Dev Build version 352

• Art\User Interface
  • Planet Shattered tweaks to bloom and lighting
  • New Ship display items
  • Preview camera system for placeable character, hooked up in store
  • Battlepass icons all updated.
  • no more hitpoint bar for barrels
  • Hooked up new camera system to loadouts and ship preview
  • Inventory item bg fix
  • Lots of new Echo skins added for players and NPCs
  • Full NPC pass, now completely setup to use new character systems
    • All mission NPCs now have specific NPCs per mission type
  • Death screen fixes
  • Better mission objective icon, hopefully easier to see
  • Character customization improvements, more color choices to eyes and skin
    • first pass at adding some test hair, many more hairs to come soon
• Gameplay
  • no more stamina use on jump
  • New back items added to Battlepass
  • explosive guys can't kill through walls or floors
    • They also have an onscreen warning icon added
  • added nav marker for player dropped residuum to make it easier to find after death
  • added 100% chance on big residuum in real time space trainer
  • Added more base ship parts
  • Added new ship cannon
• Sound
  • Shattered Map removed lava sound wav that was playing extra loud
  • Void Kamikaze tweaking - making the ticking sound have a shorter attenuation and the screech a longer one
  • updated hit impacts to show sounds and fx to edit per damage type
  • Full creature sound pass for alert sounds and looping chatter sounds

Dev Build version 349

• Art\User Interface
  • Fixed spinning logo in loading screens
  • Menu systems work with new input system
  • added XP numbers to player info
  • All Character Armor and icons updated to improved visuals
  • Camera and lighting adjustments in battle pass
  • fixed extraneous back button in battle pass menu
  • Fixed back button on customization menu
  • character will be refreshed after modifying default loadout
  • Added improved mission locations to Sanctuary and Velduun
  • All Battlepass items now revised and new icons updated
  • New store added with first Cosmetic set - the void
  • fixed subtitles on top of menus
  • Explore map now reduced the distance of the distortion around an anomaly to much closer
  • New information added to show what destroyed you, how much damage the hit was and how much residuum you dropped
• Gameplay
  • added XP numbers to player info
  • Added 2 more helmets with new stats and visuals
  • All maps facilities now change appearance based on facility completion percentage
  • RTS trainer decreased enemy ship weapon damage
  • Changed enemy ships in RTS to no longer have perfect aim, they now hit an appropriate amount similar to RTG
  • Increased range and spread of TBS weapons to help make lining up an enemy easier
  • fixed RTG trainer to not spawn enemies until on that step of mission to keep players from killing them out of order and bricking mission
  • moved aim hint so you have to complete the crouch part while the crouch hint is still on screen
  • spaced out the spawning of each wave in RTS explore
  • Facilities now utilize the tunnels more for missions and spawners
  • RTG was getting too much health per point, brought more inline with other ability scores
  • When you are destroyed you now drop 5%-25% of the residuum you were carrying and can go pick that up
  • Jump now uses stamina
• Sound
  • Fixed some bad audio lines in TBG trainer
  • Whole bunch of vocal polishing and leveling for mission dialog
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed some unreachable mission objects on Miasma and New Prime
  • Fixed a bad exit portal location on Velduun
  • Fixed bugs with nested station menus
  • possible fix for battlepass not selecting item properly on open
  • fixed initial details population in loadouts menu
  • Fixed missing collision physics for Shattered
  • Fixed bug in RTS where sometimes after death player would lose enemy targeting

Dev Build version 348

• Art\User Interface
  • station menu tab bar fixes
  • New character armor updates, icons still not updated to new visuals
  • New Interaction system that allows things like interacting with a popup
  • Can now break down items by holding B when you rollover them, you will randomly receive sparks of modifiers on the item
  • Facilities now can show visual progress as they complete
  • All the Battle Pass visual items have been improved
• Gameplay
  • Fixes for Shattered planet collision where you could fall through terrain
  • added more asteroids to real time space explore map so you never fly in a straight line between objectives
  • fixed miasma kill plane
  • RTG port facility mission updates, added lots of mission location variety, removed kill from mission
  • RTG housing mission updated, many more locations for mission, removed kill count
  • RTG Farm mission cleanup, no kills, faster interacts
  • RTG Farm mission cleanup, no kills, faster interacts
  • RTG factory mission revamp, fewer things to pick up, never goes back to top for last step, lots more mission locations added as possibilities
  • RTG research mission, no kills, lots more variety of mission locations
  • RTG Power mission completely revamped to better explore world
  • Added tech to mission system to help randomize locations making missions feel far less repetitive
  • big change to auto aim and precision, now precision is only a positive stat (ie it wont make you miss when you would have hit like before) also auto aim mostly leans on precision, no more hitting enemies you barely aimed at. Different guns still have slight variance in their shot ranging from a sniper with none to a shotgun with quite a bit.
• Sound
  • Fixed missing footstep sounds on Shattered planet
  • Lots of new environment sounds added to Shattered
  • Lots of new environment sounds added to Sanctuary
• Bug Fixes
  • fixed target lead in space being wrong after you fire a missile
  • Fixed lipsync issues with voice volume level.
  • Fixed system balance modifiers not applying correctly
  • Fixed some bad AI spawn locations on New Prime

