In the world of Mercenarian, there are several new additions. There are some more environment-related particles. Along with that, I also added some minor details that have a chance to be triggered during your journey, such as the Flower particle and Grass particle. Now, we can even hit the trees and bushes, and a reaction will occur in response.

You can watch this short Devlog to know more about this!

You might notice that at the end of the video, there is a shot of the Main Character smiling.

That's an example shot of the new Cutscene. Yes, I remade the entire story cutscene and the cutscene BGM. You will find that this new story cutscene is more detailed and gives more information about the Mercenary's motivation, and a very simple background.

I remade the story cutscene due to a lot of graphical changes in the game, and a lot of changes too in the world itself. Other than that, the Story cutscene is just too simple and doesn't give a lot of information about the Mercenary. Rather than creating another "slideshow", I put more effort into this one and tried to enhance the quality. Still maintain the "slideshow-like" cutscene, but upgraded with a different approach.

I personally think that this is A LOT better than before! Therefore, I hope that you will enjoy it too in the future!

Lastly, I also did a lot of bug fixing in the game. While doing this and that, I noticed some bugs that can ruin your immersion in the game, but now they are fixed. However, there might be more undetected bugs in the game that I really hope to be fixed, so you guys can gain the best experience when the game is ready!

Why don't you guys tell me what you think I should add for the world?

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The highlight of todays patch is two crash fixes, but there is some general bug-fixes in there too

Bugs:

- Fixed wrong material on gas station.

- Fixed a bug where the handbrake remained engaged when exiting a vehicle without releasing it, forcing the next driver to release it before driving
- Fixed bug where items fell through the carpet in front of the driver's seat due to missing collision

- When attaching winch hook back to winch we reset it like the prompt says
- Fix crash FWasapiDeviceEnumeration::EnumerateDefaults crash that happens when players try to enter the map without a microphone connected

Tweaks:- Added missing (Light Flare) prompt on flares with correct keybind.

- Welding machine now a have max cable length

Features:- Moose can now be cooked
- Added option to disable scene captures (mirrors). Temporary fix to allow some specific cards to run the game (mostly low end). If you are running an intel integrated card this will be enabled by default. Can be turned off in settings

We’ve been hard at work making many updates & improvements to Platypus Reclayed. There are so many it’s hard to know where to start so let’s dive straight into the big one - we navigated the uncharted waters of music licensing successfully and so the oft-requested Ocean Loader music has been added to Platypus Reclayed! 

Ok ok, so that’s the biggest community request sorted but there are more significant changes, such as the official addition of Steam Workshop support and associated modding tools. Our Discord community has been hard at work developing several mods and add-ons. From today they can be easily shared, played and managed via Steam Workshop. We’ve also provided much more functionality, such as Lua support, to allow modders to get more creative going forwards.

Do you want more Platypus levels? We can fix that! We’re giving away free bonus DLC to celebrate spooky season with ‘Spooky Platypus’ and you’ll soon find our free Desert mod and other mod concepts of our own on Steam Workshop. Along with community mods, we hope this will keep you returning to Platypus Reclayed for many a year to come.

Patch #2 also brings a whole bunch of quality of life features requested by our community including scoreboard filtered by difficulty, multiple user profiles, 7 new music tracks, music selector for the primary Reclayed mod, streamer-safe music options, revamped options menu, two new galleries including fan art and the National Video Game Museum feature on Platypus, and much more.

Oh and… Steam Trading Cards are now live in the ecosystem!

Download the update, share with your friends, and check mods out on Steam Workshop today!

DLC and Modding

• Official free DLC, Spooky Platypus, can you defeat death!?

• Steam workshop tool - turn on ‘tools’ in the library listing and install from there.

• Steam workshop support - subscribe to mods and they'll appear in the game.

• A new mod selection screen that lets you pick mods and add-ons. 

• Content highlighting system to indicate when there are new mods to play.

• Players can now decide whether or not to disable achievements when using mods.

• Example starter mods and addons for Steam Workshop.

• Customise entity behaviours with Lua scripting.

