Hi guys. As most of you are aware by now, we've finally released the 1.0.0.0 version.

Development of this game has been one interesting 7 year adventure for me. First it was a one man part-time (read: night-time) hobby project where the basis for all that is to come was laid out. Then it was a one man full-time mad scientist sort of operation that gave birth to most of the game mechanics seen today. And then lastly, as a three man project during which the amount and quality of the content expanded far beyond my original intentions and even hopes.



(fan-collage by Blaine)

But all this would not have been possible if there was not a deep-seeded desire for this kind of gaming experience, still echoing from the void left by the departure of classical western RPGs, present in you, the players. So, personally and on behalf of the team, I thank you for patiently supporting us throughout the years and I hope that the final product is to your liking.

We'll still be here, supporting the game by ironing out any remaining bugs and applying some more polish here and there. As for what happens next, we'll discuss that when the dust settles. Stay tuned.

Hi guys. As most of you are aware by now, we've finally released the 1.0.0.0 version.

Development of this game has been one interesting 7 year adventure for me. First it was a one man part-time (read: night-time) hobby project where the basis for all that is to come was laid out. Then it was a one man full-time mad scientist sort of operation that gave birth to most of the game mechanics seen today. And then lastly, as a three man project during which the amount and quality of the content expanded far beyond my original intentions and even hopes.



(fan-collage by Blaine)

But all this would not have been possible if there was not a deep-seeded desire for this kind of gaming experience, still echoing from the void left by the departure of classical western RPGs, present in you, the players. So, personally and on behalf of the team, I thank you for patiently supporting us throughout the years and I hope that the final product is to your liking.

We'll still be here, supporting the game by ironing out any remaining bugs and applying some more polish here and there. As for what happens next, we'll discuss that when the dust settles. Stay tuned.

Hi guys. Just a quick update to let you know we're moving release date forward to December 18th. Everything else remains as stated earlier.

Also, we did a much needed new trailer for the release. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-kefd0cFWs

Hi guys. Just a quick update to let you know we're moving release date forward to December 18th. Everything else remains as stated earlier.

Also, we did a much needed new trailer for the release. Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-kefd0cFWs

Hi guys. It is my pleasure to announce that the game has now entered beta stage and will be released in full on December 21st 2015. As before it will be available on Steam and GamersGate, but now also on GOG.



In the following two weeks we will be doing closed beta testing to make sure the game has as few bugs as possible on release.

Also a little heads-up: at some point between now and full release the game's price will be increased from its early access/alpha price to its full price. Those of you who have followed us since the early days know well that the game has since grown in scope and quality far beyond that of the initial release.

Thank you all for being patient with us throughout the years, the long wait is now at an end.

Hi guys. It is my pleasure to announce that the game has now entered beta stage and will be released in full on December 21st 2015. As before it will be available on Steam and GamersGate, but now also on GOG.



In the following two weeks we will be doing closed beta testing to make sure the game has as few bugs as possible on release.

Also a little heads-up: at some point between now and full release the game's price will be increased from its early access/alpha price to its full price. Those of you who have followed us since the early days know well that the game has since grown in scope and quality far beyond that of the initial release.

Thank you all for being patient with us throughout the years, the long wait is now at an end.

Hey guys, since we got back from vacation we've been developing at a rapid pace. The game is mostly done, save for some dialog and certain amount of visual components for the final event. Once that is in, the game will be playable from start to finish.

Parallel to bringing the main story line to the end, we're doing a final pass through all the areas and updating them visually and adding more flavor dialog. Some of early areas were done ages ago and were badly in a need of a rework. The biggest offenders were SGS and Junkyard, which now both got new looks:















Anyway, the game is really close to completion now and we should be entering close beta phase soon, when we might call upon some of the old dedicated fans to help us test it. There won't be any updates for the public version before full release, though, but that isn't that far off now either. Stay tuned.

Hey guys, since we got back from vacation we've been developing at a rapid pace. The game is mostly done, save for some dialog and certain amount of visual components for the final event. Once that is in, the game will be playable from start to finish.

Parallel to bringing the main story line to the end, we're doing a final pass through all the areas and updating them visually and adding more flavor dialog. Some of early areas were done ages ago and were badly in a need of a rework. The biggest offenders were SGS and Junkyard, which now both got new looks:















Anyway, the game is really close to completion now and we should be entering close beta phase soon, when we might call upon some of the old dedicated fans to help us test it. There won't be any updates for the public version before full release, though, but that isn't that far off now either. Stay tuned.

Hey guys, while the rest of the team is working on wrapping up the remaining content (a few obligatory teaser screenshot included below), I took the time to work on some of the last game mechanic stuff to be implemented.







