After a short delay to squash a bunch of bugs found in closed testing, we are finally ready to share the first look at the hotly-anticipated Ellisbury Update with everyone!


A delightful vintage racer, by Lorraine

As the Ellisbury Update is entering into the open beta phase, this will be an opt-in event. You can opt in to the Ellisbury Update open beta with the following steps:

1. Right-click on Automation in your Steam library, and go to Properties.
   
2. Go to the Betas tab.
   
3. From the Beta Participation dropdown, choose openbeta - Ellisbury Update Open Beta

Allow Automation to update, then launch the game!

Compatibility Note: All Sandbox Mode cars made in LCV4.2 will be compatible with the Ellisbury Update, but some minor adjustments to engines and transmissions specifically will be needed for them to perform at their full potential with the new update. All Steam Workshop mod content from LCV4.2 is fully compatible with the Ellisbury Update.


The stylish lightbar of BarthoNavarro's futuristic compact wagon looks on.

• Added companies to Sandbox mode, and implemented techpool for Sandbox mode
  
• New body variants: 469 new or updated and improved car bodies in 8 families
  
• Complete overhaul of transmissions, including (optional) full player control over gear ratios
  
• Complete overhaul of differential behaviour
  
• New, more flexible all-wheel drive system choices and re-worked behaviour
  
• Added CVTs and sequential gearboxes
  
• Complete overhaul of fuel economy calculations for real-world-like fuel consumption testing
  
• Added toe adjustment for suspension tuning
  
• All-new test track screen, with the ability to follow your car around the track
  
• Added the Ellisbury track, with Tri-Oval, Grand Prix, GT and Junior track layouts

The new Ellisbury track.

• Complete revamp of engine block and bottom end, including up-boring and new interactions
  
• Engine power density mechanic added
  
• Engine emissions calculations completely overhauled, reflecting real-world test cycles
  
• Added several graph options to help players visualise engine emissions and efficiency performance
  
• Improved accuracy of catalytic converter behaviour, added pre-cats options
  
• Complete overhaul of engine dyno, new gauges, more info and full control of load and RPM
  
• Lots of new and improved engine artwork

The new engine dyno at work, showing all of the new information and emissions stats.

• With fully user-configurable and moddable layouts to create your own car posters

• Added Sankey charts to allow players to see competitors and visualise sales and market flows
  
• More dynamic AI companies now use techpool and production quality properly
  
• Countries now have techpool offsets to better reflect local conditions
  
• Reliability is now an important factor in desirability calculations

This rally-inspired hot hatchback by Azka looks ready for anything!

• Added new camera display widget to control custom camera locations for exported cars
  
• Fixed decal discolouration and LOD issues in exported cars
  
• Many fixes and updates to materials in exported cars - carbon fibre is now fixed too
  
• Improved exporter’s ability to handle anything edited with the Advanced Trim Tool
  
• Implemented electric centre differentials
  
• Rebalanced tire parameters
  
• Added "Fixed Fixtures" export parameter. Breakable fixtures immune to breaking but can collide
  
• Implemented drivetrain friction
  
• Active dampers and sway bars now export
  
• Body weight will now be adjusted for added light and fixture weight (to a point)

LS Swapped Rx-7 brings us this ten-star car build!


The immediate task at hand for us is to take the vast amount of questions, comments and inevitable bug reports generated in the open beta phase. We'll provide regular patches working towards the full public release. After an inevitably busy first one or two weeks, our team will start to partially shift some focus toward the second milestone of the Supercharger Update, the Al-Rilma Update. More news on that in the not-too-distant future!

Cheers!


Catch us again later, much like Oreology's custom street racer!

Focus of this update has been on tweaking the enemies/difficulty for later waves to avoid the session going on forever.

Which brings us to a very important first poll I'd like to make about endless: what do you like about endless?

The previous version with 10 waves was definitely too short and difficulty was not ramping up enough towards the final waves, current version does a better job up to the 20th wave, for those of you that go beyond that: at which point do you think the game gets hard enough to be satisfied with the run? (better to check out v0.91 first to answer this)

The reason I'm asking is because I'm thinking of going back to a finite amount of waves/stages, the more answers I get the more informed the final decision will be 🙏

• Viper Elites got their own icon and special (pew pew) gun
  
• Frigates: main gun tweaking + new mini-jump behaviour
  
• Wing Leaders: gun/damage tweaking
  
• Adjusted tech progression and introduced tech limits for some upgrades, example: Valkyrie appears only from level 6 onwards
  
• Missiles tweaking: more damage for Standard and Swarm (2 hits for aces and elites, 1 hit for Vipers and Rogues) + tweaking clip size
  
• Combo system reworked to better account for missiles usage
  
• Armor capped at max 200% (was 250%)
  
• Removed Mechanic+
  
• Finished Valkyrie model
  
• Some new stats added to the Achievements page

• Added auto triggering of attractor and call of the void
  
• In settings there are 2 more options to select as auto attractor or auto cotv
  
• Selecting either of those will only trigger the special power if the weapon has 1 and is capable of activating.
  