Dev Note: We are in the middle of improving all the character armor parts so you will notice many of them are improved, that last step will be updating all the UI icons so those may be a bit behind but hopefully all done by next build

Dev Build version 345

• Art\User Interface
  • Reworked the planet visuals in the system galaxy
  • Sanctuary Planet Complete, all planets now completed!
  • added item type "pills" to item details
  • Lots of Battle Pass cleanup
  • More UI polish to help make what you are doing more clear with missions in station
  • New UI system that allows you to teleport between tables on Nexus Station
  • adjustments to realtime hud elements in ground and space
  • added discord button to main menu
• Gameplay
  • Missiles now work in TBS as well
  • 7 new types of AI to fight in RTG as we begin adding gameplay combat variation
  • added portal out event to real time and turn based characters to make it more clear you went through the portal
  • singularity pulse RT now casts 2x as fast
  • added additional ramps to the Pylon Ground map to give access to the upper level in 2 more spots
  • Nexus Station, assets added to the NPC trainers area
• Sound
  • New Prime map sounds and ambience
  • Boosted Weapon sound levels.
  • Planet under construction map more sounds and ambience
  • Music now gives a break between songs to keep it from always playing during missions
  • Pylon reverb zone added
  • fixed primary gun sounds not playing correctly on some maps
• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed no audio on all water spots in Miasma
  • fix for sometimes no portal at end of mission
  • fix for TBS explore miscounting anomalies
  • fix for too hard to collide with portal to leave TBS
  • fixed sniper rifle name and description in item and turnbased
  • fixed wrong rifle icon on starter rifle
  • fixed description for 2 AP attack
  • fix for RTG trainer turning off interact when you get too close
  • Fixed bad nav lines in TBG Training
  • Fixed can't collide with exit portal until enabled and no sound on exit portal until enabled

Designer Note: Responding to the poll, we prioritized adding several new enemy combat varieties, have fun with it and let us know what you think!

Dev Build version 341

• Battle pass!
  • Microtransactions are not yet available to purchase the premium Battle Pass, but "free" rewards may be claimed.
  • The Season missions will also not be available until the Season officially begins.
  • Lots of work on Battle pass items, names and descriptions
• Sniper rifle added for ground loadouts
  • Added support for all weapons to have different zoom distances
• Realtime skills now support cooldowns
  • UI added to show all the state of weapon and skill cooldowns
• Fix for wrong calculation of recoil in TBG
• Intro mission on Nexus now explains all the way through Space and Ground
• Fix for hex graphics glitch
• Sound
  • More footstep materials
  • Added more UI sounds
  • Lots of sounds added to each planet
• Missiles all have new special FX
• UI
  • Improved explanations in System Map about balance
  • Sparks table UI better explains what you need to do
  • New planet names and descriptions
  • Work on power plant UI explaining better dice rolls
• Fixed respawn errors on Miasma and Velduun
• Cleaned up several mission descriptions
• Sanctuary planet ready for testing
• Added support for character and ship Aura cosmetics.

