Hello again! I've still been working a lot on Hit Me, Bartender! and a sizable update has been released. I forgot the free weekend was happening today, so I've put out all the changes I thought would be good as a first impression for a lot of new players. 

There's been lot of fundamental issues with this project due to the nature of it being developed in mostly two weeks. I've been trying to fix some issues at their root, and I must say, things are looking better! 

Opponents were very, very stupid, both logic and gameplay wise. I didn't use a state machine for them at all, and neither did the player, most changes were just been bolted on over time. 

Enemy AI has been mostly rewritten and now uses a "proper" state machine (don't hold me to that) which has helped achieve the following: 

I haven't tested this as much as I've wanted to, either way it's a much improved first impression for new players checking out the game over the free weekend.

The fighting system was already fun but definitely isn't perfect. Attacks were hard to react to, with not much of a tell before they've triggered. 

Here's what I've changed regarding that: 

Multiplayer is definitely still half-baked for now, but I've done a few things to help smooth it out:

The gameplay loop for runs was extremely simple and didn't have much to it. I've been doing a lot of research and note taking when it comes to the roguelike genre to try and learn a bit more about it. I'm definitely not the most knowledgeable, but now I have a slightly better idea of what might work, and what won't. 

This new iteration is still very far from how I want it, but I think it's an improvement for now, until the next major update at least. (Hopefully!)  

Everyone dislikes the tutorial and it really shows. Half of players quit within the first 5 minutes, that sucks! I'm trying my best to make the first 10 minutes as enjoyable as possible when you first try the game, this is what I'm trying so far:

 

I really don't know what I'm doing, so the next major update might be split into smaller patches before getting a a proper news post. I really want to make the game look a lot better seeing as it's the first one I've published. The animations are hacked together from the citizen, no new models have been made since the initial release, and all the sounds still suck. I want to do a lot of new stuff soon, like: 

I won't rush out any more patches without doing more extensive testing in the future, it was very stressful to try and finish this update in a timely manner and I don't want to do that again. Thank you to everyone for playing my game, see you in the next news post!