Psst, you. Yes, you. Move 3 steps to the right and act natural. Secret Agent Joe as a special training mission for you. Can you handle it? He's willing to provide you with a Black Combo Card if you do. This message will self-destruct on August 15th. More info is below.

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Event Dates: Thursday, July 11th, After Maintenance - Thursday, August 15th, Before Maintenance

• During the event, you will receive the guide quest, [Guide] Black Combo Card.
• Talk to a particularly inconspicuous Special Agent Joe in the Dunbarton Town Square.
• Register a main character with Special Agent Joe.
• You can only register one character per account.
• You will receive the following rewards after completing [Guide] Black Combo Card:
  • 5,000 EXP
  • Incomplete Black Combo Card
  • Black Combo Card Special Mission Pass
• The event resets daily at 7:00 AM PDT.
• When the event ends, all event quests and event items will be deleted (Incomplete Black Combo Card, Special Agent Joe's Special Training Mission Pass, Skill Combo Card Fragments and Skill Black Combo Card Exchange Coupons).
  • Note: All Skill Combo Card Fragments and Skill Black Combo Card Exchange Coupons registered in the Auction House will be deleted. Please collect all proceeds from sales before the maintenance. Unreceived sales proceeds will not be recovered and instead donated to pay for Ferghus' blacksmithing classes.

• You will receive the daily quest, [Event] Black Combo Card Special Mission.
  • You will receive the following rewards after completing the quest:
    • 20,000 EXP
    • Black Combo Card Special Mission Pass x2
• Use the Black Combo Card Special Mission Pass and complete the mission. To enter the mission, right-click "Use" on the pass.
  • You are able to choose the difficulty level for the mission.
    
    • Beginner is about the same as the Hard Shadow Missions.
    • Normal is about the same as the Elite Shadow Missions.
    • Advanced is as hard as Tech Duinn Missions.
• You can earn a maximum of 90 Black Combo Card Points per day.
  • You will earn 30 Black Combo Card Points for clearing 1 mission, regardless of difficulty level.
• You can enter this mission 5 times a day.
  
  • Entering the mission will count towards the limit, regardless if you succeed or fail the mission.
• You can complete this mission with a party of up to 4 people.
  • Our intel recommends entering with a full party of 4 to maximize your chance at success.
• When completing this mission, you will receive EXP, Gold, and a Treasure Chest Key depending on the difficulty level.
  
  • The treasure chest will grant a random potion, leather/silk/fabric, and Skill Combo Card Fragment of a Talent.
  • The higher the difficulty of the mission, the more Skill Combo Card Fragments and Skill Combo Card Exchange Coupons you will receive.
    
    • Combine 10 Skill Combo Card Fragments of the same Talent to receive a Skill Black Combo Card Exchange Coupon for that talent.
  • The mission consists of 5 waves of Caravan Joe and his cousins... we think. This intel we've been told is unconfirmed.

• After participating in Special Agent Joe's Special Training Mission once for the day, the Dispatch Commission option will become available.
• Exchange one Special Agent Joe's Special Training Mission Pass and 300,000 Gold to receive the rewards from Advanced difficulty immediately, and 30 Combo Points (up to the limit of 90 points per day).
• The daily Event Mission entry count will be reduced by 1, and cannot exceed the daily mission limit of 5 missions per day.
• You will not receive EXP or Gold for completing with a Dispatch Commission.

• By completing Special Agent Joe's Special Training Missions, you can receive 30 Combo points, up to 90 Combo points per day.
• Combo points can be used to modify the Incomplete Black Combo Card.
• Right-click "Use" on the Incomplete Black Combo Card in your inventory, then click Customize Combo Card.
  
  • Select a Slot Number of the Incomplete Black Combo Card and choose to change the skill, or unlock the slot.
  • **NEW** You can use 90 Combo points and a [Talent] Skill Black Combo Card Exchange Coupon to change one skill of the Incomplete Black Combo Card to a skill of your choice.
  • You can use 60 Combo points to unlock a new skill on the selected Slot Number.
    
