. During Early Access development the save file structure will change which will probably always come with saves getting corrupted
- Fully reworked lobby system, the lobby is a playable 3D lobby now
- Reworked Voice Chat system so it is fully functional
What else should you know?
By now you might also know that we have decided to develop our second title PANICORE while going on with The Devourer. This has multiple reasons:
- We wanted you guys to have something made by us to play inbetween chapter waits
- We wanted to improve our skills: this one is huge for us, for example a fully functional and better voice chat has been implemented for PANICORE which The Devourer will benefit from. And this is just one of MANY examples developing PANICORE has helped us with!
- We wanted to grow: With the release of PANICORE's demo our Discord server has DOUBLED its size in around TWO WEEKS. A portion of these players also know of The Devourer and played it now!
- The game will assist The Devourer's future development financially
PANICORE will be released right before or after Chapter 2 as a FULL RELEASE which means it shouldn't need too much work after.
Thank you for your patience and happy gaming!
Your team at ZTEK Studio
Extra notes:
Since the game is released we will probably have updates on the public beta before updating the main game, meaning you COULD access Chapter 2 before its official release when we start testing it. If you want to do this, keep in mind that the public Beta won't be as stable as the full release. We will announce this happening in another post!