Hi everyone!

Since the first preview build for the Steam Festival in June we have made great progress and your feedback has been very helpful!

Our huge leap into the unknown with a different engine and our unique new UniversEdit framework demanded a lot of preparation work and scaling the company during difficult times.
We had planned to get to the current state of the game a bit earlier but all the groundwork is now starting to pay off and things move very fast at this point.

We don’t feel like the game is quite ready yet however and we want to give you a high quality experience from the start that does not feel “too early”.

As such we have decided to slightly delay the Early Access launch to get things running as smooth as possible and include as much content and polish as possible.

As new for the Early Access launch on Steam we have determined the 29th of September

Until the Early Access launch we will gradually invite more people to the closed Pre-Alpha,
however it will stay limited access until the Early Access launch.
The invites will be announced in the community Discord!

More info's and reveals are coming in the meantime!
Thank you for your patience!
- Shrike, Taro and the Team

Friends!

We are pleased to announce that on August 13, in honor of the opening new anniversary LX season of the Arena, the traditional Great Battle for Territories will take place.

Anyone who is ready to defend the honor of his union, we are waiting on the lands of Irselnort!

Schedule is here:
US-Sapphire - 20:00 PDT
EU-Emerald - 20:00 CEST
SEA-Pearl - 18:00 CEST
BR-Tourmaline - 02:00 CEST (next day)
RU-Amber, RU-Topaz, RU-Ruby - 18:00 CEST

Rewards:
3 taken territories:
- increasing of resilience, physical and magical strength by 10%
- increasing of arena points gain by 10%
2 taken territories:
- increasing of max HP and energy by 10%
- increasing of arena points gain by 10%
1 taken territory (or 2:2):
- increasing of HP and MP regeneration by 30%
- increasing of arena points gain by 10%
Incentive prize (0:0; 0:1; 0:2; 0:3)
- increasing of physical and magical defense by 10%
 
All bonuses may be summarized, except for the incentive one.
Rewards will be active for 3 days.

Good luck in the battle!
AIGRIND

Greetings and salutations space fans!

Today we’re back with another dev diary, and the topic at hand is the feature improvements coming to the Traditions system. Back in dev diary 214 when we announced the Lem Update and the Custodians Initiative, we also talked about how to make Selectable Traditions.

Selecting your Traditions

We know there’s been mods that have extended the amounts of traditions for some time now, and we also know that it's something that parts of the community have been asking for as well. For us, Traditions have always been an important part of customizing and specializing your Empire during play, and although we of course like giving players more customization options, we also need to maintain a balance. We didn’t simply want to keep adding new traditions without having the UI support it well, and we didn’t also want to give players too many options right away, which can lead to Choice Overload. We felt like it was a good time to review the Traditions system, because we wanted to add a few more Tradition Trees, and open up the avenue for doing more of that in the future, where it makes sense.

Let’s dive into the changes, and keep in mind that nothing is final and there’s missing art. Feedback is still very welcome though.



We are improving the traditions system so that you are no longer locked to the same set of 7 traditions (with some swaps), but you can rather pick which Tradition Tree you want to go into one of these 7 slots.


All the Tradition Trees currently available to the United Nations of Earth.

Some of the Tradition Trees, that were previously swaps of other trees (like Adaptability being a swap of Diplomacy), are now their own trees again. This means that Adaptability, for example, is now available to all non-machine empires. Synchronicity is still mutually exclusive with Harmony (one will appear if you are a gestalt empire, the other if you are a regular one). Versatility is available to all machine empires.

Changes to existing Traditions

Other than allowing you to select your own Traditions trees, we’ve also changed some of the traditions within the existing trees. Let’s take a look at some of those changes:

• Judgment Corps: no longer increases crime prevention, but rather makes your Enforcers produce 1 Unity.
  
• Finisher: no longer provides +1 monthly influence, but rather increases +10% ruler output for regular empires, or +10% admin cap for gestalts

• Open Markets replaced with Diplomatic Networking: Embassy pacts now produce 3 Unity
  
• Secure Shipping replaced with Eminent Diplomats: Diplomatic Acceptance increased by +5, and your Envoys that are Improving Relations have a 1% chance per month to gain a Favor from the target empire.
  