    • Note: Slots must be unlocked in order from Slot Number 4 to Slot Number 6.
  • You can click on Bonus Reset for Slots 2 through 6, and reset the bonus value of the Slot using 30 Combo points.
    • The Bonus Reset Value is determined by different probabilities within the parameters of each slot:
      • Slot 2: 0~10%
      • Slot 3: 0~12%
      • Slot 4: 0~15%
      • Slot 5: 0~20%
      • Slot 6: 0~30%
  • **NEW** Alternatively, clicking on Fixed Bonus Change will apply a fixed value to your combo card slot with the payment of 90 Combo Points and a small sum of 1,000,000 Gold.
    • The Fixed Bonus Value is based on the chosen slot:
      • Slot 2: +8%
      • Slot 3: +10%
      • Slot 4: +12%
      • Slot 5: +16%
      • Slot 6: +24%
• When you are satisfied with the Black Combo Card, click on Complete Combo Card to receive the Black Combo Card in your Combo Card menu.
  
  • Do not complete the card until you are 100% confident that the skills are finalized.
  • Completing the Combo Card is NOT reversible. Even if you complete the card by mistake, you will be unable to reverse that decision.
  • Only one Black Combo Card can be completed during the event period.
• The Black Combo Card will expire in 30 days, but can be extended or made permanent using the Permanent Combo Card Coupon item.
• Once you have completed the card, you can no longer edit it.
• Similar to normal Combo Cards, you can customize it using Advancement Badges.
• Here is a list of skills you can receive for the Black Combo Card:

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There's a heat frenzy hitting Erinn and there's only one cure - the Summer Master Plan Event! Join in this year's summer Boot Camp that's sure to be sizzling! Enroll with the Mercenaries and train like never before. Curious to see what benefits this camp has to offer? Mercenary Liaison Cineraria has the details or check out more below!

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Event Dates: Thursday, July 11th, After Maintenance - Thursday, September 12th, Before Maintenance

• During the event period, you will receive the quest, [Guide] Calling All Mercenaries!
• Find Mercenary Liaison Cineraria in Dunbarton near the Upgrade Anvil.
• Talk to Cineraria to learn more about the program and to complete the quest.
• You will receive the following rewards after completing [Guide] Calling All Mercenaries!:
  • 5,000 EXP
  • Access to the Mercenary Training Guide.
    • View your play records during the event period, available benefits, and even move to the NPC Specialists.
    
  • You’ll receive the quest [Guide] Ready for Action.
  • Talk to Cineraria again to register a main character for the event.
    • You can only register one character per account.
  • The main character will have access to the following benefits:
    • Master Plan Inventory
    • Pet Rental
    • Weekly Quests
  • You will receive the following rewards after completing [Guide] Ready for Action:
    • 5,000 EXP
    • Cineraria’s Brawn-ic TonicDrink this to increase your stats for the duration of the event:
      • Defense +10
      • Protection +5
      • Magic Defense +10
      • Magic Protection +5
      • HP +500
      • MP +500
      • Stamina +500

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• After getting registered, you’ll receive the quest [Guide] Boot Camp Benefits.
  • You will receive the following rewards after completion:
    • 5,000 EXP
• Talk to Mercenary Liaison Cineraria in Dunbarton to learn more about the Pet Rental Program.
  • You can rent a Level 200 Ceraunus.
  • You can only rent one Ceraunus per account.
  • The rental pet does not have an inventory and expires once the event has ended after September 12th.
  • The pet whistle will be removed at the end of the event if it has not been used.
• Talk to Mercenary Liaison Cineraria in Dunbarton to learn more about the Master Plan Inventory Rental Service.
  • You will be able to use the Master Plan Inventory, which has a 15x10 inventory size for the duration of the event.
  • The Master Plan Inventory is accessible by clicking on the Master Plan Inventory bag icon in the top-right of your main inventory window.
  • Once the event ends, the inventory space will be locked. No items can be put into the bag, but all items can be retrieved at your leisure.
• Talk to Mercenary Liaison Cineraria in Dunbarton to learn more about the Weapon Rental Program.
  • You can rent a pre-enchanted, pre-upgraded, and pre-reforged (Rank 1) weapon of your preferred talent.
  • The rental service is free; however, you can only rent one weapon at a time.
  • To rent a different weapon, destroy your current rental weapon, then talk to Mercenary Liaison Cineraria to request a different weapon to rent.
  • Rental weapons can only be used during the event period and will be removed once the event ends.

