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Wild Assault presents a fantastic experience of anthro warfare. In Wild Assault, you can join the battleground and play as anthro characters with unique abilities based on animal instincts. The game offers an intense battle atmosphere, refreshing gun shooting, and unique tactical skills.

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Wild Assault Dev Log: 2024 Recap

22 Jan

Hello Wild Ones! 🎩👌

How time flies! We posted the first Wild Assault Dev Log on June 13, 2024, and now all of a sudden, you're reading the 22nd log we've posted. ✍️

According to our plan, this will be the last dev log you read before Wild Assault enters early access. So let's take some time to highlight some of the most memorable moments from the past year! 📸

After years of development, Wild Assault first went public on January 18, 2024. It’s been an amazing year for us, and we’re so glad that you’ve embraced our little project and walked with us along the way.

Alpha Test

Wild Assault's Alpha Test began in early May 2024, and we clearly didn’t expect that much attention.

Our Steam page received over 300k views in the first five days of the alpha test, and more than 40k players from all over the world applied to participate. Gameplay videos posted by players on multiple social media platforms generated over 3 million views.

We were caught off guard at first but managed to quickly build a functioning community and feedback mechanism. Thanks to your attention and continuous support, we were invited to the Anthro Festival 2024 on Steam. Thank you Klace! What an honor!

Special thanks to Auxl, Bliz, Frizzey, Hilda, Tonky, VoiL and Yonu for being the best Discord mods ever! ❤️
Again, a big thanks to DoryuuZ. You are one of the best content creators we’ve worked with! 🫡

Beta Test

Wild Assault Beta Test: Assemble went live on August 1, 2024, alongside our first official trailer. What started as a "side project" was once again warmly received by our community and players. The trailer generated over 1.1 million views across all social media platforms, and we received countless positive comments and feedback.

During the beta test, more than 300 gameplay and review clips were uploaded to video platforms like YouTube, gathering 1.5 million views. Wild Assault also caught the attention of streamers, many of whom began streaming it on Twitch. The beta test achieved over 90k watch hours and peaked with more than 50k viewers throughout the beta test.

Tokyo Game Show 2024

In late September 2024, we traveled to Tokyo, Japan, to attend the Tokyo Game Show 2024, one of the biggest events we’ve ever participated in. By setting up a booth on-site, we showcased Wild Assault’s core gameplay and eye-catching features to hundreds of attendees during the event. Our producer Lantin also presented Wild Assault to an even larger audience through the TGS official live show. By attending TGS 2024, we were able to go beyond borders, make new friends, and introduce our project to their communities.

Gamma Test & Steam Next Fest

Our third open test, the Wild Assault Gamma Test, began on October 9, 2024, during the Steam Next Fest 2024. Our team successfully pushed updates daily, addressing over 700 issues submitted by our community throughout the test. By our estimation, posts with the hashtag #WildAssault received over 1.1 million views across social media platforms. We saw many amazing streams, clips, and fan art created during the gamma test. We are truly amazed by your creativity and sincerely thankful for the support from our wonderful community！

Art by @teteteko[x.com]In collaboration with CShip, HOWL, Klace, Maxi Molina, and Studio Klondike, we attended the SXSW Game Show in Sydney, Australia, expanding Wild Assault to even more continents. You guys are some of the most amazing indie game devs we’ve ever had the pleasure of working with! Thank you so much for your help, we owe you one!

Through your invaluable support and our collective efforts, Wild Assault made it to the "Most Wishlisted Upcoming Games" chart in the Steam Next Fest October 2024 Edition, an achievement we never dreamed possible!

The Next Step

Our community is the most precious treasure we have. Wild Assault now enjoys more than 100k followers and community members across various social media platforms, bringing together players, esports elites, indie game devs, streamers, YouTubers, VTubers, artists, cosplayers, and voice actors. Wild Assault has become a project co-created by each and every one of us. Through tests, feedback, suggestions and fan art, our community has made Wild Assault more alive and creative than ever. We are proud to be part of this journey, and you should be too!

To continue co-creating Wild Assault with our community, we have been posting this dev log on a weekly basis. Our dev logs have generated over 1 million impressions across Steam and social media platforms, gathering enormous comments, likes and feedback. We’ve truly enjoyed sharing our development process with you all and have confidently relied on your input to guide our decisions. We couldn’t have done it without your love and support!

Since the gamma test, we’ve been working hard to prepare new content for early access, hoping that features like new valiants, maps, systems, grind content, trailers, and key art meet your expectations. On the tech side, we've focused on improving game performance and server stability, resolving over 100 issues based on your previous feedback. If you've been following our previous dev logs, you probably have a good sense of what we’ve been working on lately. We’re also preparing to reveal more info about the new content before early access — they’re really cool and you’ll definitely like them!

