Yay another micro patch! - Fix alien/secret boss music going nuts Have fun!

Hello! A big patch with in fact small changes: - We had to rework the whole sound library, hence the size - Few sounds issues fixed - Better RNG algorithm because why not Have fun!

Hello pirates slashers, Today we're announcing two things with one news: The studio behind Steredenn & Flipon is happy to announce that it is back and alive! And we're working on a new arcade game: CTHULOOT! Imagine Overcooked x Zelda. Round up your friends to form a gang of semi-competent looters in search of the relics lost by the Great Old Ones. Want more? You can try the DEMO now! Visit the game steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2283410/CTHULOOT/ And of course, wishlist if you like and want to be updated, it's the easiest way to help us. :) Don't worry, this will be the only message about this new game on Steredenn's page. PS: If you read it til here, you may want a surprise? There's a "beta" branch on this game with a secret update waiting to be deployed. Have fun! Steredenns team.

Hello! We did some Steredenn maintenance today. We changed the depots / the app configuration on Steam. Before, we had the old game available on the regular app. The DLC files would replace the old game. This allowed a cool feature: we could switch between the old and new game when the DLC was released. However, as we updated the engine, the file structure changed and we had some duplicated librairies causing crash on Linux / Steamdeck, or macOS installation write errors. We took the decision to remove the old build. Now, the app has the latest version of the game and the DLC is... empty! We hope this will solve Steamdeck & macOS issues and not cause any new ones. Please send us a message if it's not the case. Also: expect some news from the team this year! Cheers! Damien & the Steredenn's team

- Try to fix audio volume bug on boss - Re-fix the coop controller issue - Fix softlock in tutorial

- Fix the linux version! Many thanks to SingularityCat for the previous help!!!

- Fix boss music played even with volume at 0 - Add new controllers support (including PS5 DualSense) - Linux incompatibility: see related thread for a workaround https://steamcommunity.com/app/347160/discussions/0/3880470363415612815/?ctp=2#c3880470762772826494

- Fix Red Baron not picking medikits - Fix Destroyer MK2 having long pauses between lasers - Fix boss music played even with volume at 0 Still looking for the Linux incompatibility bug, sorry about that.

Hello! You were probably not expecting an update, but here it is!

Features

• Add Basque translation
• Add a proper ending
• Add an "easy" mode: It's not going to be super easy, despite the name "Space Tour", but it should allow more people to enjoy the game: more damages, more lives, slower bullets, more invincible time, slower bosses. Leaderboards are now split by difficulty. You can select the difficulty before starting a new solo or coop game. Arena and Daily runs will are locked in Normal. ALl unlocks and achievements are available in the easy mode.
• New keyart/capsules

Balances

Red Baron

• add middle shot to spread
• up laser dmg
• +1 HP

Game

• Drop medikit before a boss after level 4 (Normal mode)

Bosses

• Nerf bomber MK1 very, very slightly
• Nerf Battleship (first pattern)

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Use engine pixel perfect camera instead of a custom one (so we have a perfect ratio!)
• Remove weird resolution tricks
• Add discord link to menu
• Update unity runtime and .NET version
• Settings: allow fine tuning of camera shake value
• Fix destroyer MK2 looping sound

Galactic warriors, mighty space pirate crushers. The time has come again to battle along with your friends and loved ones against the pirates invasion. Thanks to the new Steam feature "Remote Play Together" (more info here), you can now test your friendship, but at a safe distance. Experience chaos, destruction, frenetic action together ... but beware of the single lifebar! May you win this battle for eternity. Out. Steredenns team.

Hello, We found a few bugs in the Daily Run and for some rarer screen aspect ratios. Boom, fixed. Done. Good job everyone.

Features

• Add more variety to Daily Run configurations.
• Increase the chances to have the Fortress, Fury, Specialist or Red Baron in Daily Run configurations.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Fix a bug with the Red Baron and Specialist in Daily Run.
• Fix a bug with portrait resolutions (e.g. 1080x1920).

Small bug fixes update. We will wind down Pixelnest Studio starting January 2019. We had an incredibly fantastic time doing Steredenn and other projects, but it's time for us to move on to other adventures. Pixelnest Studio will still be alive (for at least a few years), and we'll keep supporting Steredenn, but it won't be our main activity anymore. It's not a sad ending, quite the contrary in fact: we prefer to end on a very positive note. You can read more in our journal.

Features

• Add Steam presence.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Improve Stasisgun/Stasisbot/Rocket Circus pooling.
• Fix small animation issue with Lightsaber.

Guess we're all wrong sometime? We thought the last big patch would be the last, but alas, some bugs crippled the game performances during high-end loops. We fixed most of the bugs — well, we hope —, and since we were at it, we added some nice little things as well. Better late than never. However, I should mention that, to correct some of these bugs, we also had to re-balance the loops and some items. This shall be the last. Thanks again! Bye, wanderers.

Features

• Add screenshake setting.
• The Red Baron starts the game with its own background (except if you let the full intro plays).

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Improve performances in loops.
• Improve performances of suicide bullets.
• Rework the Stasisgun , Stasisbot, and Rocket Circus animation (the weird blue gel). This should fix most of the bugs that you encountered while using these weapons. And bonus: it's prettier.
• Fix a crash when a Lightsaber hit an Heavy Shielder.
• Fix stacking blockers on Mothership.
• Fix a bug with Bots' ghosts being generated almost endlessly in specific conditions.
• Fix Stars-less backgrounds.
• Fix bugs with the Bulletstorm event.

Balance

• Improve Hypergun. It deals way more damage against normal enemies. It's a bit weaker against bosses.
• Improve Ultrabeam. Faster, larger, more predictable.
• Ancient Power doesn't trigger suicide bullets in loops.
• Tweak Battleship boss' first pattern.
• Reduce number of blockers in loop 3+.
• Reset the SUPERCHABAL and Asteroworm counters at the beginning of a loop.
• Spawn more events in loops.
• Improve the generation of suicide bullets.
• Improve the generation of blockers in loops.
• Rework enemies' bullets speed in loops.

Small bug fixes update. And a new batch of Binary Stars wallpapers — Enjoy!

Features

• Improved Chinese translations. Thanks to Daymare for his help!

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Fix a bug with the Drillerbot's ghost.
• Fix a bug with Japan translation.
• Fix a bug on Fire Blaster's flames.
• Fix a bug with the Razerblade's slot.
• Optimize a bit in loops.
• Fix a small exception on Cargos.
• Fix a small exception on Boosterbots.
• Fix a small exception on suicide bullets.

Balance

• Remove the wave max time reduction on loops.

Say hello to a new batch of bug fixes and other tweaks. It's also time for us to say goodbye. This patch is probably the last big one. At this point, we think the game is in the shape we want, without big bugs remaining. There could always be more tweaks and changes to be done, but at a certain point, we have to stop. And we think that this patch is a good place to say it. It was a hell of a ride for us, and we want to thank you for playing Steredenn and Steredenn: Binary Stars! We never hoped to have a game this complete, polished and refined as it is now. Read more here. Thank you.

Features

• Improve Specialist's weapon drops. It should scale more linearly and offer more variety.
• Improve Japan translation.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Improve performances on Stasisgun, Stasisbot and Rocket Circus.
• Disable leaderboards if a mod is detected.
• Fix a bug where a Medkit was shown as a Laserbot with the Specialist.
• Fix a bug where the Asteroworm combat combo bonus wasn't given.
• Fix a bug with the main menu environment not cleaned properly.
• Fix a bug with the vibration triggering while doing a pause on an upgrade/artefact.
• Fix a bug with the seed in Coop making a player controls the other.
• Fix a bug with the Shockwave and Heavy Shielder.
• Fix a bug with the tutorial background.
• Fix a bug with the Laser Shield not working when a daily was started with it.
• Fix a bug with the Red Baron showing the bad button while hovering on an upgrade.
• Fix a bug with the loop counter in the Pause.
• Fix a bug with the trails not cleaned at the end of the SUPERCHABAL fight.
• Fix a bug with the alien minion creating an infinite wave.
• Fix a bug on some dodge waves not triggering the combo properly.