• Insider Trading replaced with Trust or Bust: Trust Cap +50, Trust Growth +33%
  
• Finisher: no longer increases Trust Cap or Trust Growth, but rather increases Diplomatic Weight by +10% and +1 Envoy.

• Mind and Body: now also increases Leader Skill Cap by +1
  
• Kinship: effect on demotion time buffed from -50% to -75%
  
• Bulwark of Harmony moved to Unyielding, replaced with Harmonious Directives: +1 Edict Cap

• Adoption: no longer increases Starbase Cap by +2, but instead increases Naval Cap by +20
  
• The Great Game: old effects removed, now increases damage done to Starbases by +20%

• Finisher: no longer provides Merchant Jobs per Pops on a planet, but rather increases Stability by +5.

New Tradition Trees

We are adding 3 new Tradition Trees to the game: Mercantile, Unyielding and Subterfuge. Unyielding and Subterfuge are currently unlocked by Nemesis, while Mercantile (originally supposed to be unlocked by Megacorp) is available to everyone. The reason being that we wanted to see how it felt to have the Trade Policies unlocked through this tree. It will therefore no longer be possible to convert Trade Value into Energy + Consumer Goods/Unity unless you have the (3) Adaptive Economic Policies tradition.


New art is still coming in.

• Adopt: Starbase Collection Range +1, Trade Protection +5
  
• (1) Trickle Up Economics: Clerks provide an additional +1 Trade Value
  
• (2) Commercial Enterprises: Commercial Zones Building now provides 1 Merchant Job.
  
• (3) Adaptive Economic Policies: Can convert parts of their Trade Value into Unity or Consumer Goods
  
• (4) Marketplace of Better Ideas: increases trade value by +10%
  
• (5) Insider Trading: moved from Diplomacy Traditions, -10% Market Fee
  
• Finisher: increases trade value by +10%

• Adoption: Starbase Cap +2 and Starbase Upgrade Speed +50%
  
• (1) Resistance is Frugal: Stronghold buildings now produce 3 Unity and Defense Army Health is increased by +33%
  
• (2) Never Surrender: reduces Planet Bombardment Damage by -25%, war exhaustion by -25% and increases hostile claim costs by +25%
  
• (3) Bulwark of Harmony: moved from Harmony Traditions, effects are as before
  
• (4) Fortress Doctrine: increases the Hit Points and Damage of Starbases and Defensive Platforms by 33%, and reduces the upkeep cost of starbases by -20%
  
• (5) Defense in Depth: increases Starbase Cap by +2 and reduces Starbase upgrade cost by -50%. In addition, owners of Nemesis will also increase Hostile Operation Difficulty by +4 for the Sabotage Starbase Operation.
  
• Finisher: Max Defensive Platforms +50%

• Adoption: +1 Codebreaking
  
• (1) Information Security: +1 Encryption
  
• (2) Operational Security: +1 Codebreaking, +2 Operation Skill
  
• (3) Non-Disclosure Agreements: Hostile Operation Difficulty is +1, and Hostile Operation Cost and Upkeep is increased by +50%
  
• (4) Double Agents: Whenever a Hostile Operation targeting us fails, we gain 10 Intel on the offending empire
  
• (5) Shadow Recruits: increases Infiltration Speed by +50%
  
• Finisher: Successful Operations refund half of their cost on Infiltration Level

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That is all for this week folks! Let us know which Tradition Trees you like to pick, and why. Any feedback is very welcome.

Next week we’ll be back to talk about the additions we’re making to the Humanoids Species Pack.

Scientists of Zone announced the hunt for artifacts! For the purposes of the scientific experiment, only artifacts of the "alpha" group and only the pickups are counting; all the collected artifacts stalkers are free to use as they want.

Only the first pick up of an artifact from anomaly is counting, while artifacts that stalkers themselves threw doesn't count.

The following artifacts of the "alpha" group are of interest to scientists: Screen, Pillow, Shield, Resin, Antigrav, Stabilizer, Vezuvius, Haze, Heater, Conductor.

