X8 News

[h2]Welcome to the X8 Grand Release[/h2]

Take a look at what we’ve been working on all these months!
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Some details:

X8 is available on Steam for $9.99 USD with the Starter Pack “Archangel” weapon skins included here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1763510/X8/

If you already collected the game prior to the price change, you do not need to purchase the game! It is yours to keep!

Along with the game release comes the release of our first 2 weapon skin packs; the Founder’s Pack, “Mythos”, and the Starter Pack, “Archangel”.

The Founder’s Pack contains 4 electric skins, for the knife, sidearm, Vizor-MP, and Falcon weapons, priced at 3000 coins.


The Starter Pack contains 3 heavenly skins, for the knife, sidearm, and Hellhound weapons.


If you logged in before today to claim the Watermelon skins, your skins will unlock for you automatically upon first login to the game!


In this brand-new release, we have added:

• An in-game Store and Vault
  
  • Purchase coins, skins, and view your collections!
    
• New Achievements (total is now 66!)
  
• Cross-platform parties!
  
• New Reporting system, Hero & Weapon Balancing, and more! (see full Patch Notes in our #dev-log Discord channel)
  

But this isn’t the end of our plans!

Roadmap:

• Ranked Games
  
• Battle Pass
  
• New Maps
  
• New Heroes
  
• New Game Modes
  
• Social Features
  
• More VR interactions
  

With your invaluable feedback, we have created a game we are proud of and a world we can’t wait for you to immerse yourselves in.

To all the Beta/Early Access testers: Thank you.

And to all the newcomers: Welcome to X8!

Are you up for the challenge?

Join us on Discord to be a part of the conversation at https://discord.gg/x8vr

Download X8 and drop a review!

Welcome to the world of X8.

We’re excited to announce our grand release on the Steam and Meta Quest storefronts on Thursday, November 9th!

Over 100,000 players have installed X8 to play intense 5v5 gameplay in less than four months, since Early Access release, and we couldn't be more grateful for your support.

Now we invite a whole new audience to experience a VR native multiplayer hero shooter, designed from the ground up to take advantage of the interactions only VR can provide.

To commemorate this occasion we are announcing the Grand Release Founder's pack designated: Mythos



The Knife ‘Evenstar’
The Pistol ‘Prelude’
The Auto Pistol ‘Chronos’
The Tactical Rifle ‘Genesis’

This exclusive pack will be limited edition and available starting November 9th until December 7th, and can be purchased in-game.

You can see the skins in action in our announcement video on our YouTube channel! Check it out here:
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As an appreciation to the Early Access community and Discord family, we will be making the Watermelon blade, pistol, and SMG available in the upcoming weeks. More details will be coming soon on our Discord, at discord.gg/x8vr.



Thank you to all of our players and Discord members for the immense amount of love and support you have given us. We hope you're as excited as we are!

Are you up for the challenge?

Download X8 and drop a review here, or join us on Discord!
📌 Discord: discord.gg/x8vr

📌 Meta: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/4518172508241377/

📌 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1763510/X8/

Hello everyone!

Thank you for playing X8 and showing us your support both in-game and on Discord. This is the second of our upcoming major updates, putting in big new changes such as maps, heroes, gamemodes, whole systems, and more!

This update in particular brings:

• A New Hero -Xero
• Custom Matches (yes, cross-platform compatible!)
• New level lighting
• New achievements

And more!

We have also announced the opening of registration for the brand-new 2023 X8 VR League, in partnership with VAL VR Esports! Consider signing up today by clicking this link: l8r.it/aZQs and join the X8 League Discord server here: l8r.it/B6NW


Your help in identifying bugs and providing feedback has been invaluable in making X8 what it is today, and will continue to do so in the future. Please continue supporting us with bug reports and suggestions in the Discord! https://discord.gg/x8vr


If you have been enjoying the game, please consider leaving us a review on the Steam store page, we'd really appreciate it!

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[h2]New Features[/h2]

• New Hero "Xero"
  
• Custom Matches - Cross Platform Compatible
  
• New lighting across all the existing maps
  
• 30+ New Achievements
  
• Added Timer in Skirmish map
  
• Updated climbable ledges
  
• Configurable controller rotation from options menu
  
• Matchmaking improvement so that players stay in Skirmish up to 3 minutes until the set number of players join the match
  
• Faster Matchmaking
  
• Team Balancing after Warmup
  

[h2]Hero Updates[/h2]

• Slight decrease to Jaguar's Vanguard damage
  
• Limit Stasis Pylon and Vanguard placements
  

[h2]Balance[/h2]
[h3]Weapon Balancing[/h3]

• Scorpion Nerf: reduced range and decreased damage
  
• Renegade: added secondary falloff range, slightly reduced minimum falloff damage
  