Balance

• Tweak the Mothership in loops.
• Tweak the Cruiser MK-II in loops.
• The Shockwave detroys the Heavy Shielder's shield at full charge.
• Asteroworm's rocks are instantly destroyed by the "Next-Gen Energy Weapons" upgrade. Like it should have always been.

Hello, Another big patch with many bug fixes and small improvements. The main area we focused on is the special abilities of the Tempest and Fury.

Features

• Change Alien Threat trigger. This change allows the use of the Ancient Power in more builds, without requiring a fight against the Alien Threat. Have fun!
• Show seed in Game Over (bottom center!).
• Add keyboard input in Superplay (guaranteed only on Windows).
• Improve Breton translation.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Fix the grenade animation of the Red Baron.
• Fix an animation bug with lasers.
• Fix a trail bug with the Red Baron in the Arena.
• Fix a background bug after hyperspace.
• Fix a bug where the Mothership never ended in the Arena.
• Fix a bug with the Lightsaber and Gloryhammer.
• Fix a bug with the Gloryhammer.
• Fix a bug with Demuxbot and Gloryhammer pushing enemies too far away.
• Fix a bug with many Drillerbots.
• Fix a bug with bindings in settings.
• Fix a bug with Chain Reaction cancelling suicide bullets.
• Fix a bug with the destruction of suicide bullets.
• Fix a bug with bots and Alien Threat boss.
• Fix a bug with the Alien Threat not ending.
• Fix a bug with the Minefield.
• Fix a bug with the Daily Run daily unlocking.
• Vanish bullets on Battleship's third pattern.
• Vanish more bullets on destruction.
• Improve some bots performances.
• Improve performances of suicide bullets.
• Improve Frag Missile and Rocket Circus performances on startup.
• Improve seed generation.
• Add a modal when a score is not sent.
• Fix Boss Rush scores.
• Fix a best score issue.

Balance

• Reduce Flamebot damage.
• Balance Drillerbot.
• Increase Ancient Power damage.
• The "None" artefact has a smaller difficulty boost than the other (10% instead of 20%).
• If you trigger several minibosses, the Red Baron fight is favored.
• Reduce SUPERCHABAL speed boost in loops.
• Tweak achievements.

• Rework Tempest's special ability with upgrade. It's a classic shockwave now. Simpler but better. Each weapon has a custom shockwave, changing the damage and area.

• Add a few iframes when the Fury lands after using its special ability.
• Increase the speed of the Fury's ghost (special ability).
• Increase precision of the Fury's special ability.
• Reduce the area of the explosions of the Fury's special ability.

Hello, We hope that Steredenn: Binary Stars filled all your hopes and dreams! But alas, there's no release without its usual list of small bugs! Fixed! Squashed! Here we go.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Fix co-op controllers issue (allow playing online with Parsec).
• Fix Heavy Shielder and Ancient Power artefact bug.
• Fix separator error in scores.
• Fix Specialist unable to choose its weapons in Arena.
• Fix double panels bug in the UI when using the bumpers.
• Fix Red Baron being pushed outside of the screen.
• Fix small typo.

Balance

• Increase Red Baron laser damage.
• Increase Red Baron bullet damage.
• Reduce Frag Missile radius.

Steredenn: Binary Stars is finally available on Steam!
It's bundled as a free DLC, automatically included with your Steredenn purchase. Restart Steam, and you should see a new update available. You get the 2.0.0, 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 updates in one package. The leaderboards are also new. You can still check the old ones, but Steredenn: Binary Stars is a fresh start for everyone. To recap quickly what Steredenn: Binary Stars is:

• Local 2-players co-op mode;
• 5 new playable ships;
• Boss Rush mode;
• Tons of new content (music, bosses, upgrades, weapons, waves).

• Check the official Steredenn: Binary Stars website.
• Listen to the new soundtrack.
• Read the FAQ about our thought-process and decisions behind the update.

Steredenn 2.0.0: Binary Stars

• 5 playable ships.
• Local 2-players co-op mode with special leaderboard.
• Boss rush mode. Face a pre-selected roaster of bosses, and beat them! You can try as many times as you want, and your score will go ina special leaderboard. This is a weekly challenge.
• Secret bosses. If you do a certain thing (Zhu Li, do the thing!), you will earn the privilege to fight against one of the secret bosses.
• 3 new music tracks: Binary Stars, Supermassive, Star Devourers. Listen on Bandcamp.
• Cargos can drop Medkits and Ultramedkits. This is rare, but it can save you from an ineluctable death.

• New ship: the "Tempest". This is actually the current existing ship same speed, same health, same damages. Its special ability is to use a melee weapon as a third weapon. Taking a melee weapons has a real value now, without any handicap. Yes: you can have the cake and eat it!
• New ship: the "Fortress". It's slow, it does less damages, but can absorb many more hits. Its special ability is a rain of homing rockets. There's no subtlety here: just rush into the battlefield. Everything is gonna be fine, trust us.
• New ship: the "Fury". You got less health, but more damages. And this ship is fast! Its special ability is a teleport. Press the button, choose your target, and bam! You're there. If you quickly press the button, it will teleport a few light-years before you instantly. Because it's Steredenn, the teleportation is, obviously, explosive. If you teleport near an enemy ship, there's a good chance that you will wreck it.
• New ship: the "Specialist". The master of Bots. This ship is radically different from the previous ones. You can only use Bots. If you orbitate near them, they will become invincible, so use them as a wall! Its special ability is a Boosterbot and you can only have one at a time. This Bot changes the behavior of the other Bots under its aura. For example, a Gunbot will fire a huge number of bullets in a larger cone, but will deplete faster. A Bot under the influence of the Boosterbot is not necessarily better, but its new behavior can be used to handle different situations. This is key to the gameplay of the Specialist. Try everybot, with or without the booster, and you will understand.
• New ship: the "Red Baron". Like the Specialist, this ship is completely different. This time, you start the game with 4 abilities and that's all. No cargo, nothing else. The first ability is a spread gun to destroy light targets. The second ability is a huge laser. Yes, you read it right. A freaking huge laser!! This is your main weapon against medium targets. Finally, your last weapon is a grenade. You can charge it to launch it far away. The more you charge, the more damages it will deal. The last ability is not a weapon, but a Speed Boost. Move at an unparalled velocity and dodge everything, or re-deploy yourself quickly in better spots and fire at will!

• 2 new bosses.
• New boss: "Cruiser MK-II".
• New boss: "Carrier MK-II".
• 6 new secret bosses.
• New secret boss: "Verdukul".
• New secret boss: "An Old Friend".
• New secret boss: "Garbage Collector".
• New secret boss: "Alien Threat".
• New secret boss: "SUPERCHABAL".
• New secret boss: "The Red Baron".