Stalkers of three servers (RU, Steam PvP, Steam PvE), who will make the most pickups from 00:00 on 14.08 to 23:59 on 15.08 (Moscow time), will receive prizes:

"Night Wolf" Backpack (30 days)
Subspace Store (7 days)
Old Stalker's Journal (14 days)

The first 15 stalkers in the top will get special prize:
Syringes with Cure for Sporosis (box)
"A-Zone" Pin - 45 pcs.

Good luck!

Hey everyone!

Thank you for your continued support and patience, and thank you for taking the time to report bugs and give suggestions! <3

Tweaks:

• The Chest reward from defeating a Keeper enemy will now be unlocked
  
• Key spawn chance increased. Chances are further increased on later floors
  
• When you enter the Lobby, the game should check for all achievements and call Steam to set achievements already achieved (this is for when Steam loses your achievement data)

Bugfixes:

• Overflowing Goblet should no longer appear twice in a run
  
• Gathering should now have "Once per battle" correctly
  
• Impulsive Swing Exhaust should now deal stun damage correctly
  
• Exhaust charge details should now be hidden on battle end
  
• You should no longer be able to replace a spell when adding a new spell

A major update is coming soon ! We want to show one of the features on the map "Mountain village"

• Fixed Steam Workshop upload (reported by ThatWeirdWizard)
  
  
• Fixed ACTR teleport cooldown and power buffer being saved into blueprints (reported by Obsidiman)
  
  
• Fixed being unable to add or remove heatsinks from unpowered ACTRs (reported by Obsidiman)
  
  
• Fixed server flags (f.e. creative mode) not being set when creating a new galaxy (reported by Holon)
  
  
• Fixed cargo teleporter automation cartridges (reported by daofcmacg and mrpookz)
  
  
• Fixed cached ships not being validated on system load (reported by TheLion1675 & Benkinz99)
  
  
• Fixed solar system tile generation getting stuck on an already generated tile (this fixes Redera on EU PvE)
  
  
• Fixed spawn rules containing outdated ship hashes by updating them on solar system load
  
  
• Fixed Steam Workshop upload continually generating screenshot previews
  
  
• Fixed capitalization of "Insert heatsink" message and removed {1}{0} from the message
  
  
• Changed Discord button link into vanity URL
  
  
• Fixed possible crashes in mails, beacons, and fines hack cartridges
  
  
• Fixed crash when opening captain's chair task list
  
  
• Fixed crash in salvage UI

• Servers need to be updated

If you haven't already, make sure to check out our Discord channel for the latest updates, server notifications, support, and more!

Today we are very pleased to announce that Martha Is Dead has won two awards as part of the Game Connection x Chinajoy 2021 Global Game Development Awards!



Martha Is Dead was nominated and won the award for “Best Story / Storytelling” in a game, however was ALSO given the peoples choice award for the event!

We are very proud of the team at LKA, and the excitement around Martha continues to show they are masters of their story telling craft that began with The Town Of Light, and continues to grow.
We can’t wait to share more Martha news with you, and as part of our celebrations, released some brand new screenshots for you to enjoy!

Additionally – you can learn more about Martha is Dead in this excellent preview from Eurogamer

Add Martha is Dead to your wishlist here to stay up to date!

List of changes:

- New difficulty mode "Relaxed". The time limit in levels has been removed to allow for more stress-free gameplay sessions.
- Fix on stage 4-13 where a jump bumper would not work in some cases.
- Added missing collider in stage 1-4.
- Fixed animation issue when using grappling tongue the same frame Sami transitions back to its Idle animation.
- Fixed issue where Sami would not hug a wall if the jump button is being held down.
- In stage 3-7, changed rotating bumpers so they reset to the same position on stage restart.
- Fixed issue where pressing the jump button the same frame the tongue starts grappling could cause a jump bigger than usual.
- Fixed a couple of wrong interactions when entering a pipe using the grappling tongue.
- Fixed collider issue in stage 2-s1.
- Fixed issue when pressing the stomp button the same frame that Sami hugs a wall would cause the stomp to stop working.
- Fixed a couple of issues related to Speedrun mode.
- Fixed achievement unlock.
- Enemy position change in stage 4-11.

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