Alpha 17: Search and Chase

Greetings Hunters!

The donnerlab team wishes everyone a healthy and fortunate year 2021.

Our first Update this year is small in size, but brings a new fun gamemode to try out, called:

Search and Chase

This is our first (lite) team based mode and will replace bountyboss. One round is divided in two phases:

• Search (all hunters are teamed)
  • Everyone looks for the bounty cube. As soon as someone picks it up or the timer runs out the next phase begins
• Chase (1 thief vs X hunters)
  • The thief who picked up the bounty cube (or a random player, if the timer ran out) gets extra hp and is teamed against all other hunters
  • If the timer runs out, the thief wins, and gets all of the sats
  • If the thief is killed the hunters win and all sats are equally shared

In our internal playtests we had a lot of fun, however the balancing of hp and time is not easy, especially on the different maps.

Some minor changes:

• reverted paid bounty changes (payments increase on bounty again)
• minor bugfixes

Roadmap

Starting this week we will try to release bi-weekly updates again!

We know that there are some pretty big bugs and crashes which hinder enjoyment (especially during high stakes Mintgox tournaments) and will focus on try fixing those first. Afterwards we will focus on reworking our shooting/weapons systems and add more gamemodes maps.

Furthermore we are currently in the process of rewriting our backend / gameserver manager code, which will allow for community hosted servers soon.

Our payments platform is also undergoing some change to increase pay out experience.

Also our alpha game-sdk will be available end of Q1 this year, so contact us if youre a game developer!