# ⚙️ Scheduled Maintenance – September 17 ⚙️

Hello friends!

Tomorrow, **September 17 at 13:00 server time**, we will carry out maintenance.

## Patch notes:

* Guild faction changes will be applied for all guilds that submitted applications.
* Fixed a bug with skill upgrades in the Zodiac system.
* Fixed an issue where characters with the VIP buff could sometimes appear dead to other players while still alive.
* Added the ability to use **Wishing Pull** for characters level 131+.
* Fixed the buff for the losing side in **Pindus Battlefield**.
* Fixed the quest in **Wonderland**: it is now a proper daily quest and will correctly reset each day.

**Estimated duration:** 30 minutes.

Thank you for your patience and support!

After three weeks of intensive testing, the playtests for Pizza Slice are officially over. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for every participant who took part and voiced their opinions on the experience. Your feedback is essential for us to move forward and make the game you all want to play and enjoy. Thank you for the filled out forms and questions asked on our Discord server. You’re the best!

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We will once again go through all of your feedback to analyze the experience through the lens of your perspective and plan out our future work. We will be sharing some fine details from the questionnaire with all of you in a future devlog, so you understand where the project is heading. 

For anyone who requested but not received a playtest invite - don’t worry, you will have another chance to test the game out soon! There are already plans in motion to invite more players to check the game out before the release. As we cook, please be patient and you shall be rewarded :) 

In the meantime, consider joining our Discord server, where more like-minded pizza enthusiasts hang out and discuss everything, from their favourite italian pie flavours, to what they would like to see in the game.

See you at the table!

The Pizza Slice team

Hey everyone!

I’m Satyajit, game director at Flying Robot Studios in Kolkata, India. We’re thrilled to share that our narrative detective adventure, Devi – A Light in the Dark, will be part of the upcoming Game Devs of Color Expo Steam Event! 🎉

To celebrate the event, the demo is now live again on Steam! This is your chance to experience the opening chapter of Devi’s story—exploring the village, gathering clues, and uncovering the first threads of mystery. If you missed it last time, now’s the perfect moment to dive in.

The GDoC Expo is a celebration of diverse voices in gaming, and we’re proud to bring an Indian story to the global stage. This event is not just about showcasing our work, but also about connecting with players, creators, and communities worldwide.

Upon ascending, I was asked at least twice if the calculation for Skill Points was correct. To add greater info and transparency on how the ascension skill works and how it affects SP gain and its calculation, I have added a breakdown tooltip to enhance the death screen info.

I previously added the shortcut keys but they were not displayed in the UI, so it was not obvious. In this update, you now see them visibly.

This was added as there was an SP farm exploit with Dungeon bosses that allowed you to get 99 SP within 0.5 seconds, which allows you to max every skill relatively quickly. I am okay with SP gains being crazy, but the problem was that it encouraged a really boring and mundane way to play the game, which I think ruins the point of the game which is to push further and go deeper during your runs, rather than repeatedly doing the same thing within 0.5 seconds.

I made a Pelican companion! The pelican now joins you underwater when you unlock fishing and have the pelican ability at level 1.

Full changelog:

• Pelican now appears underwater with you

• Add SP breakdown tooltip in death screen

• Add 90% early death penalty if died before 60% of furthest distance (to fix Jetpack DG Boss SP farm exploit)

• Shadow Seeker maxed dark matter boost: 10k% -> 2k%

• Fix MP exceeding max when downgrading INT/max MP

• Fix 10th ascension re-appearing card maxed popup

-YYZ

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3959050/Siegeturtle/

Hello shoppers!

Storebound will have a brand new trailer in the upcoming Indie Fan Fest next Wednesday, September 24th! The showcase will go live at 9 AM PST.

We will also be announcing some news about an upcoming demo for Storebound that time as well.

The team has been hard at work on Storebound, and we can't wait for you to see what we have been cooking up. During Indie Fan Fest, we will also give an update on the state of development and what we're working on.

We've been quiet as we have been trying to make Storebound the best experience it can be, so stay tuned for more.

See you then!
Nikko
Community Manager

Tomorrow a new Storm Squad Battle Pass, dedicated to the elite SEK special forces unit from Germany, will become available in Caliber.

Learn more about new unit, Assault Faust, and main Battle Pass mechanics in the article.https://playcaliber.com/en/news/1163/storm-squad-battle-pass-sek-assault/

Here is a pretty big update packed with new content and many improvements, it also adds depth to existing content!

Update 11.0 - NEW CHARA, NEW CONTENT and ENHANCEMENT (16th September 2025)

NEW CONTENT:

• NEW CHARACTER: Gundead (35th playable character available in the game!)

