- Klepto 0.1.15 Update and Dev Blog - 2 September 2017
Hi All! It's an update!!!! :D Sorry its been awhile but we have been working behind the scenes on some things. The pace has been very slow but we do have some progress to show. The previous timetables on updates can be thrown away. Right now we're focused on integrating the new lobby system and slowly squashing multiplayer bugs so we have a better base to go from when we implement Cops vs Robbers. 0.1.15 includes the new lobby system for multiplayer. In addition we made some improvements to better support 4 theives in multiplayer co-op. The van now supports a driver and up to 3 passengers. Players will no longer randomly spawn on the opposite side of the map. In addition, we've implemented the new van interior in the menus. We also have some great previews to share of the upcoming high-income Oak Crest neighborhood. Our lead level designer Apothis has been doing a killer job and it's co…
- Klepto 0.1.15 Update and Dev Blog - 2 September 2017
Hi All! It's an update!!!! :D Sorry its been awhile but we have been working behind the scenes on some things. The pace has been very slow but we do have some progress to show. The previous timetables on updates can be thrown away. Right now we're focused on integrating the new lobby system and slowly squashing multiplayer bugs so we have a better base to go from when we implement Cops vs Robbers. 0.1.15 includes the new lobby system for multiplayer. In addition we made some improvements to better support 4 theives in multiplayer co-op. The van now supports a driver and up to 3 passengers. Players will no longer randomly spawn on the opposite side of the map. In addition, we've implemented the new van interior in the menus. We also have some great previews to share of the upcoming high-income Oak Crest neighborhood. Our lead level designer Apothis has been doing a killer job and it's co…
- New Test Patch on Beta Branch - 31 March 2017
Hi Everyone! Thanks for your patience since our last update. We've been hard at work doing some optimization and multiplayer bug squashing. We just uploaded our next test patch to the beta branch and would love to get some feedback. Here are the areas of focus. Optimization - We've gone through and compelted a major optimization pass on all of our games textures. We've pulled nearly 2GB...yes, that's GB, of texture memory out of some of the neighbohoods and reduced the entire game install size by about 1.5GB. This will hopefully help with some loading times for some systems. Multiplayer Bugs - We focused on multiplayer bugs relating to the van in this patch. Most of the user videos we've seen, as entertaining as they were, showed bugs relating to entering and exiting the van. We have reworked the van passenger code and it should hopefully be a much more stable experience now as you're g…
- New Test Patch on Beta Branch - 31 March 2017
Hi Everyone! Thanks for your patience since our last update. We've been hard at work doing some optimization and multiplayer bug squashing. We just uploaded our next test patch to the beta branch and would love to get some feedback. Here are the areas of focus. Optimization - We've gone through and compelted a major optimization pass on all of our games textures. We've pulled nearly 2GB...yes, that's GB, of texture memory out of some of the neighbohoods and reduced the entire game install size by about 1.5GB. This will hopefully help with some loading times for some systems. Multiplayer Bugs - We focused on multiplayer bugs relating to the van in this patch. Most of the user videos we've seen, as entertaining as they were, showed bugs relating to entering and exiting the van. We have reworked the van passenger code and it should hopefully be a much more stable experience now as you're g…
- Patch 0.1.14 Release Notes - 28 January 2017
Hi Everyone, We just posted another patch a few hours ago. This patch features some more van improvements with a brand new re-designed dash. The new dash, aside from looking a whole lot better, will also now dynamically update for things such as your tuned radio station, dash light brightness depending on your headlights or high beams, engine trouble indicators for less than stellar driving, door open/close states, a working speedometer and animated shifter. We also fixed raindrop particles disappearing when entering the van during a storm. We'll also be improving the cop car dash in preparation for our cops vs robbers multiplayer game mode in a future patch. We hope you enjoy the additional van improvements!
- Patch 0.1.14 Release Notes - 28 January 2017
Hi Everyone, We just posted another patch a few hours ago. This patch features some more van improvements with a brand new re-designed dash. The new dash, aside from looking a whole lot better, will also now dynamically update for things such as your tuned radio station, dash light brightness depending on your headlights or high beams, engine trouble indicators for less than stellar driving, door open/close states, a working speedometer and animated shifter. We also fixed raindrop particles disappearing when entering the van during a storm. We'll also be improving the cop car dash in preparation for our cops vs robbers multiplayer game mode in a future patch. We hope you enjoy the additional van improvements!
- Klepto 0.1.13a Hotfix - 10 January 2017
Hi Everyone, We've just posted a hotfix to address an issue with loading Fragbound Farms. Players should no longer encounter a grey screen after the neighborhood loads.
