- TACTICAL BANDITS IS OUT NOW - 25 July 2024
We have did it, TACTICAL BANDITS is officially available for you to shoot in RIGHT NOW!! We hope you enjoy the game, and leave us a review if you enjoyed it!! Bugs and Feedback We will be watching the Steam discussion for feedback and any bugs that we may have missed. You can always contact us on Discord if there is something urgent, or if you want a friendly chat.
- Release Date Announcement - 12 July 2024
We're thrilled to announce that TACTICAL BANDITS will be officially launching on Steam on July 25, 2024! 🎮🌍 Get ready to dive into hardcore arcade action in a post-apocalyptic world. Scavenge for weapons, team up with friends, and survive relentless waves of enemies. With unique no-reload shooting mechanics and intense multiplayer modes, the battle for survival has never been more thrilling. 🗓️ Mark your calendars and add TACTICAL BANDITS to your wishlist now! 🗓️ Thank you for your support, and until next time, happy gaming!
- May 2024 TACTICAL BANDITS Update - 1 June 2024
Release Update Welcome to the final dev log update for TACTICAL BANDITS. No, the game has not been cancelled, but rather the opposite has happened... it has officially passed certification for all platforms! That’s right – Steam, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch, the game is ready to roll out. TACTICAL BANDITS successfully passed the rigorous certification process for Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and PC. This means the game has met all the technical and quality standards required to bring you a flawless gaming experience. We are now sorting out the final phase of preparing for the launch. This involves coordinating with platform holders to finalize release dates and ensuring a smooth rollout. In our next update we will include the official release date, and trust us, it is coming very soon! We are incredibly excited to finally share TACTICAL BANDITS with you all. Your patience and support has been a…
- April 2024 TACTICAL BANDITS Update - 30 April 2024
Porting Progress We're back with another quick update on the progress of bringing TACTICAL BANDITS to PC and consoles. Last month, we shared our excitement about the progress of the console ports, and we are thrilled to report that the development is right on track! We have been hard at work ensuring that TACTICAL BANDITS runs smoothly on both console platforms. From optimizing performance to fine-tuning controls, we are dedicated to delivering the best possible experience for console players. All this optimization is also helping ensure the final PC version runs better on lower-end systems. Adapting the user interface for console play has also been a priority. We want to ensure that the gameplay experience feels natural and intuitive, whether you're using a controller or a keyboard and mouse. We have also been rigorously testing the game on PC and consoles to iron out any bugs and ensu…
- March 2024 TACTICAL BANDITS Update - 1 April 2024
It's time for a quick update on the latest developments with TACTICAL BANDITS! While this month's progress report may be brief, rest assured, we've been hard at work behind the scenes to bring you an even more epic gaming experience. So, what's been happening? Well, we've been knee-deep in the process of porting TACTICAL BANDITS to different console platforms. Exciting stuff, right? We’re thrilled to announce that we've already successfully ported the game to one console, and it's currently undergoing some final checks to ensure everything runs smoothly. We’ve also kicked off the porting process for a second console platform. We’re making sure TACTICAL BANDITS is available to play on as many platforms as possible on launch date! Now, we know you're all dying to know which consoles we’re talking about here. Trust me, we’re just as eager to spill the beans! But hold onto your controllers…
- Retirement of TACTICAL BANDITS Demo - 10 March 2024
Just a quick update that we will be retiring the demo of TACTICAL BANDITS at the end of March 2024. The reasons behind this decision is that we want to focus all our resources on getting the game ready for release and leave some things that will be in the game under wraps. Players still have 3 weeks to download and try the demo. As always, we are always looking at what feedback players give us and see if it needs to be implemented in the game. For the players who already engaged with the demo, be assured that your feedback has been invaluable in shaping the final product. We are eager to showcase the culmination of our hard work with the release of TACTICAL BANDITS later this year.
