Hey everyone! Tomorrow (Friday 15th July) we are taking part in the One Special Day charity drive to raise money for the gamers charity Special Effect . We will be donating the profits from every single game that we sell tomorrow to Special Effect to support the amazing work they do to make games accessible to everyone. This includes all our games on Steam and also our console and mobile games. If you would like to support Special Effect, this is a really easy way to do so whilst bagging a new game at the same time. We are also hosting a 6 hour One Special Day Twitch stream tomorrow, from 11am - 5pm (UK time). Hollie, Mike and Michelle will be playing through the Ripstone catalogue throughout the day, with code giveaways, competitions, developer chats and much more. We would love to see some of you in the chat on Friday to show your support for Special Effect! [url=twitch.tv/ripstonegames]One Special Day Twitch Stream You can also bid on a one-of-a-kind steampunk jet-pack that was commissioned for Ironcast as part of One Special Day using the link below! One Special Day Auction

Hey everyone! Tomorrow (Friday 15th July) we are taking part in the One Special Day charity drive to raise money for the gamers charity Special Effect . We will be donating the profits from every single game that we sell tomorrow to Special Effect to support the amazing work they do to make games accessible to everyone. This includes all our games on Steam and also our console and mobile games. If you would like to support Special Effect, this is a really easy way to do so whilst bagging a new game at the same time. We are also hosting a 6 hour One Special Day Twitch stream tomorrow, from 11am - 5pm (UK time). Hollie, Mike and Michelle will be playing through the Ripstone catalogue throughout the day, with code giveaways, competitions, developer chats and much more. We would love to see some of you in the chat on Friday to show your support for Special Effect! [url=twitch.tv/ripstonegames]One Special Day Twitch Stream You can also bid on a one-of-a-kind steampunk jet-pack that was commissioned for Ironcast as part of One Special Day using the link below! One Special Day Auction

As the title states, following on from our announcement earlier this week - there are now two new Commanders and two new Ironcasts available to help you in your mission. Each pack is priced at 2.99 / 3.99 / $3.99 & includes an Ironcast & a Commander. The Stirling Pack which includes a brand new Ironcast named The Stirling; as well as a new Commander. The Stirling utilises a magnetic limpet cannon to blast an enemy target with electrical energy. Commander Katherine Chapmans signature augmentation has a chance to reward players who match long chains of nodes with additional resources of every type. In addition, she has double the chance to locate rare blueprints on fallen enemies. http://store.steampowered.com/app/407450/ The Windsor Pack includes The Windsor Ironcast which uses a unique device to steal a layer of shield defences from its opponent, weakening them whilst improving its own defences. It also includes a new Commander Henry Brent whose signature augmentation rewards players who match long chains of nodes with a temporary shield boost. In addition, his Ironcast always begins the game with an active shield layer. http://store.steampowered.com/app/407451/ Be sure to share your screenshots of the new Commanders & Ironcasts in action!

As the title states, following on from our announcement earlier this week - there are now two new Commanders and two new Ironcasts available to help you in your mission. Each pack is priced at £2.99 / €3.99 / $3.99 & includes an Ironcast & a Commander. The Stirling Pack which includes a brand new Ironcast named ‘The Stirling’; as well as a new Commander. The Stirling utilises a magnetic limpet cannon to blast an enemy target with electrical energy. Commander Katherine Chapman’s signature augmentation has a chance to reward players who match long chains of nodes with additional resources of every type. In addition, she has double the chance to locate rare blueprints on fallen enemies. http://store.steampowered.com/app/407450/ The Windsor Pack includes ‘The Windsor’ Ironcast which uses a unique device to steal a layer of shield defences from its opponent, weakening them whilst improving its own defences. It also includes a new Commander Henry Brent whose signature augmentation rewards players who match long chains of nodes with a temporary shield boost. In addition, his Ironcast always begins the game with an active shield layer. http://store.steampowered.com/app/407451/ Be sure to share your screenshots of the new Commanders & Ironcasts in action!

