Bug

A game-breaking bug was found causing massive lag spikes every shot from any weapon.

Fix

Removed line of code that calculated distance from enemies which then relayed an alert if within a specific distance.

Intended Results

A lag spike on a shot fired should no longer exist

Summary

A small bug with a large impact was found which affected some high-end video cards and specific pc setups. A temporary fix was created which removed some quality-of-life code. Additional research will go into reimplementing back into the game.

Please reach out here or via discord if after the patch you still encounter this bug.

• Added new 3rd rank ghost - The Ghoul
  
• Added wisps, which can help player to rebirth.
  
• Added new bracer - Terminal State Bracer.
  
• Now ghost attacks on the character are visible to all players
  
• New unique killing animation added for each ghost
  
• Added character damage animation
  
• Attacks are now divided into two types: frightening and murdering. Each type has its own animation.
  
• frightening attacks do not kill the player, but slow him down for a while.

• You can now pick up objects through the corpses of dead players.
  
• Fixed ghost mimicry
  
• Ghosts now do not interact with key objects during the corresponding weakenings (candles, doors, taps)
  
• Added new device - Cursed Objects Detector
  
• Fixed cursed mirror
  
• Fixed bugs with ghost attacks
  
• Fixed bugs in locations

New Game Update, B0009

New Car: Nouzen
You guys asked, and here you guys go! Have fun drifting!
- The car is still a work in progress, and the body kit options are still not complete and more will be added.

Pvp Online Racing
Proper Structured PvP Battles lobbies are now added, with standard First To Finish or Cat and Mouse Race Modes with multiple rounds, where you can earn money and experience while racing others!

Please note that the feature is still a work in progress, and is limited to 2 players per lobby for now. We're working on allowing others to join the lobby as spectators.

Livery Editor Upgrades
We've upgraded the Livery Editor with some new requested features
- Grouped decals can now be selected to be grouped again
- Added "Recent Colors"
- Added mirroring of decals on front, top and rear
- Added "Select All" option during mirroring and grouping operations

Update on situation of New Tracks
Unfortunately, it seems that we have run into some issues with our production of the newer track models, and a new track is still not ready. We have some plans to deal with the problem, we'll release another announcement to address this.

Other Changes and Fixes
- Improved accuracy of Netcode prediction
- Fixed Livery Editor group deleting
- Fixed some broken translations
- Fixed message and command duplications (finally found the root cause)
- Fixed a potential performance issue during multiplayer races
- Fixed bumpers with dual exhausts

• changed middle mouse orbit sensitivity range (from camera sensitivity)
  
• added some help on resources and the buildine to splash and controller screen
  
• changed icon what tower will be selected next (nearest to cursor in ground mode)
  
• made photomode mouse hardwaremouse
  
• allowed photomode camera to tilt to 90 degrees
  
• hid photomode keys when moving the camera
  
• added a play/pause button to photomode (Space Bar/ Left Stick Down)
  
• screenshot button ingame only responds to when you release the key/button
  
• photomode keys for play/pause and respawn/rewind added to the photomode controls list

As always stuff may break, let me know if it does.

We have now completed translating a French language version of Making History: The First World War.
Plus, we have included a Turkish language localization option that is currently still in being tested.

The Palace is puzzling...



Complete all of your Weekly Challenges and the Ultimate Challenge to earn this week’s Ultimate Reward – the Puzzle Palace visor.

A new Ultimate Reward will become available every week, so be sure to keep an eye on your Challenges and take advantage of these free rewards.

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Seeking a new look are we, Executor?



The Skinned Reflexes bundle brings the Reflex Reaction coatings for your UNSC weapons arsenal (MA40 AR, MK50 Sidekick, BR75, VK78 Commando, and CQS48 Bulldog), along with the following CHIMERA customization items:

• Flenser helmet
  
• Ghostlink Adaptation helmet attachment
  
• Heirodyne Augmentor shoulders
  
• Compliance Protocol chest attachment
  
• Crysknife Utility hip attachment
  
• Bring Plugin wrist attachment
  
• Redundant Spiral armor coating
  
• Tracelines visor

Go forth to the Shop and prepare yourselves for battle today!

Operator8 is now available in Early Access!

The EA version of the game has around 4 to 7 hours of gameplay throughout two unique full levels and a tutorial!

There are 6 guns available in the EA version to use and over 10 enemies to use them on!

I plan to add two more levels and another two guns to the game as well as some new enemies along with numerous fixes, tweaks and patches within the Early Access period.



Thank you to everyone that has Wishlisted and shown interest in the game! I wouldn't have been able to create the game up to this point without you.