Most importantly, I implemented a noise system so the player will now have to consider more than just visual perception when handling a hostile area. This system works in a simple manner - certain actions, mostly relate to combat, such as firing weapons, grenade explosions, etc now emit a certain level of noise that travels through the map, with walls and other obstacles dampening their propagation (with certain thick walls doing so drastically). This will cause certain weapons - crossbows, knives and silenced pistols (and to lesser extent sledgehammers), will now have an edge over other weapon types when doing a stealth assassination.

In addition to this, a lot of NPCs will now holler for help on their turn if they are not stunned or incapacitated, so it's important to dispose of them quickly and silently if you want to avoid fighting the whole camp.

These changes will undoubtedly make some encounters more difficult so we will go through most problematic of them to make sure they are not too ridiculous.

In other news:

• Mechanics
  
  • Added hard difficulty (less player health, less healing with longer cooldown)
• UI
  
  • Pathfinding estimation during turn based combat no longer show the path once it gets into the undisovered part of the map
    
  • Added an option to automatically overwrite saves
    
  • Numeric pad cannot be used for dialog choices
    
  • You can now properly target items in your action bar, quick bar, weapon and shield switch buttons (e.g. for recharging, reloading, etc)
• Items
  
  Cryogas grenade added
  • Added one more acid type
    
  • Added five new drugs
    
  • Added two new poisons
    
  • Added silencer enhancement that can be added to 5mm pistols and SMGs
    
  • Added Biohazard suit
• Creatures
  
  • Added two new Faceless types
    
  • Added five new creatures
    
  • Added one new turret
• Feats
  
  • Changed Premeditation - Now also requires 6 intelligence.
    
  • Changed Gun Nut - Upper damage bonus changed to 15% (down from 20%).
    
  • Changed Gunslinger - AP reduction changed to 2 (down from 3) and only applies to firearms now.
    
  • Changed Opportunist - Bonuses changed to 25%/15% (down from 35%/20%)
    
  • Changed Recklessness - Critical damage chance bonus changed to 7% (down from 10%)
    
  • Changed Cerebral Trauma - Damage bonus changed to 20% (down from 25%) and psi burn changed to 10% (down from 15%)
    
  • Changed Quick Tinkering - Cooldown changed to 2 turns (down from 3).
    
  • Changed Steadfast Aim - Bonus crit chance per AP cost changed to 0.5% (down from 1%)
    
  • Changed Mental Subversion - It now stacks up to 75% (up from 50%)
    
  • Changed Snipe - Fixed the bug that caused the attack not to do those base 100% of damage in addition to bonus damage and also changed the bonus damage per stealth point to 1.5% (up from 1%). Feat description also now displays exact numbers. Also now requires 30 stealth to obtain.
    
  • Changed Sharpshooter - Damage changed to 30% (down from 50%).
    
  • Changed Special Tactics - Dexterity requirement removed.
    
  • Added Meditation (Continue from Tranquility) - Maximum psi points increased by 25.
    
  • Added Psionic Mania - (Continues from Psychosis) When activated makes your next offensive psi ability an automatic critical hit. Activating this will remove up to 15% of your health, but cannot kill you.
    
  • Added Neural Overclocking - Critical damage bonus of psi abilities increased by 30%.
    
  • Added Psychostatic Electricity - When you damage a target with your electrical psionics you apply a debuff that increases the chance for the target to be critically hit from all sources by 5% for 2 turns. Stacks 5 times.
    
  • Added Telekinetic Undulation - When you damage a living target by moving your telekinetic proxy, there's 50% chance it will be dazed for 1 turn.
    
  • Added Corporeal Projection - All telekinetic damage increased by 5% for each point of strength above 5.
    
  • Added Elemental Bolts - Increases electrical, acid and heat damage of all special bolts by 100%.
    
  • Added Concussive Shots - When you deal mechanical with your crossbow you have 40% chance to daze living targets for 1 turn.
• Tweaks
  
  • Cryokinesis and Pyrokinesis can no longer be launched through fences and other partial obstacles
    
  • Resolve and fortitude base resist chance increased slightly
    
  • Upper Tornado crossbow damage slightly reduced (not retroactive)
    
  • Electrical pistols now only have 50% chance to trigger the stun on the initial target; this might also affect some electrobolts fired by the NPCs as well
    
  • Pistol damage reduced by ~20% across the board
    
  • Stalkers in the passages near SGS no longer respawn
    
  • Psi Empathy feat will now reduce base health points by 25%
    
  • Psi regeneration now scales with will and intelligence: psi regen = 5 + (will+int)/2
    
  • Ranges of a number of psi abilities have been reduced: Bilocation - 7, Cryostasis - 6, Electrokinesis - 8, Frighten - 3, Mental Breakdown - 5, Neural Overload - 6
    
  • Psi costs of a number of psi abilities have been modified (mostly increased): Cryokinesis - 15, Cryokinetic Orb - 40, Cryostasis - 65, Electrokinesis - 35, Exothermic Aura - 40, Forcefield - 25, Mental Breakdown - 60, Neural Overload - 15, Pyrokinesis - 40
    
  • Psi booster cooldown changed to 3 turns (down from 6 turns)
    
  • Metal plates enhancement will now provide less mechanical resistance
    
  • Metal armor mechanical and energy resistance reduced across the board. Threshold remains the same. Not retroactive.
    
