Items

• The Stash in the Saloon now has 3 tabs worth of storage, with 32 items each.
  
• Talrie has added an AutoCraft Bench to her shop. If y’all have Blueprint Chips, this’d be the place to use them.
  
• Blueprint Chips and crafting components are now unique. If a unique item is rolled to drop and is already present in your inventory or stash, another loot drop will replace it.
  
• Removed AutoCraft Benches from spawning in facility maps as you can now craft in the comfort of your home station.
  
• New crafting opportunities are on the way soon!
  

Force Psyker

• Fixed a bug with Purity Prism that could fail to clear Stun.
  

Smuggler

• Artifacts created with Bag of Wonders will clean up correctly if destroyed before activating.
  

Soldier

• Fixed an issue preventing FoxKin being recognized when using the Custom Armor passive.
  

UI

• Hitting the Tab key will now toggle display of health bars over mobs in combat.
  
• Added a option for Sticky Ability Wheel in combat. This will cause the Ability Wheel to persist after an enemy is clicked instead of fading when the mouse button is released.
  
• Attack results are now logged first in Combat Log, followed by factors that affected the final damage.
  
• Attacks that miss because the target dodged are now called out in the Combat Log.
  
• Crit resistance successes are now shown in the Combat Log.
  
• The Combat Log, Crew Monitor and Timeline now all scroll independently, based on mouse cursor location.
  
• The Combat Log will now also show event messages.
  

Mobs & Combat

• All characters now correctly have 0% Dodge chance while affected by Stun (though attacks against them can still miss).
  
• Slight reduction in base damage and critical chance for CorpSec Heavy’s Power shot.
  
• CorpSec Heavy’s Battle Scan no longer stacks.
  
• Fixed certain Void-tainted mobs from having an outsized shield effect.
  

Misc

• Fixed Lungquake syndrome boosting damage resistance incorrectly.
  
• Fixed a stacking crit buff upgrade when dealing elemental damage from failing at 20 stacks.
  
• Fixed an issue that could cause an Autosave to be unrecognized in the Title Screen if preferences had been reset.
  
• Fixed an issue with forced player movement that could cause strange behaviour.
  
• Minor text fixes.
  

Combat

• Crushed major FPS loss in combat after loading a save while on a mission. Big thanks to everyone who sent in reports and information to track it down!
  
• Incoming Stuns that are resisted by a target already under the effects of Stun no longer grant the target an additional chance to remove the effect.
  
• Weaker Stuns no longer stack onto existing effects - the strongest Stun will be applied.
  

Force Psyker

• Purity Prism now deals damage to all enemies immediately on creation and no longer deals damage when absorbing a debuff.
  
• Manifest Spirit no longer incorrectly carries charges between missions and properly displays Force Energy needed to manifest.
  

Hacker

• Virus : Overheat can no longer be stacked on a target already afflicted by the virus.
  

Cyberninja

• Purging Blow now grants stacking Haste for each buff purged instead of only for the first.
  

Soldier

• Fixed an issue that could cause Weapon Specialist to fail to deal initial damage when using a Heavy Weapon.
  

Smuggler

• Fixed an issue that could cause Buddy Shield to fail to split damage with your buddy.
  

Engineer

• Upgrade now provides increased damage and damage protection per stack and charges now persist between combats and reset at the start of a new mission.
  

Maps & Missions

• The cost per crawler to Wait For New Jobs has been reduced.
  
• Fixed an issue with Server Rooms that could cause the Rhyzohm Terminal to become stuck in a loop after interacting with it.
  
• HEHS will be less spammy if they catch your profiting off of rare animal parts - they’re still watching though...
  

New Game+

• Fixed a rare issue that could cause faction operations against you to carry over to a new game.
  
• Lore items collected will be preserved when starting a New Game+ or New Game++.
  

Items

• Fixed an issue that could cause item comparisons to default to a character back on STIX.
  
• Cerulean Crystals no longer claim to cure all negative status effects and their Time Unit cost to use in combat has been reduced. These changes will not affect Cerulean Crystals already looted.
  
• The Rhyzohm Master Key no longer prevents the terminal event from continuing if all use options are exhausted.
  
• The Rhyzohm Skeleton Key no longer prevents the event from continuing if the key is destroyed during the event.
  
