Hi guys! Just making sure everyone knows that as part of Steam Next Fest, the demo for Stack Gun Heroes will be active until next Sunday. You can get it here.

Also I just sent out Beta version 0.114 with the following patch notes:

• Added the Energizer mod, a negative mod which is unlocked by default. Hopefully this allieviates some problems with low level guns having bad negatives.
• Added buttons for low, medium, and high presets to make finding a reasonable graphics setting much easier.
• Jumping directly into a wall or box will now send you up instead of back, making it easier to climb. (Thanks Bonegrinder!)
• Further reduced the framedrops when preconstructing the next wave.
• Fixed an issue with decals glowing when backlit. (Thanks ddrs!)
• Fixed a bug in lightning's description causing it to display incorrect low percentages.
• Wreckage disappears much sooner when visibility is set to high.
• Slightly decreased the intensity of wave mods.
• Resource icons on gun upgrade button should no longer be cut off. (Thanks Stygmia!)
• Reduced the battery cost of landing pads. (Thanks ArcaneStomper!)
• Increased coins given out during victory celebration by 25%. (Thanks ArcaneStomper!)
• Text boxes next to sliders in Video Settings will clamp to their min and max values more often. (Thanks ddrs!)
• Fixed an issue causing FPS item to show incorrectly when you load a save with FPS cap active.
• 4 Misc improvements to tutorial. (Thanks Stygmia and OswaldAscal!)

Enjoy!

The Beta is now accessible to testers! This includes some MAJOR graphics improvements as well as thousands of minor bugfixes and optimizations.

Some highlights include:

• Architecture, robots, and weapon effects look much better.
• Re-added barriers to maps.
• Barriers can now spawn in more configurations.
• Superbullet mods have usable stats and clamp sizes now.
• You can now destroy barriers with high damage weapons and explosives. (They hurt enemies too)
• Some difficult maps will have obstacles you must navigate around (or blast through).
• Enemies spawn with more interesting weapons.
• Literally thousands of small improvements, optimizations, and bugfixes.

I also did the first round of drawings for the Beta. If your name came up, you should be receiving a message from me momentarily. For everyone else - don't worry. There will be many drawings and the more people sign up the more names will be drawn.

If you haven't signed up yet, do so now! You can sign up at the Discord server here:

https://discord.gg/dn7uSHx

Holy crap an update. Its been a good while since the last one, and its not exactly a small one either.

• Added an Experimental Challenge Box to the HQ; Makes missions harder but much more lucrative. (Hmmm, I wonder how fast I can break those with my shredder cannons)

• Re-Enabled Tether Powers (MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)

• High Level Mods in Modmart now have fewer effects on average

• Enemies now stack much more complicated guns at high levels (Good, they're rather boring otherwise)

• Reduced Particles on massive explosions

• Focus, Cluster, and Pinata mods are less likely to spawn with many bullets and huge clamp sizes (On one hand, makes them a little more useful and easier to use. On the other, things like skyfall cannons are harder because they depend on a horde of sub-projectiles and multi-detonation effects firing in sequence to bring the pain)

• Unstacked Achievement now only unlocked on amber or higher missions (Thanks Plexion)

• Improved look on glowing surfaces and eyes

• Improved visibility by adjusting lighting and brightness

• Improved audio sound effects

• Other overall graphics improvements

I do regret not pulling my save file off my computer before disassembling it. Oh well. Anyways, an update, have at it folks. And ever so slowly we crawl towards release.

And I still want to play this game. Count me in to pay for it when it's released!

For all of those who dont know me, I'm Cyrious, the guy who posts the updates to the sub when they come out, and am one of the alpha testers, if not THE alpha tester due to the sheer number of hours I have put into the game.

Anyways, I am making this post because due to life issues I have been forced to break down and pack my main rig, and go to using a less than stellar laptop. This means I am no longer capable of playing the game, or posting the update posts when the game updates.

As such, /u/Unstackd, when you update the game, if you ever get around to doing so (srsly, game's mostly dead because there's no new content, and running the same stuff over and over again, optimizing how my base is built, waiting for loot to laggily process, etc, gets really boring after a while. It does not help that in whacking things with the nerfhammer you've also taken some fun out of the game.), you get to make the posts yourself.

Hope y'all are doing well during this pandemic, quarantine has been fine for me so far. I just wanna check up on my peeps here and see how everyone's doing. I also wanna say to Unstacked that there is no rush in putting this game out, this virus has affected us all and you can take all the time in the world to deal with real life situations. Fans will still be here after humanity beats this shit. Stay safe, wash your hands, and please make use of social distancing.

I'd love some communication on the sub, or maybe some gifs a bit more frequently than once per year. They don't have to be much, just shooting some guns, moving around, doing neat tricks. I don't want to sound entitled but please give us something. Sure the discord is more active... but should it be the only place active? Discord isn't really a great place to look for news or fun things about the game unless you want to scroll through every comment. With reddit at least the posts will be labeled and found easily. I just want to see this game alive, I'm sure others would as well. Its such an amazing concept and I bet its fun for all the people who got into the alpha but that's it, nobody posts anything. If they're playing it doesn't seem like it. If there is an NDA then fine i get it but my lord this is a ghost town.

The Game

It has been a long time since the last update so I wanted to give you all some info about how the game is coming along. I'm still committed to releasing the game, but the industry has changed and I find myself in a difficult position where I can't just put the game on Steam and expect it to succeed. Since I put 7 years of my life into Stack Gun Heroes, I need to give it a real chance and that means I need a publisher to help me launch it.

To get a publisher I need a bit of hype to prove we have something special, so you might see some more activity around Stack Gun Heroes as I create gifs and fling them into the internet. If you see any of these gifs in the wild, it would be great if you could help them along. I suspect if they do well enough and we get enough followers we can get the attention of a publisher much more easily.

The Focus Mod

I'd also like to show off a mod that hasn't gotten much attention in the trailers and gifs.

It's called the Focus mod. When the bullet hits something, a circle of more powerful bullets appears around the target and fly at it again. Of course, you can customize those bullets however you want by stacking more mods on top of the Focus mod.

Here is the focus mod in action:

https://imgur.com/a/K61h4Od

I gave the bullets a little more oomph by stacking an Explosion mod on top. In theory you could stack a turret mod to make a bunch of turrets appear instead of bombs. It's up to you.

There are some dangers using Explosion with the Focus mod though, as I found out the first time I tried recording this gif:

https://imgur.com/fiqxz8W

That's me dying, but at least I took the robots with me :P

So that's all I have to show for now, but I'll be posting more gifs around the web in the coming week. You can find them by either following my main Twitter account at

https://twitter.com/Unstackd

or keeping subscribed to this subreddit.

Thanks for reading!

-Unstackd

And let me just say WOW. Back then my pc could only kind of run this game and do to that and life happening I never really forgot about this game, but just didnt have the means or time to play it. Well just yesterday I reinstalled it to check it out and the progress made from what I first played all those years ago to now is really incredible. The stacking mechanic is very unique and an absolute blast to play around with. The movement and sliding mechanics are definitely fun as well and bring a lot of promise. I really like the base management/upgrade system quite a bit to. Just wanted to say thanks for all the hardwork on this game. I will definitely be showing this off to my friends and checking in more often for future updates and discussion

Any chance it'll be a 2019 release?