Sep 8, 2022

Robots of Lux DLC coming September 15th!

Curious Expedition 2 - lorenzo_mm

Dear Explorers,

We're excited to announce that a new DLC titled Robots of Lux will be released on Thursday, September 15th.

This one is quite special, as it features a crossover with a game we love made by another developer: SteamWorld Heist by Image & Form Games!

Here's the trailer:

The Robots of Lux DLC features 2 new expedition leaders: Piper Faraday from SteamWorld Heist and the Naturalist, who can tame almost any animal in the game, including the Giant Crab! Both leaders come with new recruitable companions.

The DLC also includes a new Paris location: the Old Theatre, where you can freeze a character for later use and shop for robotic team members and equipment.

If you'd like to be notified once the Robots of Lux DLC is available, please wishlist it and Steam will send you an email as soon as it's live:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1751921/Curious_Expedition_2__Robots_of_Lux/

Adventure awaits!

Sep 8, 2022

Asylum Rock Update!

The Wickie : Journey of a Lighthouse Keeper - olblue

This means that Chapter 2 is now nearly ready for code freeze. The sinister loading area of the abandoned Asylum Rock institution can now be explored (with some danger of course) for reasons... unspecified...

Would you like to visit Asylum Rock? Do you perhaps have a friend there? Please make an appointment via the Leith asylum office and ensure you read the entire visitor safety manual while you wait on your arrival date.

Pandora's Rock is opening for visitors soon and is a stepping stone to the Asylum Rock, also owned by the ubiquitous Malin Family of the Hebrides. Formerly a huge health retreat and asylum for rich and poor alike, the Asylum closed its doors some twenty years ago following some... discrepancies... Now it is a huge, damp and uninhabited edifice looking out over the Western Isles and into the raging ocean.

Sep 8, 2022

Crusader Kings III: Friends & Foes is now available!

Crusader Kings III - PDX-Trinexx

Beware, ruler - tread carefully with those you call friend or enemy; they are two sides of the same coin. Your relationships matter more than ever, and with Crusader Kings III: Friends & Foes, witness those closest to you come alive in the most intimate detail.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2114760/Crusader_Kings_III_Friends__Foes/

Over one hundred unique new experiences of medieval larger-than-life drama wait to be discovered in the new event pack. From rival noble houses holding lifelong grudges to childhood bullies, summer crushes, and spoiling spouses with lavish gifts. Your ruler’s everyday existence has never been more fraught - or more exciting - than with Crusader Kings III: Friends & Foes.

False Friends and Open Enemies

Family, friends, and those out for your blood are fully brought to life in this rich and stirring event pack.

Your ruler’s day-to-day is filled with a myriad of new events. Experience over one hundred player-driven stories involving childhood, memories, nemeses, wrangling unruly sons, or wooing your significant other with sumptuous attention.
With a little help from your friends, uncover novel ways to become pals with those you hold dear or even achieve the coveted best friend status.
Be prepared for ever more dangerous rivals, sharpening their vengeful knives to get back at you. Or pre-empt your nemesis with devious new options… if you dare.

Memories, Those Sweet Memories!

Know thy past to understand the present.

Your characters will reminisce about their personal history with those closest to them, be it a romantic getaway or the painful humiliation that is the seed of a well-nurtured murder plot.
Childhood is a place where happy memories rest… or not. Experience a character’s youth in full, from brutish bullies to wistful teenage love.
Past deeds will not be forgotten. Be watchful of the wrath of rival noble houses, plotting to right a perceived wrong, even after many generations.

The Crusader Kings III: Friends & Foes event pack sets the mood with several new music pieces to accompany your ruler’s conspiring and scheming. New soundtracks are general, Western European, and Arabian-themed tunes.

And remember, your majesty: keep your friends close and your enemies even closer.

Sep 8, 2022

September 8th version Update Notes (Beta)

梦江湖 - 小师妹阿月

September 8th version Update Notes (Beta) [/][/]

1. The official opening of difficulty 5 will be a very challenging existence! (Envisaged) Attention! The first injection of the evil line play shot!
Every battle of A Cult Line is extremely difficult. Be prepared to go again
2. If you choose the evil line, all your decent teammates will leave, and yes, the equipment you gave them will be taken away, so what to leave and what to keep, who to fight and who to ignore, please make a choice
③ After joining the church, the invitation function cannot be performed properly. Items that summon teammates will also no longer work
Four evil line has exclusive teammates, through the plot to join the team
- Wu is now available on difficulty 5. The difficulty 4 value in the beta has been scaled back
⑥ Difficulty 5 will have many growth advantages, including, but not limited to, faster experience gain. Some opening achievements will be improved on Difficulty 5

