The Fifth Day
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The Fifth Day
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Game Description
The Fifth Day is a post-apocalyptic survival game set in the time after mankind's extinction to the machines that it created. Your role, as one of these machines, is to survive in the hostile world left behind by man. Explore, build, and hack your way to victory in competitive online survival, or face the wastes alone in offline freeplay mode.Key Alpha Features
Explore a world left by man, where rogue AI roam the lands previously inhabited by their creators and masters.- Explore dense forests, radioactive wastes, and abandoned cities in hopes of finding resources and surviving to the next day in this desolate world.
- Join competitive online play. Survive alone or with a partner through a series of five days to come out on top as the superior machines of the new world. Elimination by death brings the challenge to a whole new level as players are removed from the competition after being destroyed.
- Win online matches to upgrade your character's skills and become the most feared and dangerous machine left behind in this new world.
- Find resources and construct your own settlement. Build anything from small wooden encampments to get you through the night to reinforced bunkers with automated defenses to protect against intruding AI.
- In order to power your mechanical being, you will need to find and manage power sources that each bring different advantages as well as costs to using them.
- Hack enemy AI to follow your commands or support you in your ventures.
- Face the wastes alone in single player freeplay where all you have is your own strength and willpower to survive in this post-apocalyptic world.
Development Roadmap
With early access development, community feedback is vital towards producing the best product possible. Since the start of pre-alpha development, feedback and suggestions from the community have greatly helped in shaping the game to the state it currently is. The game has come a long way since the initial Greenlight submission, but there are still lots of improvements and features that can be made.As the game progresses through alpha, here are a few features planned for implementation:
- More NPC Characters - New machine AIs with varying and unique behaviors that will greatly enhance the level game flow.
- Expanded Hacking - Many more options and commands for hacking and programming NPCs are planned for development.
- Expanded NPC A.I. - Better A.I. will really provide an interesting challenge to both online and offline play.
- New Construction Options - There are quite a few new features for construction that have been planned as well as suggested by the community that will be exciting to implement.
- Weather Effects - Dynamic weather system that will bring new challenges as well as visual improvements by creating a more atmospheric world.
- New Environments - New levels, environments, and biomes are planned for addition in later versions of the game.
- UI Enhancements - Various improvements and polishing for the user interface will make for more immersive play.
- New Online Game Modes - More online game modes, including possible team based survival play.
- Additional Skills - New skills and abilities to provide more customization options to your character.
- More Power Source Types - Additional options such as thermal and hydrogen based power supplies will create more diverse play as each will introduce unique costs and benefits to using.
- Expanded Sound Design - More SFX and atmospheric sound development will greatly add more immersive qualities to the world.
Announcements
Status Update 01/19/2018
Hello Everyone, The past few weeks we have finished implementing functionality for the new player and NPC modification system in addition to the many other changes that we wanted to include for the
Status Update 12/13/2017
Hello Everyone, Over the past three weeks we have finished most of the work on optimizing performance and reducing overhead for AI navigation and decision support. Additionally, we have implemented
Update V0.0.6.45
Hello Everybody, In this update we have focused on graphics, performance and stability improvements. Additional graphics options have been implemented and NPCs have now become smarter and more agile
Status Update 11/19/2017
Hello Everyone, The past few months we have been working on several exciting new features to the game. While we would really like to release the latest update, at this time we are resolving a few pe
Status Update 01/19/2018
Hello Everyone, The past few weeks we have finished implementing functionality for the new player and NPC modification system in addition to the many other changes that we wanted to include for the
Update V0.0.7.0
Hello Everyone, We have released the latest patch version 0.0.7.0. With it come several new features including a modular component system that allows for customizing both player and NPC characters, a
Patch V0.0.7.01
Hot fixes: -reduced saved game file size to address long loading times -reduced player's collision impact damage -increased effectiveness of radiation shield to muffle radiation signature
Update V0.0.6.45
Hello Everybody, In this update we have focused on graphics, performance and stability improvements. Additional graphics options have been implemented and NPCs have now become smarter and more agile
Update V0.0.7.0
Hello Everyone, We have released the latest patch version 0.0.7.0. With it come several new features including a modular component system that allows for customizing both player and NPC characters, a
Patch V0.0.7.3
Hello Everyone, I have pushed the latest build V0.0.7.3 to the hot fix branch now. See a full list of changes for this patch below: Added a visual effect at the start of the fifth day to the harpoo
Update V0.0.6.46
Hello everybody, In this update, we focused on extending and improving AI behavior, adding audio content, and implementing new construction elements. Additionally, we have added rudimentary Steam S
Status Update 11/19/2017
Hello Everyone, The past few months we have been working on several exciting new features to the game. While we would really like to release the latest update, at this time we are resolving a few pe
Patch V0.0.7.01
Hot fixes: -reduced saved game file size to address long loading times -reduced player's collision impact damage -increased effectiveness of radiation shield to muffle radiation signature
Patch V0.0.7.2
Hot fixes: -fixed a bug causing hangs on scene switch -changed network serialization of constructions, allowing upto 9000 blocks in multiplayer game -fixed miscalaneous bugs
Hot fix V0.0.7.3a
Hi all, This update corrects the issue with game loading and level switching taking a long time and in some situations causing the game to crash. Please note, initial game load may take additional
Status Update 12/13/2017
Hello Everyone, Over the past three weeks we have finished most of the work on optimizing performance and reducing overhead for AI navigation and decision support. Additionally, we have implemented
Update V0.0.6.44
Merry Christmas Everyone! In this update we have added a new level from our future story line and addressed some of the concerns expressed in your feedback. AI behavior has been changed to a persist
Update V0.0.6.43
Hello Everyone! In this update we have addressed concerns expressed in your feedback to improve the construction algorithms. We have eliminated the sagging effect on building blocks, so new support
Update V0.0.6.44
Merry Christmas Everyone! In this update we have added a new level from our future story line and addressed some of the concerns expressed in your feedback. AI behavior has been changed to a persist
Update V0.0.6.46
Hello everybody, In this update, we focused on extending and improving AI behavior, adding audio content, and implementing new construction elements. Additionally, we have added rudimentary Steam S
