■ Made it easier to control jumping.
Added the ability to jump in the air when falling from a non-jumping position.

■ Added difficulty settings.
- Easy: For players who are not good at action games. The game automatically avoids some enemy attacks.
- Normal: Normal difficulty level.
- Hard: For those who are good at action games. Enemies will be resurrected after death, and damage inflicted will be recovered.

■ Other minor adjustments have been made.

Note: This update is for the Steam Deck Preview channel, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > System Update Channel.

General

• Fixed internal microphone not working in certain cases like desktop applications

-Updated weighted loot system code
-Added new weapon: Thunker
-Physics objects now react to 'Thunker' explosions
-Spread out damge indicators to display more effectively
-Removed infinite plain room connector
-Fixed Karuna entering Tavern crash
-Player can no longer pause during death sequence
-Player does not reset hp upon character swapping
-Fixed Karuna Kick tracker moving during screen pause
-Caravan battles now have destructible blocks
-Added physics to caravan in levels
-Decreased dead space in ruins levels and added movement objects to facilitate movement
-Reduced tutorial level deadspace
-Realigned parallax elements in tutorial level
-Revamped tutorial level design

"Early Update Arrival: Welcome to Endless Mode!

Hello everyone!

We are thrilled to announce that the major update for 'Spirit Academy,' initially scheduled for November 20th, has now been released ahead of schedule! With the relentless efforts and overtime work of our development team, we are excited to share this great news: the update is here early!

1.Endless Mode Attack: (Activation condition, completing a ten-year setting)
Now you can continue the game after the 10-year term, facing more challenges and peak competitions, while collecting various precious items, including student skins, portraits, equipment, and spirit techniques!
2.Room Position Exchange Function:
This update makes your management more intuitive, allowing you to place buildings at will, ideal for those with OCD.
3.Performance Optimization:
New animations will be displayed when acquiring spirits, enhancing the sense of immersion and ceremony!
4.Portrait Reward System:
By meeting specific conditions, you will unlock the students' portraits and also participate in the exciting collection system.
5.Tiered Technology Release:
Ease the difficulty of decision-making and master the essence of the tech tree with ease!

6. More BP Rules:
The AI intelligence system will undergo its first major upgrade, making battles more strategic and challenging.
7.New Ban Mechanism:
Ensures the fairness and competitiveness of the game, while allowing the AI to showcase impressive performances!
8.Recruitment Interface Optimization:
The allocation of technology points will now be more visually intuitive, making your decisions clearer!
9.New Auto-Backup Save Feature:
In case of save data loss, you can try to recover the last saved game content from the local automatic backup directory.
10.Various Other Optimizations

1.When playing with old saves, there might be an issue where the computer doesn't have any equipment. You need to defeat the next level challenge for the AI to have equipment.
2.To activate Endless Mode, you need to complete the current peak competition.
3.To use Endless Mode with a completed old save: Load the previous save, and after completing the game once more, you can continue experiencing the game.
4.To use Endless Mode with an incomplete old save: At the end of the 10 years, the game will prompt a failure message, asking if you want to continue playing. If you choose to continue, you can keep playing until you complete the peak competition, after which Endless Mode will be unlocked.

Old saves can still continue to experience the game content and the new updates. However, we recommend starting a new save to experience the update.

Thank you for your continuous support of 'Spirit Academy.' We will always strive to present you with a more beautiful gaming world! If you like our work and our attitude, please give us a positive review, as it will be the driving force for our continued progress.

Gamer Community Group: 758282199"

-Watering crops is now faster. You can water it 2x a day. 4-5x if you timed it during the night.
-Expanded some horror events
-Decrease spawn time on logs
-fixed soft lock on building bridge event when it rains
-Added new illustration on Florie Book (Helps establish certain ideas)
-Autosave and manual save are now separate

1. Modify time display problem
2. Fix the problem that mini-games are prone to file corruption

Happy Saturday's Eve, Starchasers!

I was thinking about what would happen if I didn't start this devlog with a cat open. Like, sure, it's tradition, but is it necessary? Anyway I thought about it for like 2 more seconds and came to the conclusion that yes, yes it is necessary. Cats are always necessary.



Not sure what Mimi's doing but it was definitely necessary.

This week's YouTube video is brought to you by Fhiach. Although Underspace has been updated a few times since this video released, the gameplay is still as smooth as ever. He also customized one of his ships towards the end of the video and ngl it's pretty sick.



As I've mentioned many times before, if you're interested in trying out Underspace for yourself, download our latest demo and give it a go. You should also totally join the Underspace Discord while you're at it, because that would make me happy. Don't worry, I'll wait.



Now that you've all joined the Underspace Discord (thanks!), here's what I did last week:

+ Added more stuff to help fix mid-mission saves.
+ Fixed some camera weirdness in cutscenes.
+ Added more detailing to campaign stuff.
+ Fixed doublejumping issue.
+ Fixed some station issues.
+ Fixed several UI readout issues.
+ Fixed issues where some equipment buffs weren’t being added due to new skill system.
+ Added deposit-all stuff.
+ Fixed several issues with the trading UI.
+ Readjusted positions of holograms and such during cutscenes.
+ Fixed some lighting issues on stations.
+ Redetailed several interiors.
+ Added new book models.
+ Fixed pathfinding issues.
+ Fixed issue where planets would shrink due to pathfinding.
+ Fixed a ton of issues related to save permanence.
+ Fixed campaign issues relating to docking on jumpgates.
+ Remade monitor shaders
+ Pet a cat (necessary)
+ Added more cutscenes to places.
+ Fixed issues relating to loading campaign saves.
+ Game saves now display just the filename, not the full path.
+ Fixed loading errors relating to the new scene system.
+ Fixed sunshafts not applying when loading a new save.
+ Added better overriding settings for creating faction based fighter squad spawns.
+ Added new effects for monitor screens.
+ Added new directional particles for lanelines.
+ Fixed issues with in-game memory scenes having the wrong effects.
+ Added more uniforms for various factions.



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Thanks for checking out this week's devlog -- stay tuned for more Underspace updates!

- Second performance update on various levels
- Various minor fixes: Skills, environment and enemy behavior

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