There's just 10 days left in the StarCrawlers Chimera Kickstarter campaign and we are 85% of the way to our goal - it's been a whirlwind. If you were waiting to back, there's still time to grab spots in Alpha or a Beta copy at a discount! We've been busy adding feedback and fixes into the demo build you've all been playing, and we've just added in some bonus content for the final stretch :

The Widow's Lair

Located in the south-west corner of the demo map, the Widow's Lair appears empty at first inspection, but explorers who uncover enough of the map will face a powerful foe who drops a key to reveal what's lurking in the Lair. Word of warning : save that game before you use the key. If you've already defeated the powerful foe in your save, don't worry - the key will be waiting for you somewhere in the Lair. Check out the Widow's Lair and then [strike]rage[/strike] share your feelings in the comments! Remember, we'll be ending the playtest demo when the campaign ends on 22 June. However if you're an Alpha Backer, you'll be able to jump into the first few levels of the game at the end of the month! Thanks all! - Thunderflux

[ 2021-06-11 20:24:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

The StarCrawlers Chimera Kickstarter has launched!

As players of StarCrawlers, I wanted to let you know the new project is live and invite you to come check out StarCrawlers Chimera - there's also a free demo on the Steam store page. It's turn-based, RPG, cyberpunk and dungeon crawling - and I can't wait for you to play it. If the project looks like something you'd like, know that your support can help us to build momentum in the crucial first days after launch - which means more dev time and more stretch goals unlocked. If you do back the project, consider backing during the first 24 hours of the campaign to make the most impact - and grab those early bird backer rewards! Thanks for playing! - Thunderflux

[ 2021-05-25 15:01:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi Crawlers! I'm excited to share a new video of the gameplay of StarCrawlers Chimera and to announce the game is coming to Kickstarter! You can sign up for a notification now for when the campaign goes live on 25 May : [url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/125859261/starcrawlers-chimera ]StarCrawlers Chimera on Kickstarter - Thunderflux [previewyoutube=VJdgs1YH6qg;full][/previewyoutube]

[ 2021-05-10 16:25:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

[previewyoutube=DOeE669598Q;full][/previewyoutube]

A lucrative offer. A simple job. Infiltrate Chimera.

We're excited to announce that StarCrawlers Chimera will be coming to Steam Early Access in 2021! StarCrawlers Chimera will be a turn & grid based cyberpunk dungeon crawl featuring a lone crawler on a job to locate Dr. Cerberus in the depths of the Chimera BioPharma building. Build your character from a variety of skill trees inspired by the StarCrawlers universe, grab some gear, and jump in. Grow your power and level up to unlock new abilities, gear, and secrets as you explore and battle. We'll have more details to share soon both here and on the StarCrawlers Chimera Steam page!

[ 2020-12-15 09:19:58 CET ] [ Original post ]

StarCrawlers has been updated with a Beautify feature! This optional feature enhances texture fidelity and sharpness, lighting appearance and effects, and enhances visuals overall. In the course of working on our next project (more news soon!) we experimented with retroactively applying the visual upgrades to StarCrawlers - and it worked steamhappy The Beautify feature should not have any noticeable impact on the performance or resource usage of the base game. Beautify is enabled by default and can be turned off in the Graphics menu if desired.

[ 2020-05-02 19:35:00 CET ] [ Original post ]

Updated to StarCrawlers v1.1.3.5

New Black Market Codes

30+ Black Market codes for items ranging from Rare to Legendary will be dropped on Twitter (@Juggernaut_News), Facebook (@JuggernautGamesStudio), and here on Steam. Let's start the many days of Lootmas with 8C2081D79 steamhappy

For Shaw

The Shaw random event has been updated to improve flow and address issues with loading an in-progress attempt at collecting Shaw's Equipment.

Completionists, Rejoice!

Fixed a unique issue that could hinder players from completing the Spymaster achievement.

Minor Text Fixes

Together we'll slay them all.

What's Next?!

More news about what Juggernaut Games is working on next in the StarCrawlers universe is coming... Soon!

[ 2019-11-26 19:00:05 CET ] [ Original post ]

The Cursed Mn has risen and brings with it a seasonal update! 1. Add user-controlled holiday settings. On the title screen, select Options > Holiday to change the holiday setting or disable it. 2. The holiday intro events for Lunar New Year and Halloween will only trigger one time when the holiday is first set. To refresh the event for a new game or different save, simple reset the holiday from the title screen. 3. Updated items on Halloween vendor in STIX. 4. Ghost Pirates and bosses on the Halloween event Ghost Ship mission now have a change to drop holiday accessories and Skull Candy. 5. Fixed an issue on Ghost Ship that could cause Mr Blood to aggro you outside of his room and block mission progress. 6. Added additional checks against the dread Final Boss bug - if you're still experiencing this bug after the patch, please drop us a note!

[ 2019-10-07 10:59:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

BETA BRANCH

1. You can now change the holiday setting from the title screen - make it Lunar New Year, Halloween, or Winter any time of the year! Simply select Options > Holiday to get started.

• The holiday intro events for Lunar New Year and Halloween will only trigger once when the holiday is first set.
• If you want to trigger the intro event for a different save / character, simply reselect the holiday from the title screen.
• Expect additional holiday shop items when the patch leaves Beta. steamhappy

2. Minor text & bug fixes. If you were encountering the dreaded Final Boss Lock, a fix for testing this is included in the patch. If you encounter this bug, let me know on the forums and please send in your log text.

[ 2019-09-29 07:58:49 CET ] [ Original post ]

StarCrawlers v1.1.3.2

Happy Lunar New Year! Rojo the Lucky has appeared on STIX (and will no longer pelt you with infinite Lunar Coins).

Base Game Changes

• Added inventory Sort button to Loadout, Stash, and Merchant menus - sort your items by Type, Rarity, Value and apply filters to highlight specific item types.
• Think an additional menu needs a Sort button? Let us know on the forums!
• Added Combat Ability Hotkeys (key or keypad #1 - 6) for equipped abilities. Simply mouse over an enemy and hit the hotkey to trigger the ability in that slot. This feature is in-dev and will be expanded and added to the Controls menu in a later patch with customizable hotkeys.
• Combat Ability Hotkeys does not currently function when Stick Ability Wheel is active.

Base Game Fixes

• Player hacking Core should now receive the correct amount from effects that boost damage (ex : all ranks of Protocol)
• Failing to flee from combat with Sticky Ability Wheel enabled will no longer softlock combat.
• All categories of Dossier will now correctly drop - happy Lore Hunting!

Misc

• Minor text and UI fixes.
• Added more bugs for free.

[ 2019-02-01 09:21:55 CET ] [ Original post ]

StarCrawlers v1.1.3

PC patch is live now - OSX & Linux patches will be live today.

Base Game Changes

• Based on player feedback, random enemy spawns in rooms on side missions have been reduced 30%. This will typically result in 3 - 4 less battles per map and allow for more opportunities to explore. Well continue to watch for feedback on enemy combat density.
• Added new items and improvements to Lunar New Year 2019 - this event will activate on 5 February 2019.
• Most event vendors will refresh their inventories when a purchase is made, allowing you to stockpile event tokens and make your event item purchases in bulk.

Base Game Fixes

• Fixed issue causing Rojo the Lucky to appear before the moons have aligned and cause an infinite event loop.
• Optimized resource handling for maps / events / items. Loading times on older systems should be faster.
• Fixed an issue with starting a New Game+ when multiple NG+ files caused the selection scrollbar to appear.
• Fixed an issue when loading saves from (very) Early Access that had references to old data.

Linux

• Launch time should be improved when using the supported distro of Ubuntu 10.04 (or newer).

OSX

• The correct graphics API is now chosen dynamically. Startup times should be improved once again on newer systems.

Combat

• All non-boss enemies now use specific abilities when Charmed or Taunted.
• Enemies that increase in size from buffs will no longer scale so large as to be unclickable.

Hacking

• Fixed softlock in Hacking combat if Ambush dealt the final blow to the last remaining enemy.
• Fleeing in Hacking combat now attempts to retreat to the last Node you accessed. If no Node is available, an emergency Jack Out is performed. Node defenders will regenerate if you flee.
• Hackmaps now generate with extra space on borders to avoid appearing under UI elements.
• Snafu enemies that Divide will now properly inherit the size increase of their stacks of Surge.
• All versions of the Sample ability now correctly restore Masking when dealing damage.
• Having a full meatspace inventory will no longer prevent purchasing items in the Hackshop.

Misc

• Minor text fixes.
• Known Issue : there is a lingering Nothing of interest remains. event softlock - we are hunting it down.
• Known Issue : failing to flee from combat causes a softlock if Sticky Combat Ability Wheel is active under Controls. Disabling this option prior to fleeing will avoid the issue until it is patched.
• Known Issue : a category of Dossiers is failing to spawn for a certain faction - we are hunting it down.

Happy 2019 from StarCrawlers!

[ 2019-01-15 12:49:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

StarCrawlers v1.1.2

A bunch of festive fixes and tweaks to hacking and the base game have arrived. Unfortunately, the coolant towers on STIX have overloaded again - enjoy the snow while it lasts!

Base Game

• Updated StarCrawlers to Unity 2018.2.11f1.
• Festive gifts have been spotted on missions. In the spirit of the holidays, be sure to steal them.
• Fixed issue with effects that update their duraton at end of turn sometimes updating at the start also and so shortening duration considerably.
• Fixed issues with some events that could display no options to proceed.
• Fixed issue on Final Boss Fight preventing use of combat inventory after phase 1.
• Fixed Crabomination being able to create an infinite loop of the ability Alpha Strike.
• Fixed item duplication that could occur after looting a chest with a fully inventory.

Linux

• Stability should be improved when using the supported distro of Ubuntu 10.04 (or newer).
• Text entry fields should no longer input characters twice.

Hacking

• Du Bei in the Hackshop now offers special missions to perform remote hacks from the safety of STIX: no physical danger to your crawlers and your identity will be protected - as long as your Deck Masking holds.
• Jacking out of a remote hack mission prior to completing your objective will fail the mission.
• Base health of enemies in Hacking reduced.
• Base cost of items in Hackshop reduced.
• Successful node operations play a sound now.
• Group configuration for enemy hacking systems given additional randomization.
• Damage to enemies and to player that is fully absorbed by a Barrier effect correctly displays floating numbers and log entries.
• Fixed issue with generated hacking maps having some nodes unconnected.
• Fixed clones created by Dupe from setting the player decks health to their health value.
• Dazzle and Flares were receiving too much Stun value per level.
• Multi-hit attacks (like Shiv) now show damage per hit vs. min to max range.
• Fixed issue prevent Overwatch from initiating its effect on enemies.
• Equipping a Utility that modifies max HP / MP now converts current values to a percentage of the new ones (just like Health in the meatworld) instead of just changing the max value.
• Du Bei will now offer to heal the % missing of your deck HP (instead of charging a flat fee for a full heal, regardless of missing health).
• Deck HP & MP are displayed during node hacking events to give you better information about whether you want to risk them during node operations.
• Being jacked out by an event or fleeing combat now returns you to the meatworld properly.
• Fixed hacking programs carrying from game to new game.
• Fixed crit and damage reduction values being miscalculated resulting in always / never critting and no / massive damage reduction.
• Fixed Deck button during hacking becoming unresponsive after completing a previous hack.
• Fixed several issues caused by using Fast Combat Animations during Hacking.
• Fixed Mimics mimicking Mimics that could lead to mimiception.

Misc

• Minor text fixes.

Happy Holidays from StarCrawlers!

[ 2018-12-19 19:56:37 CET ] [ Original post ]

StarCrawlers v1.1.1 - Hotwire Update

Hotwire Patch Deployed! Details inside...

The Hotwire Update is live and it’s FREE. Originally intended as DLC, we’ve reworked and integrated all of the content from Hotwire into the base StarCrawlers game as a free update for all players. Here’s what’s inside:

Hacking

• Hacking is now a fully developed and separate system that works alongside the base game.
• Datajacks will now spawn on randomized missions allowing access to the virtual Wire network which connects all of the systems of the map you’re on.
• Using your Deck, jack in and ride the Wire to encounter 35+ new enemies and discover 25+ new abilities exclusive to hacking.
• The Hackshop in STIX sells Programs and Utilities to beef up your Deck and tackle the toughest denizens of the Wire.
• Enemy programs guard the Wire and change depending on the type of network, security rating of their nodes, and other factors to give a different feel to each network you hack.
• New hacking element types (Security, Corruption, and Deception) each have their own enemies and program types for you to unlock and use both in hacking combat and when interacting with nodes.
• Nodes in the network control security doors, alert levels, contain loot data, and more. Hack your way to the Core and crash it to bring the system down and stick to the megacorps.
• Now that hacking is live, more hacking specific content is in the works (and will arrive Sooner™)!

Additional Patch Notes for v1.0.4

Tip Jar

• We’ll be supporting ongoing development of StarCrawlers with free updates and content patches by adding a Tip Jar button to the title screen. If you enjoy the Hotwire Update and want to see more of it (and new stuff!), please consider showing your support with a $1 tip!
• Tipping confers no in-game advantage and never will (but we’ll think you’re really cool) and amount may vary in your local currency as determined by Steam.
• If the Tip Jar bothers you, simply click the Hide Tip Jar button and you’ll never see it again.

Story

• Fixed a plot hole that could allow a certain character to randomly appear on the final mission (despite your refusal to work with them earlier in the story).
• Firing the Prototype allows it to be rehired from the STIX bar - possibly. It may wander off and do its own thing if it feels like it.

