- Steam Deck update and bit more on the fate of Fera - 6 January 2025
Hey Fera faithfuls, thanks for your patience and your continued support!! After our much needed holiday break, I'm pleased to announce that our latest patch includes the much awaited Steam Deck compatibility! (please read the update notes down below) In our original "State of Fera and our Studio" update, we discussed our "Hail Mary" plan for Fera. As of Jan 3, our base price for Fera has been switched to $9 USD. But we are not exiting out of Early Access and calling it a 1.0, we feel the state of our game isn't near what we would consider a 1.0 release yet and to do so would be disingenuous. However, we feel $9 USD is a fair price for the 30+ hrs of gameplay that our game currently provides, some jankiness not wishstanding. Our team is quite thrilled to see a rise in positive reviews for our game since we lowered the price point. Please write a review if you enjoyed the game, it really…
- MAJOR UPDATE 0.7.0.0 (Early Access Founders Pack and Tons of Improvements) - 27 November 2024
0.7.0.0 Founder's Pack And Improvements We recognize that this drastic price decrease by 70% will be unfair to those who bought our game early. As mentioned before this price decrease is the only shot we have left at possibly keeping this game alive so we can keep working on it. For those early purchasers at the original price,we've come up with an Early Access Founders Pack that will be unlocked for you. The Early Access Founders Pack includes: 1) a new metallic glider, accessible in the options menu 2) gorgeous purple VFX flying trails (also accessible in the options menu) 3) a Baby Thunderhorn that you can add to your village (you just need to build a pen for them) Thanks again for your early support of Fera! EARLY ACCESS FOUNDERS PACK 1.1 3 new cosmetic items for players who have bought the game before the price reduction. These include a new glider, new glide vfx and a baby Thunder…
- The Fate of Fera (and our studio) - 15 November 2024
First we want to thank our early supporters and community for Fera. We learned a lot from your valuable feedback (both good and bad) and we’re sorry we were not able to deliver a better Early Access experience. We made a lot of mistakes with our development and launch of Fera: The Sundered Tribes. As our first 3D Open World multiplayer game, we definitely bit off more than we could chew and there’s no blame to be laid on anyone or anything except for ourselves. Honest numbers for Fera Here’s the honest math regarding the sales of Fera: - Lifetime Net Revenue: $110k - Massive Damage take home 20% (our investors are owed the rest): $22K - This is all we’re expected to see from the first 2 months of sales. - Due to the lackluster sales, we could not afford to keep our team of 26 people so unfortunately we had to lay off 60% of the studio. - We’re doing our best to help them find contract w…
- Patch 4 (Major Optimizatiom Patch) is out! - 23 October 2024
0.6.7.0 - Major Optimization Patch Thank you all for your patience, we’ve heard your feedback regarding performance, and over the past two weeks, we’ve been focused on optimization. The performance issues were most prominent in foliage-heavy areas, with the Northern Forest being the most affected. Here’s what we observed: - High-end machines (e.g., Ryzen 9 7950X3D + RTX 4090), which we expected to run at 60 FPS in 4K on High Quality, were averaging around 52.5 FPS, occasionally dropping as low as 40 FPS. - Mid-range machines (e.g., Ryzen 5 5500 + AMD RX 7600), which we expected to hit 30 FPS at 1080p on High Quality, were averaging 27.5 FPS, with lows reaching 22 FPS. After our optimizations, we’ve significantly improved performance in foliage-heavy areas: -High-end machines now average 68.5 FPS at 4K on High Quality, with drops rarely going below 62.5 FPS, and never for prolonged perio…
- ⚡️ Patch 3 (v 0.6.6.0) is released! ⚡️ - 30 September 2024
Thank you all for your patience and support! Here's our 3rd patch and it focuses on a bunch of QoL fixes. NEW 1.1 Key Rebinding - You can now rebind your keys for both keyboard and controller from within the Options menu. 1.2 Quick Weapon Swapping - After marking your favorite weapon for each type in the Character screen, you can quickly cycle through them with a single button. 1.3 New Tether Light Attack and Cling Attack animations for hammer, spear and cleaversaw weapon types. CHANGES 2.1 The Monster Harvester now automatically queues up all available tasks upon building and destroys itself when all tasks are completed. 2.2 Task assisting is now a toggled input instead of a held input. 2.3 Stamina cost of signature attacks reduced to 0. 2.4 Changed the default key binding for signature attacks to Q for keyboard. 2.5 Aiming with Tether Light Attacks improved by turning your character t…
- ⚡️ Patch 1 (v 0.6.5.4) is released!⚡️ - 23 September 2024
⚡️ Patch 1 (v 0.6.5.4) is released! ⚡️ Thank you so much for checking out our game, and know that we're working hard to improve it! The launch didn't go as smooth as we had hoped but we're going to try to squash as many issues as we can, as soon as we can - starting with this! MAJOR FIXES 🦖 1.1 There were lots of instances where players had trouble joining their friends' existing game due worlds with high density of buildings failing to load. That should now be fixed. 1.2 Similar to 1.1, the same problem could occur due to a build up of tracked event history in the game save. That is now also fixed. 1.3 Pressing ESC during the feast scene no longer pauses the game, giving the impression of a freeze. 1.4 You can no longer accidentally lose your position in the skill tree and have trouble recentering yourself. MINOR FIXES 🐥 2.1 The camera zoomed in awkwardly when you equipped a Scalebac…
- Fera: The Sundered Tribes Early Access Launch - 17 September 2024
