IXION News

To celebrate the release of IXION’s Difficulty Options, we are giving one lucky Administrator a copy of IXION as well as over £250 worth of Corsair hardware.

You will have a chance to win:

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• copy of IXION
  
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• IRONCLAW RGB FPS/MOBA Gaming Mouse (EU)
  
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• K55 RGB PRO XT Gaming Keyboard (UK)
  
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• VOID RGB ELITE USB Premium Gaming Headset with 7.1 Surround Sound — Carbon (EU)
  
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• ST100 RGB Premium Headset Stand with 7.1 Surround Sound (EU)
  

The competition is over on Twitter, and you have until Monday 22nd May to enter!

Ts&Cs are located within the competition tweet thread.

Attention Administrators,

The moment you have been waiting for has arrived – the Difficulty Options update is here!

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Alongside general bug fixes, this update brings you four difficulty options to choose from, meaning you can now customize your IXION experience.

Read on for full patch notes.

Thank you again, Administrators, for your valued feedback and support.



Any new playthrough will now begin with a choice of three difficulty modes:

Journey: This mode is for players who want to enjoy the game’s narrative and is recommended for those unfamiliar with the city-builder genre.

Default: This is the intended IXION experience and is recommended for players familiar with city builders.

Challenge: An unrelenting fight for survival; this mode is for Administrators who really want to test their skills.

Want a bit more customization so you can play IXION how you envisioned? Then this fourth option is for you. In Custom mode, you can adjust a wide variety of game mechanics to your taste. Tired of the constant hull degradation. Turn it off. Not getting enough workers from cryopods? Change the ratio. Accidents happening too often? Decrease the frequency.

You can also adjust these difficulty parameters via the pause menu mid-playthrough – including in your existing saves!

• Fixed an issue where players couldn’t build in the top-left tile of Sector 2.
  
• Story-related technologies can now be unlocked when you have 0 Science.
  
• Fixed an issue for some players where ‘restart chapter’ would take them to the previous chapter rather than the current.
  

• Fixed issues that arose from exiting the “Walking into the Lion’s Den” event.
  
• The player can no longer soft-lock their game by ignoring events in chapter 3.
  
• Fixed an issue where repeatedly clicking the credits button increased its scroll speed.
  
• Fixed an issue where crew would disappear if a save game was loaded mid-population transfer.
  
• Food is no longer produced if all food production buildings are turned off.
  
• Arrowheads no longer disappear in the resource transfer window.
  

I was impressed by the atmosphere and detail of last year's sci-fi city building sim Ixion, but it was undoubtedly a game with a few scorch marks seared across its hull. One of the bigger issues was its unpredictable level of challenge, something Alexander Chatziioannou noted in his review: "The way Ixion stealthily slides into doom-spirals of unsustainability makes reloading preferable to redesigning."..
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Attention Administrators,

We are excited to announce that from Monday 8th May 2023, you will be able to play IXION your way with the release of our new difficulty options update!



Pave your own pathway to the stars by customising your IXION playthrough with our all-new difficulty settings; Journey, Default, Challenge and of course a fully customisable option.

You’ll be able to update IXION from around 6pm BST/10am EST on the 8th and we hope to see you there!

While you wait, why not join our dedicated Discord to discuss IXION with other Administrators.

Attention Administrators,

We received over 500 submissions for our competition to name the new hard difficulty achievement, which has both blown us away and made it incredibly hard to pick just one.

After narrowing it down to our top five, developers Bulwark Studios chose the winner.

We are delighted to announce that the new Hard Difficulty Achievement will be named…



Congratulations to Threlkish and @Ask_Again_Later for this submission.

Our Top 5 were (in no particular order):
- Extremophile
- I Give You The Stars
- Employee Of The Month
- Wheel In The Sky
- For The Few Who Stand In The Light...

We want to thank everyone for submitting their entries and we look forward to releasing the Difficulty Options very soon so you can customise your IXION experience.