This is the first full week of sprint 32 and we have a lot planned for the next 30 days. Our main focus will be finishing up player persistence and polishing current features for our first set of test players right around the corner. We’ll be adding better player communications, a few more drone improvements, a crash logging system, and build out 8 more world spaces before we let the first group of testers trickle in. The goal is to have the features and systems in place to support a multiplayer experience that can keep a player engaged for an extended period of time. You can read about the sprint 32 specifics and all of our previous sprints on our Dev Updates page.
Everyone knows that a vital part of the development process is frequent play testing to find bugs and work out the kinks. Usually those bugs are annoying or break something in the game, but occasionally you find a gem, and we found one this week. While we were running around, causing each other grief, and banging on the game systems, we discovered that throwing cooked meat at someone’s head was not only annoying, it was down right deadly.
In no time, everyone was cooking meat as fast as they could, not wanting to fall behind in the Lahaina loin race. The air was buzzing with hurled proteins as we shot our own version of “The Deadliest Cutlet”. In the end, some good people were lost and lots of food lay bloodied on the ground. While it was one of the most memorable and dangerous food fights many of us had seen, it was ultimately decided that a pork chop to the face should do less damage than a hatchet.
When we weren’t clobbering each other with meat, we finished adding a little polish to our procedural foliage and road systems ahead of doing an audio pass over the entire map. The play area will sound great soon, but it is already looking terrific as you can see below.
Lastly, your time to win a XFX AMD Radeon RX 570 RS 8GB in our giveaway is almost up. The contest ends February 13th so don’t miss your chance! There are multiple ways to enter including joining the Fractured Veil discord server, and reserving your player name
