“A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game is bad forever.” - Shigeru Miyamoto

Thank you so much for participating in Worbital Beta 2! Unfortunately, issues came up during the Beta 2 run that forced a difficult choice upon us—as a result, we have decided to postpone the launch of Worbital from its predicted launch date of late 2018 to early 2019.

While we hadn’t formally announced a release date, the implication had been that it was just around the corner, which it was, but is no longer. We sincerely apologize for the disappointment, but you can be absolutely sure, Worbital will be much better for it.

The rescheduling has given us some new challenges, but primarily, new opportunities. The extra time will allow parts of the team to focus on new features and weapons, in addition to the planned necessary fixes and polish. You can consider these new features as a big bonus to reward you for your patience.

We’ll be hanging around the Team Jolly Roger Discord as always, chatting and answering questions. However, we’ll do fewer teasers than before, as constant reminders certainly wouldn’t make the wait any easier. A status update every few weeks should keep you nicely up to speed. So, do stick around and let’s make this delay more bearable for us all.

Once again, sorry for making you wait. We wouldn’t do this if we weren’t absolutely sure that it will be worth it.

Hello, our loyal listeners!

This is the “Wasteland Radio”, and we want to remind you that the autumn fair will start soon! I don't know about you, but I started getting ready for it in the summer. Every trader from all over the Wasteland will be there. You can get a pretty good price and buy something you've wanted for a long time.

Of course, the merchants are going to do their best to interest you in their products. I remember that last year a trained bear stood behind one of the counters. Some had fireworks, fire swallowing performances and dynamite stick juggling. And I was lucky enough to stumble upon a tyre shop with only Engineer girls as the shop assistants. And the little devils sweet-talked me into buying three years worth of tyres.

In any case, do not miss this event! This is why November's edition of the ad calendar depicts a fair stand. Too good to be real, of course. The girl here is clearly from the hundred-year-old magazines. Only the tattoos hint at her true Engineer nature. Except for those, she's all smiles as if there was no Crossout everywhere. Come to think of it, some of the modern Wasteland inhabitants also have gleaming eyes. Glowing even. And who knows, maybe they're smiling under their masks. But as soon as I imagine this smile, I get shivers. 

You can download November's Crossout calendar from the project's official website in the “Wallpapers” section.

Update 1: Maintenance has been completed

We will be performing a scheduled maintenance on Thursday, November 1, 2018. We anticipate the maintenance to last approximately 4 hours. Please note that the estimated length of time for each maintenance is subject to change without notification.

Thanks for your patience!

Time:

November 1, 2018

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC): 6:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Pacific Daylight Time: 11:00 PM [October 31] – 3:00 PM
Eastern Daylight Time: 2:00 AM – 4:00 AM
Central European Summer Time: 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Australian Eastern Standard Time: 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM

• All Riders of Icarus game servers.

 
 

• Pumpkin Candy Issue
  • The pumpkin candy in the last year event can now be used to exchanged for rolls.
  • 2017 Pumpkin Candy x10 for 1 Roll Dice.

 

• Transcending Equipment
  
  • Complex Legendary Transcending Stone can be used to Transcend the Temmajin Equipments.
  • Fixed Temmajin Arcane isolated issue, the only equipment that can be transcended.
  • Modified Transcending, can now transcend the Temmajin Equipments ONLY till +7 (Maxed).

 

• Tomb of Wyrm
  
  • Modified the loot drop.
  • Temmajin can now be looted from the Legendary Difficulty of Tomb of Wyrm.

 

• Familiar Storage Bug Extra Slots
  
  • Removed the extra 5 slots in the Familiar Storage.

 

• November Daily Login Rewards
  • Modified the daily login rewards

 

• Ellora's Shop Udpate for November 1
• Rabbini Day & Icarus Day Update
  • We have added few boxes that can help the community with their equipments.
• Re-schedule of GM's Playground
  • Updated the schedule of the GM Events.

• General Server Upkeep.

With the release of Akhtuba river fans of Russian fishing 4 will be introduced to the new line of rods from Zeiman manufacturer. As many of you know, Zeiman products are one of the top on the market and have excellent quality and reliability.


