Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue causing game to crash on machines powered by Intel 10th gen (Ice Lake), Intel 11th gen (Tiger Lake), and Intel 12th gen (Alder Lake) CPUs.
  

Campaign

• New Level: Planet Oterion Part 2 (Lost City)
  
  
  
  • Explore lost ruins hidden beneath Oterion’s jungle canopy
    
  • Overcome deadly traps and ancient mechanisms
    
  • Discover the mysteries of an ancient civilization
    
  • Enemies spawn from level 25 and up
    

Holochamber: Boons

• Boon System enabled for Holochamber activities
  
• Boons augment the player experience by introducing modifiers during gameplay
  
• Boons are active until the completion of the current floor
  
• Boons cannot stack
  
• The Boon selection can be rerolled for a cost (in Credits)
  
• Rerolling the Boon selection increases the cost to reroll until the current floor is completed
  
• List of Holochamber Boons
  
  
  
  • Boon of Riches
    
    
    
    • Increased Credit gains
      
    • Reduced Experience gains
      
    
    
  • Boon of Knowledge
    
    
    
    • Greatly Increased Experience gains
      
    • Reduced Special Ammo drop rate
      
    • Reduced Credit gains
      
    
    
  • Boon of Efficiency
    
    
    
    • Increased Floor Progression rate
      
    • Players take more damage
      
    
    
  • Boon of War
    
    
    
    • Enemies take substantially more damage
      
    • Reduced Special Ammo drop rate
      
    • Reduced Player Healing Effectiveness
      
    
    
  • Boon of Fortitude
    
    
    
    • Players take substantially less damage
      
    • Reduced Credit gains
      
    • Reduced Player Healing Effectiveness
      
    
    
  • Boon of Ordnance
    
    
    
    • Greatly increased Special Ammo drop rate
      
    • Reduced Credit gains
      
    • Reduced Experience gains
      
    
    
  • Boon of Perseverance
    
    
    
    • Increased Special Ammo drop rate
      
    • Increased Player Healing Effectiveness
      
    • Players take substantially more damage
      
    
    
  • Boon of Attrition
    
    
    
    • Increased Floor Progression rate
      
    • Reduced Credit gains
      
    • Reduced Experience gains
      

Weapons

• New Aim Assistance
  
  
  
  • Weapons now have aim assistance when using the Laser Sights
    
  • Weapon aim assistance has a finite effective range per weapon type
    
  • Aim Assistance applies to horizontal and vertical targets
    
  • Aim assistance is tuned separately for each weapon type
    
  
  
• New Weapon Manufacturers
  
  
  
  • Zheng Small Arms Co.
    
    
    
    • Specialize in close range weapons
      
    • Highly effective against Bugs and Beasts
      
    • Roll with perks that deal extra damage to non-armored targets and provide player stat bonuses
      
    • Produce Assault Rifles, Burst Rifles, Handguns, Combat and Slug Shotguns, SMGs, LMGs and Flamethrowers
      
  • Kadru
    
    
    
    • Specialize in long range weapons
      
    • Highly effective against Bots and Aliens
      
    • Roll with more perks than other Manufacturers
      
    • Produce Burst Rifles, DMRs, Handguns, Crossbows, Snipers, Slug Shotguns and LMGs
      
    
    
  • General Tuning
    
    
    
    • Reduced Flamethrower base damage from 780 to 660
      
    • At Common quality, Flamethrower damage goes from 1755 to 1485
      
    • Burst Rifle base accuracy lowered to 92
      
    • Rocket Launcher reduced projectile scale
      
    • Light Machine Gun base accuracy lowered to 97
      
    • Fully Loaded perk now increases reserve mags by +1
      
    • Kinetic perk now has a damage ceiling
      
    • Focus Fire perk now has a damage ceiling
      

General Updates and Fixes

• Gameplay
  
  
  
  • Players now spawn near a living ally
    
  • Downed players are detached from the player camera until they revive
    
  
  
• Main Menu
  
  
  
