-We've mitigated an issue that would cause the game to not switch to Rose when reaching the lab. -We've made some improvements to performance and garbage collection. -We've fixed some camera tracking bugs.
This November we'll be running three Path of Exile events, with the first one starting next Friday (US Time)! All events will be available on PC and Consoles, so everyone is welcome to join in! There are many prizes up for grabs, including Mystery Boxes, randomly drawn microtransactions and exclusive hideout statues.
When planning these events, we tried to keep in mind the interests of different types of players. Some of you enjoy making interesting builds, some prefer facing extra challenges, while some just want to test themselves in the heat of battle. The events don't overlap, so you're welcome to play more than one!
You'll be able to win two guaranteed Ancestor Mystery Boxes per account for reaching Level 50 in any two of the events. This is a total of two guaranteed mystery boxes across all three events.
The events also have a huge pool of microtransaction prizes that are randomly drawn for characters that reach certain level thresholds. This pool of prizes is shared between PC and Console players, with each event having its own prize pool. Having multiple characters will increase your chances of winning a randomly drawn prize. More details on all the prizes can be found in each event's prize section below.
The Passive Skill Tree and all Ascendancy Trees are jumbled. Minor passive skills, notables, keystones, minor ascendancy skills and major ascendancy skills have been internally scrambled within those categories (so a notable passive is still a notable passive, just a random one). All players have the same trees. The Scion is not available in this event.
You can only see properties of passive or Ascendancy skills that are adjacent to ones you have allocated.
Prizes:
PC: The top three players overall will receive a full microtransaction bundle:
Mercurial Armour Set
Necrolord Wings
Mercurial Character Effect
Void Weapon Skin
Mercurial Weapon Effect
Elder Portal
Black Footprints
Black Dragon Pet
In addition, the top ten players regardless of Ascendancy will receive exclusive hideout statues:
Legend's Hideout Statue for Rank #1
Champion's Hideout Statue for Rank #2
Victor's Hideout Statue for Rank #3
Challenger's Hideout Statue for Ranks #4-10
On Consoles, the first place overall will receive a full microtransaction bundle, and the top five overall will receive hideout statues.
Start date: 2pm November 3rd PDT
End date: 2pm November 10th PST
Based on: Ancestor League
Not voided - characters and items will migrate into the Ancestor League afterwards. The passive tree will be respecced upon migrating.
You lose 5x experience upon death.
Platforms: PC and Console
Harness the power of ancient Sentinels and explore the mysterious Lake of Kalandra! The Blast from the Past event offers you an opportunity to return to these Path of Exile leagues from the past or experience them for the first time in case you missed them.
In this event, almost every Path of Exile area has both the Sentinel and Kalandra mechanics active. For more information on how these leagues work, check out the Challenge League sections in the patch notes here and here.
By the way, this event is not voided, so have fun crafting with Recombinators!
Prizes:
PC: The top three players overall will receive a full microtransaction bundle:
Automaton Necrolord Armour Set
Automaton Necrolord Wings
Demonic Character Effect
Scourgelord Weapon Skin
Demonic Weapon Effect
Demonic Stygian Portal
Demonic Footprints
Hell Horse Pet
In addition, the top ten players regardless of Ascendancy will receive exclusive hideout statues:
Legend's Hideout Statue for Rank #1
Champion's Hideout Statue for Rank #2
Victor's Hideout Statue for Rank #3
Challenger's Hideout Statue for Ranks #4-10
On Consoles, the first place overall will receive a full microtransaction bundle, and the top five overall will receive hideout statues.
Start date: 2pm November 10th PST
End date: 2pm November 17th PST
Based on: Standard
Not voided - characters and items will migrate into Standard afterwards.
You lose 5x experience upon death.
Platforms: PC and Console
Have you ever wanted to be possessed by 10 Tormented Spirits in the Mud Flats? Well, in the Shifting Stones event, you sure can! In each area you will encounter one of the following league mechanics which has been enhanced by a corresponding Atlas Keystone:
10 Tormented Spirits + Speaker of the Dead Keystone
Blight + Cassia's Pride Keystone
Legion + Timeless Conflict Keystone
Delirium + Unending Nightmare Keystone
Beyond + Endless Tide Keystone
The mod that an area has will change every 15 minutes.
