Hey Survivors,

DayZ community items have officially landed on Steam! As part of our Marketing team's endeavors this year, we're not only expanding the DayZ brand as we have mentioned in our previous articles but also fulfilling our existing commitments to ensure comprehensive coverage and a strong presence across all social platforms.

This includes our newly introduced community items on Steam, featuring trading cards, badges, backgrounds, and emoticons. You will now have the opportunity to craft and personalize your Steam profile with our DayZ official badges and background.

Staying true to our legacy of empowering player-made narratives and our motto, "This is your story," the primary theme of the cards revolves around the organic player experience and natural gameplay loop progression, complemented by lore-inspired elements.

Regardless of whether you're a bright-eyed freshie or a seasoned veteran, we truly believe you will appreciate these. In the coming months, we also have plans to expand on this initiative by publishing premium items, including animated avatars, animated backgrounds, and frames for purchase in the Steam point shop. So, stay tuned for more goodies.

On behalf of the DayZ team,
Lynn


Check out our latest Update 1.24 and DayZ in 2024:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/221100/announcements/detail/6123276394799002945

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2333510/Blade_Prince_Academy/

Blade Prince Academy is a new take on tactical RPGs, where you lead your squad of Blade Princes to defend the city of Abjectalia in real-time with pause combat. Use your team's power to devastate any threat, but be vigilant, there is always a price to pay when you make a pact with darkness.



Leave a review and share your feedback in Steam discussions or Discord!

Hi Chefs!👨‍🍳

Are you up-to-date with news about Cooking Simulator 2: Better Together? If not, this is the best moment to catch up!

Learn more about the game, interesting facts, tidbits and the development process on the game's Steam Page. Follow and add Cooking Simulator 2: Better together to your wishlist as we plan to uncover way more!📜

Check out our devlog series!💛

• Big Kitchen – adapting it to a coop mode
  
• Recipes creator – more freedom in creating your own recipes
  
• Veggies, meat, dairy products – created by our talented graphic designers!
  
• How sounds of the bustling kitchen are created!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2455360/Cooking_Simulator_2_Better_Together/

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▻ Added three new buildings for village area (WIP)
▻ Added asset for village
▻ Added new water shader
▻ Added more types for terrain shader
▻ Added area transition to terrain shader (WIP)
▻ Added generating caves in co-op maps
▻ Added generating props on cave walls / roofs

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▻ Fixed wrong (in air) cave geometry parts
▻ Fixed not always generating circular cave walls correctly
▻ Increased height resolution of map to make it look more natural
▻ Optimized procedural cave generation (~8x faster)

Hey fellow Blade Princes,

Today is the day: Blade Prince Academy is available on Steam and Steamdeck!

To celebrate this day, the game has a 20% discount for the release!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2333510/Blade_Prince_Academy/

Plunge into the dreadful city of Abjectalia, discover its streets filled with dangerous gangs, cultists and many other dangers lurking in the shadows...

Play as the Blade Princes, try to balance the student life with classes or relationships with your classmates and also your duty as defenders and promising protectors from the Academy!



Support us and leave a review! Share your feedback in Steam discussions or Discord!

- The Blade Prince Academy Team -

A new version of the game was released. Here’s all the changes:

Balancing

• Increased Income per Player from $25 to $50
  
• Increased Starting Units
  
  • 10 starting units in games with 2 players
    
  • 8 starting units in games with 3 players
    
  • 6 starting units in games with 4 players

Improvements

• Normalized Audio & Background Music Levels
  
• Added SFX Feedback in Country Pick Mode

Bugfixes

• Fixed bug where Players couldn't pick countries in Country Pick Mode
  
• Fixed bug where Military Power did not count Units tied up in Attacks
  
• Fixed Leaderboard Scrolling Issues

To play Border Clash and participate in our Closed Beta, please join our Discord Community.

Free Demo coming soon!

Thank you for adding Border Clash to your WISHLIST!

The wait is almost over!

Clutter Puzzle Magazine Vol. 15 No. 1 is packed with over 1700 puzzles to keep you playing for days and days. So many new Clutter variations mixed in with old favorites for a Quest you'll never forget. The biggest treat though, is the never before seen, fully replayable, Spot The Differences Puzzles. Just like regular Clutter levels, they are highly addicting too.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2671440/Clutter_Puzzle_Magazine_Vol_15_No_1_Collectors_Edition/

Captains!