• The "Bullet" category has now 11 weapons, 12 with the default.
• The "Energy" category has now 11 weapons, 12 with the default.
• The "Heavy" category has now 11 weapons, 12 with the default.
• The "Bot" category has now 10 weapons, 11 with the default, and 12 with the Boosterbot.
• New "Bullet" weapon: "Helixer".
• New "Bullet" weapon: "Hypershotgun". We had a shotgun. But no Hypershotgun. What a shame. This is fixed.
• New "Bullet" weapon: "Sniper". Check the cursor: if you target a special area of an enemy, you can demultiply the damages you'll give.
• New "Energy" weapon: "Fusion Blaster" (Fury's default weapon).
• New "Energy" weapon: "Fusion Hyperblaster".
• New "Energy" weapon: "Lightgun". A pulse of light rays.
• New "Energy" weapon: "Ultrabeam". Take the Ultralaser, apply the reverse effect and bam: the Ultrabeam. Focus on an enemy, don't release your fire and watch it get bigger overtime.
• New "Energy" weapon: "GLORYHAMMER". Faster than a laser bullet.
• New "Heavy" weapon: "Fire Blaster" (Fortress' default weapon).
• New "Heavy" weapon: "Fire Hyperblaster". You might have understood now that we love the word Hyper?
• New "Heavy" weapon: "Frag Missiles". If your big girl/boy doesn't reach its target, it will destructure itself into many homing missiles.
• New "Heavy" weapon: "Lag Cannon".
• New "Bot" weapon: "Blasterbot" (Specialist's default weapon). Combine the three other default weapons for a devastating effect.
• New "Bot" weapon: "Fusionbot".
• New "Bot" weapon: "Demuxbot".
• New "Bot" weapon: "Ninjabot". Trained in the dark art of stealth, your Ninjabots can conceal themselves into the Darkness of Space.
• New "Bot" weapon: "Drillerbot". With the Specialist, you can hold them and create a huge stack of mini-drills.
• New "Bot" weapon: "Laserbot".
• New "Melee" weapon: "Razorblade" (Tempest's default special ability). Tiny but handy.

• 4 new events.
• New event: "Bumpers". A bumpy ride awaits you.
• New event: "Bulletmines". Okay, mines were great. A bulletmine? More laughter!
• New event: "Bulletstorm". At this point, a bulletstorm shouldn't surprise you, right?
• New event: "Quantum Asteroid Field". We thought the Asteroid Fields were too easy and we should add a variant that can teleport. Because we can.

• Upgrades have a title and a description. This way, you can better understand the actual effect of an upgrade.
• 5 new upgrades.
• New upgrade: "Chain Reaction". When an enemy ship is destroyed, it creates a small shockwave. Which can trigger another shockwave.
• New upgrade: "Guardian Angel". Prevent death once per level. Basically, it gives you another HP when you should have died the first time it happens.
• New upgrade: "Heavy Armor". When you are hit by a bullet that does 3 (or more) damages, it reduces the amount you take by one.
• New upgrade: "Ancient Power". Create an electric damage aura around you in a small radius.
• New upgrade: "Next-Gen Special Ability". Boost your special ability. The effect depends on the ship you are using. The Tempest creates an additional shockwave when you use its melee weapon. The Fortress throws more missiles. The Fury deals damages before and after its teleportation. The Specialist can use two boosterbots, that gain the ability to mirror bots with a weaker ghost. The Red Baron becomes invulnerable for a few frames when using its Speed Boost, and throws mini-grenades with the bigger ones.
• Artefacts: 7 deadly game modifiers that change the flow of the game. They also increases the difficulty.

• New scoring system. Like the old one, but simpler. There is no type of wave anymore. If you destroy all the ships, you gain one combo, if you take no damage, you gain one combo. That's all.
• Export your death gif (only on PC/Mac/Linux).
• Add 14 incredible space environments.
• Add 42 new waves.
• Rework the background of the main menu and first level. This environment is huge. Have some time to lose? Wait and watch the main title screen.
• Rework hyperspace animation. Smooth!
• Rework pause UI. Pretty!
• Update the tutorial with a special ability section.
• Add new achievements on Steam.
• Add new tips.
• Add toast when a weapon, mode or ship is unlocked.
• Animate rocks, mines and events a bit to make them more "alive".
• Easter egg.
• Better cheat protection.
• Improve many parts of the UI.
• Add the ability to rebind all the controls and controllers.
• Overall polish and optimisations.

• Improve japanese translation.
• Add traditional chinese translation.
• Add a progressive screenshakes on Shotgun and Hypershotgun. Add junks too.
• Make black overlays bigger to prevent a small 1px gap on the sides.
• Fix double collider explosions.
• Fix bot search animation bug.
• And many other bug fixes.

• We checked many upgrades to make them better interact with other aspects of the game. We squashed some bugs or missing effects there aswell.
• Improve some enemies patterns in loops.
• Improve "Score" upgrades.
• Make later loops harder (5+). Why? The game wasn't scaling well enough past a certain number of loops. This was not interesting to watch or play.
• Balance some patterns (bosses or standard enemies).
• Balance "Reinforcements" upgrade.
• Balance all bots (life, contact, duration, ammunitions, etc.).
• Balance enemy shields mechanic. Before Binary Stars, shields were, most of the time, useless: you had a shield-breaking weapon, or the Shield Breaker upgrade, breaking them so quickly that you couldn't even see them. We reworked the shield in order to make them a real threat: even with the shield breaker or a shield-breaking weapon, they can represent a true danger.
• Balance the bonus of each event. They give way more points now. This reflects the fact that they make the game really more difficult and require a real reward if you can survive them.
• Balance Flamethrower. Still powerful, but a bit more restrained against certain types of enemies.
• Rework the Shockwave. The old Shockwave was not a bad weapon, but we were not happy with the feeling. We tried to keep what made the Shockwave a useful weapon, but this time, it's also fun to use.
• Rework the Stasisgun and Stasisbot. They are more Flamethrower-like now. And better. Because they were not.
• Rework the Lightsaber. The old one was ugly and the feeling was even worse. This time, you got a real lightsaber: quick, pretty and powerful. Throw back all the bullets!
• Rework melee weapon mechanic. It's more robust, but it changes the tempo quite a bit.
• Ultrawarrior achievement is extended to all ships.
• And many other balance tweaks.

Stats

Steredenn 2.1.0: Switching Guns

• Add 3 environments.
• Rocks, mines, bulletmines, bumpers and other small explodable elements have a small movement.
• Use bumpers on gamepads.
• Improve first level's background. It's huuuge. The whole solar system. Waow.
• Improve loop first level's background.
• Improve vibrations on gamepads (if supported). Way way better!
• Improve texts.

• Increase performances for bullets and Asteroid Fields.
• Optimize Stasisbot and Stasisgun.
• Use correct background for special bosses in Arena.
• Handle language change in the settings in a smoother way.
• Rework Arena starting animation.
• Add Pro Controller support on PC.
• Fix Tempest taking a normal weapon in its melee slot (which was not a viable strategy since the weapon was not useable, sorry).
• Fix spamming bugs with the Tempest special ability.
• Fix Garbage Collector cross pattern.
• Fix some errors in texts.
• Fix some bugs in Arena's game over.
• Fix some starting weapons not considered unlocked by default.
• Fix bug with two identical controllers considered the same in co-op.
• Fix artefacts being dropped after the destruction of a miniboss in the Arena.
• Fix the Rocket Circus' targeting during the Asteroworm fight.
• Fix a rare date bug in Daily Run.
• Fix Red Baron boss' trail not cleaned correctly during hypespaces.
• Fix trails when the SUPERCHABAL is destroyed.
• Fix mini-Garbage Collector trails.
• Fix audio bugs.
• Fix pesky misalignment issues for special ability UI.

• Tweak Specialist for a better game experience. Changes below.
• Bots under the Specialist Aura have a bigger shield radius.
• Bots under the Specialist Aura are pushed back each time they get hit. You have to move to stay behind them. This is a big change, but it's a good one, don't worry. ;)
• Specialist can stop freefalling Bots by coming near them.
• Bots can target new enemies more quickly.
• Ghost Bots (from Next-Gen Special) ignore the Specialist aura.
• Remove Specialist passive bonus damage.
• Reduce Fury special ability damage bonus.
• Reduce Ninjabot damage.
• Reduce Minirockets damage and increase cooldown.
• Reduce Quick Reload bonus a bit.
• Reduce Laserbot damage.
• Balance Flamebot.
• Increase Ancient Power damage.
• Modify Cruiser MK2 patterns conditions.
• Modify Gunbot boost mode.
• Melee weapons don't trigger suicide bullets in loops.
• Change damage type of Red Baron's spread weapon.
• Improve heal speed of a health capsule.
• Shieldbots last longer but can only be spawned twice with a bigger cooldown.
• Shieldbots can stop laser.
• Shieldbots don't destroy ally bots created near them.
• Shieldbots are less vulnerable to collisions.
• Shieldbots blink more when they are almost discharged.
• Shieldbots last longer under the Specialist aura.
• Rework Reflector to be more intuitive and easier to use.
• Reflector shows an animation when fully charged.
• Shield shows an animation when fully charged.
• Shield stops small lasers.
• Change probabilities on SUPERCHABAL and Asteroworm.
• Increase cooldown of the Baygun.
• Reduce number of bullets reflected by the Heavy Shielder.
• Rename "Reconfigured Slot Design" to "Improved Reconfiguration System".