Smuggler

• Sped up animation of Showdown crosses on target when stacks are greater than 3.

Linux

• Unsupported resolutions checks are no longer ignored on Linux as a workaround - as such, you may need to adjust your resolution and reset your preferences if you are playing on Linux with a non-3:4 display.
• If you encounter issues with your resolution on Linux - please let me know your distro and native resolution in the forums so I can support as many as possible.
• Double typing on text entry is still a known issue - Unity has not patched it. Investigation continues!

Other notes

• Fixed additional elusive typos.
• Minor bug fixes and QOL improvements.
• Known issue (non fatal) with event entering hackshop for the first time that can cause a sentence be skipped.

[ 2018-06-17 06:27:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

Great new everyone! With the recent update to Unity 2017.3.0f3, players on the beta branch are reporting no crashes from the annoying memory access violation of the previous build. Big thank you to all the players who braved the horrors of the beta branch to bring us this information. Now, back to work on those other bugs and updates...

[ 2018-02-24 23:21:14 CET ] [ Original post ]

Great new everyone! With the recent update to Unity 2017.3.0f3, players on the beta branch are reporting no crashes from the annoying memory access violation of the previous build. Big thank you to all the players who braved the horrors of the beta branch to bring us this information. Now, back to work on those other bugs and updates...

[ 2018-02-24 23:21:14 CET ] [ Original post ]

If you've been experiencing a memory leak (and so crashing randomly during missions) with the latest version, the beta branch has been updated with a build in Unity 2017.3 for all platforms! If you are experiencing this issue, please consider trying the beta branch version of StarCrawlers - this build is in Debug Mode and can provide more detailed crash info to help determine the cause.

To access the beta branch :

[quote]Right-click StarCrawlers in your Library > Properties > Betas > select beta from the dropdown menu[/quote] Early player feeback from the PC x64 beta seems to show the memory leak is fixed for players using the beta branch. If you do experience a crash or were previously an do not with the beta branch - let me know!

[ 2018-02-20 16:23:05 CET ] [ Original post ]

If you've been experiencing a memory leak (and so crashing randomly during missions) with the latest version, the beta branch has been updated with a build in Unity 2017.3 for all platforms! If you are experiencing this issue, please consider trying the beta branch version of StarCrawlers - this build is in Debug Mode and can provide more detailed crash info to help determine the cause.

To access the beta branch :

[quote]Right-click StarCrawlers in your Library > Properties > Betas > select beta from the dropdown menu[/quote] Early player feeback from the PC x64 beta seems to show the memory leak is fixed for players using the beta branch. If you do experience a crash or were previously an do not with the beta branch - let me know!

[ 2018-02-20 16:23:05 CET ] [ Original post ]

If you've been experiencing a memory leak (and so crashing randomly during missions) with the latest version, the beta branch has been updated with a Windows x64 build in Unity 2017.3 If you are experiencing this issue and are using Windows x64, please consider trying the beta branch version of StarCrawlers - this build is in Debug Mode and can provide more detailed crash info to help determine the cause. To access the beta branch : [quote]Right-click StarCrawlers in your Library > Properties > Betas > select beta from the dropdown menu[/quote] Thanks for bearing with me as I dig through (yet another) Unity engine bug!

UPDATE : 20 Feb

Early player feeback seems to show the memory leak is fixed for players on the beta branch, so I'll be putting builds live today for all platforms on beta branch. Thank you everyone who has been sending feedback on the beta build!

[ 2018-02-17 22:29:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

If you've been experiencing a memory leak (and so crashing randomly during missions) with the latest version, the beta branch has been updated with a Windows x64 build in Unity 2017.3 If you are experiencing this issue and are using Windows x64, please consider trying the beta branch version of StarCrawlers - this build is in Debug Mode and can provide more detailed crash info to help determine the cause. To access the beta branch : [quote]Right-click StarCrawlers in your Library > Properties > Betas > select beta from the dropdown menu[/quote] Thanks for bearing with me as I dig through (yet another) Unity engine bug!

[ 2018-02-17 22:29:39 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello all! This build contains a possible workaround for That Bug (crashing when returning from mission) based on code contributed by a fellow developer that was having a similar issue with their game.

• If you are currently experiencing a crash when returning from a mission, please try updating and let me know if the situation seems fixed. If you do crash, send me those logs!
• I've also update the Unity engine to version 2017.2.0p2 to address stability issues.

If we have indeed slain That Bug, we'll have more news about what's coming next Soon(TM)...

[ 2018-01-16 08:19:56 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hello all! This build contains a possible workaround for That Bug (crashing when returning from mission) based on code contributed by a fellow developer that was having a similar issue with their game.

• If you are currently experiencing a crash when returning from a mission, please try updating and let me know if the situation seems fixed. If you do crash, send me those logs!
• I've also update the Unity engine to version 2017.2.0p2 to address stability issues.

If we have indeed slain That Bug, we'll have more news about what's coming next Soon(TM)...

[ 2018-01-16 08:19:56 CET ] [ Original post ]

UPDATED: 12/8/2017

A new version of StarCrawlers for Windows x64 users is live on the beta branch using the just released Unity 2017.3 Beta. Please note this is a beta of the next Unity engine update, so may a) be unstable and b) not solve That Bug. Local tests of builds continue to NOT reproduce That Bug, but this does not mean it is solved. If while playing the beta branch you do encounter a crash when endning a missiom, please let me know. The fight continues!

ORIGINAL POST :

Hi all! With the start of December I wanted to post an update to let everyone know what's going on.

Winter Event

I had hoped to set the Winter Event live this week, but due to That Bug having a crushing effect on the game for a majority of players, I've decided not to introduce further chances at instability until the bug is resolved. If the situation changes before the end of the month, I'll revisit the event.

That Bug

It really sucks. Players returning from a mission to STIX encounter a hard crash. Sometimes it happens on every mission, sometimes only rarely, but it happens to a lot of players. Here's all the information to date:

• Why is this crash happening? The Unity player is attempting to clean up the Mission scene after you load the STIX scene. While this is happening, a crash occurs when attempting to destroy *something* in the scene.
• Why don't you just fix it? Because the bug is not with my code, but the underlying Unity engine that runs StarCrawlers, so there is nothing I can change in the code to address the bug. I can identify where the crash happens and what triggers it, but there is no fix I can apply other than forwarding this information to Unity and waiting for a release that addresses the bug.
• When will a fix come? Unity has a roadmap of releases that indicates a similar issue (though not specifically this bug) will be fixed with the release of Unity 2017.3, which is expected mid-December. If the release does fix the bug and doesn't introduce new engine bugs (something I'm afraid feels more common with each release) - the crash will stop happening.
• What happens now? We're continuing to test workarounds while we wait for a fix from Unity, but until the bug is resolved, further patches and dev on the expansion will be on hold until I'm sure that we've reached a point of stability with the base game. My hope is the next Unity update will resolve the issue!
• I have more questions! Post away in the forums or the comments below - I'm always listening :)
  
  [ 2017-12-05 12:15:22 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi all! With the start of December I wanted to post an update to let everyone know what's going on.

Winter Event

I had hoped to set the Winter Event live this week, but due to That Bug having a crushing effect on the game for a majority of players, I've decided not to introduce further chances at instability until the bug is resolved. If the situation changes before the end of the month, I'll revisit the event.

That Bug

It really sucks. Players returning from a mission to STIX encounter a hard crash. Sometimes it happens on every mission, sometimes only rarely, but it happens to a lot of players. Here's all the information to date:

• Why is this crash happening? The Unity player is attempting to clean up the Mission scene after you load the STIX scene. While this is happening, a crash occurs when attempting to destroy *something* in the scene.
• Why don't you just fix it? Because the bug is not with my code, but the underlying Unity engine that runs StarCrawlers, so there is nothing I can change in the code to address the bug. I can idenitfy where the crash happens and what triggers it, but there is no fix I can apply other than forwarding this information to Unity and waiting for a release that addresses the bug.
• When will a fix come? Unity has a roadmap of releases that indicates a similar issue (though not specifically this bug) will be fixed with the release of Unity 2017.3, which is expected mid-December. If the release does fix the bug and doesn't introduce new engine bugs (something I'm afraid feels more common with each release) - the crash will stop happening.
• What happens now? We're continuing to test workarounds while we wait for a fix from Unity, but until the bug is resolved, further patches and dev on the expansion will be on hold until I'm sure that we've reached a point of stability with the base game. My hope is the next Unity update will resolve the issue!
• I have more questions! Post away in the forums or the comments below - I'm always listening :)
  
  [ 2017-12-05 12:15:22 CET ] [ Original post ]

The Cursed Mun has risen once again! A mysterious figure has been spotted skulking in the shadows, promising rich rewards to those who satiate his craving for Skull Candy…

Halloween Event

It's our favorite time of year and the Cursed Mun Halloween event is live and brings with it new content! Here's what's happening :

• Skull Candies can be looted on randomized missions and traded to Baron von Ominous on STIX for festive rewards.
• For 10 Skull Candies, a ticket can be purchased that gives access to a repeatable Special Event mission : The Ghost Ship.
• The Ghost Ship has 3 unique bosses and also drops festive loot. Be warned - the Ghost Ship will present a challenging mission for even the most battlehardened crawlers.
• They're may be more holiday events in the future!

Patch Notes for v1.0.3

Updated StarCrawlers engine to Unity 2017 and made a variety of delightful bug fixes - some highlights below :

Linux

• Linux StarCrawlers is working once again on distro Ubuntu LTS 14.0.

Beta Branch Active

• A testing branch with the latest unstable build in now available through Steam.

Cyberninja

• Fixed a bug where Stealth applied by certain items would halt combat if a Cyberninja then applied another Stealth effect.

Engineer

• Fixed a bug that could cause Constructs to deal reduced or 0 damage if attacking on the same turn as deconstructing.
• Fixed a bug preventing Bolty from gaining regen at Rank 3 Built Real Good when automatically deploying at the start of combat.

Force Psyker

• Interacting with certain crystal formations in Mines will now only target negative syndromes.

Misc

• Combat Log has gained additional details about events.
• Fixed issues with optional objectives on random missions not saving their state correctly.
• Fixed an issue with mobs dying in the process of summoning reinforcements and causing combat to behave strangely.
• Fixed an issue when calculating Fear resistance.
• Fixed an issue with certain events that could cause null items to appear in inventory and appear to take up extra slots.
• Fixed a bug that could cause Loose Crystals to drop an incorrect item.
• Minor text fixes.

[ 2017-10-26 21:32:24 CET ] [ Original post ]

UPDATED : 1 Nov 2017

It looks like the Cursed Mun brought with it a nasty bug! If you are experiencing a crash when returning to STIX, please see

this thread. The Cursed Mun has risen once again! A mysterious figure has been spotted skulking in the shadows, promising rich rewards to those who satiate his craving for Skull Candy

Halloween Event

It's our favorite time of year and the Cursed Mun Halloween event is live and brings with it new content! Here's what's happening :

• Skull Candies can be looted on randomized missions and traded to Baron von Ominous on STIX for festive rewards.
• For 10 Skull Candies, a ticket can be purchased that gives access to a repeatable Special Event mission : The Ghost Ship.
• The Ghost Ship has 3 unique bosses and also drops festive loot. Be warned - the Ghost Ship will present a challenging mission for even the most battlehardened crawlers.
• There (:D) may be more holiday events in the future!

Patch Notes for v1.0.3

Updated StarCrawlers engine to Unity 2017 and made a variety of delightful bug fixes - some highlights below :

Linux

• Linux StarCrawlers is working once again on distro Ubuntu LTS 14.0.

Beta Branch Active

• A testing branch with the latest unstable build in now available through Steam.

Cyberninja

• Fixed a bug where Stealth applied by certain items would halt combat if a Cyberninja then applied another Stealth effect.

Engineer

• Fixed a bug that could cause Constructs to deal reduced or 0 damage if attacking on the same turn as deconstructing.
• Fixed a bug preventing Bolty from gaining regen at Rank 3 Built Real Good when automatically deploying at the start of combat.

Force Psyker

• Interacting with certain crystal formations in Mines will now only target negative syndromes.

Misc

• Combat Log has gained additional details about events.
• Fixed issues with optional objectives on random missions not saving their state correctly.
• Fixed an issue with mobs dying in the process of summoning reinforcements and causing combat to behave strangely.
• Fixed an issue when calculating Fear resistance.
• Fixed an issue with certain events that could cause null items to appear in inventory and appear to take up extra slots.
• Fixed a bug that could cause Loose Crystals to drop an incorrect item.
• Minor text fixes.

[ 2017-10-26 21:32:24 CET ] [ Original post ]

An ominous moon is coming into orbit and bringing something new to STIX...

[ 2017-10-22 17:33:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hack Mode is Coming We're excited to announce work has begun on the first DLC for StarCrawlers, and it's all about Hacking! Here's how it will work :

1. When Hack Mode launches, a free update will activate the hacking system for all players. 2. Hack Mode will connect things in the meat world (security doors, terminals, objectives, etc) with nodes in the local Wire network of your mission location. Locating a datajack will allow you to hack into the network, explore, control nodes, and fight new enemy types that exist only in the Wire. 3. To fight enemies and navigate the Wire, you’ll need specialized gear. All players will start with a basic Deck to upgrade and equip with programs and utilities to boost your hacking power. Hacking gear can be found within the Wire, from corporate contacts, and a shady new storefront opening in STIX… 4. A Hack Mode DLC will be available for purchase that adds a new story campaign, new deck programs and utilities, and meat world rewards, but owning the Hack Mode DLC won’t be required to enjoy hacking in StarCrawlers.

