Dear Stormworkers,

This week, as a minor update, we are adding vehicle to vehicle fire spreading, and have also added game save compression.

Now, when two vehicles collide with a little force, there is a good chance fire will spread from one vehicle to the other. At the point of contact, fire can spread if that point on either vehicle is currently on fire.

Fire spreading collisions require a little force, but much less than the amount of force required to do damage.

This change only makes fires more able to spread, more able to get out of control, and more deadly. If you are responding to a vehicle fire on land or at sea, please use caution! A small contact could set your vehicle alight and leave you stranded in the ocean on a burning ship!



Game saves had grown considerably in size the past few weeks since we added AI ships, so we added save compression to reduce game saves down in size. Saves typically reduce in size by over 90%. This also resolves several player issues where some players experienced slow downs during saving. We also addressed the issue with slow downs after loading previously saved games.

Save games remain backwards compatible so your old saves will still work.

The reduced save file size will also help us when adding more vehicles to the world, such as AI helicopters and planes that we plan to implement over the coming months.



Thanks to everyone who gave feedback on last weeks upcoming announcement! I don't think we have ever had so many comments on an announcement before.

As always, see below for the full list of changes including fixes and changes.

Also, be sure to check out experimental branch if you are interested in the modular engines. We added loads of new components this week and updated some mechanics. It is all a work in progress so some imagination is required but gives a sneak preview on what we are working on.



We look forward to hearing your stories about spreadable fire and other feedback :-)

Keep an eye out for a one off extra announcement early next week! We will be sharing some very big news as well as plans for 2021. We can't wait to share this info and will post it here on Steam announcements when we have all the info together (probably on Tuesday!).

Much love <3,

The Stormworks Developers

v1.0.25

Feature - Fire surfaces now spread between vehicles upon physics contact
Feature - Game saves now compress vehicles (Smaller and faster saves)

Fix - Lag Issue after reloading a world with AI vehicles in waiting state
Fix - onCharacterSit not correctly returning object ID
Fix - PID Max Error not saved when returning a vehicles

With the opening of two new North American servers, we have updated the Event Schedule so that Territory Wars, Deathmatches and other time-limited battles remain convenient for as many players as possible:

Opening on December 16, the new servers will give North American players the freedom to choose the best way to connect to Conqueror’s Blade based on their location. Cloudwing Valley (West) is based in Sunnyvale, California, while Eagle Range (East) is based in Washington DC.


Thank you to everyone that took part in the recent survey to decide the new NA event times. We will, of course, continue to monitor all your feedback to ensure events are accessible and fun for all.

Hey everyone,

We are releasing a small client update today to address recently found exploits and some other issues.

The full changelist is as follows:
* Fixed a clientside exploit with render targets (Thanks Badger and Ling)
* Fixed a clientside exploit with the web browser integration (Thanks FiveSeven)
* Fixed abnormal clientside voice delay on low tick servers
* Entity.SetModelScale is now clamped on players (minimum value is now 0.001) to prevent crashing

Servers only need updating if they are affected by the model scale crashing issue.

Greetings jolly fellows!
The holiday season is upon us and we at UDX Interactive want to help spread some holiday cheer. For December, we will be giving away a Wheel of Fate prize pack! Included in the prize pack is a Wheel of Fate steam key, hoodie and poster!



Here’s how to enter!

• Click this link to visit the live contest tweet.
  
• Follow the @WheelofFateGame twitter account
  
• Retweet the contest tweet
  
• Comment and tag 2 friends

Entries that only follow and retweet will still be entered into the raffle but entries that also comment and tag 2 friends will be entered twice, meaning they have a higher chance to win.

Please ensure your twitter settings are set to allow direct messaging from our account so that we can message you your prize key and request shipping information for the Wheel of Fate hoodie and poster.

Our December Holiday Raffle will end on Sunday, December 20th @11:59PM EST and the winner will be announced the following morning. Best of luck this year and we wish you a wonderful holiday season!

Cheers!
UDX Team

Hello friends! Every Friday 17:30 GMT starts “Let’s play together” challenge. We pick up a level and during 24 hours everyone is trying to get the best time on it. You just need to register once on our Discord server and keep Discord running while playing the level of the week, and your results will be automatically published in Discord #lets-play-together channel. You need to get 5 stars for beating the level.

Glittering prizes:
1) 3 winners get collectable cards - one random card per person. If you collect 18 locomotive cards, you can collect 6 new cards, and then 2 more special ones. When you collect all 26 cards, you will receive a special prize.
2) Any participant can win a card. Number or cards will depend on the number of participants: one card for every 10 participants. The more players, the more prizes! Your chances of winning remain high.
3) The winner will get a pin. Also lucky pin will be sent to one randomly chosen participant.