Good day, Commanders! We have exciting news; there will be two new Commanders and two new Ironcasts available to help with our mission later this week. We are launching two new DLC packs: The Stirling Pack which includes a brand new Ironcast named The Stirling; as well as a new Commander. The Stirling utilises a magnetic limpet cannon to blast an enemy target with electrical energy. Commander Katherine Chapmans signature augmentation has a chance to reward players who match long chains of nodes with additional resources of every type. In addition, she has double the chance to locate rare blueprints on fallen enemies. The Windsor Pack includes The Windsor Ironcast which uses a unique device to steal a layer of shield defences from its opponent, weakening them whilst improving its own defences. It also includes a new Commander Henry Brent whose signature augmentation rewards players who match long chains of nodes with a temporary shield boost. In addition, his Ironcast always begins the game with an active shield layer. Each pack will be priced at 2.99 / 3.99 / $3.99 & will be available on Friday 13th November. Press forth for victory Commanders!

Good day, Commanders! We have exciting news; there will be two new Commanders and two new Ironcasts available to help with our mission later this week. We are launching two new DLC packs: The Stirling Pack which includes a brand new Ironcast named ‘The Stirling’; as well as a new Commander. The Stirling utilises a magnetic limpet cannon to blast an enemy target with electrical energy. Commander Katherine Chapman’s signature augmentation has a chance to reward players who match long chains of nodes with additional resources of every type. In addition, she has double the chance to locate rare blueprints on fallen enemies. The Windsor Pack includes ‘The Windsor’ Ironcast which uses a unique device to steal a layer of shield defences from its opponent, weakening them whilst improving its own defences. It also includes a new Commander Henry Brent whose signature augmentation rewards players who match long chains of nodes with a temporary shield boost. In addition, his Ironcast always begins the game with an active shield layer. Each pack will be priced at £2.99 / €3.99 / $3.99 & will be available on Friday 13th November. Press forth for victory Commanders!

Good day, Commanders! We have a small update for Ironcast today. Let's get into it!

• Removed Scrap nodes from the boss encounters.
• Fixed an issue where starting a new game after completing the campaign would not create a completely fresh game save.
• Fixed a small error on the Global Reward screen, where XP and Scrap boosters showed the incorrect % amount (but were still awarding the correct % amount).

Good day, Commanders! We have a small update for Ironcast today. Let's get into it!

• Removed Scrap nodes from the boss encounters.
• Fixed an issue where starting a new game after completing the campaign would not create a completely fresh game save.
• Fixed a small error on the Global Reward screen, where XP and Scrap boosters showed the incorrect % amount (but were still awarding the correct % amount).

Good day, Commanders! The Ironcast 1.1 update is finally here. We've got loads of new features, balance tweaks and usability improvements for you. I won't say much more as the notes speak for themselves! A big thanks goes out to all of you who sent us bug reports and feedback over the last few months. We couldn't have created this update without your support.

Ironcast 1.1 Update

• Fixed game hang when activating the Steam overlay while the loading screen is open.
• Fixed issue when Steam overlay is activated while on the settings screen in mission.
• Missing Localisation on weapon tooltip now fixed.
• Fixed error in dialogue of mission "Pursuit of glory".
• The missions presented on the mission map are now correctly saved when quitting the game.
• Scrap nodes now correctly spawn in boss battles (not being included actually broke the balance of these battles as long chains became far too common).
• Fixed an issue that could cause your Ironcast to not start with full coolant at the start of a mission.
• Fixed the "Remaining Turns" Objective in the mission "Search and Secure".
• Fixed the mission "Godspeed", which was giving out Shields on completion instead of Drives.
• Fixed minor spelling and grammar mistakes.
• Fixed an error in the mission "The Spoils of war" that would cause a gameover instead of a mission fail on loss.
• Fixed an error with the mission "Half-Cocked" which did not correctly repair your Ironcast on completion.
• The achievements "Untouchable", "Reckless Victory" and "Against all odds" will now trigger correctly if earned in a boss battle.

• The weapon comparison tooltip now shows your weapon A and weapon B side by side.
• Campaign saving has been improved. Campaign save will now only be deleted once the mission is in progress, and re-saved as soon as the mission ends.
• The "Quit to title" option has been changed to "End Campaign", allowing you to forfeit the rest of your current campaign and claim global XP for your progress.
• Hovering over the resource bars in battle will now showing a new tooltip, show the current and max amount of each resource.
• The max amount of each resource is now showing in both the Hangar and the "Ironcast Upgrades" section of the Workshop.
• If there is a campaign to load, the "Continue" button will be highlighted instead of "New Game".
• A Bonus has been added for completing missions quickly. For each turn remaining when a mission is completed, 10 war assets will be rewarded.

