- Khareni Update - 13 November 2019
Hey ECHOs! The much-anticipated Khareni update is finally here. Below you'll see the list of most important changes. New hacking mini-game for pick-up objectives! Additionally, being near these objectives will show you the item that's inside. Matheria containers have been standarized so they're easier to recognize throughout every sector. Maps have been redesigned and improved, and animations and particle effects have been added. Two new enemies: Corrupted and Possessed. They've been added to the patrolling enemies list. The Khareni aren't fooling around. You can now change your display name from the main menu. Reworked enemy spawn system to address difficulty spikes. Desolator enemy has improved animation when destroyed. AlienFX support is here! Your supported Alienware peripherals will now change color according to your chosen Sentinel, and when an enemy raises the alarm. Localized su…
- Out of Early Access, yay! - 4 June 2019
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- Another Big Update makes an appearance! - 25 April 2019
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- Content Update #1 - 25 March 2019
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- Alinware Stream - 13 March 2019
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- New things in v0.91b61! - 12 March 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32195635%2Fb3e08886b2601fbb22e5ae29318533da76250072.jpg ECHOs, at long last, I'm glad to announce that we've updated the game to v0.91b61. The following are the most important changes: - Quick-chat commands are here! In order for them to work, restoring default Key Bindings will be necessary just this time. The texts are not final, and the GUI needs improvements. Next update will include these improvements. - Auto-reconstruction is now a thing! The motto "You Only Print Once" is no longer true for while playing solo. You get one free reconstruction, regardless of where you are within that mission. - Elevator event reworked. While waiting for the elevator, relentless waves of enemies will storm through trying to stop the players from leaving. If there are no players present within the elevator by the time the doors close, t…
- We present v0.91b60 - 6 March 2019
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- Patch v0.91b59 now Live! - 1 March 2019
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- Patch v0.91b58 is now live! - 26 February 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32195635%2Fd9d00aa2e84d16fcbf76ece3f49e1fea67cac581.jpg Menus fixed for full controller navigability. There may still be a few quirks, but a full mission can be launched / joined and played to completion. Guaranteed working with XBox 360 and PS4 Controllers. Please report any issues or success cases with other controllers! Mission modifiers now work correctly. All four have been enabled and tested in a multiplayer environment. So if you're feeling confident, go ahead and do extra large missions with tougher enemies! Patrolling enemies now correctly call reinforcements once the indicator fills up. Also, if you're already fighting reinforcements, they will directly join the fray instead of calling more reinforcements. That was unfair! Combat music has been enhanced so that it does not stop between waves of enemies belonging…
- Future Localization - 24 February 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32195635%2F8c3c8acbc0108bca38f160de608d512646359167.jpg Greetings ECHOs! First of a warm welcome to all of you how are recently coming into our game. We welcome you and bid you to participate in the Early Access, help us by spotting bugs, and give us your suggestion as to what way you would like the game to improve. We encoruage you to join our Discord Server, and please do not hesitate to ask us any questions whatsoever, we are a small indie team, but we know, as gamers, what it means to have a fluent communication with the players. Besides that little introduction, I would also like to answer a question that was made by several players: Which languages -if any at all- was the game going to be localized. Well, our good friends and Parteners from Graffiti Games told us that we would be able to localize the game to the foll…
- Trident s Wake drops into early access today - 21 February 2019
It’s nice to see a game you love become big enough to inspire other studios, and it’s hard to deny the similarities between Trident’s Wake – released into early access today – and Helldivers . It’s a four-player (offline or on) twin-stick shooter by Bacus Games with procedurally generated missions. Players work together to complete multi-phase missions while being hammered by waves of angry aliens. While outwardly familiar (yes, there’s friendly fire), it looks like there’s more focus on loot, character customisation and weapon upgrades. See the launch trailer below. (more…)
- End of Alienware Closed Beta - 28 January 2019
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- The Present and Future of Trident's Wake - 15 January 2019