Dev Build version 333

• Miasma Planet
• The Eye Planet
• Loadouts now show looks assignable per loadout
  • You no longer can use cosmetics you have not unlocked
  • All base items now unlock a custom look once you have found it
  • Added support for new cosmetic item “Aura” in loadouts
  • Added support to echo suit cosmetic to loadouts
• Huge progress on purchasing KOJU in game. Steam is fully functional. Epic is close.
  • Next step is the store where you can spend on cosmetics
• Missions can save progress
• New Intro mission in Nexus Station
• New Trainers, removed old introduction mission
• Big balance pass on all weapons, real time and turn based
  • Weapon Recoil pass. TB now uses the recoil value for its attack penalty
  • fix for not showing decimals in Damage and DPS calculations for weapons
  • attack speed actually makes weapons fire faster now, UI updated as well
  • Updated TBS gun ranges and arcs to be different for each weapon
• Fixed some lighting issues with sparks causing performance hit
• sparks table no longer shows empty/invalid spark into, waits for you to select a spark, also hides during the roll
• Fixed bugs in Housing and Farm facility maps
• Optimized some textures that were using to much RAM
• Sound
  • Sound reverb added to all maps
  • Footsteps sounds added to different walking surfaces
  • Adjusted Green laser sound to be quieter, more research facility sound adjustments
• Complete UI pass on windows, buttons and more
  • UI pass on all system objects showing better information about the planet, mission and what it unlocks
  • Sun System Map UI now shows top down view of the entire system
  • Character customization now face only
• 5 Missile launchers added for space .fx still work in progress but we wanted to get some feedback on how they work, right click to fire

Designer Note: It would really help to focus testing on the 2 new planets, just run and jump everywhere so we can make sure the map is setup correctly. Also if you can please play through the trainer missions and let us know what me missed to help new players have the best chance for success.

Dev Build version 319

• Upgraded to Unreal 5.6, should see significant performance improvements
• Upgraded FSR 31.to (http://31.to) 4.0 should see significant visual quality improvements
• New Pylon ground maps for RT and TB modes
• Fixes to item type names, made consistent. pluralized where appropriate
• created 3 new weapons for space
• Improved Kinetic fx and glow values
• Adjusted sound levels to be less loud overall, added MasterSubmix so all sounds go through a master limiter for control and leveling, and fixed sparks table sound levels for burn/apply so they are equal
• removed physics from the cactus foliage on New Prime
• Fix for skybox on TBG Residuum mission
• Customization itemization coming soon, enjoy your limited time to try out all the looks without unlocking them first

Designer Note: The new space weapons are all cannons so you have to roll for them using cores to get them

Dev Build version 305

• Fixed volume slider issues, fixes not hearing weapon sounds and music slider incorrectly affecting all volume levels
• Fixed mission selection input with gamepad in system UI
• TBG singularity no longer effects player
• Fixed typo on main menu
• Fixed enemy ships completing mission in TBS

Dev Build version 303

• Added some crates to the Facility Port Map to help with players getting stuck on how to get to the upper levels
• Fixed cube showing under ship during fly in to RT space introduction
• Fixed residuum mission collection asteroids not turning off physics on destroy
• Changes to RTS pylon amount and location of ship spawns
• Reworked the physics on the center objects in the TB Residuum map. Also moved some of them to make sure there are no gaps.
• Fixed ship tail "none" icon in customization UI
• Fixed intro video stretching incorrectly
• Combat system updated to scale damage better from enemies
• Changed RTG asteroid to no longer have a kill quest step
• Fixed bug with cores showing default modifiers
• Big performance pass on the asteroids in the RT space portion of introduction
• Fixed start ship visuals
• Added server/client compatible version check to verify correct client version
• Improved introduction loading hitches, more work still to do
• Matched interaction hold time to interaction animation time
• Fixed crouch hint not going away when using gamepad
• Fixed some gamepad icons in turnbased UI
• Improved Kinetic weapon fx in all game modes
• Improved Armor Piercing fx in TBS and RTS
• Fixed ship trails and projectiles not hiding on hit
• New ship wing fx

Dev Build version 295

• Fix for menus never showing mouse cursor again if you touched the controller while they were open.

Dev Build version 294

• Added series of introduction screens the first time you go to the station to help first time players get started
• New Enemy damage scaler system based on mission levels, should be a smoother enemy difficulty curve now
• Fixes for equipment statistics not lining up exactly with loadout screen, added more details on loadout for improved explanations
• More fixes for places to get stuck in RTG Residuum
• Improved ship thruster fx
• Cleanup on various glow levels of items that were getting blown out
• Ship Maneuver clean up in TBS
• Fixed bug where in TBS Residuum mission the asteroids would also show weapon arcs
• Improved timing of void spawn in fx in RTG
• fix for attack speed showing the wrong value on sparks
• fixed the missing stair case with no light in farm facility