We’ll have more information about Hack Mode soon!

[ 2017-10-16 16:40:06 CET ] [ Original post ]

A variety of improvements and fixes - boosted stash storage, blueprint chip / crafting component management, combat UI, and more - dig in!

Items

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

Force Psyker

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

Smuggler

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

Soldier

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

UI

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

Mobs & Combat

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

Misc

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

[ 2017-07-05 07:16:31 CET ] [ Original post ]

The first patch of our regularly scheduled patch cycle is live with a selecton of bug fixes, improvements, and more. Dig in!

Combat

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

Force Psyker

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

Hacker

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

Cyberninja

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

Soldier

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

Smuggler

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

Engineer

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

Maps & Missions

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

New Game+

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

Items

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

Factions

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

Enemies

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

[ 2017-06-16 22:50:28 CET ] [ Original post ]

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

We’re happy to announce that StarCrawlers v1.0 is live! First of all, an absolutely massive THANK YOU to everyone who particpated in Early Access. If you reported a bug, suggested a feature or change, or even vented some frustration - you helped make the game better. Even if you just played and enjoyed (or didn't!) - your support helped make StarCrawlers happen. Early Access experiences can vary wildly - thank you for making this a positive one.

That's great! What’s Next for StarCrawlers?

Whoa! Slow down... I literally just pushed the launch button... We are committed to supporting the game from here on out - routine bug fix and improvement patches will be made and we would love to expand the experience with core content updates and even DLC, depending on demand. We'll keep in touch with regular updates to let you know the state of the game and how things are looking for expansion!

I’m a Backer! How do I get my gear?

If you backed on Kickstarter, your reward gear can be obtained by visiting the Black Market - select “I need to tell you something...”, and enter your Steam Key in the dialogue box. To get your key, simply head to the backerkit page, login to your account, and select “Digital Downloads”. Now, stop reading this and

GO PLAY STARCRAWLERS!

<3,

Juggernaut Games Ps. We escaped Early Access guys!

[ 2017-05-23 16:03:46 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everyone! We’ve decided to delay launch until May 23rd- there’s a few more adjustments, fixes and tweaks to make (plus a brand new system we’ve been keeping secret) and we want to make sure everything is solid for launch. Thank you for your patience and we’ll be back in 7 short days with launch of version 1.0!

[ 2017-05-15 12:48:52 CET ] [ Original post ]

The final patch of Early Access is live and StarCrawlers will be launching on

May 16th!

NEW FEATURE: Boss Mode

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

NEW FEATURE: Lore Items

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

NEW FEATURE: Eon Trading

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

NEW FEATURE: Steam Achievements

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

Save / Load

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

Maps & Gear

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

Levelling & Missions

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

Mobs

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

Misc

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

[ 2017-04-04 07:56:08 CET ] [ Original post ]

Mjolnir Squad is ready for you. You better bring your own thunder... Hey everyone, Thunderflux here! Thanks for all the great feedback on the new abilities and changes in Tipsy Tarantula - there's two big things coming soon, so let’s get right to it:

Launch Date Announcement and Boss Mode

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

A Huge Thank You

On a personal note, I’m really excited to be nearing launch after such a great EA experience. I firmly believe that the great community around StarCrawlers has improved the game immensely and that is what EA is meant to be about! Many of you have been following the game and playing it since very early in production and have been regulars on the forums with feedback, bug reports (few of those :D) and discussions about mechanics and features you’d like to see - your involvement has added so much to the game. Thank you.

Additional Changes

As always, I can’t respond to every post, but I read everything, and I appreciate anyone who takes the time to report a bug, toss me some feedback, or gripe about a mechanic. To that end, here’s a preview of a few things that are changing based on your feedback:

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

[ 2017-03-16 01:26:18 CET ] [ Original post ]

Barraki tripped the tripbeam running for the exit. Don't be like Barraki.

PART 2 OF 2

Force Psyker, Engineer, Prototype and Smuggler abilities!

Force Psyker

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

Engineer

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

Smuggler

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

Prototype

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

COMING SOON

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

[ 2017-03-05 03:19:36 CET ] [ Original post ]

Due to the massive amount of changes, patch notes will be split into two parts. Get comfy...

PART 1 OF 2

We’ve been taking in an enormous amount of feedback and suggestions on combat, and this patch is all about it! Thank you to everyone submitting feedback and bug reports, we hope everything will find something they like in the Tipsy Tarantula patch. After experiencing the patch, let us know what you think about the changes in this handy feedback thread: http://steamcommunity.com/app/318970/discussions/2/133258593396281495/

Stat Changes

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

Combat Changes

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

Gear Changes

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

Soldier

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

Hacker

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

Void Psyker

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

Cyberninja

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

Misc

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

PART 2 OF 2 COMING SOON

Force Psyker, Engineer, Prototype and Smuggler abilities Preview of new mob abilities

[ 2017-03-04 22:10:51 CET ] [ Original post ]

It’s been an intense two weeks of reworking large chunks of code, but it is now possible to Quicksave your progress midmission and reload it from the title screen. Please note this feature is highly experimental in this build and may not behave as expected when reloading a game - you may lose progress or be unable to continue with your mission. If you do encounter an issue, please let me know the details and, if possible, email your autosave.sc file so I can attempt to reover your team. Creating a manual save in STIX is the most secure way to preserve your game. Support and feedback threads have been set up in the Bug Reports and General Discussions forums and I’ll be back to work shortly after Christmas, so if you encounter an issue, don’t panic - just post and let me know :D Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! - Thunderflux

[ 2016-12-24 19:10:14 CET ] [ Original post ]

Bad news everyone! The freezon capacitors in STIX are acting up again and covering the station in ice, but at least the residents are getting in the spirit by cooking up winter treats and leaving festive gifts laying around with rare loot inside… Last patch of the year as we enter the holiday season, but work continues for a big update in the New Year. Happy holidays from Juggernaut :D

Factions

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

Maps

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

Force Psyker

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

UI

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

Gear

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

Coming Soon

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

[ 2016-12-10 22:47:59 CET ] [ Original post ]

Server Rooms, Astrohund, Rhyzohm, Ragnarok & more! We'll be releasing the final faction contact event (Pink Abduction Ray) in the next regular patch and then we'll be back in the New Year with fresh content. Cheers everyone!

Server Rooms

Server Rooms are live in office, facility and labs maps. These special rooms are tough to break into, high security, and heavily guarded, but a skilled team will be able to seize control of a facility by accessing them. Certain skillsets and factions can also make getting in and getting control easier for your team.

Factions

• Astrohund can now be contacted via the Wire terminal.
• Ragnarok can now be contacted via the Wire terminal, if you’ve discovered them.
• Rhyzohm can now be contacted via the Wire terminal.

Maps

• Added additional map seed randomization and new interactions.
• Added new bonus objectives for Ragnarok and Rhyzohm.
• Fixed an issue that could cause contacting Gray Solutions to crash an event.

UI

• Re-enabled bug reporting for crashed events.
• Fixed issue causing escort NPCs to appear as a Smuggler in Overview & Loadout menus.

Misc Fixes

• Failing to hack a ship system to scan for hostiles will no longer sometimes lead to hacking for objectives instead.

Items

• Enabled gear restrictions for certain classes.
• Added new items unique to Astrohund, Ragnarok, and Rhyzohm.

Coming Soon

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

[ 2016-12-02 14:06:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Surprise again! Another quick update to activate the Hollow Earth, Hollow Soul and Gray Solutions factions, plus some quick fixes and quality of life tweaks.

Factions

• Gray Solutions can now be contacted via the Wire terminal.
• Hollow Earth, Hollow Soul can now be contacted via the Wire terminal. To find out how your contribution of just 10 credits a day can help a lifeform in need, please contact a HEHS representative. Operators are standing by.
• HEHS no longer offers missions like corporations, as they are not a megacorp, but can offer bonus objectives to supporters of their cause.
• Fixed an issue with Jiyin Biotech accruing favor without scanning biomass boluses.

Maps

• Added additional map seed randomization and new interactions.
• Added new bonus objectives for HEHS to Labs, Mines and Office maps.
• Fixed an issue that could cause vending machines to spawn on top of eachother.
• Fixed additional instances of items spawning in unreachable locations.

Combat

• Players in Stealth can now be targeted by mobs but all attacks will miss. This resolves several issues causing combat to freeze when a mob is trying to calculate abilities based on the number of visible players.

UI

• A & D keys will once again correctly rotate the player view 90 degrees even during free look / permanent free look mode.
• Combat Log no longer shows extraneous info at the start of combat or when a mob joins battle.

Items

• Added new items unique to Gray Solutions and HEHS.

Coming Soon

• The final friendly faction contact events: Rhyzohm, Pink Abduction Ray, Astrohund, and . . . ?
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-11-23 05:24:56 CET ] [ Original post ]

Surprise update! Tec's Engineer Corp, FoxKin Armory, and The Social Stage factions can now be contacted for rewards from the Wire terminal, and we've got some fixes and improvements. Dig in!

Factions

• Tec’s Engineer Corp, makers of the machines that build the nanites that you love, can now be contacted from the Wire terminal.
• The Social Stage, masters of influence, can now be contacted from the Wire terminal.
• FoxKin Armory, fiercely opposed to the UFP, can now be contacted from the Wire terminal and has expanded their services to include the manufacture of armor and shields.
• Weapon, shield, and armor upgrades for FoxKin Armory are now active.
• Fixed an issue with requesting a custom order from the Dablue Yutaki armory that could prevent dialogue from progressing.

Prototype

• Aegis Mode damage reduced to 20/25/30% of weapon damage, bonus threat increased to 300/400/500% of damage dealt, now triggers an unlimited number of times but only when allies are damaged, reduces ally damage at Rank 2, and reduces Prototype damage at Rank 3.

Void Psyker

• Fixed an issue with Void Psyker Ascendance applying Void Resistance to the psyker but not allies and allowing psyker to die from Overload (which is prevented at Rank 3).

Combat

• Enemy elemental damage now scales faster at higher difficulty settings.

Items

• Added new items unique to TEC and FoxKin Armory.
• Fixed an issue causing Void Psyker Madness to trigger too often on some armor.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Safeguard on Shields to sometimes increase damage taken, which isn’t very safe, is it?

UI

• Damage resistance / amplification from effects, syndromes, gear, etc, is now displayed in the Combat Log.
• Buff / debuff gain is now displayed in the Combat Log.
• Using AP+ shortcut to open the Ability Menu will open to the first character with unspent points.
• The AP+ shortcut will display when a new character is recruited.
• Fixed an issue preventing the trash item option not working in the loot menu while on a mission.

General Fixes

• Added workaround for issues on Linux by skipping valid resolution checks on launch.

Coming Soon

• More friendly faction contact events: Rhyzohm, Pink Abduction Ray, Astrohund.
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-11-18 21:30:32 CET ] [ Original post ]

[img=http://i.imgur.com/6AqA88d.jpg] Launch, custom character portraits, fear, Allure Cybergenetics and Dablue Yutaki are here! The Hallowed Mün has set for another cycle, but don’t worry, Skull Candy stays fresh forever.

Launch!

Originally we had planned on a launch date in Fall 2016, but we were fortunate enough to receive some additional funding that will allow us to spend extra time on polishing existing content and adding more content for launch - extra missions, events, items, and player suggestions. We have a launch date picked out in Spring 2017 and will announce it at the start of next year. We believe taking the extra time to polish and add more content will help make StarCrawlers even better. If you have questions or comments, please feel free to share them in the forums!

Custom Portraits

In the Overview menu, you can now click the Edit button to rename and change the art for each character. Thank you to eharper256 for the original suggestion and everyone who gave feedback on the Steam forums for this feature! If you'd like templates to work with, you can find them here.

Factions

• Allure Cybergenetics can now be contact via the Wire terminal.
• Dablue Yutaki can now be contacted via the Wire terminal.
• Faction favor now updates when taking time off, so you can accumulate positive favor (and have to deal with angered factions) even when resting.
• An autosave is now triggered after ending a call from the Wire terminal or entering or exiting any building in STIX.

Prototype

• The Prototype now joins your party for free at the conclusion of its reconstruction event.
• The Prototype AI Core now also boosts damage and elemental resistances.

Hacker

• Cripple no longer requires a Stun effect on the target. Cooldown increased to 8 turns. Slow amount reduced to 50/75/100% Hacker weapon Time Unit cost.

Combat

• Certain rare mobs can now inflict Fear upon crawlers, rendering them unable to act for several turns until the effect is resisted.
• The Prototype is immune to fear.

Syndromes

• Grievous Wounds can now be cured at the Medbay, but cost significantly more than other syndromes.

UI

• Trashing items will now show a confirmation screen. Items that are Loot, Common, or Uncommon, will not show a confirmation screen to trash.
• Key story items are no longer trashable.
• Fixed an issue preventing previewing certain abilities when creating a new character.
• Fixed an issue when an object is destroyed, permanent free look is enabled, and context needs clearing.
• Fixed an issue causing FPS loss when contacting certain factions via the Wire terminal.
• Fixed an issue with the Combat Initiative stat not being displayed on equipped items.