• The Astrohund Skeleton Key will once again function correctly with ship terminals on ship terminals.
  
• If you’re feeling especially cruel, the Prototype’s AI Core can once again be trashed.
  

Factions

• Fixed an issue preventing Emer LT from accruing positive favor consistently.
  
• Tec's Engineer Corp now offers an option to exchange favor for an A.N.C.H at Allied rep.
  
• New UFP legislation to target Fraud, Waste and Abuse limits death threat mail from certain 3rd party contractors to once per playthrough.
  

Enemies

• The boss L0-K1 has been moved to a higher difficulty tier, generates slightly less healing per stack of Shock on enemies, and being Stunned will prevent the healing effect from triggering.
  
• Z0MB1 health and AoE damage slightly reduced. Chance to apply Mutagen slightly increased.
  
• Bosses defeated in Challenge and Hardcore should award appropriate achievements now.
  

3... 2... 1... LAUNCH

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Updated for launch time clarity : May 23rd - 9:00am PDT

May 23rd!

NEW FEATURE: Boss Mode

• The corps are sick of your meddling and have deployed bosses to defend their property!
  
• Boss mobs can now spawn on all generated missions, increasing in strength, ability and loot rarity as you level up or choose harder missions. Boss mobs have several unique abilities and present a substantially tougher threat than average mobs.
  
• At level 5+, bosses have a chance to spawn. This chance scales to 100% at higher levels.
  
• Corporations that are hostile to you have have an increased chance to spawn bosses.
  
• At level 25+, specialized boss squads may deploy that present a unique challenge.
  
• At level 25+, bosses have a chance to drop named legendary weapons and gear.
  
• NOTE : Named Legendary drops will not be active until launch day!
  
  

NEW FEATURE: Lore Items

• Inquisitive crawlers can now find Lore Items on their adventures that contain information concerning the different factions in the StarCrawlers universe.
  
• Collected lore items can be reviewed in the Info Log under the new Dossier tab.
  
• Collecting all 5 Lore Items for a subject and compiling them grants a unique Dossier item that can be auctioned at the Black Market.
  

NEW FEATURE: Eon Trading

• A private buyer has contracted with Draal in the Black Market to acquire Eon Cubes from the corps. Draal is trading exotic gear in exchange for Eon Cubes ‘obtained’ on your runs.
  

NEW FEATURE: Steam Achievements

• Added 30 Steam Achievements - more will be activated at launch!
  

Save / Load

• Story and Normal difficulty games are now able to create mid-mission saves at any time.
  
• Challenge and Hardcore difficulty games continue to have access to Quicksave and Exit.
  
• Abort Mission has been removed. To successfully exit a mission, you’ll have to make it to one of several conveniently lit exit doors. No free escapes :D
  
• It is now possible to Exit to Title from within a mission without saving progress.
  

Maps & Gear

• Shields no longer prevent critical hits. Based on user feedback and testing, fun charge abilities that build through crits were being severely restrained by crit-proof shields. Note this means mobs can crit through your shields too...
  
• Armor now also blocks elemental damage. Blocking only physical damage made choosing heavier armors an inferior choice. With improved crit-proofing, health boosting, and the removal of the standard TU penalty, heavy armor should be a more attractive choice.
  
• Added new themed items and item spawn locations to all map types.
  
• Reduced mob combat drop rate and increased drop rates on gear. As a result, mobs will start dropping less cred loot and start dropping more gear.
  
• Fixed missing icons for Alyssa Tickets and Christina Faith Headshot items (will not affect items already in inventory)
  
• No longer possible for Draal to steal the Prototype’s AI Core or prevent the player from canceling an auction with no bidders, forcing them to sell the item.
  
• Black Market, Shop, and Medbay refresh inventory if you wait instead of taking a mission in the Bar.
  
• Expanded player stash to hold 32 items.
  
• Repair Kits no longer spawn in the shop as they (currently) have no use.
  

Levelling & Missions

• Recalculated XP levels to include New Game+ and New Game ++ scaling. XP requirements and distribution from quests / mobs will ramp faster at lower levels.
  
• Adjusted XP gains from missions to add more reward boosting when running Challenging / Extreme missions, reduce gains from Cakewalk / Easy missions.
  