I am curious and waiting to hear about your feedback with regards to the EA version and look forward to improving the game as much as I can!

If you play the game please consider leaving a review as it helps a lot with visibility.

Thank you and enjoy!

We've been doing a lot of work on online multiplayer. It's coming... but first comes this update with a bunch of misc things:

• New BotBattle mode where you can team up with 1-3 players to defeat bots in 7 progressively-more-challenging rounds.
  
• Your cannon’s deathBeam will immediately explode your bombs. This minor tweak makes cannons much more valuable for advanced play.
  
• Better resolution-handling – especially for people on 2+ monitor setups.
  
• Renamed “reference” button to “library” in an attempt to get people to notice it haha.
  
• DualSense controller support and controller vibration settings.
  
• Perfect hit – if you swing/throw your sword at the moment it flashes white – a bit of extra power.
  
• Removed Race mode – it would have taken a lot of work to polish this to being decent… and there are already a bunch of great race-platformers out there. (The “FlowCam” camera controller lives on in other projects…)
  
• Some new level backgrounds.
  
• Continuing tweaks on the QuickStart tutorial. Seems to be in a great place.
  
• Tons and tons of little tweaks/fixes.

Warlords with roots will not change their roots even if they marry.
Due to the adoption, they will be treated as a clan with the other military commander, but it was decided that this is only for one generation and that the clan treatment due to the adoption will be canceled in the next generation.
・In the commander mode of battle, the number of soldiers is now displayed larger on the status screen displayed on the right side.
-Fixed an issue where, during a CPU turn, when a military commander with the domestic affairs generalization ability was present at a base, the domestic affairs effect was applied to all territories nationwide.
・Fixed a bug where the betrayal [embezzlement] flag would be attached in the judgment similar to the CPU regardless of the player's will when the player was a magistrate.
・Fixed the stats of some warlords
・Other minor fixes
・Other minor bug fixes

Hunter.0 is the prototype of a line of robots created to hunt down and destroy their own kin. Armed with the Ionic Edge, a powerful energy sword, Hunter.0 neutralized countless targets before finally being destroyed and having its parts scattered far and wide. If found and reassembled, a powerful new ally could be added to the Resistor lineup, one who will stop at nothing to eliminate all that stands between it and its goals.


Robo-Shop has also arrived! This automated shopping cart/hovercraft hybrid comes armed with the legendary Pachelbot’s Cannon, a devastating weapon with a unique pickup mechanic for faster reloading of its giant cannonballs. Robo-Shop also comes equipped with a new ability: Man the Cannons! Fires a rapid barrage of full-strength cannonballs when triggered, devastating nearby enemies unfortunate enough to be caught in their path.


New Weapon - Ionic Edge: This powerful energy sword was created to destroy renegade robots. Each swing that doesn’t destroy an enemy makes the next swing more powerful!

New Ultimate - X-Caliber: An experimental upgrade for the Ionic Edge, this Ultimate turns the sword into a gun-blade that shoots high caliber bullets with every swing! The bullets gain the same damage bonus as the blade itself.

New Weapon - Pachelbot’s Cannon!: This slow-firing weapon shoots a giant cannonball at the nearest enemy. Cannonballs have unlimited piercing and do high damage to all enemies in their path, and can bounce off of walls and terrain. If a cannonball comes to a stop and is picked up by the player, it greatly reduces the cooldown before the next shot.

New Ultimate - Boomer Shooter!: The Ultimate form of Pachelbot’s Cannon, this weapon fires giant bombs in lieu of cannonballs. The bombs explode upon being picked up and deal damage to nearby enemies. Bombs that are not picked up will eventually explode after their fuse burns down.

New Ultimate - CD-Burner: This Ultimate upgrade for the CD-ROM adds fiery trails that set enemies on fire as they pass through them, applying the new burning status. Burning is a damage-over-time effect with a medium duration. If an enemy that is already burning would have the status applied multiple times, each subsequent application resets the duration and adds a portion of the damage from the new application.

In addition to new characters, weapons, and ultimates, we have several significant balance and progression changes in this patch, a new enemy ability, and some smaller updates. Details can be found below!

• Rebalanced progression: Completing Stage 1 now unlocks ultimate weapons for future runs. Completing Stage 2 now unlocks an extra weapon and passive slot for future runs. Added more weapons and ultimates to the base pool of unlocks (see below). –Dev Note: As we’ve added more weapons, stages, and characters, it’s become clear that we have the design space to be more generous with unlockables in general. We’ve moved up the ultimate unlocks to Stage 1 as we feel ultimate versions of weapons are fun and rewarding, and should be given to players sooner. As part of this change, the old reward for completing Stage 1 (extra passive slot unlock) has been moved to Stage 2. Additionally, we have greatly increased the starting pool of both weapons and ultimates. This change gives players more options for builds from the beginning, and pares back some of the meta-progression bloat that was starting to creep into the game as we added more content.
  