General Fixes

• Fixed issue with faction reputation resetting if a certain bug occured.
• Fixed an issue with gear that modifies health causing negative values when swapped out with default equipment.
• Fixed issue with player hp being calculated incorrectly before factoring modifications from gear.
• Fixed an issue causing Corp Office maps to be selected less for faction ops against your team. It is no longer safe hiding in the office.

Coming Soon

• More friendly faction contact events:
• Techno Phi
• Foxkin
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-11-12 00:51:06 CET ] [ Original post ]

A mysterious merchant has appeared with the rising of the Hallowed Mün...

Factions

• GalaxyMart is now available to contact via the Wire terminal and has signed contracts to furnish several different locations with their new vending machines.
• Additional vending machines are in the works for different corps.

Items

• Added unique items to celebrate Halloween :D
• Items that modify as the party level increases (such as grenades in Talrie’s shop) now correctly scale when not on a mission.

UI

• Tooltips for items now correctly position themselves regardless of UI scale / resloution.
• The camera smoothing effect when using free look can now be toggled in the Options menu.
• Fixed an issue with the mailbox icon not appearing when you have mail.
• Events will ignore keypad / number presses while inputting a secret code.
• It is no longer possible to open the ESC menu during an event.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with Mine map generation that could create a map that was impassable.

Coming Soon

• More friendly faction contact events:
• Fear
• Dablue Yutaki
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-10-27 02:07:19 CET ] [ Original post ]

A smaller (and sooner) patch this week as we're doing an optimization / bug fix patch in the next two week cycle which is less exciting - but necessary! This patch brings several new contact events on the Wire terminal, new items from those factions, and some bug fixes and gamma improvements.

Please note!

The method of applying gamma adjustment has changed. You will likely need to reset your player preferences or adjust your gamma on the title screen if you had previously adjusted gamma. Please also note! If your ESC hotkey (or any other hotkey) is not working, simply reset your player preferences from the Options menu on the title screen.

Factions

• UFP loyalists can now receive all of the services from contacting Horizon Robotics.
• Supporters of Aurora Starliners can now receive all of their services.
• Dissidents supporting Workers United can now receive all of their support.
• Emer LT, fiercely loyal to the UFP, can now be contacted via the Wire terminal in STIX.
• Anulap, telecom giant of the UFP, can now be contacted via the Wire terminal in STIX.
• Riggo’s Fine Spirits, fiercely loyal to partying, can now be contacted from the Wire terminal.

Items

• Added new unique items obtainable with favor when contacting factions.
• High-value items stolen from pirates now have a wider array of potential bidders at auction.

UI

• Added new method for gamma control that avoids the nightmare of adjusting ambient lighting. The method of scaling has changed, so you may need to adjust your gamma settings to achieve the desired level.
• Clarified info in the Wire terminal to indicate that factions with Neutral or lower rep may not wish to communicate with you.
• Effects and Abilities that pull characters in the timeline will not cause low level Time Units (0 - 5) to increase.

Cyberninja

• Cyclone Kick will now also hit targets that have the same TU as the Cyberninja once the ability is executed.

Engineer

• Bolty will no longer occasionally fly upside and shoot at the ceiling when performing Strafe.

Smuggler

• Kalmonri Trap now deals the correct amount of damage when attacked by enemies.

Void Psyker

• Siphon Life (Rank 3) Detonation will now correctly hit all mobs.
• Void Shell now correctly only shows damage reflection on the effect description at Rank 3.
• Fixed an issue causing crawlers to bizarrely state their class when encountering pirates which have been terrified by the Void Psyker.

Fixes

• Fixed wall placement issue in Mines.
• Fixed an issue with item upgrades that applied buffs inadvertently removing other buffs.
• Fixed an issue that could cause NPC merc gear to become removeable and fail to regenerate shields at the start of combat.
• Events that give items will now attempt to create a loot cache nearby (if on a mission) or send you the item in the mail, if your inventory is full when the item is given.
• Fixed an issue with a certain boss incorrectly scaling to a lower level when faced on Challenge+ difficulty.

Coming Soon

• More friendly faction contact events:
• Allure Cybergenetics
• Dablue Yutaki
• An enhanced way to interact with StarCrawlers.
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-10-01 04:02:01 CET ] [ Original post ]

Today’s patch adds 125+ new weapon, armor, and shield upgrades and improvements to inspecting and activating upgrades. They’ll be some fixing and polishing of the upgrades as we go and a few more added before launch - let us know what you think!

Gear

• Heavy Weapon attacks now destroy a portion of enemy armor with each hit vs. just piercing it. This allows Heavy Weapons to provide better support if most of the team is dealing physical damage or the enemy has high Armor and Resistances to overcome.
• By popular demand, equipped gear can now be unequipped without needing a replacement item. This should make swapping items between characters more convenient. Default gear will be equipped in place of the unequipped item. Default gear has no value, cannot be enhanced, and is destroyed when replaced with an actual item.
• Also by popular demand, items with upgrades can now be inspected using Shift-click to display the details of their upgrades without visiting the upgrade station.

Upgrades

• All generated weapons now deal Physical damage by default. Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Legendary weapons have gained upgrades that convert the damage to an elemental type and further modify the weapon based on rarity.
• Added 32 class upgrades to weapons that activate special buffs in combat when wielded by the correct class. Upgrades come in Uncommon, Rare, Epic and Legendary flavors.
• After a lengthy legal battle, Siyama has secured the patents to their Corrosive, Burning, Chilling and Thundering weapon upgrades. These upgrades will only appear on authorized Siyama weaponry in the future.
• Items generated prior to today’s patch may have inconsistent or odd combinations of upgrades as older / placeholder upgrades will be replaced with a fallback upgrade. The alternative was making save files from previous versions incompatible. And that would suck.

Soldier

• Weapon Specialist now correctly resets its cooldown when dealing a killing blow.

Hacker

• Fixed an issue with the Hacker Chrome Slinger and Burning Chrome Slinger that could cause a save to fail to load. Older saves containing these items should now load correctly.

UI

• Fixed scrollbar in Wire Terminal misbehaving - thanks Noel!
• Items with upgrades can now be Shift-clicked to view the upgrade details at any time.
• The interface of the Omni Upgrade Station in the shop has been improved.

Misc Fixes

• The Voidonomicon accessory chance to drive the Void Psyker insane no longer increases with each use (though it may still drive you insane).
• Fixed doors into space that could spawn in a lab map.
• It is no longer possible to glitch the Launch Mission button with no mission selected.
• Fixed cases where the Arial font would not display (Combat Log, Lexicon flavor text, etc)
• Fixed Void Energy and Malfunction combat widgets not displaying correctly.
• Minor text fixes.

Coming Soon

• More friendly faction contact events.
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-09-24 18:18:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

We're back from PAX! It was an exciting 4 days and amazing to meet so many people and spread the word about StarCrawlers - a huge thank you to the players, volunteers, PAX Enforcers, and Indie Megabooth - now straight back into development!

If you picked up a secret code when PAX, the code is now live in this update.

Unity 5.4 introduced an engine bug when caching font data that causes critical lag when triggering events / interactions with lots of text (you might have noticed a bit of text in StarCrawlers), so a small delay became deadly for us. A workaround has been applied and should resolve the issue on all platforms - thank you for your patience while I diagnosed and resolved the issue!

[ 2016-09-09 14:09:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hero Backstory

Sneaking in under the wire before we head out to PAX West - Hero Backstories! When starting a new game, you’ll design a backstory for your hero character by choosing what your childhood was like, how you became your class, and what twist of fate has sent you to the Fringe to become a crawler. Each origin is unique and can affect starting stats, rep, gear, event options and more for your hero. We’ll be tweaking and adding to this system as we go, so please let us know what you think! Already have a game going? No worries, we’ve got you covered - existing heroes that have no history will be prompted to create one after returning to STIX from a mission.

Please Note!

If clicking "Proceed" while creating a hero backstory does not actually proceed, you may need to use "Back" and select a different option - some histories are experimental and in-progress.

Quick Fixes

• Updated engine to Unity 5.4
• “FLANGE” will no longer be generated as a Black Market passcode word. Because that’s six letters, obviously.

[ 2016-08-31 06:00:41 CET ] [ Original post ]

Quick update to address bugs and activate the final feature of the Black Market - Auctioning! Stolen faction items now have a quality rating of 1 to 5 stars and can be put up for auction with Draal at the Black Market. Prospective clients will place bids of credits, rep, favor and sometimes rare gear, to win the auction - pick the bid you like and cash in! Take care though, the original owners won’t be pleased you’re hawking their stolen goods on the open market...

New Feature

• Added Black Market Auction! Steal stuff and fence it for fun and profit.

Important Fix

• Fixed issue with camera attempting to autocenter when moving with Permanent Free-Look. If you are experiencing a camera stutter when moving with Permanent Free-Look enabled, please try resetting your Player Preferences from the title screen.

Fixes

• Fixed issue with missions attempting to award xp to NPCs & Mercs.
• Fixed being able to flee from combat with turret traps.
• Fixed several instances of *NO STRING FOUND* in events.
• Fixed ludicrous increases to mission difficulty modifiers to mission xp and credits.
• Fixed odd behaviour in Ability Point assignment.
• Fixed UI issues related to fleeing.
• Minor text fixes.

[ 2016-08-22 17:36:53 CET ] [ Original post ]

PAX West 2016

We’re excited to announce we’re off to PAX West to show StarCrawlers in the Indie Megabooth! If you’re attending PAX, stop by and say “hi!” to get some sweet loot (maybe something in-game too, if you’re savvy :D) As we’ll be heading out of town next Friday, we’re dropping a mini-patch today with some new content, systems, and bug fixes. Dig in!

The Black Market

Draal has been sprucing up the Black Market with some additional amenities: Part I: Draal now accepts any passcodes you might find while crawling (or exploring in real life) and rewards you with unique items. Keep your eyes peeled! Speaking of which, you can follow us on Twitter:

@Juggernaut_News

Part II (Coming Soon) : High Value items looted on runs will have expanded value outside of selling for hard credit (though you’ll still be able to do that too) and may trigger unique events...

Favor

To clear up some confusion around factions and reputation vs. favor, we’ve exposed the favor stat. Favor is accrued with factions that you have a Valued or higher rep with and can be exchanged for rewards by contacting the faction through the Wire Terminal on the station. The amount you currently have (up to a maximum of 10) can be viewed in the Info Log or at the Wire Terminal. If you’ve got a lot banked, call up the faction and see what they can do for you!

Systems

• Wire Terminal and Info Log now display accrued Favor with factions.
• The Favor cost of a reward is shown when selecting a reward option in a Wire contact event.

Factions

• Horizon can now help with negative rep with Rhyzohm and Emer LT in exchange for favor.
• Riggo’s Fine Liquours can now be contacted from the Wire Terminal (but don’t expect them to be much help - yet).

Hacker

• Implemented all ranks of Timed Release.
• Hacker Optimizations abilities & effects now correctly apply to all allies and NPCs.
• Ex Machina (Rank 3) now reduces the duration of all negative effects on allies.
• Optimization now increases all damage caused for allies by 2% (down from 3%).

Cyberninja

• Abilities in the Combination tree that utilize punches & kicks to deal physical damage no longer require a melee weapon equipped.
• Ambush can now trigger up to 3/4/5 times per turn but now only triggers when allies dodge.
• Ambush (Rank 2) now reduces the Time Units of the Cyberninja by 10 with each activation.
• Ambush now correctly requires a melee weapon equipped to activate.
• Replaced Laserchain Kunai with Cyclone Kick.
• NEW ABILITY : Cyclone Kick. Sends the Cyberninja flying through the battlefield and delivers a powerful kick attack to any enemy the Cyberninja passes in the timeline when the ability is activate. Cyclone Kick cannot miss and cannot be dodged.
• Takedown now strikes all enemies with Combo Points.

Events

• New events added for Mines.
• New events options added for Dirty Moves Smugglers.

UI

• Newer model medkits have improved instructions printed on them.
• Fixed mail loading incorrectly when loading a save from STIX.
• Fixed highlight masking on Save / Load menu.
• Scrollbars should now correctly respond to the scrollwheel in all instances. If you spot a scrollbar that isn’t behaving correctly, please let us know!

Items

• Certain rare accessories can now have combat abilities attached to them. If you equip one you’ll see an extra icon on the Ability Wheel in combat that will allow you to activate its ability.

Misc Fixes

• It is no longer possible to assign Ability Points to a dead crawler.

Coming Soon

• Black Market (Part II) - Auctioning off those Hot Items.
• More unique gear.
• More friendly faction contact events.
• More cool stuff!

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[ 2016-08-20 00:00:03 CET ] [ Original post ]

The latest update has docked! Here's what's happening... We heard you like fleeing, so now you can attempt to flee from combat. If you are successful at fleeing, you’ll have a short window of opportunity to put some distance between you and the mob before it can engage you in combat again. This is an experimental system, so please share feedback on how it feels. In a hurry? We’ve also added an option in the Controls menu to speed up combat animations - please note this will cause audio synch issues, so use at your own discretion. There’s a ton of bug fixes, balance tweaks, and other fun stuff too. Dive in!

Systems

• Added option to speed up combat animations in the ESC -> Options -> Controls menu.
• Added Flee ability to combat. This ability is available to all characters and is selected from the Ability wheel.
• Your chance of successfully fleeing is calculated based on your team’s aggregate gear (faster & lighter equipment = better odds), status effects on enemies (Stuns, Blinds, Charms, etc), and other factors (is it a boss, rare spawn, etc).
• Bosses, event encounters, and certain unique mobs prevent or reduce the chance of fleeing.
• Failing to flee will Daze all allies for 2x the Time Unit cost of their weapon.
• Successfully fleeing from combat will give you 5 turns to flee from the mob in Explore mode. Reentering a tile next to the mob will restart combat. Run for it!
• Fleeing reduces your chances of fleeing again from the same encounter by 20%.