• Hellhound: slightly increased damage
  

[h3]Game Balancing[/h3]

• Changed Warmup length from 60 seconds to 20 seconds
  
• Rounds set to 14
  

[h2]Bug fixes[/h2]

• Fixed weapon magazine will drop when shooting the auto-assigned weapon during Warmup and Skirmish phases
  
• Fixed various issues with the HUD being turned off in the options menu
  
• Fixed team balancing to take parties into account and to auto-rebalance at the end of the Warmup phase
  
• Fixed lighting issues on all the maps and character selection room
  
• Fixed Glitch character corpse seen while a player is in the Character Selection room
  

[h2]Known Issues[/h2]

• Parties may cause matchmaking failure and unbalanced team assignment
  
• Error occurs at matchmaking and custom match if player takes the HMD off for a while and start matchmaking or custom match
  
• Party menu is accessible after joining a Custom Match lobby and party members will be teleported to Custom Match from active match
  

**Please be advised that players on an older version of the game will no longer have access to the online servers until you update your game.

Thank you for your patience while we build a better game with your help!


Download X8 and drop a review here!
📌 Meta: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/4518172508241377/

📌 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1763510/X8/

Thank you for playing X8! A quick hotfix coming your way to fix some issues.

If you have been enjoying the game, please consider leaving us a review on the Steam store page, we'd really appreciate it!

We will also be attending PAX West 2023 this year, from September 1st-4th in Seattle, booth 3105! If you are going, come say hi! We'd love to meet you all. You can read more about it here: https://www.sknr.net/2023/08/03/vr-shooter-x8-comes-to-pax-west/

[h3]Bug fixes[/h3]

• Fixed server crash when casting Sarai's Power Surge
  
• Fixed player can achieve "Catalyst" when they plant Syphon once instead of 100 times
  
• Fixed Nyx's Cyberwire to disappear faster after detonating
  
• Fixed Wrist Shop Icon displaying on player's hand after Buy Phase
  
• Fixed Wrist Shop may not load
  

[h3]Known Issues[/h3]

• Lighting on the heroes in the Character Selection room on Yakuza map is too dark on Quest 2 standalone
  
• Lighting on the weapons in Skirmish and Yakuza maps are dark on Steam build
  
• Wrist Shop Icon can be displayed in the Character Selection phase
  
• Wrist Shop is harder to open when switched to Primary Hand
  

**Please be advised that players on an older version of the game will no longer have access to the online servers until you update your game.

Thank you for your patience while we build a better game with your help!

Download X8 here!
📌 Meta: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/4518172508241377/

📌 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1763510/X8/

Hello there!

Thank you for playing X8! We hope you enjoy this batch of updates this week. With your help, we’ve been able to fix even more things.
If you have been enjoying the game, please consider leaving us a review on the Steam store page, we'd really appreciate it!

Please continue to give us more feedback and bug reports! You are an important part of helping us build X8 to be even better. Join us on Discord to provide us with your feedback! https://discord.gg/x8v


Update changes include:
[h4]New Features[/h4]

• New Skirmish map!
  
• Neo Yakuza map polish - adjusted lighting, added ambient sound
  
• Auto refreshing leaderboard
  

[h4]Balance[/h4]
[h5]Weapon Balancing[/h5]

• Light and Heavy armor HP lowered
  
• Weapon damage full rework
  
• Rifles heashot buff
  
• Predator buff
  
• Scorpion buff + Cost increased + New handling + Fire rate
  
• Cyclone buff
  
• Hellhound small nerf
  
• Rookie pistol buff
  

[h5]Game Balancing[/h5]

• Pylons/Turrets no longer placeable far away
  

[h4]Bug fixes[/h4]

• Fixed Syphon pocket is not triggered. Now players can store Syphon in the pocket easily when Syphon is hovering the pocket
  
• Pylons and Turrts are no longer able to be placed inside Blocking Volumes
  
• Adjusted launch spawn and aim parameters for Pylon and Turret
  
• Added colliders throughout all levels to avoid players getting out of bounds or placing turrets
  
• Fixed players can be thrown out of bonds when colliding with Shinya's Flare-up and Vesper's
  
• Adjusted lighting on the Bedrock and Depot maps
  
• Fixed Round Outcomes bugs to be more accurate
  
• Fixed Syphon can be planted on top of the crates in Neo Yakuza and Midtown maps
  
• Fixed wrist pockets placements for bomb and defuser
  

**Please be advised that players on an older version of the game will no longer have access to the online servers until you update your game.

Thank you for your patience while we build a better game with your help!


Download X8 here!
📌 Meta: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/4518172508241377/

📌 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1763510/X8/