Hi everyone! superdupergc and Nonadecimal here with a new batch of content and a 15% off sale! As usual there's been a ton of performance boosts along the way, particularly for high-framerate physics and multiplayer. We're still working on the Act 2 missions and its ~final battle~ atop the Kinetic Temple but we wanted to add more high-level servers to the world while you wait. That starts with The Scar.

The Scar

This month marks 12 years since a catastrophic error cracked the Supermesh, separating founder Rachana Joshi's Kinetic Temple from the rest of the grid. Fearing cascading failures, Quarkus sealed off the afflicted area with a massive firewall in the interest of public safety. The countermeasures proved effective and the integrity of the Supermesh was preserved.
The disaster left deep fissures radiating outward from Quarkus. Sensing opportunity, a number of shell corporations and black market enterprises leveraged the disaster to entrench themselves in Quarkus' shadow. Cloaked in fog and stealth security, they run illicit ops and trade stolen IP. Be careful getting lost in the Scar. It's hard to tell what kind of trouble you'll find in its depths.

Branded Stores

This feature's been a long time coming but we've finally got 5 branded stores ringing the Arcade with unique risk/reward profiles for better build customization. Having trouble looting the right gun to fit your build? You know exactly where to buy it.... but at a cost. Branded items have a pool of guaranteed benefits but also guaranteed penalties to up the challenge. Coincidentally this lets people role spec more easily as tank, sniper, etc... Kalt - health+ / speed- Feisty! - speed+ / damage- Overclock - damage+ / accuracy- Talus - accuracy+ / health- Dysrupt - hack+, loot+ / RAM-

Talent Respecs

One of the most requested features is here! Ouroboros responded to feedback on his OS and added the ability to spend 2 Ouro coins to respec 1 talent point. You get Ouros for completing bounties so get to work. Capitalism isn't going to topple itself!

Green Hill Zone

We've also released the work-in-progress Green Hill Zone near the Helices tower. It's a more open-air vertically layered combat space with lots of occluded sightlines and level 35-45 servers. Please give us feedback on the combat to help shape the area as we finish it! Should be a good place for flying enemies....

Coming Soon

Speaking of flying enemies, we have some .bat files to share with you in the next update. Be seeing you soon!
Enjoy! - SDGC and Nonadecimal

[ 2021-02-11 22:42:20 CET ] [ Original post ]