Breachway News

Hello everyone,

The 2025 Steam Awards have begun! Nominations are open, and we’re hoping you’ll support Breachway by nominating it in the Labor of Love category.

If you’ve been keeping up with our development updates, you know that we’ve released 28 updates in the last year, including 3 major updates and 13 smaller updates.

Here are some of the major things we added over the last year:

• Revamped equipment system to include different equipment quality levels
  
• Alternate starting loadouts
  
• Improved meta-progression
  
• Upgradable equipment
  
• Upgraded cards
  
• Hirable crew
  
• Crew station abilities
  
• Enemy rework (with more to come)
  

Here's a showcase of what we've worked on since the last Steam Awards!



We’ve had some ups and downs as we keep learning what game development is about (as you’ve certainly seen over the last few patches), but we aren’t slowing down, and we aren’t giving up.
Breachway has truly been a labor of love, and each time we release an update, we look forward to hearing what you think and what you want to see next.

Most importantly, we want to thank you all for your support throughout the last year of Breachway’s development. It’s been an honor to watch this community grow and to incorporate your feedback into creating the best game possible. We couldn’t do it on our own.

If you want to show Breachway some extra love during the Steam Awards, please click the “Nominate” button that’s part of this post and nominate us for the 2025 Labor of Love award.

Thank you again for supporting Breachway!

– Ilie, Mike and Victor

Hey everyone,

We wanted to give you a quick update on what we’re working on right now to address the difficulty and balance issues many of you have been reporting.

Instead of simply dialing down enemy strength, we've decided to expand the run structure from 2 systems to 3. This new middle system introduces a fresh set of enemies that bridge the gap between the current first- and second-system encounters. Our goal is to give you more time, more credits, and more opportunities to fine-tune your ship before facing the tougher challenges later in the run.

We're also completely rebuilding our analytics system. The previous version was thrown together in the weeks before launch and hasn’t been much help. With this overhaul, we’ll be able to spot and address balance issues faster and with far greater accuracy.

Finally, we’ve created new sector layouts, and we’re planning to randomize which sectors you encounter during a run. This should improve run variety both in terms of pathing and planning, and visually as well, each new sector coming with its own distinct map environment and matching combat backdrop.
We plan to keep expanding the set of sectors during development.

Here's a list of what's coming in the next patch:

• Expanding the current run from 2 to 3 systems, to create a more gradual difficulty increase and give players more time to fine-tune their ships
  
• 16 new enemies, new elites, and new bosses
• A new Tyrant variant for the end of the (current) last sector
  
• 5 new sector layouts for greater visual and pathing diversity
  
• Major bug fixes (including the memory leak and missile/persistent card issues)
  
• Smaller bug fixes that have been mentioned in the Steam forums and on our Discord
  
• A revamped analytics system to help us identify balance issues
  

We're working hard and we're on track to launching this patch on the experimental branch next week, and then roll it out on the main branch soon after that.

Thank you for your patience

The Breachway Team

• Fixed an issue with Waste Reducer not counting mass spent properly
  
• Fixed an issue with Barrier+ sticking on screen and exhibiting other strange behaviors
  
• Fixed an issue with an empty subsystem possibly appearing in the reward screen, leading to soft-locks in future combat events
  

Unfortunately we had to rebuild addressable data for the soft-lock and card fix, which results in a large patch download and a wipe of current runs, sorry for the inconvenience.

As a reminder, 2 out of our 3 people team are on vacation this week, so content updates are currently on pause, we did however want to fix some of the more pressing issues that were reported.

Fixed an issue where after playing Predictive Aim, you Kinetic damage would keep decreasing, eventually going into the negative, and adding shield to your enemies instead of damaging them

Hey everyone, time for another patch!
Besides the new content, the major standout thing we fixed in this patch is the game settings being saved when you exit the game, for some reason, somewhere down the line this got disabled and we never noticed.
We also added an option to disable the software cursor, as there have been reports of it lagging for some people (edit: this currently has a known bug of the option being automatically disabled when switching scenes, a hotfix will be pushed tomorrow.)

[h3]Breachway 1.10.7.0.0 Changelog:[/h3]

• Fixed a bug where user settings (language, volume, etc) would revert when launching to the game
  
• Added an option in the settings menu to disable software cursor
  
• Added the Mk II drafting library for the Barrier Shield equipment
  
• Added a new subsystem: Pre-loaded Drum (Point defense) - Start combat with 1 Missile defense (automatically shoot down the first enemy missile)
  
• Added a new subsystem: Shatterlink (Flak) - On applying Brittle, your precision attacks deal +1 damage for the current turn
  
• Added a new subsystem: Target Mapper (Laser) - Gain 1 stack of Predictive Aim after every 3 Laser attacks played
  
• Modified Layered Defense and Layered Defense+ to give a base shield value (2) besides the bonus shield value
  
• Predictive Aim - now deals double damage at both upgraded and base card levels, increased its cost for the base version to 3 Mass, and its cooldown to 6 turns
  
• Predictive Aim - no longer expires at the end of your turn, and can be stacked by playing multiple instances of the card, resulting in more attacks being affected by the buff
  
• Fixed a bug with the underprepared disadvantage (start with -3 reactor power and regain 1 each turn)
  
• Fixed a bug where repairing your hull with the mechanic station action did not correctly update the full repair cost in the station
  
• Fixed High explosives buff card expiring on the first enemy turn
  
• Fixed Issue where Layered Defense+ would display a higher shield value than what you would get
  

We're now turning our attention toward finishing the content for the new sector structure (we’re moving to 3 smaller sectors instead of 2) and dialing in the difficulty progression so runs feel smoother and players have more occasions to build up their ship.

A quick note: most of the team (2 out of 3 of us) will be away next week, so there will be a short break in our recent weekly update cadence.

Thank you for playing, testing, reporting bugs, and sharing feedback, Breachway is becoming better every week thanks to you.

– The Breachway Team