Oh, this is different, huh?
You thought we’d let those zebras run for free forever?
The age of freebies is over. Welcome to the marketplace.


Now you can buy and sell like a true merchant of illusion.
Zebras? Scratch tickets? Fingers sore from too much scratching?

We’ve got you covered. It’s all good stuff.

Zebras don’t spit out money directly anymore. You want profit? Go sell them. Time to work for it !


Now they hand out scratch tickets.

Scratch them, sell them — but whatever you do, just lose.

• ALL IN – Sometimes you gotta lose everything at once to earn respect.
  
• TILT – You shook it too hard, cousin.
  
• Dumpster Diver – No poor shaming brother. Sometimes you gotta fall before you bounce.

• Switching tabs in the journal no longer freezes your destiny. And we capped it at 100 lines. Nobody wants your life story.
  
• Wheel of Fortune: x2 now stacks. Twice the chance… to fool yourself.
  
• Skipped missions are now logged. About time, right?
  
• Wheel lighting adjusted. You see it better now? So do we.

You wanted something new?
We gave you better: the illusion that any of this will change your fate.

Teleport and dominate with Shade! 🌑 This Dark Wizard bends the shadows to control, weaken, and finish his enemies with precision.

🌀 Shadow Leap 🔥 Nether Shard ⛓️ Chains of Despair ⚔️ Dark Bonds

Step into the shadows and command the darkness. Meet Shade, the Dark Wizard—a swift and merciless caster who manipulates the battlefield with terror and precision.

With Shadow Leap, Shade bends the shadows to instantly teleport across the battlefield, appearing where enemies least expect—and striking where it hurts most.

Nether Shard surges through him, boosting his critical strike chance and making every attack a deadly blow.

Enemies caught in Chains of Despair find their movement slowed, trapped in ghostly bindings as their strength is sapped away.

And with Dark Bonds, Shade curses his enemies, reducing their armor and leaving them wide open for destruction.

Shade isn’t just a wizard—he’s the unseen blade, the silent hunter, and the master of controlling the flow of battle.

STAY EPIC! STAY BRAVE!

Dear Metas,

Since the official release across all platforms, we've received extensive feedback from Meta-Humans regarding mobile graphics issues. In response to the recent feedback about graphics quality and frame rates, our technical team has completed the first round of optimizations (no server maintenance required—simply restart the client to apply the updates). Here are the specific adjustments:

[Released Fixes]
1. High frame rate and high graphics settings are now separately adjustable on select mid-to-high-end devices. Optimization for other devices is still ongoing and will be released once ready.
* Note: Enabling both high frame rate and high graphics at the same time may cause overheating or lag. Please adjust settings based on your device's performance. Further optimizations are on the way.
2. Graphics upgrade: Improved rendering effects for certain graphics presets.
3. Significantly improved terrain precision and texture clarity.
4. Enabled image sharpening on certain devices for clearer edges.
5. Resolution adaptation: Improved rendering resolution for large-screen devices.

[Future Optimization Plans]
We are aware of ongoing lag and performance issues. We've created a dedicated task force to address them, and we will share updates as soon as testing is complete.

If you encounter any issues, please contact us through in-game Customer Support. Our team will investigate each case carefully. Thank you for your patience and support. We wish you a smooth journey across Nalcott!

Once Human Development Team

We’re thrilled to announce that STAaRS (Space Time Anomalies and Reality Security) is now completely free to play.
This change allows more players to join the STAaRS volunteer program and experience the full journey through a reality-bending sci-fi universe.

In STAaRS, you play as a civilian volunteer undergoing recruitment trials for a secretive organization tasked with detecting, analyzing, and responding to space-time anomalies. Your mission is to survive the evaluation process — and prove you’re worthy of joining the elite force that safeguards reality itself.

Core Gameplay Elements:

* Investigate strange anomalies in shifting environments

* Solve logic-based puzzles and uncover hidden patterns

* Interact with mysterious technology and experimental systems

* Progress through a layered narrative with multiple outcomes


Now is the perfect time to join the investigation.
Download STAaRS today and begin your volunteer evaluation.

• All language translations are now complete, and the previous test version content has officially been implemented into the default branch!

• Game performance optimization! This should greatly reduce stuttering and lag! (Just so you know, behind this one simple sentence is an absolutely soul-crushing amount of work.)