The 7.45 update is available already. Here's the changelog:

• Based on player's feedback, perfomance has been improved while assaulting Bastions - Internet channel consumption has been reduced by 100 times
  
• Added the Extraction button to Flight center of special settlements
  
• Fixed an issue with dragons capturing Bastions
  
• While using a Telescope, it's now possible to pick up containers using the Elven net
  
• Added a hotkey (;) for reloading the Elven net
  
• Increased price of a Telescope
  
• Improved client stability

~LUCKCATCHERS2 Team

Hey y'all, we have a new update for our demo! We've tweaked some things and given a bit of a "facelift" to a bunch of stuff (things are looking gorgeous if I do say so myself). Anyway, here's a list of the things we changed:

Patch Changes:

VISUAL UPDATES

• Treasure Bridge
  
  • Changes to foliage placement and appearance
    
  • Adjustments to water visuals
    
  • Minor tweaks to animations of the dice and the player

• TipTapTrike
  
  • Revised look and feel of the scene and "MechA Trikes"

• Eruption
  
  • Added a new stage

ITEMS SYSTEM

• Adjusted chances of obtaining specific items based on each player's position on the board. These was an issue that happened on the background and didn't critically affect gameplay, but could be troublesome in the long run.

As always, on behalf of everyone at DireGrin, we thank you for giving our game a try and hope to see you on Early Access. Remember, we are always listening to your feedback.

That's it for now. Bye y'all,
Seb.

The characters of Dune now walk the sands of Arrakis.
After reaching 10k Hegemony, each faction can choose between 2 heroes to recruit as an unit that will influence their whole military strategy:

• House Atreides: Duncan Idaho or Gurney Halleck
  
• House Harkonnen: Glossu Rabban or Iakin Nefud
  
• The Fremen: Chani Kynes or Otheym
  
• House Corrino: Wensicia Corrino or Captain Aramsham
  
• The Smugglers: Drisq or Bannerjee
  
• House Ecaz: Whitmore Bludd or Ilesa Ecaz

When your hero dies in battle, you’ll be able to bring them back as a Ghola, if you’re willing to pay the cost to both your bank account and your reputation.

Heroes that were previously councilors have been replaced by two new councilors per faction:

• House Atreides: Dr. Wellington Yueh and Young Paul Atreides
  
• House Harkonnen: Umman Kudu and Cron Vatia
  
• The Smugglers: Lashon Hara and Stakkanov
  
• The Fremen: Jamis and Shimoom
  
• House Corrino: Mother Helen Gaius Mohiam and Zum Garon
  
• House Ecaz: Rivvy Dinari and Ibbo Vipp

• Combat systems have been reworked with an emphasis on making army composition deeper and more diverse, with every unit having a role to play, without increasing the need to micromanage too much.
  
• Units have a more diverse range of armor values. Armor can no longer be shredded, but every faction has a unit that reduces armor value by a flat amount, as well as a unit made to kill high-armored opponents.
  
• To increase diversity, units now have different attack speeds, and Elite units are available earlier in the game, at 5k hegemony. Gear are also more specialized and easier to access: they are free to install and only cost Solari to remove or swap.
  
• To increase the strategic possibilities, both on the offense and defense, it is now possible to change the position your units appear on the map by placing a Rally Point anywhere within Airfield range. The Fremen use allied sietches that have not been pillaged to place their Rally Point.
  
• To accommodate those changes, almost all units' stats, traits and gear have been changed, as well as many military buildings, development and operation.

• We’ve made Stealth a more powerful, advanced mechanic.
  
• Stealthy units are no longer detected by everything. They will often remain hidden until their first strike in combat. To detect a stealthy unit before they strike, you will have to rely on Probe Setup, a new village building called Monitoring Station, or a rare Gear or Hero effect.
  
• On the other hand, most units are no longer stealth as a base effect. Most but not all of the units that were previously stealthy have a gear that grants the effect. It can otherwise be granted by some faction’s spying operation, development, or heroes.

To make intel, operation and faction infiltration more valuable we removed the production of 1 intel per non-faction information field. We also restricted Data Center to regions neighboring an enemy, like the Listening Post, and reworked the Observatory Mountain special region: it allows you to build both Data Center and Listening Post without constraint and increase their production by 50%.

House Vernius of Ix can appear as an opposing faction in every game mode.


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kgajYkMYh6QC1wzq8RQfmYiiNiTF7-svVo3t1nQmE0I/edit?usp=sharing

As always, let us know what you think of the new content! In the meantime, feel free to join our awesome (and passionate) community on our Discord server, Reddit page as well as Twitter.