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• During the entire event period, the following benefits will be active:
  • 100% Free Repair Fee
  • Free Hero Talent Rebirth
  • Free Premium Dressing Room Features
  • Tech Duinn Reward Limit increased to 20 per week.
  • Crom Bas Reward Limit increased to 12 per week.
  • Glenn Berna Reward Limit increased to 4 per week.
  • Lord Mission Reward Limit increased to 5 per day.
  • Alban Knights Training Mission Reward Limit increased to 5 per day.
• During Hot Time Weekends (Saturday, Sunday, Monday), the following benefits will be active:
  • Echostone Advancement Success Rate +10%
  • Special Upgrade Success Rate +5%
  • Enchant Success Rate +10%
  • Alchemy Success Rate +10%
  • Production Success Rate +10%
  • Stardust Level Increase Success Rate +5%
  • Signet Enhancement Success Rate +5%

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• Each week during the event, you’ll select a member of the Mercenary Training Group to receive aid from and improve your expertise for the week.
  • For the finale week, you will receive the benefits and support from all the scouts.
  • Only the main character can receive the Combat Support Box
• You will receive the weekly quest, [Guide] Strength for the Week.
  • Once you choose a mercenary, you cannot select a new mercenary until the weekly reset on Thursdays at 7:00 AM PDT.
    • Alternatively, you may also use a Summer Boot Camp Course Change Coupon to bypass the reset.
• You will receive [Event] The Weekly Warrior as well as the [Event] Mercenary’s Training quest depending on the mercenary you choose.
  • [Event] Weekly Warrior quest will require you to log in each day for rewards.
  • [Event] Mercenary’s Training will require you to complete different training objectives for rewards.
  • When each quest is completed, you’ll receive Summergold x40

• Note: All items listed above (except Gold Grandmaster Certificate) expire within 15 days.
  • *The Combat Buff Support Box and Pet Rebirth Point Potion (Event) expire every Thursday at 7:00 AM PDT.
• Open the Combat Buff Support Box to receive the following items to assist you in your training:
  • Special Combat Potion
    • Grants the following stats for the remainder of the week:
      • Max Damage +5
      • Magic Attack +10
      • Critical +3%
  • Any Pass Selection Box
    • Choose between the following:
      • Unrestricted Dungeon Pass
      • Unlimited Shadow Mission Pass
      • Unlimited Veteran Fomor Pass
      • Abyss Advanced Dungeon Pass Selection Box
      • Baltane Elite Mission Pass Selection Box
      • Mag Mell Hard Mission Pass Selection Box
      • Rabbie Phantasm Dungeon Pass
      • Tech Duinn Mission Additional Entry Pass
      • Crom Bas Reward Key Coupon
    • Passes/Keys expire after 7 days; Boxes Expire in 12 hours
  • Speed Walk Potion 40% (30 min) x5
  • Potent Finest Shadow Mission Crystal x3
  • All items expire within 7 days.

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Event Dates: Thursday, September 5th, After Maintenance - Thursday, September 12th, Before Maintenance

The last week will have you putting all your training into overdrive for one last push in the boot camp program!

• During the finale week, all event benefits from the mercenaries will be available.
  • The following items will only be given to the main character:
    • Combat Buff Support Box
• During the finale week, you will receive the quests [Event] Cineraria’s Final Training and [Event] The Capstone Course.
  • Complete the requirements listed on the quest scroll to receive Summergold x40 as well as the following rewards:

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• Log in during the Masterplan event period to receive the Reunited Milletian 1st Title Coupon reward.
• Claim the item from the Hotday menu to receive it on your current character or choose Claim Later if you wish to receive the reward on another character.
• The item cannot be moved between characters through the bank.
• You can only claim the item from the Hotday menu once during the event period.
• Reunited Milletian 1st Title
  • Max Dmg +10
  • STR +5
  • INT +5
  • DEX +5
  • WILL +5
  • LUCK +5
  • Movement Speed +1%
  • 2x All Skill Training EXP
  • 2x EXP for missions and dungeon (1.5x EXP for party members)
  • Note: The title and title coupons will be removed when the event ends.

• Log in during the event period to receive a Rebirth Potion and Summergold x10.
  • During Week 1, Week 5, and Week 9, you’ll receive an extra Summergold x10!
• You can only claim the item from the Hotday Menu once each week.
• Rebirth Potions expire after 7 days.
• Each week resets on Thursdays at 7:00 AM PDT.

• Log in every Saturday and Sunday during the event period to receive various rewards!
• Claim the item from the Hotday Menu to receive it on your current character or choose “Claim Later” if you wish to receive the reward on another character.
• You can only claim the item from the Hotday Menu once each week.
• Items expire in 30 days and are untradeable unless otherwise stated.

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Training and hard work pays off! Ssslide on over to the Mercenary’s Boot Camp Bazaar where these wonderful goods are sure to be ssspectacular.

