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| 5s | hey everyone and welcome to another |
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| 7s | dialogue today we're going to talk a |
| 9s | little bit about our road to early |
| 11s | access and everything we have achieved |
| 13s | up until the release I'm joined today by |
| 16s | our two lovely lead programmers dammit |
| 19s | and hello everyone |
| 21s | pleasure to be here since the start of |
| 23s | the early access period our plan was to |
| 25s | listen to player feedback and plan out |
| 28s | our development accordingly we will talk |
| 30s | about the changes we've made to the game |
| 31s | and what motivated us to do so hope you |
| 34s | find the torque enjoyable so without any |
| 37s | further ado let's go for all the patch |
| 39s | updates in the order they were released |
| 40s | and see what changes they promised at |
| 46s | the start of the early access period the |
| 47s | game had a multiplayer Lobby and the |
| 49s | completely single-player combat |
| 51s | experience after a few weeks with |
| 53s | patched zero point two point zero came |
| 56s | the support for cop you have to work out |
| 58s | and we designed almost every system in |
| 61s | the game to make that a possibility with |
| 63s | this update we also changed how our |
| 65s | damage calculations work most of our |
| 67s | damage calculations were primarily |
| 69s | affected by physical damage so stacking |
| 72s | it was more useful than stacking any |
| 73s | other damage type in order to make |
| 75s | physical damage less important for your |
| 77s | build we've added weapon damage stats |
| 80s | weapons in the game now have this base |
| 82s | stat which then gets converted into |
| 84s | corresponding damage type through player |
| 86s | abilities this way we've made the damage |
| 89s | type more balanced as in each is equally |
| 92s | beneficial in this early stages balance |
| 97s | was not in a good place most bosses |
| 99s | could be done without a fight and this |
| 101s | happened regardless of the difficulty we |
| 103s | ramped up the difficulty in order to |
| 105s | make the game a bit more challenging |
| 107s | maybe too challenging but we will |
| 109s | address this in the future updates and |
| 112s | we plan to work on this as well in the |
| 114s | future in this patch we also worked on |
| 115s | improving your quality of life when it |
| 117s | comes to gameplay one feature that was |
| 119s | heavily requested and that we |
| 121s | implemented was the ability to confirm |
| 123s | your character after the tutorial you |
| 125s | chose one hero which was available from |
| 127s | the start at the time these were king of |
| 129s | each is token |
| 130s | play for the tutorial and then be able |
| 132s | to go back if you're not satisfied with |
| 134s | the hero that you chose another quality |
| 136s | of life thing that we added to the game |
| 138s | was the ability to have an alternate |
| 140s | control scheme we weren't ready yet to |
| 142s | implement the click to move but this was |
| 144s | a temporary solution that needed to |
| 146s | satisfy players a desire to play click |
| 148s | to move and not WASD unlocking heroes |
| 153s | through collecting shards was viewed by |
| 155s | players as a long grind and most were |
| 157s | not in love with that idea another thing |
| 159s | which made hero unlocking harder was the |
| 161s | linearity of it the first hero you would |
| 163s | unlock would always be looking and the |
| 165s | last one would always be able area to |
| 167s | make this system less constricted we've |
| 168s | added a new currency to the game heroes |
| 170s | Souls each hero soul unlocks one hero |
| 173s | and you can choose whichever hero you |
| 174s | want to unlock first shards were still |
| 176s | kept in the game for skin unlocks these |
| 178s | hero souls were much easier to obtain |
| 180s | especially if you had a friends to carry |
| 182s | you through all those high-level |
| 183s | assassination missions pepp 0.5 was the |
| 189s | first of the bigger patches we have |
| 191s | planned for the end of early access |
| 192s | players familiar with other action RPGs |
| 195s | were very vocal about our early skill |
| 198s | upgrade system which was very basic this |
| 200s | mate has put a lot of effort in |
| 202s | designing and implementing an ability |
| 204s | tree system which would enable players |
| 206s | to make their own custom builds and get |
| 208s | more personal with their favorite |
| 210s | characters apart from the new ability |
| 212s | system some existing features went |
| 214s | through a lot of changes some of the |
| 216s | character stats were removed some new |
| 218s | like aster shield were added and some |
| 221s | were tweaked a bit the crafting system |
| 222s | was heavily changed as well recipe and |
| 225s | blueprint drops were reduced in |
| 226s | preparations for changes we would be |
| 228s | getting in the next patch last but not |
| 230s | least this patch brought a whole new act |
| 233s | to the game act 6 which added another |
| 236s | boss fight into the mix the second in |
| 240s | our series of week updates brought a bit |
| 243s | of love to the end game so we basically |
| 244s | added a way for you to gain additional |
| 246s | ability points beyond what you get for |
| 248s | leveling and to upgrade your abilities |
| 251s | further these bonus points are gained as |
| 253s | a reward for completing a mini challenge |
| 255s | involving idle of wisdom also there was |
| 257s | now a way to reliably gain recipes to |
| 260s | use in craft |
| 261s | by defeating cage Guardians we've also |
| 263s | added people that tributes to give |
| 264s | legendary items more impact schools of |
| 267s | magic to give players something to keep |
| 269s | an eye out for and the gauntlet was |
| 271s | reworked significantly |
| 272s | all in all a lot of endgame stuff in |
| 274s | this patch in this patch we also managed |
| 276s | to implement a highly requested features |
| 279s | such as controller support and quick |
| 280s | tour we do consider these changes to be |
| 283s | only the first step in improving your |
| 284s | and game experience as we are still |
| 287s | working on systems that will I depth and |
| 289s | fund to the end game this patch was the |
| 292s | last one in early access period which |
| 294s | means we are getting closer to the end |
| 296s | of this dialogue all that remains is |
| 300s | besides containing a lot of polish and |
| 302s | bug fixes to things already in the game |
| 304s | the release build also included two |
| 306s | whole new campaign acts act seven and |
| 308s | eight two new playable heroes and the |
| 311s | ability to select any hero at the start |
| 313s | of the game with those two new act scum |
| 315s | two new bosses as well the game has the |
| 317s | full single-player experience now that |
| 319s | the campaign is finished but we are not |
| 321s | done yet |
| 321s | we were planning a lot of stuff some of |
| 323s | which we've mentioned in the previous |
| 325s | dialogue you should watch it together to |
| 327s | speed a bit we feel that we have seen a |
| 330s | lot in the past few months and we |
| 331s | couldn't have done it without you the |
| 333s | game is better now that it ever was and |
| 335s | it's all thanks to your valuable |
| 336s | feedback we are very proud of the |
| 338s | community on this card and reddit and we |
| 340s | really appreciate your support and |
| 342s | constructive criticism we're getting |
| 343s | each day making pagan online was a big |
| 346s | learning experience for all of us here |
| 348s | at metal games and with each new feature |
| 350s | or build we prepare for you guys we got |
| 352s | more experienced and daring to push |
| 354s | ourselves even further we have no plans |
| 356s | on slowing down we will continue to |
| 358s | improve the game until we reach our |
| 360s | ultimate goal making any RPG of your |
| 362s | dreams we love you guys and girls and we |
| 364s | hope to keep seeing you in the pantheon |
| 366s | until the next devlog bye |
| 369s | [Laughter] |
| 373s | you |