Expanded assortment of Volkoff and Kiruuna lures.


We have re-visited some goods that for one reason or another have not been in demand. As such, many reels will be revamped with the next update and their parameters altered.

A new official tournament is set to happen during the next weekend. For this tournament, we will use a highly modified deck where changes make the accent on increasing :malice: of all players and getting benefits from the high :malice: of opponents. Also, the impending Misfortune :telegram: will not be visible!

Happy Halloween!

:Holy_Grailet: 02.11.2018 12:00 PM GMT – 05.11.2018 12:00 PM GMT :Holy_Grailet:

:steampunk: AMSTERDAM

:cards: players: 4
:score: victory condition: 25 points
:cursecard: Chaos Cards: not allowed
:health_powerup: Character Abilities: allowed
:telegram: Impending Misfortune: not visible
:cheatdice: Characters: from random sets
:RatsClock: Timer: fast
:Location: Field: Clockwork town

Tournament points (place in session/points gained):

1. +150 tournament points
   
2. +45 tournament points
   
3. +15 tournament points
   
4. 0 tournament points

* Special rules:

(1) All players start sessions with :steampunk: The Evil Statue.

(2) The following cards are removed from the deck:

-1 :cards: An Honest Crook
-1 :cards: Pittance
-1 :cards: A Lucky Potion

(3) The following cards are added to the deck:

+1 :cards: The Misfortgun
+1 :cards: A Shaman Staff
+1 :cards: From Inferno with Love
+2 :cards: Karma!
+2 :cards: Framed!
+1 :cards: The Lesser Evil
+1 :cards: Slander
+1 :cards: A Tip off
+1 :cards: Indulgences
+2 :cards: The Miracles of Bureaucracy
+1 :cards: A Quest from Dariol
+1 :cards: Contraband
+1 :cards: A Snitch
+1 :cards: Operation Cleanup
+1 :cards: Personal Search
+1 :cards: Investigation
+1 :cards: An Honest Exchange
+1 :cards: A Deal with Prosecution
+1 :cards: Jailbreak
+1 :cards: Forbidden Knowledge
+1 :cards: Justice is Served
+1 :cards: Demon'stration
+1 :cards: Guild Services
+1 :cards: Undercutting the Competition
+1 :cards: False Testimony

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:steampunk: SINGAPORE

:cards: players: 2
:score: victory condition: 25 points
:cursecard: Chaos Cards: not allowed
:health_powerup: Character Abilities: allowed
:telegram: Impending Misfortune: not visible
:cheatdice: Characters: from random sets
:RatsClock: Timer: normal
:Location: Field: Clockwork town

Tournament points (place in session/points gained):

1. +60 tournament points
   
2. 0 tournament points

* Special rules:

(1) All players start sessions with :steampunk: The Evil Statue.

(2) The following cards are removed from the deck:

-1 :cards: An Honest Crook
-1 :cards: Pittance
-1 :cards: A Lucky Potion
-1 :cards: Guild Services
-1 :cards: Undercutting the Competition
-1 :cards: Devil's Due
-1 :cards: A Voodoo Doll
-1 :cards: An Award Ceremony
-1 :cards: A Set-up

(3) The following cards are added to the deck:

+1 :cards: The Misfortgun
+1 :cards: A Shaman Staff
+1 :cards: From Inferno with Love
+2 :cards: Karma!
+2 :cards: Framed!
+1 :cards: The Lesser Evil
+1 :cards: Slander
+1 :cards: A Tip off
+1 :cards: Indulgences
+2 :cards: The Miracles of Bureaucracy
+1 :cards: A Quest from Dariol
+1 :cards: Contraband
+1 :cards: A Snitch
+1 :cards: Operation Cleanup
+1 :cards: Personal Search
+1 :cards: Investigation
+1 :cards: An Honest Exchange
+1 :cards: A Deal with Prosecution
+1 :cards: Jailbreak
+1 :cards: Forbidden Knowledge
+1 :cards: Justice is Served
+1 :cards: Demon'stration

:votes: RULES:

Sessions that count towards the tournament: :bh2coin::bh2coin::bh2coin::bh2coin::bh2coin::bh2coin::bh2coin::bh2coin: (8)

For each win, players receive additional points that depend on the strength of the opponents over whom they have won. Important: your tournament points will continue to increase with the increase in the tournament score of your past opponents, over whom you prevailed – even if you already have reached the limit of sessions for the tournament. What this means is that the tournament is never over for you as long as your previously conquered opponents continue to play, and win.