Steredenn 2.1.1: Orbit Correction

• Cinema mode is now permanent and you have to disable it manually in the settings.

• Fix incorrect music (or no music) after a restart with the Specialist.
• Fix tons of hacks in the UI, allowing us to handle resolution changes and retina screens correctly all the time.
• Fix white noise sound staying after being defeated by the Nemesis.
• Fix (again) bots and Autocannon targeting an out-of-screen enemy.
• Fix a sound bug at the end of the Arena.
• Fix a bug with Mines and generators.
• Fix a bug with Shotgun and EMP mines.

• Increase Helixer's side cannons damages.
• Decrease Helixer's main cannon damage. Overall, the Helixer deals more damage.
• Increase cooldown of Stasisbot.
• Increase cooldown of Frag Missile.
• Reduce movement speed of Frag Missile.
• Change combo bonus of "SUPERMASSIVE GLORIOUS SURVIVOR" artefact.

Steredenn: Binary Stars is finally available on Steam!
It's bundled as a free DLC, automatically included with your Steredenn purchase. Restart Steam, and you should see a new update available. You get the 2.0.0, 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 updates in one package. The leaderboards are also new. You can still check the old ones, but Steredenn: Binary Stars is a fresh start for everyone. To recap quickly what Steredenn: Binary Stars is:

• Local 2-players co-op mode;
• 5 new playable ships;
• Boss Rush mode;
• Tons of new content (music, bosses, upgrades, weapons, waves).

• Check the official Steredenn: Binary Stars website.
• Listen to the new soundtrack.
• Read the FAQ about our thought-process and decisions behind the update.

Steredenn 2.0.0: Binary Stars

• 5 playable ships.
• Local 2-players co-op mode with special leaderboard.
• Boss rush mode. Face a pre-selected roaster of bosses, and beat them! You can try as many times as you want, and your score will go ina special leaderboard. This is a weekly challenge.
• Secret bosses. If you do a certain thing (Zhu Li, do the thing!), you will earn the privilege to fight against one of the secret bosses.
• 3 new music tracks: Binary Stars, Supermassive, Star Devourers. Listen on Bandcamp.
• Cargos can drop Medkits and Ultramedkits. This is rare, but it can save you from an ineluctable death.

• New ship: the "Tempest". This is actually the current existing ship same speed, same health, same damages. Its special ability is to use a melee weapon as a third weapon. Taking a melee weapons has a real value now, without any handicap. Yes: you can have the cake and eat it!
• New ship: the "Fortress". It's slow, it does less damages, but can absorb many more hits. Its special ability is a rain of homing rockets. There's no subtlety here: just rush into the battlefield. Everything is gonna be fine, trust us.
• New ship: the "Fury". You got less health, but more damages. And this ship is fast! Its special ability is a teleport. Press the button, choose your target, and bam! You're there. If you quickly press the button, it will teleport a few light-years before you instantly. Because it's Steredenn, the teleportation is, obviously, explosive. If you teleport near an enemy ship, there's a good chance that you will wreck it.
• New ship: the "Specialist". The master of Bots. This ship is radically different from the previous ones. You can only use Bots. If you orbitate near them, they will become invincible, so use them as a wall! Its special ability is a Boosterbot and you can only have one at a time. This Bot changes the behavior of the other Bots under its aura. For example, a Gunbot will fire a huge number of bullets in a larger cone, but will deplete faster. A Bot under the influence of the Boosterbot is not necessarily better, but its new behavior can be used to handle different situations. This is key to the gameplay of the Specialist. Try everybot, with or without the booster, and you will understand.
• New ship: the "Red Baron". Like the Specialist, this ship is completely different. This time, you start the game with 4 abilities and that's all. No cargo, nothing else. The first ability is a spread gun to destroy light targets. The second ability is a huge laser. Yes, you read it right. A freaking huge laser!! This is your main weapon against medium targets. Finally, your last weapon is a grenade. You can charge it to launch it far away. The more you charge, the more damages it will deal. The last ability is not a weapon, but a Speed Boost. Move at an unparalled velocity and dodge everything, or re-deploy yourself quickly in better spots and fire at will!

• 2 new bosses.
• New boss: "Cruiser MK-II".
• New boss: "Carrier MK-II".
• 6 new secret bosses.
• New secret boss: "Verdukul".
• New secret boss: "An Old Friend".
• New secret boss: "Garbage Collector".
• New secret boss: "Alien Threat".
• New secret boss: "SUPERCHABAL".
• New secret boss: "The Red Baron".

• The "Bullet" category has now 11 weapons, 12 with the default.
• The "Energy" category has now 11 weapons, 12 with the default.
• The "Heavy" category has now 11 weapons, 12 with the default.
• The "Bot" category has now 10 weapons, 11 with the default, and 12 with the Boosterbot.
• New "Bullet" weapon: "Helixer".
• New "Bullet" weapon: "Hypershotgun". We had a shotgun. But no Hypershotgun. What a shame. This is fixed.
• New "Bullet" weapon: "Sniper". Check the cursor: if you target a special area of an enemy, you can demultiply the damages you'll give.
• New "Energy" weapon: "Fusion Blaster" (Fury's default weapon).
• New "Energy" weapon: "Fusion Hyperblaster".
• New "Energy" weapon: "Lightgun". A pulse of light rays.
• New "Energy" weapon: "Ultrabeam". Take the Ultralaser, apply the reverse effect and bam: the Ultrabeam. Focus on an enemy, don't release your fire and watch it get bigger overtime.
• New "Energy" weapon: "GLORYHAMMER". Faster than a laser bullet.
• New "Heavy" weapon: "Fire Blaster" (Fortress' default weapon).
• New "Heavy" weapon: "Fire Hyperblaster". You might have understood now that we love the word Hyper?
• New "Heavy" weapon: "Frag Missiles". If your big girl/boy doesn't reach its target, it will destructure itself into many homing missiles.
• New "Heavy" weapon: "Lag Cannon".
• New "Bot" weapon: "Blasterbot" (Specialist's default weapon). Combine the three other default weapons for a devastating effect.
• New "Bot" weapon: "Fusionbot".
• New "Bot" weapon: "Demuxbot".
• New "Bot" weapon: "Ninjabot". Trained in the dark art of stealth, your Ninjabots can conceal themselves into the Darkness of Space.
• New "Bot" weapon: "Drillerbot". With the Specialist, you can hold them and create a huge stack of mini-drills.
• New "Bot" weapon: "Laserbot".
• New "Melee" weapon: "Razorblade" (Tempest's default special ability). Tiny but handy.

• 4 new events.
• New event: "Bumpers". A bumpy ride awaits you.
• New event: "Bulletmines". Okay, mines were great. A bulletmine? More laughter!
• New event: "Bulletstorm". At this point, a bulletstorm shouldn't surprise you, right?
• New event: "Quantum Asteroid Field". We thought the Asteroid Fields were too easy and we should add a variant that can teleport. Because we can.

