We are finally ready to announce the release date of the next major update to CryoFall—this Friday, 31st December!

This time we are introducing support for additional customizations in the form of skins. When you craft almost any weapon or a piece of equipment you will be able to select one of several skins available for each.


This update offers both free skins obtained simply by playing the game, as well as some limited skins which you can unlock by participating in some events we might hold in the future or by playing the game during a particular period (we will announce when any such things will be happening), and obviously, there are a number of skins which can be purchased directly. Purchasing skins goes toward supporting the developers. Thank you!

Also, the good part is—to use skins you don't have to own them. You can exchange skinned items with other players or your friends freely. You can also loot them in PvP from defeated enemies. So, you can use all skins even if you haven't yet unlocked them or if you missed an event where a particular skin was made available.


Anyway, we are looking forward to seeing more visual variety in the game with this update! And yes, we have also updated visuals for practically all equipment and weapons to make them look even better.

Aside from the system explained above we have also added a few pieces of content into the game with this update as well as some new features. But the biggest change is our continued work on balance to make the game feel even more fun, be it solo or playing in multiplayer. Please check out our detailed patch notes with the full release of this update in a few days.

First of all, we must highlight that the saved games are completely compatible with the previous (R31) version of the game. You can continue playing on your local worlds without worries.
As for the official PvP and PvE servers, they will have their scheduled wipe as usual.

We would like to remind you that the official PvP servers will have the next round of epic fights starting with the scheduled wipe this Friday, December 31st.

As you may know, all official PvP servers have regular wipes every 3 weeks to ensure a level playing field and offer a fresh economy with each new round. It's a major event that brings many players to compete with each other, starting from a common point.

Likewise, all official PvE servers will also have their regular wipe on the same day. Unlike the PvP servers, however, PvE servers have their regular scheduled wipes every 6 weeks instead. Feel free to join any of the official PvE servers for a fresh round of economic and technological competition and race to reach the highest faction score on any of the regional PvE servers.

Wipe time: 1 PM by GMT/UTC time (as usual).
For your convenience, here is the local time in the primary time zones we have:
• 7 AM by Central US (CST, GMT-6 winter time)
• 2 PM by Central EU (CET, GMT+1 winter time)
• 16:00 by Russia/Moscow (GMT+3)
• 21:00 by China/Beijing (GMT+8)
• 10 AM by Argentina/Brazil (GMT-3)
• 10 PM by Japan and South Korea (GMT+9)

As an additional note, the featured PvP community server CryoSmall Europe is wiping this Saturday 1st January (12 PM GMT/UTC). With a strict limit of 2 players per team (no alliances permitted) and reputable administration enforcing this rule, you can have peace of mind that the server provides equal opportunities for everyone to compete. By the way, community server CryoSmall North America has been wiped recently (last Saturday) and it's not too late to join it.

We would like to remind you that the official PvP servers will have the next round of epic fights starting with the scheduled wipe this Friday, December 10th.

As you may know, all official PvP servers have regular wipes every 3 weeks to ensure a level playing field and offer a fresh economy with each new round. It's a major event that brings many players to compete with each other, starting from a common point.

Wipe time: 1 PM by GMT/UTC time (as usual).
For your convenience, here is the local time in the primary time zones we have:
• 7 AM by Central US (CST, GMT-6 winter time)
• 2 PM by Central EU (CET, GMT+1 winter time)
• 16:00 by Russia/Moscow (GMT+3)
• 21:00 by China/Beijing (GMT+8)
• 10 AM by Argentina/Brazil (GMT-3)
• 10 PM by Japan and South Korea (GMT+9)

We have received a lot of positive feedback about the last Global PvP round with incredible battles and the average online number frequently peaking over a hundred players! Just check this epic video shared by Yodes from [SNV] clan! But be sure to hold your monitor tightly—it may fall off the table with explosions shaking it when mechs are smashing each other with barrages of artillery shells!

NSFW: Warning, contains a lot of profanity in several languages :)

If you are going to try your luck playing on Global PvP you should absolutely join one of several large clans (they're actively hiring!) or create your own with your friends, otherwise, you are unlikely to have a chance there! ;)

As an additional note, the featured PvP community server CryoSmall Europe is wiping this Saturday 11th December (12 PM GMT/UTC). With a strict limit of 2 players per team (no alliances permitted) and reputable administration enforcing this rule, you can have peace of mind that the server provides equal opportunities for everyone to compete. By the way, community server CryoSmall North America has been wiped recently (last Saturday) and it's not too late to join it.

=== CryoFall v1.31.9.2 (R31 Patch #8) ===

Event changes:
- Boss event duration shortened to 30 minutes (plus 20 minutes preparation timer on multiplayer servers only).
- Improved boss minions placement. Their spawn is properly randomized now.