You can get more details on our Discord server (#lets-play-together channel).

A level we are playing this week:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2164597059
Just open the game - it should be highlighted in the main menu.
Good luck everyone!

Interactive artbook of Project DeepWeb has been released!
It includes stories about development of a game, details of live-action shootings, early sketches and lots of other stuff

Available now!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1466980/

We get it - you probably want to play the game rather than read our blather, but we'd be fools not to make a quick launch announcement.

We launched to Early Access at the end of April, and projected about six months to get out of EA. It (clearly) took us a little bit longer than we'd planned, but we believe the extra time and love was worth it. The game feels worlds more polished than the EA launch, and we've added so much new content that we're really excited about.

We'd be remiss not to briefly mention the folks and organizations that have advocated for us during (and often before!) EA:

• All of our EA purchasers and players (particularly those of you that playtested even earlier)
  
• Our Discord and Twitter communities
  
• The streamers and journalists willing to cover an EA game from a tiny studio no one's ever heard of
  
• Seattle Indies Expo for being the only convention that gave us any time or floor space

Now go get back to the game! If you're enjoying it, it would mean the world to us if you'd take a few minutes to write a positive Steam review, tell your friends about it, and join us on Twitter or Discord. There's more stuff to come (we're particularly enamored with an annoying enemy who will steal your wado), so stay tuned.

- Picklefeet Games

Today we give you Beta 2 of our Christmas update! Let's cut to the chase, shall we?

A Beta is the first release of our next update. We release it to do final testing and gather feedback. So enter if you like to enjoy the earliest version, but stay away if you'd prefer a fully tested, stable release. This version will be in Beta for the next week or so, depending on the Bugs we find.

Easy, join our Discord here, and join the #beta-instructions channel

Right click on Killsquad, and then:

Properties > Betas > Enter the next code m9XVbZvCRv3bwxeF > Check Code

Please report bugs at #beta-bug-report.

Please email them to http://killsquad@novarama.com.



· Fixed a couple of random crashes gathered with the Crash Reporter. Thank you for sending us your crashes.
· Fixed the bug where the game would crash with some users as soon as it's launched.
· Fixed the bug where the game could crash related with switching tabs.