2. Adjustment of Namgong School: shorten the time required for each training session.

3. Adjustment of the Five Poisons Teaching Skills:
A repair is Yuan Qifeng refining "five poisons secret medicine" did not normally spawn the problem of low quality materials. Also fixed an issue with unusual material requirements. Icebergs are no longer needed at the drop of a hand
Downregulate the number of Dan medicine and snake bile needed for the breakthrough of the body cultivation of ten thousand poisons

4. Expand the production path of Life extension Golden Elixel: Long Life Gate can be synthesized (but limited), Mysterious Merchant (spawn probability)

5. Fixed the problem that some exclusive martial arts that did not reach level 20 could not perform enlightenment properly during Guanyin image enlightenment

6. "Legend of the Sword and the Devil" has been enhanced in epic level

7. Correct the problem of apprentice inheritance error, if there is still a problem, please feedback in the group

8. Fix the Five poisons mission "Prince of the sword seal" lead to orphan teacher too missing problem

Sep 8, 2022

Optimization and Maintenance Update

The Riftbreaker - voidreaver

Hello Riftbreakers!

After a period of testing on the Experimental branch, we are releasing a new patch introducing a large number of improvements and optimizations to CPU performance and memory consumption. If you have noticed memory or CPU-related issues during gameplay, this might just be the patch for you. Naturally, the potential performance gain will depend on the gameplay situation, but we're optimistic about these changes. More optimizations to come!

The Riftbreaker - Optimization and Maintenance update, September 8th 2022. Binaries #580, Package #202 Changelog:

Changes:

Added custom minimap markers for meteors and comets of all varieties.
Arachnoid Boss' projectiles now leave an acid stain behind. It will damage and slow you down if you walk through it.
The game will now always display its version number if modified content is found. This will help us identify bugs caused by mods.

Fixes:

Optimized memory usage reducing the overall memory footprint by about 500MB
Optimized frame buffer memory formats improve GPU performance by up to 10%
Introduced various optimization during map generation steps in order to optimize memory usage.
Many sound samples are now streamed to optimize memory consumption.
Added instance limits for monster idle sounds - to optimize memory consumption.
Fixed lights and other effects in various props - you can guess why.
Implemented Target Finder Throttling in drones. Thanks to this change, you should see a large CPU performance uplift in bases that utilize a large number of drones (repair towers, cultivators, minelayers, etc.). It should also fix gameplay 'hiccups'.
Optimized the UpdateEnvironment component of the TimeOfDay system. Depending on the circumstances, it can save up to 5ms of logic calculation time. In human terms - it can save you a lot of CPU performance!
Introduced extensive optimizations of the LuaSystem that can increase both stability and CPU performance.
Introduced a large number of small optimizations in various other game systems. Taken individually, the performance gains from them are negligible, but as a whole, they should free up a decent amount of resources for the game and make it run better as a result.
Fixed a memory leak in TerrainAffectorSystem that caused performance degradation when loading old save files.
Fixed an error that could potentially unlock research rewards before the relevant research item has been discovered.
Fixed building grouping errors in the new building menu screen.
Fixed an issue that could cause save file corruption if a player died after they completed a mission during the campaign.
Fixed an obscure crash that occurred while disassembling items.
Fixed collisions in small metallic crystals - they will no longer block Mr. Riggs' movement.
Sentry Gun and Sentinel Tower projectiles should now be able to hit the Metallic Valley alien towers.
Fixed a visual bug that prevented pipes from connecting to Geothermal Power Plants.
Fixed Phirian dash screen shake effect - the effect would affect the player's screen regardless of distance.
Fixed death effects for small units by lowering their scale - previously, the effect would cover up the entire unit.
Enemies should no longer be able to shoot their projectiles over tall buildings - we fixed their collision heights.
Fixed 'Resist All' function not always working properly.
Fixed drexolian_medium_03 tree - the TreeDesc now has a proper mesh name in it.
Fixed a couple of missing voiceover lines.

EXOR Studios

Sep 8, 2022

The brand-new B-girl game "blindness" is coming~

Melody/心跳旋律 - ADOG

Hello ! The production team brought a light fantasy theme of the second daughter's game "eye blindness",

In the game, players play the role of a blind girl who is responsible for "beating the clock." after graduating from college, she returns to her hometown.

The abstinence little suckling dog who came down from the sky and the black neighbor brother who met again after a long separation thought it was a chance meeting and goodbye, but they didn't realize that all the calculations and traps had been laid from the moment they re entered this familiar city.

When the truth you see is not the truth, how should you choose between the endless "anomalies" and the inseparable fetters of the two teenagers.

"The watchman dispels evil spirits, and all ghosts avoid him."
At the end of October, please look forward to it~~~

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2130540/Blind/