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Dev News and Updates

Macielos

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Alright, I'm halfway through mission four, and that means it's once again time for everyone's favourite handsome devil!

Here's also a sample from another character from Chapter Two that needs no introduction. He's also a definition of a character for which we use "Style Exaggeration" function in Elevenlabs.

Overall, it goes quite smoothly. I'm truly impressed how well made, realistic and emotion-rich some voices turn out when chosen a proper sample to train the model, and then adjust just several configuration parameters. We use two main sources of voice lines: HOTS and Witcher 3 - quite enough to have a vide choice and avoid repeating voices.
 

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Macielos

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Chapters 1-7 + the Alteraci Chapter are now fully voice-overed, five chapters + some interludes to go. So far the biggest pain in the arse is that once I import all those sounds and click "use as sound" in sound editor, trigger editor starts working slowly as hell, freezing for 2-3 seconds with every click on a trigger element. Like it's reloading all used sounds. I hope it's fixed on Reforged.
 

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TVG 2.06 is getting close to completion, so recently I improve my painting skills in departments that the project demands. Here are some icons made especially for patch 2.06... And I guess it's conjectural fact, that what has icon is also playable :].

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Some of them are units and heroes of old, but others are completely new and unique to 2.06. Feel free to play guessing game and tell me what do you think you see :]
 
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Macielos

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Voiceovers and other changes for Chapter Nine are now completed. That was the last mission for which we planned major changes, including new mechanics, reworked dialogs, extended boss fight and more. For the remaining chapters it's mostly voiceovers, new AI and applying techtree changes, so hopefully they won't take long. 2.06 is getting closer.
 

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We're pleased to announce, that after months of hard work and intense playtesting, the newest patch for The Violet Gate is available :xxd:.

It used to be known as 2.06, but it has sooo much content, that we decided to label this revision as 3.0.

Full changelog and list of new features are available in the project page.
 

Macielos

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This is the final content patch for The Violet Gate. This story is now complete and polished to the best of our ability. Of course, there may be hotfixes, balance changes or minor upgrades (as with the sheer amount of changes we are certain there are things we messed up), but besides, we'll now be fully focused on Exodus 2.
 
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