Soldier

• Best Defense now deals Physical damage and Taunts enemies at Rank 3.

Hacker

• Hackuracy gained from System Shock now increases in duration with each rank.
• Fixed Snowcrash Confusion bypassing resistance checks.
• Fixed a softlock caused by Mindmelt dealing damage if Black Ice or Hacker are dead.
• Fixed Hotlink resistance buff not showing as a buff on allies.

Smuggler

• Fixed Fan the Hammers displaying an incorrect value when damage was boosted.
• Explosive Trap no longer Confuses at Rank 3 but applies a stun.
• Holo Trap no longer redirects the enemy attack but reduces accuracy by a large amount. Damage dealt by Holo Trap has increased to 50/75/100% weapon damage.
• Rank 3 Holo Trap no longer places the Smuggler in stealth but instead reduces the accuracy of all enemies when placed.
• Trap Card and Bag of Wonders have swapped places in the ability tree.
• Reduced Time Unit cost of Bag of Wonders to 50% weapon speed.
• Fixed Confusion effects from traps / devices not accounting for target CC resists.
• Fixed several edge cases that could cause traps to softlock combat under the right conditions.

Engineer

• Built Real Good now displays as a Syndrome effect in combat as it cannot be purged.
• Railgun now deals Physical damage, pierces Armor, and has a larger boost to its damage and critical hit chance.
• Overshield activation cost increased to 3 Junk.
• Bolty’s Power Drain can no longer be used on targets with no active Shield.

Prototype

• Reason no longer Confuses at Rank 3 but now causes damaged targets to deal 15% less damage for 2 turns.
• Clarified ability description for Aegis Mode to indicate an enemy must damage the Prototype while it is active to trigger a bonus counterattack.
• Abbreviated massive tooltip for Adaptive Armor and fixed incorrect display of health regenerated when taking critical damage.

Cyberninja

• Tooltip refinement for various abilities.
• Fixed Dodge buff from Shadow Dash displaying incorrect duration.

Void Psyker

• Fixed Whispers bypassing resistance checks to achieve >100% success chance.
• Gaining Void Resistance from Ascendance Rank 3 is now correctly marked as a buff.

Enemies

• R.U.M bots have new audio effects. Give ‘em a listen why don’t yarr?
• Taunted / Charmed / Confused enemies will try and select single target abilities if possible, but will continue to use AoE attacks / special abilities if they cannot.

Events

• Fixed Security Door keypads looking for an Engineer in your party when using an Autocipher.
• Fixed several pronoun errors when checking gender of the speaker.

UI

• Added buttons to Explore Hud to manually open ESC and Overview menus.
• Freelook is now active by default when exploring.
• Removed deprecated engine code that could cause the cursor to error when entering combat.
• Class abilities can now be previewed in the New Game and Recruit menus.
• Added tooltips for ability tree summaries.
• Fixed tooltip offsetting issues for ability trees and items. If the tooltips look strange on your setup, please let us know the resolution & system - screenshots welcome!
• Updated difficulty descriptions in to reflect Grievous Wounds in Challenge & Hardcore modes.
• Updated effects that mod dodge chance to correctly reflect duration.
• Fixed sorting of the battle interface during inspect / inventory use.
• Fixed visual pop of ability / item tooltips when updating.
• Fixed bug that could occur when dragging ability icons around the Ability menu.

Misc Fixes

• Medbay will no longer offer to heal a dead character without first receiving them.
• Fixed Stun / Confuse / Blind / Combo Strike particles persisting after the target is dead / removed from play.
• Fixed rare error if an ability / effect called for the target to emote and the target is emotionless.
• Fixed Grievous Wounds being applied when reviving in Standard difficulty.
• Fixed Grievous Wounds bypassing a check on the crawlers death count before applying.

Coming Soon

• Item upgrades!
• More friendly faction contact events.
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-08-13 03:45:49 CET ] [ Original post ]

The next story mission has arrived: Belly of the Beast! We hope you enjoy it :D This will be the last story mission released while StarCrawlers is in development - the final missions will launch with version 1.0. With all of the released story missions available we’ll be switching our focus back to itemization, abilities, and balance. Huge thanks as always to everyone who has been submitting reports and feedback!

Engine

• Upgraded StarCrawlers to Unity 5.3.6.
• Linux users should see improvement in audio / startup related crashes from the engine update.
• Various optimizations and improvements from the engine update.

Abilities

• Abilities that attack using the caster weapon are noted in the ability tooltip.

Cyberninja

• Abilities in the Deception tree now all correctly require a non-Heavy weapon to use.
• Fixed an issue that cause Shadowfall to fail to count CP on a target when applying its accuracy debuff.

Soldier

• Fixed an issue where (believe it or not) Bomblets could cause a soft-lock in combat if they were added by Magnetronc Bomb / Bouncing Betty / UXO while trying to update Bomblets.

Hacker

• Mindmelt cast by Black Ice now correctly deals Nanite damage when attacking.
• Fixed an issue that could cause DoTs to deal 0 damage if the Hacker was killed.

Smuggler

• Double Down now adapts to deal the element type of the Smuggler’s weapon.

Prototype

• Reduced Time Unit cost of H.A.M to 50% weapon speed, damage to 49/50/51% weapon damage, and increased accuracy loss to 6/4/2% with each attack.

Enemies

• Reduced base elemental damage for Plop, Crabby, and Grinder.
• Fixed chance that Copbot Rookies could soft-lock thinking they had no action to take.
• Frenzy damage dealing for Mites & Mite Swarms is no longer tied to their animation to address possible issues with the ability animation being interrupted.
• Fixed issue causing Mites to deal an extra hit at increased damage when using Frenzy.

Items

• Loot containers in explore mode once again have a chance to drop random gear (Weapon, Armor, Shields, Accessories) in addition to credit loot.
• Loot from defeated mobs has an increased chance to include random gear.
• Worms and Mites now drop meaty credit loot and items.
• Several humanoid enemies now drop credit loot and items.
• The rarity odds for items on higher difficulty levels increases as your party level increases.
• Pistols are no longer generated with the Combat Initiative stat but instead have a new stat, Zeroing, which increases accuracy of weapon attacks against a target with each miss until a hit occurs.
• SMGs are no longer generated with the Aggression stat but instead have a new stat, Hyperburst, which reduces the dodge chance of targets when using a weapon attack. Dodge chance cannot be reduced below 0.
• SMGs / Pistols generated before these change will retain their original stats.
• Shield Breaker, Shield Pierce, Armor Pierce, Critical Damage Boost, and Hyperburst on weapons will now only be applied if the ability attacks using the caster’s weapon.
• Shield Pierce on melee weapons slightly reduced for Common & Uncommon rarities.

Environment

• Simplified the security sector puzzle in the mission Triangulatin’.
• Fixed collision issues with trip beams in The Train Job mission.
• Fixed issue that could cause fire hazards to not deal damage at intervals (they still have a slight grace period so you can not stand in the fire).
• Gas traps now display a particle effect to warn of an active gas trap in a room before entering.

UI

• The state of the Combat Log and Crew Status UIs will be preserved between missions.
• Clarified progress on escort missions terminal activations.
• Damage reduction effects will no longer be listed as Barrier reductions in the Combat Log.
• Updated Codex to include new Zeroing and Hyperburst stats.
• Target dodge is now displayed when inspecting a target.
• Fixed issue with gas traps failing to display correctly and draining / filling at odd speeds.
• Reduced strength of fisheye effect from gas traps.
• Gas traps now display a particle effect to warn of an active gas trap in a room before entering.

Misc Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the mission Rescuing Rassa that could cause an event to deadend.
• Fixed an issue with Retrieval missions that could cause a failure to award credits.
• Fixed an issue with Ironmode that could cause the game to flip out in various ways if the hero character was killed but the party survived combat.
• Fixed CorpSec Seekers (and variants) from triggering their intro sound simultaneously resulting in possible brain explosions.
• In the briefing for mission Cage the Gorzilla, fixed an issue wherein Eliana North would ask you to determine the point of entry of the strange drones but the mission objective was to determine their prime directive.
• Fixed Ragnarok failing to award rep when completing The Train Job objective for them.
• Fixed typo in random event encountering faction employee and added a new distraction.
• Fixed an issue with taking control of the security camera in the mission Triangulatin’ that could cause its movement to be locked.
• Fixed funky shadows being cast by Astral Worms.
• Fixed various typos and text alignments in UI, abilities, events and effects - thanks tinysalamander!

Coming Next

• Item upgrades!
• More friendly faction contact events.
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-07-30 05:20:26 CET ] [ Original post ]

The next story mission has arrived: Cage the Gorzilla! We hope you enjoy it :D Huge thanks to everyone who has been submitting bug reports here on the forums and with the in-game tool - tons of fixes in this update!

Prototype

• Fixed incorrect tooltip in combat for Demean ability.
• Fixed Time Unit cost display for abilities that have variable amounts.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Prototype to be available to recruit in subsequent games without first unlocking him in the story.

Soldier

• Fixed Time Unit cost display for abilities that have variable amounts.

Force Psyker

• Fixed an issue with Spirit Onslaught that could cause the caster’s crit chance to read as 0%.

Hacker

• Fixed an issue that could cause Kill Switch and Corruption to prevent combat from continuing if they strike the killing blow against a mob.

Items

• Accessories that load incorrectly will now attempt to substitute a placeholder item. > > > Let us know the ID code and we’ll fix it!
• Facility shelves have a chance to spawn medkits, energon cubes, and grenade cases.
• Medkits found on the mission The Black Box no longer incorrectly contain random loot.
• Hacking security doors and panels will correctly consume AutoCiphers once again.
• Titan has their own manufacturer upgrades for crit resistance and is no longer stealing upgrades from Boomslang.
• Fixed an issue with medkits from older saves being unusable in missions or combat.
• Fixed crit resistance upgrades decreasing crit resistance.

Environment

• Walking through liquid hot magma should be approximately 500% more fatal.
• Office maps now can have Executive Doors which are superior to lesser doors.
• Fixed an issue with radiation traps that could cause them to appear stuck behind desks.
• Fixed an issue on the mission Triangulatin’ that could cause events to fail to trigger after defeating a section boss.

UI

• Fixed an issue that could cause factions to not show when visiting the Wire terminal after a certain plot point triggers.
• Creating a new save will now correctly increment the save number before saving.
• UI scaling will now be applied consistently after a scene load.
• Fixed an issue on the mission Triangulatin’ that could cause a plot point to be skipped.
• Removed legacy support for clamping faction reputation for story mission factions (Horizon, Aurora, Workers United)
• Fixed a potential reset of reputation when dealing with Workers United.
• Labeled the water pump in To Catch A Privateer / Rescuing Rassa more clearly.
• Factions that send hate mail will give up after they hate you enough. How reasonable!
• Items that are force-given during events can now arrive via mail if your inventory is full.
• Fixed an issue with credit rewards on randomly generated missions not being displayed.
• Fixed an issue with name generation that could cause input to become locked.

Misc Fixes

• Fixed an issue with an event in The Train Job that could cause it to repeat incorrectly.
• Fixed an issue with Electric Traps that could cause a mission to fail to load.
• Fixed an issue with skipping the tutorial that could lead to incorrect progression.
• CorpSec Guards will no longer summon reinforcements if there are only 2 crawlers alive.
• Fixed mobs scaling armor incorrectly on Standard difficulty.
• Fixed an issue with a certain character encountered previously that might cause them to be confused about who they are now. Cryptic!
• Added options to continuing exploring after completing The Train Job and using a terminal to exit the mission.

Coming Next

• New Story Mission!
• More friendly faction contact events.
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-07-17 05:52:47 CET ] [ Original post ]

The next story mission has arrived: The Train Job

In addition, we’ve got tweaks and improvements to the shop, interface, items, enemies and more. As always, please share your feedback in the forums and thank you for playing!

Classes

• Soldier : Damage from the Hellfire DoT effect of Hellfire Salvo reduced to 10/20/30% of damage dealt from a strike.
• Hacker : Fixed an issue with Hotlink virus dealing increasing damage.
• Smuggler : Fixed an issue with traps not registering summoned mobs as valid targets.
• Cyberninja : Fixed a potential memory leak from repeated triggering of Ambush.

Items

• Upgrading an item that is equipped will now correctly unequip, upgrade and then requip it.
• Update descriptions on older Accessory and Utility items to match current formatting.
• Replaced several placeholder item upgrades and adjusted test numbers downwards.
• DoT effects from weapon upgrades now deal correct elemental damage.
• The Train Job mission contains a new test Accessory that can summon an ally.

Talrie has restocked her shop to sell a fixed selection of items:

• 4x Uncommon Weapons
• 2x Uncommon Shields
• 2x Uncommon Armor
• 3x Accessory or Utility items
• 1x Repair Kit (For your robotic pal)

Added new items:

• Accuracy enhancements for weapons
• Dodge enhancements for weapons
• EZ-Boom Safecracker
• Worm Lube sample

UI

• UI scaling amount slider goes from -50% to +50% current resolution.
• Addressed some inconsistencies with Doc Sam’s speech in earlier dialogues.