📣 By the way, we’re happy to let you know that there will be another QoS focused open test before we enter early access! Please consider adding Wild Assault to your Steam wishlist so you’ll be notified once our test is ready.

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Wild Assault

im conflicted

I want to play it because you get to eliminate furries, which lets be honest, most sane people would love to do. but on the other hand, i have to be a furry to do it.......

Shadow Weezle

25 Jan @ 8:38am

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Wild Assault Dev Log: Dive into Performance Optimizations - A Case Study

15 Jan

Hello, Wild Ones! We're excited to talk to you again in this episode!

First of all, we’re thrilled to see that so many players love our early concept designs for Akai Hime. The team is already discussing the possibility of making them cosmetics for Akai Hime in the future. We’ll definitely keep you updated on our progress!

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In this episode, we’d like to share a case study on how we continue to optimize Wild Assault’s graphics performance.

Handy Tools in the Gearbox

Combat Cat Studio is a small group of developers. To improve overall development efficiency for such a huge and complex project, we decided to utilize some of the most innovative tools available in the latest version of Unreal Engine 5, including Nanite, Lumen, and VSM, to achieve stunning visual effects like Dynamic Global Illumination.

Technical Terms

💡 Nanite: A powerful system for rendering ultra-detailed geometry, enabling rich, immersive experiences without sacrificing performance.
💡 Lumen: A real-time global illumination and reflections system, delivering natural and dynamic lighting for immersive environments.
💡 VSM: A high-performance shadow-mapping system that delivers soft, stable, and detailed shadows for realistic visuals.

📖 Explore More from the Epic Games Dev Community:

1️⃣ Nanite Virtualized Geometry[dev.epicgames.com]
2️⃣ Lumen Global Illumination and Reflections[dev.epicgames.com]
3️⃣ Virtual Shadow Maps in Unreal Engine[dev.epicgames.com]
4️⃣ Dynamic Global Illumination Methods[dev.epicgames.com]

However, the new technologies offered in Unreal Engine 5 are relatively hardware intensive and could introduce performance issues in the game. We've been conducting all kinds of experiments to address these performance issues ever since the alpha test. Specifically, one of the most important questions we're trying to answer is: "How can we further optimize the loading and rendering process in a large, open world created using UE5?"

After months of exploration, we are finally making progress. We've tested the latest build of Wild Assault with the HIGH graphics preset on an RTX 3070 Ti GPU, and the average FPS has increased by 7.2% compared to a prior build without the new methods implemented.

"Let'em Cook!"

"NOT a Piece of Cake"

Unreal Engine 5 offers a variety of efficiency driven tools that make it easier for developers to achieve their goals. Initially, we considered using the World Partition feature to automatically divide the open world into several grids, loading them only when needed. Additionally, we planned to utilize the HLOD (Hierarchical Level of Detail) system to render models at varying levels of detail.

By combining these two features, we could load only the necessary grids of the open world, render objects near the camera at a high level of detail, and display objects farther away with lower levels of detail. This approach can significantly reduce hardware demand (including GPU workload and VRAM usage) while ensuring a high and stable frame rate.

Problem solved, right? Or is it?

Demonstration

Wild Assault Operation Mojave World Partition Demonstration

Wild Assault Operation Mojave HLOD Demonstration
The tower is rendered in high detail when the camera is near but in low detail when the camera is far.

Technical Terms

💡 World Partition: A system that splits large game worlds into smaller grids and loads only what's needed, improving performance.
💡 HLOD: A feature that shows nearby objects in high detail and distant ones in lower detail to optimize rendering.

📖 Explore More from the Epic Games Dev Community:

1️⃣ World Partition in Unreal Engine[dev.epicgames.com]
2️⃣ Hierarchical Level of Detail in Unreal Engine[dev.epicgames.com]

Test runs reveal that the problem is more complicated than it initially seemed. World Partition's dynamic grid loading often causes significant frame rate stutter, an issue that’s unacceptable for a competitive, fast paced PVP shooter like Wild Assault.

What if we make the grids bigger? That could prevent the HLOD system from working effectively. It seems we’ll need to further develop a customized approach to implementing HLOD. 🤔

"We're Goin' Custom Shop!"

By default, Unreal Engine manages the HLOD system automatically. To better control how the engine renders different levels of detail, we modified its source code to make the system more customizable. We also added various configuration parameters to fine-tune the process.

(Fellow indie devs, feel free to DM us if you want to learn the trick!)

Solving HLOD Visual Defects

Some objects displayed noticeable visual defects after merging, indicating the need for rules to better manage how HLOD is applied to specific objects. We have further developed a set of rules for all relevant objects and applied HLOD accordingly. In addition, we have also modified the implementation of the HLOD layer to achieve a balance between visual quality and frame rate performance.