• Adjusted cred rewards from missions to add more differentiation based on difficulty overall.
  
• Added IntelliFoam Canisters to give you a shot of xp. Use them immediately or save them for those lazy crawlers hanging back at STIX. YOU DECIDE!
  

Mobs

• In response to crawler aggression, mobs have learned new tricks.
  
• Shield absorption by mobs has been standardized. Each shield charge will absorb the same amount for a mob of a given level.
  
• Max shield charges on several common mobs reduced.
  
• Mob armor block has been standardized. Armor will block the same amount for a mob of a given level.
  

Misc

• Inventory items in your Backpack or Stash can be swapped by dropping icons on each other.
  
• Fixed doors getting confused about their state if a mob was defeated next to an open door.
  
• Fixed an issue preventing combat effects triggered from events (ex: Smuggler killing a mob before combat begins) being applied correctly.
  
• Effects that cannot be purged / cleansed are displayed with different icons in combat to make them distinct from buffs / debuffs.
  
• Fixed Cyberninja’s Expose Weakness incorrectly stating it consumes all Combo Points on the target - it does not!
  
• Fixed Cyberninja’s Flurry incorrectly calculating damage range based on Combo Points.
  
• Fixed Void Psyker’s Cosmic Horror not gaining charges from Blind or Vulnerability.
  
• Fixed Void Psyker’s Miasma not becoming available to cast again after expiring.
  
• Fixed tooltips for Cyberninja Dash in Ability and combat.
  
• Fixed the Cursed Cube of Atroxxis appearing in maps and attempting to suck your soul into the ether. If you accidently looked into its Hideous Shadowy Depths and this occured, please consider filing a bug report - thanks Cybrid 0x0t2md2W!
  
• Optimized load times when returning from a mission to STIX.
  
• Minor text fixes.
  

Launch Date Announcement and Boss Mode

• On April 3rd I’ll be announcing the launch date for StarCrawlers 1.0. The launch date is set and I’m working with a video producer to get a trailer and some other cool things in place for the announcement. It won't be long after the announce until launch, so hang in there :D
  
  
• The next (and final final) update for Early Access will add one big feature before launch: Boss Mode. All missions will have a chance to spawn a Boss mob with new abilities, rare loot, and boosted power. At higher difficulty levels, you might face teams of Bosses (like Mjolnir Squad above) and have a chance to loot Named Legendary gear with unique effects. I’ll be talking more about Boss Mode as we get closer to the next patch!

A Huge Thank You

Additional Changes

• Crits are fun. Abilities that build charges with crits and obliterate the enemy are also fun!
  Shields block crits. This is not fun. Shields will no longer block crits in the next patch. Note that this also applies to mobs critting you through shields, so they think this is fun too.
  
  
• Armor will once again block elemental damage in addition to physical damage, making armor type a more meaningful choice. This also applies to mobs, so they ask that you don’t bring any armor destroying attacks or weapons.
  
  
• Less credit drops from mobs, more gear. Common mobs will drop slightly less loot overall, but what they do drop will always be a piece of gear.
  
  
• More environment lootables. All environment types will have more loot plucked right out of the environment and new item types.
  
  
• More random events in all environment types. No more looting just nude pics!
  
  
• Expanded stash size on STIX so you can horde all the medkits.
  
  
• Mobs of all types have received new abilities.
  
  
• Lots of other improvements and tweaks!
  

PART 2 OF 2

Force Psyker

Force Energy

• Now regenerates at a set rate of 5 per turn. Abilities and passives can accelerate regen.
  
  
• Guardian
  
• The Guardian tree has received a damage boost and improved power to defend allies.
  
• Aegis Strike damage increased and removes shields from each target (Rank 2).
  
• Mirror Prism damages all enemies when it shatters.
  
• Spirit Armor (Rank 3) now regenerates Force Psyker health when it is low.
  
• Inner Peace (Rank 3) now provides a powerful heal if struck by a deathblow.
  
• Condemn now grants Force Energy when purging enemy buffs and smites a for at Rank 3.
  
• Purity Prism deals damage to enemies each time it absorbs a debuff and can direct debuffs to enemies at Rank 3.
  
• Manifest Spirit now gains charges when you generate Force Energy.
  
