Hello everyone,
It certainly has been a long delay because of the Covid crisis. I don´t know how you have been handling it, but we have been on a full-on quarantine for around four months, which has been, well, devastating to our productivity. But let´s not focus on that, let´s go straight to what is important.
The fully voice-acted campaign is here! As promised, we are releasing a branch of the game in which you can enjoy the main story of Element: Space with full voice acting. There are also some additional features we will give you, although it´s important to remind you that those are still a work-in-progress. Still, we´d rather let you have a peak on a functional-yet-unfinished feature rather than keep it to ourselves. You want to know why? Because if this crisis has taught us anything is this: we don´t know what will happen tomorrow, and we will rather give you as much as we can instead of lamenting it after.
Now, before going over the features, I want to make a quick recommendation: a lot of the people that have been playing the game have faced different bugs and performance issues. Not to say that there aren´t any bugs, of course there are (much less now on this update though, it´s running almost crystal-clean), but we have received many reports and complaints when actually some of those users do not have the minimum requirements for running the game optimally.
I cannot recommend this enough, but before buying and playing the game, I strongly suggest you to visit https://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri to check if you actually meet the minimum requirements and you can have a go at the game. The page will ask you to download a file and I think you might also need Java installed, but do yourself a favor and use it. In any case, if the game runs on your machine, that is fantastic and I hope you enjoy it.
In the case the game does not run on your machine, I SERIOUSLY recommend that you don´t try to make it run, since chances are high that the game will crash or perform like crap for you. Ok, with that out of the way, let´s go into the features:
This new release includes:
-A fully voice acted main story of Element: Space. Yes, try it all, play every mission and see how different it feels. We are glad we can give this product that final touch it deserved.
-Challenge Level Selection: This on-working feature let´s you try an entire mission with a different squad and against different level of difficult enemies. We seriously recommend you don´t try this feature before ending the campaign, since without the equipment and the characters with high level, it can be kind of merciless (unless you are using a fully upgraded squad against Rank 1 enemies, jezz that is a cakewalk).
-Level Selection (yeah, we will change the name later): Grab your squad, equipment and abilities and try them out against all unlocked combats and missions in the game, individually. We also recommend that you don´t try this feature before ending the campaign, because of the same reason of the previous feature, BUT difficulty will always be higher, so be careful.
-A lot less bugs: I mean, we have tried almost every possibility and we feel the game is working as we expected. Will there be new bugs? Maybe yes, but please don´t hesitate to report them.
Well, that is it for now. We will continue to work on the additional features but we really hope you can enjoy the campaign with the voice actors! Enjoy the game and have the best life you can have, Covid notwithstanding.
Cheers everyone,
Javier.