PvP changes:
- Reworked loot from space debris event. We've increased the amount of T3-T5 ammo, added laser rifle and a few other items, mech components, and even bombs (very rare!). But most importantly, now you will obtain items of the actual technology tier or close to it instead of some random rubbish. E.g. when Tier 5 timegate is unlocked on the server the weapons and armor that you will obtain from space debris will be T4+. If Tier 3 timegate is unlocked you find only T3 weapons/armor, in T4 you will find only T4 weapons/armor.
- The game will forbid disassembling items on the Tinker table during raidblock (same as using Trash can is not allowed).
- Newbie-protected players are no longer able to interact with anything inside other player's land claims (the problem was that when they were able to sneak inside the base they took stuff from crates, furnaces, etc and once killed they will just drop the loot on the ground and nobody can pick it up as it's protected by Newbie Protection system).
- The boss will not spawn immediately after the event is announced. 20 minutes timer will start giving you time to prepare for the event. This is an experimental change: Please try and let us know—we're awaiting players' feedback to consider whether this change will stay.

Misc changes:
- Sprinkler: Reduced water consumption 3 times (single sprinkler will last for 5+ real-time days when filled to its full capacity and watering plants around it every hour).
- When you have a retina implant, the night vision from Nemesis mech and Super Heavy Armor will not activate automatically. Also, Nemesis mech will not activate night vision when you're mounting it during the daytime.
- Weapons for Nemesis mech will use Vehicle skill instead of Exotic weapons skill (other mech weapons were already using Vehicle skill).
- Building skill: Reduced amount of experience gained by building and deconstructing wooden walls (it was too easy to raise the skill level this way).
- Tinker Table: The amount of Maintenance skill experience gained by disassembling an item will be proportional to the amount of disassembled item compared to the amount from this item's recipe. E.g. if you disassemble 1 ammo that is usually crafted as 20 pieces, you will gain only 1/20th of skill experience.

Technical changes:
- Optimized texture loading (less frame stuttering when walking in large bases on weaker GPUs).
- The game will no longer use LocalAppData for its data (such as savegames) when the primary data folder exists (the primary location is: Documents/AtomicTorchStudio/CryoFall). IMPORTANT: If you're suddenly missing your local server's savegames, perhaps you have both game folders on your PC—one in %LocalAppData%/AtomicTorchStudio/CryoFall and another in your Documents folder (this may happen if the game was denied access to Documents folder and used %LocalAppData% instead). If this is the case, please transfer the contents of %LocalAppData%/AtomicTorchStudio/CryoFall folder to Documents/AtomicTorchStudio/CryoFall folder. For further assistance please reach us in official Discord or over email support@atomictorch.com

Fixes:
- When another player character is launched on a rocket the body remained visible.
- When repairing a pragmium reactor part on Tinker table a broken part appeared in the place of the second input slot.
- Fixed formatting issues in Portuguese-Brazil translation.
- If the savegame is corrupted the savegames list was unable to load. The issue is fixed now. The game will also clearly designate corrupted savegame files in the saves list and explain how to recover to the latest backup version. Please note: we're certain that savegame corruption cannot happen under normal circumstances, if you experience such an issue please check your disk with ScanDisk and CrystalDiskInfo or any other HDD SMART tool.

If you're hosting a community server, you need to install this patch to allow the updated client to connect. Please follow this guide to update your server: https://wiki.atomictorch.com/CryoFall/Server/Setup#Server_update.2Fupgrade_to_new_version

If you cannot connect to a community server because it's not updated, you can switch to the previous client version in Steam Client. Click with the right mouse button on the game in your Steam library, open Properties, select the BETAS tab, and choose "legacy-r31-1.31.8.2" in the dropdown menu.

Greetings, survivors!
It’s time once again for the annual Steam Awards. 2021 was especially exciting for us as it was the culmination of 5 years of hard work on CryoFall with the release of version 1.0.

We humbly request your support for CryoFall. Better With Friends category seems to fit naturally with our game! Even if we don’t win, it’s always an honor just to be nominated.

Pro Tip: If you haven't already, besides voting, leaving a review is part of obtaining a sweet badge from Steam, as well. We would be grateful for your honest opinions.

By the way, stay tuned for the news—we're working on some exciting things to share soon about the next update. If you want a sneak peek, please join Official Discord server and check the #upcoming-features channel!

Enjoy the game!
AtomicTorch Studio and Daedalic Entertainment

=== CryoFall v1.31.8.7 (R31 Patch #7 / Client Hotfix) ===

Improvements:
- The discrete GPU will be detected and selected automatically when available. We've verified that it works properly with NVIDIA GPUs. Looking for feedback from AMD Radeon users.
- Improved compatibility with ZIP-compressed mods.