  
• Sentinel
  
• Barriers now draw strength from the current health of the Force Psyker and decay in strength each turn. Healthier Force Psyker = healthier barriers.
  
• Inner Balance now boosts your damage when Force Energy is high, and regenerates Force Energy faster when it is low.
  
• Barrier Prison deals damage on attack, damage each turn (Rank 2) and AoE damage when it shatters (Rank 3).
  
• Manifest Destiny is now charged by creating barriers on allies, passively strengthens all barriers (Rank 2) and grants an infusion of Force Energy (Rank 3).
  
  
• Berserker
  
• Force Hammer critical hits Shock the target.
  
• Fists of Fury (Rank 2) has chance to Shock the target and critical hits against Shocked targets deals damage to adjacent enemies (Rank 3).
  
• Mind Bullets no longer drains all Force Energy but fires a set amount of bullets. Spreads Shock to other targets (Rank 2) and deals bonus damage to Shocked targets (Rank 3). Pewpew!
  
• Inner Turmoil now boosts damage when your health is low, boosting higher as health drops.
  
• Shattering Blow now gains bonuses if the target is Vulnerable and crits make targets Vulnerable (Rank 3).
  
• Spirit Onslaught boosts crit until a crit occurs and can heal the Force Psyker (Rank 3).
  
• Manifest Rage is now charges by scoring crits on fools and deals increased damage.
  

Engineer

Jigawatz

• Junk has been replaced with Jigawatz generated by the Engineer’s mechsuit. Engineers everywhere have found this more practical than carrying junk around.
  
  
• Constructor
  
• Constructor summons have all gained some capacity to apply Blind, Shock, Burn and Stun effects to enemies.
  
• Special Delivery now also applies a random debuff to damaged enemies.
  
• Twofer now provides damage boosts to the cloned construct and the original.
  
• Master Builder now provides elemental resistance to constructs.
  
  
• Rigger
  
• Rigger abilities now power down and refund their Jigawatz if unused on your turn.
  
• Base malfunction chance for all Rigger abilities reduced.
  
• Rumble Pack builds damage and malfunction chance slower.
  
• Railgun deals increased damage.
  
• Ornery now grants a small amount of healing each turn and can heal the team at Rank 2.
  
• Overshield now gain charges when you generate Jigawatz and provides superior elemental resistance to all allies without redirecting damage to the Engineer.
  
• Upgrade now gains charges as you generate Jigawatz and provides a stacking permanent damage boost and damage reduction for the duration of combat.
  
  
• Bolty
  
• Bolty max health and threat reduced and gains dodge at Rank 2.
  
• Rocket Elbow now Shocks the target on impact.
  
• Strafe crits Blind targets.
  
• Shotblocker (Rank 3) now heals Bolty each turn while intercepting attacks.
  
• Built Real Good now provides passive healing for Bolty at Rank 3.
  

Smuggler

• Dirty Moves
  
• Explosive Trap is now Volatile Trap, deals increased damage and can Burn enemies.
  
• Flash Bang now applies stacks of Blind and can no longer hit allies.
  
• Timed Mine damage boosted and can Stun (Rank 2) and instantly kill common enemies (Rank 3).
  
• Bag of Wonders artifacts have gained new powers and Stun all enemies on use (Rank 3).
  
  
• Gunslinger
  
• Akimbo now grants a 2nd attack for 50% weapon damage when using a Weapon Ability with a pistol instead of doubling attacks. Gunslinger abilities have had damage boosted to compensate.
  
• Trick Shot base damage increased, number of bounces decreased, but bounces extra times after a critical hit (Rank 3).
  
• Fan the Hammers now grants dodge in addition to damage bonuses (Rank 3).
  
• Buddy Shield (Rank 3) now grants a large damage reduction to you and your meatshie- er, ‘buddy’.
  
• Showdown (Rank 3) grants a large damage boost for several turns. If it ain’t dead, it will be.
  
  
• Cheap Tricks
  
• Damage maximums for all Cheap Tricks abilities increased.
  
• Coin Toss damage boosted, stacks Bad Luck (Rank 2) and terrible things occur (Rank 3).
  
• Mug damage reduced, chance to steal items reduced until Rank 3, then greatly increased.
  
