Devlog - Next Fest Learnings

Devlog

In addition to news and cool videos, we also post articles with general development updates, giving you some insight in our process and allowing you to follow our journey in building this awesome game.

Next Fest Feedback

Oh boy, there were so many demos during Next Fest. Despite this fact, we're still happy that several thousands of you have played (and hopefully enjoyed) our demo. We're happy to have you on-board for the ride.

Let's cut to the chase. There's a few important things we've learned just from your feedback;

• Difficulty was too high, especially when playing solo.

• UX needs improvement, as some players didn't understand how to open their inventory.

• Aliens attacking the prototype weapon is experienced as too much of a punishment.

• Mission objectives weren't perfectly clear to some players.

Fortunately, the team has made a lot of progress! We've decided to update the demo (soon). You can expect the following changes to be present;

• Balance - Reduced the amount of energy required to charge the weapon to 100%

• Balance - Reduced the maximum amount of energy a player can carry

• Balance - Tweaked amount of enemies in drop-pod and infestation scenarios

• Balance - Reduced the amount of energy the prototype weapon loses with each attack

• Balance - Increased the amount of health and shields when players are revived

• Feature - Aliens will now get alerted when you fire near them

• Feature - Aliens will now attack multiple players more equally

• Feature - Aliens will find a new target when a player is incapacitated

• Feature - Aliens are now able to guard an area (triggering a wave when attacked)

• Feature - Aliens are now knocked back by nearby explosions

• Feature - Added fading effect when entering or exiting buildings

• Feature - Added loot boxes to encourage exploration

• Improvement - Dropped virtual cursor for controller navigation

• Improvement - New flashlight to improve CPU and GPU load

• Improvement - Alien CPU performance has improved

• Improvement - Several particle effects have been updated

• Improvement - Aliens will no longer attack & move at the same time

There are a few items (features) that are still t.b.d. so the final list might have a few additional items.

If you want to help out, there's a couple of things you can do;

1. Help build hype, tell your friends about From Space

2. Wishlist us on Steam, if you haven't done so already

3. Follow us on Twitter, Instagram or Tiktok

4. Join our Discord server