Category: Game News

Hello all!

Hope all of the new players that picked up CULTIC over the Holiday Sale are enjoying themselves! Thank you for the support and for taking the time to check out my game!

Got another quick little patch to fix a few minor issues. Full details below!

• Added a fix that should allow players to use Custom Loadouts to properly use the pitchfork and hatchet together. Since CULTIC’s weapon system was only designed for a single alternate weapon per slot, this does come with the caveat that players can no longer equip their Fists if they have both a pitchfork and a hatchet, as they will occupy the primary and alternate slots.

• The Thompson pickups should now properly glow like other pickups

• The books in the bookstore in Cultmas should no longer glow like they’re readable.

• Disarmed TNT traps should long be able to be picked up if TNT ammo is full

• An occlusion issue in E2M7 Fairgrounds was fixed

• An area in E2M7 Fairgrounds was blocked off, where players could jump into a spot that was difficult to jump back out of

• An issue where the outdoor segment of E2M10 Manor was not occluding out has been fixed

• A minor texture issue in E2M10 Manor was fixed

Hello all!

Hope everyone had a great holiday. I’ve got a small update with some fixes and changes for ya. Full details below!

• The Rotten (swamp zombies) can now be burned. Originally I had set them up to be immune to burn damage since they’re sort of slime-y enemies that are able to melt and reconstitute themselves, but the intention just hasn’t translated well and isn’t an important enough feature that it’s worth confusing players over. Humorously, since Rotten are extremely weak to explosive damage, the small amount of explosive damage that molotovs do on impact can be enough to splatter them on some difficulties.

• The glow effect on pickups has been changed to not make use of a secondary material, which should be a pretty big reduction in triangle count in some areas, as the voxel meshes are fairly heavy, and the secondary material was guaranteeing at least one additional render pass, which has been eliminated now.

• The “Quick Axe Throw” tertiary fire for hatchets has been slightly nerfed – hatchets thrown using this option will only throw at 75% force, slightly decreasing their range and damage.

• The voxel corpse pile in E2M4’s Condemned Material chute has been removed and replaced with a simpler “gore pile”. This map is heavy enough as-is and that voxel prop was contributing a fair amount of tris to the overall render

• A handful of additional voxel meshes were optimized to reduce their triangle count

• The “Invert Gamepad Y” option should now properly apply when loading into the game

• One of the corpse prefabs has had its LOD’s fixed so that the voxel mesh will render properly instead of being invisible

• Some of the “mass grave” corpse pile meshes have been adjusted to not be floating/intangible – since these meshes were reworked to significantly reduce the triangle count, this resulted in the positioning of some of the existing prefabs to be off

• A weird intermittent rendering issue with the waterfall in E2M3 has been fixed … maybe?

Hello all!

Wanted to get another little fix out before I power down my brain and sleep for a week!

• Submitted a request to Steam to set the default Proton version for CULTIC to 10.0.3, which they were able to do for me. This is a band-aid for the click-and-hold issues until there’s an official fix from Unity for this Linux issue or I’m able to otherwise figure out what the root cause is

• Fixed an issue where getting grabbed by a Creep while in the middle of a throw would lock the player in a “throw state”, disallowing weapon changing and other actions

• Fixed the paint job on a very rusty truck in E2M1