Music

• Platypus Reclayed music selector - customise your music choices selecting from 21 tracks.

• 7 additional music tracks including community favourite Ocean Loader 4.

• Streamer safe music option, swaps out known copyrighted tracks when streaming Platypus Reclayed.

User Interface

• New Save profiles! On start up you can now select from 1 of 3 profiles to keep your scores separate.

• New high scores filtering by difficulty.

• New options screens with joystick dead-zone support.

• Improved Pause menu.

• Confirmation dialogs when restarting and quitting.

• New Gallery Panel featuring Fan Art and photos from the National Videogame Museum.

• Many many bug fixes and balancing tweaks.

Steam eco system

• Steam trading cards are now available to collect and trade.

• Quit and restart now have a confirmation panel,

• Notification panel dynamically resizes to better fit all location text,

• Updated the icon that indicates achievements are off,

• No longer consume fireballs when charging,

• Fix nudge and dink sounds happening when something deals 0 damage,

• Removed invisible 0.25 multiplier addition when using BasicGuns,

• Always spawn fireballs when consumed,

• Added skySprite level parameter,

• Added print command,

• Add missing setFighterScript to documentation,

• Simplify and remove hardcoded default for groundSprite,

• Updated localisation,

• Updated Rewired plugins,

• Added spawnEntityRandom command,

• Centered the main logos,

• Remember last applied resolution, use it when going full screen,

• Implement a backup system for save files,

• Added graphics option menu,

• Added mouse guidance image on level start with option to permanently hide,

• Implement CustomBalloonBehaviour,

• Fix a wrongly labeled cheat option: "Weapon Increment" is now "Reload Mods",

• Added CustomSafeBalloonBehaviour,

• Added an example fire turret,

• Don't allow mods to be reloaded while the game is paused,

• Added fireSFX to ReclayedTurretBehaviour,

• Fix ReclayedTurrets sometimes disconnecting from their shadows,

• Tweaks to Level 5 enemy spawns,

• Added shield count and score multiplier to ship panel stats,

• Added some better UI icons for the player keys with mouse,

• Options panel split up into sub pages

• Options panel now has mouse only buttons for easy options cycling

• Fix an issue that made the fireball deal way less damage

• Enabled score text for mounted guns

• Upgraded Unity version to mitigate Unity's security vulnerability

• Added "firstShotDelay" to Octopus weapons

• Added waitForDayAmount commands

• Replaced level 3 music with Ocean Loader 4

• Rework entity explosion offsets to be configurable, explosionX and explosionY added to all entities using explosions

• Allow importLevel command to insert directly into the command handler

• Added support for subCommand handlers

• Updated icons for check boxes and left right arrows

• Changed score difficulties on classic's starting score table

• Added Moonsharp to allow for Lua scripting support

• Added system to load lua behaviours from disk

• Expose a few proxies to the lua environment

• Added LuaBehaviour to interface with a Lua script

• Rewrite SaucerBehaviour in lua as an example

• Added example lua files to "Platypus Original"

• More fruit for purple un in 2-4

• Looping/cut-off cloud fixes

• Added support for enum definitions to Lua integration

• Allow use of the "X" level in classic

• Added example level files for command handlers

• Make it possible to spawn entities in lua

• Pause menu, main menu and practise screens will now last selected button when returning from other panels

• Updated the lives bar to look more like clay

• New combined mods and add-ons menu

• Added isOfficial flag to ModMeta

• Added a Claymatic icon to all official mods

• Give homingShipBehaviour a minimum of 500 ticks before it can despawn

• Users can decide if they want achievements active or not with the mods they're using

• Allow users to filter scoreboards based on selected difficulty

• Steam workshop integration

• Reclayed Music selection screen

• Implemented multiple save profiles

• Added icon and flag to indicate if a mod comes from the steam workshop

• Added systems to deal with unread messages and new content

• Added a copyright symbol for track names to indicate those which are not safe to live stream and option to remove them from the playlist

• Fix for front end “Press fire to start” prompt sometimes ignoring inputs

• Added fall back tracks to known copyrighted tracks (Platypus Original)

• Some scoring adjustments at the suggestion of Psychosquid

• 6 new music tracks added to the Reclayed music selector

• Difficulty sprite no longer looks squished on the classic new highscore panel

• Do not store last player ship selection in endless mode

1. ​Control Optimization​

   • Fixed an issue where controller aim movement speed was too slow at low frame rates, improving aiming smoothness.