  • Reinforced Fabric Ballistic Panel damage resistance reduced slightly
    
  • Execute can no longer be preformed with electrical pistol. I cannot remove the bonus damage from electrobolt jumps easily without rewriting a good chunk of code so I'm just going to ban the electrogun from the club.
    
  • Throwing knives upper damage range reduced
    
  • Blob Pistol shooting sounds changed
    
  • Increased crossbow max range by 2 and optimal range by 1 (not retroactive)
    
  • Daze debuff now also reduces movement points by 30
    
  • Sniper damage increased by ~20% across the board.
    
  • Plasma sentry laser damage increased
    
  • Made energy core and firearm barrels more easily available from merchants
    
  • Armor penalty of boots reduced (not retroactive)
• Bugs
  
  • Spiked boots will no longer double-trigger things like force emission and fancy footwork
    
  • Taser will no longer consume twice the energy
    
  • Taste for blood will no longer grant a stack when killing machines
    
  • Hopefully fixed all achievements to work correctly
    
  • On kill effects will now properly trigger when target is killed by an on hit effect (such as electrical melee weapons, force emission and special bolts)
    
  • Fixed the bug that caused the game to on rare occasions skip the player's turn
    
  • Premeditation no longer increases the range of pyrokinetic stream (that caused it to bug out).
  
  That's all for now. Concerning the content - there's just one "biome" in Deep Caverns to be done before the "final event" in the game, but after that, as I mentioned before, we have to go back and rework some old areas and sprinkle a bit more flavor across the world.
  
  Before we can do that, however, we'll need to recharge our batteries for the next three weeks by ditching our underground coding facilities and getting some Mediterranean sand in our toes (at least in my case). In the meantime, let us know how you like these changes.

Hey guys, while the rest of the team is working on wrapping up the remaining content (a few obligatory teaser screenshot included below), I took the time to work on some of the last game mechanic stuff to be implemented.







Most importantly, I implemented a noise system so the player will now have to consider more than just visual perception when handling a hostile area. This system works in a simple manner - certain actions, mostly relate to combat, such as firing weapons, grenade explosions, etc now emit a certain level of noise that travels through the map, with walls and other obstacles dampening their propagation (with certain thick walls doing so drastically). This will cause certain weapons - crossbows, knives and silenced pistols (and to lesser extent sledgehammers), will now have an edge over other weapon types when doing a stealth assassination.

In addition to this, a lot of NPCs will now holler for help on their turn if they are not stunned or incapacitated, so it's important to dispose of them quickly and silently if you want to avoid fighting the whole camp.

These changes will undoubtedly make some encounters more difficult so we will go through most problematic of them to make sure they are not too ridiculous.

In other news:

• Mechanics
  
  • Added hard difficulty (less player health, less healing with longer cooldown)
• UI
  
  • Pathfinding estimation during turn based combat no longer show the path once it gets into the undisovered part of the map
    
  • Added an option to automatically overwrite saves
    
  • Numeric pad cannot be used for dialog choices
    
  • You can now properly target items in your action bar, quick bar, weapon and shield switch buttons (e.g. for recharging, reloading, etc)
• Items
  
  Cryogas grenade added
  • Added one more acid type
    
  • Added five new drugs
    
  • Added two new poisons
    
  • Added silencer enhancement that can be added to 5mm pistols and SMGs
    
  • Added Biohazard suit
• Creatures
  
  • Added two new Faceless types
    
  • Added five new creatures
    
  • Added one new turret
• Feats
  
  • Changed Premeditation - Now also requires 6 intelligence.
    
  • Changed Gun Nut - Upper damage bonus changed to 15% (down from 20%).
    
  • Changed Gunslinger - AP reduction changed to 2 (down from 3) and only applies to firearms now.
    
  • Changed Opportunist - Bonuses changed to 25%/15% (down from 35%/20%)
    
  • Changed Recklessness - Critical damage chance bonus changed to 7% (down from 10%)
    
  • Changed Cerebral Trauma - Damage bonus changed to 20% (down from 25%) and psi burn changed to 10% (down from 15%)
    
  • Changed Quick Tinkering - Cooldown changed to 2 turns (down from 3).
    
