Backer Alpha Patch #4 - Shrine

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59 days ago by Tundra
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Shrines, Cults, Overseer

Greetings Commander,

In today's update we are introducing Shrines. Shrines allow you to pledge allegiance to a specific faction, enhancing the chances of encountering friendly crew from that faction as you progress through your journey. Whether you're seeking to strengthen your bonds with the Empire, the Cult of Blood, or another faction, Shrines add a new layer of immersion and strategy to your decisions.

In addition to Shrines, this patch introduces two new ships built on the Overseer hull class, favored by the Cult of Blood. These psyker-focused ships harness Ariokine psychomancy. In other words, they fight with blood magic. 

We've also made some minor bug fixes and balance tweaks, though the number of fixes in this patch is relatively small. Rest assured, we’ll be focusing on addressing the backlog of bug reports in the next patch.


Version Number: Alpha 0.0.4

New Content

  • New player ship: Overseer A
  • New player ship: Overseer B
  • New node type: Shrines

Balance Changes

  • Adjustments to Hull Reaper
  • Reduced demon heart repair rate

Stability

  • Fixed crash in war cult fighting empire encounter
  • Fixed one case of the "Return to Stations" button crash

Gameplay 

  • Fixed bug with "damage reduced per shield pierced" stat not applying to system damage
  • Fixed bug with vault reward not spawning if you recall too soon after damaging it

Visual 

  • Adjusted the way crew are displayed on the Victory screen
  • Fixed bug with Utmost Vanquished tooltip in the difficulty dropdown

Sound Bugs

  • Removed heal SFX for crew with the "cannot rest" debuff

Typos

  • Fixed typos in sorcerers and demon creature encounter


How to Install the Patch

If you have already bought the game, you can install the latest patch by following these instructions:

  • At the top right corner of the Itch page, next to your username, click the "down" arrow to open the dropdown menu, then click "My Library".

  • Find Void War in your library and click the "Download" button.

  • That's it! You now have the latest version of the game. Your save data will carry through automatically.* You can delete the old version of the game whenever you want.

*For those curious, your save data is not stored with the main game files and is actually located here: C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\Void_War

Files

Void War - Backer Alpha v0.0.4.zip 170 MB
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Dak Darklighter57 days ago (1 edit)

Planning on picking this up soon (pre-steam) as it looks awesome from what I've seen on YouTube. I really hope this can get steam deck verified as well once you get it up on steam. I would love to play this on the go. Keep up the great work!

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Rogue Rat58 days ago(+1)

Hey devs, really looking forward to playing this at some point soon! Is it okay to make videos for my youtube channel?

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Themeepster2626@gmail.com58 days ago

Hi I have really been enjoying the game, but when I try to download the update it says there is a virus.  When I got into the options it says there is a trojan horse virus.  Is this my anti-virus just being weird?  It is just the windows defender that comes with Windows 10 so it wouldn't surprise me if it is.  Has anyone else had this problem?

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Tundra58 days ago

That is odd. Could be something weird with your anti-virus. Void War was built and compiled in a very popular existing engine for indie games (Game Maker Studio) so it really shouldn't trip any anti-virus warnings. So far no one else has reported anything like this yet.

We will keep an eye on this. If you figure out a solution, let us know!

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Themeepster2626@gmail.com58 days ago(+1)

Hi, I downloaded malwarebytes and it didn't see anything, so I am guessing it is my antivirus.

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Xmarksthespot0159 days ago

I just want to say I love this game and the 40k-esque world you've got going on here.
I'm currently having an issue with my game that crashed and now I can't play. Every time I try to boot the game up it gives me this message:
___________________________________________

############################################################################################

ERROR in

action number 1

of Create Event

for object oInitGlobals:

JSON parse error

at gml_Script_load_json

############################################################################################

gml_Script_load_json (line -1)

gml_Script_vs_loadProfile

gml_Object_oInitGlobals_Create_0

I've got no clue what's going on and don't know how to fix this issue that makes the game unplayable. :(

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Tundra59 days ago (3 edits)

Hello! Glad you're enjoying the game! The easiest way to fix this is to delete your profile and reboot the game. Note that you will lose your ship and commander unlock progress if you do this.

Your profile.sav file can be found here: 
C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\Void_War

If you don't want to lose your progress or if the above method does not work, feel free to join our Discord and post a bug report. You can include your profile.sav file in the bug report and I'll see what I can do to fix it. The Discord invite link is at the bottom right corner of the main menu.

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