Thank you for the report. Unfortunately, we're aware of this issue and have been trying to troubleshoot the buggy nature of this phenomenon. But, the complex nature of our code is making it hard to quickly pin down the source of the issue. Rest assured, we're actively on the hunt to find and quash the bug as soon as possible!
Yes, we addressed that issue with a hot-fix two months ago where we made the timer "slow down severely", every-time the player went into battle. Instead of the constant ticking, the player now looses roughly between 2-5 seconds off the clock for every battle engaged.
The idea is to enforce upon the player the need to flee being greater than kicking every ass that Caly comes across, under the given worsening circumstances.
If however the timer is still ticking continuously while in battle, could you share what the version ID of your game is? And how long ago did you download the game? Though we have fused the fix in the latest build, fair chance you might not have the hot-fix if you are still on 0.5.3c, in which case we can share it with you here.
Hi. I just downloaded this from Media Fire and my AV said that Game.exe was infected with Trojan:Win32/Doplik. Not sure if this was a false positive or not, but I am not taking any chances and wanted to warn the author and others.
Hi drakhir and thanks for taking the time to reach out!
In recent days we have received similar reports from multiple sources. Fortunately, we're happy to report two things:
That this isn't a VoidBound specific issue, and in-fact a false positive detection by one specific AV only: Windows Defender and it's mainly targeting RPG Maker engine that the game runs on.
That we've seen this happen before and are actually tracking the issue on Github currently.
To put your mind at ease, you too can check the following threads whereby you can follow the current status yourself:
TL;DR: Every now and then Windows Defender flips out and flags nw.exe(renamed to Game.exe) as a threat. This has never been found to be legitimate. Neither by the community, nor by us.
Just to be on the safe side, we ran the file through an online AV scan database not five days ago, and it came back with the following results:
As you can see, no detection whatsoever. In-fact, Microsoft- the entity that owns Windows Defender, cleared the file in that scan as well. In short, it's most definitely a false positive and you have nothing to worry about.
In the end though, the call is yours, but hopefully this helps put your mind at ease.
Thanks for the response. I thought it may have been a false positive, but wanted to err on the side of caution. I'll keep an eye on this project for now and maybe give it a try at a later date.
HI sorry to bother you but every time I try to download your game though the mega mirror link it wont give me a zip file. Am I doing something wrong or am I just stupid
Hello and apologies for the late reply. It has been a busy few days.
What you're getting is a .7z file, which is a more advanced compressing technology, but lacks native support from Windows to open it.
We recommend googling and downloading either one of the following utilities to open the package you get:
1) Winrar
2) WinZip
3) 7-zip
Of all these, we recommend 7-zip as our tool of choice. It's completely free and can not only open .7z files, but shares compatibility with .rar and .zip as well which is handy to have as it will help you unzip all types of files in the future as well.
it might just be a skill or reading issue on my part but where or what in the slums do I go to find/complete the bounty hunter registration thing? I've spent the past 30 minutes going back and forth trying to interact with things there but I still have no clue on what I'm looking for xD
edit: I'm just stupid... I saw and passed the flower a few times and ignored it because I thought something so obvious shouldn't be the quest item.... turns out it was.... man I'm dumb aaaah hell
You need to exit the server room, head back west to where you came from, until you come across the elevator doors which should be active now after solving the server signal riddle. Ride it to the basement towards the last room before the final showdown with the boss!
The Urtu can be found in their Henosis Embassy. To reach it, head over to the residential area and look for the Dump Sign North West of that map. That is your direct access point. Alternatively, head over to the Love Machine building in the Red District and after finishing the trial click on the backdoor for straight access there.
I'm not sure if I'm just doing something wrong but neither of the links work for me. I just end up with a .7z file that I can't do anything with? I really wanna play this already! Sorry if I'm just being dumb but yeah, any help?
You need to use a software to extract the archive, either winrar or 7zip would work. Once installed, all you need to do is right click on the .7z file and say Extract to... That will create the game folder for you.
The game is compressed into a .7z file to reduce the amount of data you need to download. Don't forget to also download the hotfix to fix some of the bugs in there.
I just tried the links, and they worked fine for me. That is odd, I will add a different mirror in a second to it. Sorry for the inconviences this caused you!
Wow, finally a public release! Will this ever come out on Steam? I need to let all my internet friends know how down bad I am.
Also... Last time I tried this(a long time ago), the combat was *really* difficult. I didn't use grenades and whatnot a lot but I remember that enemies were really powerful and just shredded me like cheese. Any adjustments made? I'd like to consider myself decent at the very least with strategy turn-based games but this was a difficult one. I know I would have had to grind a lot of money to get items to get me through that first mission area where you have to sneak around and then you have the boss fight with the 2 characters, so that's where I stopped playing.
Thanks a lot for the comment! Yes, we plan to release the game on steam once the development is finished!
Towards the combat, we overhauled the combat so far 4 times, but the biggest overhaul we did in the version 5.2.0.
Our goal was to make the combat faster and less difficult overall. We are still working on the combat, we plan to make another pass in the background while keep releasing content, and once the overhaul is ready we will merge the builds together.
The two bosses you are referring to where completely changed, pretty much all the A.I of the enemies have been completely overhauled.
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Hello!
Thank you for the report. Unfortunately, we're aware of this issue and have been trying to troubleshoot the buggy nature of this phenomenon. But, the complex nature of our code is making it hard to quickly pin down the source of the issue. Rest assured, we're actively on the hunt to find and quash the bug as soon as possible!