This is a client-only patch. No server update is necessary and no new server distributive is provided.

We would like to remind you that all the official servers will have a scheduled wipe this Friday, November 19th.

As you may know, all official PvP servers have regular wipes every 3 weeks to ensure a level playing field and offer a fresh economy with each new round. It's a major event that brings many players to compete with each other, starting from a common point.

Likewise, all official PvE servers will also have their regular wipe on the same day. Unlike the PvP servers, however, PvE servers have their regular scheduled wipes every 6 weeks instead. Feel free to join any of the official PvE servers for a fresh round of economic and technological competition and race to reach the highest faction score on any of the regional PvE servers.

Wipe time: 1 PM by GMT/UTC time (as usual).
For your convenience, here is the local time in the primary time zones we have:
• 7 AM by Central US (CST, GMT-6 winter time)
• 2 PM by Central EU (CET, GMT+1 winter time)
• 16:00 by Russia/Moscow (GMT+3)
• 21:00 by China/Beijing (GMT+8)
• 10 AM by Argentina/Brazil (GMT-3)
• 10 PM by Japan and South Korea (GMT+9)

No. If you are playing on a local server you are not affected (the savegames for local server are stored on your PC). Regular wipes are only performed on official servers and do not affect local servers. If you are playing on a community, modded or a private server you can ask that individual server owner about any possible wipes.

We have received a lot of positive feedback about the last Global PvP server round with a number of larger and smaller teams competing almost until the very end of the current cycle and engaging in countless battles. It seems the experiments of this round were successful, so we want to continue building on it and hopefully make this next round even more fun.
One of the most requested changes was further increasing the size of the private factions, so we would like to try this change this round. The faction size limit will be set to 100 during this round.
Additionally, some other teams expressed their interest to join in this wipe cycle, so the competition could become even hotter this time!
If you are going to try your luck joining the Global PvP server you should absolutely join one of several large clans or create your own with your friends, otherwise, you are unlikely to have a chance there! ;)

As an additional note, the featured PvP community server CryoSmall Europe is wiping this Saturday 20th November (12 PM GMT/UTC). With a strict limit of 2 players per team (no alliances permitted) and reputable administration enforcing this rule, you can have peace of mind that the server provides equal opportunities for everyone to compete. By the way, community server CryoSmall North America has been wiped recently (last Saturday) and it's not too late to join it.

=== CryoFall v1.31.8.3 (R31 Patch #6 / Client Hotfix) ===

Fixes:
- Fixed random client crashes related to texture loading.
- Fixed the local server getting stuck when the game client is stopped before the savegame is completely loaded.
- Fixed an issue when switching from a multiplayer server to the local server with server mods prevented it to load.

This is a client-only patch. No server update is necessary and no new server distributive is provided.

We would like to remind you that all the official PvP servers will have a scheduled wipe this Friday, October 29th. With this wipe, we're also introducing some important game changes and reopening the Global PvP server.

As you may know, all official PvP servers have regular wipes (every 3 weeks) to ensure a level playing field and offer a fresh economy with each new round. It's a major event that brings many players to compete with each other, starting from a common point.

Wipe time: 1 PM by GMT/UTC time (as usual).
For your convenience, here is the local time in the primary time zones we have:
• 8 AM by Central US (CDT, GMT-5 summer time)
• 3 PM by Central EU (CEST, GMT+2 summer time)
• 16:00 by Russia/Moscow (GMT+3)
• 21:00 by China/Beijing (GMT+8)
• 10 AM by Argentina/Brazil (GMT-3)
• 10 PM by Japan and South Korea (GMT+9)



We've just released R31 Patch #5 that improves several gameplay aspects to make PvP fights more dynamic and bring more tactical depth:

- Reworked medical cooldown system: You can now use weapons without restrictions while under medical cooldown. The cooldown itself is slightly longer for primary medicine (such as medkit). It's still not possible to spam medicine and you need to think before using some medicine preemptively as the cooldown may restrict you from using essential medicine (such as stimpack) at the best moment. We would also like to hear your feedback once you try this updated mechanic in the game. We will consider further improvements with the next major update, if necessary.

- New medical cooldown indicator will appear over all medical items you have to make it easier to determine which items you can (or can’t) use at the moment and when the cooldown will expire.

- New bindable shortcuts: "Quick use—Slot #X" (for all hotbar slots from 1 to 9 and 0; available in Options->Input settings, not bound by default so you can select the best key you wish for any slot; you can bind to any keyboard keys as well as side buttons on your mouse intended to navigate back and forward in the web browser).

- T2 rifle fire range increased to match the range of T3-T5 rifles (13 tiles, it was 12 before).

You can read more details in the patch notes for Patch #5.