• 
  Note: All Daily Limit Items reset at 7:00 AM PDT; All Weekly Limit Items reset on Thursday at 7:00 AM PDT.

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With multiple divine beasts appearing throughout Uladh, Etain and Eirawen make a secret pact to overcome the crisis by working together and recruiting the Milletian and four mercenaries to handle the new threat.

• Generation 26 - Winds of Fate - Part 1 has been added.
  • Players who have completed Generation 25 will automatically receive the quest When Fate Comes Knocking.
  • Players who have not completed Generation 25, but have reached at least Level 5,000 will receive a window notification that the storyline is available to start if they so choose.
    • You may start the storyline by clicking the “Start G26 Winds of Fate” button in the Storyline Menu.
• Voice acting (Korean) has been added to all characters in the story.
• You can adjust the volume of the voices through the options menu by going to the following:
  • Options -> System -> Sound -> Voice Volume

Enchant Naming

• Enchant Scrolls will now display the name of the enchant in its name.
• The Auction House search function has been updated to allow you to search by the enchant name.
  

Case-Sensitive Closed

• Searches within the Auction House and Traveler's Guide are no longer case-sensitive!

NPC Chat Log

• The Chat Log now has a dedicated tab for NPC Chat.
• All conversations that appear in the NPC Conversation window will appear in the chat log.

Durability Indicator

• A new window will appear when the durability of your equipped item is close to breaking.
  • Above 20%, the indicator will display normally.
  • At under 20%, the indicator will display Yellow.
  • At 0% durability, the indicator will display Red.
• The indicator will appear when you have any items equipped in your gear tab.
  • You can disable the indicator in the settings by going to:
    • Options → Game → Etc. → Hide Durability Alert

Forgetful Potions

• All Special Forgetful Potions will be renamed to “Forgetful Potion”.
• All Forgetful and Special Forgetful Potions now reset every day at 7:00 AM PDT.
• The timer of any Forgetful and Special Forgetful potions currently on cooldown will reset with the upcoming maintenance to accommodate the change.

Inventory Identifier

• Improvements to the UI have been made so it can be easier to see which inventory space belongs to a bag.
  • Hovering over a bag will darken the inventory that the bag belongs to.
  • Hovering over an item name in the "Inventory Magnifying Glass" will darken the inventory space that item is in.

Erinn Essence

• When using a title coupon obtained from Erinn Spirit that has already been collected, you will now receive Erinn Essence, which can be traded in with Eavan at Dunbarton for a title coupon you may not yet have. The following list of 2nd Title Coupons are available for purchase:

Gold Limit Expansion

• The Gold Bank Limit has been increased to 30 Billion gold.
• First 10 Characters on the account will now increase the bank storage by 30 Million) gold.
• The 11th Character and onward will now increase the bank storage by 15 Million gold.
• An Active Life VIP or Combination VIP Membership will now increase the deposit limit by 600 Million gold.
• The Auction House/Tara Auction Gold Limit has been increased to 30 Billion gold.
• The design of the Bank Checks have been improved to accommodate the new limits.
• The Check withdrawal amount from the Bank has been increased from 10 million to 30 Million gold for Milletians without Life VIP or Combination VIP Service.
• The Check withdrawal amount from the Bank has been increased from 60 million to 100 Million gold for Milletians with Life VIP and Combination VIP Service.
• The Remote Check-Issuing Ticket (100 Million), which can be obtained from the Erinn Merchants’ Guild Souvenir Box, has been increased to 300 Million.
• Both the title and description of the item have been updated to reflect this.
• New Bank Limit Expansion Coupons have been added to the Cash Shop:
• Bank Limit Expansion Coupon (300 Million)
• Bank Limit Expansion Coupon (500 Million)
• When hovering over the [Limits] field in the Bank Tab UI, a new tool tip will be displayed with detailed information on how to increase the limit of your bank’s gold limit.

Other Changes

• Additional UI has been added to help prevent trade items from being lost during commerce.
• Extra info has been added to the fossil mini-game to clarify how to do a better job at excavating those bones.
• Food will list whether they can be used as a Catering Ingredient or not once the character has learned Catering.

Curious to know what else was added? Be sure to check out the full patch notes!

Make a splash with this exciting comeback!



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Congratulations to EtaN, winner of Tournament XXVIII!

Perhaps more than any other player, EtaN excels at exploiting the smallest of margins to pile up big victories. Always managing to be a tiny bit faster, a fraction more efficient, or a hairsbreadth more accurate. The gaps are small, but added together they widen the gap between champion and contender.



