Work In Progress: Story Rework (New Chapter 4), UI Updates, Chapter 6, Courier Drones, and More (Sep 2025)
Added 2025-09-20 00:20:12 +0000 UTCHey all! Just wanted to show a couple things we've been working on for the next build.
New Chapter 4:
Embark on a quest that takes Amelia near and around Exodus to meet Hans and Fritz, a father and son duo of scientists. With their help, Amelia prepares the search for Susan, the second magical girl to join GARDA. This chapter explores the nature of reality, magic, and fragments of humanity's distant past.
This chapter is being developed alongside a fairly large rework of the story for Mahou Arms, so we're making changes to other chapters that are already in the game as well. The Rockefallen chapter will also be re-numbered to Chapter 5 as this is the new Chapter 4.
Chapter 6:
Chapter 6 is Susan's introductory chapter, taking place in the whole new map of Siberia. We've shown WIP shots of the environment in the past and we haven't stopped working on the area since. It is probably the largest area in the game so far and it is a place we will return to later. There is also a section where you play as Camila in the dropship raining death from above.
Individual Health Bars:
Enemy health bars are no longer restricted to your locked-on target. Any enemy with damage dealt to them now have a health bar show up until they are killed or leave combat range.
Scanner Upgrade:
The Scan Utility Skill now shows more objects through walls, giving it more utility. Interactable items, chests, elevators, and other objects will show up briefly through walls when this skill is used. Decorative rings have also been added.
Courier Drones:
Courier drones have been scattered throughout the map (their model is a work in progress). When shot down, these drop a chest on the ground with items that can be collected. They're usually in places you wouldn't expect to look.
Chests:
Most of the pickups in the world have been replaced with animated chest models. I'm particularly fond of the red one that inflates and explodes.
This is just the work in progress we feel is presentable. Unlisted work in progress includes story stuff we don't want to reveal yet for spoiler reasons, optimizations, bugfixes, and more.
Thanks for reading and we deeply appreciate your support all this time.
-softmode/paperbag, edited by VolatileCarbon
Comments
Part of the reason for the rework is to rescope for available resources, so in the end it's actually less time than before
Paperbag
2025-09-20 07:05:09 +0000 UTCNice to see the continued work, hopefully the story rework will be final since that takes a lot of time.
anon
2025-09-20 03:01:21 +0000 UTCUnfortunately I think this one has a good chance of breaking savefiles because the overall progression is changing completely. That said, we need an "import items from savefile" feature at some point, so we might do something like that, where at least you'll be able to import items even though the quests will need to be reset
Paperbag
2025-09-20 01:45:22 +0000 UTCwill the update break savefiles at all? it sounds like it's going to change a lot. for example, having already progressed through rockenfall except for beating the boss? And what if Susan had been my selected character for the savefile? Would that be a problem, since character choices sound like they may become fixed to certain stages?
ByogenLivesMatter(2)
2025-09-20 00:48:24 +0000 UTC
