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Early Access Feedback Survey: 5 Winners Selected & Rewarded



⚓Ahoy, skyship captains!


As we promised, we are rewarding those who participated in the early access survey and provided the most useful, constructive and extensive feedback.

5 winners have been selected! Steam keys have been emailed to them along with our gratitude for taking their time to help us.

Keep your feedback coming, captains!


Yours truly,



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Patch: new enemies

[h2]Greetings, captains![/h2]

[h3]An update for the early access version of Black Skylands has been released[/h3]

The list of changes:


- Added new enemies: Grabber, Clinger. They draw out resources from the player's skyship
- Changed attack speed parameters for Clingers and Grabbers
- Tweaked the way Clingers and Grabbers memorize player's location
- Enemies no longer fall off the islands for no reason
- Lancers (human melee enemies) no longer lose sight of the player while preparing their attacks
- Fixed Lancers' sprite and hitbox positions
- Fixed a bug in the Swarm zone where you respawned in the sky without a skyship after it had been destroyed
- You can now fast travel to gas stations from any point of the map
- Doubled the speed with which energy is gravitated towards your skyship
- Reduced HP of enhanced opponents
- The amplification of opponents who are superior to the player in strength is reduced by 2.5 times
- Fixed the sniper rifle active reload bug
- Fixed an issue where the next target marker would disappear when fast travelling to the Fathership
- Fixed a bug where a panel overlapping the entire screen appeared when the factory assembly line was jammed with crates
- The item pick-up sound no longer plays when you are starting the game
- Fixed white buttons in pause menu when returning from other settings windows
- Autoscroll is now available only on gamepads and keyboards, unavailable on mouse
- Fixed a bug where the starting skyship weight was always shown while choosing your skyship in the shipyard
- Fixed an issue where, when quickly closing the tablet and opening the menu, the player could still shoot
- Removed the notification about adding a gift to the skyship's hold at the start of the game
- Removed the notification about first aid kit and Luma's energy pick-ups being added to the skyship's hold

- Changes to the Player.log:
  • removed the redundant notification about the absence of the "WasAggroNotified" component, which littered the log
  • removed some of the extra checks, added new ones
  • a new notification is no longer considered an error and is sent to the informative log



Keep your feedback coming!

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Please, update your game.

Patch: fast travel, zero health enemies fixed

[h2]Greetings, captains![/h2]

[h3]An update for the early access version of Black Skylands has been released[/h3]

The list of changes:

- Fixed an issue where it was impossible to fast travel to a gas station situated in a different region of the map
- Fixed an issue where, when attempting a game load while invincibility was active, the player remained invincible forever
- Increased Shards of Fangs drop chance
- Reduced the percentage of strengthening of all opponents (if the strength of the enemy is lower) - from 250% to 180%
- Fixed an issue where enemies lived with zero health remaining


Keep your feedback coming!

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Please, update your game.

Patch: gamepad controls fixed, weapon swap speed increased, AI improved, etc.

[h2]Greetings, captains![/h2]

[h3]An update for the early access version of Black Skylands has been released[/h3]

The list of changes:

- Fixed an issue with switching between store tabs using a gamepad
- Improved stability of the island defense cutscene
- Increased chance of Broot spawning in South Aspia
- Increased chance of Big Scarab spawning in West Aspia
- Increased weapon swap speed
- Pistols now have infinite ammo
- Pistol DPS (damage per second) has been reduced
- Improved the quality of world loading after saving the game while sleeping
- Fixed the quest conditions counting system
- Repair kits and ship ammo are put directly into the hold when purchased on the Fathership
- Enemies from tents will now spawn at random locations
- Fixed the airborne enemies behavior (Traxes, Jetpackers, Hoverers) - now they don't break when the player jumps to the ground and leaves the zone of visibility of these enemies
- Removed enemies from non-quest tents spawning infinitely
- Enlarged passages that were harder to get through using bigger ships
- Fixed map navigation using reassigned keys
- Added the ability to reassign hotkeys for Map, Diary and Equipment
- Fixed an issue where flying enemies sometimes flew to the origin of coordinates when attacking an island
- Some buildings now require less resources to construct
- Special mods sold in the Armory now require fewer resources to create
- The cost of mod boxes sold by merchants has been increased
- Fishing difficulty has been lowered
- Fishing minigame controls have been changed: you now use 1, 2, 3, 4 instead of WASD. Please, reset the controls to default
- Increased the radius for starting the fishing minigame
- Farm animals now spawn in predefined locations
- The description of the quest where you have to create an anti-Swarm weapon has been made clearer
- Boss fights can now be restarted if the player accidentally exited and saved the game
- Reduced the difficulty of the final boss
- Added a hint for using the shipyard during a mission where the player needs to dock
- Removed the stump in the Crash boss fight arena which was dropping 1000 capsules
- Removed a twitching stone in a cave on one of the islands
- Fixed the next target marker disappearing when opening the hint window immediately after closing the tablet
- The chance of coal drops from asteroids has been doubled


Keep your feedback coming!

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Please, update your game.

Complete a survey to win a copy of Black Skylands!



⚓Greetings, captains!


[h3]Complete the feedback survey below for a chance to win one of 5 copies of Black Skylands![/h3]






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Yours truly,



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