03: Pre-Alpha Playtest

• Last Update: September 6th, 2024

• Build: Pre-Alpha Playtest 3

Installation Instructions

• Log in to the Epic Store with your account.

• Find Nyan Heroes in your Epic Games library.

• Download and install the build via the Epic Games launcher.

• Launch the title.

See Setup & Installation for more in depth details.

First Run Behavior

Upon first launch, users must:

1. Consent to EGS sharing account info with Nyan Heroes.

2. Agree to Nyan Heroes' Terms of Service.

3. Accept Nyan Heroes' Privacy Policy.

To proceed, accept each requirement in sequence. Declining any step or selecting 'quit' exits the title. All three agreements are mandatory for game access.

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HOT FIXES - September 5th

Guardians

Blitz

• Dynamo Drive - Decreased the recharge speed slightly.

• Voltage Rush - Removed Invulnerability and now has 80% damage reduction while active.

• Voltage Rush - Reduced duration time from 4.5 -> 3.5 seconds.

Nemesis

• Arcane Field - Increased charge rate slightly .

• Arcane Field - Increased Arcane Field duration from 7s -> 10s

Weapon

• Fixed Blitz's Electrocharge applying double damage.

• Fixed Blitz's Electrocharge not registering hit target sometimes.

• Fixed VFX beam missing when Blitz's Electrocharge is active.

• Fixed projectile speed being too fast when Blitz's Electrocharge is active.

Systems

• Fixed some crashes detected in live caused by the avatar service.

• Fixed some crashes detected in live caused by the interaction system.

FEATURES

Nyan Heroes is excited to announce the latest features and content updates! Here's what's new in this Pre-Alpha 3 Playtest Release:

Augments

• New Augments: We are introducing our first version of player customization called Augments. They are add-ons that enhance a mech's capabilities, with different rarities, memory costs, and effects based on their type and placement. Players can activate the augment into specific slots in the main menu of each guardian to optimize performance.

• In this current Playtest, players have a 25% chance to earn an Augment Chest at the end of a match (win or lose). Please note that this is not the intended method players will receive Augments when we release, it is for this playtest while the team works on this system further.

Audio

• New Music for Payload Game Mode: A new soundtrack specifically for Payload game modes to enhance the game atmosphere.

• Voice Over for Pilots: New voice lines and systems have been added for each cat pilot, bringing more personality and immersion to the game.

Anti-Cheat

• Easy Anti-Cheat: Integration of an anti-cheat system to prevent cheating and maintain game integrity.

• Client & Server Authentication: Improved authentication to several processes to prevent local client manipulation.

Game Mode

Payload Mode

Introducing a brand-new game mode where teams must escort or stop a payload from reaching its destination.

Randomized Mode Selection

With the introduction of the new Payload, the game mode will be randomized with 50% chance between Payload and Stronghold. This is a temporary feature for this playtest and players will be able to choose which mode they play in a future update.

Gameplay

• Cat Embark: Players can ride their team’s guardians as a cat and engage in combat while mounted.

  • When looking at an ally, press ‘F’ to embark. To disembark, press ‘Spacebar’ twice.

• Character Emotes: Added character emotes to the game. Press and hold ‘C’ to select between a variety of emotes.

• Ping System: Added a new communication system to the game. Holding down the Mouse Scroll Wheel or ‘M3’ button will open a menu that allows the player to tell teammates where they're attacking, defending, need help, and more.

Guardians & Cat Pilots

New Scout & Warlock Guardians

• Scout (Blitz):

  • Passive Ability - Dynamo Drive: As Blitz perform actions such as moving and dealing damage, his Dynamo Drive charges up. As the Drive fills up, Blitz gets an increase in speed and damage, up to 10%. The Dynamo Drive will drain slowly over time or deplete completely if they use their ultimate or their mech is destroyed.

  • Movement Ability - Voltage Rush: Blitz becomes invulnerable and does zoomies for a short period of time. During Voltage Rush, any enemy that comes into contact with Blitz will become marked. At the end of Voltage Rush, all marked enemies are briefly stunned.