  • Updated the Holochamber selection menu to use Oterion’s name
    
  
  
• Lockjaw Prison Part 1 (Mining)
  
  
  
  • Fixed a navigation bug where the player could become stuck behind the rocks after the first large shipping container on the Mining Floor
    
  
  
• Genesis II Station
  
  
  
  • Updated military robot name formatting for consistent style
    
  • Added new art to the Training Simulator area in the Archives
    
  • Declassified Oterion’s name on the System Map
    
  • Added an Early Access warning to the System Map explaining mouse input requirements
    
  • Improved navigation and adjusted art in the Training Room
    
  • Known Issue: Currently the Exit Node returns the player to the Station even if accessed via the Main Menu (a fix for this is under development)
    
  
  
• Titus
  
  
  
  • Fixed persistent lighting issue
    
  
  
• Oterion
  
  
  
  • Updated sector name in the ammo depot of the Military Checkpoint to fit within the UI
    
  • Fixed several culling errors causing parts of the AzTek facility to vanish when the player was on the Broken Vehicle Bridge or in Daedalus Tower
    
  • Smoothed out blocky angles in the shorelines of the Wetlands
    
  • Fixed several terrain errors where water volume edges were visible
    
  • Added new dialogue from Dr. Hadley to assist the player finding their next objectives
    
  • Cleaned up NPC dialogue throughout the level
    
  • Activated the terminal 2F Maintenance Area in the AzTek Facility
    
  • Corrected a bug causing development note text to appear in the river during the river crossing
    
  • Improved player navigation in the AzTek facility to help keep the player in view of the camera
    
  • Fixed a bug which allowed the player to fall into a gap between the staircase and terrain on an outbuilding near the AzTek Facility
    
  • Updated language on Objectives to fit within the UI
    
  • Reworked southern Wetlands area into more directed pathways
    
  • Enemies start spawning at level 20 in Oterion Wetlands
    
  • Added blocking volumes near Wetlands entrance
    
  • Fixed logic issues when decoding the first data module
    
  • Added misc water puddles to Wetlands
    
  • Update minimap to show data modules from farther distances
    
  • Fixed several collision issues with moss piles
    
  • Added extra credits and weapon caches
    
  • Added new loading screen
    
  • Added beetle fauna fx
    
  • Added new Swamp Trap spawners to Wetlands
    
  • Fixed blocking volumes near Lost City entrance
    
  • Added B3-L1-4L bot encounter to swamp ruins
    
  • Fixed an issue where shadows were covering points of interest
    
  • Added caution gate to prevent players from entering Wetlands too soon
    
  • Added caution gate to broken bridge before reaching Lost City entrance
    
  • Fixed southern Wetlands checkpoint
    
  • Major art and navigation fixes throughout the level
    
  
  
• General
  
  
  
  • Updated weapon perk lists for all weapon manufacturers
    
  • Changed Checkpoint minimap marker icon
    
  • Reformatted weapon perk screen info layout and text
    
  • Fixed bug causing perks to not update correctly in the Flyout menu
    
  • Fixed jungle river audio sound class bug
    
  • Fixed bug causing stats to not update correctly for the Offense+, Support+ and Special+ perks
    
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the flamethrower to deal multiple instances of damage per shot to enemies with multiple hitboxes
    
  • Updated planetary info on the System Map
    

Weapons

• New Weapon Manufacturers
  
  
  
  
  • AzTek Arms Technologies
    
    
    
    • Specialize in Power weapons
      
    • Highly effective against all enemy types
      
    • High level weapons can roll with status effect perks
      
    • Produce Flamethrowers and Grenade Launchers
      
    
    
  • Chatka Collective
    
    
    
    • Focused on armor breaching and high explosives
      
    • Highly effective against robotic armor or biological carapace plating.
      
