Hello everyone! The Blood in the Water update is finally ready and coming next week. It introduces a lot of new dangers and customization options to offer suitable challenges for veteran submariners and new players alike. The update also adds new content, even a surprise monster some players may remember from early, pre-Steam builds of the game. Lets take a final look at everything thats coming next week!

Medicine and monsters

• Medical system mini-rework. Rebalanced medical items, a couple of new afflictions, and new use cases for a few items.
• Two new monsters. Were adding two monsters that employ poisons in their attacks: the Viperling, a new Spineling variant and the cave-dwelling Mantis, a monster that used to exist in early Barotrauma builds!
• New attacks for Abyss monsters. The largest monsters in the game are better at targeting characters inside the submarine for added danger.

Diving suit and animation changes

• Diving suit rebalance. Weve rebalanced all suit types for clearer use cases and made changes to reduce the usefulness of a diving suit as round-the-clock equipment. Flooding speed has been reduced slightly to give you more time to react during a hull breach.
• Conditional animations. We added a new animation for walking in a diving suit, as well as a handful of other new special animations. Modders can use this new conditional animation system to create their own custom animations.

Campaign difficulty and respawning improvements

• New campaign difficulty settings. Adjust campaign difficulty to your liking using one of four presets or by fine-tuning various parameters yourself.
• Improvements to the respawning system in multiplayer: Were removing Reapers Tax and replacing it with customizable respawning skill loss, making the skill loss penalties of respawning fully customizable.

Overhauled station events, more wrecks and beacons to explore

• Event system overhaul. Scripted events now play out visually, thanks to volunteer codework submitted by one of our long-time players. Weve also made some additional improvements to events.
• New wrecks and beacon stations, and a new kind of wreck mission.

Our favorite small but handy improvements

• Option to make messages in the text chat show in a speech bubble above the character who is speaking.
• A new order for bot crew members to deconstruct items.
• A highlight system for interacting with loose items on the floor more easily.
• A drop item hotkey to quickly drop any item youre holding.

Key Features

• Command and manage your submarine and its various systems in adrenaline-filled co-operative gameplay.
  
• Play as the captain or any of the 4 other character classes, with up to 16 players per submarine.
  
• Single Player campaign, sandbox mode, and single missions also available.
  
• Procedural levels and events ensure no two games will ever be exactly alike
  
• Each submarine has multiple crew operated systems, from nuclear reactors to sonar, guns, engines and more
  
• Comprehensive crafting system to create tools, drugs and weapons
  
• Navigate dangerous environments to achieve mission goals or simply explore and travel deeper into the game world
  
• Explore alien ruins and wrecked submarines along the way to discover rare and powerful artifacts and other resources
  
• Fully integrated mod tools allow you to create and transform the game via Steam Workshop. Submarine editor, character and procedural animation editor, procedural level editor, sprite and particle editors - unleash your creativity!

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• Processor: 3.0 GHzMemory: 8 MB RAM
• Memory: 8 MB RAM
• Graphics: 256 MB Video Memory. OpenGL 3.0+ supportNetwork: Broadband Internet connection
• Storage: 350 MB available space