The sun is shining, the weather sweet, the promise of QUAD XP gets us moving our feet! It’s summertime in Auraxis, soldier, and with the new season comes an extravaganza of summer fun!
Kicking off Wednesday, June 26, and running through Saturday, August 31, celebrate your fight for freedom with the return of the Soldier Soaker pistol and Water Balloon grenades, both available throughout the event. Special Summer Directives (with new challenges!), the new NS-03 Thumper Heavy grenade launcher, and a special Independence Day QUAD XP event for ALL PLAYERS highlight the festivities!
Read on for the full details on everything going on in Auraxis this Summer!
NEW SUMMER EVENT (June 26 – August 31)
Soldier Soaker returns: All Players gain access to a water-filled pistol sidearm that can be used for event completion, and will douse targets who are on fire
Water Balloons return: All Players gain access to a water balloons that detonate in a big splash on contact, dousing targets who are on fire, and counting toward event completion
INDEPENDENCE DAY EVENT (July 4 – One Day Only)
4x Experience For ALL, available on July 4 only!
Freedom Thrusters return: Light Assaults receive max rank Skirmisher Jump Jets with Independence Day flair for the duration of the event
Patriot Camo returns: Faction specific Patriot camo returns (NSO getting a Patriot camo is tentative)
Nomad-I Light Assault Armor returns (NC Light Assault Armor with Independence Day color scheme)
NEW SUMMER DIRECTIVE
Beat the Heat: Score kills with a Summer Holiday Weapon
Beachhead: Kill enemy vehicles while in a vehicle yourself
King of the Castle: Earn experience by capturing or defending a control point
Summer Support Ribbons: Earn summer support ribbons by resupplying or repairing friendly vehicles while in a vehicle yourself
Crashing Waves: Earn MAX kills during the Maximum Pressure event
Tour Guide: Earn gunner kills on enemies defending an Aerial Anomaly
DIRECTIVE REWARDS
Tier 1 Reward: 1 Day 50% Experience Boost, 100 Certs
Tier 2 Reward: 1x Basic Implant Pack, 100 ISO-4
Tier 3 Reward: Cloud Cover Camo
Tier 4 Reward: “Surfer” title, Indar Shoreline Banner
NEW HEAVY WEAPON (Releases June 26)
The Thumper NS-03 Heavy Weapon joins the Common Pool for the Heavy Assault Class
6 round magazine grenade launcher with 3 ammunition types, Frag, Incendiary, and Disruptor
At the same time, we’ll be adding a new directive to the Heavy Assault tree that asks players to get assist ribbons for the Heavy Assault class
Check out our Developer Stream on Twitch for a preview!
ALERT CHANGES
Refine and Refuel is removed from the alert rotation
Gaining Ground is removed from the alert rotation
Maximum Pressure is added to the alert rotation: Maximum Pressure is a new alert that asks players to get as many kills as possible, and makes MAX units free for the duration of the event
The war is far from over, so beat the heat while you still can, soldiers!
- Lot more visual fixes and optimization - Deep fixes in sectorization and occlusion - Added missing elevator switch on 4th floor of Palace - Fixed an issue with empty item showing up as picked up item - Kickstarter weapons
We are happy to announce that our next big story update is coming out next month!
On July 25th, the game will be automatically updated on Steam. Several changes and improvements were made to the first chapter, so we recommend playing it from the beginning, but otherwise, we'll add an option to start directly from Chapter 2.
We’ll write a more detailed log on July 25, but here are some of the things included in this update:
PS4 and Xbox controllers are now supported
Rourke’s walking speed has been raised
Battles, equipment, items and rewards have been rebalanced
Ivan can now be used in battle
Lynn and Ivan’s portraits have been revamped (See here and here)
About 3~4 hours of new content (which means the game is now about 8 hours long)
More instances to get to know your party members
More narrative-focused sidequests
Lots of bug fixes that have been reported by our players
We also want to take the opportunity to thank everyone who has helped us with feedback using the Steam community forums and our Discord server, none of this would have been possible without you!
See you all next month!
As always, remember you can join our Discord, or follow us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook for more frequent updates!