    • Produce Assault Rifles, DMRs, Shotguns, Rocket Launchers, Burst Rocket Launchers, Grenade Launchers, Flamethrowers and Miniguns
      

Bug Fixes

• Jungle Planet
  
  
  
  • Optimized art loading to improve performance throughout the level
    
  • Updated navigation in the swamp to prevent enemies spawning on top of level geometry
    
  • Improved the materials for jungle-deployed military robots
    
  • Fine-tuned the collision on the stairs to enter the small buildings
    
  • Updated the art and terrain around the forward base and its river bridge
    
  • Improved minimap sector naming
    
  • Fixed some art issues with the fungal swamp growth where growth was floating in the water rather than on the ground
    
  • Improved collision and navigation in the AzTek facility to help keep the player in view of the camera
    
  • Updated dam and boom town art with rust and overgrowth
    
  
  
  
• Titus
  
  
  
  • Updated navigation and animation on the CommsNet Tower maintenance bot
    
  • Overhauled art on the CommsNet Tower to make it more solid and fix a small gap in one of the support columns
    
  • Fixed a collision bug where players could run up the wall and out of the level in the underground caverns
    
  • Fixed another collision bug where players could run out of the level through the eastern cave exit after the Broodwatcher miniboss battle
    
  • Updated minimap to better showcase terrain and barriers
    
  
  
  
• General
  
  
  
  • Updated enemy bloodspatters for consistency within species and to better fit with existing level art
    
  • Melee animation no longer locks the player in place (Animation is WORK IN PROGRESS)
    
  • Fixed an issue causing Melee to be permanently disabled when interrupted by certain actions
    
  • Offense, Support, and Special skill values are now saved
    
  • Removed Primary Ammo Kiosks from Holochamber floors
    
  • Fixed issue where flytrap enemy would not release rooted players on death
    
  • Increased Jungle Beetle's attack radius
    

Bug Fixes

• Titus
  
  
  
  • fixed a navigation bug where players could fall into a bottomless pit in the Uncharted Caverns
    
  
  
• Jungle
  
  
  
  • Fixed a spelling error in the Minimap sector for the Research District
    
  • Updated collision in the AzTek Facility service area
    
  • Improved navigation in the AzTek Facility to help keep players in view of the camera
    
  • Adjusted some foliage clipping into rocks and buildings
    
  • Updated the Minimap with new sectors after the forest swamp region
    
  • Overhauled art and materials relating to the Medastia Sporangium
    
  • Improved navigation and collision along the edges of the level and behind several buildings where players could get stuck
    
  • Solved a collision issue which was causing the survivor NPCs to clip through floors and furniture
    
  • Updated animation and dialogue on the survivor NPCs
    
  • Added a mysterious new location by the river crossing!
    
  • Moved a continue point by the river crossing to fit the new location
    
  • Large-scale texture and material optimization to aid performance (more improvements are still underway!)
    
  
  
• Weapons
  
  
  
  • Removed the following alternate weapons while perk randomization work and art updates continue (some of these will return in future updates):
    
    
    • Nazuna Zokuto AR
      
    • Nazuna Suzumebachi DMR
      
    • Nazuna Obake Handgun
      
    • Nazuna Borei Handgun
    
    
  
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue preventing UI from displaying level up information correctly
  
• Fixed dark lighting on Titus Halloween edition
  
• Fixed missing door in AzTek Facility on Jungle Planet
  
• Fixed several collision issues near swamp on Jungle Planet
  
• Fixed low volume of Prison AI Attendant voice overs in Lockjaw Mining and Cellblocks
  
• Enabled character progression saving on Titus
  
  
  
  • Campaign Level cap set to 20
    
  • Holochamber Level cap set to 30
    
  • Mission progress will not be saved; replaying Titus will start the player at the beginning of the mission
  
  

Campaign

• New Level: Planet [REDACTED] Part 1
  
  
  
  • Explore the ruins of a massive colony abandoned mid-construction
    
  • Carve a path through the overgrown survey zone to reach the AzTek Facility
    
  • Navigate the deadly uncharted swamp and discover the secrets of the forest
    
  • Uncover hidden truths about your mission and the Nova Genesis system
    
  • Gain access through the System Map in the Genesis II Station Command Core
    

Holochamber

• Reduced HP scaling for enemies in Holochamber
  
• Primary Ammo Kiosks will no longer appear in Holochamber. A replacement kiosk will appear in a future update
  
