Guardians Of Gaia: Guardians 8 Steam news

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• Review score74% positive
• Total reviews19
• Release dateOct 5, 2023
• DeveloperHandmade Games
• PublisherHandmade Games

Genres: Action, Casual, Indie, Strategy

Company pages: Developer: Handmade GamesPublisher: Handmade Games

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Guardians Of Gaia: Guardians 8 Steam news

Guardians Of Gaia: Guardians 8 news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

Latest Steam announcements

• Summer patch - 21 May 2025

  Merge changes from main game. Quality life bug fixes and performance improvements.

• Guardians of Gaia Incoming! - 27 April 2025

  Seven days. That's all that stands between you and Guardians of Gaia! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1718290/Guardians_Of_Gaia/ Full compatibility with Steam Deck.

• Prepare for Guardians of Gaia - 27 April 2025

  The wait is almost over, Guardians of Gaia is nearly here! We’re gearing up for launch with a wave of awesome updates: New Weapon: Unleash the power of the Hana Shield. Smoother, Flashier Battles: Animations and effects have been polished to a shine. Better Than Ever: Performance boosts and quality-of-life upgrades across the board. The full adventure is just around the corner — we can’t wait for you to jump in!

• Spring Update - 18 March 2025

  Merged changed from the main game. It is getting quite close to being finished, so this is a lot more representative. It's taken quite a while so thanks for staying patient. Vulkan Engine support for Intel Iris. New Shop Items. 1. Dango: replenish health. 2. Raito: lightning katana. Weapon durability has been made more forgivable. Shields as always have great durability. 1. Small durability damage on environmental impacts. 2. Large durability damage on guarding attacks. 3, Normal durability damage on having an attack guarded. 4. Half durability damage on landing an attack. Poise damage has been increased, thus easier to perform a "Guard Break". Larger window for inputs, especially on jump attacks. It should be much easier to pull off combos, All round performance improvements. General bug fixes and quality improvements. Please look forward to the main game. It's not far off now!

• Autumn Update - 25 October 2024

  Added fixes and changes from main game. Final push with only debugging and polish remaining. Thanks for your patience and please look forward to it. Gameplay 1. New animations. 2. Balancing and improved combat. 3. Chain explosions support, where explosive affect surrounding flammable material. 4. Cancel weapon throw is now on shoulder buttons. Graphics 1. New procedural sky rendering. 2. New Effects. 3. Vulkan full-screen exclusive support. 4. Vulkan memory paging support. 5. Subtle UI tweaks, 6. Optimized Steam deck settings. Audio 1. Upgraded weapon audio

• Major Update - 30 June 2024

  Merged changes from the main game. Coming out soon! Please look forward to it and thanks for playing! Gameplay Incorporated the elemental system from the main game. Fixed camera issues. Tweaked the controls for responsiveness. Graphics Added Contact shadows Improved quality of volumetric clouds Grass can now be cut. Weapon and elemental Effects. Better IK foot placement. Improved UI. Audio Added death cries. More hit sounds

• Spring Update - 9 February 2024

  Gearing up for the launch of the main game! In the meantime I have merged some of the changes. Weapons that are planted horizontally can now be used as a Spring board. Not many uses in the prologue, but a useful mechanic in the main game. Plunge attack is now on alternate attack button. Before, it would automatically execute a plunge attack at height. This just allows the choice between standard attacks and plunge attack at height. Improved refraction shaders. Threading performance improvements. General quality of life and bug fixes.

• Performance and Quality of Life - 25 January 2024

  Merged changes from main game. Increased GPU performance and reduced VRAM usage. Smoothed out controls and camera. Improved animations. Improved Fire and Water effects. General Bug fixes.

• Performance Update - 28 December 2023

  Optimized GPU Shaders. Optimized CPU Threading. Minor quality of life improvements.

• Stability Fixes - 8 December 2023

  Fixed an issue with Vulkan timout period being too short. Fixed general stability issues. Tweaks to combat frame timings.

• Quality of Life Fixes - 5 December 2023

  Fix for loading bar stutter on first load. Fix a bug where parries would not execute correctly. Minor quality of life improvements.

• More Steam Deck Improvements! - 22 November 2023

  Fixed Screen Space Reflection artifact on Steam Deck. Vulkan performance improvements

• Quality of Life Improvements - 15 November 2023

  Balance difficulty Performance improvements Tighter camera Small bug fixes

• Performance - 7 November 2023

  Improved GPU performance Minor bug fixes

• Gameplay Changes - 4 November 2023

  Less Aggressive AI More Darumas (Weapon Boxes)

• Now running on Steam Deck! - 2 November 2023

  Support for Steam Deck. Improved animations, Improved performance and minor bug fixes.

• Performance and Foliage - 20 October 2023

  Multi-threaded Cloth Simulation. Signed Distance Field Foliage. Steam Deck default resolution 1280×800 support. (Untested on actual hardware). Steam Deck simultaneous mouse and game-pad support. (Untested on actual hardware). Minor bug fixes.

• Minor Fixes - 16 October 2023

  Fixed Graphics Glitch on Saber Dagger. Improved death animations.

• New Portuguese Brazilian and Catalan Localizations. - 13 October 2023

  Added Portuguese Brazilian Localization. Added Catalan Localization. Fixed Localization inconsistencies. Fixed Proximity Mine bug.

• UI Controls - 8 October 2023

  - Clearer highlighting of controls on first play through

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