Stylish VR Roguelike Shooter “Sweet Surrender” Releases 1.0 Update for Quest and SteamVR!

Salmi Games :

Munich, Germany – May 24th 2024: “Update 10: Resurrection” for Sweet Surrender brings a full-fledged overhaul of the visuals, including some unique post-processing effects for PC and Meta Quest 3, 2 and even 1 (in experimental mode).

 

Developed by Salmi Games, Sweet Surrender is a Roguelike VR shooter with a unique art style and extensive replayability!

“After more than a year, we’re excited to bring you the biggest update yet to Sweet Surrender. We’ve carefully gone over the whole game to take greater advantage of the hardware capabilities of modern VR headsets and PCs. We’ve also extensively improved the overall player experience based on your feedback.”

Update 10 improvements include:
 

✨ Bloom and HDR

💯 100s of New Visual Effects

🔫 Horizontal Weapon Recoil

🐂 Final Boss Revamp

⚡ No more insta-death on Void Glitch 

🥞 Unstuck Button

🐞 Improved Bug Reporting tool 😂

💪 Dozens of bug fixes and performance improvements

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Quotes from the Dev

“This release represents our “spiritual” graduation from early access to the 1.0 release state. We’ll continue to make improvements, but we feel we finally reached the visual aspiration we originally had when we first prototyped and pitched this game”

“We’ve tuned this game so that it looks its absolute best for each platform. This means that we can both continue to support the “ancient” Quest 1, while pushing the limits on Quest 3. On PC VR, we can support your basic 7-year old potato PC and still crank up the resolution and effects on the latest hardware. Thanks to some incredible work by the dev team over the last 4 years, we can have our cake and eat it too.”

How exactly did the team pull off the incredible feat of supporting post-processing on mobile hardware? Salmi Games responded: 

“That’s the funny thing, when you go on Unity forums and ask how to support Post-Processing on mobile VR, everyone just tells you to forget about it, there’s not enough power on the headset, you will never hit framerate, etc. Well, due to the unique nature of our game, with a low poly count and extremely low usage of textures, we could actually afford the overhead of a full-screen post-processing pass. It’s still very expensive, and we still had to make a number of improvements and optimizations, but we managed to squeeze it in. On Quest 2, we can run these effects at 72 fps. Even on Quest 1 it runs at a playable framerate, with an extremely loose definition of “playable”. But it’s there and playable!

“The game was originally designed with the hard constraints of Quest 1. Our unique inline/outline art style derived from this limitation. What we don’t do with textures, we more than make up with particle effects, outline effects and the bloom and HDR post-processing pass”

More about Sweet Surrender

In Sweet Surrender, you play as a rebel who must fight their way up a towering superstructure infested with robotic security forces. All manners of traps, treacherous environments, pitfalls and robots will be trying to put you down. You must make use of skill, upgrade chips and firepower to persevere through this nightmare!

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Salmi Games is a Munich-based indie studio, specializing in VR games.