· Adjusted the Colosseum's dynamic vector to fine-tune the difficulty (Thank you Bum)
· Adjusted the maximum resistance factor of enemies to different attack elements from 75 to 40 percent (Thank you Bum)
· Updated the Recruit Colosseum Contract to appear as an optional Contract. (Thank you Bum, thegreg!)
· Removed "Recommended Elements" in the Colosseum Contract description (Thank you thegreg!)
· Players can now switch weapons right before finishing an animation.
· Players can now cast another Skill right before finishing an animation.
· Added Faction Experience to chests in contracts and quests.
· Fixed the bug where players couldn't teleport with Cass' Shuriken in the middle of an attack (Thank you Qoinz!).
· Fixed the bug where players couldn't Phase Shift in the middle of an attack as Cass (Thank you Qoinz!).
· Fixed the issue where players couldn't cast Gadgets items in the middle of an animation. If the player is running or idle, a casting animation will appear.
· Updated Recruit Colosseum's item Max Vector rewards (weapons & gear) from 50, to 80.
· Updated the text of the descriptions in Colosseum Contracts (Thank you tehgreg!).
· Fixed the bug where enemies wouldn't drop Talisman EXP if players had much higher Vector than the Contract they were playing in (Thank you tehgreg!).
· Fixed the bug where Troy's Ultimate could cast without any cooldown (Thank you thegreg!).
· Fixed the bug where the UI Stats in the Heroes tab didn't display the sum of the values (Thank you tehgreg!).
· Fixed the bug where Troy's "Experienced Clones" skill didn't trigger its cooldown timer with players who weren't the host.
· Fixed the bug where Gadgets items in the shop would cost 0 credits (Thank you tehgreg!).
· Fixed the bug where Troy could launch infinitely his Lucky Cards without any cooldown.
· Fixed the bug where incorrect elements appeared in the Factions screen (Thank you tehgreg!).
· Fixed the bug where empty Contracts could appear with the Ping and the Join button.
· Fixed the bug which incorrect stats appeared in some weapons.
· Fixed "Improve your Charisma" Quests, now giving correct feedback of all the rewards they give. (Thank you tehreg!)
· Fixed the bug where Troy's "Strong Shot" skill could trigger incorrect timing with its basic attack.
· Fixed the bug where the Quest of finishing the Colosseum in less than 26 minutes wouldn't complete after beating its objective (Thank you Dism!)
· Fixed the bug where the UI of the remaining Waves of the Colosseum would appear in the same position as the Talisman EXP (Thank you tehgreg!).
· Fixed the bug where Kosmo's, Cass' and Zero's materials didn't render transparencies.
· Fixed the bug where default cosmetics didn't properly change after selecting some skins.
· Fixed the bug where the Quests didn't properly update after switching tabs.
· Fixed the bug where the bought items in the Shop didn't disappear (Thank you tehgreg!).
· Fixed the bug where on the Quests menu, the scroll bar didn't work smoothly when using it with the mouse.
· Fixed the bug where in the Quest "The Plague is coming", the first step couldn't be completed.
· Fixed Troy's and Kosmo's character descriptions (Thank you Alexis & friends!).
· Fixed the bug where in the last objective of the Jade extraction mission, Jotuns could get stuck in some areas (Thank you Alexis & friends!).
· Fixed the descriptions of the cooldown Talisman (Thank you Petrisis).
· Fixed the bug where Troy wouldn't be able to launch any more Cards if knockbacked during his throw animation.
· Fixed the bug where Cass could mark enemies without unlocking the Skill upgrade, "Phased Thrust".
· Fixed the bug where Zero's "Damage Area" skill wouldn't disappear when taken the health kit.
· Fixed the text where it stated that Zero could still have a damage boost after dodging.
· Fixed animation Troy's transitions with the "Execution" and "Death Warrant" skills.
· Fixed the bug where the images of the Contracts would float in the corner of the screen after zooming in/out.
· Fixed the bug where the enemy Mamluks wouldn't attack players.
· Fixed the bug where the mission objective ui could obscure other ui elements.
· Fixed the bug where 3D rendered elements in the Shop, wouldn't update after switching tabs.
· Fixed the bug where after hosting a private, if the player leaves, it won't be able to create a public match or join a contract.
· Fixed the bug where Kosmos' "Sokol-ks" (the blue one) skin could appear as the default white "Orlan-Vt".
· Fixed the bug where Quests' UI could appear with the incorrect background.
· Fixed the bug where the 3D renders in the Rewards screen, disappeared after successfully loading the Lobby in the background.
· Fixed the issue where players could fall through the map in the Recruit Contract, "Doors wide shut".
· Fixed the issue where players could fall through the map in the Veteran Contract, "Arachnophilia?".
· Fixed the issue where players could get stuck with Kemmekh's elevators.
· Fixed the issue where players could get knockbacked over the elevator in Double Trouble's Contract.
· Updated Portuguese with Community Translations. Thank you Mazter for your contributions.
· Updated localization files.

What are we doing right now:

· Bug fixing.
· If your game crashes, a Crash reporter will appear. Please add the details of what you were doing at the time of the crash and send it to us. If you want to, feel free to contact us directly here at killsquad@novarama.com, with your "Saved" folder (C:\\Users\\%USERNAME%\\AppData\\Local\\Killsquad) attached.

Update 1.00.0 is now live!
Saves from previous versions are no longer compatible.

• Activated Steam Achievements!
  
• Added a number of new sound effects
  
• Added a new battle music for the final boss fight
  
• Updated all music tracks in the game
  
• Edited and tweaked numerous text elements throughout the game
  
• Nerfed the Kyushu POI rewards for Sakurajima and Nagasaki but made rewards guaranteed
  
• Disabled World Weather in Story/Boss battles
  
• Nerfed the Retinue Charm slightly
  
• Tweaked Mitsukuni level-up schema and Mitsukuni 3 Layout
  
• Nerfed the Onikuma slightly
  
• Changed the Ranged Assault Achievement to be more achievable
  
• Improved Murasaki 2 Layout
  
• Improved the Shinto Priest and Bandit mitigation slightly
  
• Tweaked nearly every Ally's hire cost
  
• Reduced later region difficulty on all Difficulties
  
• Improved the Ambush Tactics Charm

Details:

• Fixed rare crash bug in the necromancer mission, which could happen when a Skeleton Boss and Necromancer where killed by the same action.
  
• Fixed bug which could cause the screen to be rendered with wrong aspect ratio in windowed mode.
  
• Added option to send bug reports to the error dialog. If you encounter a bug, please send a bug report by clicking the Send button in the error dialog.

Thanks for the feedback and have fun!