Dev Build version 284

• Increased controller UI support for starting missions
• RTS explore map improved to be more compact, fun, anomaly visual distortion size reduced
• Explained on main menu there is no co-op or multiplayer at this phase of beta
• Fixed a bug with TBG singularity skill that would not fire at moved targets until you took another action
• Reduced enemy difficulty scaling significantly, should be no difference early but should be much more playable for our higher level testers
• RTG Residuum map fixes for over bloom/brightness, fix for bad respawn after death, fix for lots of places you could get stuck, fix for no gravity changes after respawn
• Heal hint in the introduction now says hold instead of press

Dev Build version 281

• Can now play Residuum in both TB and RT ground modes, first sector to allow all 4 modes for one mission type. New maps and gameplay! Updated sector UI, rotate the Residuum to switch between the modes
• Added cinematic movie to the Introduction section, it all finally comes together from hopping into the portal on Earth to coming out the portal in the Warped Universe
• Added RT/TB icons
• Added door lights for facilities
• Added mouse/gamepad sensitivity settings
• New waypoint textures
• TBS player ship now respawns correctly after death
• Improved singularity dome visuals
• Damageable asteroid in intro now have unique visuals
• Hints now support TB mode, Added Rotate hint to TBG introduction
• Improved animations for interactable and mission portal in RT
• TB modes now give a 15x bonus to residuum collected during the mission at the rewards screen
• Fix for some game HUD elements staying on screen during mission rewards
• Improved outline and other visuals for TBG introduction map
• Adding small dice for D4 through D20 for use in modifier description
• Added more cut through materials to assets that made it hard to see player in TB
• Fix for singularity in TB on some maps
• Shattered planet visuals ready for players to discover on planet completion
• Recorded more mission voice over with female voice
• Hide the weapon when playing other interact or skill animations in RTG
• Fix for ambience in main menu never turning off
• TB skill bar now correctly shows 0 for skill 10 and pressing 0 selects it
• Significantly higher quality thumbnails for cores and sparks
• TB camera now limited in distance so you don’t move super far away
• Fix for missing subtitles after planet explode
• Added new 3D interface for both inventory and loadouts. Should make loadouts much simpler to use
• New loading screens and UI for explore and pylon missions, startup
• mission portal sounds
• Camera and lighting improvements to station tables
• added modifier tooltips for all modes
  

Designer Note: With this new patch we changed how loadouts work to hopefully be much simpler, but it means we had to reset everyones loadouts so you will need to set them up again. But you can now chose back the default items in your loadouts to reset them on your own as well.

Dev Build version 280

• Fixed Common/Uncommon dodge sparks
• Massive improvement of all space maps
• Fix for stamina bar showing negative numbers
• Fix for no gun after dying during introduction
• More sounds added throughout Nexus Station
• 6 hexes for boost description now correctly says 5
• Clean up for weapon and ship collision in real time space
• Ship HUD now shows reverse speed in red
• Improved real time space controls
• Improved real time space AI flight to be able to chase player better through tight spaces
• Inventory and Loadout UI will no longer show through other UI
• Fixed missing collision on large ship in facility space port map
• Fix for incorrect subtitles in intro
• New main menu background 3D scene to better represent the game
• Lots of new cover assets for turn based space maps
• Fix for bullets sometimes not displaying in TBS
• New ship collision with asteroid sounds
• In TB you will stop movement when detected by enemies
• fixed bug where ships would not detect you and enter combat if you were already in combat
• Turn based space AI improved
• Dice look correct in all maps
• smoothed out the loop animation in TBS
• fixed game not leaving combat when last enemy killed in TBG
• Void now play an effect when they spawn RTG
• Female vocals on the quests have been added.
• added additional boost trails to ship
• Auto-detect graphics settings on first launch.
• Cleaned up graphics settings menu
• introduction TBS now 2 kills and 2 ships in the map vs 4
• Turn based repair/heal will no longer spend an action if you try to use it when fully healthy or out of residuum
• singularity skill in TBG fixed both correct enemy positions and cleaned up visuals
• You can pull barrels with Singularity now in turn based
• Fixed another bug with AI shooting at nearby barrels and blowing themselves up
• Improved skin color selections and lighting in character customization
• Improved asteroid visuals and lighting in introduction TBS
• Increased distance of map markers in Nexus Station
• Improved residuum mission asteroids and collection fx
• Key changed to R from H for repair