• Upgrades have a title and a description. This way, you can better understand the actual effect of an upgrade.
• 5 new upgrades.
• New upgrade: "Chain Reaction". When an enemy ship is destroyed, it creates a small shockwave. Which can trigger another shockwave.
• New upgrade: "Guardian Angel". Prevent death once per level. Basically, it gives you another HP when you should have died the first time it happens.
• New upgrade: "Heavy Armor". When you are hit by a bullet that does 3 (or more) damages, it reduces the amount you take by one.
• New upgrade: "Ancient Power". Create an electric damage aura around you in a small radius.
• New upgrade: "Next-Gen Special Ability". Boost your special ability. The effect depends on the ship you are using. The Tempest creates an additional shockwave when you use its melee weapon. The Fortress throws more missiles. The Fury deals damages before and after its teleportation. The Specialist can use two boosterbots, that gain the ability to mirror bots with a weaker ghost. The Red Baron becomes invulnerable for a few frames when using its Speed Boost, and throws mini-grenades with the bigger ones.
• Artefacts: 7 deadly game modifiers that change the flow of the game. They also increases the difficulty.

• New scoring system. Like the old one, but simpler. There is no type of wave anymore. If you destroy all the ships, you gain one combo, if you take no damage, you gain one combo. That's all.
• Export your death gif (only on PC/Mac/Linux).
• Add 14 incredible space environments.
• Add 42 new waves.
• Rework the background of the main menu and first level. This environment is huge. Have some time to lose? Wait and watch the main title screen.
• Rework hyperspace animation. Smooth!
• Rework pause UI. Pretty!
• Update the tutorial with a special ability section.
• Add new achievements on Steam.
• Add new tips.
• Add toast when a weapon, mode or ship is unlocked.
• Animate rocks, mines and events a bit to make them more "alive".
• Easter egg.
• Better cheat protection.
• Improve many parts of the UI.
• Add the ability to rebind all the controls and controllers.
• Overall polish and optimisations.

• Improve japanese translation.
• Add traditional chinese translation.
• Add a progressive screenshakes on Shotgun and Hypershotgun. Add junks too.
• Make black overlays bigger to prevent a small 1px gap on the sides.
• Fix double collider explosions.
• Fix bot search animation bug.
• And many other bug fixes.

• We checked many upgrades to make them better interact with other aspects of the game. We squashed some bugs or missing effects there aswell.
• Improve some enemies patterns in loops.
• Improve "Score" upgrades.
• Make later loops harder (5+). Why? The game wasn't scaling well enough past a certain number of loops. This was not interesting to watch or play.
• Balance some patterns (bosses or standard enemies).
• Balance "Reinforcements" upgrade.
• Balance all bots (life, contact, duration, ammunitions, etc.).
• Balance enemy shields mechanic. Before Binary Stars, shields were, most of the time, useless: you had a shield-breaking weapon, or the Shield Breaker upgrade, breaking them so quickly that you couldn't even see them. We reworked the shield in order to make them a real threat: even with the shield breaker or a shield-breaking weapon, they can represent a true danger.
• Balance the bonus of each event. They give way more points now. This reflects the fact that they make the game really more difficult and require a real reward if you can survive them.
• Balance Flamethrower. Still powerful, but a bit more restrained against certain types of enemies.
• Rework the Shockwave. The old Shockwave was not a bad weapon, but we were not happy with the feeling. We tried to keep what made the Shockwave a useful weapon, but this time, it's also fun to use.
• Rework the Stasisgun and Stasisbot. They are more Flamethrower-like now. And better. Because they were not.
• Rework the Lightsaber. The old one was ugly and the feeling was even worse. This time, you got a real lightsaber: quick, pretty and powerful. Throw back all the bullets!
• Rework melee weapon mechanic. It's more robust, but it changes the tempo quite a bit.
• Ultrawarrior achievement is extended to all ships.
• And many other balance tweaks.

Stats

Steredenn 2.1.0: Switching Guns

• Add 3 environments.
• Rocks, mines, bulletmines, bumpers and other small explodable elements have a small movement.
• Use bumpers on gamepads.
• Improve first level's background. It's huuuge. The whole solar system. Waow.
• Improve loop first level's background.
• Improve vibrations on gamepads (if supported). Way way better!
• Improve texts.

• Increase performances for bullets and Asteroid Fields.
• Optimize Stasisbot and Stasisgun.
• Use correct background for special bosses in Arena.
• Handle language change in the settings in a smoother way.
• Rework Arena starting animation.
• Add Pro Controller support on PC.
• Fix Tempest taking a normal weapon in its melee slot (which was not a viable strategy since the weapon was not useable, sorry).
• Fix spamming bugs with the Tempest special ability.
• Fix Garbage Collector cross pattern.
• Fix some errors in texts.
• Fix some bugs in Arena's game over.
• Fix some starting weapons not considered unlocked by default.
• Fix bug with two identical controllers considered the same in co-op.
• Fix artefacts being dropped after the destruction of a miniboss in the Arena.
• Fix the Rocket Circus' targeting during the Asteroworm fight.
• Fix a rare date bug in Daily Run.
• Fix Red Baron boss' trail not cleaned correctly during hypespaces.
• Fix trails when the SUPERCHABAL is destroyed.
• Fix mini-Garbage Collector trails.
• Fix audio bugs.
• Fix pesky misalignment issues for special ability UI.

• Tweak Specialist for a better game experience. Changes below.
• Bots under the Specialist Aura have a bigger shield radius.
• Bots under the Specialist Aura are pushed back each time they get hit. You have to move to stay behind them. This is a big change, but it's a good one, don't worry. ;)
• Specialist can stop freefalling Bots by coming near them.
• Bots can target new enemies more quickly.
• Ghost Bots (from Next-Gen Special) ignore the Specialist aura.
• Remove Specialist passive bonus damage.
• Reduce Fury special ability damage bonus.
• Reduce Ninjabot damage.
• Reduce Minirockets damage and increase cooldown.
• Reduce Quick Reload bonus a bit.
• Reduce Laserbot damage.
• Balance Flamebot.
• Increase Ancient Power damage.
• Modify Cruiser MK2 patterns conditions.
• Modify Gunbot boost mode.
• Melee weapons don't trigger suicide bullets in loops.
• Change damage type of Red Baron's spread weapon.
• Improve heal speed of a health capsule.
• Shieldbots last longer but can only be spawned twice with a bigger cooldown.
• Shieldbots can stop laser.
• Shieldbots don't destroy ally bots created near them.
• Shieldbots are less vulnerable to collisions.
• Shieldbots blink more when they are almost discharged.
• Shieldbots last longer under the Specialist aura.
• Rework Reflector to be more intuitive and easier to use.
• Reflector shows an animation when fully charged.
• Shield shows an animation when fully charged.
• Shield stops small lasers.
• Change probabilities on SUPERCHABAL and Asteroworm.
• Increase cooldown of the Baygun.
• Reduce number of bullets reflected by the Heavy Shielder.
• Rename "Reconfigured Slot Design" to "Improved Reconfiguration System".

Steredenn 2.1.1: Orbit Correction

• Cinema mode is now permanent and you have to disable it manually in the settings.

• Fix incorrect music (or no music) after a restart with the Specialist.
• Fix tons of hacks in the UI, allowing us to handle resolution changes and retina screens correctly all the time.
• Fix white noise sound staying after being defeated by the Nemesis.
• Fix (again) bots and Autocannon targeting an out-of-screen enemy.
• Fix a sound bug at the end of the Arena.
• Fix a bug with Mines and generators.
• Fix a bug with Shotgun and EMP mines.

• Increase Helixer's side cannons damages.
• Decrease Helixer's main cannon damage. Overall, the Helixer deals more damage.
• Increase cooldown of Stasisbot.
• Increase cooldown of Frag Missile.
• Reduce movement speed of Frag Missile.
• Change combo bonus of "SUPERMASSIVE GLORIOUS SURVIVOR" artefact.

Fellow Steredenn players, Today's a big day for the team. We have just released a massively expanded, hugely improved version of Steredenn on Nintendo Switch!

• Watch the trailer
• Grab it on the eShop

What's new?

Why are we posting here?

Fellow Steredenn players, Today's a big day for the team. We have just released a massively expanded, hugely improved version of Steredenn on Nintendo Switch!

