Update 2.0 - New Features & Visual Upgrades

Hey everyone!

After a long hiatus, I finally had some time to push some updates! Here are a couple of new features and changes. Customization, balancing, and bug fixes were highly requested, so here's a look at what's been addressed.

Changelog

Rebuilt from the ground up on an upgrade to Unreal Engine 5.7, driving improvements across graphics, animation, and combat.

• Revamped combat system

  • Lock-on mode with strafing

    • Can be disabled to enter free-roam mode

  • Improved hit detection and impact accuracy

  • Ability changes

    • Strong attack now halts on target contact, is more responsive, and has a snappier feel

    • Dodging is now more responsive, with tighter directional control

    • Reworked knockback hit reactions

    • Adjusted animation-cancel windows

    • Dodge, strong, and medium attacks now grant flinch invulnerability

  • Rebalanced damage, knockback, stamina cost and stamina regen values

• Graphics

  • Improved lighting, post-processing, and VFX for a more polished overall look

  • Fixed characters and level being too dark in some areas

• Networking

  • Fixed bugs related to creating, finding, and joining sessions

  • Improved map travel flow, more stable

• Customization

  • New pre-match loadout flow

    • Customize your alien model and color before entering combat

• UI

  • Various UI layout and styling reworks

  • Improved low-health post-processing indicators

  • Added return-to-previous-page navigation support in menus

• Localization

  • Added UI support for Japanese, German, French, and Spanish

• Animation

  • Improved animation blending

  • Improved foot IK

• AI

  • Smarter AI behavior

• Audio

  • Fixed multiple mis-timed sound cues

  • Fixed hits sometimes registering and playing twice

  • Improved hit SFX attenuation

  • Added door-open SFX

Thanks for playing! 👽

- Voltaire