Black Ice News

Black Ice Major Update: Act 2 Released!

Hi everyone! We've got Act 2 for you to check out, and I also want to highlight all the great work we've done since the Funkadelic update.

Highlights

Act 2 released! A new boss fight, new areas, and a ton of new missons just waiting for the right runner to try them!
Recruit a team to break into the Quarkus Megacorp Tower and get payback
Tunnel through the Firewall to discover the secrets of the Kinetic Temple
Tons of new abilities, perks, and items to unlock, like Sentries, Buffers, and the Portable Cache.
Improved crafting and gambling
Added a world map to help you get around
More enemy types, enemy powerups, and server security types!
Tons of performance improvements, bug fixes, and balancing

Full detailed patch notes here.

Happy hacking!
- SDGC and Nonadecimal

0.9.176 - 6/12/22 - Heatsink

Overhauled Cooldowns so that in-progress cooldowns can benefit from any change in Attack/Cooldown speed. This is particularly useful for the Gigahurts perk with long-cooldown stuff like Shotguns.
Added the Heatsink Buffer, which gives a temporary +50% global cooldown speed
Added the Space Bass Super Duper Hand Cannon. Recharges 2 charges on kill, Reverse Spread
Added the Hot Foot Super Duper Hand Cannon. Recharges 1 charge on jump.
Added the Ghosteater Super Duper Minigun. Recharges several charges on kill, health on kill.
Added several new spawn points, and changed the spawn point system to always spawn you near where you were last (instead of by quest progress)
Frozen enemies can now no longer rotate - but they can still attack, if they're facing you.
Recharge on Kill can now drop randomly on multi-charge guns like SMGs and Miniguns, and can recharge several charges per kill.
RAM Cost Reduction added to the random affix pool
Reduced cooldown/attack speed affix scaling (since they're more effective now)
Tweaked Specialized Mods to respect caps properly at high level/rarity
Corroded enemies now turn a brighter shade of purple to make it more visible
Using a jump now cools down all other jumps until you land again
Modding: Added ability to modify affix attributes: Local, WeaponLocal, and Whole Numbers
When Hit Cooldown ICD fixed to be properly 1s; removed Hazard Damage from affecting it
Equipping an item with charges now properly sets the charges to 1 instead of 2
Fixed debuffs which change enemy color failing on Target Dummies
Fixed Glide Jump not triggering jump animations
Fixed enemies spawning inside the Volcano Cavern shop
Fixed bounce pads in the volcano boss arena
Enemies from higher level areas will no longer spawn on Upgraded/Linked servers in low level areas due to their increased effective level
Fixed a server in the Phish Market not spawning enemies at all
Fixed moving platform jitter
Fixed On Kill tester pads in the Perk Tryout area
Reset mouse look/shake when respawning
Fixed Cosmic gun shader not showing stars
Added BI_SHOP cheat

0.9.175 - 6/3/22 - Frictionless

Added Frictionless servers, which make the whole hack area slippery
Fixed RAM Enhancements not showing their name on mouseover
Fixed various typos
Fixed an enemy lasgun out of range graphical issue
Fixed a few areas where lava was incorrect
Test Your Might is open for business again
Fixed Charge Jumps not going higher (this smooths out all jumps a bit)
Zones dropped by projectiles now reduce chance to X affixes based on how fast the pool hits targets
Enemies should be less likely to leave Portcullis
Stun particles now show up instantly instead of over time, to make them more obvious
Shop locations now show up on the map if you've found them in any difficulty level
Tweaked Stagger mechanics so larger enemies like GITSfish are less likely to stagger, and all enemies don't stagger quite so often
Vortex Grenades now shake the camera less
Popups can now be knocked back while jumping
Stun and Freeze effects now stop enemies while climbing
Scorporation damage reduced 25% (it was doubled last patch, so it's at +50% from two patches ago)
Enemies now properly ignore shields/barriers again
Lightning projectiles now enable visuals further away from the player to reduce flashing
Volcano Silhouette added
Targeting dummies no longer activate on-kill effects every hit
Fixed blink/dash/grapple not activating on the first press after loading
Reduced latency when opening/closing inventory
Fixed Linked servers sometimes not including the whole chain
Dark servers now show their level after the hack
Healbats and Mother of Spiders can no longer be Lockout types
Fixed an issue with respawning enemies/minions (especially when using the teleporters)
Added ground under the lava on top of the Aimbot fab
Fixed a server near Eitri which couldn't create any spawn points
Instant Heals can now upgrade to the Patch SD in the recycle bin
Spawning enemies now more gracefully spawn somewhere else when blocked

0.9.174 - 5/27/22 - Buffer Overflow

Added unlockable Buffer items, which you can activate for a temporary boost to your power. Variants: Fire, Feedback, Unstoppable, Consuming, Ghost, Tracing, and Downloadable RAM (SD)
Added the Daisy Chain turret minion, which uses a Pinball launcher (with chain!)
Added the Patch super duper instant heal, which heals for a percentage of your missing health
Reduced the size of the crosshair kill confirm animation
Reduced Beam Turret slowing at lower levels
Buffed Scorporations across the board (damage, timing, and accuracy, especially with level)
Lockout enemies no longer spawn in boss hacks
Lockout enemies now are detailed on the progression screen
Triple Blink cooldown increased back to what it should have been (about 3s)
Cleanse renamed to Debug. It still removes all your debuffs (negative effects/Vulnerabilities)
Targeting Dummies can now be debuffed and in general behave lot more like regular enemies
Updated AI line of sight algorithm to be more accurate, and so they can do stuff like attack targeting dummies
Fixed an issue where canceling a hack on a circularly linked set of servers caused a crash
Fixed the end of the Prank War quest chain
Fixed a bug causing negative stats which are talents to not apply (move speed, attack speed, etc)
Fixed an issue causing Finality to be a level lower than it should have been, preventing difficulty progression

0.9.173 - 5/22/22 - Turret Minions

Added unlockable Turret Minions which fire a barrage of missiles to aoe your opponents!
Added Take No Damage servers, where the hack will cancel if you take any damage. Very challenging, but doable!
Added an option to scale the crosshair
Added VoidBlack weapon shader (black with dark blue highlights, reacts well to light) - as random drops and a few super duper items
Linked servers now also grant +2 levels (per link) and their extra Security to the protected server
All minions get a 25% movement speed boost
Popups can now jump longer distances at higher level
Popup and Webcrawler minions now drop with higher damage values
Plasma projectiles and a few other are now Lightning damage, which adds damage to shields
Invulnerable enemies now have a bright visual to help show they are
Homing projectiles now behave better: they'll now try to home to a different target after hitting theirs, and they no longer remember targets from a previous life.
Quest waypoints will now hide while you are hacking a boss server
Upgraded the dynamic spawn point system to prevent enemies spawning through walls
Added description for Linked Servers on the progression screen
Einar's Flame War now no longer pierces by default and has a little less damage
Friendly non-minion AI (like from fort servers) will no longer play damage sounds/numbers as if the player had caused them
Fixed an issue where Super Duper Dome Barriers had very little damage or healing
Fixed some navmesh bugs in the startup valley
Fixed an issue where enemies would spawn in a particular wall in the Scar area
Fixed a tooltip typo for common items granted affixes from perks
Lots of progress on the act 2 boss fight finale that y'all can't see yet :)