  • Changed Steadfast Aim - Bonus crit chance per AP cost changed to 0.5% (down from 1%)
    
  • Changed Mental Subversion - It now stacks up to 75% (up from 50%)
    
  • Changed Snipe - Fixed the bug that caused the attack not to do those base 100% of damage in addition to bonus damage and also changed the bonus damage per stealth point to 1.5% (up from 1%). Feat description also now displays exact numbers. Also now requires 30 stealth to obtain.
    
  • Changed Sharpshooter - Damage changed to 30% (down from 50%).
    
  • Changed Special Tactics - Dexterity requirement removed.
    
  • Added Meditation (Continue from Tranquility) - Maximum psi points increased by 25.
    
  • Added Psionic Mania - (Continues from Psychosis) When activated makes your next offensive psi ability an automatic critical hit. Activating this will remove up to 15% of your health, but cannot kill you.
    
  • Added Neural Overclocking - Critical damage bonus of psi abilities increased by 30%.
    
  • Added Psychostatic Electricity - When you damage a target with your electrical psionics you apply a debuff that increases the chance for the target to be critically hit from all sources by 5% for 2 turns. Stacks 5 times.
    
  • Added Telekinetic Undulation - When you damage a living target by moving your telekinetic proxy, there's 50% chance it will be dazed for 1 turn.
    
  • Added Corporeal Projection - All telekinetic damage increased by 5% for each point of strength above 5.
    
  • Added Elemental Bolts - Increases electrical, acid and heat damage of all special bolts by 100%.
    
  • Added Concussive Shots - When you deal mechanical with your crossbow you have 40% chance to daze living targets for 1 turn.
• Tweaks
  
  • Cryokinesis and Pyrokinesis can no longer be launched through fences and other partial obstacles
    
  • Resolve and fortitude base resist chance increased slightly
    
  • Upper Tornado crossbow damage slightly reduced (not retroactive)
    
  • Electrical pistols now only have 50% chance to trigger the stun on the initial target; this might also affect some electrobolts fired by the NPCs as well
    
  • Pistol damage reduced by ~20% across the board
    
  • Stalkers in the passages near SGS no longer respawn
    
  • Psi Empathy feat will now reduce base health points by 25%
    
  • Psi regeneration now scales with will and intelligence: psi regen = 5 + (will+int)/2
    
  • Ranges of a number of psi abilities have been reduced: Bilocation - 7, Cryostasis - 6, Electrokinesis - 8, Frighten - 3, Mental Breakdown - 5, Neural Overload - 6
    
  • Psi costs of a number of psi abilities have been modified (mostly increased): Cryokinesis - 15, Cryokinetic Orb - 40, Cryostasis - 65, Electrokinesis - 35, Exothermic Aura - 40, Forcefield - 25, Mental Breakdown - 60, Neural Overload - 15, Pyrokinesis - 40
    
  • Psi booster cooldown changed to 3 turns (down from 6 turns)
    
  • Metal plates enhancement will now provide less mechanical resistance
    
  • Metal armor mechanical and energy resistance reduced across the board. Threshold remains the same. Not retroactive.
    
  • Reinforced Fabric Ballistic Panel damage resistance reduced slightly
    
  • Execute can no longer be preformed with electrical pistol. I cannot remove the bonus damage from electrobolt jumps easily without rewriting a good chunk of code so I'm just going to ban the electrogun from the club.
    
  • Throwing knives upper damage range reduced
    
  • Blob Pistol shooting sounds changed
    
  • Increased crossbow max range by 2 and optimal range by 1 (not retroactive)
    
  • Daze debuff now also reduces movement points by 30
    
  • Sniper damage increased by ~20% across the board.
    
  • Plasma sentry laser damage increased
    
  • Made energy core and firearm barrels more easily available from merchants
    
  • Armor penalty of boots reduced (not retroactive)
• Bugs
  
  • Spiked boots will no longer double-trigger things like force emission and fancy footwork
    
  • Taser will no longer consume twice the energy
    
  • Taste for blood will no longer grant a stack when killing machines
    
  • Hopefully fixed all achievements to work correctly
    
  • On kill effects will now properly trigger when target is killed by an on hit effect (such as electrical melee weapons, force emission and special bolts)
    
  • Fixed the bug that caused the game to on rare occasions skip the player's turn
    
  • Premeditation no longer increases the range of pyrokinetic stream (that caused it to bug out).
  
  That's all for now. Concerning the content - there's just one "biome" in Deep Caverns to be done before the "final event" in the game, but after that, as I mentioned before, we have to go back and rework some old areas and sprinkle a bit more flavor across the world.
  
  Before we can do that, however, we'll need to recharge our batteries for the next three weeks by ditching our underground coding facilities and getting some Mediterranean sand in our toes (at least in my case). In the meantime, let us know how you like these changes.