• Active abilities and Passive Augmentations can now be unequipped.
• The family of abilities that gather nodes (e.g. Gather Repair) will no longer trigger abilities that require matching a certain number of nodes.
• Additional Shot - cooldown increased from 5 turns to 6.
• Node swap abilities - turn cooldown increased from 6 to 10.
• The ability "Accuracy Booster" now correctly gives a 5% boost to weapon accuracy.
• The active ability "Crippling Signal" has been changed to now half the enemys evasion for 2 turns.
• The Passive Augmentation "Combination Master" has been changed to now give a 25% chance of spawning a Link node after a match of 10+ nodes.
• The passive augmentation "Overdrive Oracle" has been changed to now give a 25% chance of spawning an Overdrive node after a match of 10+ nodes.
• The cooldown of the active ability "Leech life" has been increased to 5 turns.
• The cooldown of the active ability "Repair Hull" has been increased to 4 turns.

• All enemies have access to MK4 and MK5 systems 1-2 missions earlier. MK5 systems are now more commonly used by end-game enemies.
• Titan Ironcast and Juggernaut Steamtanks have had their health significantly increased.
• Lightly armoured Ironcast have had their health reduced.
• Both bosses have had their shields tweaked. They now have stronger protection at lower stacks but maximum defence value is unchanged.
• Both bosses have received changes to their "rapid fire" weapons. Players would often destroy their "heavy hitter" weapon before completely ignoring the rapid fire weapon. We've reduced the number of shots and upped the damage per shot of each weapon to offer an additional threat.
• Bosses have had their health slightly increased, to compensate for the new War Asset rewards for completing a mission with turns remaining.

• Shotcannon damage reduced to compensate for such a boost from Overdrive.
• Heavy cannon damage reduced to make it more of the Jack of all trades that it was meant to be.
• Rare weapons now cost 2 coolant to fire, up from 1.
• Dense shields have had around a 20% protection decrease at all levels (for both friendly and enemy Ironcast).

Good day, Commanders! The Ironcast 1.1 update is finally here. We've got loads of new features, balance tweaks and usability improvements for you. I won't say much more as the notes speak for themselves! A big thanks goes out to all of you who sent us bug reports and feedback over the last few months. We couldn't have created this update without your support.

Ironcast 1.1 Update

• Fixed game hang when activating the Steam overlay while the loading screen is open.
• Fixed issue when Steam overlay is activated while on the settings screen in mission.
• Missing Localisation on weapon tooltip now fixed.
• Fixed error in dialogue of mission "Pursuit of glory".
• The missions presented on the mission map are now correctly saved when quitting the game.
• Scrap nodes now correctly spawn in boss battles (not being included actually broke the balance of these battles as long chains became far too common).
• Fixed an issue that could cause your Ironcast to not start with full coolant at the start of a mission.
• Fixed the "Remaining Turns" Objective in the mission "Search and Secure".
• Fixed the mission "Godspeed", which was giving out Shields on completion instead of Drives.
• Fixed minor spelling and grammar mistakes.
• Fixed an error in the mission "The Spoils of war" that would cause a gameover instead of a mission fail on loss.
• Fixed an error with the mission "Half-Cocked" which did not correctly repair your Ironcast on completion.
• The achievements "Untouchable", "Reckless Victory" and "Against all odds" will now trigger correctly if earned in a boss battle.

• The weapon comparison tooltip now shows your weapon A and weapon B side by side.
• Campaign saving has been improved. Campaign save will now only be deleted once the mission is in progress, and re-saved as soon as the mission ends.
• The "Quit to title" option has been changed to "End Campaign", allowing you to forfeit the rest of your current campaign and claim global XP for your progress.
• Hovering over the resource bars in battle will now showing a new tooltip, show the current and max amount of each resource.
• The max amount of each resource is now showing in both the Hangar and the "Ironcast Upgrades" section of the Workshop.
• If there is a campaign to load, the "Continue" button will be highlighted instead of "New Game".
• A Bonus has been added for completing missions quickly. For each turn remaining when a mission is completed, 10 war assets will be rewarded.

