The Anacrusis News

Neato alien shootin' cooperative FPS The Anacrusis released as early access a few weeks ago, and studio Stray Bombay seems pretty happy to announce that over 200,000 players have killed over a billion aliens. The Anacrusis has been available as Early Access and/or Game Preview on Steam and PC Game Pass since January 13th. The Anacrusis is doing a "really weird" early access, which has cross-platform, cross-storefront play and metaprogression, among other things...
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We have a big patch coming in February, with everything from a language selector to elevator fixes, but while we're testing that release, we found fixes that provide substantial enough benefits to Xbox players that we felt it was worth pushing them out early.

All Platforms

• We applied client changes that are required for us to release our first Challenge Track next month.
  

Improvements to Xbox crossplayers

• Performance improvements for Xbox Series X players - Xbox Series X players should now get consistent 60fps at 4K resolutions in most situations. We'll continue to improve performance indefinitely, but this should give players a much better experience most of the time.
  
• Performance improvements for Xbox Series S Players - Xbox Series S players should now get consistent 60fps at 1080p resolutions in most situations. We'll continue to improve performance indefinitely, but this should give players a much better experience most of the time.
  
• Performance improvements for Xbox One/One X/One S players - Xbox One players should experience more consistent framerates in most situations. We'll continue to improve performance indefinitely, but this should give players a much better experience most of the time.
  

The game is out! More than 200k people have played the game! Players have killed more than a billion aliens!

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Chet and Will talk about The Anacrusis launch!

Since the game released a couple of weeks ago, we released a couple of hotfixes and a bunch of back-end improvements to improve server performance. We have a big performance patch coming for consoles next week, and lots more coming in the next update.

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Check out streamer highlights from our first few weeks of The Anacrusis!

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The 1.2 Hotfix is Live Now!

Episode 1 Finale Fix: The Game Instructor will now properly identify and highlight the memory card that players need to collect at the end of the Episode 1 finale. It wasn't our intent to ship an infinite holdout at launch, but we did appreciate the people who managed to survive in the finale for 10+ minutes.

AZERTY Keyboard Fix: Players who use the AZERTY keyboard layout will be able to select perks from Matter Compilers using their keyboards.

First-Play Story Fix: If you're in a group with a player who hasn't played the episode before, you should now get first-time story exposition in airlocks, as well as some prompts that should help players understand core mechanics, like the Pulse.

Director Increases Difficulty When It Should Decrease It: We identified a bug that caused the Director to increase the difficulty after a wipe when it should be decreasing it. If you tried and failed, and then got stomped when you tried again, we're really sorry and we believe that it shouldn't happen again.

User Interface Bugs: The user interface bug that displays the player as dead, ammo or health at 999, or other unexpected behaviors has been fixed.

Camera Low W/ No Vertical Control: Fixed the issue where pressing multiple buttons at the same time could cause the camera to get stuck in an unusual position.

Placing a Ping Marker in the World Doesn't Make a Sound: Now pinging the world will make a sound for you and other players. You can help your fellow survivors know which way they should be carrying the alien matter in the Episode 2 gauntlet.

Login Issues With the Microsoft Store/PC Game Pass Build: This log-in issue has been fixed.

Anti-Virus Blocks or Deletes Anacrusis.exe: We've signed the executable appropriately and have submitted it to all of the anti-virus vendors we're aware of. If you're still having problems after the patch releases, please submit a bug at our support site.

Bots Getting Stuck: We expect to continue working on the bots indefinitely, but they should be less likely to get stuck now.

This is our first fix for matchmaking/lag issues and resolves a number of issues that affect players on Steam and other platforms. We're going to continue working on lag/server performance, but players should be matchmaking into the correct region now.