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This weekend we're introducing the first content patch for the Closed Beta! We also worked on bugfixes and quality of life improvements. See the full patch notes below.

Weapons changes:

• Added Horizon weapons pack containing 3 weapons: HR-A (Assault rifle), HR-M (Light machine gun) and HORIZON-1 (Sniper rifle).
  
• Renamed Stellar pack weapons. New names are: SI-AR (Assault rifle), SI-MG (Light machine gun) and STELLARIS (Sniper rifle). Attached sight type is now mentioned clearly alongside with the weapon name.
  
• Improved recoils for all weapons.
  
• Reduced damage of STELLARIS (ex. STELLAR-S) by 17,5%.
  
• Increased fire rate of STELLARIS (ex. STELLAR-S) by 50%.
  
• Added missing reload and out-of-ammo sounds.
  
• Added missing magazine animations on Stellar weapons pack.
  
• Added missing sprint and reload animations on the energy bow.
  
• Bow now uses the same reloading mechanics as other weapons.
  

Other changes:

• Improved appearance and increased amplitude of leaning.
  
• Reload now triggers automatically when player picks up a new weapon.
  
• Adjusted weapons fire attenuations.
  
• Improved third person animations appearance.
  
• Improved sights appearance by darkening inner surface.
  
• Improved 2x, 4x and 8x sights appearance when aiming.
  
• Allowed game window minimization.
  

Graphics improvements:

• Enabled textures resolution downscaling on low and medium settings.
  
• Enabled volumetric fog on low and medium settings.
  
• Increased shadows quality on low and medium settings.
  
• Increased light function quality on low settings.
  
• Increased quality of screen space reflections on low settings.
  
• Matched view distance multiplier on all settings.
  
• Disabled motion blur.
  

Bugfixes:

• Lobby counter will now display proper number when only one player is searching for a match instead of showing “0 robots in queue”.
  

Known issues:

• Missing possibility to loot dead enemies.
  
• Missing noticeable hit indicator.
  
• Dead body collision can block other players movement.
  
• Windows have collisions.
  

Hello there Humans! We hope you all had great holidays!

Closed Beta Waves 2 & 3 coming soon! There will be two weekends of server uptimes in January.

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This is a second small patch containing important fixes for the bugs reported by our players during the first days of the Closed Beta and other minor improvements.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed incorrect handling of players disconnect event which caused some players to appear dead while they are still connected to the match.
  
• Fixed issue that prevented players from changing their key bindings.
  
• Fixed issue when players could infinitely use health and energy cores while driving.
  

Other changes:

• Power jump sound now replicates to other players. Use with care to not reveal your position to enemies!
  
• Added missing self-hit visual effect and sound.
  
• Changed energy bow attenuation.
  
• Lowered main menu music volume.
  

This is a small patch containing important fixes for the bugs reported by our players during the first days of the Closed Beta and other minor improvements.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed fire mode switching. Single shot is now working properly. Auto shot is not preventing players from sprinting or picking up loot anymore.
  
• Fixed bug when crosshair is not hidden while aiming.
  
• Minor fixes for ADS animation.
  

Other changes:

• Reduced power jump sound volume.
  

Hello there fellow human!

Here’s the first Closed Beta patch and we hope you will be enjoying it!

If you encounter problems or bugs please report them in the #bug-reports channel of our Discord server or on the Steam forums. We will be addressing issues and you can expect hotfixes within the next week.

New features:

• Implemented energy system. Character now has energy parameter. You can use energy for special abilities. Energy refills over time or by using energy cores which can be looted over the map. Energy system will serve as a base for our upcoming class system.
  
• Implemented power jump which uses energy.
  
• Implemented leaning to make character movement even more rich and responsible.
  
• Completely reworked projectile system. Now it is based on real physics!
  
• Implemented projectile impact sounds and particles.
  
• Implemented hoverbikes. You can spawn hoverbike by pressing Z. It will constantly use your energy while active. You can refill it by using energy cores while driving.
  
• Replaced old character with a robot Sparky. The customization feature including skins will be released within the upcoming patches.
  

Weapons:

• Implemented energy bow Phoenix, a special weapon for our first character class!
  
• Implemented plasma weapons pack called Stellar. It includes three weapon types: light machine gun, assault rifle and sniper rifle. Each weapon has different scope variations. More weapons will be released in the near future!
  
• Added switch weapon on wheel feature.
  

Level changes:

• Reduced island size to 4x4 km.
  
• Added new locations such as swamp, volcano, crater and a lot more.
  
• Replaced old buildings. The new set of the buildings will be used for the Research area of the island. The upcoming updates will also include Industrial, Living and Agricultural areas.
  
• Reworked lighting.
  
• Added road system.
  

Netcode changes:

• Improved zone synchronization with the server.
  
• Completely reworked looting system to improve stability and solve potential issues.
  
• Overall performance and stability improvements.
  

Sounds:

• Updated footsteps sounds.
  
• Updated environment sounds.
  

User Interface:

• Updated main menu UI.
  
• Capped frame rate in the main menu to 60.
  
• Added on-screen indicator for the in-game map marker.
  

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