Fixes

• Turrets no longer shoot death bubbles.
• Fixed a rare crash that could with item sprites on some platforms.
• Fixed an issue with Hatchlings that could cause their Worm Ooze to halt combat.
• Fixed an issue where using Exit To Title Screen wouldn't update the Ironmode save.
• Fixed an issue with the Workers United contact event when asking about help vs. corps.
• Fixed hatchlings and other lower health mobs being able to achieve 0 effective health and causing various things to flip out as a result.
• Fixed certain mobs stunlocking solo crawlers.
• Fixed an issue with Ironmode causing a softlock when killing the last surviving character.
• Fixed audio timing issues with some mobs.

Coming Next

• New Story Mission!
• Deadly assassination ops by a certain corporation.
• More friendly faction contact events.
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-07-06 13:23:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

The next story mission has arrived: To Catch A Privateer After the events of Dumpster Diving, you'll return to STIX to hear a game-changing announcement from Aurora (better check your rep situation!). Your employer will then assign you a mission to either capture or rescue a notorious criminal... We hope you enjoy the next step in the story, we won't spoiler anything here, but please feel free to share your thoughts in the forums! StarCrawlers has been updated to Gregarious Gorilla v8 - 06.16.2016

Soldier

• Fixed an issue causing bomblet explosions to halt combat.
• For real this time.

UI

• Added a UI scaling amount slider. This feature is still experimental.
• Fixed ability tooltip triggering automatically when targeting an enemy.
• Fixed overlapping elements in the event popup screen.

Fixes

• Optimized some class ability memory usage.
• Fixed an issue with doors acting oddly if you enter combat while standing next to one.
• Fixed trap panels complaining about strings they had failed to find.
• Fixed an issue with floor tile navigation in some mine tunnel variants.
• Fixed issue with cam traps obssessing over a single tile.
• Misc fixes and improvements.

Coming Next

• New Story Mission : The Train Job
• Ragnarok Missions (if you passed the test)
• Tasks System
• More environment lootables
• More friendly faction contact events
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-06-18 07:20:37 CET ] [ Original post ]

If your older saves load with the team at 0 health, visit the medbay and get patched up!

Elemental Madness has arrived.

An elemental damage system has been bubbling beneath the surface of StarCrawlers for a while and now it’s ready to burst forth in all it’s zapping, burning, melting, devouring and terrifying glory. In addition, we’ve added a Combat Log, new twists to Challenge & Hardcore difficulties, and tons of improvements to class abilities, weapons, armor, shields and accessories. Dig in!

Elemental Damage

Class abilities can now deal basic Physical damage, elemental damage (Energy, Fire, Chemical, Nanite or Void). multiple types of elemental damage, or channel the element of your equipped weapon. Most generated weapons will deal Physical damage, but rarer and high-level items can deal elemental damage. Mobs also deal elemental damage with some of their attacks and the power of elemental attacks from mob abilities grows as they level.

Elemental Resistances

Elemental damage is absorbed by Barriers and Shields as normal, but pierces Armor. The block power of Armor has been increased to serve as a superior defense against Physical attacks, and the absorption power of Shields has been slightly reduced. When facing elemental damage, you’ll want to stack resistances to reduce the incoming damage to manageable levels. Armor, shields, accessories, item upgrades and class abilities can all contribute to resistances. Similarly, mobs have natural resistances to some elements and have gained abilities to boost resistances.

Classes

There have been significant changes to the class trees to incorporate the new elemental damage system. All classes abilities that deal damage now deal either Physical, Energy, Fire, Chemical, Nanite or Void damage. Some classes will see further abilities updates and changes as we test the new system and receive feedback.

Soldier

• Reduced max effectiveness of Meat Shield to 20% damage reduction and increased base damage slightly.
• Defiance now reduces damage if the enemy is Taunted to attack the Soldier.
• The cooldown on Juggernaut has been increased to 8 turns.
• Bouncing Betty no longer drops bomblets at Rank 3 if the Soldier has been killed.
• Rocket Strike max damage slightly reduced and no longer pierces Armor as it now deals Fire damage (which bypasses Armor).
• Hellfire Salvo damage slightly decreased and now randomly attacks the battlefield instead of random mobs, making it more chaotic, but guaranteeing a hit if a rocket lands near a mob. This make Hellfire Salvo more effective against multiple enemies and less deadly against a single target.
• UXO now tosses out extra Bomblets when activated, removing the requirement that Bomblets are already deployed to use it.
• Boom King at Rank 3 now also causes targets damaged by your Bomblets to take increased damage from Fire attacks. This effect stacks.
• Bonus damage taken by enemies hit with a Heavy Weapon in Overwatch reduced to 5/7/10%.
• The max damage of Hotstreak has been reduced to 200% weapon damage and the Time Unit cost reduced to 25% of weapon speed.

Force Psyker

• Mirror Prism now deals damage to all enemies when it manifests. Shatter damage dealt to the Force Psyker is converted to Energy damage.
• Spirit Armor now provides passive elemental resistance to allies in combat and heals the Force Psyker when taking Energy damage at Rank 3.
• Purifying Prism no longer damages the Force Psyker but instead deals damage to enemies when it absorbs a debuff or stun effect or shatters as Rank 3.
• Barrier Prison now attempts to Stun the target each turn and deal weapon damage.
• Spirit Link now grants resistance to all enemies when a Barrier absorbs elemental damage.
• Fists of Fury (Rank 3) now increases Energy damage taken by the target.

Void Psyker

• The damage of Overload has been reduced as it now deals elemental Void damage.
• The damage on Cannibalize has been slightly reduced.
• The damage of Shadowbolt / Voidbolt has been slightly reduced and the energy requirement to convert to Voidbolt has been reduced to 30.
• Torrent (Rank 3) now increases Void damage taken by the target.
• Void Storm now strikes randomly across the battlefield and deals increased damage.
• Ascendance (Rank 3) now grants Void resistance to your allies if you Overload and makes the Void Psyker immune to damage from Overload.

Prototype

• Reduced Time Unit cost of Thunderclap.

Engineer

• Junker no longer Taunts but can explode to deal Chemical damage and increase damage taken from Chemical attacks.

Hacker

• Virus: Mindmelt no longer stacks damage with each use but instead reduces the Nanite resistance of the target.
• The explosion damage of Corruption has been reformulated to grow based on weapon damage.
• Virus: Hotlink no longer provides Haste but instead deals damage based on your weapon element and grants team resistance to the same element.
• Timed Release no longer regenerates shield but instead increases the duration of Optimization tree effects and grants a chance to refresh them automatically. At Rank 3, team damage grows with each turn the Hacker takes.
• Fixed an issue with Scramble that could upset the orderly progression of the timeline.
• Fixed an issue with Root Hack that could prevent enemies from acting on their turn.

Difficulty

• On Standard and higher difficulties, leveling up no longer heals to full but instead maintains the current health percentage.
• On Challenge Difficulty, characters will not heal automatically at the end of a mission but can skip a mission, visit the medbay, or use a medkit to heal.
• On Hardcore Difficulty, characters must visit the medbay or use a medkit to heal.
• On Challenge and higher difficulties, killed characters have a chance to incur a Grievous Wound after being revived. The severity of the wound increases with each death.
• On Hardcore Difficulty, Grievous Wounds are permanent.

Enemies

• Mobs now have base resistances to elemental damage that scales with their level.
• Mob special attacks now deal elemental damage that scales with their level..

Items

• Armor now only blocks Physical (basic) damage and its effectiveness has been increased for both mobs and players.
• Shields and Barriers continue to absorb all types of damage and their effectiveness has been slightly reduced.
• Weapons can be generated with a chance to deal elemental damage with their standard attack.
• Armor and Shields can be generated with a base resistance to elemental attacks.
• Upgrades for Weapons, Armor and Shields can improve elemental damage & resistance.
• Siyama has begun producing weapons that deal Energy, Fire and Chemical damage.
• Zeus has begun producing weapons that deal Nanite damage.
• Foxkin has arrived as a manufacturer of fine weapons, armor and shields.
• Weapons now have additional generated names.

UI

Combat Log added to combat and currently displays:

• All damage absorbed by barriers.
• All damage absorbed by shields.
• Physical damage blocked by armor.
• Health damage taken.
• Additional information will be added in future updates and the ability to toggle visibility for different display types.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where events in the hub would not lock some menu controls.
• Fixed Crew Status close button overlapping enemies and confusing the UI.
• Fixed issue that could cause Battle Icons to not display health bars / numbers accurately if there was a large volume of incoming damage.
• Fixed an issue with Soldiers Weapon Specialist that could prevent cooldown resetting on kills.
• Fixed an issue with the mission Dumpster Diving which could halt combat.
• Fixed an issue breaking the contact event for Chimera BioPharma Solutions.
• Fixed an issue that could cause accessories to not load updated stats.

Coming Next

• Now New Story Mission!
• More friendly faction contact events.
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-06-04 00:19:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

UPDATED: 5/26/2016

Find information on the coming Level Cap here! Ironmode has arrived! As requested, you can now subject yourself to permadeath in StarCrawlers by starting a new game with the Ironmode option selected. Mercenaries can now join your crew for a limited time under special circumstances - the first first mercenary available is the enigmatic Mr. Lieu, a security consultant working for Kage Enterprises. Expect to see more mercenaries become available from Factions in the future!

Ironmode

This is the first time this feature has been activated, so if you choose to go Ironmode, we’d love to hear about your experience, be it good or (probably) bad! :D

• New games with difficulty of Standard or higher can choose to activate Ironmode.
• Limit of 1 Ironmode save that auto updates.
• Character death is permanent and equipped gear is lost forever.
• The Ironmode save updates whenever a character dies.
• If all recruited characters are killed the Ironmode save is deleted.
• Not for the faint of heart.

Mercenaries

• Mercenaries can temporarily join your crew for a mission.
• Mr. Lieu, a friendly smuggler, can be hired after reaching Allied reputation with Kage.
• Unique mercenaries can be obtained from rare drops.

Factions

• Kage Enterprises can now be contacted via the Wire terminal.
• Kage can supply items to help crawlers deal with traps, provided they like you.
• Fixed some typos in the Jiyin contact event.

Items

• Added new drops that can counter traps.

UI

• Crew Status has been added to combat mode to display an abbreviated list of all allies in combat and their health. Never wonder what Bolty's hp is again!
• The new game menu has been improved.
• Saved games now display the difficulty setting of the game.

Coming Next

• New Story Mission...
• More friendly faction contact events.
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-05-20 20:50:07 CET ] [ Original post ]

A mini update to address some lingering issues with Smuggler and prep for the next big patch!

Weapons

• The maximum damage range for Pistols has been slightly reduced to compensate for their reduced Time Unit costs and ability to cycle cooldowns faster.
• The maximum and minimum damage ranges for Heavy weapons has been slightly boosted to compensate for their slower Time Unit costs and reduced ability to cycle cooldowns.
• Base critical chance of Heavy weapons slightly reduced.
• Base critical chance of Shotguns slightly increased.

Classes

Smuggler
• Akimbo passive ability deals equal damage on the first and secondary attacks.
• Akimbo active ability deals equal damage to the first and secondary targets.
• The Rank 3 bonus of Shoot First ability now has an increased crit chance.
• The damage boost from each use of Push Yer Luck has been reduced to 20/35/50%.
• Push Yer Luck now benefits from Akimbo to deal ludicrous damage. Maybe.
• Enemies that cannot act (due to Stun / Stasis / etc) cannot be targets of Shoot First.
• Shoot First no longer passively generates Threat for the Smuggler.
• Trick Shot direct damage reduced to 50/75/100% weapon damage, number of of bounces increased to 5/7/9 times and bouncing bullet damage reduced to 30/35/40% weapon damage. Engineer
• Sapper now deploys immediately after the Engineer in the timeline.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Sapper to deal 0 damage when detonating. Hacker
• Black Ice now deploys immediately after the Hacker in the timeline.
• The TU cost of Black Ice has been reduced to 25% of weapon speed.

Factions

• Agrigen can now be contacted via the Wire Terminal.
• Added new events for Agrigen.
• Added new unique items for Agrigen.

UI

• Player deaths are now called out more clearly in combat.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with Smuggler abilities that used the Akimbo passive effect not receiving the correct damage modifier on the initial attack.
• Fixed an issue that could allow Smuggler Akimbo to remove 2x shields when attacking.
• Fixed additional instances of unlootable credsticks when exploring.

Coming Soon…

• Focus On: New Story Mission...
• More friendly faction contact events.
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-05-02 04:24:37 CET ] [ Original post ]

Latest hotfix notes (now with Experimental Changes) can be found here!. The next story mission has arrived: Dumpster Diving! Your investigations into the rogue drones aboard the Stella Marin have led you deep within the bowels of the ghost ship. Have you discovered the source of the mystery? Or merely the beginning of some new terror…

PLEASE NOTE!

If you are still having issues with your keybindings (for example, Free Look, Flashlight, ESC menu), reset your player preferences to clear them from the registry : From the Title Screen -> Options -> Reset Preferences. Resetting your keybindings alone will not resolve these issues.

Shields

Based on feedback and discussion, we’re trying something different with shields to make them more intuitive for both choosing which to equip and understanding enemy shield strength at a glance. Previously, light shields had many charges and heavy shields had fewer, and the range of damage absorbed by shield types was quite large. Now:

• The amount of damage absorbed by shields has been normalized and ranges reduced.
• Light shields have 3 charges and the ability to Regenerate during combat.
• Tactical shields have 3 to 5 charges and Empower the wearer when a charge is used.
• Heavy shields have 5 to 8 charges and maintain their Safeguard ability.

