Get snarly for February's content update, and We Need To Go Deeper's two year anniversary month! This month, we have no less than 3 new beastly bosses, enemy improvements, fixes, and more!




NEW Boss: The Leviathan! - The beast of legends, The Leviathan has revealed itself within the Cursed Waters, lurking in a boney graveyard. Not only is this a fearsome beast with its hull-shattering beak and claws, but she's clever too, known to dash away only to ambush its prey from new angles.



NEW Boss: The Sightless! - These slithering twin eels lurk in the shadowy Dark Depths, each blind in their own way. Luckily for them, a scent and sound is all they need to track down and surprise their prey by bursting out of the very soil they reside within.



NEW Boss: The Erupting Shell! - Smoldering no more, this gargantuan tortoise in the Volcanic Depths has developed none other than an entire erupting volcano on its rocky exterior! Boiling with rage inside and out, the Erupting Shell will protect its vent-heated domain at any cost.



Smarter Swimmers! - The AI of your average swimming foe has been improved! Swimming enemies can now better target their prey to aim their attacks where it really counts! Additionally, swimmers now know when they've been outmatched, and will temporarily flee the scene if things are looking bad for them. This will also allow for a new variety of swimmer types in future, as fleeing behavior can be tweaked on a per-enemy basis!

• Barnacle mines can no longer be spawned infinitely during sub-biomes.
  
• Lair Guardian ragdoll can no longer be farmed indefinitely.
  
• Butcher knife now only creates meat from dead bodies/ragdolls.
  
• Several colliders fixed to prevent ground-based enemies from floating.
  
• Enemy sound effects given random pitch variance.
  
• Mud Giant's sucking ability tweaked to prevent cheesing.
  
• Rare Mud Giant "disappearing" bug fixed with cave console timeout.
  
• Fixed a bug causing slow enemy turning.
  
• Improved charging behavior math.
  
• fixed a visual glitch causing bubbles to appear in between layers of the Pale Whale.

::: Player of the Month :::

February's Player of the Month is Fish Fish! Fish Fish has been a frequent friendly community member for nearly two years, and for those years, has been a great easy-going but persistent mod for the community Discord, friendly to talk to, and often hops into games with other community goers. Fish Fish is a great example of the kind of person you want in any healthy game community, and for that, they are February's Player of the Month!

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With this update, we've now cleansed WNTGD of all placeholder bosses, so now is the time to ensure all bosses are up to snuff with a final product! Hit us up with all your cheesing strats, bugs, etc. as we ramp up for the full release out of early access this year! Happy two years everyone!

The last fix drop of the month, but certainly not the last round of fixes we'll need before release. This time up, we're tackling saves again! Namely addressing saving/loading between multiple steam accounts and cloud save issues. The specific fixes are below:

• Added sub-folders to keep track of which steam account a save was made in to address multi-account save overwrite errors. This will not be able to "rescue" saves that were previously affected unfortunately, but is meant to prevent future occurrences.
  
  
• Added backup saving system to create automatic backups of save files in your Steam ID subfolder when creating new saves.

ATTENTION: For ensuring your saves during this transition phase, please make a backup copy of your .data files located at C:\Users\(you)\AppData\LocalLow\Deli Interactive\We Need to Go Deeper and keep them handy for this initial process. Since we didn't track Steam IDs before this patch, the issue could still occur in saves created prior to the patch, so ensure your saves if you have a machine with multiple users. After the update, this should no longer occur, however.

The month of fixes continues yet with this week's content drop! See our new fixes below!

• A new safeguard added to try and prevent some of the newly reported saving errors.
  
• Double monitor mouselocking should now be working properly, meaning you won't accidentally click out of game.
  
• Custom data packet added to assist mod support.

The month of fixes continues with yet another fix-em-up content drop! This time around, we've tackled a few notable Lair Guardian bugs!

• Fixed bots getting permanently disarmed after getting grabbed by Lair Guardian.
  
• Fixed Lair Guardian sometimes still being able to grab players even after its grabbing arm has been destroyed.

And since it's been a while, here's a little sneak peak at something we're brewing for next month's update!

More fixes have arrived! In the spirit of this month's fix-em-up update, our next few content drops will be all about extra fixes! View the full list below:

• Found and fixed three more sources of battery duping
  
• Fixed players being able to fall out of the Lair Guardian arenas from high spaces
  
• Cave plants/decorations no longer float around when coming into view
  
• Fixed enemies, pickups, and decorations all disappearing upon death, then re-appearing upon revival
  
• Fixed the battery disappearing for a split second from client players' hands when entering/exiting the sub
  
• Bubbles no longer go up past the water surface - whoops!
  
• The Requin is now impervious to bubbles! Hah! Take that, bubbles!