• Bounty now makes the target Vulnerable and heals the bounty killer (Rank 3).
  
• Roulette heals the Smuggler for damage dealt (Rank 2).
  
• Double Down grants Regeneration at Rank 3.
  
• Slot Machine damage boosted and debuffs with Blind, Fire, and Vulnerability.
  

Prototype

• Annihilation
  
• Arm Cannon gains bonus hit at Rank 2.
  
• Thunderclap inflicts Shock when purging a buff at Rank 3.
  
• Haiku.exe grants allies Regeneration at Rank 3.
  
• Target Lock now causes your obsession to deal less damage to you (Rank 2) and if they survive, the damage buff persists without nerfing damage to other targets (Rank 3).
  
• Safety Protocols now heals each turn at Rank 3 and has a reduced malfunction rate.
  
• Hunter Killer has been redesigned and now writes enemies you encounter to memory. Gain a stacking crit and damage buff each time you encounter an enemy in memory.
  
• R.A.M (Rank 3) grants debuff immunity while active.
  
  
• Termination
  
• Get Down now Blinds the enemy at Rank 3.
  
• Adaptive Armor now allows Armor to block elemental damage at Rank 3.
  
• Aegis Mode provides damage reduction to allies while it lasts.
  
• Reason (Rank 2) has a chance to Confuse enemies.
  
• Relentless (Rank 3) passively heals the Prototype each turn.
  
• Termination (Rank 2) clears all debuffs from the Prototype.
  
  
• Mutation
  
• Chaotic Shot (Rank 2) crits will Blind, Shock, or Corrupt the target and deal bonus damage if the target is already afflicted by all of these effects (Rank 3).
  
• Assault base damage and number of attacks reduced.
  
• Core Dump (Rank 2) will Blind, Shock or Corrupt foes and heals for each charge (Rank 3).
  
• Mut.exe grants Haste (Rank 2) and heals (Rank 3) for each replaced malfunction.
  
• Chaos Model (Rank 2) has a random chance to randomly clear a random debuff from you and deal increased damage when you shutdown (Rank 3).
  
• H.A.M damage and attack count reduced. Still does a ridiculous amount of damage
  

COMING SOON

• New abilities and buffs for enemies.
  
• Info Log improvements and lore info for factions.
  
• Hotfixes! Woohoo!
  
• More cool stuff!
  

PART 1 OF 2

Stat Changes

• Health has been recalculated to lower the cap for players. When loading a save from a previous build, your team may have current health that exceeds the new maximum. This will be addressed in a future patch, but enjoy the excess health while it lasts! :D
  

Combat Changes

• Combat speed and damage for both mobs and players has been revised. You should find combat at lower levels to be quicker and deadlier overall, with difficulty ramping more smoothly as you advance towards level 30.
  
  
• Many classes have picked up Regeneration and healing abilities in their support trees. These become more important at higher levels to sustain your team against tougher enemies and reduce reliance on using medkits.
  
  
• Regeneration heals at the start of a character’s turn. A character can only have 1 active Regeneration effect on them, with stronger effects overriding weaker ones.
  
  
• Several of the more deadly abilities have had their damage caps adjusted and require building charges to use them at full potential. This creates more opportunities to build power over the course of a run instead of just popping your nukes each battle. Looking at you, Hellfire Salvo.
  
  
• Several debuffs have been standardized to make them easier to recognize in action: Blind reduces hit chance, Burn deals damage over time, Shock reduces Energy resistance, Corruption converts buffs into damage, and Vulnerability increases damage taken by the target.
  
  
• Mobs will be updated in the next patch with new abilities and buffs.
  

Gear Changes

• Heavy Armor no longer has a Time Unit penalty, but a dodge penalty.
  
• Light melee weapons and pistols provide a bonus to dodge.
  
• Heavy melee weapons and heavy weapons have a penalty to dodge.
  
• Medkits can once again be used by the Prototype. The mechanic of having a separate healing item just for the Proto sounded fun, but in play was found to be less so.
  
• The damage reduction for shields and armor has been reduced and damage ranges across all three types brought slightly closer together.
  
• These changes do not affect gear generated in previous builds, but you will experience unbalanced play if you choose to use legacy gear.
  

