Steel Storm: Burning Retribution Message Board

Do you remember Steel Storm: Burning Retribution? I barely do, and yet I loved it back in May 2011. A top-down shooter that mixes action and puzzles, sneaking up to the edge of bullet-hell. Bizarrely, two and a half years later, a small piece of DLC has appeared – Forgotten Prison. Still, it’s a darned good one, and it’s a reminder that people should pick up the entire (really very cheap) core game.

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Emergency! Emergency! The world is running out of words to put after ‘indie’ when coming up with new pay-what-you-want bundle titles. Gamersgate have opted for ‘fort’ as theirs, with that perhaps unintended sideeffect that when I think IndieFort I picture a castle wearing a checked shirt and some black-framed plastic spectacles. Oh well! The roster of included games is fairly impressive in this one, and has a bit of a roleplaying skew rather than the usual barrange of faux-vintage platformers and shmups. We get 2D space sim Black Market, roguelike Cardinal Quest, free-roaming samurai roleplaying Kenshi, hovertank shooter Steel Storm: Burning Retribution, hardcore dungeon-crawler dungeon-crawling Devil Whiskey, and high-speed co-op RPG Wanderlust: Rebirth.(more…)

The third Humble Indie Bundle cannot be stopped. First it adds free Minecraft, then it hits ONE MILLION DOLLARS and then it adds a whole extra game! What game? Why it’s only Steel Storm: Burning Retribution, that handsome fellow. And what a terrible name for game it bears. But it’s okay, because Burning Retribution is actually a fun time!

Anyone who already bought the bundle will find this game added to their account, while those of you who are yet to buy it get a free bonus shoot ‘em up. Good times.

• the Message of The Day notification system
  
• scores now send to clients at a 1 at a time basis instead of updating all scores at once even if most of them are unchanged
  
• added ping to the scoreboard
  
• added damage dealt and accuracy to the scoreboard (damage dealt exists in old scoreboard files)
  
• fixed a bug that was drawing Storm Shield hits wrong against objects with shields
  
• fixed a bug that was not saving player profile/config after the game updates their profile
  
• fixed a bug that was setting revision wrong for new profiles
  
• floored some values in the scoreboard to avoid decimals
  
• decreased font size on the scoreboard to fit more stats in
  
• increased size of the scoreboard
  
• rewrote major portions of the scoreboard code to easily allow more stats and more game modes to be added
  
• scoreboard columns now adjust to the scoreboard stat titles to avoid translated text overlapping each other
  
• fixed a bug that was setting the end game flag always true on showing end mission scores
  
• fixed a bug that was checking the wrong variable when preparing scoreboard stats
  
• fixed a bug that was checking the wrong variable for mission end when drawing mission score options
  
• fixed a bug that was displaying time left below 0 when viewing end mission scores and the server is slow
  

• New CTF missions:
  
  • Arsenal CTF
    
  • Hack and Slash CTF
    
• New bonus campaign/co-op missions:
  
  • Onslaught
    
  • Purgatory
    
• Better profile updating
  
• Player Initiated Voting - Includes mission changes and player kicks. (Admins can force map changes or create votes even if its disabled.)
  
• Name tags
  
• Chat bubble
  
• Team balancing
  
• Fixed CTF and Deathmatch bugs
  
• IP address of server is now shown in server browser
  
• Manual connection to a server using IP address and port
  
• Passwords can be set for joining your server, and/or for admin mode access.
  
• Instant Chase Cam switch during multiplayer (at all times) and during single player (if it's unlocked). Q or Left Thumbstick Click on some gamepads is the default toggle control. (removed the chase camera toggle from the menu as it is now unnecessary due to the toggle control)
  
• Added a limited visibility chase cam mode toggle for better performance on slow machines
  

Coo, I spent a rather pleasant Thursday evening with this one. The awkwardly named Steel Storm: Burning Retribution (can steel burn, or indeed storm?), from the even more peculiarly named indie developer, Kot-in-Action Creative Artel, is top-fun top-down shooting. I’ve decided the game is just called Steel Storm, and that the developers are now KIA Cartel. Much easier. Let’s take a look (from immediately above).

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