  • Dynamic Ability - Electro-charge: Adds an electric effect to weapons, increasing damage output and slowing enemies.

  • Ultimate Ability - EMP Plunge: Blitz launches into the air for a few seconds and after a few seconds, dives down with an EMP that damages and disrupts all nearby enemies.

• Mage (Nemesis):

  • Movement Ability - Portal: Create a portal to instantly transport yourself and your team across a large distance.

  • Dynamic Ability - Conjure Weapons: Summons magical weapons to launch at your foes. The type of weapon conjured varies based on your weapon selection offering diverse and unique combat features.

  • Ultimate Ability - Arcane Field: Spawns a large pentagon in target area that deals damage over time to all enemies within its radius. Enemies who attempt to pass through its barriers will take a large amount of damage and be slowed.

Cat Pilots

• New Pilots: Ayana & Yuri join the line-up.

• Cat Locomotion UX improvements: When wall climbing, players can now turn and change their direction by moving their mouse to the left or right.

Map

• Erebus: The Battledome can now generate a historical reconstruction of the abandoned secret weapons base near the Erebus volcano on Antarctica. The Nekovian leadership will use this as a training exercise to prepare soldiers for a battle they expect will take place there some day.

• The Erebus map is only available with the Payload game mode.

Online

• Matchmaking Updates: Numerous improvements have been implemented to the matchmaking services in order to reduce player ping and more accurately assign a server closer to players.

• Custom Lobby: Players are now able to create their own custom games. They can specify which game mode and which server location to play on. Users can invite up to 11 other players for a full 6v6 match, but requires at least 2 players to start a game.

• NFTs as Profile Avatars: Players can now use their Nyan Genesis Heroes NFTs as their profile avatars.

Mission & Rewards

• New Missions: Added 30+ new missions to the game.

• Reward System: Every day at 13:00 UTC daily missions (Wednesdays at 13:00 UTC for Weekly) are refreshed with a new set of 8 random missions. Players can complete up to 6 each day to receive the daily bonus and consecutive bonus.

  • Players receive bonus MEOW points that increase each day they complete their 6 daily missions. Consecutive Bonus will reset each week on Wednesdays at 13:00 UTC.

UI

• Main Menu: UI overhaul for better navigation.

• Custom Keybinds: Players can now customize their keybinds in the Settings > Mouse & Keyboard menu.

Weapons

• Sentinel DMR: A new marksman rifle designed for precision shooting has been added to the game.

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KNOWN ISSUES

We’re aware of the following issues and our development team is actively working on fixes. Your experience is important to us, and we appreciate your patience as we continue to improve the game. If you encounter any problems not listed here, please report them through our support channels.

Augments

• Augment 'Insight' with rarity of Rare shows 8% CD Reduction in tooltip, but display 9% in Guardian Stats.

• Some Stat percentages don't add up correctly when adding Augments that modify the same stat (e.g. 2 different augments that give bonus to Reload Speed).

Custom Lobby

• Players can sometimes not create a Custom match and the button becomes grayed out. Please restart your game.

• Players can sometimes get stuck joining a custom lobby when the lobby is full or no longer available. Please restart the game.

Game Mode

• Payload UI can mix up the roles of the teams in the first round of the match.

Guardian

• Blitz's Electro charge with Malice Shotgun.

Menu

• Ready button becomes greyed out after creating custom lobby. Please always click "Leave" button and not the Esc key.

• Game freezes sometimes in Character Select when joining a match.

• Unable to select Grenade Launcher in Loadout after hovering over Guardian abilities. Please try not to mouse over the abilities before selecting your weapon for now.

Party Invite

• After installing the game, inviting friends to party doesn't update and doesn't show the friends in the party. Re-installing the game will fix this issue.

• Players accepting a Party Invite while not in game will show error "Failed to Join Party". Please only invite friends who are in the game.

• Players are sometimes able to invite friends that are already in their party.

• Status of the invited friends in a party does not show in the friend's pop-up.

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