Champion Shift News

Dear Champion Shift Players,

As the year comes to a close, we want to say, thank you. It’s impossible to overstate how much your passion, feedback, and support have meant to us since the launch of Champion Shift. Seeing the community come together around our game has been humbling, even in the face of challenges.

To all the new players joining us through the Bullet Heaven festival—welcome! We’re thrilled to have you here and hope you enjoy diving into what Champion Shift has to offer. Your enthusiasm means the world to us, and we’re excited to grow this community with you.

To be completely honest with you, Champion Shift didn’t perform as well as we had hoped. As an independent studio, every project is a labor of love, but it also comes with risks. The reality is, we’ve had to pivot to other projects to keep things going and most of the team together. That means updates and fixes for the game have slowed, which isn’t where we wanted to be.

That said, this is far from the end. Champion Shift remains a long-term goal for us—a project we’re deeply passionate about. It’s not just a game; it’s a piece of who we are as creators. We’re committed to bringing you updates and fixes when we can, even if it takes longer than we’d like.

We know this isn’t ideal, and it’s okay to feel frustrated—we feel it too. But God willing, ya’ll stick with us as we navigate this chapter. If there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that this community is something truly special, and we don’t take that for granted.

Your feedback, patience, and support make all the difference. Please continue sharing your thoughts; your voices are the reason Champion Shift exists, and they’ll shape where it goes next.

With gratitude, God bless you and your families, and wishing each and everyone of you a great holiday season, Happy 2025!

Michael and the SRG Studios Team

Greetings Champions! New patch rolling through fixing some issues with the save data on older installs, as well as some needed balance changes to certain vehicular weapons. Also, more achievements!

GENERAL

• New Steam Achievements for our latest Champion, Joan of Arc! If you have already fulfilled these achievements, then Steam should grant them automatically. If you're not receiving them, please restart the Steam Client!

BUG FIXES The game was confusing an older data set with the new one, so every time you started the game, it would revert previously accomplished in-game achievements. We're very sorry for any inconveniences and frustration, the game should save and load all of your achievements correctly now.

• Fixed a bug that was causing issues with reading save data correctly.
  

BALANCE CHANGES Some long awaited changes to the vehicle weaponry. We lowered the initial base value, by about 50%, and adjusted the scaling to be more in tune with other abilities. You will still be able to stack all of the guns and ram bosses till their demise, but you will have to do so with more than a couple of points invested in those abilities. We hope this encourages more variety in ability selection.

TECH ABILITIES

• Machine Gun: Damage adjusted to 45% [30% per level]
  
• Forward Guns: Damage adjusted to 55% [35% per level]
  
• Shotgun: Damage adjusted to 75% [40% per level]
  

JESSE JAMES

• Outlaw Star: Damage adjusted to 75% [40% per level]
  

Thats all for now! We're aware of some issues occuring in multiplayer that we're looking to address, we hope to roll those fixes ASAP! Until then, keep on driving, Champions!

Greetings Champions!

We are super excited to release patch 1.1 which includes the long awaited arrival of the Divine Defender, Joan of Arc! This new Champion brings her might to the streets in the fight against the Dominion, with new and powerful abilities to crush the enemy forces. Her kit ramps up with time in some very cool ways, and when fully upgraded in a run, Joan becomes a wrecking ball of divine power. Here is a breakdown of her heroic abilities:

ALLEZ!
Weapon attacks have a 25% chance to project a celestial lance, extending Joan of Arc's range. Weapon damage is increased by 50% [+25% per level].

BARRAGE
Every 3rd auto attack fires a rapid sequence of strikes, hitting enemies for 50% Weapon DMG and has a 250% chance to MULTISHOT [+50% per level].

EN GARDE
Perform a spin attack that knocks back enemies and deals 50% DMG, with a 50% chance to MULTICAST [+50% per level] generating a 3-second aura granting 15 armor for each cast.

RIPOSTE
On dash, deliver a triple strike dealing 150% Weapon DMG [+75% per level], with a chance to trigger on-hit effects.

REPRISE
On shift out, charge forward with a massive thrust dealing 150% Weapon DMG [+75% per level]. Gain +10 AGILITY for 3 seconds upon defeating an enemy.

CONTRE ATTAQUE
On shift in, place a sigil for 3 seconds that impales enemies, dealing 100% Weapon DMG [+50% per level] and triggering on-hit effects.

AUX ARMES
While in vehicle mode, energy lances out at enemies, dealing 100% Weapon DMG with a 250% MULTISHOT chance [+50% per level] and triggering on-hit effects.

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The update also includes miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements to game stability across the board, which should continue to minimize crashes in the game. As always, thanks to our awesome community on Discord for reporting bugs and suggesting improvements, we couldn't do this without you!

We hope you enjoy this new update, and see you in game!

-The SRG Team

Hello Champions! We've got a small update for you with some critical fixes. More coming on the way!

• Fixed an issue with the Demolition Mission, which caused a soft crash when 2 bombs went off at the same time.
  
• Fixed the hitbox with some abilities that stopped dealing damage after a certain amount of time.
  
• Optimized the enemy and friendly health bars for a decent performance increase.
  

That's all for now, until next time, keep on driving, Champions!