Hi Beta Testers,

I made a few nice fixes today which if working as planned should head off a decent proportion of the few remaining issues I have been hearing about. Thanks for filing those issues! It's only through you filing problems that I become aware of them.

Beta 1.0.5:
-prevent random hard crash when ad checks if it has been seen on same step as it spawns

Beta 1.0.4:

-fix potential crash (corrupt save?) when ad detail array is undefined
-Limit floor wall building behaviour for only specific room, entrance and tunnels to ward off phantom wall bug. The phantom wall bug is the biggest remaining glitch I have come across. Very rarely, after building a room, the game erroneously spawn phantom walls. These are flattened so don't look like walls and are easily missed. Sometimes they block entrances or routes through stairs. Reloading solves the problem, but it creates much confusion both with players and me as I continue to try and fix it. If that sounds familiar and you can figure out how to reproduce it, do let me know.
-remove deprecated perimeter script to limit wall flattening behaviour linked to phantom walls.
-fix ghost doors. cannot replace a door on top of a solid object in a room, which created an unsellable door.
-Fail safe to mitigate train stuck in station and not sending after leaving at exactly night time without power.
-Prevent rare hard crash when checking out of grid zones on network gen

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As always, we're counting on you.

Over and out.

Hello everyone!

Today's update :

Additions and revisions:
- The time to achieve the goal has been revised. From now on, you will have to negotiate with the captain not a time to achieve an objective but rather a time to focus on an objective.
The shorter the duration, the more morale will be impacted in case of success or failure.
This will also give you more opportunity to change objectives if the current one is far away. If a pirate is able to adapt, then a captain and a quartermaster even more!
- The interval before a sailor can get sick again is now longer
- Chances of recovery for seriously ill patients when a sailor is assigned to enhanced care
- Rebalancing of the distribution of gold from cities to ships sent
- If the relationship with the people is "Privileged", then the merchant will be there every watch
- The AI will be less fooled if you close your sails or cut your machines
- Possibility of surprise after the surrender of an enemy
- The "s" of the projectiles orders have been removed, they will now be in the singular
- A few sentences have been rewritten
- Some balancing

Bugs :
- Fixed game endings that were incorrectly displayed
- Fixed a bug that prevented to shoot and reload when you had the "(at will)"
- Fixed a bug that allowed to click on the characters while a menu was open

If you have any bugs or quirks, don't hesitate to tell me!

Have a nice day or evening.

The arrival of Dreadfall also signals the arrival of a new event where Vikings can collect candies and earn time-limited rewards! The top prize being the brand-new hybrid Bonestormer, a mix between the Boneknapper and the Stormcutter!

Vikings can also look forward to:
• Bonestormer Dreadfall skin
• Bonestormer weapons
• 2 Dreadfall themed racetracks
• 8 Dreadfall themed Dragon Tactics levels
• 4 Dreadfall missions
• 24 daily quests
• Dreadfall themed stable quests
• Dreadfall maze
• & more!

Those ready to begin celebrating this season’s festivities can head on over to the School grounds and begin this latest adventure!
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Hello everyone, the Steam Games Festival is now over!

We are glad that many players enjoyed the demo during the Game Festival. The demo will keep available until October 18th.

We recelived many feedbacks about the game, and we will keep on tuning the game. We believe it will bring a better experience when it officially launches!

Thank you for playing Glimmer in Mirror! Add to your wishlist if you like it!

Boo! Wait a sec, that didn't sound very impressive...


Are you scared already? We know you're not, because Halloween is about excitement, dressing up and having a good time! Which is this update is actually all about!

In while True: learn() it's Halloween already, and you're invited! Go ahead and decorate your in-game cat with those horribly hilarious promo-codes:

• NOSFERATU
  
  
• GENIUS
  
  
• JOKER
  
  
• FLOAT
  
  
• GAMER

And if you want to Halloween up your main menu, use HALLOWEEN code and see what happens!

(If you have read this far, we've got a secret to share with you: launch the game on Halloween to get a very special achievement! Don't tell anyone else about it, ok?)

But wait, there's more! The Game Festival is still on and out next big game, Learning Factory is available for you to check out! It has cats, machine learning, factory building and lots of other cool stuff you're gonna fall in love with!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150090/Learning_Factory/



What's even better, the game's still in Alpha mode, which means you can help us make it better! Join our Discord server, where players can vote for game art, discuss gameplay and lore and help us shape the game into its full glory!

• Optimizations for performance during combat, mostly for shooting, that should help relieve frame dips.
  
• New animations for all gear (think held equipment, not guns): Hold, activate, walk, sprint, holster, draw
  
• New kicking animations: New kick animations in third and first person for all different types of holdable objects.
  
• Barbed wire will now make sounds when players are moving inside the wire for all clients in a limited range
  
• Fixed incorrect initial health when joining a match already in progress
  
• Fixed issue with teamkill reprimands not taking action in some cases
  
• Fixed long standing issue where push to talk is stuck on when window loses focus or pressing during loading screen
  
• Fixed "VCR bug" caused by server closing due to one team being empty while clients are loading, server now shuts down immediately.
  
• Shutter button networking was updated to allow for more than one button to control the same shutters and stay in sync.

• Mic Calibration Window: This will appear the first time you load into the multiplayer menu to prompt you to calibrate your mic settings.
  
• Added Master volume slider, this affects all sounds (even the broken ones), will allow players to change overall volume without having to modify the game volume in windows itself.
  
• Added the ability to name your squad. All squads have a randomly generated name upon formation. Naming your squad will show up for other players in game.
  
• Add UI option to disable custom squad names, should you not want to see them.
  
• Add player profile window to view a player's stats or open their steam profile
  
• Replace "View Steam Profile" with "View Player Profile" in user actions dropdown
  
• Added UI feature to show info about your profile and rank in the top right corner of the menu
  
• Moved some overlapping UI elements around on the menu and in-game.
  
• Added labels for Relevancy/Ranked/Matches Played on player's icons in the menu

One of our recent updates have introduced a number of issues with players and items disappearing or being invisible. This makes the whole game feel unreliable at times and we are investigating the situation. We are planning to issue hotfixes as we investigate to improve the situation.

We have discovered the disappearance of parts of the world in the unknown portals. The Herald of the Golden King calls on all inhabitants of the world to be extremely careful, especially on ships.

"Peketo is the ghost of a very disturbed child who, in life, made countless pacts with the dead so his spirit would live for hundreds of years.

He is obsessed with the color red and wants the power within the black heart so he can taint the world with blood."



Remember that The Black Heart is coming to Early Access next week: October 22. Wishlist now!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1431780/The_Black_Heart/

Shadowfest 2020 is coming to Fault!

We here at Strange Matter Studios love to get in on the holiday seasons and we are happy to announce that we will be holding a limited-time in-game event with a Steam sale from the 26th of October until November 2nd.

We wanted to include something for players to remember the event, so we will have exclusive avatars available for Shadowfest, a discount on all Halloween skins and a double XP weekend!

During the weekend of October 30th, all matches will reward double experience until November 1st. Earn Matter and Marks faster than before via level-up rewards!

One of our 2D artists JayVeeCue has created some exclusive in-game Halloween avatars! These avatars will only be available for purchase during the event, so make sure to grab them while you have the chance!



For the entire event, all Halloween-themed skins will receive a temporary 15% Matter & Coin discount in-game.





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- Strange Matter Team