• Active abilities and Passive Augmentations can now be unequipped.
• The family of abilities that gather nodes (e.g. Gather Repair) will no longer trigger abilities that require matching a certain number of nodes.
• Additional Shot - cooldown increased from 5 turns to 6.
• Node swap abilities - turn cooldown increased from 6 to 10.
• The ability "Accuracy Booster" now correctly gives a 5% boost to weapon accuracy.
• The active ability "Crippling Signal" has been changed to now half the enemy’s evasion for 2 turns.
• The Passive Augmentation "Combination Master" has been changed to now give a 25% chance of spawning a Link node after a match of 10+ nodes.
• The passive augmentation "Overdrive Oracle" has been changed to now give a 25% chance of spawning an Overdrive node after a match of 10+ nodes.
• The cooldown of the active ability "Leech life" has been increased to 5 turns.
• The cooldown of the active ability "Repair Hull" has been increased to 4 turns.

• All enemies have access to MK4 and MK5 systems 1-2 missions earlier. MK5 systems are now more commonly used by end-game enemies.
• Titan Ironcast and Juggernaut Steamtanks have had their health significantly increased.
• Lightly armoured Ironcast have had their health reduced.
• Both bosses have had their shields tweaked. They now have stronger protection at lower stacks but maximum defence value is unchanged.
• Both bosses have received changes to their "rapid fire" weapons. Players would often destroy their "heavy hitter" weapon before completely ignoring the rapid fire weapon. We've reduced the number of shots and upped the damage per shot of each weapon to offer an additional threat.
• Bosses have had their health slightly increased, to compensate for the new War Asset rewards for completing a mission with turns remaining.

• Shotcannon damage reduced to compensate for such a boost from Overdrive.
• Heavy cannon damage reduced to make it more of the Jack of all trades that it was meant to be.
• Rare weapons now cost 2 coolant to fire, up from 1.
• Dense shields have had around a 20% protection decrease at all levels (for both friendly and enemy Ironcast).

Good day, Commanders! Due to popular demand, I am pleased to announce that the official Ironcast soundtrack has now been made available for download on Steam. Created by the awesome Ed Hargrave, the Ironcast OST featured all 8 music tracks found in the game. Go grab it now. :) Ironcast OST We've got some more exciting announcements to make in the coming weeks, so don't go too far! Daniel and the development team

Good day, Commanders! Due to popular demand, I am pleased to announce that the official Ironcast soundtrack has now been made available for download on Steam. Created by the awesome Ed Hargrave, the Ironcast OST featured all 8 music tracks found in the game. Go grab it now. :) Ironcast OST We've got some more exciting announcements to make in the coming weeks, so don't go too far! Daniel and the development team

Good evening Ironcast fans! Ironcast is released tomorrow, 26th of March at a regular price of 9.99/$14.99. However, I'm pleased to announce that early adopters can enjoy a 30% launch discount! This discount will not last for long, so get in there fast, people. You guys can join the discussion in our Steam community hub and follow the developers here on Twitter @DreadbitGames. That's all for now. Perhaps we'll see some of you on the battlefield tomorrow for the worldwide release of Ironcast! Daniel and the development team

Good evening Ironcast fans! Ironcast is released tomorrow, 26th of March at a regular price of £9.99/$14.99. However, I'm pleased to announce that early adopters can enjoy a 30% launch discount! This discount will not last for long, so get in there fast, people. You guys can join the discussion in our Steam community hub and follow the developers here on Twitter @DreadbitGames. That's all for now. Perhaps we'll see some of you on the battlefield tomorrow for the worldwide release of Ironcast! Daniel and the development team

Hello backers! This is it. Version 1.0. Ironcast is set for general release on 26th March 2015. Not long now! On with the update notes:

• Prologue and epilogue now play correct music.
• Fixed issue with the in-game camera jittering while Ironcast and Steamtanks are moving
• Fixed bug in matching tooltip that was showing the number of mission resources to be earned this match as XP earned instead
• Fixed crash bug caused by loading a campaign while having new blueprints still to view
• Miscellaneous localisation fixes
• Fixed missing screenshake of certain death animations
• Fixed a bug where rare quality systems would drop far more often than they should (the drop rate is now correctly set to 3-5%)