Thank you all for coming on this journey with us, we can’t wait to see you all play and hear your stories. This is Early Access so we have more content to make and systems to refine but with your feedback, we are confident we can improve the game experience together! Thanks, Massive Damage Team
- Fera: The Sundered Tribes Launch - 17 September 2024
Thank you all for coming on this journey with us, we can’t wait to see you all play and hear your stories. This is Early Access so we have more content to make and systems to refine but with your feedback, we are confident we can improve the game experience together! Thanks, Massive Damage Team
- Fera: The Sundered Tribes EARLY ACCESS Launches on Sept 17th! - 23 August 2024
Our team is so excited to announce the Early Access launch of Fera: The Sundered Tribe!! We can't wait until all of you can finally soar the beautiful skies of Fera (solo or co-op) Here's our new Release Date Trailer: Full details of what to expect in our Early Access will be announced very soon! Thank you!! The team at Massive Damage
- Demo Feedback and The Road to Early Access - 3 July 2024
Thank you everyone who tried out our Alpha Demo of Fera: The Sundered Tribes for the Steam Next Fest and thank you for all the incredible feedback. Good or bad, we've taken your feedback and we're taking the time to collate, review, and discuss with our team. The demo was a early build so we've taken it down since it will be not representative of the final game by the time we launch in Early Access (release date announcement trailer is coming soon). Here's some of our major priorities that we will be focused on our road to launch: Combat We're taking your feedback to heart and working to improve all aspects of combat. We have a task force assigned to work on this. Better hit mechanics and improved damage models and physics, we have big plans for combat. Hunting To support our brave hunters, we are building a monsterpedia to track the various beasts and behemoths you encounter. Researchi…
- Fera: The Sundered Tribes DEMO is available now! - 11 June 2024
The wait is over! You can now download our Alpha Demo for Fera: The Sundered Tribes as a part of Steam Next Fest! Thank you for all your support and let us know what you think of the demo, we know we have a TON of work left to do but we're super excited to have you all try it a bit early. :)
- Fera: The Sundered Tribes DEMO is available now! - 8 June 2024
The wait is over! You can now download our Alpha Demo for Fera: The Sundered Tribes as a part of Steam Next Fest! Thank you for all your support and let us know what you think of the demo, we know we have a TON of work left to do but we're super excited to have you all try it a bit early. :)
- New Fera:The Sundered Tribes Co-op Gameplay Explainer Video and Screenshots! - 7 May 2024
Hello to our amazing (and quickly growing!) Fera community, here's a great video we debut'd on IGN/IDXBOX Spring Showcase. Our Game Director, Peter shows off our co-op gameplay (yes you can play solo or co-op) with a little surprise at the end. Please enjoy and share/signal boost if you can, thanks for following along and keep your eyes peeled here for more updates as we get closer to our upcoming launch! And one more thing, we refreshed a bunch of screenshots on our Steam page, enjoy!
- This indie game takes Monster Hunter's wirebugs to a whole new level - 29 April 2024
One of the neatest additions Monster Hunter Rise added to the series was wirebugs, which allowed players to zip around the map (and unleash amazing new combos) on projectile tethers. It was a whole new way to move around Monster Hunter's large maps, as well as gain the upper hand on its fearsome beasts. Fera The Sundered Tribes has taken this idea and run with it: it's a monster hunting game that gives you wings. Read the rest of the story...
- New Fera:The Sundered Tribes Dev Diary update from GDC and PAX East - 26 March 2024
Hello wonderful Fera community, we have our first Dev Diary update for you. Our Game Director Peter McLaren does a quick deep dive into the new development updates leading into our upcoming Beta milestone for Fera: The Sundered Tribes. Please enjoy and share/signal boost if you can, thanks for following along and keep your eyes peeled here for more updates as we get closer to our summer launch!
- Fera: The Sundered Tribes - 30 January 2024
We're thrilled to present our new project, Fera: The Sundered Tribes! Take a first look at the game now and be sure to wishlist below! Fera: The Sundered Tribes is an enthralling mixture of monster hunting action RPG with village building and tribe management in a unique post-apocalyptic fantastical world of untamed magic and ancient secrets.
- Happy New Year and a quick Fera update! - 11 January 2024
Happy New Year!! We hope all of you had a great holiday! Our team took some much needed time off to be with our families and to recharge our energy for the new year ahead. Development on Fera: The Sundered Tribes is going well and we're super excited to be bringing something fresh to the RPG/hunting/building space and can't wait to share it with you guys! If you'd like to see some Behind The Scenes content, join us on our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/massivedamageinc
- Fera: The Sundered Tribes - 20 September 2023
We're thrilled to present our new project, Fera: The Sundered Tribes! Take a first look at the game now and be sure to wishlist below! Fera: The Sundered Tribes is an enthralling mixture of monster hunting action RPG with village building and tribe management in a unique post-apocalyptic fantastical world of untamed magic and ancient secrets.
- Fera: The Sundered Tribes - 23 August 2023
We're thrilled to present our new project, Fera: The Sundered Tribes! Take a first look at the game now and be sure to wishlist below! Fera: The Sundered Tribes is an enthralling mixture of monster hunting action RPG with village building and tribe management in a unique post-apocalyptic fantastical world of untamed magic and ancient secrets.