EtaN's cannon finding the skillgap in Hallrassy's base to devastating effect

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In second, Der Benzinpreisvergleicher relentlessly fought for map control in every single game. The state of the match reflected in the size of their ever expanding bases. It's an exhausting style of play that carried them all the way to the finals.


Der Benzin methodically taking control of a mortar matchup vs Helicopter

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And in 3rd place, Dranistian once again demonstrated their versatility. Selecting one of the widest assortment of commanders and strategies out of any competitor. Seep missiles, Hurricane mortars, Scattershot 20mm, Firebird rockets, just to name a few.


Dranistian leveraging Seep warheads

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• EtaN

• Der Benzinpreisvergleicher

• Dranistian

Tournament XXVIII Bracket


Thank you to hosts and casters Project Incursus, Salzwerk, Fortfighter, and Nikita

Tournament replays will soon be available in the Featured tab of the Replays menu in-game, and tournament videos are available below.

English casts with Incursus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY0rPdZAkIk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsc91rJUdUE


German cast with Salzwerk and Fortfighter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmHPQWqaMm0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgsPQNdLHiA

Russian cast with Nikita
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvU2hIeZTg8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsokTIwX38I


If you haven't already, join our Forts Official Discord server to connect with other players, share strategies, create maps/mods, and receive advance notice of upcoming events.



Cheers,
EWG

Due to a lot of text changes that needed to be translated for our Chinese audience, Weeks 2 and 3 were rolled into one patch, and then still delayed a bit (it was a LOT of text). But, it has just been launched for everyone! There's too many patch notes to have in full here, so I'll just paste the features and link the rest.

FULL PATCH NOTES HERE

A new Dynamic Keywords system has been implemented! Keywords will now appear in Orange text throughout the game, and when Orange text is present, a Dictionary will appear near your character portrait. You can click on it, or summon it with the Up key. When multiple keywords are present you can navigate left and right between the pages.

Added a tab to the Items section of the Compendium for Special Consumables (ones not available in Shops, such as Event rewards)

Special 'Guarantee' Reroll mechanics are now visible - when spending SP on a roll while having 3 or more unique units, and not hitting any duplicates, the next roll visibly becomes a Power Roll, which guarantees a duplicate.

"Mana Required to Cast" has been renamed Cost Reduction, and now has a visual element shown on the mana bar as a white buffer at the end of the bar, indicating the Unit "always has that mana available"

The Run Modifiers page in the start of run process has been removed - this functionality was already present in the Unlocks screen by enabling and disabling unlocks, and we removed the need for all Run Modifiers to be enabled for challenge climb, so the Run Modifiers screen wasn't serving a strong purpose any more. All of your enabled or disabled Run Modifiers from before the update should still be reflected in the Unlocks page, either being enabled or disabled based on your previous preferences.

The old Quick Start (skip Training Yard) functionality is now a checkbox in the start of run process and can be enabled and disabled at will.

The Quick Start button on the main menu has been replaced with Instant Start, which jumps you immediately to a new run without needing to go through the start of run screens. You can customize how you would like your Instant Start button to operate (character settings, difficulty settings, and whether or not to skip the Training Yard) in the gameplay options.

Added a new gameplay option for Trait Side panel behavior - being able to set it as 'permanently hovered', never collapsing into just the icon.

Run History changes: Modifiers are no longer shown, replaced with just the Difficulty played on. Removed the massive scroll bar with one button for every entry in favor of just the most recent 5 being quickly loadable with a button, and a dropdown that covers all the others. The dropdown will now not load any run histories that are in the incorrect format from before March. The dropdown is date-sorted by most recent.

When viewing Run History from the End of Run screen, it no longer tries to load the run from the saved file (which may still be in the process of saving) and instead loads from a cached version in memory, which will prevent that screen from accidentally loading the wrong run. When viewing from End of Run, you can no longer load other runs (this is only loaded in the Main Menu's version for better performance).

Attention Survivors,

2024-7-10 8:30A.M. CEST Update:
The maintenance for July 10th has been completed. Thank you for your patience throughout.
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We're going to perform a regular maintenance today, July 10th 2024, at 4:00 A.M. CEST. All servers during this period will be unavailable and we are anticipating the maintenance to conclude at around 8:30 A.M. CEST. Please refer below for more details on the maintenance.

• Wednesday, July 10th, 2024
  
• SEA (UTC+7): 9:00 A.M. – 1:30 P.M.
  
• CEST: 4:00 A.M. – 8:30 A.M.
  