- Klepto 0.1.13a Hotfix - 10 January 2017
Hi Everyone, We've just posted a hotfix to address an issue with loading Fragbound Farms. Players should no longer encounter a grey screen after the neighborhood loads.
- Klepto 0.1.13 Patch - 6 January 2017
Hey Kleptomaniacs! We've just posted our latest patch. This includes an updated game engine so it will be a full download for you this time. Here's what's inside: -new game engine, this includes optimized netcode which eliminates replication calls for unchanged data, this means less traffic being transmitted and better performance -improved virtual cursor in desktop main menu and in game tablet, the cursor is now contained within the screen and you won't see a floating cursor that extends beyond the screen or tablet -van roll prevention, it is no longer possible for the van to roll over and remain on its side or upside-down, it will now roll back and correct itself -direct x 10 support has been added -the game can now launch outside of the steam client and still connect to the steam api That's all for now. Our work continues on the new cops vs robbers multiplayer game mode and the first…
- Klepto 0.1.13 Patch - 6 January 2017
Hey Kleptomaniacs! We've just posted our latest patch. This includes an updated game engine so it will be a full download for you this time. Here's what's inside: -new game engine, this includes optimized netcode which eliminates replication calls for unchanged data, this means less traffic being transmitted and better performance -improved virtual cursor in desktop main menu and in game tablet, the cursor is now contained within the screen and you won't see a floating cursor that extends beyond the screen or tablet -van roll prevention, it is no longer possible for the van to roll over and remain on its side or upside-down, it will now roll back and correct itself -direct x 10 support has been added -the game can now launch outside of the steam client and still connect to the steam api That's all for now. Our work continues on the new cops vs robbers multiplayer game mode and the first…
- Dev Blog - 01.02.17 - 2 January 2017
Happy New Year Kleptomaniacs! We hope the holiday has treated you well and you've been enjoying the steam winter sale. Now that vacations are ending and we're getting back into the swing of things we thought it would be the perfect time you give you an update of where things are with Klepto. We're still hard at work getting ready for our alpha 0.2.0 release. It hasn't gone as fast as we hoped but we are making steady progress. Our Oldtown redesign is just about done and our core gameplay for the cops vs robbers game mode is in place. Right now we are working out our scoring system and our functionality on the different ways we'll be ending a multiplayer round. Our level designer Apothis has taken the jump into mansion design for our high-end neighborhood! This won't be in the initial 0.2.0 update but work has begun for this neighborhood. Our 3D artist Alex has also been hard at work on…
- Dev Blog - 01.02.17 - 2 January 2017
Happy New Year Kleptomaniacs! We hope the holiday has treated you well and you've been enjoying the steam winter sale. Now that vacations are ending and we're getting back into the swing of things we thought it would be the perfect time you give you an update of where things are with Klepto. We're still hard at work getting ready for our alpha 0.2.0 release. It hasn't gone as fast as we hoped but we are making steady progress. Our Oldtown redesign is just about done and our core gameplay for the cops vs robbers game mode is in place. Right now we are working out our scoring system and our functionality on the different ways we'll be ending a multiplayer round. Our level designer Apothis has taken the jump into mansion design for our high-end neighborhood! This won't be in the initial 0.2.0 update but work has begun for this neighborhood. Our 3D artist Alex has also been hard at work on…
- 0.1.12b Hotifx - 1 December 2016
We just posted a small hotfix to fix an issue with users having problems exiting the van. Players were getting stuck in the van if they tried to exit while still moving. They got permanently stuck in the van even after coming to a complete stop. This issue has now been fixed. Stay tuned for future updates!
- 0.1.12b Hotifx - 1 December 2016
We just posted a small hotfix to fix an issue with users having problems exiting the van. Players were getting stuck in the van if they tried to exit while still moving. They got permanently stuck in the van even after coming to a complete stop. This issue has now been fixed. Stay tuned for future updates!
