- You now can't find Dwayne until you master all weapons
- Fixed Estoc text saying Scarlette instead of Estoc in the text boxes

Hey guys, updating you on the achievement problem.
The current theory is that the problem WAS indeed, for some reason, happening after the latest update, and that walking the game through to an ending is remembered, so even if I didn't get the achievement because of a non-working patch, when I rolled back to a working one, I didn't get the achievement because the game read it as an already received one and didn't signal it to steam. Players trying out new routes after last night's patch got the achievements normally today, but if that theory is correct, you won't be able to unlock achievements for endings you already played, because the game reads them as unlocked already. My apologies to players who weren't able to unlock achievements in the time frame. From now on, for new players or routes you didn't play yet achievements are supposed to work normally.

Salve, dear players!

I'm thrilled to announce patch 0.6.0 just in time for the holidays! The biggest patch just occurred in my own life: I got married since the last update! In that spirit, I hope you will fall in love with your new starting gladiators, Dacius, Leander, and Pio. But more on that below.

• Stats: In 0.5 and before, gladiators were basically interchangeable. They looked a bit different and had different perks, but they weren't really unique. That changes in 0.6! Each gladiator now has three stats, Power, Constitution, and Agility, which roughly correspond to damage, health, and chance to hit an dodge. This gives some compelling reasons to pick one gladiator over another as well as to specialize them towards one or another weapon or defensive skill (dodge or block).
  
• Training: Each week that a gladiator is uninjured and not participating in a match, the gladiator will train to improve the aforementioned stats. Under the hood, the gladiator has a certain proclivity for each stat which will affect their training rate. They also have an overall level of talent which will help them learn stats across the board. These talents and proclivities also affect the initial skill you'll see when you recruit the gladiator.
  
• Aging: I'm feeling this one in AD 2024 and the gladiators are too. As gladiators get older they heal more slowly and have a significantly harder time keeping up their stats, even if they train regularly. This puts a soft expiration on even the best gladiators and also makes a more interesting choice for recruiting. Obviously, aging (and training) is a somewhat slow process, so I expect the impact of this mechanic to be more apparent as the game expands
  
• Starting Recruits: To get off to a bit of a quicker start, your roster will now include three gladiators: Dacius - towards the end of his career but quite skilled, Leander - a decent mid-career gladiator, and Pio - a promising youngster. That should give a decent and fairly balanced 'quickstart' to the game.

• There are now notifications to let you know when equipment returns to your inventory, when gladiators level up, and when gladiators heal fully. These should help some confusion in which players thought that when a gladiator died, their equipment disappeared with them
  
• Candidates now appear naked and sans-perks to make comparison amongst them easier and to remove the premium you'd pay for their equipment. Since the candidates have no equipment, the equipment display in recruiting has been replaced by a quick-reference on their stats.
  
• Selling a gladiator now automatically unequips all their gear and sends it to the inventory
  
• Added help indicators and tooltips to several menus to better explain their function
  
• New tooltips, though mostly affecting all the new UI added for stats
  
• Changed the basic unit of time from a day to a week to make a little more sense with the rate of training and injuries, as well as how a gladiator ages
  
• Bugfix: prevent a gladiator who fought this week from also healing the same week
  
• Bugfix: previously, you could accept a challenge, then pass a week or more, then start the challenge. That is no longer possible and the 'advance time' button change into a button (a skull) to start match since that's what it seemed like it should be doing anyhow
  
• Bugfix: The perk icons no longer overlap text on the detailed gladiator stat tooltip

The holidays!

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I haven't quite decided on the theme of next major patch yet, but in the next few patches I hope to:
- Spice up the combat visuals and sound effects
- Introduce visiting characters who come with special events
- Find out more about what's happening at your school out of combat. Who trains your gladiators? What do they eat? Where do they live? What are they thinking?

Got opinions, let me know! I just found out about the discussions tab on Steam, so I'll start to look there for feedback. And if you want to get an inside scoop on new updates, join the mailing list at the bottom of https://vittoriagames.com.


Until next time,
Nick

Here's another update which focuses more on changing some of the core gameplay as opposed to adding new areas/content.

This update focuses on the combat system, and I've tried to include something to address most common complaints. This wont resolve every issue, however I think it will be a good starting point, and I have many more ideas to keep making combat more interesting.

CHANGELOG

• Added health bars for enemies
  
• Added some new "surprises" to Shoppers
  
• Evasion has been removed. All +/-Evasion modifiers have been replaced with +/-Hit Rate
  
• Many niche stats have been removed from the status window
  
• A new "Skills" system has been added for non-magical attacks which use MP
  
• Added 5 new physical skills (1 starting, 2 vending machine, 2 loot)
  
• Guard has been changed, and is now a skill which costs MP. It resists the next attack, unless broken by special guard-breaking skills.
  