• Watch the trailer
• Grab it on the eShop

What's new?

Why are we posting here?

Hello! This is a small release with some minor bug fixes. For iOS 10 users, we have also released an awesome Sticker Pack for the Messages app! Go get it and blast some monstrous pirate spaceships and explosions on your friends. ;)
Open the "Messages" app, click on App Store icon, press the "+" button and search for "Steredenn Stickers" in the Messages App Store. Enjoy!

Features

• Add thousand separators.
• Add some catchphrases.
• Dev nicknames are green.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Fix a D-Pad bug in the menus on Windows.
• Fix some sounds.

Hello! This is a small release with some minor bug fixes. For iOS 10 users, we have also released an awesome Sticker Pack for the Messages app! Go get it and blast some monstrous pirate spaceships and explosions on your friends. ;)
Open the "Messages" app, click on App Store icon, press the "+" button and search for "Steredenn Stickers" in the Messages App Store. Enjoy!

Features

• Add thousand separators.
• Add some catchphrases.
• Dev nicknames are green.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Fix a D-Pad bug in the menus on Windows.
• Fix some sounds.

Hi, Small update: we have only changed the conditions to unlock bosses in the Arena… and the Superplay mode.

Features

• Superplay is unlocked when you beat the Destroyer.
• To unlock the Bombers, Frigates and Destroyers in the Arena, you need to beat them once (or face them a few times).
• To unlock the others in the Arena, you just need to encounter them once.
• Tweak keyboard acceleration slightly.
• Add `-inverty` command-line argument to invert the Y axis.

Hi, Small update: we have only changed the conditions to unlock bosses in the Arena and the Superplay mode.

Features

• Superplay is unlocked when you beat the Destroyer.
• To unlock the Bombers, Frigates and Destroyers in the Arena, you need to beat them once (or face them a few times).
• To unlock the others in the Arena, you just need to encounter them once.
• Tweak keyboard acceleration slightly.
• Add `-inverty` command-line argument to invert the Y axis.

Hello! We have some new goodies for you. We thought that the game would be better with some new space landscapes. Some? Ok, we added tons of them. 10. New. Landscapes. And, god, they are pretty:

Features

• New landscapes.
• New rocks.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Fix the Daily Run difficulty when starting from loop 1 or more.
• Fix some minor bugs.

Hello! We have some new goodies for you. We thought that the game would be better with some new space landscapes. Some? Ok, we added tons of them. 10. New. Landscapes. And, god, they are pretty:

Features

• New landscapes.
• New rocks.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Fix the Daily Run difficulty when starting from loop 1 or more.
• Fix some minor bugs.

Hey, Today, we proudly present a… new bugfixes release. I'm secretly hoping that it will be the last of the cursed 1.2 chain.

Features

• Do not capture the mouse on Linux.
• Add a fade out after starting a Daily Run.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Fix the dreadful ghost bullets. Remember when a Homing Missile disappeared without any reason? Well, no more. We expect. We hope?
• Fix the Daily Run starting without weapons or upgrades, even if the panel said otherwise.
• Fix the invisible label on bonuses and upgrades on some screen resolutions.
• Fix the gap between text and the capsule on some bonuses on some screen resolutions.
• Fix a bug with the resolutions in the Settings.

Hey, Today, we proudly present a new bugfixes release. I'm secretly hoping that it will be the last of the cursed 1.2 chain.

Features

• Do not capture the mouse on Linux.
• Add a fade out after starting a Daily Run.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Fix the dreadful ghost bullets. Remember when a Homing Missile disappeared without any reason? Well, no more. We expect. We hope?
• Fix the Daily Run starting without weapons or upgrades, even if the panel said otherwise.
• Fix the invisible label on bonuses and upgrades on some screen resolutions.
• Fix the gap between text and the capsule on some bonuses on some screen resolutions.
• Fix a bug with the resolutions in the Settings.

Hi, More bugfixes for Linux users. This time, we really hope it will eradicate the problem once and for all (see 1.2.1 and 1.2.0 for more information). Sorry again! :s

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Change OpenGL config for Linux. Again. And again.
• Fix a rare occurence of an infinite wave.
• Fix small flames position on the Destroyer MK-II.
• Hide small flames when a boss dies.

Hello, This is a very small bugfix release. We hope it will fix the bug crippling Linux users with the (now-retired on Linux) 1.2.0 update. We don't have many Linux machines, so please, tell us if the game has any problem on this platform and your particular Linux flavor. We also fixed some UI glitches and improved the Raygun.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Change OpenGL config for Linux.
• Improve UI buttons display in non-english languages.

Balance

• The Raygun deals more damages (twice, to be exact).

Pixelnest Studio, our company, is two years old today: happy birthday! Let's celebrate this awesome day and new release (1.2.0) with a special sale of -33%. Enjoy. :) — Damien & Matthieu Pixelnest Studio

Hi, Today is the second anniversary of Pixelnest. We cooked a small surprise for the occasion. ;) We all love Daily Runs. They bring a breath of fresh air to the game every day. We thought we could improve them quite a bit by adding new options, like upgrades or loops right from the beginning. The new musics are also there. Science Magic and Tensor Forces join the roster. Thanks to Zander Noriega, as usual. ;) Users on Linux might have to upgrade their OpenGL installation. It's beyond our control, unfortunately.

Features

• New musics: Science Magic and Tensor Forces.
• Improved "Daily Run" with upgrades, loops, cargos and weapons.
• Add new controllers.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Fix the mines against the Destroyer MK-II.
• Fix the raygun sound when swapping.
• Fix some labels.
• Increase the size of the raygun.

Balance

• Increase the damages of the Boomerang.
• Increase the damages of the Rockets.
• Increase the damages of the Megagun.
• Reduce the max time of a wave the further you loop the game.

Hi, Small update today, with two new awesome landscapes! We also continue to try to improve the way the game handles gamepads and sticks. Read more on our FAQ if you have any trouble with your controller.

Features

• Two brand new landscapes. Splendid. :)
• Support more controllers/sticks.
• Add new command line arguments to force the game to use a Xbox One/Xbox 360/PS3/PS4 controller mapping.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Fix a bug on Linux where floating numbers parsing could break the game. Once again, and for all eternity we shall hope.

Hello, A big thank to everyone who purchased the game during the last weeks. It means a lot to us. :) Good news: Zander Noriega is working on new tracks! For this update, we improved boot time and controllers support (there's also an hidden way to handle unknown controllers). We have a FAQ about that. Read it here.

Features

• Support more controllers.
• Add some command line arguments for unknown controllers.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Improve boot time. It should be WAY faster to launch Steredenn now. ;)
• Fix the bug where the same upgrade could be dropped twice.
• Fix a bug on Linux where floating numbers parsing could break the game.

Balance

• Rework the "+15% cargo frequency" upgrade to "+1 cargo per level".
• Balance some upgrades probability.
• The "Absorb lasers temporarily" is now improved by the shield upgrade.
• Autocannon focus new targets more quickly.
• Bots and Autocannon ignore shields.

Hello! Welcome to all the new players. We hope that you like Steredenn as much as we do. :) The game has Steam Trading Cards as of today. Like this one:
Speaking of that, we are working on a solution to improve sticks and unknown gamepads support. This patch should be available soon. Enjoy! Out. — Steredenn's team.

Hello, The game is officially available! o/ Please, spread the word! Talk about it, tweet it, like it! Everything counts. :)
First: thanks to all the Early Access buyers. We are proud to deliver this version, which represents the vision we had for the game since the beginning. It's not over, though. We hope to continue the work on Steredenn. :) So, what should you expect in this 1.0.0?

• Translations. Yes! Eleven languages.
• New contents. So many new waves.
• Support for achievements.
• Polish, as always.