- February 2024 TACTICAL BANDITS Update - 29 February 2024
TACTICAL BANDITS, and Make Good Games, now has a Discord server. You can join us on there as we post about TACTICAL BANDITS, other (unannounced) games that we are developing, or come and say hi to us! Steam Next Fest Stream TACTICAL BANDITS was streamed during Steam Next Fest by the artist on this game. For those of you who missed it, we have posted the video above. Dioramas Dioramas are fully implemented in the game, meaning the shop and collectibles menus are both complete. If you are not aware, dioramas are one of the items you can buy from the shop, and then you can either view them in the collectibles menu or they will be shown during the menus. The dioramas also tell the story of the game, about the player bandit going to the Last Settlement and finding what is really happening in the world. There are 12 dioramas to purchase, each telling its own unique moment of the story. Traini…
- Join the TACTICAL BANDITS Showcase and Q&A - 7 February 2024
Get ready for another exclusive sneak peek into the ravaged world of TACTICAL BANDITS! As part of Steam Next Fest, we will be hosting another event where you can watch our developers try to survive in our game again. Have we missed anything? Then ask us anything as we will be on-hand in chat to answer any question you might have about the game.
- January 2024 TACTICAL BANDITS Update - 31 January 2024
Steam Next Fest Dem In case you have missed our previous update, TACTICAL BANDITS will be taking part in Steam Next Fest February 2024 edition. Instead of waiting until then, we have decided to make the demo live a few weeks earlier. Apart from training mode, all of the game modes are unlocked and playable. They are all locked off after a certain amount of progress made as it is only a demo, and not the full release. Survivor Mode This is the game mode we have been teasing about for the past few months. Survivor mode is inspired by Vampire Survivors, but with a twist to make it fit with TACTICAL BANDITS gameplay. In Survivor mode, your goal is to survive for 20 minutes and get as many kills as possible to get the highest score. There is no aiming in this game mode as it is done automatically, which makes it a more casual gameplay compared to the other game modes. But to survive the 20 m…
- TACTICAL BANDITS Demo Unleashed Early for Steam Next Fest! - 24 January 2024
Prepare to dive into the post-apocalyptic chaos ahead of schedule! We're thrilled to announce that the TACTICAL BANDITS demo is now available for play, hit the wasteland with a vengeance, even before Steam Next Fest! Get a Sneak Peek Embark on a thrilling adventure as a Tactical Bandit, testing your skills in Singleplayer, Challenge, and Survivor mode, or engage in fierce versus battles against your friends or AI. The demo offers a taste of the intense action, unique shooting mechanics, and exciting combat that awaits you in the full game. Why Wait? Dive In Now Though initially planned for Steam Next Fest, we couldn't contain the excitement. The TACTICAL BANDITS demo is live and ready for you to scavenge, shoot, and survive. Download it on Steam today and be among the first to experience the reckoning before the fest even begins! Scavenge. Shoot. Survive. Download the Demo Today!
- Join the TACTICAL BANDITS Showcase and Q&A - 23 January 2024
Get ready for an exclusive sneak peek into the ravaged world of TACTICAL BANDITS! As part of Steam Next Fest in February, we will be hosting an event where you can watch one of our developers try to survive in our game. Have we missed anything? Then ask us anything as we will be on-hand in chat to answer any question you might have about the game. Can’t make it? Then don’t worry because tomorrow we will be making the demo live for everyone to try!