Demonstration

Wild Assault Custom HLOD Demonstration
Original model, model with visual defects caused by auto HLOD, and model processed with custom HLOD.

Solving Performance Drops in Multiplayer Mode

Wait that's not the end of it!

While our custom HLOD solution has significantly improved frame rate performance in singleplayer mode, it didn’t work as expected in multiplayer mode, even after we removed all dynamic components.
After a careful investigation, we discovered that the loading order of different levels of detail (LODs), along with a related VFX frequently applied to textures like terrain, roads, and vegetation, was negatively impacting frame rate performance.

We then developed specific solutions to address the issues we identified.

As a result of our custom HLOD R&D, we boosted FPS in our test build by approximately 7.2%. We hope this example provides a simple and transparent look at our performance optimization workflow. As our producer mentioned in the previous Q&A sessions, performance optimization is always an ongoing task for us. We’ll continue exploring new methods to improve Wild Assault's frame rate and deliver the best possible gaming experience.

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We hope you enjoyed this week’s geeky dev log, and we truly appreciate your support! We’ll keep striving to find better ways to discuss tech topics with both players and fellow indie devs. Let us know your thoughts!

Don't forget to add Wild Assault to your wishlist! 🫶

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Wild Assault Dev Log: Exploring Akai Hime's Early Concepts

8 Jan

Hello, Dear Wild Ones!
Hope you're having a fantastic 2025 so far!
First of all, thank you very much for sharing so many amazing ideas for new game modes in our previous dev logs. We've collected all of them and will definitely discuss them further!

In this episode, our valiant designers would like to present to you the design approach behind Akai Hime.

Early designs of Akai Hime

Akai Hime v1

In this early concept design, we focused on the "Ninja" theme.

Based on the characteristics of the assassin class, this version of Akai Hime wears an outfit that merges Japanese-style armor with combat suit elements. Our initial goal was to create a cold, swift, and foxy ninja girl.

Akai Hime v2

The second early concept design for Akai Hime is rather "colorful," with more of her fursonality and cultural identity taken into account.

With Akai Hime red and purple as the main colors, this outfit combines elements of a kimono and a school uniform, featuring intriguing accessories such as fishnet stockings and rivets. The outfit gives Akai Hime a sense of danger, wrapped in a layer of exotic allure.

Akai Hime v3

Ah, this is the design we're all familiar with. The core idea of this concept design is to present Akai Hime's delicate and youthful charm. With the outdoor athlete-style outfit featuring a casual and energetic jacket, we want to enchant Akai Hime with adorableness, vitality and a bit of idol charisma.

Final Concept

We finally selected version 3 as Akai Hime's final concept design. Instead of using the red from Akai Hime's v1 and v2 designs, we opted for pink to further emphasize Akai Hime's adorableness and vitality. With the newly designed cute bow hair clip and heart & paw shaped accessories, we managed to make Akai Hime appear even younger and more lively.

Originally posted by Wild Assault official lore:
Lore wise, Akai Hime's unfortunate childhood caused her to become skilled in manipulating others' minds and hearts since she was very young. Her seemingly harmless beauty is a powerful tool for easily gaining others' trust. Beneath her youthful appearance lies a cunning nature, allowing her to leverage her intelligence and techniques to deliver a fatal strike when her rivals let their guard down.

What other valiant design stories would you like to know about? Are there any other aspects you would like to see in our dev logs? Let us know in the comments! We'll see you again next time!

As always, don't forget to add Wild Assault to your wishlist! 🫶

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Is this the game for wierdos?

Will this be THE game for THE wierdest ppl on earth? if this game wasnt so strange i bet it could pop off but they decided to be DOA, the gameplay looks okey from the videos at the store but the charackters, im not about to play with like i already said, wierd ppl that 100% will be sexually attrachtet to ANIMALS and will say so in the ingame chat/voice chat if the game has any. i can already picture the chat like: "im gonna ♥♥♥♥ you up" - "uwu please, daddy". not a game for me and im sure also ma...

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Babda

10 Jan @ 1:59pm

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28 Jan @ 6:55pm

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any news about a beta? even payd one?

for people who watch all the news, any tip for an upcomingbeta or playtest or early acces?

Terente22CmRecords

23 Jan @ 4:37pm

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For the love of God, how many times do we need to tell you to nerf the wolf??? (Jack)

Wallhack PLUS ability to kill behind walls PLUS Sniper for long range that does insane damage. What is supposed to be the weakness or way this character fits into a team? By doing all the damage and spotting all the enemies? Why not give him a heal while you're at it? I'm almost afraid the devs will at this point. The wolf is insanely broken and for some reason the devs chose to nerf other characters instead. If you cannot balance something that's blatantly broken then the game will be DOA once it relea...

CEO of Cunny

20 Oct, 2024 @ 9:44pm

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