Hello backers! This is it. Version 1.0. Ironcast is set for general release on 26th March 2015. Not long now! On with the update notes:

• Prologue and epilogue now play correct music.
• Fixed issue with the in-game camera jittering while Ironcast and Steamtanks are moving
• Fixed bug in matching tooltip that was showing the number of mission resources to be earned this match as XP earned instead
• Fixed crash bug caused by loading a campaign while having new blueprints still to view
• Miscellaneous localisation fixes
• Fixed missing screenshake of certain death animations
• Fixed a bug where rare quality systems would drop far more often than they should (the drop rate is now correctly set to 3-5%)

Hello Ironcast beta testers! Welcome to our final beta build release before the official launch of the game. There's an absolute tonne of bug fixes, difficulty tweaks and polish in this build. Barring any horrible bugs you guys may find in the next few days, this could be our final Ironcast launch build! On with the patch notes!

• Localisation added for German, French, Spanish and Italian. Language can be changed from the settings menu on the start screen
• Various UI tweaks and fixes to accommodate other languages
• Removed the turn timer. Players now have as long as they want to make matches!
• New 2 Part tutorial. Better introduction of basic mechanics with optional "Advanced" tactics tutorial if players wish to learn more
• Minor art clean-up
• Fixed UI Particles sometimes either displaying at an incorrect size or displaying on top of other UI when they shouldn't
• Steam Achievements added
• Changes to how the initial grid is set up. Initial grid spawns coolant and scrap at 25% of normal rate to give the player more useful nodes to start with
• Scrap nodes no longer spawn in boss battles
• Fixed various timing issues that could cause game hangs
• Improved AI is now smarter at choosing which weapons to attack with
• Health bars now have a slowly depleting yellow segment to more clearly show health loss
• Fixed issue with AI overheating and destroying itself, causing a game hang
• Added a "Grid Refresh" mechanic that will generate a new grid should the grid end up in an unmatchable state
• Enemies can no longer overheat and damage themselves during Salvage missions
• Added sound effects for Ironcast abilities, along with other minor sound and music tweaks
• Fixed bugs with UI panels with scroll-bars sometimes scrolling incorrectly
• If player has a save game, a confirmation dialog will appear when starting a new game warning the player on potential progress loss
• Fixed bug on Windows where setting the game to be in windowed mode on dual monitor setups would sometimes cause the game move and position between the two monitors
• Added damask borders to prevent the game assets breaking should a wider aspect ratio than 16:9 be used
• Fixed a few passive augmentations that did not function correctly
• Clicking the map in the hanger bay will now close the mission info window if open
• Fixed an issue where the in-game UI would not fade out correctly
• Improved the "Drag and Drop" equipping process in the Hanger bay.
• Damage pop ups are now sorted correctly with the UI.
• Progress made in the tutorial now no longer counts towards Steam Achievements
• Various Performance tweaks and optimisations
• Various minor gameplay balancing tweaks
• Various minor fixes to missions such as some missions not rewarding the player correctly
• Various other minor bug fixes

Hello Ironcast beta testers! Welcome to our final beta build release before the official launch of the game. There's an absolute tonne of bug fixes, difficulty tweaks and polish in this build. Barring any horrible bugs you guys may find in the next few days, this could be our final Ironcast launch build! On with the patch notes!