Features

• Translations: 11 languages are supported. English, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Breton.
• Achievements!
• New enemy: the Blocker.
• New waves: +100.
• Mappings: handle mouse clicks and shift.
• Improve the SFX and music system.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Fix a bug in the daily run where you could get the same weapon twice.
• Fix another bug in the daily run where you would start with the Blaster even if the Daily said otherwise.
• Fix a bug with the mazes (infinite loops). It never happened in the game, but we fixed it nonetheless.
• Steam should work in offline mode, albeit with a little less options (no daily run nor scores).
• And tons of other small fixes. ;)

Balance

• Rework a bit the weapon drops.

Hello, The release is really close, now. Finally! We have a new trailer for the occasion. You can watch it on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtXajayBLzw As always, we need your help. A tweet, a like, a blog post, whatever. :) Everything counts. And the clock is ticking. — Steredenn's team.

Hello, Small update today. We took some time to work on the translations of the game and we added keyboard re-mapping, as well as an improved UI for input controls.
This release is shaping the game for the official release. And we might have fixed the few remaining nasty bugs. :)

Features

• Keyboard re-mapping. Yep. Open "Settings", then "Mappings" and here you go.
• Improve the controls display in the UI: the icons represent your current input method. With support for PS4 controllers.
• New ending.
• Improve the tutorial with texts skipping and two new explanations.
• Add the "Credits" panel.
• Slightly improved the Arena UI.
• New teleport effect for enemy ships. Not really visible in the current version. ;)
• The "Shield" upgrade has been improved visually.
• Continue the work on the game translation (many additional languages will be available on release day).

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Small optimizations.
• We think that we have (once again) found the origin of the freezes between waves. We hope that this time, it will be the last time. Tell us!
• Correct a bug with the sliders in the Settings.
• The music is correctly stopped when you quit a game or the Arena.
• The loops won't use the same wave twice.
• For people with input lags problem, launch the game with the special flag "-noxinput" and tell us if it improves the game.

Balance

• The Saw is available earlier.
• The Jaw deals more damages.
• The Reflector lasts 0.1s more.
• The Reflector starts in the player's direction.
• Tweaked the upgrades drop chances.
• Slightly reworded the events probabilities.
• The Laser Rain gives +100% bonus score instead of 50%.
• The "Shield" upgrade works with "Reflect damages when hit" and is not broken when hit by a junk piece.
• You need to see the bosses a bit less to unlock them in the Arena. For the Mothership, only two encounters will be necessary, for example.

Hello everyone, Big new today: Steredenn is going to be officially released on October 1st! It will be out of Early Access at the price of $12.99 with a -15% sale during the first week to celebrate. As a quick reminder, the game will remain at $8.99 until October 1st. Don't hesitate to get it now or offer it to your friends while it's still low. ;) We have finally reached the goals we wanted to achieve with the game. We are proud of what we have done during the Early Access and by the support you gave us. We even did many things we didn’t plan at all, like original new weapons, upgrades and other stuffs, thanks to you. We are a very small team (only 2 people full-time). It’s time to consider that the game is complete. We don’t want to fall into the trap of a never-ending development. Our aim with Steredenn was to do an Early Access the right way: gather feedbacks, include original ideas, fix bugs. We hope that we didn’t let you down on this point. And it’s not over! :) There is already a new update in the pipeline for next week (with keyboard remapping), and some exciting new additions for the official release (surprise!). We will continue to support the game, fix bugs and add new contents in the coming months. However, we’d rather be honest with you: we need your help. We need you to spread the word, talk about the game and share the love. You like Steredenn? The best way to help us is to speak about it! Contact your favorite youtuber, tweet about it and show the game to your friends. We want to thank our awesome community for all the feedbacks and messages. As we often said on the forums, we cannot answer to each post but be sure we have (and will) read everything and we did our best to include your ideas. Finally, a big thank to Simon Coroller, Etienne Marque and Zander Noriega for their awesome work on the game. Be ready for the bullet storm. -- Matthieu & Damien, Pixelnest Studio.

Hi, We have a small update this week for the few things we couldn't include in the 0.23.0. We have fixed many bugs, improved the music, added some waves and a brand new upgrade. We also added some side-effects to a few upgrades to make them mix well all together. And as always, we made some tweaks to the balance.

Features

• New upgrade: the Minishield. An additional shield that can absorb one hit (collision or bullet). It regenerates itself when you are not firing. Be careful: the hitbox of the minishield is way bigger than the one of the ship. ;)
• Waves: 5 new.
• Improve the music and transitions.
• The tutorial is really skippable (you could skip it in the 0.23.0, but the game would launch it again at the beginning of the game if you didn't watch it completely).
• Reworked some upgrades text, again.
• Bring back the percentages in the upgrades.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Unlock the Destroyer MK-II after beating it.
• Bots should no longer make sound during the pause.
• Bots and Homing Missiles should target the Destroyer MK-II correctly.
• Cargos are invincible if out of screen. You should no longer see flying capsules coming from the right.
• Correct some trajectories of the suicide bullets in the loops.
• Fix a bug of the Spiraler which would not fire sometimes.
• Fix a bug of the Chainsaw during the pause.

Balance

• Reduce the maximum duration of a wave to 1:30.
• Minirockets are always firing (if an enemy is visible).
• Bots are semi-automatic.
• The "Semi-automatic weapons are automatic" is also working on Bots.
• The "Collisions deal less damages" is applied to Bots. Collision-resistant-shockwave-bots? Sure.
• Reduce the collision damages of the player's ship a bit.
• In the 2nd (or more) loops, the fighters will always throw one suicide bullet before the player's ship.

Hello! It's been some time since the last update. With the holidays and clients work, we had a bit less time for Steredenn. But fear not, this update is, as always, huge. :)
There's a few big things:

• TONS of bug fixes and polish. This is the main aspect of this update. We have also reworked and added some upgrades. And, hopefully, we have balanced the weapons. Thanks to you!
• A tutorial. Okay, we know that you guys have already digged in the game a lot, so this might not serve you. But with this, you will be able to show Steredenn to your friends and let them experience the game in a brand new way.
• A new boss. The Destroyer MK-II. Harder than the first. ;)

Features

• New mode: tutorial! The first time you open the game, it will launch automatically. Then, it will be available in the normal mode by pressing "X" (pad) or "C" (keyboard).
• New boss: the Destroyer MK-II.
• New system: if an enemy is approaching you from the back, the game will tell you with a gentle warning.
• New upgrade: Better shield.
• New upgrade: Semi-automatic weapons are fully automatic.
• New upgrade: One more chance to achieve a wave. It allows you to let one enemy goes away or to be hit once before loosing the wave objective.
• Upgrade redesign: Improve collisions damages has been changed to Unleashed a shockwave on collisions. Way more fun.
• Upgrade redesign: Lasers invulnerability has been changed to Absorb lasers temporarily.
• Upgrade redesign: Collisions invulnerability has been changed to Collisions deal less damages.
• Suicide bullets: new color code and better mechanic.
• Waves: 30 new.
• Revamped the shield mechanic of the bosses in the loops.
• Revamped — once again — the music system. Smoother and prettier.
• We have also added new sounds.
• Tweak the gamepad and keyboard. They should be more precise in low-speed areas.
• Nice fade-out between screens and reorganized main menu.
• And tons of additional polish.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• Waves: the infinite waves should be no more. Please tell us if this happens again.
• Waves: the freeze between waves is finally eradicated. At least, we hope so.
• Waves: the objective is only given if you achieve it, as it should normally be.
• Chainsaw: fix the behavior when they stack.
• Daily Run: it's no longer possible to force quit to restart a new run.
• Daily Run: unlock weapons and bosses.
• Daily Run: fix the multiple lines stacked onto each other.
• Arena: the Mothership should show a background.
• Scores: fix the bug with the "Focus On Me" button in the leaderboards.
• Upgrades: always 5 upgrades, no less.
• Prepare the game localization. Handle accents and other special characters. It should also improve the nicknames display in the leaderboards.
• And tons of bugs squashed, smashed and destroyed.