Over the past year, we've added a lot of new features! But with those features, comes new bugs, and new problems. This month, we decided to crack down on as many bugs and fine-tune as much we could muster! Check out the full list below!

• Loadout UI is now way less fickle.
  
• Brig camera should no longer go out of bounds.
  
• Fixed safe dynamite/backpack custom settings exploit.
  
• Fixed harpoons not damaging Mechanical Eyes.
  
• Level Up UI now has accompanying sound effects.
  
• Fixed certain interior explosions not dealing damage.
  
• Fixed certain exterior explosions not dealing damage.
  
• Fixed recruit bots not displaying proper corpses to clients.
  
• Aurelian and Mechanical rubble pile visuals updated.
  
• Fixed battery duping exploit.
  
• Fixed harpoons getting stuck in Espadon's nose.
  
• Optimized harpoon effect lifespan.
  
• Gold and Chat UI should no longer "peek" out on higher res monitors.

We also spent some time this month putting together a proper company website better fit for 2019, and with an actual domain. Look ma, we're a real company now!

WWW.DELIINTERACTIVE.COM

If you like our work, you should sign on to our Newsletter to stay up to date on our current and future projects! C'mon, you know you want to. *Instigates peer pressure gaze*




::: Community Highlights :::

This month, we've seen an awful lot of cool WNTGD-inspired artwork coming out of user Sakke in our Discord community! Some of it is even animated in Unity, giving it that authentic WNTGD feel! Here are just a few embeddable highlights:







Click to see some animated ones here:

https://i.gyazo.com/bbe8157460bf3109f3778f04ab57aacd.mp4

https://gyazo.com/a17f227d80b5692b921041986d7921ec

In other news, user NateKomodo is at it again with building out even more modding capability into his custom mod engine, even going so far as bringing some of Goober's creations to life in-game recently!





Finally, we have also been seeing some good old fashioned pen-and-pencil pieces on the Discord! Here are just a couple highlights:

From user bin:



From user The 🅱oly 🅱eanut:



Thanks everyone for sharing your passion with us! This is seriously always so amazing to see all these works you guys make. :D

Incidentally, one last quick shoutout to ADcrafter who has, to this day, been updating and maintaining our official Wiki constantly to keep it up to date, consistently sending us error logs, and has just been an all around helpful dude in the community. You rock, man.

::: Player of the Month :::

This month's player of the month is alpinobanshee!

Ever-frequenting the forums, alpinobanshee has been vigilant in letting their voice be heard about many topics, and has provided a wealth of interesting suggestions and ideas, while giving feedback and contributing to others' threads as well! All of this while still remaining civil in the forums and with others, which can be a rare trait for opinionated folks! For that, we want to recognize alpinobanshee as January's player of the month. Congrats!

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Let us know what y'all think of the new update as always, and we'll try our best to continue cracking down on bugs as we come closer to a full release!

We're nearly at the two year mark now, which is totally insane to think about. But the finale is on the horizon we swear!

What better way to ring in the new year than by wallowing in the trash of the old? This week, the Trash Hermit has some new treasures in store for those who seek useless filth! Brought to you by the courtesy of last year's assets, which have been waiting for this moment to shine.

This New Year's eve, we're dropping a new affliction for the Aurelian Depths: A rare crystal-like growth known to the Aurelians as The Golden Gift!

The Golden Gift grants you the very essence of life, giving you +2 max health upon contracting it! But be warned, for this essence comes at the cost of every other player stat. Your arms get weaker, your legs get slower, and your lungs shrivel under the power of the Golden Gift. (-2 per stat)



Have a Happy New Year, everybody!

It's time again for the weekly content drop! This week: Profanity Filtering! A much-requested feature from families playing the game, our players can now go to the "Technical Options" menu and check this checkbox to turn common curse words into harmless asterisks! This works on character names, in-game chat, and lobby names!



On top of this, we now have a little more texture in the Deeper soundscape. We've added sounds for:
-Navigation wheel turning
-Lions and tigers
-Lever movement in navigation and weapons consoles
-Sugarplum fairies
-Starfish
-XMas rats

Hope you folks enjoy, and happy holidays!

Has X-mas come early? Today we're dropping a giftbox-style bonus content drop for y'all, bringing four new fabulous sub upgrades:

• Harpoon Gun! - Fire endless harpoons that stick into your enemies and knock them back in the process!
  
  
• Shield Absorption Upgrade - Raise your maximum damage absorbed by shields!
  
  
• Light Upgrade - Increases the strength and radius of your lights! One-time upgrade.
  
  
• EMP Recharge Upgrade - Decreases the time it takes to recharge the EMP!

We've also fixed it so Sugarplum fairies no longer destroy your ships, sorry about that. They're far kinder now.

Happy Diving!