Greetings, Slayers!

The Early Access Launch of Bloodshed is right around the corner; there are only 2 days left until December 12. So, it's definitely about time for you to prepare for what awaits you with our retro-styled Roguelite Survivors FPS!

You can of course still try the demo, or read the following summary of what to expect with Bloodshed in two days. Or do both! Anyways, this is the Early Access launch of Bloodshed in a nutshell:

• Immerse yourself in a first-person shooter experience set within a haunting, gothic-horror realm, overrun by relentless undead and demonic entities, presented in a vibrant retro-inspired boomer shooter visual style.
  
• Choose from a cast of four unique playable characters, each equipped with their own arsenal of clever quips, distinct abilities, and tailored playstyles to cater to every player's preference (more charters will follow during Early Access).
  
• Experience a fresh and challenging gameplay loop that fuses Roguelite Elements with classic FPS action, to make every session feel unique and unpredictable.
  
• Engage in visceral combat across four maps, facing off against endless waves of over 20 distinct enemy types, from swarming minions to formidable bosses, each with their own strategic behaviors and attacks.
  
• Choose the innovative auto-shooting mode for effortless firing, or take control with classic manual shooting for a more hands-on experience.
  
• Unlock and upgrade an arsenal of weapons, spells and skills, empowering you to craft personalized strategies and playstyles that suit your gaming approach.
  
• Explore the dark mystery of the Cult while completing a variety of objectives, unlocking new content and features, and diving even deeper into their world.
  
• Persistent upgrades and a continuous progression system ensure that even in death, you emerge as a more fearsome survivor ready for the next challenge.
  
• Enjoy the retro-inspired pixel art style, smooth movement mechanics, and an immersive soundtrack.
  
• Fully compatible with either keyboard and mouse or controllers (complete with rumble effects), featuring customizable control schemes to match your preferred playstyle.
  
• Plus, earn Steam Achievements that reward your skill and dedication, adding an extra layer of accomplishment to your journey.

That's it! That's the current state of Bloodshed for the Early Access launch. But this is just the beginning: over the next months we will be adding more content to Bloodshed according to the Early Access Roadmap below and improving the game based on your feedback! This is what the following months will look like:

If you want to give us any feedback please do so in the comments, in the Steam Community Hub, or on our Discord channel[discord.com]. That would really help us a lot!

Talk to you again really soon!
com8com1 Software & Headup


https://store.steampowered.com/app/2747550/Bloodshed/

Happy Friday, Slayers!

We announced it twice, but did not deliver yet. Shame on us! But after almost 16k demo players and tons of videos, postings and comments, we're finally getting started: let's talk about feedback and criticism we have received from all of you for our Bloodshed demo. But first of all: thank you for playing the demo and being so responsive!

We have divided the feedback into three categories: content, balancing, and general bugfixes and improvements. Here we go:


So, when it comes to content, the most frequently mentioned feedback is: “We want more”. And we hear you! After all, you've only played a demo so far, and there will of course be more content for the Early Access release on December 12! More player characters, more missions, more maps, more enemies, bigger enemies, more weapons. Overall: more variation!

• Additional player characters
  
• Additional missions and maps
  
• More than 10 brand-new enemies for more variation
  
• Several bigger enemies
  
• A boss enemy and boss level
  
• More Weapons
  
• More Feature Unlocks, including damage numbers display
  
• Steam Achievements
  
• Additional music tracks and sound effects

What we've recognized the most from your feedback when it comes to balancing is, that very little players used the melee weapons. And that's why we decided to overall improve the melee weapons system: the effects have been redesigned, the weapons can now inflict temporary status effects, and feature area damage! Besides that, we improved the overall gameplay balancing and difficulty level for a more challenging gameplay experience as many players felt underchallenged.

• Stronger and improved Melee Weapons system:
  
  1. Effects of melee weapons have been redesigned
     
  2. Melee weapons can now inflict temporary status effects
     
  3. Now feature area damage for hitting multiple enemies with a single strike
• Improved XP collection by adding levelable ability “Attraction” to the game
  
• Improved overall difficulty level for a more challenging gameplay experience
  
• Improved overall gameplay balancing

The demo we published back in October was still early, and a lot has changed and improved since: many of the UI elements were still placeholders and have been replaced; just like the placeholder voiceovers from the demo (we'll tell you which voice actors we were able to secure for Bloodshed soon!). Performance has also been optimized and a system has been installed with which you can remove certain items from the level-up menu selection for the current run.

• Demo placeholder voiceovers replaced by first voiceovers for player characters
  
• Mission Start UI has been completely redesigned
  
• Icons for Passive Abilities have been redesigned
  
• Added several options for post effect adjustments
  
• Improved blood and splatter effects
  
• Improved enemy AI, enemy targeting and collisions
  
• Added an option to remove certain items from the level-up menu selection for the current run
  
• Added additional trackable statistics for the statistics menu
  
• Playable characters now each have their individual number of available weapon, spell and ability slots and each character has different categories of usable items
  
• Implementation of some initial performance optimizations

As you can see, we've made good use of the time since the demo was released! And we want to thank you once more for sharing so much constructive feedback and ideas for Bloodshed! Oh, and so much love! We are really blown away by with how positively Bloodshed has been received by you.

And we want to build on this to make Bloodshed the best possible gaming experience together with you in Early Access!

And now have a restful weekend everyone!

Talk to you again really soon!
com8com1 Software & Headup


https://store.steampowered.com/app/2747550/Bloodshed/