• If you keep it in manual mode activating by clicking the button or using the hotkey you set will set them off too.

After a bit of a break, we're thrilled to announce that we've restarted development on Urban Explorer, and we're preparing to release a demo version during Steam Next Fest this October!

🎮 Today, we're launching our demo playtest registration, offering you the chance to experience the game before the demo goes live. Your feedback holds immense value to us, and once you've had a go at it, we'd be honored if you could take a moment to share your thoughts and suggestions via our feedback form. We aim to address your suggestions as fast as possible.

👷‍♂️ We worked hard over the past few months to bring this demo to life. While not every mechanic is ready, we want to show you the main features of the game and hear your opinions about it.

🛠️ In our next post, we'll unveil some of the mechanics we have in mind for the full version of the game. We're genuinely open to your ideas, and who knows, some of them might find their way into the game!

🌾 Some of you might remember the Abandoned Silo location from our old devlogs. Well, we've decided to explore a different path. Here's a sneak peek for you:




🔄 Please bear in mind that this is an extremely early version of the game, and everything is subject to change as we work towards creating the best possible experience for all Urbex enthusiasts.

Happy Playtesting!

Hello friends and fans, I'm sure many of you are eagerly awaiting the launch of Ascended Survivor's first episode. I did previously state that it would release in 2023, but that is looking to be very unlikely now. So much stuff has happened in my personal life that took attention away from working on AS, so that's not good.

But don't worry, good things are happening in the background! Progress on the game has been going steady, and most of the main content is finished. Episode One will release before you know it!

A new artist has also come on board the project! Sugarflow is an incredibly talented artist who has agreed to work on cutscenes and promotional material for the game. Already she's done a great job redesigning the main character.



I've also been working with another artist to remake the sprites, and they're looking amazing! More of that will be shared later.

But now, let's get to the most pressing news.




The last Steam Next Fest was such a great opportunity to grow, that I couldn't pass up the opportunity to do it again! I won't be able to stream the game this time, so I've organized something else to excite you: the Ascended Survivor demo will be updated to include an additional level! Now you will be able to experience more of the game to get a feel with it.


The demo will also be updated with brand new, exciting features for you to enjoy. Including...







I hope these features encourage you to play the levels again and again, to find all their secrets and master each of them!

That's all for now, I hope you'll be there for the expanded demo!

• Eastern Invasion
  • Revise entire campaign (Dalas version)

• Descent into Darkness
  • Buff soul rend

• Liberty
  • Make Harper a girl and revise some dialogue

• Legend of Wesmere
  • Replace lingering instances of ‘old’ style gold carry over for S9, S11 and S14 (issue #7862)

• Updated translations: Arabic, British English, Czech, German, French

• Updates to Troll sprites and animations (#7844)
  
• Giant Ant Queen, Fire Ant Queen, Ant Eggs, and Ant Zombies
  
• Rebels:
  • Elvish Enchanterss – xp changed from 180 to 198.
    
  • Elvish Sylph – cost changed from 148 to 161.

• Loyalists:
  • Young Ogre – cost changed from 15 to 13, xp changed from 32 to 34, mountain defense changed from 60% to 50%, arcane resistance changed from 20% to 10%.
    
  • Ogre – cost changed from 30 to 27, mountain defense changed from 60% to 50%, arcane resistance changed from 20% to 10%.

• Miscellaneous:
  • Elder Falcon - cost changed from 18 to 20.
    
  • Giant Ant – xp changed from 26 to 16.
    
  • Soldier ant – cost changed from 16 to 12, hp changed from 35 to 36.
    
  • Fire Ant - xp changed from 50 to 22.
    
  • Firebomb Ant - hp changed from 38 to 45, cost changed from 14 to 19.
    
  • Yeti - cost changed from 80 to 151.
    
  • Piglet – xp changed from 26 to 20.
    
  • Woodland Boar – cost changed from 15 to 16, hp changed from 35 to 34.
    
  • Fire guardian – xp changed from 29 to 24, hp changed from 23 to 25.
    
  • Fire Wraith – gold cost changed from 22 to 17.
    
  • Bay Horse and Dark Horse – xp changed from 44 to 24.
    
  • Mermaid Initiate – cost changed from 19 to 16, xp changed from 50 to 42.
    