Soldier

Tactician

• Meat Shield no longer provides a flat amount of damage reduction but grants a meaty barrier to absorb incoming damage based on average weapon damage.
  
• Defiance (Rank 3) no longer boosts Threat but instead allows the Soldier to cheat death.
  
• Best Defense (Rank 3)now reduces enemy damage dealt.
  
• Bloodthirst is now a passive ability that heals the Soldier when they deal critical damage, taunts targets that are critically hit, and boosts crit chance when combat begins.
  
• Juggernaut and As One have switched places in the ability tree.
  
• As One now begins combat with an 8 turn cooldown that is reduced each time the Soldier taunts and has gained boosted hit and critical hit bonuses.
  
• Juggernaut now gains charges as the Soldier taunts and can be used for an emergency damage reduction, heal, and retaliation attack.
  
  Demolition
  
• The Soldier has taken their relationship with explosions and fire to the next level.
  
• Frag Grenade (Rank 2) now Burns the primary target for bonus damage when it crits.
  
• Rocket Strike (Rank 2) now gains boosted accuracy
  
• Bouncing Betty (Rank 2) now Burns the primary target for bonus damage when it crits.
  
• Magnetronc Bomb (Rank 2) now causes Bomblets it detonates to Burn targets for bonus damage when they deal critical damage.
  
• Hellfire Salvo now gains charges as the Soldier applies Burn to enemies and boosts the duration and damage of Burn effects on targets in damages. Charges persist between combats.
  
• Removed UXO ability.
  
• NEW ABILITY : This Is Fine (Passive) Boost damage and crit when you set things on fire. Learn to love fire so much that it heals you while you’re on fire.
  
• Boom King (Rank 2) tosses a bomblet when you crit a target afflicted by Burn.
  
  Marksman
  
• Crack Shot (Rank 2) now also Dazes the target on a critical hit.
  
• Custom Armor now grants a buff and small heal at the start of combat if the Soldier has positive rep with the manufacturer of their armor. This effect is boosted as rep increases.
  
• Flare now deals Fire damage on impact and can Blind and Burn the target.
  
• Kill Count now boosts the Soldier every 5 points and has added bonuses at higher ranks.
  
• Hot Streak (Rank 2) now Burns the target for bonus damage when it crits.
  
• The Specialist now requires 10 charges to activate. Score critical hits to charge!
  

Hacker

Root Hack

• Overheat now has a 30/60/100% chance to Stun immediately, deals a portion of its damage immediately, and deals increased damage over time.
  
• Scramble now deals damage immediately and bonus damage if the target is Stunned.
  
• Root Hack now deals damage on impact and Charms for 1 turn maximum, but cannot miss and has a high success chance vs. normal mobs on the first use.
  
• Exploit now persists for 1 turn, cannot miss, and no longer consumes Stun on the target.
  
• Cripple cannot miss and no longer consumes Stun on the target.
  
• Snowcrash now requires 10 charges to activate and builds charges by Stunning enemies.
  
  Malware
  
• Mindmelt deals damage immediately in addition to each turn.
  
• Shareware now has increased chance to spread viruses, boosted by your crit chance, and has a chance to immediately spread upon infection (Rank 3).
  
• Corruption is now Decay and can apply the Corrupt effect.
  
• Logic Bomb (Rank 3) has a chance to instantly kill common enemies.
  
• Black Ice (Rank 3) has a chance to instantly kill common enemies.
  
  Optimization
  
• Hotlink now deals damage immediately in addition to each turn.
  
• Time Release now grants your weakest ally Regeneration.
  
• Multi Core now also heals allies for each Hacker buff they have.
  
• Ex Machina now requires charges of Optimization to activate, but is only slightly less OP than you remember. Plus it heals everyone. :O
  

Void Psyker

Summoner

• Shadowcoil attack speed increased.
  
• Misery has been redesigned and now gives your summons a chance to apply Blind, Corrupt or Vulnerable to foes when scoring a critical hit. Higher ranks can spread these afflictions or deal bonus damage.
  
• Void Psykers will no longer constantly be driven to madness after using Eldritch Horror. The chance will now properly reset each time you go insane.
  