• Localisation added for German, French, Spanish and Italian. Language can be changed from the settings menu on the start screen
• Various UI tweaks and fixes to accommodate other languages
• Removed the turn timer. Players now have as long as they want to make matches!
• New 2 Part tutorial. Better introduction of basic mechanics with optional "Advanced" tactics tutorial if players wish to learn more
• Minor art clean-up
• Fixed UI Particles sometimes either displaying at an incorrect size or displaying on top of other UI when they shouldn't
• Steam Achievements added
• Changes to how the initial grid is set up. Initial grid spawns coolant and scrap at 25% of normal rate to give the player more useful nodes to start with
• Scrap nodes no longer spawn in boss battles
• Fixed various timing issues that could cause game hangs
• Improved AI is now smarter at choosing which weapons to attack with
• Health bars now have a slowly depleting yellow segment to more clearly show health loss
• Fixed issue with AI overheating and destroying itself, causing a game hang
• Added a "Grid Refresh" mechanic that will generate a new grid should the grid end up in an unmatchable state
• Enemies can no longer overheat and damage themselves during Salvage missions
• Added sound effects for Ironcast abilities, along with other minor sound and music tweaks
• Fixed bugs with UI panels with scroll-bars sometimes scrolling incorrectly
• If player has a save game, a confirmation dialog will appear when starting a new game warning the player on potential progress loss
• Fixed bug on Windows where setting the game to be in windowed mode on dual monitor setups would sometimes cause the game move and position between the two monitors
• Added damask borders to prevent the game assets breaking should a wider aspect ratio than 16:9 be used
• Fixed a few passive augmentations that did not function correctly
• Clicking the map in the hanger bay will now close the mission info window if open
• Fixed an issue where the in-game UI would not fade out correctly
• Improved the "Drag and Drop" equipping process in the Hanger bay.
• Damage pop ups are now sorted correctly with the UI.
• Progress made in the tutorial now no longer counts towards Steam Achievements
• Various Performance tweaks and optimisations
• Various minor gameplay balancing tweaks
• Various minor fixes to missions such as some missions not rewarding the player correctly
• Various other minor bug fixes

Good day, and Happy Holidays to you all! We've got quite a decent number of changes in today's update, fixing some of the issues and addressing the feedback we've received so far during the beta. Thank you for your continued support; some of the following would not have been done if it weren't for the emails and in-game bug submissions from you guys.

• Objective Panel now shows mission name
• Clicking on "next" while dialogue is typing out will cause it to appear all at once (clicking next again will move to next item)
• Fixed spacing in large title font
• Signature abilities/passives now appear as such in their tooltips
• When maxed out global unlocks, XP left no longer appears as "0/0"
• Various fixes to broken active abilities and passive boosters (including the ones associated with Ares Powell and Walter H Kylock)
• Workshop no longer shows blueprints that have been built
• Selecting a target in the target subsystem panel now closes the panel
• Enemy coolant bar particle effect no longer triggers on player coolant use
• Fixed some sprite flickering on the first Boss' Ironcast
• ESC now hides dialogues and activates sensible actions (pause/back/quit) in game screens
• Boss 2 is now offset slightly to the right
• Fixed bug with first boss nearly always dropping Drives
• Added Dialogue skip button
• Player gains HP the moment of level up, not after level up ability selected
• Repair button in hanger plays correct sound
• Fixed dialogue missing commander names on first piece of dialogue in mission
• Fixed AI overheating on salvage missions and causing player to fail the mission
• Repair button now plays a purchase sound
• Reduced the turn limit on the first Boss from 50 turns to 20 turns. This limit is displayed on the objectives panel.
• Fixed some typos in missions

Hello all. Today's beta build update is purely designer changes and game balance tweaks. Bug fixes and programmer based changes will come next week. Here's what's new:

• Increased enemy health increase per mission to 12% (from 6%), but reduced the fixed health increase per mission from 30 to 25. Should make the end-game missions harder but the earlier missions slightly easier.
• Increased Juggernaut and Titan health by 1000 (they're not designed to die in missions).
• Increased 2nd boss' Plasma Cannon weapon damage by 20 (from 200-220 to 220-240).
• Reduced scrap boost and XP boost on Global Unlock levels from 5% to 2%.
• Reduced level up HP boost on Global unlock levels from 5 to 3.
• Lengthened the Global Unlock curve but lowered the initial amount needed to level (level 2 lowered from 20,000 to 15,000, level 40 raised from 137,000 to 232,000). Should mean that newer players unlock the juicy content faster, but the later ranks are unlocked a little slower.
• Lowered the mission number from when all enemies have access to MK5 weapons and systems. Should make the end-game a little tougher.
• Added green highlight particles to "Next" button in dialogue screens.

Hello everyone. We've just uploaded our 2nd beta build to Steam. This build includes the following tweaks and bug fixes:

• Various performance increases
• Fixed a small error in paragraph spacing of Global Unlock explanation text
• Fixed text not showing correctly for systems whose language is not set to English (although the game will be fully localised into French, English, German, Spanish and Italian at launch).
• Fixed scaling of UI particles on very large screen resolutions
• Fixed a camera bug at low frame rates