Hi everyone, since it's the end of January, we want to talk about our progress with area 2 and our timeline for releasing the next update.

Levels Progress:

We are nearing completion of all 9 main levels in the Rainforest Redoubt. levels 1-7 are almost done and will just need some balancing tweaks. 

We have the main layout for levels 8 and 9 done but we still need to spice them up with graphical assets and work on the lightning storm that will be present during those two levels.

Level 10 will be the boss room for area 2. We plan to create it once we start work on the boss.

Enemy Progress:

We've created the 2 new enemy types we are introducing during the dark forest section of the Rainforest Redoubt (levels 6-10). These 2 enemy types are Snipers and War Golems. 

The Snipers are almost completed and definitely add some challenge to the levels they appear in. The War Golems are still a work in progress but are coming along great!

Chopper AI change

We've decided to change how the AI of the Chopper enemies work since we felt that they were too similar to the crowbarer enemies from the Seaside scrapyard. 

Instead of slowly lumbering towards you and trying to chop you with their axe, they now charge towards you at a blistering speed and will do a heavy attack if they come in contact with you during this charge. 

This new AI is definitely more interesting than their old one, but we still need to do some work on it.

Estimated Timeline:

Our goal was to have all of the Rainforest Redoubt levels completed by the end of January so we would have February to create the end boss and do some final tweaks to the game. 

We didn't quite achieve our goal but we are still planning to release update 2 by the end of February. If it's not ready, we will release it sometime during March.

Thanks for taking the time to read this post. Stay tuned to our Twitter, YouTube and devlogs for more info as we continue to develop Autonomous Anarchy. Hope you are looking forward to Update 2!