- December 2023 TACTICAL BANDITS Update - 30 December 2023
Achievements All the achievements have been created for TACTICAL BANDITS. There will be 20 of them for players to unlock, with a good mixture of challenge and grind-focused achievements. The achievements will be tracked internally in the game so players can check their progress at any time. There will also be achievements on other platforms if they support it. Porting Porting for the game has started for Nintendo Switch. So far, it is working but not as smoothly as we like. We are currently optimizing the code and 3D models without it affecting the gameplay. The goal is to get porting finished in the next few months. Summary This was a very short month regarding development of TACTICAL BANDITS due to the holidays. There has been good progress made with the porting and the collectibles menu, but the main focus has still been on the unannounced game mode. We are hoping to talk about this…
- November 2023 TACTICAL BANDITS Update - 1 December 2023
Leaderboards TACTICAL BANDITS now has global leaderboards via Steam. There are multiple leaderboards which tracking fastest completion times on singleplayer game mode, hardcore singleplayer game mode, and each challenge individually. There was going to be a leaderboard to track kills, but that was not very useful as it could be easily exploited due to players playing a specific game mode to rack up their kills. Another solution would have been to have leaderboards for kills for every game mode, but that would end up creating too many leaderboards itself. In the end, it was decided to not to implement these leaderboards. Leaderboards can be viewed on the leaderboards menu from the main menu, or they will be shown during singleplayer and challenge game modes in the pause and game over menus, so that players know at all times how well they are doing. For consoles there will be a different…
- October 2023 TACTICAL BANDITS Update - 1 November 2023
Enemies Enemies have had a revamp this month as they were not acting with any logic in certain situations. The first situation was primarily when an enemy saw a target, it would fire at them once they got in range and continue firing at them while the target stayed in range. The enemies did not take in consideration when the target went behind something solid (like a van) and just continued firing. This was a really bad experience as it could lead to players being trapped behind an object with continues fire and no chance of escape. This is now fixed with a simple check and enemies will only fire at targets if they are in range and nothing is blocking their shot. Another change we made to enemies was to make them return to their starting position if they saw a non-player target. This was an issue in bigger levels, such as the forest. Enemies might see a zombie, go after them, kill them,…
- September 2023 TACTICAL BANDITS Update - 3 October 2023
Door Colliders One of the most difficult design decisions in games... doors!! TACTICAL BANDITS had doors in the game for a long time, and we even tried to fix it last month. Turns out the fix did not fix it much, as players will still getting stuck while trying to walk through doors. The fix did help the AI understand how to use doors. So to ensure that players have the same understanding of doors as the AI, we decided to remove the colliders for them when they are open. This means that players can walk through open doors with much ease. This does ruin the immersion of the game, but the improvements to the gameplay makes this a worthy tradeoff. Hopefully this will be the last time we have to fix the doors. Kill Cam One thing we noticed in Versus (previously called Multiplayer) game modes is that players could not tell who had won when the game was over. The game did go into slow motion…
- August 2023 TACTICAL BANDITS Update - 3 September 2023
Language Support The language selection for TACTICAL BANDITS has now been finalized. There is currently placeholder text for all the languages, but at release TACTICAL BANDITS will have English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, and Korean support. This is a big list, and hopefully it will cover most players playing TACTICAL BANDITS. New Art We have updated the art and icons for TACTICAL BANDITS... again. We have been testing which one has been getting the best response from gamers, and the latest one is doing the best right now. Hopefully this will be the last time we will have to create new artwork, but never say never in game development. New Multiplayer Level ROAD RAGE ROAD RAGE is a new multiplayer level for death, stock, and hunted game modes. The level layout was designed to be as simple as possible to make it easy to navigat…
- TACTICAL BANDITS Will Be At BIC Festival 2023 - 13 August 2023
Come play TACTICAL BANDITS at BIC Festival 2023!! BIC Festival is Busan's premier games expo and this is the first time anyone will be able to try TACTICAL BANDITS in public. Come say hi, try the game, and maybe even grab some exclusive merch! BIC festival runs on 26 and 27 August in Busan, South Korea, and there is also an online event where you can try the game. There is more information about this on their website: https://bicfest.org/index
- July 2023 TACTICAL BANDITS Update - 30 July 2023
Hut 90 This has been coming for a long time and we tried to hold it off for as long as possible. In short, TACTICAL BANDITS has a new developer who will be taking the game forwards as Hut 90 will cease operations effectively immediately. Hut 90, which was our first company, has been struggling for some time. TACTICAL BANDITS was being developed outside of Hut 90, but it was decided at some point to attach Hut 90's name to create brand awareness and also help the company, but alas it did not help. Now, a new company and team will take over this project and bring it over the finish line. We will join the new team to handle the design aspect of the game to make sure it stays true to its original vision. As for Hut 90's previous games, they will continue to be sold as-is and the new company will take over all their IPs. It was a good run with Hut 90, from 2014 to 2023, and we hope the new c…
- THE NEW GAME FROM HUT 90 - 4 June 2022
We are proud to announce our next game in development called TACTICAL BANDITS, an extremely challenging top-down action game where the player travels on a journey to the West Coast to reach the Last Settlement, the last known human survivor camp. Join us on DISCORD to follow the development of TACTICAL BANDITS and more news about our other games!!