• NEW ATTACK: Lazerdin (shoots ray laser that bounce of wall once)

• NEW ITEM: Ricochets (red item, +1 ricochet for your projectiles, meaning they bounce )

• NEW ENEMY TYPE: Slasher Wizard

• NEW ENEMY TYPE: Valkyrie Disk Thrower

• NEW ACHIEVEMENT: Win a run with Boilix on Difficulty 5, unlocks Gundead

• NEW ACHIEVEMENT: Win a run with Gundead, unlocks Lazerdin

• NEW ACHIEVEMENT: Win a run with Gundead on Difficulty 5, unlocks Ricochets Item

• (if you already completed a run with Boilix in D5 before, the corresponding achievement will be retroactively unlocked the first time you launch the game of version 11.0+)

ENHANCEMENTS:

• Laser Eye Attack: Full Rework: It now aims in a fixed direction instead of choosing a random one each wave. Several numerical values have been adjusted for better balance.

• Improved the RNG for Attacks the player find in Shop

• Wormator Character: now affects the behavior of many attacks such as Bar-Bar, Laser Eye, Yoyo, Spring Punch or Whip

• Serpent Chain Item: similarly to Wormator, it affects the behavior of many attacks

• Many of those “Snake affected Attack” can now also be affected by “Orbit Speed” stat at the same time

• These changes add a lot of depth to existing content and allow for some crazy new builds

• Wormator Character: change most of the starter attacks

• Improved the hitbox of all spiders characters: Arakna & Centilegs playable Character + Spider Minions. Centilegs was the only playable character with a punishing hitbox, but that’s now been improved for a smoother experience.

• Bar-Bar Attack: in addition to Amount scaling, the base count of projectiles went from 3 to 3/4/5/6

• Blastolier: now scales with Amount

• Enemy contact damage are now disabled for a brief moment after they appear

• Laser Eye/Liquidator: Lasers are now also affected by Transparent Attacks setting

• Grimorius Character: can now only equip Attacks scaling with Arcane Damage

• Belzebuth Character: improved the in-game tooltip to avoid confusion

• Oblivion Spitter: faster fire rate, more damage, no more knockback

• Improved the rendering of Slash Attacks/Projectiles

• Enhancement: 2 of the new items introduced in 10.0 required to be displayed “One slot per item” in the inventory for technical reasons, I improved/reworked the systems so it doesn’t need this anymore

• Glass Heart Item => Limited to 3

• Chest Express => Limited to 7

• Heart Earrings Item blue => green

• Fame Item rework (now a white item and provide additional effects)

• Improve the systems and balancing related to pickup spawning (like Chests)

• Bugfix: Pickaxe Attack could display a “at the end of wave 17” (a specific wave number) instead of “at the end of wave N+4” in the Start Run menu

• Bugfix: during the first run in an app session, if the player level up during the very first wave, the reroll price of the Level Upgrade was costing 0 due to a recent change

• Bugfix: Amputation Item could be exploited to gain infinite Souls using the Resume Run feature

• Lots of synergy bonus changes

• Minor balancing tweaks

I'm having so much fun working on this game

Thanks a lot for all your support! ❤️

I had some small bug-fixes and typos to clear out, Demonfox articles becoming available a day too early, that kind of thing. I figured I could do a quick pass and push a fix to main-line. Little did I know I was about to be ambushed.

Lin is a scene stealer bar none; originally planned as an extra with no speaking lines, she ended up grabbing one of the 4 endings of Morningstar for herself. In this little update she also has two long Facial conversations with you, sending along plenty of images to keep you inspired until next time you see her.

To access them, load the End of Game save, and make sure you finished Lin's Questline.

Snowdrop is of course the original scene stealer; planned as one-off gag in Love of Magic she charmed herself into a recurring role, a military career and a cameo in Morningstar that ended up being about 5x as long as originally planned.

Given a chance it is of course entirely predictable that she would want more content. As with Lin, to access it; make sure you've completed Snowdrop's storyline (until the Gala night), and load the end of Game save. That'll transport you to Day 115, and new stories open up, including night-time selfies from Snowdrop and Lin.

And with that I leave Love of Magic and Morningstar behind, at least for now, and focus on Wings of Empire. It's a Space Opera set in a world where the Roman Empire never fell, but clawed it's way to the stars. The long cold war with the Commonwealth is heating up, and the galaxy is preparing for war.

I've now started on Act III, with the first few days complete. Content wise that means I'm a little less than halfway through the first of three books. You can check it out on the Development beta branch of Morningstar, where it'll sit until it goes on sale.

If that sounds interesting, give it a wishlist to help it do well at launch!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3203710/Wings_of_Empire/
Enjoying these little snippets of additional content? Let me know in the comments!

We’re excited to share some big news and announce a new project we’ve started working on! Get ready for a wild ride in a place no one ever wanted to manage. Become the true ruler of your own toilet in Mr Toilet!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3930150/Mr_Toilet/

Fixed Melee Buffs Issues
Now Left hand melee and Weapon swing/Swords all has same mechanics
Rage Bar will boost melee damage
When rage is active, its considered 120% rage bar bonus.