Hey everyone.
We have released the 0.5.0 update to the beta branch on Steam!
It would be awesome if anyone would try it out and give us feedback.
Definitely let us know if you run into any bugs.
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Environmental wind storms are now in the White Peak arena that increase in frequency and for longer toward the end of a match. The red flags indicate incoming winds and their direction, shelter zones behind the pillars are safe zones.
Keyboard and mouse input is now fully supported. You no longer need a gamepad to play Swordy! A keyboard/mouse player can of course join in with other gamepad players too.
Full Steam Controller support is in and working for Valve Steam Controllers along with Xbox gamepad and PS4 gamepad as Steam Controllers (option in Steam Big Picture Mode).
The Steam Controller, Gamepads and Keyboard/mouse all seamlessly work together, both for multiplayer but also if your gamepad dies (for example) you can instantly pick things up on a different device.
The System Menu has been restructured a bit to better split options and settings up as they have grown a bit since release. All text in the game has also been replaced with sharper "Signed Distance Field Text Rendering". All UI input prompts/hints dynamically change based on what devices are connected.
To test you just need to switch over to the ~experimental~ "beta" branch on Steam.
Instructions below:
Steam will then update Swordy automatically.
2017-07-23 - 0.5.0a40:
2017-07-26 - 0.5.0a41:
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