  • Mermaind Priestess – cost changed from 38 to 31, xp changed from 132 to 61.
    
  • Mermaid Diviner – cost changed from 57 to 49.
    
  • Mermaid Enchanterss – cost changed from 33 to 32, xp changed from 90 to 46.
    
  • Mermaid Siren – cost changed from 52 to 42.
    
  • Merman Brawler - cost changed from 19 to 17.
    
  • Naga Guardian – xp changed from 35 to 36.
    
  • Naga Warden – xp changed from 70 to 54.
    
  • Troll Hero – cost changed from 30 to 42, xp changed from 52 to 90.
    
  • Great Troll – cost changed from 48 to 78.
    
  • Troll Shaman – cost changed from 32 to 35.
    
  • Dwarvish Scout – xp changed from 30 to 33.
    
  • Dwarvish Pathfinder – cost changed from 30 to 24, xp changed from 60 to 65.
    
  • Dwarvish Explorer –cost changed from 45 to 51.
    
  • Dwarvish Runesmith – cost changed from 30 to 27, xp changed from 86 to 71.
    
  • Dwarvish Runemaster – cost changed from 50 to 55.
    
  • Dwarvish Arcanister – cost changed form 80 to 98.
    
  • Dwarvish Miner – cost changed from 19 to 5.
    
  • Orcish Leader – cost changed from 20 to 21, xp changed from 60 to 54.
    
  • Orcish Ruler – cost changed from 35 to 45, xp changed from 120 to 102.
    
  • Orcish Sovereign – cost changed from 50 to 80.
    
  • Skeleton Rider – xp changed from 44 to 33.
    
  • Death Squire – xp changed from 144 to 91.
    
  • Death Knight –cost changed from 45 to 80.
    
  • Royal Warrior - cost changed from 40 to 47.
    
  • Elvish Lord – cost changed from 36 to 42, xp changed from 120 to 97.
    
  • Elvish Highlord - cost changed from 56 to 77.
    
  • Nibbler – cost changed from 10 to 15, xp changed from 32 to 26.
    
  • Caribe – cost changed from 16 to 25, xp changed from 40 to 43.
    
  • Hunter Caribe – cost changed from 25 to 40.
    
  • Dragonfly Naiad – cost changed from 8 to 11, xp changed from 23 to 16.
    
  • Dragonfly – cost changed from 13 to 16, xp changed from 23 to 25.
    
  • Grand Dragonfly – hp changed from 34 to 39, cost changed from 22 to 30.
    
  • Ruffian - cost changed from 6 to 7.
    
  • Thug - xp changed from 42 to 32.
    
  • Bandit - cost changed from 23 to 22, xp changed from 70 to 61.
    
  • Peasant and Woodsman - xp changed from 23 to 19.
    
  • Elder Mage - cost changed from 65 to 90.

In Warlord Chapter 15 MC attacks the Imperial Capital.

Changes:

• Chapter 15
  
• +22 new animations
  
• New Gallery (see notes)
  
• Replaced some chapter 14 images with hybrid renders
  
• Replaced some chapter 3 images with hybrid animations
  
• 2 new achievements (Steam-only)
  
• 2 new "ELITE" animations
  
• Re-balanced Chapter 14 options: "Castrate" option available for lust+chaos path.

Gallery Notes: Gallery is not comprehensive. It contains select clips from each scene and variations from the different game paths. It should be a good indicator that you've found all the content if you want to try all game paths.

Because of all the re-balancing, it is recommended that games start at the beginning of chapter 14 or start a new game. There will be more re-balancing when chapter 16 comes out.

Hey Hey so I noticed a lot of stuff went wrong with the update so this package should help fix some stuff, let's break it down.

1. I noticed things in the dialogue like the wheel and choices not showing up in the right spot, fixed that and now i'm fine tuning the ability to go to other states and come back and the story progresses so dialogue saving and game saving are on the way!

2. Noticed some people are crashing or just freezing when going to other areas or just stuck in the black screen of death. Fixed so hopefully when you travel it wont crash.

Added bandidos with bandanas to all the gangs also added yellow gangs and red. gotta finish the others and once dialogue works i can get reputations going.

Inventory is still buggy but that is fine right now farming is not a huge part of the game atm so you dont have to worry about that.

Thats a little break down. thank you for the support I know its taken a while but one man team gets the dream!

Games for gamaaaaassss, Always!

Blake"AgressiveKiwi" out!

Ho ho ho! The most wonderful time of the year is almost here

We are busy preparing the Christmas update.
This means new map, design and Christmas music!

The release date for this update will be announced in a few weeks. So keep a close eye on our community page ːsteamthumbsupː

Latest version update minor bugs have been fixed.

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