- Alpha 0.1.12 Release Notes - 19 November 2016
http://i.imgur.com/EocTFFx.jpg Alpha 0.1.12 is now available! Happy Belated Release Notes Day! We went live with Alpha 0.1.12 a couple of days ago but we’ve been running behind on getting these release notes posted. Details below: General FOV fix when raising / lowering tablet Fix for pedestrians standing inside each other Fix for getting stuck when arrested while inside van House Fix: House 830 in Murky Meadows back slide door inaccessible Various texture fixes Fix for spamming jump key to escape level barrier Fixed collision issues on leaning fences Fixed collision on meth lab’s tanker trailer VR Fixed the frequent HMD position/orientation resets caused by cars spawning into the level No more ghost cars. Drivers are now in cars when playing in VR mode Now that UE 4.14 has released, we’ll be focusing our attention on getting the project migrated over to take advantage of some added VR…
- Alpha 0.1.12 Release Notes - 19 November 2016
http://i.imgur.com/EocTFFx.jpg Alpha 0.1.12 is now available! Happy Belated Release Notes Day! We went live with Alpha 0.1.12 a couple of days ago but we’ve been running behind on getting these release notes posted. Details below: General FOV fix when raising / lowering tablet Fix for pedestrians standing inside each other Fix for getting stuck when arrested while inside van House Fix: House 830 in Murky Meadows back slide door inaccessible Various texture fixes Fix for spamming jump key to escape level barrier Fixed collision issues on leaning fences Fixed collision on meth lab’s tanker trailer VR Fixed the frequent HMD position/orientation resets caused by cars spawning into the level No more ghost cars. Drivers are now in cars when playing in VR mode Now that UE 4.14 has released, we’ll be focusing our attention on getting the project migrated over to take advantage of some added VR…
- Alpha 0.1.11 Release Notes - 5 November 2016
http://i.imgur.com/WaTV074.jpg Alpha 0.1.11 is now available! General This is a minor update containing the new house LODs for Murky Meadows (Fragbound Farms is still in progress). For the further LODs, these changes include a new single material low-poly version of houses to help reduce the amount of draw calls for better CPU optimization. Before http://i.imgur.com/Oc3tOJQ.jpg After http://i.imgur.com/KXgdcvd.jpg For the closer LODs we've added the new parallax effect window materials. We've also moved the porch lights and mailboxes into the persistent level so these items will no longer "pop in" when house interiors are loaded. http://i.imgur.com/LqV7NTz.gif We've also increased render distances and foliage LOD distances for the "Epic" graphics setting for render quality. This visual improvement may have a negative impact to your system's performance. This change can also be toggled u…
- Alpha 0.1.11 Release Notes - 5 November 2016
http://i.imgur.com/WaTV074.jpg Alpha 0.1.11 is now available! General This is a minor update containing the new house LODs for Murky Meadows (Fragbound Farms is still in progress). For the further LODs, these changes include a new single material low-poly version of houses to help reduce the amount of draw calls for better CPU optimization. Before http://i.imgur.com/Oc3tOJQ.jpg After http://i.imgur.com/KXgdcvd.jpg For the closer LODs we've added the new parallax effect window materials. We've also moved the porch lights and mailboxes into the persistent level so these items will no longer "pop in" when house interiors are loaded. http://i.imgur.com/LqV7NTz.gif We've also increased render distances and foliage LOD distances for the "Epic" graphics setting for render quality. This visual improvement may have a negative impact to your system's performance. This change can also be toggled u…
- Dev Blog 10.26.2016 - 26 October 2016
http://i.imgur.com/Gj7YgbE.jpg Alpha 0.1.x As mentioned in the recent Alpha 0.1.10 Patch Notes we’ll be scaling down on the weekly patch activity for the next few weeks as we put a greater amount of focus in finishing up everything for Alpha 0.2.0. However, game breaking bugs will always have our top priority so be sure to continue reporting these on our Bug Tracker. Alpha 0.1.11 will likely be released sometime next week. This will contain some of the house rendering improvements detailed below along with some new error handling logic to aid us in investigating some multiplayer session join failures that seem to frequently occur during an initial join attempt. Rendering Improvements In a continued effort to improve the transition between level streaming volumes used to contain all of our house interiors, Nate has created a fantastic 2D texture with a parallax effect making it appear 3D…
- Dev Blog 10.26.2016 - 26 October 2016
http://i.imgur.com/Gj7YgbE.jpg Alpha 0.1.x As mentioned in the recent Alpha 0.1.10 Patch Notes we’ll be scaling down on the weekly patch activity for the next few weeks as we put a greater amount of focus in finishing up everything for Alpha 0.2.0. However, game breaking bugs will always have our top priority so be sure to continue reporting these on our Bug Tracker. Alpha 0.1.11 will likely be released sometime next week. This will contain some of the house rendering improvements detailed below along with some new error handling logic to aid us in investigating some multiplayer session join failures that seem to frequently occur during an initial join attempt. Rendering Improvements In a continued effort to improve the transition between level streaming volumes used to contain all of our house interiors, Nate has created a fantastic 2D texture with a parallax effect making it appear 3D…