Greetings ECHOs! After a mild period of radio Silence, we are now able to express all of the things that happened to Trident’s Wake. Originally an indie project with an extremely limited budget in tow, now with a signed deal with Graffiti Games, based in Vancouver Canada. This deal meant that we could add more beef to the game, improving graphics, animations, enemy AI, add a procedural map generation, and a plethora of other updates. This took the game to a whole new level, and thanks to our Friends in Graffiti, a lot more exposure to the game is now being given. The Game is now running a Closed beta with the amazing people from Alienware Arena, and also the small but budding Trident’s Wake Fan Community. In the upcoming weeks we will see articles explaining more about the game, and more news of the upcoming future. If you’d like to help us out on this path, feel free to add us to your…
- Devlog Update #1 - 10 May 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32195635%2F7465b2025c47bdf4d34f112d2831e3c5251f3bc1.jpg Greetings ECHOs! Moving forward, in addition to our regular announcements, we will be posting development updates through here as well, so we can keep you informed on game’s progress. As some of you may know, yours truly went to the GDC and Game Connection on March of this year, in the hopes that we could gain the support of a publisher to help us finish the game and reach out to a broader audience. We had overwhelmingly positive feedback during the event, and we received many requests for a follow-up with the demo, accompanying documentation and company information. We sent out the e-mail by mid-April, and we are currently waiting for some of them to respond. We have been declined by a few of the publishers that we knew were a long shot (due to their target audience…
- GDC and GCA Aftermath. - 5 April 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32195635%2F0267ba096002012edaabcee004ea25243cac2fca.jpg Greetings ECHOs! Our CEO finally came back from GDC and Game Connection. There he had plenty of meetings and things are looking good. Right now, we are doing a bunch of follow ups with various companies (we cannot disclose which those companies are, but if we sign with one we will surely be telling you about it). We believe we will be getting a new update in a couple of weeks at most (this of course may vary, since this is our first time signing a deal). If you would like to give us a helping hand tell your friends to add Trident’s Wake to their wishlist. If you would like to know more about Trident’s Wake, and to be in contact with the devs, join our Discord Channel. Discord Channel. Regards, and have a good day!
- GDC and GCA Aftermath. - 5 April 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32195635%2F0267ba096002012edaabcee004ea25243cac2fca.jpg Greetings ECHOs! Our CEO finally came back from GDC and Game Connection. There he had plenty of meetings and things are looking good. Right now, we are doing a bunch of follow ups with various companies (we cannot disclose which those companies are, but if we sign with one we will surely be telling you about it). We believe we will be getting a new update in a couple of weeks at most (this of course may vary, since this is our first time signing a deal). If you would like to give us a helping hand tell your friends to add Trident’s Wake to their wishlist. If you would like to know more about Trident’s Wake, and to be in contact with the devs, join our Discord Channel. Discord Channel. Regards, and have a good day!
- Heading towards GDC - 14 March 2018
Greeting, fellow ECHOs! We wanted to share some good news with this growing community: we’ll be assisting this year’s Game Developers Conference and Game Connection at San Francisco next week! Here at Bacus Studios, we have a grand vision for our small indie studio and our first commercial title, Trident’s Wake. We’ve been working tirelessly towards this goal, and now we’re just a few steps for achieving this. In its current state, all of the game’s base mechanics have been implemented and tested we’re currently in the process of polishing the build we’ll be showcasing during the events. What we’re missing now is content. We have created tools and processes that allow us to streamline the content creation for our game, and now we need to start producing that content. Our base goal for this game is to have at least 20 hours worth of original content for a standard player, and around 25 f…
- Heading towards GDC - 14 March 2018
Greeting, fellow ECHOs! We wanted to share some good news with this growing community: we’ll be assisting this year’s Game Developers Conference and Game Connection at San Francisco next week! Here at Bacus Studios, we have a grand vision for our small indie studio and our first commercial title, Trident’s Wake. We’ve been working tirelessly towards this goal, and now we’re just a few steps for achieving this. In its current state, all of the game’s base mechanics have been implemented and tested we’re currently in the process of polishing the build we’ll be showcasing during the events. What we’re missing now is content. We have created tools and processes that allow us to streamline the content creation for our game, and now we need to start producing that content. Our base goal for this game is to have at least 20 hours worth of original content for a standard player, and around 25 f…
