UPDATE 13!

Hope you’re having a great weekend! We’ve been listening to all of your feedback and reports during the week and have been hard at work addressing as many of them as possible, while also continuing to improve SYNTHETIK. Today, we’re proud to unveil UPDATE 13, bringing a slew of fixes, general improvements and also adding some new starting weapons!

You can find the full changelog below:

GENERAL

Friendly fire is now 50% instead of 100% (this applies also to self-damage!)
Add friendly fire notification to offending player.
If all enemies are dead, the “Escape in Time” notification appears faster.
Ammo chests are no longer usable by both players, to ensure consistency.
Changed the “room with closed doors” to now be constantly open.
Server hack boss spawn amount has been slightly reduced.
Timed chests now last longer, depending on difficulty.
Floor 2 enemy spawn frequency reduced.
Floor 2 duration reduced by one room, should be 3.
Floor 4 enemy spawn frequency increased.
Laser Turrets damage increased.
Add Player Death Explosion and dissolve effect.
Added acceleration to Gamepads - more coming in the next days

WEAPONS

Minor increase to weapon pickup distance.
Buffed 8.8mm Bullets baseline damage from 280 to 300 (DMRS, Heavy MG, etc.)
Nailgun Nails damaged reduced from 200 to 190.
Default Fusion ammo no longer penetrates.
Kaida Laser Pistol recoil has been slightly reduced.
KSG2000 damage buffed by 5%.
Dragon’s Breath shotgun ammo damage modifier from 0.8x to 0.92x of basic Buckshot
New sound effect for AMD 65 and changed ammo to 8.8mm. Damage and recoil are also increased.
Buffed Ion Obliterator damage by around 10%.
Weapon experience requirement increased.
New model for the P33 pistol. Buffed to increase accuracy when moving.
New model for the Coil Pistol.

NEW STARTER WEAPONS!
New Guardian pistol - Master Chief.
New Commando pistol - Desert Eagle .50.
New Rogue pistol - G17 Undercover.
New Specialist pistol - PPQ-H.

Added 5% additional damage tooltip in the attachment selection.
Added a 2 stage savegame back-up. If you lose your progress, check out the backup.ini in %appdata%.
Fixed lab level showing the wrong total level.
Reduced camera shake / visual recoil option further reduces shake.
You can now see daily perk rank ups in the loadout.
E and R cursor prompt now shows the first letter of custom binding that it has been reassigned to.
Added indicator to the pause menu showing collectible progress like bolts.

DATA

Data changed - Quests and Terminals now grant 4 data (increased from 2).
Data changed - Clearing a room now grants 2 data.
Data changed - Daily login now grants 25
time data (increased from 12)
It is intended that you play around 3 - 4 runs to buy a 200 data item, tell us if this differs too much.

ITEMS

Added tooltips to all items, showing which stats are altered at upgrade shrines.
Heart Core now grants double health per stack and heals fully upon usage.
Homing Missile item now shoots two missiles.
Increased Gundrone Spawner item chance from 7 to 10%.
Reduced Seeker item chance from 35 to 25%.
Akira explosions now scale with power and starts with one more explosion.
Ring of Glass charges required reduced from 1000 to 750.
Shield Splash item now has a duration where it continuously splashes. It now has a longer cooldown.
Item upgrades scale less extremely in some cases.

CLASSES

Commando Core now grants 2 Strafe charges.
Rogue healing gain reduced.

PERFORMANCE

Optimized certain objects
Fixes a stuttering issue caused by idle particles
Disabled global chat and lobby in coop, decreasing stuttering
High quality light setting now can turn off lighting for better performance

FIXES

Fixed varied crashes and bugs
Fixed Arena & Defense boss not dying
Fixed/Improved pickups spawning on unreachable areas
Fixed grenade exploit
Fixed Jet Glider shooting outfight
Fixed ultra particles setting not working.

Thanks again, and as always, don’t forget to join the conversation on Discord!
More news about the relay servers and controller changes soon!

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