Hello everyone! Now that spring is slowly thawing the land (and the bones of our dev team), its soon time for Barotraumas first update of the year. The update is currently being tested by our team, and you can also start test driving it now and give us feedback before its released! Theres an important new feature coming in this update which we would be happy to hear your thoughts on: The Reserve bench feature allows you to hire bots as backup crew members, who only spawn when needed, for example after a player death in the permadeath mode. You can also use the reserve bench outside of permadeath, for example to keep a skilled engineer handy, just in case your current one meets an untimely end. There are also other content additions coming more about these a little later! In the fixes and improvements department, here are some of our favorites:

• Fixes to syncing issues in multiplayer combat, greatly reducing the amount of desync and rubberbanding.
• A long list of improvements and bugfixes to bot AI. Addressing issues with ladders, stealing, being set on fire, targeting and more!
• Various optimizations

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!

• OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Processor: 2.0 GHzMemory: 4 MB RAM
• Memory: 4 MB RAM
• Graphics: 128 MB Video Memory. OpenGL 3.0+ support
• Storage: 350 MB available space

• OS: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• 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