  Added 4 weapons to the base weapon pool:
  
  • Orbital Laser
    
  • Shotgun
    
  • Landmines
    
  • Rockets
  
  Added free ultimate unlocks for all basic starting weapons:
  
  • Planet Killer Laser
    
  • Molten Shotgun
    
  • Diamond Saw
    
  • Blue Ray
    
  • Toxic Waste
    
  • Charge Coils
    
  • Shrapnel Rockets
    
  • Cluster Mines
• Tuned Robot Graveyard difficulty. Reduced the HP gain of enemies slightly over time, and reduced the HP of the final boss by 20%. –Dev Note: We’ve decided our game plays a little too hard in the beginning, so we’ve made changes to the Robot Graveyard to ease onboarding slightly for new players. These changes should make the level slightly easier, especially in the back half of runs.
  
• Added a new Armor mechanic to specific enemies. Enemies with armor now gain flat damage reduction equal to their armor value, making them much tougher against rapid-firing low-damage weapons while remaining vulnerable to higher-damage weaponry. Armor cannot reduce damage below 1. Poison and burning damage is unaffected by enemy armor. Enemies with armor will play a “ting” sound when struck, and quickly flash a shield image. –Dev Note: The design goal of armored enemies is to reduce some of the inherent power of small damage weapons and make build choices more interesting. Assuming all things being equal, rapid-firing small-damage weapons have some inherent advantages over their high-damage slower-firing brethren in this type of game. One of our primary design goals is to make all builds viable and encourage variety, and abilities such as armor help with that. We like armored enemies internally as they add an interesting twist to gameplay and build choices, but we’ll also keep an eye on them going forward.
  
• Added a new armored [redacted] enemy to the graveyard! Watch out!
  
• Buffed Energy Burst. Default firing rate increased by 20% from 2 → 1.6 seconds. –Dev Note: Energy Burst is our default “vanilla” weapon that has a lot of utility, but it has long felt slightly weaker than its peers, especially in the beginning. This firing rate buff will help it be more useful, consistent, and reliable.
  
• Tesla Coils reworked so that it will now keep its targets until they go out of range or die (it will no longer strictly target the closest enemy). Since this change makes the Coils much stronger, their base damage is reduced from 0.45 → 0.4. –Dev Note: Tesla Coils can be frustrating to use when you’re moving around a lot and dodging enemies, since it can be very difficult to get them completely powered up. This change should make it much easier to actually power up those beams and get kills with intentional play!
  
• Buffed Orbital Laser. Slightly increased starting fire rate and size. –Dev Note: The Orbital Laser is really fun and unique, but can easily underperform compared to other weapons. These small buffs will make it a more appealing option.
  
• Adjusted Crankshaft Ability: Power Surge. Increased ability duration from 8→10 seconds. Increased ability cooldown from 35→50 seconds. –Dev Note: We are still tweaking this ability, as we want it to feel very strong when triggered and increasing the duration both increases its strength and makes it easier to use effectively with all weapons. The cooldown increase reflects the ability’s increased utility.
  
• Ultimate Weapons will now always be displayed when leveling up instead of only displaying when you can afford them (after you’ve unlocked ultimate weapons, and if there are any available for your current loadout). There is now a UI indicator that shows the cost of the next Ultimate. –Dev Note: We wanted to make sure that players know that Ultimate Weapons are available and display them even when the player might not have collected enough Ultimate Shards to afford them yet this run. We’re hoping this change will help make player more excited about getting ultimates by displaying them more consistently, and help to alleviate any confusion about the increasing costs of subsequent ults.
  
• Molten Plasma Shotgun - Updated to apply burning instead of its own unique effect.
  
• Adjusted a few ultimate unlock requirements to be easier.
  
• Adjusted beetle rings in Stage 3 to be a little easier (again) by reducing their hp.
  
• Added lots of Steam achievements.
  
• Added a weapon sound to the CD weapon.
  
• Updated sprite for player stunned effect.
  
• Fixed glitch with graveyard boss’s hands not resetting upon death.
  
• Miscellaneous tweaks and improvements.
  
• Replaced and updated Serrated Byte character sprite: It is now 73.637% more adorable.

Thank you again to all our players for your feedback and impressions. We’re hard at work as usual, reach out and let us know what you think on Discord or the Steam forums anytime! Thanks again for playing!

–The Crablacksmith Team (James, Frank, Luke, and Adrian)