   • Resolved occasional delays or disappearance of confirmation buttons on level completion, victory, and failure screens, ensuring stable interface interaction.

2. ​Display & Animation​

   • Fixed incorrect text animation displays, enhancing visual effects for story and prompt texts.

1. ​Early-Game Optimization​

   • Adjusted values of some early-game books to help players progress more smoothly.

   • Balanced the effects and strength of certain spells to improve combat fairness.

1. ​MOD Guide Updates​

   • Added a reminder: Excessively large MOD cover images may cause upload failures; please optimize image sizes.

2. ​Developer Tools Improvement​

   • Optimized configuration file annotations to help MOD creators better understand table fields, reducing modification barriers.

Thank you for your support! We will continue to refine the game experience.

Previously, items were more specialized, aimed at improving one or a couple of attributes. With this update, items now contain a wide range of modifiers that can be useful not only in different situations but also for a wider range of abilities.

For example, the “Voodoo” upgrade increased damage at long range which narrowed the possible use cases. Now, in addition to increased damage at range, all abilities with fire or physical damage receive bonuses.

Most items have been rebalanced in one way or another. Some have added new modifiers, some have changed in rarity, and some have changed drastically. For example, the evolution 'Flame'.

And of course, there are new items. This update contains 27 of them!

• 15 evolution

• 3 passive

• 8 upgrade

• 1 active

We continue to improve the interface for better comfort and readability. Health bars for allies and enemies now have different colors. In addition, damage values are now displayed as pop-up numbers above the characters' heads.

For greater clarity, icons have now been added to the ability descriptions ːsteamhappyː

We're waiting for you in the game. Please tell us what you think of this update. See you soon!

Handsome Rebels, good evening! Happy Halloween!! This update brings new harem stories, gameplay improvements, and special holiday gifts 🎃

• A free dynamic wallpaper of Faith has been added to the free DLC pack!

• Based on player feedback, we added the new “Linker–Tactical Plan Binding” system.
  Linkers and their decks are now tied to Tactical Plans instead of characters.
  You can adjust Linkers directly within your Tactical Plan—remember to save!

• Added protagonist name change option (bottom-left corner of the menu).

  

• You can now disable the “skip story confirmation” pop-up.

• Fixed typos in tutorial text.

• Buff Adjustments:

  • “Weakness” → renamed to “Fatigue” (reduces damage by 10% per stack, no longer auto-decreases).

  • “Thunderstrike” → renamed to “Armor Break” (increases damage taken by 50%, decreases over turns).

• Important: Optimized the performance system and fixed portrait shaking when skipping scenes too fast.

• Chapter 1 remake text complete; Chapters 2–5 under revision. Please be patient!🙏

• To make up for the delay, we’ve added extra Linker events and early StarDream affection episodes.

• Includes new harem endings for certain Linkers!

• New multi-stage affection stories: Xihe, Lilina, Frey, Freya, Hades, Thanatos, and Hestia.

  

• Expanded and revised stories for: Hades, Thanatos, Artemis.

• Cardano’s idle and interaction voice changed to human vocals.

• Fixed Cardano’s Japanese voice issue in affection scenes.

• Fixed Xiaoshen’s side story voice issue (“Beef Rice or Ramen”).

• Optimized weapon textures for Frey and Grimnir.

• Remade the “Victory” UI visuals, older UIs will be updated next.

Roguelike mode is in development! Interface nearly complete, estimated release: February 2026.

After months of work, the story editor is almost done! Beta starts next week.
Players can create custom stories, import CGs, backgrounds, voices, and branching choices with live preview.

*Translation for new storylines will be delayed. Updates released via the Creative Workshop will include basic localization handled by our internal team.

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