Hi everyone!

I'm very happy to announce that Gladius v1.0 is finally live! After many, many months of work fusing the code bases from both Steam and Quest, optimizing the performance, and adding a ton of new features I finally have a single code base that I can release in all platforms at once, so it will be much easier to release new updates to all platforms in the future.

What's new in 1.0

There are a ton of improvements to the game vs the previous Steam version.
- Completely revamped weapon and enemy physics: All weapons and enemy interactions are now 100% physics based.
- Two handed weapons revamp and many new 2h weapons added such as the war hammer or the glaive.
- Custom grabbing poses
- AI improvements
- New tigers and female gladiators
- Bhaptics support
- Performance improvements: rebuild and optimized almost all the assets in the game.
- Completely revamped the access to the arenas to make it more immersive and comfortable.
- Completely revamped day5, day 6 and day 7 and optimized all levels in the game.
- Better animated crowd
- Distance grab! no need to crouch down to grab the weapon anymore.
- UI improvements
- New starting area (the cell)
- New tutorial
- Added a new training arena (the gladiator school)
- Mods! Gladius now supports community-created mods! You can create weapon and level mods and publish them so others can play too.
- In-game mod downloader: Just browse the mods and download the ones you like directly from the game.
- Weapon Mods: lightsabers, thor hammer, capt. america shield, beach ball gun, rubber chicken, butcher knife, frying pan, halo sword, hidden blade, and many more!
- 8 new arenas: Egyptian night, Infinity Arena, Infinity Forge, Roman villa, Jedi Council, Dragon ball arena, Arabian Arena, and linear level.
- Modding guide: Modding guide
- Hundreds of small fixes and improvements

Day 7

This is the final day of the campaign! In this new epic level you will have to steal the fire from the gods and kill the titan to win your freedom!

• Stage1: In the first stage you need to defeat the gladiators by throwing all of them into the fire pits.
• Stage2: After killing the gladiators, enter the temple and light the torch.
• Stage3: In the third stage you have to kill the temple guards.
• Stage4: In the final stage you will need to kill the Titan and survive the hordes of enemies that it will send to you.

Final Scene

Rome awaits you. Grab your Rudis from the table and you will be free, Gladiator!

Community mods

We added a new Arabian Arena!

Improvements and new stuff:

- Added a new Unlimited Strength potion to the arena. When in super strength mode you can rip gladiator heads with your own hands, and do super punches a la Dragon ball.

- Added the Unlimited Strength modifier in the training arena.
- Added localization to the game. Gladius is now available in English and Spanish, with more languages to come soon.
- Added option to remove bodies in 20s

Fixes:
- Fixed initial steam vr configuration not being applied correctly
- Fixed several steam vr visual glitches
- Fixed team fight not working sometimes
- Fixed Index controllers Run button not working
- Fixed leaderboard numbers overlapping the name
- Fixed grabbing the sword in reverse would not position the hand correctly
- Fixed hands on steamvr projecting a weird shadow
- Fixed gladiators not getting up sometimes
- Fixed ragdoll glitches when trying to pull a gladiator from different directions
- Fixed the position of the dismembered Head
- Fixed day6 not working in teleport mode
- Fixed day4 ballista
- Fixed Enemies rotating to face you on the floor before getting up
- Fixed Thor´s hammer would activate without grabbing it

That's it! I hope you like this update and thank you very much for your patience and support during all these months and during the whole Early Access period. I hope the wait was worth it :)

Cheers!