- Free to Play Patch 7 Hotfix 1 released - 24 January 2023
We're releasing a small hotfix to a few minor issues identified after releasing Free To Play Patch 7. We'll continue to address major issues that affect Workshop, SourceMod or the Stats system, as well as any crashes that are reported to us. Special thanks to Prohorov Ilja for testing SourceMod support on his server! Changes since Free To Play Patch 7 Changelog Bug Fixes Addressed problem preventing multiple SourceMod plugins from working. Allowed Source engine server plugins to load on listen servers by default. Fixed Discord Rich Presence integration not displaying images in-app.
- Free to Play Patch 7, Stats and Workshop are back! - 6 January 2023
Blade Symphony Free To Play Patch 7 With the new year upon us, it’s time to release a new update to Blade Symphony. Exciting news as the Blade Symphony Stats system is back online, recording data, and re-integrated with the game. You’ll see your global rank and league in-game, in some new areas! The other major update is that Blade Symphony’s Steam Workshop support is back! The majority of old items should once again work in-game and be visible to other players. We’re still working to clear up any issues that may arise from old, outdated workshop items. If you're looking for players to duel against, why not try out our new automated Pick-up Duel functionality on our Discord Server!? Changes since Free To Play Patch 6 Changelog Changes Restored support for using items from the Steam Workshop. Added an option to automatically delete unsubscribed workshop content from disk. Added support f…
- Free to Play Patch 6, Begone Crashes! - 2 September 2021
Blade Symphony Free To Play Patch 6 Since the last update, our focus has been to get SourceMod working with the game again. Unfortunately, SourceMod support for 64-bit operating systems is still underdeveloped, which is what the Windows and Linux dedicated servers use. Until the wonderful SourceMod team are able to improve 64-bit support, we decided to switch gears and fix crashes and bugs that we've noticed new players are encountering. After this update, we want to pivot to working on workshop support for older items. Thanks to the wonderful continued support from our community we will be working to add workshop support for older items, re-implement the statistics system, and begin working on gameplay changes again! Join our Discord and be sure to check out our Bug Tracker, if you would like to assist with development! Changelog Changes since Free to Play Patch 5 Changes End of duel s…
- Free To Play Patch 5, optimize everything! - 3 June 2021
Blade Symphony Free To Play Patch 5 Over the last few weeks, we have been internally testing a number of methods to better optimize Blade Symphony. After all, having fluid swordplay is important. Thankfully, since the last update, there have been very few crashes. The team thought it was important to spend some time reducing the amount of times players will receive "hitches" in-game, or finding ways to reduce filesize. The result is Free To Play Patch 5! This should allow us to keep going with more patches, and more changes soon. Keep an eye out, and thanks for supporting continued Blade Symphony development! Join our Discord and be sure to check out our Bug Tracker, if you would like to assist with development! Changelog Changes Disabled vscript, which should fix certain instabilities and provide a small performance boost. The Hammer editor no longer plays a MIDI tune every time it is…
- Free To Play Patch 4, stability madness! - 16 April 2021
Blade Symphony Free To Play Patch 4 Since November of last year, the team took a careful and extensive look at Blade Symphony's codebase to fix lots of difficult bugs, but most importantly, fix EVERY crash we could find! Many of the crashes you may have been experiencing were due to memory issues in the game. So, our awesome new programmer Josh "Slartibarty" Dowell was able to refactor a big portion of the code to be more efficient. It's quite the difference! In addition, we're replacing our custom asset streaming with the CS:GO asset streaming, which we're very confident with so far. If you don't see it working, it's because it's off by default (for now.) You can change the setting in your graphics options. We're hot on the tail of LOTS more changes. As long as the community is continuing to crowdfund our efforts to provide a free, and fun tactical sword fighting experience, we'll keep…
- Free To Play Patch 4 Testing - 13 April 2021
We need your help to put the upcoming patch for Blade Symphony through its paces. Today, we will be reproducing known bugs, looking for new bugs, and testing the stability of the current development version of Blade Symphony. Free To Play Patch 4 is set to release this week. While it may not appear to be very bug, it contains over 200 memory fixes to Blade Symphony and the Source Engine. This should swat pretty much any crash that has occurred over the last 10 months! Come and join us on our Discord, and help the developers playtest the development version of the game on the Steam release_candidate branch! To access this special branch, right-click on Blade Symphony from Steam, go to the "BETAS" section, and select release_candidate from the dropdown: Changes since Free To Play Patch 3 SUBJECT TO CHANGE Changes Enabled texture streaming for Windows, Mac, and Linux from the Graphics Menu…
- Release Candidate - Material Streaming and Crash Fixes - 24 February 2021
Material Streaming is now available in the settings menu, and on by default for this Release Candidate build Lots of Memory Corruption fixes
- Tactical Swordplay versus the Creators - 13 November 2020
Fighting Game Sale LiveStream With the recent release of Free To Play Patch 3, we're seeing lots of players joining, giving us awesome feedback, helping with bug reports, and reporting crashes. Come join the developers of Blade Symphony over a Livestream, or on our Discord, to better understand how to play Blade Symphony, watch enthralling duels, or enjoy our engaging community. Hotfix Released Yesterday, we released a small hotfix, that addressed numerous crashes we're receiving from our fantastic community. If you crash, please don't forget to leave information about what you were doing! Crowdfunding Continues Our long-term support campaign for Blade Symphony is underway. If you're enjoying the game so far and want to support further development, then spare a few dollars a month for a Discord role, direct access to the developers, and more!