Global PvP is reintroduced with this wipe! It's hosted in Germany as before, in the OVH datacenter with full protection against DDoS attacks and great ping across major regions of the world with direct routing.

Global PvP is a hardcore PvP server. It will use the following settings:
- 10 members per faction
- full loot (armor will drop)
- vanilla rates (with R31 the game was heavily rebalanced!)
- normal bomb damage (which is the default setting in R31; it was reduced to half in R30)
- faction upgrade cost is reduced by half
- original map
There is also a minor experimental change that was requested frequently: building on meadows is restricted (similarly to how it's restricted in mountains). This change is only a temporary experiment.

As an additional note, the featured PvP community server CryoSmall Europe is wiping this Saturday 30th October (12 PM GMT/UTC). With a strict limit of 2 players per team (no alliances permitted) and reputable administration enforcing this rule, you can have peace of mind that the server provides equal opportunities for everyone to compete. Join CryoSmall Discord to read further details!

As was announced by CryoFive community server's owner, both CryoFive NA and Europe servers will be closed due to the low online number. It will certainly drive more players to play on Global PvP.

=== CryoFall v1.31.8.1 (R31 Patch #5) ===



Improvements:
- Reworked medical cooldown system: You can use weapons without restrictions while under medical cooldown. The cooldown itself is slightly longer for primary medicine (such as medkit). It's still not possible to spam medicine and you need to think before using some medicine preemptively as the cooldown may restrict you from using essential medicine (such as stimpack) at the best moment. We will be happy to hear your feedback once you try this updated mechanic in the game. We will consider further improvements with the next major update, if necessary.
- New medical cooldown indicator will appear over all medicine items you have to make it easier to determine which items you cannot use at the moment and when the cooldown will expire.
- New bindable shortcuts: "Quick use—Slot #X" (for all hotbar slots from 1 to 9 and 0; available in Options->Input settings, not bound by default so you can select the best key you wish for any slot; you can bind to any keyboard keys as well as side buttons on your mouse intended to navigate back and forward in the web browser).

Changes:
- T2 rifle fire range increased to match the range of T3-T5 rifles (13 tiles, it was 12 before).
- Increased x2 the chance of finding teleport location data in radtowns/ruins.
- Strenth boost now provides +25% melee damage bonus.
- Events: Increase the number of circles from 2 to 3 for Thumper Migration event when online is 20+.
- Events: Reduced amount of sulfur and slime from Blue Glider fish (as they're caught x5 more often in R31).
- Local server: Removed max base size limitation (Please note: Power generation efficiency will clamp at min 84%).
- Local server PvP: Disabled time gate mechanic in all local server presets—even if you enable PvP there will be no time gates.

Fixes:
- Events: Improved event location selection (sometimes an event appeared with a much lower number of circle areas than usually).
- PvE: Attempting to place a mining charge inside the boss spawn area broke the UI.

If you're hosting a community server, you need to install this patch to allow the updated client to connect. Please follow this guide to update your server: https://wiki.atomictorch.com/CryoFall/Server/Setup#Server_update.2Fupgrade_to_new_version

If you cannot connect to a community server because it's not updated, you can switch to the previous client version in Steam Client. Click with the right mouse button on the game in your Steam library, open Properties, select the BETAS tab, and choose "legacy-r31-1.31.7.2" in the dropdown menu.

=== CryoFall v1.31.7.2 (R31 Patch #4) ===

Changes:
- Items disassembling: Now you can disassemble ammo and grenades on the Tinker table. It's recommended to disassemble a significant number of them at once (similarly to how many are crafted in the recipe).
- Greatly improved the chance of finding a teleport location data item. The algorithm has changed to guarantee that you can obtain one in a reasonable time (look for military/industrial/science crates in radtowns; the chance is one item per 80 crates on average).
- Rebalanced Nemesis mech (mech properties, building costs, and its weapons).
- Very slightly adjusted damage resistances for bosses making energy weapons more viable against them.
- Rebalanced amount of biomaterial provided from Psi grove.
- Local server: Removed network quality indicator when playing in singleplayer mode/from the same PC.

Fixes:
- Community servers/Local server: The signs were missing in the construction menu (they should be disabled only on the official servers).
- PvE servers: Fixed a bug when an item dropped inside the boss spawn area (before the boss has spawned) broke the UI.

If you're hosting a community server, you need to install this patch to allow the updated client to connect. Please follow this guide to update your server: https://wiki.atomictorch.com/CryoFall/Server/Setup#Server_update.2Fupgrade_to_new_version

If you cannot connect to a community server because it's not updated, you can switch to the previous client version in Steam Client. Click with the right mouse button on the game in your Steam library, open Properties, select BETAS tab, and choose "legacy-r31-v0.31.6.12" in the dropdown menu.