Dev Build version 268

• Can now see through Turn Based Barrels
• Fixed physics in Nexus Station
• Updated Health and Stamina UI
• Depleted residuum sectors no longer show up in system map
• Mission UI cleanup
• Realtime ships now also have skills, H to repair in space!
• Fixed ship loadouts
• Improvements to Real time ground spawners, should keep combat MUCH more active
• Turn based space added a new shorter maneuver and fire mode skill
• Core and Spark tables sound pass
• Fix for mission portal still showing E in turn based to interact
• Fix for bad stats on lead feet item
• Fix for AI units not setting visible before firing
• Fix for dodge modifier showing error on rollover
• Made turn-based abilities white when selected
• Updated colors for modifiers
• Added a little dynamic tilt to the ship hud
• Updated missions with dynamic forced spawns after events
• Update Housing Facility
• New compass art
• FX pass on all weapons in all 4 game modes
• Sparks table new apply and fail spark fx
• New Dodge Spark visuals
• Enemies should now patrol
• Art pass to make ships more visible and void damage types more obvious
• Big sound pass in Nexus station
• New menu control system, ESC should always go back
• All mission voice volume adjusted to be easier to hear
• Maw planet edge pass to help from falling off map and visual improvements across the map
• Barrels now work with aim assist so you can hit them near enemies, also are now targetable in turn based modes
• Icon pass for all the waypoints in stations and more
• Dodge and Power stats adjusted to work better in all 4 game modes
• Speed for free maneuver in space capped at a minimum of 11 now
• Fixed an error when opening core table
• All new mission types for Explore, Pylon and Residuum missions
• Updated space maps
• New sector images in System Mission UI
• Performance pass for Lumen based lighting
• Potential fix for invisible terrain on some AMD cards
• Dialog camera improved, added lip sync to VO
• Updated mission portal visuals

Designer Note: So many fixes and updates from this week had to cut it down to fit under Epic's 2000 character limit.

Dev Build version 264

• fixed a lot of visibility logic in system math regarding residuum and station
• Improvements to TBS in introduction
• Updated overwatch icon
• Improved colors for different sun stages of light/gravity balance
• System planets now have improved visuals showing holographic when not started, a new completion representative material then fully revealed
• Added more cues in introduction start to help make it more obvious direction to go
• Several turn based UI improvements
• BEAM_ should no longer show in mission loading screen
• TBS now works better with finding targets and only clicking ships in target arcs
• Fancy new residuum UI
• Cleaned up some exit portal locations
• Lots more asteroids added to Space maps to help fill them up
• UI work to make navigation more obvious
• System planet UI now better describes its completion progress
• No more residuum left in introduction from real time when you start turn based
• Better turn based space UI for movement before combat has started
• Fixed introduction TBS ship damage type
• Friendly ships should always be visible in TBS
• Fixed missing subtitles from audio during introduction
• New weapon sounds
• Added sounds to Artifractal Core and Sparks tables
• New Warped portal icon
• New Warped Universe desktop icon
• Fix for missing audio during real time space part of introduction
• Turn based AI improvements, should react to being shot at, will always reveal before firing weapons
• Residuum collected should show up in rewards screen in turn based modes
• Fix for turn based AI sometimes not taking their turns
• Realtime health bar UI improvements
• Added real time and turn based versions of facility specific missions for all 6 facility types.
• Moved some residuum locations in real time space to make it possible to collect
• Improvements to navigation and waypoint system
• Added compass and waypoints to Nexus Station to help make navigation easier
• Fixed a bug showing a planet in a system before it was discovered

Dev Build version 259

• Improved soft targeting at close range for RTG
• Clean up maps
• Complete revamp of all TBG facilities
• AI in turn based now hidden on map until visible by player
• TBG added picking up Residuum for repairs
• Added overwatch to TBG for players and AI
• Realtime and Turnbased HUDs significantly improved visuals
• Several bugs fixed in Introduction map
• TBS now uses the speed ability to give you a chance of getting a free maneuver
• RTS space AI now much better able to fly in and around larger asteroids
• Missions now support multiple simultaneous objects
• TBG now allows a lower camera for better view angles
• Added Dodge Spark
• New die roll system with improved visuals
• You can now see in inventory which loadouts an item is used in
• Turn based now has a interact ability
• Missions end with a portal opening up to return
• Numerous performance improvements
• Added 2 new back items
• Improved camera lighting exposure settings in RTS so it's not so dark inside asteroids.
• Added intermediary waypoints for respawn on death in RTG so you don’t have to run back so far from the start if you are killed
• Added actual health numerical value displays to all game modes\Dialog now supports up close shots with NPCs when you are close
• Lowered difficulty of AI throughout introduction
• Sun in the center of star system map now changes color to reflect the current light/gravity balance
• TBS UI now shows correct hitpoints