With just a few days into summer, we at Space Bullet felt it was prime time to get things really heated up in Vox Machinae. Say hello to our Summer Update, jam-packed with new content to unload and lay digital waste on your fellow grinder pilots.
Introducing Convoy CO-OP Mode
To get things started, we’re proud to finally unveil our first ever Co-op gameplay mode, Convoy. As the title suggests, you and up to 3 other fellow pilots are tasked with protecting 3 mining trucks making their way through our treacherous battlefields. Along the way you’ll be greeted by the gunfire of enemy scavenger trucks and grinders, so stay sharp and protect those piggies. What’s more, you’ll have to keep a keen eye out for bigger foes and even competing enemy convoys attempting to cross your path as they chart their own course. Fear not though, as you may encounter optional opportunities in the form of dormant grinders and factories to capture and benefit from along your journey to the goal.
Overhaul, The Flying Grinder
People are always tell us that our signature jumpjet gameplay is one of the most compelling aspects of Vox Machinae. That got us to thinking, what if there was a grinder that could FLY? Well that’s just what we did! Sort of. Introducing Overhaul, the double fixed-mount medium class grinder featuring hummingbird propulsion jets. What’s hummingbird you say? It allows Overhaul to hover effortlessly over the terrain, surveying the battlefield below. With those 2 fixed weapon mounts, he can unleash a unique combo of weaponry on those poor pilots below.
Pulse and Hammer your Foes into Submission
Speaking of weaponry, the summer update once again delivers with our two new guns, Pulsar and Hammer. Pulsar adds to our roster of small weapons, doling out a triple shot of magnetically-charged projectiles that proximity explode near enemies to deliver splashy damage goodness. Meanwhile, Hammer delivers the goods in a dramatically different way. Available to grinder pilots in fixed-mount form, this giant homing missile can be guided by the pilot’s cursor for targeted explosive glory. What’s more, once a player commits to a target and lets go of the fire button, the missile sheds its casing and accelerates to expedite delivery of its payload. Oh and did we mention that it can be controlled via your scope monitor? Because it totally can!
So to sum things up, hovering grinder, guns, and co-op glory is the name of THIS game with our summer update, available NOW!
Here are the patch notes that list some other fixes, etc: 0.33.0 alpha
New improved textures for grinders with more detail and paint decals and so on.
New Grinder: Overhaul. Float like a butterfly, and sting like a missile-tossing nightmare.
New co-op game mode: Convoy. Team up with your pals and see how high you can crank the difficulty!
Enabled Remix options are displayed in the lobby for all to see.
New small mount weapon: Pulsar. Toss some quarks or whatever at the enemy and make them Pul-sore!
New fixed mount weapon: Hammer. When you've got a giant guided missile, you can really nail those baddies!
Pressing any button on a controller (even if unmapped) will now cause that controller to become the active controller.
Picking up/moving a motion controller will now cause that controller to become the active controller.
When switching from motion controllers to an untracked controller (like mouse/gamepad), the hands will now snap to a default position.
Fix training mission saying "there is no input mapped" to aim when using a mouse.
Fix leg of Grinders kicking backwards after landing, resulting in getting moving again more quickly.
0.33.1 alpha
Possible fix for some rare controller detection errors.
An updated version of the game, version 1.3, has been released that now also includes full Spanish translation. Cherry Kiss is committed to creating localized versions of authentic Japanese visual novels for both English and Spanish markets. Please enjoy!
Steam's big summer sale is on and Xsyon is participating this year.
The 50% discount is also available directly through the Xsyon website
In addition, I am upgrading the servers this week. The new Test Server and Download Server are already up and running. (The Download Server affects only players using the direct Xsyon Launcher).
Next up I will move the War and Peace Servers and then back to working on updates!
For players playing directly, this upgrade will require a new Xsyon Launcher. The new launcher will be available in the download section of your account page shortly. A notice will be posted in the current launcher window when the new version is ready.
This was brought on by the Test Server starting to fail last week. As I looked into a new machine I saw that I could upgrade all the servers to better, faster machines at a lower cost.
As a bonus, the new servers should be able to handle more creatures and process creature AI faster which will go great with the upcoming updates.