During this tournament, regular rating points will be frozen for all the players. Your tournament sessions will NOT affect your regular rating.

Players get tournament points for the first 8 sessions played in the tournament on each of the servers. Any subsequent sessions won't give any tournament points, and won't increase the number of defeated opponents who give additional points. Nonetheless, victories of all opponents who were defeated in the first 8 sessions will affect your final tournament rating.


Awarded: Top 10 players on each of the servers. In addition to the main prize fund, every player who finishes all 8 tournament sessions receives a special bonus player icon “Facepalm” (only if it has not been received before)!



Place / Prize –

1. :Holy_Grailet: 5, :pumpking: 7, Bomb-o-mat, A Contraband Box of Goods x 3
   
2. :Holy_Grailet: 4, :pumpking: 7 A Contraband Box of Goods x 2
   
3. :Holy_Grailet: 4, :pumpking: 6 A Contraband Box of Goods
   
4. :Holy_Grailet: 3, :pumpking: 6
   
5. :Holy_Grailet: 3, :pumpking: 6
   
6. :Holy_Grailet: 3, :pumpking: 6
   
7. :Holy_Grailet: 2, :pumpking: 5
   
8. :Holy_Grailet: 2, :pumpking: 4
   
9. :Holy_Grailet: 1, :pumpking: 3
   
10. :Holy_Grailet: 1, :pumpking: 3

:Holy_Grailet: = Tournament Chest (limited, tournaments only)
:pumpking: = Autumn Chest (limited, Autumn Season only)

In the case when at the end of the tournament two or more players will have equal number of tournament points, they will share the same (highest) place and get the same rewards. However, the award list will not be extended, and we will still award only the top 10 players on each server.


Q. Where do Tournament Chests drop?
A. Only in tournament sessions, which are available via Multiplayer Lobby.

Q. If I've finished all my tournament sessions, can I get more tournament chests?
A. Yes, as long as you will keep playing tournament sessions.

Q. Are the tournament items limited to this tournament only, or to tournaments in general?
A. The tournament items are available via tournament chests, which drop during every official tournament in the game.

Q. Is there a full list of tournament items available via tournament chests?
A. Yes, please see below:

• Message – No need to thank me. (uncommon)
  
• Message – Nothing personal. (uncommon)
  
• Emoticon – Winner (uncommon)
  
• Emoticon – Thief (uncommon)
  
• Lobby icon – Darbl fon Murblenton (rare)
  
• Player profile – Trophy shelf (rare)
  
• Main menu background – The Champion (rare)
  
• Governor frame – The Governor of Governors (contraband)
  
• Blueprint – Blueprint: "The Ruffian" (contraband)
  
• Special item – Bomb-o-mat (contraband)
  
• Token trail – Champion's trail (illegal)

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Live activities are back for Season 3 that will run from October 30th to December 31st!

Completing different Ubisoft Club challenges and taking part in the Steep World Tour will get you the opportunity to obtain an exclusive X Games equipment set. Let’s see what you can do in November to get these items.


Ubisoft Club challenges

Starting from October 30th you will find a series of weekly and community Ubisoft Club Challenges, accessible directly in game on the Steep Live page, which will grant you the following rewards during November: Backpack, Wingsuit, Parachute of the X Games set and an additional Season 3 Outfit.

You can find more information about the Ubisoft Club Challenges on this page.


Steep World Tour Freestyle

A new edition of the Steep World Tour will run from November 2nd to November 20th. As usual, the event is divided in 3 phases and advancing through them will let you get a lot of pieces of the X Games set. You will be able to easily access this event directly from the in game Live Page.

Play the Qualifiers, beat at least one of them to get access to the Competition on November 10th and if you will be able to reach there the TOP 128 you will get access to the Final!