We feel these changes make shields more intuitive at a glance, for both team and mob gear. Fewer charges = less shields and dmg reduction, more charges = more shields and dmg reduction. Let us know what you think about this change!

Weapons

• Melee weapons have been reduced in damage to bring them more in-line with ranged weapons of similar TU cost.

Classes

• Hacker’s Mindmelt now properly displays duration and stack damage when refreshed.
• Duration of Prototype’s Demean taunt effect extended.
• Smuggler’s Shoot First now applies at the start of combat, not on the Smuggler’s first turn.
• Smuggler’s Kalmonri Trap no longer sometimes believes itself to be a mob.

Game Difficulty

• Challenge scales Boss Fights to your level and traps deal bonus damage.
• Hardcore scales missions and Bosses to your level and traps deal deadly damage.

UI

• Updated Codex to reflect changes to shield type bonuses.
• Your initial character choice is now remembered by the game as the Hero Character. For legacy saves, this will be set automatically upon saving to the character you first chose.

Environment

• Security Doors can no longer be opened by mobs on the other side.
• Nanite Swarms will now disperse after inflicting a set amount of damage to your party.
• Don’t trip the traps and there won’t be no Nanite Swarms.

Fixes

• The value of the Shionlium Lunchbox has been increased to match credits rewarded when skipping the tutorial mission.
• Fixed unintentionally displaying mob info when clicking an item in combat inventory.
• Fixed healthbar display for characters in combat inventory selection.
• Fixed an issue with random map generation that could prevent mission progress.
• Fixed an issue that would cause the healthbar on battle icons appear to drain at the start of combat, giving the illusion of taking damage.

Coming Soon…

• Focus On: New Story Mission...
• More friendly faction contact events.
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-04-16 02:08:05 CET ] [ Original post ]

The next story mission has arrived: Triangulatin’! Continuing your investigation into the cause of the rogue drones and missing crew aboard the Stella Marin, your employer is sending you back in… Depending on who you’re running for, you’ll encounter different events and outcomes. Let us know what you think!

PLEASE NOTE!

If you are still having issues with your keybindings (for example, Free Look, Flashlight, ESC menu), reset your player preferences to clear them from the registry : From the Title Screen -> Options -> Reset Preferences. Resetting your keybindings alone will not resolve these issues.

UI

• Objective tracker has been upgraded to support multi, alternative, and bonus objectives.
• Current story missions have been retrofitted to acknowledge that failing a primary objective might still allow completion of alternative objective. You double-crossers.
• Made inactive / unobtainable Ability icons more distinct.

Classes

• Engineer Constructs now deploy within 5 Time Units of the Engineer when summoned.

Fixes

• Fixed Jiyin CyberEyes unique id conflict.
• Fixed an issue with AutoCraft benches being unresponsive to characters holding the correct items to craft a class accessory.
• Fixed issue with corp employees halting event if you approach to talk vs. trying to kill them.
• Fixed trap disarm panels being placed in unreachable areas in some corp security rooms.
• Fixed several instances of items being generated in unreachable areas aboard ships.
• Fix issue with a corp office map seed causing an objective to be unreachable.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the critical % of an ability tooltip to be hidden.
• Fixed various typos in random events.
• Fixed an issue with Cyberninja’s Rolling Thunder that could cause damage to go negative when combined with other class events.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Retrieve missions to appear as failed when beginning.
• Fixed clipping issue on Saloon door in space station.
• Fixed an issue that could cause mob Defense Boost effects to be hidden.
• Fixed an issue with certain factions that were not applying custom colors / textures to maps.

Coming Soon…

• Focus On: New Story Mission - Disposal
• More friendly faction contact events.
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-04-04 04:25:10 CET ] [ Original post ]

This week focuses on bug fixes and prepping for the next story mission patch. In addition, we’ve patched in some enemies and missions that aren’t quite ready to be revealed :D We’ve introduced an Opt In button on the title screen - if you’re interested in testing out some spoiler-heavy and potentially unstable content, check it out!

PLEASE NOTE!

If you are still having issues with your keybindings (for example, Free Look, Flashlight, ESC menu), reset your player preferences to clear them from the registry : From the Title Screen -> Options -> Reset Preferences. Resetting your keybindings alone will not resolve these issues.

Known Issues

• The hardware cursor is displayed instead of the StarCrawlers cursor when mousing over certain UI elements / interactives.

Factions

• Jiyin Biotech can now be contacted via the Wire Terminal.
• Chimera allies can now access their max tier reward from Junior Researcher Smoth.

Items

• New armor enhancements, utility item, and accessory that can only be acquired from Jiyin.
• Healing amount for medkits have been reduced.

Classes

• Self-healing for most classes has been reduced slightly. We’re monitoring self-healing moving forward to drive it more towards sustaining a character vs. healing to full with each battle.

Fixes

• Fixed issue with hotkeys not responding after using Continue from title screen after a wipe.
• Fixed issue with menus not responding after attempting to ESC / open a menu during an event in the space station.
• Fixed issue with Void Psyker Siphon Life rank 3 bonus not being applied correctly.
• Unity Engine: Linux users should now be able to set resolutions that differ from their naitive resolution (ie. two monitor set up)
• Miscellaneous optimizations and tweaks for all platforms.

Coming Soon…

• Focus On: New Story Mission - Triangulatin’
• More friendly faction contact events.
• Class Accessories
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-03-18 16:51:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

This week is all about Factions that dislike you! All Factions can now take action against you if they feel the situation merits it and the conditions are right. The more a faction dislikes you, the more they’ll be willing to spend to have you killed. There are multiple different actions they might pursue, ranging from briefing their employees about you and upping CorpSec patrols to hiring mercenaries and assassins. In addition, Chimera and Titan can now be contacted via the Wire Terminal.

PLEASE NOTE!

If you are still having issues with your keybindings (for example, Free Look, Flashlight, ESC menu), reset your player preferences to clear them from the registry : From the Title Screen -> Options -> Reset Preferences. Resetting your keybindings alone will not resolve these issues.

Factions

• Allegiances have shifted among the UFP and hidden organizations.
• Chimera BioPharma Solutions can now be contacted via the Wire Terminal.
• Titan Metallurgy can now be contacted via the Wire Terminal.
• Factions can now trigger operations against your team when you’ve sufficiently angered them and the conditions are right…
• Some consumable can now modify your favor with Factions…
• Added new mob types that are only encountered through Faction operations.
• Added new syndromes only obtainable through positive and negative faction events.
• Added FoxKin Armory faction.

Items

• Using the Take All button on mail will attempt to loot all items and then delete the mail.
• Using the Delete button on mail with items will attempt to collect the items first.
• Added new armor, enhancements, utility items and more that can only be acquired from Factions. Happy hunting!

UI

• Added an error reporting tool and force quit for events. You can now submit bug reports for events just like map / regular bugs and force broken events to end immediately.

Fixes

• Fixed bug with Free Look upon exiting combat.
• Fixed Audio Panel not closing when hitting ESC key.
• Equipable items that apply syndromes (such as Eternal Dumpling Basket) will no longer lose their applied syndrome if their owner gains a level on a mission.

Coming Soon…

• Focus On: Factions (Part III)!
• More friendly faction contact events.
• More negative faction operations.
• Class Accessories
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-03-05 08:23:33 CET ] [ Original post ]

This week is all about Factions that like you! We’re added a Wire Terminal interface to the space station from which you can contact factions that you have discovered. The following factions are currently available to test: Aurora Starliners, Horizon Robotics, Workers United, and Boomslang. We’ll be rolling out more faction interactions with subsequent updates - let us know what you think!

PLEASE NOTE!

If you heave issues with your keybindings (for example, Free Look, Flashlight, ESC menu), reset your player preferences to clear them from the registry : From the Title Screen -> Options -> Reset Preferences. Resetting your keybindings only will not resolve these issues.

UI

• Added Wire Terminal to space station.
• Added faction contact events for Aurora, Horizon, Workers United and Boomslang.
• Added additional entries to Codex.
• Exposed Free Look as hotkeyable.
• Added support for hotkeying of mouse buttons.

Items

• Security Door keys can now be trashed correctly / vendored for 0 credits if they are still in your inventory after a mission. This change will not affect existing Security Keys.
• Added new item types that can only be acquired from factions that like you.

Audio

• Added additional sounds for Prototype abilities.
• Added sounds for Loaders in combat.

Fixes

• Fixed SecuriCams / GunCams / RadCams trying to trigger security responders and traps simultaneously, resulting in a broken transition into combat.
• SecuriCams now correctly explode if security is disabled from an event.
• Fixed Prototype Malfunction meter sometimes not hiding correctly in combat.

Coming Soon…

• Focus On: Factions (Part II)!
• More friendly faction contact events.
• Request new unique items and benefits from factions that like you.
• Faction that dislike you will start taking action against you.
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-02-19 23:45:40 CET ] [ Original post ]

The talented audio designers at PowerUp Audio are streaming some StarCrawlers audio implementation! If you want to see how they make the magic happen, come join in: http://www.twitch.tv/powerupaudio WARNING! There may be spoilers :D

[ 2016-02-19 00:00:30 CET ] [ Original post ]

In prep for features in the upcoming Factions update, we’re testing out the new systems with a small Lunar New Year event. When visiting the space station, look for Rassa the Hook, a special item vendor. Rassa and his crew have been hiding Lucky Envelopes in various places, grab an envelope and you’ll find a Lunar Coin which can be traded for various festive items.

Focus on: Lab Maps, Item Enhancements and More!

Lab maps have been enhanced and improved based on feedback and suggestions and we’re excited to show a new item type: Enhancements! We’ve heard your requests for more ways to customize and tweak gear beyond the upgrade system, so Enhancements can permanently alter a weapon, armor, shield or accessory once to change its stats or add new effects.

Linux Update

We've temporarily disabled the Linux build as we investigate the crashing shader issue - latest updates can be found here.

UI

• Fixed several alignment issues.
• Added support for special currencies in addition to credits. Special currencies are not currently displayed outside of the merchant menu that uses them.
• Switched on 5:4 Aspect Ratio - please note this ratio has not been fully tested for all menus.
• When loading a game, the most recent Autosave is highlighted and placed at the top of the load menu and saves are correctly ordered according to timestamp. - thanks Jaesun!

Items

• Add Common and Uncommon item Enhancements for weapons, armor and shields.
• Added new items for Lunar New Year celebration.

Fixes

• Fixed a crash when a Void Psyker with an active Void Shell triggered an Overload.
• Fixed an issue where loot containers in bug infestation missions would sometimes be empty. - thanks Allanpike!
• Fixed an issue where adjusting the ambient gamma would create an additive brightness effect with each battle. - thanks ZiN!
• Fixed an issue with A.N.C.Hs failing to activate or activating for summoned pets.
• Fixed an issue with item icon duplication on some menus.
• Fixes class combat widgets emitting particles when offscreen & depth sorting issues.
• Fixed Talent Point Notification button from appearing during events on missions.
• Fixed an issue with shield pip display count on the Loadout menu.
• Fixed an issue with Hatches on Ships handing out items when they weren’t meant to.
• Free look rotations can no longer become gimbal locked when looking past angles that are straight up / straight down. As a result, you can look upside down, should you so wish. Enabling ‘Reset Camera on Move’ or tapping spacebar will reset rotations, as usual.

Coming Soon…

• Focus On: Factions!
• Contact factions you have discovered and have friendly chats with them over the Wire.
• Request unique items from factions that like you.
• Request amnesty from factions that are trying to kill you.
• Lexicon - defines game teminology & mechanics for the Learned Crawler. Almost complete!
• More Events, Hot Loot items and Mini Events
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-02-05 18:16:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

We’ve uploaded a mini patch to address some bugs which also contains bonus content for the Lab maps, Class Accessories for the Hacker and Prototype, and some new events and combat consumables. The full Lab update is targeted for Friday, February 5th!

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with NPCs / Summons trying to use ANCHs to resurrect.
• Possible fix to Unity engine causing flickering UI for some users.
• Pressure plates have regained their glow.
• Fixed an issue with mobs opening doors into space.
• Fixed an issue with a floating keypad for a security door.
• Fixed an issue with events failing if they randomly select a hidden / inactive faction.
• Fixed an issue with internal doors within a room making strange connections.

Bonuses

• Early preview of Lab map features and polishing.
• Added rare Class Accessory for Prototype.
• Added rare Class Accessory for Hacker.
• Added new combat consumables.
• Added neutral MediM8 robot event to Lab maps.

[ 2016-01-31 22:55:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Focus on: Facility Maps, Class Accessories and Combat Consumables

Facility maps have been enhanced and improved based on feedback and suggestions and we’re trying out a new type of event with neutral Loader drones hanging out on some facility maps. The Loaders are tied to many of the operations in a facility and may be willing to help on your mission, and possibly provide other benefits… Have a chat with them and let us know what you think! We’re also debuting Class Accessories and Combat Consumables - details below.

UI

• Based on user requests, we’ve added an item stash to Doc Sams’ bar.
• Ambient light gamma adjust added to Graphics menu.

Items

• Combat consumable items have arrived. Keep an eye out for Boomslang’s newest line of grenades and some secret items - more coming in next patch.
• Class Accessories have arrived. Rare components can drop on all map types, gather them and the appropriate blueprint and find an AutoCraft Bench to assemble the item. We’ll be expanding and adding to Class Accessories with each patch. Let us know if you get one!
• Added Class Accessory for Void Psyker.
• Added Class Accessory for Engineer.