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused players to enter Lockjaw Cellblocks at Level 0 with 0 credits
  
• Fixed a minor texture issue in Titus Holochamber's start room
  
• Fixed an issue where players could gain XP despite being at the level cap
  

Characters

• New NPC: Uthste
  
  
  
  • Jr. Officer in an Aesrenan Elite Guard detachment for Commander Draven
    
  • Guarding the Archives Ring on the Genesis II Station
    
  • An early playtester of Dr. Hadley’s Holochamber
    
  • Interested in learning more about other life forms
    
  
  
• New Enemy: Medastia Sporangium
  
  
  
  • Zoospore dispersal growth in a Medastia fungal colony
    
  • Exhales Gorgon Spores while medastia gestate
    
  • Heals nearby Medastia
    
  
  
• New Enemy: Grass Raptor
  
  
  
  • Apex predator of the [REDACTED] grasslands
    
  • Hunts both alone and in packs
    
  • Quickly closes short distances to deliver a powerful bite attack
    
  
  
• New Enemy: Swamptrap
  
  
  
  • Lurks in and near [REDACTED] wetlands
    
  • Captures prey in its powerful jaws
    
  • Deadly in high stakes combat zones
    
  
  
• Stryker Skills Update
  
  
  
  • Assault Harness damage increased
    
  • Barrage damage increased
    
  • Plasma Blast damage increased
    
  • Remote Charge double damage bug fixed
    

Weapons

• New Weapons Manufacturers
  
  
  
  • Nazuna Group
    
    
    
    • Produce widest range of weapons
      
    • No high level perks
      
    • Produce Handguns, Assault Rifles, DMRs, SMGs, Combat and Slug Shotguns, LMGs, Rocket Launchers, Grenade Launchers, Sniper Rifles and Mininguns
      
    
    
  • Wolf Weapons
    
    
    
    • Specialize in maximum damage output
      
    • Produce Handguns, Assault Rifles, Burst Rifles, SMGs, Combat and Slug Shotguns, LMGs, Rocket Launchers, Burst Rocket Launchers, Grenade Launchers, Burst Grenade Launchers,Sniper Rifles
      
  
  
• Primary weapons no longer require or consume reserve ammunition (Special weapons are unaffected)
  
  
  
  • UI has been updated to reflect this change
    
  • Primary Ammo bricks will no longer drop in-game
    
  
  
• The [Relentless] perk has been reworked
  
  
  
  • Rate of Fire increase happens sooner and increases up to two times
    
  • The Rate of Fire will reset after 2 seconds of cease fire
    
  
  
• Level-dependent weapon quality curve has been adjusted for Campaign (Holochamber Arcade unaffected)
  
• Reduced healing amount on [Battle Medic] Exotic perk
  
• Extended Clip perk has been renamed to Extended Mag
  
• Removed Extra Mags perk from all primary weapons
  

Save System (BETA)

• Progression saving has been enabled for campaign, allowing progress to persist across sessions
  
• Campaign saving and Holochamber Arcade saving have independent save progressions
  

UI

• New Flyout menu animations
  
• New input interaction animations
  
• New Weapon Perks screen displaying perk information in Flyout menu
  

General Updates

• Lockjaw Mining Zone
  
  
  
  • Fixed a bug where players were falling off the sides of some tall staircases
    
  • Added some new falling debris in the warehouse area
    
  • Solved a persistent collision issue with the stairs leading off of the mining floor
    
  • Updated art throughout the level
    
  
  
• Lockjaw Cell Blocks
  
  
  
  • Added a continue point at the entrance of the Distribution Hub to prevent players getting trapped behind a locked door, unable to continue
    