Prizes:
PC: The top three players overall will receive a full microtransaction bundle:
Lightbringer Armour Set
Celestial Emperor Wings
Innocence Character Effect
Lightbringer Weapon Skin
Innocence Weapon Effect
Divine Stygian Portal
Innocence Footprints
Lightbringer Gryffon Pet
In addition, the top ten players regardless of Ascendancy will receive exclusive hideout statues:
Legend's Hideout Statue for Rank #1
Champion's Hideout Statue for Rank #2
Victor's Hideout Statue for Rank #3
Challenger's Hideout Statue for Ranks #4-10
On Consoles, the first place overall will receive a full microtransaction bundle, and the top five overall will receive hideout statues.
Start date: 2pm November 17th PST
End date: 2pm November 24th PST
Based on: Standard
Voided - Items and characters do not transfer to parent leagues at the end of the event
You lose 5x experience upon death.
Platforms: PC and Console
Will these events run on all platforms? Yes.
Are there Hardcore versions of these events? No.
Can I play my existing character? No, you'll need to make new characters in each event.
How do I join the event? At the character selection screen, there's a panel below your characters which will list the events available. You can join the event by clicking 'join'. This option becomes available 30 minutes before the event is set to begin. Your character won't be able to move until the event starts.
Can I make Private League versions of these events? No.
Can I change my Ascendancy Class during these events? Yes.
If I delete my character, will I still get a prize? No. Please do not delete your characters until after the prizes have been awarded.
If I level multiple characters will I have a greater chance of winning a prize? Yes. Every character you level will be independently included in the pool for the prize draw at the end of the event. This excludes mystery boxes, where you will only be able to receive two per account.
Can I win more than one microtransaction prize? Yes, it's possible to win multiple prizes. This excludes the mystery box which is awarded twice per account. You only need to reach level 50 in two of the events to receive the free mystery box. This can be found in your microtransaction stash once awarded.
When will I receive a prize? The Ancestor Mystery Boxes will be awarded automatically. Other microtransactions and hideout statues will be awarded after the end of the event. You'll receive a private message on the website to notify you when this has happened. Note that outside of the Mystery Box and hideout statues, prizes are drawn randomly and are not necessarily guaranteed. We'll post on our X to confirm when the final prizes have gone out.
Will I be able to access the Trial of the Ancestors during the events? The Trial of the Ancestors is enabled only in the Krangled event.
What happens if I already have all of the microtransactions from the Ancestor Mystery Box? If you already own the entire Ancestor Mystery Box series, you'll instead be awarded with two Apollyon Mystery Boxes per Ancestor Box earned. If you reach level 50 in two events, you will receive four Apollyon Mystery Boxes.
Are the randomly drawn microtransaction prize pools shared across platforms? The randomly-drawn microtransaction prize pool for each event is shared across PC/Console.
Good luck, Exiles! We're looking forward to seeing the events unfold. If you're not able to participate, be sure to check the action out live on Twitch!
Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander - Walt Destler
STARDATE 2023.10.23
Exactly one Earth-year ago (that's 365 Earth-days ago for you non-Earthlings), Cosmoteer launched in Early Access on Steam!
Cosmoteer has been a huge success, and I want to take this moment to thank all of you for supporting Cosmoteer over this past year. So here's a brief video message from me to you: https://youtu.be/AXJA8Vasrgs
A year ago feels like yesterday, and yet so much has happened in the Cosmoverse! Like you, I wish that development of big new features had been able to start sooner and progress faster, and yet I'm still proud of the many accomplishments our little team has pulled off so far! Let's take a brief look back at some of the many improvements made to Cosmoteer this past year:
Hundreds of bugs fixed (too many to count!), including crashes, multiplayer desyncs, and various gameplay bugs. (Please keep reporting all the bugs you run into! The #1 way to get a bug fixed is to report it, ideally with a saved game that demonstrates the bug.)
Hundreds of quality-of-life improvements, like ship-wide resource limits and building new ships from scratch in Career mode.
A couple hundred new built-in ships (219 if my count is correct) across all four factions.
Major improvements to performance and multiplayer connection reliability. Although there's still plenty of room for improvement, the performance of late-game Career mode has been greatly improved over the past year. And multiplayer connections are also much more reliable and less likely to disconnect than they were at launch.