Exploration

• Optimized pathing in Facility maps to reduce or eliminate overlapping vertical floor tiles.
• New secret, interactive and decorative elements in Facility maps.

Changes

Reduced Accuracy debuff from MomoBomb from 30% to 15%.

Cyberninja’s Kougeki ability now deals 60/80/100% weapon damage for each Combo Point.

Cyberninja’s Flurry ability now deals 80/90/100% weapon damage for each Combo Point.

Cyberninja’s Expose Weakness initial attack now deals 60/80/100% weapon damage.

In preparation for the Factions update, extraneous factions have been disabled to focus on story and gameplay critical factions.

Boomslang has a negotiated a seat at the table with the Universal Foundation for Prosperity and has become the official arms supplier for the UFP and its client companies.

Fixes

• Adjust all materials & lighting to accommodate new specular lighting algorithm.
• That was a lot.
• Fixed an issue with bounty targets that shouted their name not shouting it.
• Fixed an issue with Force Psyker’s Barrier Prison particle effect when breaking.
• Fixed an issue with Force Psyker’s Condemn particle effect when breaking.

Coming Soon…

• Focus On: Lab Maps
• Lexicon - defines game teminology & mechanics for the Learned Crawler. Almost ready :D
• New Lab Mobs + Rare Spawns
• More Events, Hot Loot items and Mini Events
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-01-26 02:13:20 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hotfix incoming! Here's what's happening:

Changes

• Added an End Turn button to combat. Players can choose to skip their turn for the TU cost of their weapon (plus any TU modifiers).

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with item tooltips persisting during events and combat.
• Fixed an issue with Pirate Strongholds in Mines preventing crystals spawning.
• Fixed a combat halt issue with Engineer summoning dual Chargers using Twofer - thanks Tom!
• Fixed some Mine issues with one-way hallways - thanks allanpike!

[ 2016-01-11 05:06:10 CET ] [ Original post ]

Focus on: The Ships & Space Pirates

Happy New Year! Ship maps have been enhanced and improved based on feedback and suggestions. On Ship maps you’ll encounter new enemies, events, hazards, and a variety of ways to get your crew killed. Space Pirates have banded together to form The Scarlet Pact faction and have started appearing as mission targets.

Missions

• Added new mission customizations to all types to include the new Pirate faction.
• Pirate Captains can now be bounty hunt targets.
• CorpSec Officers that are bounty hunt targets have picked up new tricks.
• Missions that do not target another faction directly have had their rep reward reduced.
• Mission difficulty now has a larger impact on the number and lethality of traps.

Combat

• Added new Pirate enemy types to Ship, Corporate, Lab, Facility and Mine maps.
• Added new unique Pirate combat loot drops.
• Consumables (chems, medkits, etc) can now be used in combat with an improved interface.
• Added additional sounds for Cyberninja and Force Psyker abilities.

Exploration

• Enemies that are intelligent enough and authorized can now open doors to pursue you.
• Ship maps now feature a unique event that allows skilled teams to access different systems of the ship to reveal objectives, enemies, disable traps, and more.
• New event types added for Ships.
• New hot loot items for Ships.

Changes

The Ability Point maximum now caps at 63. Characters with excess points can adjust theirs by visiting the Medbay and resetting your Ability Points.

Based on user feedback, when running missions with less than 3 crawlers, enemy numbers in combat are reduced. Does not affect boss fights or enemy strength. We’d like to hear your feedback on how this mechanic feels!

Easy and Cakewalk missions no longer spawn fewer encounters due to difficulty, but the individual strength of mobs in combat is still reduced.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where using Autosave & Quit from the spacestation ESC menu could fail to update the autosave correctly - thanks samuraipoet!
• Fixed an issue where saving with 1 crawler could cause an issue in the saloon - thanks Lyric!
• Player tabs in explore mode now correctly reflect the current health of the team.
• Fixed an issue where context text boxes could persist into combat.
• Fixed an issue with secret rooms inside some Corp rooms leading into spaaaaace!

Coming Soon…

• Focus On: Facility Maps
• Lexicon - defines game teminology & mechanics for the Learned Crawler.
• New Facility Mobs + Rare Spawns
• More Events, Hot Loot items and Mini Events
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-01-08 20:19:45 CET ] [ Original post ]

Focus on: The Ships & Space Pirates

Happy New Year! Ship maps have been enhanced and improved based on feedback and suggestions. On Ship maps you’ll encounter new enemies, events, hazards, and a variety of ways to get your crew killed. Space Pirates have banded together to form The Scarlet Pact faction and have started appearing as mission targets.

Missions

• Added new mission customizations to all types to include the new Pirate faction.
• Pirate Captains can now be bounty hunt targets.
• CorpSec Officers that are bounty hunt targets have picked up new tricks.
• Missions that do not target another faction directly have had their rep reward reduced.
• Mission difficulty now has a larger impact on the number and lethality of traps.

Combat

• Added new Pirate enemy types to Ship, Corporate, Lab, Facility and Mine maps.
• Added new unique Pirate combat loot drops.
• Consumables (chems, medkits, etc) can now be used in combat with an improved interface.
• Added additional sounds for Cyberninja and Force Psyker abilities.

Exploration

• Enemies that are intelligent enough and authorized can now open doors to pursue you.
• Ship maps now feature a unique event that allows skilled teams to access different systems of the ship to reveal objectives, enemies, disable traps, and more.
• New event types added for Ships.
• New hot loot items for Ships.

Changes

The Ability Point maximum now caps at 63. Characters with excess points can adjust theirs by visiting the Medbay and resetting your Ability Points.

Based on user feedback, when running missions with less than 3 crawlers, enemy numbers in combat are reduced. Does not affect boss fights or enemy strength. We’d like to hear your feedback on how this mechanic feels!

Easy and Cakewalk missions no longer spawn fewer encounters due to difficulty, but the individual strength of mobs in combat is still reduced.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where using Autosave & Quit from the spacestation ESC menu could fail to update the autosave correctly - thanks samuraipoet!
• Fixed an issue where saving with 1 crawler could cause an issue in the saloon - thanks Lyric!
• Player tabs in explore mode now correctly reflect the current health of the team.
• Fixed an issue where context text boxes could persist into combat.
• Fixed an issue with secret rooms inside some Corp rooms leading into spaaaaace!

Coming Soon…

• Focus On: Facility Maps
• Lexicon - defines game teminology & mechanics for the Learned Crawler.
• New Facility Mobs + Rare Spawns
• More Events, Hot Loot items and Mini Events
• More cool stuff!

[ 2016-01-08 20:19:44 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everyone! A quick announcment to say the last patch introduced a pretty nasty bug into the environmental controls onboard the station, resulting in sub-zero temperatures. Until we get a chance to sort it out, please stay warm with some seasonal treats the CorpSec have been spotted with and may be found in some loot containers. Cheers and Happy Holidays! ;D

[ 2015-12-21 22:05:49 CET ] [ Original post ]

Deploying a minipatch with some fixes and improvements. Thank you everyone for your support this year, we'll see you next year with a shipload of new content to kick things off as we move towards release!

Fixes



• Surveyors, Conveyors and Haulers no longer scale to giga proportions in combat
• B.E.E.Fs can no longer scale to giga proportions in combat.
• Fixed an issue with targeting reticule on Ravenous Mites.
• Fixed an issue with autosave trying to save an escort NPC to your party (thanks allanpike!)
• Fixed an issue with the Black Market where Draal might sell a Rare crate containing a Common item. Told you not to trust that guy.
• Fixed an issue with lootable items being generated in the side stairwells of some Facility maps.
• Fixed an issue with glass floating in space in some security checkpoints.

  Class Fixes

  
  
• Fixed an issue with Cyberninja’s Kougeki not dealing damage listed on tooltip.
• Fixed Cyberninja’s Shadowfall ability failing to deal damage on retaliation strikes.
• Fixed an issue with Smuggler’s Mysterious Artifact halting combat if it chose a Void Psyker to empower.
• Fixed an issue with Hacker’s Hotlink virus failing to deal damage occasionally.

  Changes

  
  
• Secret Tunnels in the mines now have contextual cursors to make them a little less secret.
• Added a new event found in the Mines.
• Worm Hatchling Pheromones reset their summon chance and duration when they summon another hatchling.
• Cyberninja’s Kougeki now pierces Armor at Rank 3 instead of costing less Time Units.

[ 2015-12-20 21:08:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

Focus on: The Mines

The Mines have been enhanced and improved based on feedback and suggestions. On Mine maps you’ll encounter new enemies, events, environment obstacles, hazards, and a variety of ways to get your crew killed. We look forward to hearing what you think!

Combat

• Added new enemy types to Mines maps.
• Several existing enemies have evolved new defenses for dealing with intruders.

Exploration

• Enemies that have spotted you are now tracked on the minimap.
• Added new hot loot items to the Mines.
• Added new events to the Mines.
• Added secret tunnels to the Mines. (Sshhh!)
• Added jammed doors to the Mines.

Class Changes

Smuggler’s Slot Machine ability can no longer miss.

The Time Unit cost of Smuggler’s Showdown ability is now 500% weapon Time Unit cost.

Misc

• Enemies that have spotted you are now tracked on the minimap.
• Additional sounds have been added for Hacker, Soldier, Smuggler and Engineer abilities.
• Optimizations made to audio and runtime memory usage.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue Soldier’s Bomblets halting combat (thanks Ardhes!)
• Fixed an issue with Smuggler failing while attempting blackmail (thanks Tinavie!)
• Fixed an issue with some graphics prefs not being applied upon entering a scene.
• Fixed some issues and typos with Corporate terminal events.
• Fixed an issue with Engineer’s Special Delivery not being applied to some constructs.
• Fixed UI issue with character quick-select in shops.
• Fixed several small mesh placement issues in Corp environments (thanks Alexzzz!)

Coming Soon…

• Lexicon - defines game teminology & mechanics for the Learned Crawler.
• New Ship Mobs + Rare Spawns
• More Events, Hot Loot items and Mini Events
• More cool stuff!

[ 2015-12-19 00:28:30 CET ] [ Original post ]

Happy Friday! We've uploaded a bug fix patch based on issues reported by players that also includes new controls to adjust different graphics settings, improvements to escort missions, and a few more items. Have a great weekend!

UI

• The Graphics menu now provides additional options to optimize various settings.
• Enable UI Scaling added to graphics menu. Toggling this on will allow the UI to scale up or down to the resolution you are playing at. Recommended for Big Picture players!
• Crawlers now have access to a flashlight using the F hotkey.
• The UI should now scale better for extremely high-res monitors / Steam Big Picture play.
• Improved objective & exit text for Escort, Objective, Retrieve mission types.
• Discovered objective markers now remain visible on the map until completed.

Audio

• Additional sounds have been added for Void Psyker, Soldier and Hacker abilities.

Missions

• It is no longer possible to reroll random missions by save / loading.
• Quest items no longer have crazy credit values.
• Intentionally failing and selling quest items is no longer possible.
• Escort NPCs have improved abilities and are now considered part of your team temporarily. They can be inspected in the loadout screen, given chems and medkits, and will take damage from traps. They’ve also finally figured out how to make use of their weapons to help out in fights. And get themselves killed.

Changes

• In preparation for upcoming changes to the faction system, Aurora and Horizon no longer offer missions or can be the target of missions.
• New Crawlers start with 100 credits. Spend ‘em wisely.
• The price of recruiting new Crawlers no longer scales with the number you have already recruited but is instead 100 credits + 50 per level of the recruit.
• The cost to revive a mostly-dead Crawler is now 10% of your total credits. If you can’t afford the minimum fee, Lukas Filch will provide the service free of charge...

Class Changes

Force Psykers and Void Psykers are dealing impressive but slightly too much damage in comparison to other classes. We’ll be making further adjustments to all classes abilities over time.

• Force Psykers no longer start every battle with full energy but instead regenerate 5 Force Energy with every step outside of combat. In-combat regen remains unchanged.
• Damage of Force Psyker’s Aegis Strike reduced to 50/75/100% weapon damage and damage increased per bounce reduced to 5/7/10%.
• Damage of Void Psyker’s Shadowcoil reduced to 20/25/30% weapon damage per attack.
• The damage bonus from the passive ability Ascendance for having Void Energy over 100 is now applied correctly and at the end of the Void Pskyer’s turn.
• Cosmic Horror no longer applies a damage amplification effect to victims but instead summons additional tentacles.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where an unlocked Prototype could wander into a new game.
• Fixed an issue with Autosave not appearing in the Load Game menu.
• Fixed an issue with Smuggler’s Fan the Hammers effect not being displayed as a buff.
• Fixed an issue with mouse Y invert not being applied correctly if changed while on a mission.
• Fixed an issue with laser tripbeams not being clickable in some security side-rooms
• Fixed issues with secret rooms sometimes making nearby floor tiles inaccessible
• Black Ice is now properly described as a Hacker construct
• Reporting a blackmail attempt with a Smuggler no longer causes an error if the attempt fails
• Fixed an issue where Mites and some Worm variants received double their intended bonus for damage. Little critters were biting pretty hard.
• Fixed an issue with the camera effect for gas traps sometimes persisting after leaving the gas trap room while gas was still draining.
• Gas traps can no longer lock the room they are triggered in.
• Fixed several instances of black / white walls appearing erroneously. This bug should no longer occur on any map - thanks to everyone who sent it screenshots of this one!

[ 2015-12-05 01:53:46 CET ] [ Original post ]