• ET: 9th, 10:00 P.M. – 10th, 02:30 A.M.
  
• PT: 9th, 7:00 P.M. – 9th, 11:30 P.M.
  
• Note: Please note that the estimated length of time for each maintenance is subject to change without notification.

• New Content & Events.

Thank you for your understanding and support in advance.

- The CSN:S Team

Add winner data.

Our fully ray-traced renderer has been completely redone.
The structure has also been tweaked to take into account AMD's limitations and a driver bug, in a way that we can run in a degraded mode while still fully playable.
The performance of this new renderer is better overall, but we've taken advantage of that to slightly increase the rendering fidelity.
Underwater performance and quality should be significantly better.
The new structure also allow the renderer itself to be moddable.

What's changed in the renderer:

• Refactored to be modular, adding ability for new modules to add their own hit shaders or to change the default renderer without changing all hit shaders
  
• New algorithm using a single recursion so as to support AMD driver on Windows and allow for simpler hit shaders
  
• Removed old unused buffers and images to improve performance and VRAM usage
  
• Greatly improved underwater visual realism with ray-marched volumetric fog instead of a simple falloff curve
  
• Added a new graphics option for Underwater Volumetric Fog, enabled by default with preset Low+ but disabled for AMD
  
• Added a new graphics option for Underwater Light Rays (extending Underwater Volumetric Fog), enabled with the High and Ultra Quality presets
  
• Tweaked glass refraction so it's a little bit less cumbersome and less prone to visual artifacts
  
• Fixed underwater screens (was not taking the water's tint)
  
• Fixed plasma was not visible underwater

• Ray-tracing Performance is lower than on NVIDIA (we recommed a RX 7800 or 7900 XT)
  
• FSR2 is less powerfull than DLSS, causing more ghosting and blurryness (will update to FSR3 soon)
  
• Graphics options "Underwater Volumetric Fog" and "Atmospheric Shadows" disabled due to a driver issue

• New renderer that is faster, looks better, and runs on AMD
  
• Made crosshair scale along with the Ui Scaling option
  
• Bugfix XenonCode max() was not working with negative numbers

Hi!

I have some really, extremely bad news.

As some of you may know, this game is being worked on by two people; I, Dizzie, and Arachne, my wife. Previously we attempted to collaborate with more people, but long story short, we couldn't afford anything anywhere near full-time because the game just doesn't make that much money. Today, aside from some VA, all responsibilities are split between the two of us.

About three weeks ago, Arachne had a major surgery. Everything should have went well and we were planning on resuming production at a slower pace about a week and a half later, with me taking over some of the more demanding responsibilities as she recovers for the rest of the year. That is no longer happening. She has had multiple complications from the surgery and had to be hospitalized in the ICU two days after being released from the surgery center. We've been bouncing around between different departments and hospitals for about a week now. Long story short, she was very ill and almost died but is now stable and has been released home into my care.

So, yeah, this is a pretty big deal and it changes everything for us. Her health is now the priority. If you've been paying attention, you'll know that in order to deliver content on time, we've been doing crunch constantly for the past 3 years. That can't be happening anymore. She's my priority and I'm going to have to push back all the deadlines since I'll be working much less and by myself in the foreseeable future.

I'm trying my best to make sure we can continue working on the game to some degree because this story is very personal to the both of us and we want to see it through. It's not just a question of delivering the EA promises, we're talking about things that we've lived and that matter to us a lot. It would be very difficult for us to somehow leave these things unsaid. But that's very optimistic! You may expect more depressing announcements in the near future where I set new, less ambitious goals for the project.

In the meantime, I'll be working somewhat part timely on content and still trying to ship the August deadline, but starting from today, all deadlines are fully optional. Some of the content will be missing since Arachne can just not finish it. I'm not sure what the release will look like yet, it's likely to not be the tip top professional affair you guys have been habituated to by our incredible standards, ha ha! But it should be something; it's important to the both of us that we deliver something.

So, that's it guys. Long story short, we're alive but going through some stuff. Game is not cancelled, but game is being probably delayed some significant amount. We'll continue posting updates, we're always on Discord pretty much 24/7, especially now that Arachne is bedridden ːsteamsadː so if you have any questions, go on and ask. Just know that we, as usual, don't like talking about our personal lives that much, so we probably will want to avoid specific gory details about her health and so on. But we can keep you guys in the loop as to what we're doing with our lives, since that's relevant to what you bought.

Doing our best to continue not dying,
-Team Fortune