• Eldritch Horror now demands tributes by applying Blind, Corrupt and Vulnerable to enemies and summons a different entity depending on the whims of the Void. Don’t use this ability.
  

Cyberninja

Assassination

• Abilities that consume Combo Points to deal damage now deal nonlinear increased damage.
  
• New Mechanic : Death Notes. Critical hits from Assassin abilities can add Death Notes, granting a chance to instantly kill common enemies.
  
• Expose Weakness now applies Vulnerable to the target and lasts until the end of their turn.
  
• Flurry strikes reduced and hit harder.
  
• Removed Phase Binder ability.
  
• NEW ABILITY : Marked for Death. Double the number of Death Notes on the target and boost damage and crit vs. the target. Teleport in front of target in the timeline.
  
• Assassinate has been redesigned and receives bonuses based on Death Notes on the target.
  
  Deception
  
• Deception abilities now make use of Shock and Blind mechanics to deal additional damage.
  
• Added several rank abilities that can apply Shock or Blind.
  
• Concealing Mists now reduces dodge bonus for all allies, not just the ally that dodges, and can heal allies at Rank 3.
  
  Combination
  
• Combination abilities gains bonus effects and damage when the target is suffering from Blind, Burn, Vulnerability, or Shock.
  

Misc

• Removed common mechanic descriptions from ability tooltips. These will be relocated to the Codex in a future update.
  
• The Prototype will only recite a malfunction haiku on the 1st occurrence in combat.
  
• Fixed ESC menu in Combat sometimes becoming unresponsive.
  
• Fixed randomized options in certain events always choosing the same result, resulting in non-randomization.
  
• Fixed several combat hangs / crashes related to player and mob abilities.
  
• Introduced new and exotic bugs to perplex and torment players.
  

PART 2 OF 2 COMING SOON

Factions

• Fixed issue with using Rhyzohm Master Keys and Skeletonkeys in UFP territory locking the event. But seriously, don’t try it...
  
• Fixed an issue with the Aurora Wire contact event that could cause it to close unexpectedly.
  
• Fixed issue where faction ops could spawn in maps owned by other factions and subsequently cause rep loss with a faction not associated with the map.
  
• Fixed employees from some factions awkwardly wandering into enemy faction maps.
  
• Fixed issue where disposing of an faction employee causing rep loss with a different faction.
  

Maps

• Failing to hack / shoot down a camera no longer automatically summons security but still triggers any trap attached to the camera.
  
• Fixed room generation that could occur in Office maps that made small hallways impassable.
  
• Fixed additional instances of trash cans appearing lootable when they are in fact not.
  

Force Psyker

• Aegis Strike no longer incorrectly displays a weapon attack particle on impact.
  

UI

• The timeline in combat can now be scrolled manually with two handy buttons.
  
• Combat Inventory, Flee and End Turn options have been combined under the Options icon on the Ability Wheel.
  
• Combat Log and Crew Status buttons no longer become semi-transparent when battle begins.
  
• Combat UI more strongly displays that an ability is unavailable in its tooltip.
  
• Look Smoothing is now disabled by default and correctly factors Free Look Sensitivity settings into movement when enabled.
  
• Prototype Malfunction events now use any custom character image defined.
  
• Spyder Drones now correctly appear on the minimap as an objective marker when the room they are in is discovered.
  
• In combat, ability icons no longer incorrectly display as highlighted when their ability is on cooldown or unavailable.
  
• Fixed issue where entering blank text into an event input field could cause the event to fail.
  
• Fixed particles persisting on some enemies after they have been defeated.
  
• Fixed character portrait not displaying when resetting abilities in the Medbay.
  
• Fixed item tooltips persisting in some menus after the menu has been closed.
  
• Fixed gear restrictions showing in the Black Market when inspecting crated items.
  
• Fixed issue allowing terminal data transmission event to be repeatable.
  

Gear

• Added weapon skills for Void Psykers to use Heavy Melee and Rifles.
  
• Added weapon skills for Hackers to use Paired Melee, Rifles and Shotguns.
  
• Added weapon skill for Smugglers to use Paired Melee.
  
• Added weapon skill for Force Psykers to use Basic Melee.
  
• Added seasonal items appropriate for crawlers.
  

• Final friendly faction contact event: Pink Abduction Ray
  
• More cool stuff!