QUALIFIERS: November 2nd – 9th

REWARDS: Access to the next phase plus GLOVES, GOGGLES and 2.000 Steep Credits for each qualifier you will pass

• November 2nd: Jumps (Alps) – Score more than 2.000 points
• November 3rd: Freeztyler (Alaska) – Score more than 4.000 points
• November 4th: Drop! (Alps) – Score more than 3.500 points
• November 5th: Lumber Park (Alaska) – Score more than 3.900 points
• November 6th: Creamy Lines (Alaska) – Score more than 4.500 points
• November 7th: Halfpipe (Alps) – Score more than 800 points
• November 8th: Upside Down (Alps) – Score more than 800 points
• November 9th: Tricksmaster (Alps) – Score more than 600 points

Pick the one(s) you want!


COMPETITION: November 10th – 16th

REWARDS for the TOP 128: Access to the next phase plus PANTS and 5.000 Steep Credits

• Angel (Alps) – 128 Qualified

FINAL: November 17th – 20th

REWARDS: 1st place SNOWBOARD, SKIIS, HELMET plus 15.000 Steep Credits | 2nd place SNOWBOARD, SKIIS plus 10.000 Steep Credits | 3rd place SNOWBOARD plus 5.000 Steep Credits

• Invaders (Alps) – 3 Tries

Good luck everyone!

Hey! Are you ready for Halloween? We created a new wallpaper for your PC wall!

Hi! We have new screenshots from our virtual battles!

Hi all.

End of October, start of November?
The year is rapidly dwindling and so it must be time for another TU2 update.

At this point all content is in, so the focus is very much on balancing and bug fixing.

This update won't fix all the bugs but there's been good progress on killing many of the more bothersome issues.


First up is a rebalancing of upgrade costs and the amount of upgrade points awarded during play. Essential upgrades such as reload time, armor levels and shield regen have been made cheaper - other items such as rockets have been made more expensive. The nuke ability is now very expensive to both buy and use - as might be expected. Finding secret depots/tombs/villages after clearing a level can help greatly in scraping together more points.

Users were seeing a crash after a number of hours playing.
Seems a bunch of textures weren't being cleared from memory between levels and were actually compounding. This would inevitably lead to a crash after 5-6 hours of continual play - which is unacceptable. This update should resolve that issue with textures being properly flushed.

Player medium tank shells bounce chance reduced from 5% to 3%. Less aggravating.

Blastwalls should now properly fade-out when done and be removed from radar immediately.

Fortress wall repair time decreased by a third. This makes it more viable to repair a fortress while defending.

Harvesters now have panels along their bodies that light up as they collect glyphs. Looks cool.

If game does exit without saving for whatever reason (powercut, cat on keyboard or god forbid, a crash), restarting and choosing continue will restart on the level played before exit.

Various cutscene wording tweaks.

Behemoth shield level reduced by a third. Mines are still the best way to take them down.
Behemoths only appear once now during a fortress defend level. They don't respawn continually.

Graphics tweak to the statue + worms in Gorgon's sector.

Sappers now take correct amount of time to drill through walls.

Lots of other tweaks and fixes.


I can say now that as a developer, there's nothing better than dozens of playthroughs to make you thoroughly sick of your game. But it has to happen to pick up bugs. Hopefully the next update should see the game in a release ready state. It's been a long road but the end's in sight (although having said that, there'll be more patches needed after release I'm sure.)

Speaking of the end of the road/year - merch!
There's TU2 stuff in the link below of course, but if that doesn't appeal there's also New Zealand themed t-shirts which have been very popular, along with Elite Dangerous stickers. In fact a guy who works at Frontier bought a couple of the 'Thargoid Pest Control' stickers for the office! All good for Christmas.

https://www.redbubble.com/people/Madjack66/shop?asc=u

Many thanks for your support!




Known issues:
As mentioned, hardpoints in hub levels need another pass. They're not working correctly but are still playable.
When carrying the player out of a finished level, the lifter sometimes dips below the landscape.
In-game cutscenes such as when logic gate opens or boss is spawned may have cam placement issues.
Hack progress bar GUI elements sometimes showing/not showing correctly.

- Restart is now possible press R (anytime) or click on the restart Button