Over a dozen new ship parts, including the Chaingun, the Resource Collector, the Hyper-Jump Beacon, and a handful of aesthetic-focused parts such as roof lights and armor/structure hybrids.
Improvements to the non-English language translations, including a complete re-translation of Simplified Chinese.
"Crew Construction", a major new game mechanic where crew perform all ship construction and repairs by manually delivering resources and zapping ship parts into existence. This creates a more immersive experience and allows for more creative and emergent strategies.
And the best is yet to come! I'm excited to announce that work on "Career 2.0" is now fully underway, which we are actually planning to split into *two* big updates:
"Career 2.0": This first update will focus on creating a much greater variety of content, including many new types of misions and new types of environments such as black holes and nebulas that will affect how you design and play. We're hoping to release this update early-ish next year (2024).
"Career 2.5": This update will focus on faction-vs-faction conflicts, allowing you to enlist with a faction and help them conquer the galaxy. (We're also of course thinking about letting you create your own faction, though we can't promise support for that in 2.5 at this time.) We're hoping this update will launch a few months after Career 2.0.
I'm *also* excited to announce that we're simultaneously working on a new PvP multiplayer mode, tentatively called "Build & Battle". Played over several rounds, competitors build or upgrade their ship using a randomly limited selection of parts and then battle against the other players. We're expecting to launch this mode *before* Career 2.0, hopefully before the end of the year!
Peering further into the future beyond Career 2.0/2.5, you can look forward to awesome new features like drone/fighter carriers, crew boarding, transforming ships, and a variety of additional new weapons and other ship parts. You can read about much of that on the roadmap.
Thank you again for supporting Cosmoteer. Without your support, Cosmoteer's future wouldn't be nearly so bright.
Your unwavering support and enthusiasm continue to fuel our journey. The demo has been an incredible experience, and we're thrilled to share a brief update on our upcoming plans.
Firstly, we want to extend our heartfelt thanks. The overwhelming response to our demo has been nothing short of astonishing, resulting in over 6000 wishlists. It's heartwarming to know that you're as excited as we are for the adventures to come.
Now, let's talk about the big picture. While the demo provides just a glimpse of what Astrometica has to offer, the full game is a vast universe with countless stories and adventures. Our target is to launch the Early Access version in Q1-Q2 2024. And, yes, more playtests are on the horizon, so you'll have plenty of opportunities to dive deeper into the world of Astrometica.
Here's a snapshot of what we've been working on this month:
Floating Space Islands: We're introducing new environments, adding a sense of wonder to the game.
Vehicle Control Improvements: We've fine-tuned the controls, ensuring a smoother and more enjoyable ride.
Space Donuts: Prepare your taste buds for some unique space-themed food items, including the delectable "Space Donuts."
Scanner Tool: We've developed a new tool to help you delve deeper into the game world. Scan objects to learn more about them or unlock new blueprints.
Farming System: Ever dreamt of having your own space garden? We're working on a farming system that will allow you to cultivate plants and trees inside your base.
Enhanced Options and Improved Menus: We've been listening to your valuable feedback and are committed to making the game more accessible with better menu options.
Thank you for being a part of the Astrometica community, and stay tuned for more exciting updates on our journey to the stars! 🌠🛸
The main purpose of this version is to show our players what are we working on and to start receiving your feedback from this early stages! Nothing of this prototype is finished yet, we are working on every single aspect (physics, grinds, tricks, fails, art, models and many other things)
A prototype version is earlier than a pre-alpha so expect to see a lot of bugs out there! ːsteamhappyː
Hello Colonels and Polkovniks, we have some pretty big news regarding Flashpoint Campaigns.
First off, we have a sale live on Steam right now. Southern Storm is a wopping -40% off. With four campaigns already included and more content on the way, now is a great time to jump into the hyperlethal battlefields of 1989.
Speaking of more content on the way, we are happy to announce that next month Southern Storm is getting a major update.
The Thanksgiving Update will have new features including improvements to the SOP manager, bugfixes, and four new and original scenarios. Many of these features are already available in beta, so if you want a sneak peak on some of this content check it out on steam by opting into beta participation or via the forums. The update will be going live in the later half of November.