Balance

• Rework the Carrier boss a bit.
• The Chainsaw have lost 1 HP.
• Balance all the bots and the bot upgrade. This should be better and fairer now.
• Less powerful jaw.
• More powerful sword.
• More powerful shotgun.
• More powerful supergun.
• More powerful hyperblaster.
• More powerful driller. Change its type.
• Tweaked demuxer.
• If a Daily Run has no cargo, the game will remove some upgrades from the pool.

Hey, What was supposed to be a simple and quick update is in fact a major one for the game. This new version enhances Steredenn so much — and adds a lot of new content as usual. We hope you will like it.
The main features are:

• Balancing! We entirely reworked the damage system. Before this update, when a bullet hit an enemy, it triggered a small invincibility timer. If another bullet hit the same enemy at the same time, it was ignored. No more. Combine your weapons and smash your opponents like never before. ;) We have added a whole new depth to our damage system too. Some weapons are now better against small ships, others are effective against bigger enemies, etc. You can still destroy everything with any weapon but some combinations are going to lead to faster destructions. Those two points mean we had to completely re-balance the game and the weapons. You will be surprised! It should be smoother and more pleasant. Tell us what you think. :]
• A new mode, the Daily Run! Everyday, try to be the best in a dedicated leaderboard. You got only one chance. Some days your weapons will be set by the game and there's even a slight chance that a run will have no cargo at all.
• Loops are now harder and better: it's not as simple as a restart anymore. Fear the suicide bullets.
• Linux build! We can assert that the game is running on a Kubuntu 64 bits but we need your feedback to make sure the game is running on your system. Please report any issue on the forum: http://steamcommunity.com/app/347160/discussions/0/620713633861901691/.
• Two new defensive weapons, as suggested on the forums: the Shieldbots and the Reflector.
• Two new bosses: the Bomber MK-4 and the Frigate MK-3.

Features

• New platform: Linux!
• New mode: the Daily Run.
• New boss: the Bomber MK-4.
• New boss: the Frigate MK-3.
• New weapon: the Shieldbots.
• New weapon: the Reflector. Reflect all the things!
• New enemy: the Spiraler.
• New enemy: the Heavy Shielder.
• New event in the loops: the Nemesis.
• Upgrade redesign: the energy and heavy upgrades have been improved. And we won't spoil the surprise.
• Loops have a lot of new mechanics to make them harder, better and more interesting.
• New patterns for the Mothership.
• New animation when you pick an upgrade.
• New environment for the first level during the loops.
• New junks after a boss destruction.
• New cosmetic events. The Alliance and the Research Stations.
• The Game Over screen display the number of loops and your combo.
• New tint mechanism when you hit an enemy. Orange is less efficient, red is normal and pink is extremely efficient.
• Tweak the "Scores" UI a bit.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• No more nasty freezes between waves. If you are still encountering this problem (but you shouldn't), tell us on the forums.
• More efficient Flamebots.
• Fix a bug with the shields.
• Fix a bug of the Baygun and the Charger.
• Chainsaw enemies no longer stack.
• The Mothership should gives its score correctly.

Balance

• All the weapons and enemies have been rebalanced. Slightly for the enemies… a lot for the weapons. Each weapon has a type (light, medium, heavy, fusion) and each enemy has an armor (small, medium, big, boss, building, blocker). If you combine the correct weapon against an enemy, you can unleash a devastating attack… Observe the game and try to learn how to maximize your damages. :)
• Upgraded some enemies' pattern for the loops. We still have some work to do on the bosses.
• Enemies and bosses are faster, more resistant and give more points during the loops.
• An event is only active during its effect, not for the whole level.
• Reworded some upgrades.
• The "+1 Health Point" is now "+2 Health Points".
• The "Drop Superior Weapons" upgrade has been removed.
• The "Category - +50% Drop Rate and +10% damages" is now "Category - +50% Drop Rate and +15% damages".
• The "Category - +50% Drop Rate and +15% damages" reset all the drop of its type. If you have picked an Hyperblaster before and you pick this upgrade for the "Bullets" category, you will have one more chance to drop it again.
• Specific upgrades have more chance to drop when you hold a weapon of their type.
• The Heavy Battleship shouldn't be invincible in the loops anymore. ;p
• Bots search for new enemies a bit faster.
• Bots target the bombtrap.
• Bonus have an increased time to live.

The today's release had a bug with the scoring system. Sorry. It should hopefully be fixed. :)

Changelog

• Fix the scoring bug.
• The Impaler deals 1 less damage.

Hello everyone, New update today! There are three main things in this update:

• The Mothership — the final big (dare I say huge?) boss. It's not fully done — the pacing is a bit too slow and we need to add a few patterns along with sounds — but it's a good start. By adding the Mothership, we have completed the first loop of the game. We will focus on the loops for the next updates. Of course, as soon as you beat the Mothership, it will be available in the Arena. It won't be easy, though. We have added the last music of Zander Noriega for when your are facing this deadly beast. Good luck captain.
• A new mode, unlocked by defeating the Mothership. This mode is the "Superplay", which allows you to select a variant of the game (with a number). Each time you play this variant, you get the same waves, weapons and upgrades. It's perfect for speedruns or high-level trainings.
• Tons of new contents: two new contact weapons, three new enemies, 43 waves and a whole new level (paving the way to the mothership).

Features

• New boss: the almighty Mothership. With this boss, the standard run of the game is complete. We will continue to improve the Mothership in the following weeks.
• New mode: Superplay. The Superplay mode removes lots of random in the game. You choose a variant — a number — of the game, and this variant will always generate the same waves, weapons and upgrades. This mode is unlocked when you finish (by beating the Mothership) the game once.
• New weapon: the Sword. Crush those ships!
• New weapon: the Jaw. Because… why not?
• New enemy: the Heavy Turret.
• New enemy: the Heavy Fighter.
• New enemy: the Heavy Battleship. Bigger, deadlier, heavily armored. Don't mess with it.
• 43 new waves.
• Redesign: the Flamethrower, a shiny new burning beauty.©
• The player's ship shows a small aura when it is hit.
• You are invincible after beating a boss.

Bug fixes/technical stuffs

• The Ultralaser now uses the "destroy junks and rocks instantly" upgrade correctly.
• We have fixed some upgrades which were not properly applied to weapons.
• The "Backfire damages" upgrade is optimized.
• The Autocannon upgrade has been improved. It should no longer target invisible enemies.
• Weapons are sorted by category in the Arena.
• Bots and Autocannon can target a Cargo and should be more intelligent.
• The Battleship boss should now longer be blocked on its first pattern.
• We have re-done the level generator. It should remove the little freezes between waves, and it should also fix the infinite wave bug (we hope).
• We have also added a timer to trigger a new wave if a wave is frozen indefinitely.
• Rejoice: we have finally squashed a big bug in our patterns. For example, the Corvet first big pink bullet will go where it is expected.

Balance

• The "Laser immunity" upgrade has been tweaked. Instead of protecting you completely, it slows you down when you are hit by a laser. It's still better than being hurt, but it's not without consequence anymore.
• The Cruiser boss is easier. You don't have to shoot a specific part to hurt him from now on.
• The Battleship boss' first pattern is a bit easier.
• The +25% score bonus upgrade has been reduced to +20%.
• The "CATEGORY +50% drop rate" upgrade also increases the damage of its category (+10%).
• Flamethrower: slighty better.
• The "Laser Rain" is a bit easier now. Hopefully.
• Bots benefit from the +XX% damages upgrades.
• The Rockets are a bit better.
• The Carrier boss is now launching fighters when she installs the shield.
• The Carrier boss has a bit less HPs.
• The Carrier boss fighters generation is a bit slower.
• The Hypergun does more damages.
• Thanks to the bug we eradicated in the patterns, some enemies are a bit stronger, like the fighters. Care must be taken!
• You will start to encounter some standard enemies with a shield. It's a new feature that we included partially for the moment. We will work on that in the future.