• Fixed enemy states not displaying
  
• Most rituals now deal more damage
  
• Luck rolls have been changed to be more random, and less influenced by the luck stat
  
• The wardrobe has been removed
  
• Equipment can be changed any time
  
• The hit/miss system has been overhauled, fixing old bugs and allowing for new skill possibilities
  
• Clearing farm clutter can no longer cause curses. Overall causes less "bad things" to happen.
  
• Coal rocks now give 2x coal
  
• The HUD MP bar now moves in the right direction
  
• Fixed animal friendship meter not displaying correctly

Stars Online Steam Update Version 1.0.0.9

The Bugs
• Fixed missing HP and Shield on Spawning. Caused instant npc aggression low player survivability.
  
• Fixed Npc spawns, No more instant spawning,
  
• Fixed Npc travel points, Caused Np behavior issues.
  
• Fixed Visual detail with the new CPU not showing rockets in battle.
  
• Fixed Mission Ops 4 issue with the Dreadnaught not attacking the player
  
• Fixed Ship Load out not saving / loading with Premium Lite

Content Updates
• Buffed Ships, Weapons, and Generators
  
• Added Exotic Generator Type for HP. (added to skeleton chest.)
  
• Added Tab Auto Lock for Combat as a new premium feature (does not work on beacons, or the Dreadnaught)
  
• Added New Ship Skins to the Skeleton Chest pull
  
• UI Overhaul, Milestone (Replacing Achievements), Shops, Log in Bonus (went from 5 days to 20 days.)
  
  

New Player Bonus
• All new users will Start with 1 Week of Premium Lite; you can gain access to Regular Premium on Discord, or you can earn Premium Lite through Challanges, Login Bonus Day 20, Season of the star, and through Promo Codes.
  
• Winter 2024 Holiday Promo Code: SO01-ixp9xx-1224 Rewards 10 Days of premium lite, random laser component, Random Ship Parts.

Next Update Focus: Game Lore, New Game Event, New Milestone. and any new bugs that want their spotlight.


~ Nicole

FIX: Reload duration can no longer go negative, breaking ranged weapons. This was most likely to happen with the Enchanter class and a highly levelled-up skill tree.
FIX: Turret, Army, and other projectile visuals optimized to reduce GPU overhead and make the game less likely to aggravate bugs in GPU drivers.

BALANCE: Rocket launcher sidearm perk does significantly more damage

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

• Fixed desktop Steam Clients exiting while running a game if a Steam Deck is resumed while running a non-Steam app.
  
• Fixed several issues where navigation could get stuck behind menus or dialogs.
  
• Fixed the WiFi auto connect setting being forgotten after a system restart.
  
• Fixed a case where the WiFi connection dialog would not show a password prompt for networks that only support WPA3.
  
• Updated layout of downloads page for the active item.

Game Recording

• Improved error messages for limited accounts sharing messages in chat or via the share menu.

Remote Play

• Fixed Remote Play Together session not fully starting for some games running on macOS host systems.

Steam Input

• Reduced overhead/latency of controller input in Big Picture Mode and Virtual Menus
  
• Slightly reduced steady-state CPU usage of Steam Input overall
  
• Fixed some Linux-specific crashes
  
• Fixed not being able to use "Export Layout->Save New Layout" when using a "Sharable Personal Layout".

Jumping Steve has been re-made from scratch and is now playable.
I have moved the unstadle branch of the game to the Default branch.
I still have lots of testing to do but dont worry i will be working hard to fix and add things still.

2 player is VERY untested. enter or start on a second game pad for them to join and ] or back/selct to drop out.

There is now a gun but it dosent work very well with touch screens.

Next I plan on adding:
Lots of 2 player modes and mini games.
More challenges
More achievements
More campaign levels after i have finished level 1.
Sound effects that you can turn on and off.

Campaign mode is very minimal at the moment, you can play from start to finish and there is a score board.

The old vession is still avaliable on another branch but the achievements are no longer compatible just incase anyone wants to try it.

Thanks for reading
-Steve-

Hello adventurers,

We're back with another small fix:

Changed default keybinding for Janka's Wall Climbing from (X) to Right Trigger Button.

This change also aligns with the full version of the game, where the trigger is used for wall climbing as well.

Oh, and yes - Janosik 2 is now out! Check it out!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1640400/Janosik_2/

Enjoy!

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