- Blade Symphony Free To Play Patch 3 Released - 7 November 2020
Blade Symphony Free To Play Patch 3 More than a year ago, we released a patch for Blade Symphony’s Free To Play version, and admittedly, the reception was poor. We have been challenged ever since the initial transition, re-establishing the game’s former glory is tough work. Today, we bring you a much needed, large update for Blade Symphony, Patch 3. Thank you for all of the support and bug reports We’re appreciative to the community for coming together on our Discord Server and helping identify and fix issues with Blade Symphony. A big thank-you to those who have helped test changes, give feedback and report bugs on our Bug Tracker. We are so thankful for your time and patience, and couldn’t continue development without you! Help Blade Symphony move forward There’s still so much to do with Blade Symphony. We want to finish re-implementing the Steam Workshop, get the statistics server ru…
- Community Pickup and Gather - 19 November 2019
Gather with members of the community on the official Puny Human Discord server to play pick-up matches of Blade Symphony!
- Free To Play Patch 2, fixes galore! - 10 April 2019
In addition to the exclusive “Furious” item set for Pure, offered to those that originally purchased Blade Symphony (premium owners,) we’ve added the “Overgrown” item set for Judgement. Also included in this patch, is an exclusive cape for all of those that have helped us during the time we have used Patreon, which we’ve decided to stop utilizing. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F4458819%2F170335f81b2214071bdb7b11ca55395081d32479.png We need all the help we can get, so please help put bugs into our GitHub Tracker and discuss with us on our Discord! Changes since F2P Patch 1 Changes: Added ‘Overgrown’ item set to the game for premium owners. Added Patreon exclusive cape. Added the Icarus Ensemble sword replacing the broken duplicate item some players received during the transition to free to play. Changed the name of the exclusive item set for Pure to “Fur…
- Puny Human's newest game - 4 April 2019
While we're hard at work on bringing F2P Patch 2, with more crash fixes, quality of life changes, and performance optimizations, we're announcing our next title. Check it out when you can, and look forward to more Blade Symphony updates! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cttUWmi0Xts Zero Day Website Facebook Twitter
- Free-To-Play Patch 1, lots of crash fixes! - 17 March 2019
Hey everyone! We've been extremely hard at work since the Free To Play release to make as many fixes as possible. If you're not on our Discord, I've explained there that this is the priority of our work at the moment: Crashes Performance Issues Gameplay preventing Bugs Graphical Bugs Gameplay Features Graphical Improvements Since release, we've worked hard on fixing lots of server and game crashes, and will continue to monitor the crash reporter. Thanks so much to everyone who has helped out by sending in their crashes, so that we could take care of them! Also, this patch contains the exclusive items for current owners, so that we may give them out. We will be doing so over the next 24 hours, via an API change. Additionally, there should be a lot less items showing as unimplemented. We're still working on getting these taken care of. As always, thanks for playing, and let us know if you…
- If you paid for the game... - 11 March 2019
Everyone, I wanted to send out a quick announcement for those that didn't read our last news post. "... items for those that purchased the game are coming. In total, 10 exclusive items will be given out to owners of the premium game. We hope we won't have to stop there." We're working hard to get these in, but as giving them to ONLY those who purchased Blade Symphony, is a whole different set of technical steps, it takes a little time. We should have them in with a crash fix patch later this week. Thank you for everyone who has hopped on our Discord and helped us solve issues, or provided positive support. We're working overtime to get bugs fixed, and racing to put out a patch. Here are some sneak peeks at the items that paid players will receive. There are 5 items for Pure, and 5 items for Judgement. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F4458819%2Faee0523da23%25E2%2580%25A6
- Blade Symphony goes free-to-play, gets flooded with negative reviews - 10 March 2019
Multiplayer swordfighting game Blade Symphony has gone free-to-play.  The move was announced in 2017 and follows the massive Harmonious Prelude update , which upgraded the game engine and added new modes on top of the standard 1v1 arena duels. Developer Puny Human said in a Steam post on Friday that the change was not a money grab, and that only four items would be for sale through an in-game store—all it wanted was to make the game "more accessible, and have a longer life", it said. Unfortunately, the game has been flooded with negative reviews since the change. The user reviews from the last 30 days are "mostly negative", and just 30% of users posted a positive review compared with 70% in the game's five-year life span.  Clicking through the reviews , it's a mixture of existing players who feel angry about the move to free-to-play—"it's a slap in…