• Small tweak to Multi Turret Advanced Difficulty 4: Random enemy spawns now have a cap, limited to around 4 to 8 enemies at a time.

• The E-100's turret will now adjust its camo to match the hull color
  
• Fixed a bug where ally's turrets displayed the wrong colors.
  
• Fixed an issue where the "Disable universal camouflage" option in settings wasn't working properly.

• The "One last Kiss" skill now properly works with multi-barrel guns!
  
• Fixed the bug where tanks with glider wings could keep flying forever by firing backwards... This is ridiculous even for this game

💡 Jump into the game and check out all the changes~!

Come and try them! Feel free to share your opinions too~~

https://store.steampowered.com/points/shop/app/1869270

OK， folks, over the weekend, we have had a very heated debate over all those dramas.
In case you missed it, here are the links to previous events:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1519140/view/507326880609730897
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1519140/view/507326880609730962

In short, here is a summary:

The action of Nexus is very disrespectful, ignoring the culture, traditions, laws, and regulations of China.
Thus, in this matter, I support my fellow Chinese developers.
However, the situation then escalated among our players.
Some consider that Steam may do the same, as they found that Steam is censoring those previous announcements and developer diaries that mention this event. I can confirm that those events' visibility got stuck in an infinite pending state on Steam's side. I am contacting their support personnel to investigate the issue.
Meanwhile, I don't think such an event should be used as a casus belli to remove our game's current existing LGBT content, as some of you suggested. I am still maintaining my "live and let live" policy. Most of our pro-LGBT players are not those LGBT extremists who want to murder everyone who uses "males' and "females."

Thus, I am calling a cease-fire among your factions.
Pro-LGBT faction gets:
All existing LGBT content remains. No persecution. No purge. No threats to call the police or other ridiculous things suggested by some members of the Anti-LGBT faction.

Anti-LGBT faction gets:
My support is to have a mod created by one of their members that reverts the game's gender option from 6 back to 2. Also, no persecution. No purge. No threats to call the police or other ridiculous things suggested by some members of the Pro-LGBT faction.

Certainly, some people are still not happy. Some people still don't see eye to eye with others. But this is a big, diverse community. You can block them, you can ignore them. But you are not going to suggest something like banning them or starting a genocide. Banning is only used against the enemies of NEOLITHIA.

I have been very patient in solving this issue. Don't push it, comrades.


好吧，各位同学，周末已经发生了很多很激情的关于那些欢乐的事情的讨论了。
如果你错过了，这是前情提要。
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1519140/view/507326880609730897
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1519140/view/507326880609730962
总结一下：

世界上著名的Mod网站Nexus因为给上古卷轴4黯灭重制版做汉化Mod的同学们使用了【男性】和【女性】就BAN掉了他们和他们的Mod。
我认为Nexus的行为是傲慢无礼并且极度缺乏对于中国Mod开发人员的尊重，无视中国法律法规文化传统的行为。所以，这件事上，我是全面支持Mod开发者的。
不过呢，这件事随后在我们的玩家中也发生了进一步的升级。
毕竟，我们中有人发现了，凡是提到这件事的游戏公告，都被Steam降低了流量。我能确认的是，Steam现在依然卡着对公告显示在游戏库中的审查。 因此，引发了大家对于Steam是否有同样的问题的顾虑。目前，我正在和Steam客服联络调查这件事。
与此同时，我认为不应将此类事件某些同学建议的移除游戏中LGBT内容的理由，我依然保持Live and Let Live的政策。我们这里的大多数支持LGBT的玩家并不是那些想要谋杀所有使用“男性”和“女性”称呼的LGBT极端分子。

因此，你们应该先消停一下。

支持LGBT的同学们获得：
所有现有LGBT内容保留。不受迫害。不被清除。没有威胁报警或反LGBT派别某些成员提出的其他荒谬建议。

反对LGBT的同学们获得：
我支持由他们的一名成员创建一个Mod，将游戏的性别选项从6个恢复到2个。同样，不受迫害。不被清除。没有威胁报警或支持LGBT派别某些成员提出的其他荒谬建议。

当然，有些人仍然不满意。有些人依然对于另外一些人不爽。但这是一个庞大且多元的社区。你可以屏蔽他们，你可以无视他们。但你不能提议BAN掉他们或对他们来一次种族屠杀。BAN只针对NEOLITHIA的敌人使用。

