XERA: Survival News

We apologize in advance for the slow patch downloads / times via Steam, this is due to the way Unreal Engine packages the game files. We are aware of the issue and are working on a solution. If you have the ability to move the game to a SSD vs a HD, this should help with the download speed.

[h2]Patch Notes[/h2]

[h3]Base Building[/h3]
Fixed an issue causing land claims and other objects not being able to be placed in water
Reduced security distance check on containers - you will need to remain close to a container to take/add items

[h3]UI[/h3]
Added “right mouse button” tooltip to base object hover UI

[h3]XOIDs[/h3]
Increased distance check for robots hitting player to 3m (was 2m)
Increased hit range of Heavy-XOID to 4m
Regular XOIDs now have a 60% chance of being stunned by an attack
Stalker XOIDs now have a 40% chance of being stunned by an attack

[h3]Reactor Events[/h3]
Increased experience earned from reactor generators to 75 xp (was 50xp)
Increased cores materials dropped when completed to 5 (was 4)

[h3]Radio Tower Events[/h3]
Increased xp given to 75 - 150, and no longer divides xp by number of nearby players
Increased jammer xp to 25xp

[h3]Leaderboards[/h3]
Banned players will no longer display on the leaderboards

[h3]Localisation[/h3]
Updated French language localisation
Updated Portuguese language localisation
Updated Simplified Chinese language localisation

Developer Note: Translations are still experimental and will continue to be updated.

Greetings everyone,

We want to thank you for your patience as we confirmed the date that XERA: Survival will be going free to play. Today we received confirmation that the game will be changed over to free to play on Thursday, July 8th at 10:30AM PST. As a thank you to all current owners of the game, you will be granted the Founders Package DLC which will include a full assortment of Alpha Titan skins for each weapon and the drone as 18 Season 4 Premium Skin Crates.

We are very excited to see the community expand and appreciate your support. There are many great things to come and this is just the beginning!

Thank you again,
The Spotted Kiwi Team

Greetings Survivors,

In this patch we have addressed several balancing issues as well as implemented fixes for some community reported bugs. We appreciate everyone reporting things you find to us and please continue to do so via our bug report form located at https://forms.gle/zNQ8VhjH7LvvaMt17.

Also we are aware that some users are experiencing longer than normal patch times. We are looking into this issue and are working towards a fix.

Update: We are aware that land claims and other objects cannot be placed in water, this has been fixed internally and will be pushed in the next patch.


[h2]Patch Notes[/h2]

[h3]Config / Input[/h3]
Fixed an issue that prevented key rebinding to not save correctly

[h3]UI[/h3]
Reduced size of group tag text and icon
Player counts will now display on server list

[h3]Crafting[/h3]
Reduced XP given for various recipes

[h3]Base Building[/h3]
Furnace can now be picked up when empty
New security checks for placing objects implemented

[h3]Events[/h3]
Reduced xp of radio tower jammers from 50xp to 15xp
Reduced completion xp for radio towers to 50-100 (was 100-200)

Developer Note: Radio tower supply drops will be moving to a nearby spawn instead of random in an upcoming patch, these changes are to reflect this upcoming change.

[h3]Vehicles[/h3]
Increased vehicles spawns from 12 to 18
Increased fuel consumption by 50%
Vehicles that despawn will now empty their storage onto the ground before despawning
Vehicles inside land claims will now despawn after 3 hours of inactivity

[h3]Foliage / Resources[/h3]
Experience will now be given when the resource is completely depleted rather than after every hit
Experience from rocks and trees is now 2-5xp
Experience from bushes/mushrooms is now 1xp

Developer Note: Resource harvesting has been moved to a new experience system and XP rates will be adjusted in next patches based off internal experience data.

[h3]Vendor[/h3]
Various vendor pricing changes made for balancing purposes

Greetings Survivors!

In this patch we have made several small bug fixes that were affecting players base on player reports. We appreciate everyone's feedback and bug reports and encourage you to keep sending us any issues you encounter! The bug submission form can be found at https://forms.gle/zNQ8VhjH7LvvaMt17

[h2]Patch Notes[/h2]

[h3]Base Building[/h3]
Fixed an issue that caused storage containers to not save its contents correctly
Disabled socket checks on floors that caused stairs to dismantle unexpectedly
Updated stone/metal stairs collision

[h3]Map[/h3]
Removed background mountain foliage that was affecting FPS
Removed collision response on background mountains that was preventing base parts being placed in the north region of the map

We are aware of keybinds not saving when you exit the game. This was due to additional security added to prevent the modification of config files and will be fixed next patch.

Greetings survivors,

We have identified the issue that caused the unplanned maintenance period this morning. A fix has been put in place and the servers are back online. Due to the impact to the master server, there may have been some progress lost from the past 1 hour. Some users may have experienced some items from storage containers that would have been lost during the outage. Our team is looking into this, however at this time, it is unknown if the loss of data for some storage containers that were impacted can be restored.

We appreciate your patience during this outage and do not anticipate and long term impacts or further outages at this time.

Cheers,
The Spotted Kiwi Interactive Team