  • Updated art in the Military Warehouse to improve player navigation
    
  • Fixed an error with spotlight intensity in the Military Warehouse
    
  • Adjusted art in A Block and Atmospheric Control to fix an issue where players could see outside the level
    
  • Updated language in mission objectives for consistency
    
  • Added an objective completion for reaching the asteroid surface
    
  
  
• Genesis Station
  
  
  
  • Fixed several small art issues
    
  • Made small adjustments to NPC dialogue
    
  • Added Aesrenan Elite Troopers to maintain order on the station
    
  • Decorated for Halloween
    
  
  
• Titus
  
  
  
  • Updated rotating movement on all research table holograms
    
  • Fixed character dialogue typos and improved readability
    
  • Improved minimap sector naming to increase legibility
    
  • Improved logic on Tych's radio transmissions to more accurately respond to mission completion order
    
  • Fixed an error where Tych's spoken dialogue was updating too quickly
    
  • Updated the mission objectives to keep the player up to date on their battery count
    
  • Added a weapons cache to the secret room in the Sinkhole caverns
    
  • Fixed the drill collision issues
    
  • Fixed an issue where the Brood Watcher mini-boss disappearing when players left the combat zone
    
  • Decorated for Halloween
    

Halloween Event

• Genesis Space Station is haunted!
  
• Visit the graveyard on Titus
  
• Seasonal objective pickups in Holochamber Collector missions
  

New Campaign Planet

New Weapon System

Stryker Skills Buff

Overhauled Campaign Save System

Campaign

• New Level: Planet Titus
  
  
  
  • Visit the last functioning colony in the Nova Genesis system
    
  • Battle across the surface world to restore communications between settlements
    
  • Discover the hidden dangers of the lost Drill Site Two
    
  • Explore the sprawling underground cavern system in your search for Dr. Hadley
    
  • Gain access to Planet Titus by finishing Lockjaw Prison and using the System Map in the Genesis II Station Command Core
    

Holochamber

• Quick Saving has been added to Holochamber Arcade (currently available for Player 1 only)
  
• When in the starting room, players can save their current character and floor progress and then immediately exit the game mode
  
• This feature gives players the ability to maintain progress on a run without continuous playtime.
  
• When players fail a run or exit via any means besides the Quick Save, their Quick Save progress will be deleted
  
• Updated weapon kiosks in Titus Underground and Asteroid Holochamber with new true power
  

Characters

• New Character: Corporal Tych
  
  
  
  • Titus Drill Site Senior Field Engineer
    
  • Location [UNKNOWN]
    
  • Assists Player(s) in their search for Dr. Hadley
    
  
  
• New Enemy: Deagus Brood Watcher
  
  
  
  • Fully grown Deagus warriors that return to the hive
    
  • After mating with the Queen, they defend the hatchery
    
  • Brutally eliminates all trespassers
    
  
  
• Engineer Class
  
  
  
  • New Skill: Cryo Grenade
    
    
    
    • Throw a grenade that freezes enemies on detonation
      
    • Upgrades in development
      
  
  
• Juggernaut Class
  
  
  
  • New Skill: Overcharge
    
    
    
    • Reroute power to fists and deal massive melee damage
      
    • Upgrades in development
      

UI

• Added "New Game" and "Continue" buttons to Main Menu under Campaign options
  
• "Continue" button currently loads the Genesis II Station (Saving System is still in development!)
  
• Updated flyout menu character animations
  
• Updated flyout menu Skills and Stats UI with new buttons and info
  

General Updates

• Flyout menu will now open to the Weapons tab by default
  
• Fixed bug where enemies could not reach player(s) in Lockjaw Mining level near the crane sequence in Loading Zone A
  
• Ammo caches are no longer destroyed on use in Campaign
  
• Fixed lighting in Lockjaw Cellblocks Warehouse to show main pathway near exit ramp
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug causing players to load into the Genesis II Station level without a character mesh, skills or weapons
  
• Fixed a bug causing the Spyder Queen Boss in the Training Room to continuously drop falling rocks and shake the game camera