To dive straight into it: May 9th marks the day the Demo will be released! You can view the demo page here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3577400/Ravenous_Horde_Demo/
It's been a long road but the game is in a great state! Since the last post in January lots of improvements have been made and the game is polished a lot more.
Changes since the start of the year
The game now tracks several statistics, from how much you play to how much you fired every weapon.
You can now select skins for your weapons! Some have to be earned, some have to be found and for some you need to be lucky. More skins are planned (free and paid for later when the game releases)
The UI got cleaned up a lot. It's easier on the eyes and not as horrible as before.
Loads of other small changes have been made, some interesting and most not. Here are some examples:
- When you level up, other players in the match get a notification. (Important for the social aspect :))
- On the input rebinding page, the bindings are now placed in categories.
- Muzzle flashes on all weapons and the 3rd person characters have been improved.
- Dismembering gore is now a bit more in your face.
- Weapon audio has been improved for most guns, they all sound unique now.
- Added headshot support, you gain a few extra points for doing so.
- Zombies now have another ability called Zombie Vision, this allows to see more clearly. (It also outlines your allies for now, not sure about this feature yet. Perhaps it should be a perk)
- On your UI (both as Hunter and Zombie) you now see accurately which buttons you should press on your keyboard to do which action.
- You can now invite friends or join them through Discord and Steam into the server you are in.
Demo Limitations
The demo comes with some limitations. The main one is that your rank is capped at 20. This means that you are limited to 9 weapons and a few perks / cosmetics which are all rank based.
As the full game gets updated throughout the year the demo will also be accordingly.
The Full Game
Now there are a lot of things to do for the full game, such as designing paid skins and cosmetics so I can buy groceries. But as mentioned in the previous post, new maps, special equipment and the last hunter specific weapon are also on the to-do list!
It's a long way to go but I feel the game is starting to make big leaps.
Playtest
If you happen to still have access to the Playtest version, tomorrow and Sunday the playtest server goes up at 7PM (GMT+1 / CEST) and stays up for 3hours.
Feel free to join and check out any bugs that might occur :)
If you don't have access and would like to join, hit me up on the socials!
Thank you all for the support so far and reading this. I'll go back to work :)
- Rinke
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2179490/Ravenous_Horde/