我一直在非常耐心地解决这个问题。不要滥用，同志们。




OK， now for today's update:
接下来，是今天的更新内容：


20250427
English
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[Localization]Restored the localization keys for "Male" and "Female" that were removed when we expanded the gender options to 6.
[Localization]In Chinese localizations, "创意工坊"(Workshop) is now specifically renamed to Steam Workshop to make it clearer, as we are going to support DEG Mods now, providing more choices for people to get mods.
[Menu]Various locations you can previously get mods from the Steam Workshop can now also lead you to DEG Mods.
[Menu]Various locations previously had the options of the "Steam Workshop" changed to "Get Mods," and then, you can choose which mod site you want to get mods from.
[Mod]The Scene_PassportMaker class is now better organized, allowing making gender related mods eaiser.
简体中文
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【本地化】重新加入了本地化文本中的【男性】和【女性】用词，这些用词曾经在我们把游戏的性别扩展到6种时被移除了。
【本地化】中文文本的【创意工坊】现在被改名为了【Steam创意工坊】以便让内容更加明确。因为我们现在开始将会支持DEG Mods的Mod。
【菜单】各种此前你可以从Steam工坊获得Mod的地点，现在也可以把你带去DEG Mods。
【菜单】各种此前名为【Steam工坊】的选项，现在变成了【获得Mod】的选项。 随后，你可以进一步选择从哪里获得Mod。
【Mod】Scene_PassportMaker菜单的代码结构优化，让制作性别有关的Mods更加容易。



Latest news from Ukraine/乌克兰小剧场
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General big fixes and maintenance.

Byterage Now Supports DLSS 4

• All Grand Battlefield maps now support the US Army faction! Players can freely choose to fight as the US Army.

• 18 new US light weapons, 15 vehicles, 7 heavy equipment, and 2 ground-attack aircraft.
  
• 2 new ground-attack aircraft for the Soviet Army.
  
• 2 new ground-attack aircraft and 1 new vehicle for the German Army.

• Convertible vehicles added: These vehicles have greater firepower and mobility but feature weaker armor, making them more vulnerable to HE and incendiary damage.
  
• Controllable ground-attack aircraft: After purchase in Grand Battlefield mode, you can personally pilot these aircraft to devastate ground targets. Currently, ground-attack planes are only available as support rewards, have limited ammo, and cannot be countered by enemies. In campaign mode, attack aircraft remain AI-controlled and cannot be piloted by players.
  
• Shotgun category added: Now available as a late-game primary weapon for US assault troops, offering powerful close-range firepower.

• All Grand Battlefield modes now support custom battles with selectable factions and equipment levels, as well as standard historical battles.
  
• Grand Battlefield mode has been reworked and optimized for a better experience.
  
• Infantry mode has been completely overhauled and expanded into a breakthrough mode with selectable attacker/defender roles:
  
• Attackers must break through the defenders’ lines before running out of reinforcements.
  
• Defenders must hold each line and prevent attackers from breaching the final defense.
  
• Armor mode AI optimized for more mobile and group tactics.

• Two brand new maps added to Grand Battlefield mode, set during US operations in Western Europe.
  
• Three old Grand Battlefield maps have been reworked for a more unique combat experience.
  
• Additional map details optimized.

• Main menu visuals fully upgraded with a dynamic, interactive interface.
  
• Campaign mode fully adapted to the new UI.
  
• Grand Battlefield shop interface further optimized.
  
• Overall UI style is now fresher and more modern.

• Weather system fully upgraded, with new, more layered weather effects.
  
• Grand Battlefield values adjusted; challenge entries are now more difficult for increased challenge.
  
• Improved combat feedback in Grand Battlefield, with added effects for kills, currency gains, and more.
  
• Camera rendering optimized to improve visuals while reducing GPU usage by about 30%.
  
• Combat logic algorithms optimized, reducing CPU usage by about 5–8%.
  
• Weather will now randomly change when restarting a level.
  
• Graphics performance optimized for a good experience even at low settings.

• Fixed an issue where the training camp could become stuck.
  
• Fixed some UI display errors in campaign mode.
  
• Fixed an issue where heavy weapon gunners could drift.
  
• Fixed an issue where reconnaissance aircraft support failed in campaign mode.
  
• Fixed rare cases where perks and challenges did not activate or worked abnormally.

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