Regards,
C-A Team
Yes, we addressed that issue with a hot-fix two months ago where we made the timer "slow down severely", every-time the player went into battle. Instead of the constant ticking, the player now looses roughly between 2-5 seconds off the clock for every battle engaged.
The idea is to enforce upon the player the need to flee being greater than kicking every ass that Caly comes across, under the given worsening circumstances.
If however the timer is still ticking continuously while in battle, could you share what the version ID of your game is? And how long ago did you download the game? Though we have fused the fix in the latest build, fair chance you might not have the hot-fix if you are still on 0.5.3c, in which case we can share it with you here.
Hi. I just downloaded this from Media Fire and my AV said that Game.exe was infected with Trojan:Win32/Doplik. Not sure if this was a false positive or not, but I am not taking any chances and wanted to warn the author and others.
Hi drakhir and thanks for taking the time to reach out!
In recent days we have received similar reports from multiple sources. Fortunately, we're happy to report two things:
To put your mind at ease, you too can check the following threads whereby you can follow the current status yourself:
TL;DR: Every now and then Windows Defender flips out and flags nw.exe(renamed to Game.exe) as a threat. This has never been found to be legitimate. Neither by the community, nor by us.
Just to be on the safe side, we ran the file through an online AV scan database not five days ago, and it came back with the following results:
As you can see, no detection whatsoever. In-fact, Microsoft- the entity that owns Windows Defender, cleared the file in that scan as well.
In short, it's most definitely a false positive and you have nothing to worry about.
In the end though, the call is yours, but hopefully this helps put your mind at ease.
Kind Regards,
Cursed-Atelier Team
Thanks for the response. I thought it may have been a false positive, but wanted to err on the side of caution. I'll keep an eye on this project for now and maybe give it a try at a later date.
HI sorry to bother you but every time I try to download your game though the mega mirror link it wont give me a zip file. Am I doing something wrong or am I just stupid
Hello and apologies for the late reply. It has been a busy few days.
What you're getting is a .7z file, which is a more advanced compressing technology, but lacks native support from Windows to open it.
We recommend googling and downloading either one of the following utilities to open the package you get:
1) Winrar
2) WinZip
3) 7-zip
Of all these, we recommend 7-zip as our tool of choice. It's completely free and can not only open .7z files, but shares compatibility with .rar and .zip as well which is handy to have as it will help you unzip all types of files in the future as well.
Hope this helps!
it might just be a skill or reading issue on my part but where or what in the slums do I go to find/complete the bounty hunter registration thing? I've spent the past 30 minutes going back and forth trying to interact with things there but I still have no clue on what I'm looking for xD
edit: I'm just stupid... I saw and passed the flower a few times and ignored it because I thought something so obvious shouldn't be the quest item.... turns out it was.... man I'm dumb aaaah hell
Hey, in the factory, where do you go after the server?
Hi!
You need to exit the server room, head back west to where you came from, until you come across the elevator doors which should be active now after solving the server signal riddle. Ride it to the basement towards the last room before the final showdown with the boss!
Hope this helps!
That was very helpful, thanks
Hey I'm not sure where to find Urtu in henosis
Hello!
The Urtu can be found in their Henosis Embassy. To reach it, head over to the residential area and look for the Dump Sign North West of that map. That is your direct access point. Alternatively, head over to the Love Machine building in the Red District and after finishing the trial click on the backdoor for straight access there.
Hope that helps!
I'm not sure if I'm just doing something wrong but neither of the links work for me. I just end up with a .7z file that I can't do anything with? I really wanna play this already!
Sorry if I'm just being dumb but yeah, any help?
You need to use a software to extract the archive, either winrar or 7zip would work.
Once installed, all you need to do is right click on the .7z file and say Extract to...
That will create the game folder for you.
The game is compressed into a .7z file to reduce the amount of data you need to download.
Don't forget to also download the hotfix to fix some of the bugs in there.
Ah okay, thanks! I've never had to use those to extract stuff before so I was confused.
I used 7zip and it worked, thanks!
I'm not sure if it is just me but whenever I try to download the public test it says the file is unavailable so I can't download the file.
I just tried the links, and they worked fine for me. That is odd, I will add a different mirror in a second to it. Sorry for the inconviences this caused you!
Edit: New MEGA Mirror Link is now up.
Wow, finally a public release! Will this ever come out on Steam? I need to let all my internet friends know how down bad I am.
Also... Last time I tried this(a long time ago), the combat was *really* difficult. I didn't use grenades and whatnot a lot but I remember that enemies were really powerful and just shredded me like cheese. Any adjustments made? I'd like to consider myself decent at the very least with strategy turn-based games but this was a difficult one. I know I would have had to grind a lot of money to get items to get me through that first mission area where you have to sneak around and then you have the boss fight with the 2 characters, so that's where I stopped playing.
Thanks a lot for the comment!
Yes, we plan to release the game on steam once the development is finished!
Towards the combat, we overhauled the combat so far 4 times, but the biggest overhaul we did in the version 5.2.0.
Our goal was to make the combat faster and less difficult overall. We are still working on the combat, we plan to make another pass in the background while keep releasing content, and once the overhaul is ready we will merge the builds together.
The two bosses you are referring to where completely changed, pretty much all the A.I of the enemies have been completely overhauled.
You can read more about it here if you'd like:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/combat-tactics-72100346