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Sharks with Frickin' Laser Beams III: Judgment Day



The threequel to the critically acclaimed science-fiction series 'Sharks with Frickin' Lasers Beams' is out now! Years have passed, and the surviving Laser Sharks are back even stronger. The oceans are being terrorized, and the world has once again tasked an elite group of divers to stop them at any cost. The fight for ocean supremacy has begun again!

Depth: Spring Harvest

Depth: Spring Harvest

With the Spring Festival comes a spring harvest! The lemons are looking particularly ripe this year, and when life gives you lemons... make lemon sharks!

Spring Harvest Event

Throughout the event earn Chinese Knots. Once you have collected six of them, head to the crafting menu to combine them into a Red Envelope Treasure! The Red Envelope treasure is full of auspicious rewards to celebrate the Lunar New Year!

Support the event!

The supporter bundle rewards you with the Hadal and Abyssal items from the Red Envelope Treasure: 惡龍 (Shade the Dark Dragon), Year of the Pig, and Zhu Bajie. As well as both supporter pins. Each supporter pin grants 100% bonus event progress.

Newly released event skins will be tradeable and marketable a week after the event's conclusion.

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New Shark: Lemon
The Lemon is a master of stalking its prey, waiting for the opportune moment to strike.

To Unlock: Win as the Tiger.

Ability Stalk The Lemon begins stalking its prey, becoming difficult to see until it attacks or takes damage. Striking from Stalking gives increased thrash damage for a short duration.
  1. Thrash Damage: 110%, Cooldown: 20s
  2. Thrash Damage: 120%, Cooldown: 18s
  3. Thrash Damage: 130%, Cooldown: 15s


New Weapon: UPR-12 Gyro Pistol
Semi-automatic pistol which fires stabilized Microjet rounds.

To Unlock: Get a Long Range Kill with the UPR-17 Gyro Rifle or Heavyjet Revolver

Celebrate the Lunar New Year!

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with old favorites like dragon dancing S.T.E.V.E. and the palace dive cage. This year introduces new Caishen hats for sharks and divers, and a Year of the Pig themed gold piece to find in-game!

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Depth: Snowfall

Depth: Snowfall

The team is headed south to Antarctica to salvage a sunken boat near the ARC base! While it should be a peaceful mission, rising temperatures in the area are increasing the risk for shark encounters.

Snowfall Event

Complete games to unlock event rewards!

Support the event by purchasing the Winter Orca Pack. Contains a Tidal version of the popular Orca skin and the Orca Claus pin! [Buy Bundle]
Bundle owners earn 2x event score.
Contents are not Steam Tradeable/Marketable.

New Shark: Blue
The Blue is a nimble shark with a unique sense of smell. Smelling out delicious prey, the Blue can help other sharks heal, or perform its own hit and run attacks.

To Unlock: Win as the Mako.

Ability Bon Appétit Applies a Mark to the diver the Blue is facing. If the target dies while the Mark is active, the killer heals a portion of its health instantly.
  1. Mark Duration: 6s, Amount Healed: 30, Cooldown: 12s
  2. Mark Duration: 12s, Amount Healed: 60, Cooldown: 12s
  3. Mark Duration: 18s, Amount Healed: 90, Cooldown: 12s


New Weapon: Heavyjet Revolver
This revolver has been modified to fire specialized large-calibre Microjets.

To Unlock: Use the Spear Pistol to apply Toxic or Bleed to a shark.


New Map: Snowfall
Explore the chilly waters surrounding the Antarctic Research Company.

Dragon's Element

Help decide the upcoming dragon shark skin's element!
  1. Dark
  2. Earth
  3. Electric
  4. Fire
  5. Ice
  6. Light
  7. Water
  8. Wind
New Crafting Hadal: S.K.I.P.

A new crafting Hadal skin is available!
S.K.I.P. the Subaquatic Kind Intelligence Partner likes to think of S.T.E.V.E. as his dad and help him collect shiny lost treasure. While always nice to divers, S.K.I.P. is known to turn mean if any sharks try to mess with his crew. Craft 6 Abyssal items to receive the robotic diver, S.K.I.P.

Redesigned Play Menu

The play menu has been redesigned and now supports setting your Blood & Gold preferences and queuing for other game modes at the same time!

Community Bundle #2
Buy Bundle Contents are not Steam Tradeable/Marketable.

Abyss - Treasure
Contains skins found at the end of games from rarities Coral to Abyssal, as well as an exclusive Hadal!

Contains 1 Random Item
  • Abyssilith - A Hadal beast born in hellfire, Abyssilith is one of the great magma monsters forged by the Terrorking.
  • Lil' Tooth - Lil' Tooth is a baby megalodon reportedly spotted off the coast of France. Many believe it to only be the wishful thinking of the local boy who first saw it.
  • Takedown - Custom painted with an epic battle of a colossal squid and sperm whale.

...and more!

Depth's 4th Anniversary



Depth is 4 years old! Wear party hats, descend in the celebratory dive cage, and help S.T.E.V.E. slice up some yummy cake! To make it even more of a party, anyone who plays Depth in the next 24 hours will get the Depth SCR-UMP skin for free!

Changelog


Gameplay
  • SCR-UMP: Price reduced from $1800 to $1650


UI
  • Evo Points now show on the Shark's HUD (like Diver Cash)
  • Treasure contents preview now opens more relibably when clicked
  • Fixed: Clicking Divers at character select too quickly made them invisible
  • Fixed being unable to equip SPP-1 Default skin
  • Emotes now have a glow when unboxed from a treasure
  • Fixed 'Release Age' names not appearing when sorting skins by release date


Cosmetics
  • Brushed Zappy's Teeth
  • Hats now hide when the Tiger uses its Species Ability


Events
  • Increased reliability for Event Score getting counted
  • Increased reliability for Event Panel at main menu showing latest event progress. Addresses case where Event Score is counted, but does not appear at the main menu immediately.


Animation
  • Fixed UMP being held backwards from 3rd person point of view
  • More fixes for Goblin tail rotation getting twisted