Section 13 News

We're Going To Gamescom

Greetings, Agents!

For the first time ever, we're expanding our mission beyond the US and heading to Europe! We are thrilled to announce our debut at Gamescom! This marks our first appearance at this incredible event, and we can’t wait to meet all of you amazing agents.

We're bringing an array of exciting surprises and exclusive content to Gamescom where you’ll be able to try out our games.

Be sure to swing by our Booth: C079 located in Hall: 10.1 and share this thrilling moment with us.

(This image was taken during PAX East, but we can't wait to see this again but this time in Germany!)

If you have any questions, feel free to catch any one of our ODS Team members lurking around the booth!

If you are unable to attend, don’t worry, we’ll be sharing our gameplay on our Steam store page, so you won’t miss out on all the excitement. Be sure to keep an eye out for more updates as well.

See you at Gamescom!

- ODS Team

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Black Out the QTs During Summer Sale!

Endless Excitement at Section 13 with 30% Off

Agents,

As Steam celebrates the limitless fun brought by roguelite games with the Endless Replayability Fest, Blackout Protocol is offering a 30% discount for more Agents to join the fray that is Section 13.

If you’re still on the fence about getting the game, make sure you read up on more roguelite elements coming to the game in the near future–such as the roadmap we shared, as well as the recent dev logs like this, this, or this. It’s your chance to enjoy the best of both worlds: the tight gameplay now, and even more fun later!

If you have been a faithful S2P agent, grab your friends and get ready for the great and yet-to-be-revealed content in the future.

- ODS Team

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Snippets from the Future: Body Modifications

Hello, this is the Creative Director of Blackout Protocol, Jaeeun Park.

Today, we're going to talk about a new meta that you'll encounter while playing the game: body modifications.

In its current state, Blackout Protocol has two big pillars that shape playstyle: Synaptic Enhancements and Weapon Perks. Both are focused on linear growth, especially damage efficiency. This naturally leads players to optimize their DPS above all else. Also, since both types of upgrades exclusively provide benefits, the task of balancing player damage increase and baseline enemy strength has required meticulous reviews and tweaks.

[The new Body Mod Voucher item and the repurposed terminal]

To address these issues and add more freeform flexibility to gameplay, we’ve decided to implement a body modification system, and make some overhauls to weapon perks.

Upon collecting a Body Mod Voucher and redeeming it at a terminal, you’ll be given a choice between two mods. Each mod contains a random selection of advantages and disadvantages. These aren’t based on your current game progress or persistent growth status, which means that with some lucky draws, it’s entirely possible to wind up with a pretty extreme build—like taking on harsh penalties in exchange for drastically reducing your reload speed, or cranking up your firing speed until your gun is a nonstop laser of lead.

[Body Mod system UI in the current work-in-progress development build. While some text is still in Korean, you can see what type of stats you are choosing from—especially seeing the list of Body Mods applied before the current selection]

Once we finish our work on these four systems—Agent Upgrades, Synaptic Enhancements, Body Modifications, and Weapon Perk overhauls—players can look forward to a wider variety of viable playstyles.

We know updates have slowed a bit lately, and we thank you for your understanding while we work hard on implementing this and other major changes. We will continue to communicate as new updates roll out.

Thank you for your support.

- Jaeeun

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Classified Footage

You know all those changes we listed in roadmap? Well, we already set some of them into motion and started putting them into a private build to play and test out. And we wanted to share what we have with you guys!

Our Discord members actually received a first exclusive look today within our server. We shared what Blackout Protocol is currently looking like within the development process.
If you’re not already in our Discord server, what are you waiting for?

If you did miss our Discord stream, don't worry. We’ll also be streaming on Thursday, April 25, 2024, at 3PM PDT on Twitch, YouTube, and Kick, showing off some of these changes and updates that we made so far!
Note: this build is still a work in progress, so we may come across unpolished text, small glitches, etc., but we couldn’t wait any longer and wanted to show you how it’s been going!

Make sure you stop by our stream to say hi and see what we’ve cooked up so far!
We’re hoping to make this a more consistent occurrence where we stream sneak peeks of what the future of the game holds, so make sure you follow us on our socials!
Can’t wait to take you around the newest Section 13.

Until then,
ODS Kangaroo

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