Why Early Access? “We believe we need to involve the community in the development of the game, and what better way is there than to put Tainted Fate into your hands.
We've been working on Tainted Fate so long, we're not sure we clearly see the areas of the game we need to improve the most. That's where you come in. Based on player feedback we'll tweak and improve the game.” Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access? “Two to six months.” How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?
“It will be more polished. We're planning more modes (challenge arenas, new game+, endless mode), more replay value, Steam achievements, less bugs, better performance, better visuals, animations and sounds. The boss fights will be enlarged in scope and have multiple tiers. Especially the final boss fight in which we plan to invest a lot of time. Today's games often have anticlimactic endings and we want to fix that by having an epic boss fight that's practically a whole level for itself.” What is the current state of the Early Access version? “The Early Access version has the full story campaign. There are lots of bugs, the AI is not at a level we're satisfied with, we need to do a final performance optimization pass so we can target lower end hardware than in early access.
We need to balance the game for the player to truly have the option to untangle any situation in his way (chaos, stealth, mixed). We also need to tweak the difficulty curve to be fun but still challenging to the player.” Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access? “Based on player feedback, we may raise the price for the full release of the game.” How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process? “We're not a big publisher who will stay silent after we throw the game into the player's hands. We're a small indie team that's not afraid to reply to your reviews and criticisms and, most importantly, take them into account and improve the game based on them.”.
29 October Get ready for Tainted Fate's biggest update yet and just in time for Halloween! (Obviously our favorite day of the year.) In the two months since the last update we focused on improving the graphics and overall look of the game, we've added new gameplay features, dismemberment gates, new ways to tear apart enemies (sharp objects, yay!), blood stains, we've started the final boss fight overhaul, new levels and bug fixes and other things we forgot to mention.
Don't like reading? Here's a short video showing off some of the stuff in this update. Double Texture Size We have enabled the highest setting for textures that were lowered in production and have created new higher res versions of textures that were already at their highest setting. Every single object and creature in the game is now two times sharper when viewed up close (and you do that a lot in VR). 1080p comparison sreenshots: We changed the textures section of the settings menu to have three options: Low (this was Medium in previous update), Medium (this was High in previous update) and High (new setting). New background vistas on many levels In VR one of the most visually stunning things you can see is environments stretching far out into the distance.
While the island in tainted fate has some locations where the vistas are impressive, the hell levels were all just floating islands with not much around them. That has bothered us for a long time and we decided the hell levels need environments around them to feel like a real place and not a video game level made only for the sake of gameplay. (we added this in the previous update and forgot to mention it because we're kinda slow!).
Dismemberment Gates Dismemberment Gates are Tainted Fate's new gameplay feature to make the dismemberment system have more use than just making enemies die. The player must tear apart enemies and put torn off body parts into their corresponding holes in the Gates. When all the body parts have been set the gates open and allow the player to continue. We have a few different gates; some require just one enemy to be torn apart, some require a whole group of different enemy types to be slaughtered and ripped apart and placed into the Gates. Expect to find dismemberment gates throughout the story campaign.
New ways to dismember (on the road towards Dismemberment System 3.0) Surprise! As promised, we've started adding new ways to dismember. The first one of these is cutting off body parts with sharp objects. If you happen to find an axe, or maybe a shovel, or if you're really lucky, a chainsaw - you can cut off enemy's body parts with it and feel like a slasher horror villain. Throw an axe at an enemy's head to split it open. Or grab him and start cutting away.
Or place the axe on a table and throw an enemy on it like a real surgeon would. Sweep an enemy off his feet with a chainsaw like in the best romance novels.
Hold a chainsaw in front of you and wait for enemies to run into it because the AI sucks. The choice is yours. New levels 02HellJobAdditional: After the first level there is now a level introducing the dismemberment gate gameplay feature. You get to see some hellish sculptures on the way. 11CatacombsAdditonal: There is a new catacombs level that starts after you finish the old catacombs level. In this one there is a giant cavern with a dismemberment gate in the middle. 19BossIntro: There is now a final boss intro level where Baal throws his giant flaming balls at you while you jump from platform to platform trying not to get killed by Ball's balls.
Logo vista lago vista logo vista logo vista 2018. His balls hurt. They're not blue tho. They are, in fact, orange.
(this level was introduced in the previous Puzzles Galore Update but we forgot to mention it!). About This Game BE THE HORRORMassacre those who wish to orchestrate your destiny. Dismember any living being. Spawn your minions to aid you in your quest for blood. DEMONIC ABILITIESGrab enemies and tear their limbs off.
Spawn your minions to take the heat off you or spawn critters that blow up on contact. Teleport into enemies for an instant kill.
Throw explosive objects into crowds of enemies. Slow down time for extra precision while dismembering enemies or throwing objects.
Mix and match abilities for wild combos resulting in a spectacle of blood and flying body parts. NO HUD VR games should have a minimal HUD with as little text and as few numbers as possible sticking to your face. That's why Tainted Fate has no HUD at all. The ability you have selected is visible through your hands. The colors fade as you take more damage. Haptic feedback, visual and audio cues help immerse you into the world of Tainted Fate. EPIC BOSS FIGHTS Bosses the size of a building?
Multiple ways to defeat them? Gain their abilities after the fight? Chop off their heads, jump down their neck, make a stew out of their guts and exit through their poop hole? PLETHORA OF LOCOMOTION AND GRAPHICS OPTIONSYou are new to VR or get sick easily? Use teleportation.
You're a VR veteran and want free walking for smooth locomotion? We got you covered. You don't want to turn around in the real world and want to play sitting in a sofa like our lazy developers? Use the front facing mode. Depending on whether you use a Rift, Vive or Windows MR headset, the game dynamically changes the tutorials and in-game images to correspond to your headset and chosen locomotion system. Have a beast of a PC and want all the SSAOs and dynamic shadows and blooms so strong your eyes melt from all the glow?
Still got you covered. Want to play at a rock solid 90fps on your sensibly built rig or laptop? Turn them graphics down, son. ENGAGING STORY Tainted Fate does not take itself too seriously. It's a game in which you are a demon that yells inappropriate one liners at his enemies, but don't be deceived by the shallowness of the protagonist. The story and characters have depth. You are Decarabia.
A demon with almost nothing to lose. Even your body has been taken away by the higher-ups. Left with nothing but your hands, you will use them to gain back your powers and get revenge on those who have wronged you on your path of carnage. NOT YOUR GRANDMA'S INDIE GAMEWe're an indie team. We can do things developers who have publishers can't. In Tainted Fate you will experience chopping off people's heads in guillotines, fountains of blood pouring out of dismembered limbs, swearing, offensive dry humor, inappropriate jokes.