- Blade Symphony is now Free To Play - 9 March 2019
After a year and a half, Blade Symphony is now free-to-play. We didn’t want to do this for lowering complexity (although, it is much easier to develop for now.) We didn’t want to do this for money (there’s only 4 items for sale.) We didn’t want to do this to manage overhead (even if we’re now offloading all inventory stuff to Steam.) We wanted to do this, so that this game could be more accessible, and have a longer life. The game deserves to be tried out, even if it’s approaching 5 years of age, and started development in 2007. So here it is, and thanks for playing. As for the changes in this release; there’s new unlockables in town! As players progress up the level chain, they will either be given the existing items that you may know and love, or new items that we’ve put into the game. In total, 48 new items have been added. We’ve added this to encourage trading and purchasing, we hop…
- Free-To-Play Date and Patch 7 Release! - 19 February 2019
Let’s get this out of the way, because this is what everyone has been asking us for two years. Blade Symphony is going Free-To-Play on March 7th. Yes, this is soon. We know. Why? Well, in some ways, Blade Symphony has been ready for Free-To-Play for a time already; it’s stable on all platforms and offers the right functionality for obtaining in-game content. The only barrier has been the price. Removing that barrier should, hopefully, mean more players to help us identify issues to solve and test new features. This is going to be a difficult next month for us; lots of last-minute content creation, testing and and fixing bugs. We’re going to need all the help we can get, so please help put bugs into our GitHub Tracker and discuss with us on our Discord! We really appreciate everyone’s patience, and we’re excited to put our best foot forward for this effort. This isn’t a sprint, it’s a ma…
- Patch 6 with optimizations and waving flags! - 5 February 2019
We hope you’re enjoying the Steam Lunar New Year Sale, and the 51% off discount on Blade Symphony. This is a pretty great time for us to throw down another patch, especially for those awaiting optimizations! When we updated the engine that Blade Symphony uses last year, it was a big step forward, but also meant that some performance diminished. We’ve been listening to the community’s feedback, and have made numerous optimizations. We’re happy to see recorded gains of 30 - 50 FPS on various maps, but join our Discord server and give feedback so we can continue to improve! Additionally, we heard your feedback about emblems, and have implemented a new type of shader to create a “waving flag” effect on the Customization Screen or during a match introduction. Finally, we’ve added some favorite items from the community; the Holo-armor, Infiltrator and Wakizashi attachments for Vanguard. https…
- Discount and improvements galore, now in Patch 5! - 23 January 2019
Check out an update for our latest game, Galacide, too! Hopefully you’ve been enjoying the beginning of 2019, we know we have! Not long after Patch 4’s release, we got to work on addressing a lot of the issues that are out there. Patch 5 is a big step forward in getting Blade Symphony into great shape for the future. We’ve also made a lot of progress toward getting more user generated content into the game, and will be pushing lots of great items in Patch 6. We're celebrating this release with a Steam discount on Blade Symphony, so tell your friends. Tomorrow at 10:00am US Pacific time, it's 40% for a limited time! In addition, we’ve done a lot of listening and discussion with the community, and fully admit that there are issues with performance in Blade Symphony that we want to address. While it may run pretty well on a lot of modern computers, or even computers from 2 - 3 years ago, i…
- New swords and emblems, now in Patch 4! - 21 December 2018
Hey there everybody! Christmas is right around the corner, and before leaving for break, we wanted to give the gift of a Blade Symphony update! Much has happened since Patch 3, and we’re still working hard with the community to fix problems, and improve where we can. As a result, Patch 4 contains lots of great bug fixes, re-skinned items, and lots of behind-the-scenes changes. So Happy Holidays to you and your family, and we hope that you enjoy the rest of your year! https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F4458819%2F4a39d9d3c6b46277e380f935d48edbc555c2896b.png https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F4458819%2F3593e68ce3651d4eada389c1b4dbe6aaf4dd565a.png https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F4458819%2Fda151f8fe547543d9bd16310d7a5e68decafeb03.png https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F%25E2%2580%25A6
