Hello apocalypse bad-asses!

Our 4th Dead Maze Alpha Version has been launched on Friday the 18th of February, and our testers have had the opportunity to play a brand new game, because we added... quests and narrative design to it! Prepare yourselves to be immersed in a universe where mysteries, crazy characters and interesting missions will be your daily delight.

Of course we didn't do only just that. Here are the few things we worked on:

Zombies

• Hordes!
Zombies are previous human beings, so they like to hang out together... or you can just say, like sheep, they follow the group. Don't be reckless, better avoid them. Or not, if you're confident enough and have good teammates :p This feature is still in progress, it's meant to be reviewed over and over, but the current rendering of the "horde movement" (organic, with some zombies that wander around to test a path, then return back to the group etc) is satisfying for now.

• Toxics are now immune to their own poison
• Dogs are slightly less powerful (you all agreed about the difficulty when they were around, it's been balanced!)

Weapons and tools/Balancing

• We added 25+ weapons!
• We worked on developing themed containers: recognizable boxes or bags which contain a list of more or less rare loots, put at strategic places to reward the player.
• We completely reviewed the difficulty and rewards system, it's more balanced now.
• The katana has been nerfed (combo duration from 2s to 1s).
• The skill Powerful Hit has been changed: damages from 50 to 24, but now gives a lot of combo points.
• Dying does not reset your symptoms anymore.
• The Resilience system has been revamped: resilience now gives a damage bonus when you get hit.

Ranged weapons, musical ones, blades, toys weapons, icebox for food, toolbox, military bag, sports weapons

The game in general

• The Worldmap! ('nuff said)
• The tutorial has been revamped: new map, new dialog, new illustrations, more interactivity.
• New Quests system, as said earlier.
• The diary feature has been dropped, replaced by a more dynamic system which will come soon.

We didn't fix all the bugs our testers reported, except for the more blocking ones, as we were focused a lot on other parts of the game. However, this 4th Alpha Version is dedicated to details polishing, so we expect to patch daily, in order to eradicate one bug at a time. Put it in another way: we're getting closer and closer to our final version, and we have plans. Big plans. Be prepared, Apocalypse bad-asses!

Thank you for making this come true,

Atelier801 Team

In love with quests

Awesome update. Those hordes gave me nightmares lmao

Wait im confused,this is only a version right?
The Main game is not yet released right?
Im confused :P

Thanks!

Gamerdoof a dit :

Wait im confused,this is only a version right?
The Main game is not yet released right?
Im confused :P

This is Alpha so it's for people to test the game out, the full game is NOT out.

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Does this mean that now there will be new testers?
*cough*

OMG ITS DDED

Good job

It sounds good

I want to play :(