CryoFall News

We are happy to announce that the A30 "Keinite Update" is coming tomorrow (16th of April). Normally, we try to do an announcement at least a week in advance, but this time unfortunately this was delayed due to third parties taking longer than anticipated—notably localization. But thankfully the update is now ready for release!

As usual, we will post detailed information about the update and the patch notes when the update launches.

[h3]Launch date: 16th of April, 1 PM by GMT/UTC time.[/h3]

For your convenience, here is the local time in the primary time zones we have:
• 8 AM by Central US (CDT, GMT-5 summer time)
• 3 PM by Central EU (CET, GMT+2 summer time)
• 16:00 by Russia/Moscow (GMT+3)
• 21:00 by China/Beijing (GMT+8)
• 10 AM by Argentina/Brazil (GMT-3)
• 10 PM by Japan and South Korea (GMT+9)

All official PvP servers will be wiped as usual (also, two popular community servers CryoSmall and CryoFive will wipe simultaneously!).
No wipe for official PvE servers, the progress is transferred to the updated version (some faction score metrics will be reset as we've changed how they're counted).

As usual, we will provide a legacy branch for the previous (A29) client version if you intend to keep playing with it on a community or a private server that is not updated to A30.

=== CryoFall v0.30.5.2 (A30 Experimental Patch #4) ===

We're getting very close to the A30 Update release! Stay tuned for the announcements.
This patch makes some final improvements and brings A30 localization (work in progress).
If you're playing on the experimental server and using a non-English version, please let us know if you find any translation issues.

Patch notes:

Changes:
- Integrated localization to all the supported languages except Russian and Turkish (work in progress)
- When dropping an item on the ground by pointing on a tile too far away or that has obstacles, the item will be dropped in the closest available tile to the character
- Faction leave cooldown: When leaving a faction, you can join another faction or create a new faction after just 6 hours now, but you cannot return to the faction that you left earlier than 24 hours
- Added weapon ready cooldown when entering a mech (1 second, same as most ranged weapons). Doesn't apply to hoverboards (as the weapon is not changed when entering it)

Server rates config improvements:
- By a popular request—added new server rate setting "ItemStackSizeMultiplier"—multiplier to adjust the item stack size (useful for high rates servers but will inevitably affect power generation balance as well as PvP balance and other aspects of the game)
- New "WorldEventDelayMultiplier" allows adjusting when certain world events (like boss spawn) should start on the server after the world creation/wipe
- Confusing "PvE" setting was replaced with "PvP" setting (to make your server PvP just set it to 1)

Fixes:
- Dropping items on the ground sometimes fired the active weapon/used the active item from the hotbar
- Deconstruction tooltip was displayed for ruin doors when crowbar is selected
- "Leave faction" button was overlapping with other UI elements
- 10mm and .300 cal ammo listed turrets in their compatible weapons list

=== CryoFall v0.30.4.1 (A30 Experimental Patch #3) ===

If you have not tried the experimental version yet, please consider joining one of the experimental servers and help us improve the game!

Patch notes:

Changes:
- PvP: Energy turrets rebalanced—decreased HP and explosion damage resistance (higher damage from grenades), increased power consumption
- PvE: Reduced durability cost of relocating floor with the toolbox
- Improved server savegame compatibility to ensure a smooth migration from the A29 version's savegame
- Reduced the amount of pragmium received from the boss loot (Pragmium Queen)
- Local server default rates changed: boss events will start after 10 hours of gameplay and happen x2 more often (adjustable by editing ServerRates.config as usual)
- Replaced outdated ambient occlusion video option with an optimized approach (the previous option barely affected the game visuals and we found a more optimized approach to achieve similar results and also make it available for everyone instead of opt-in)
- Factions list: improved sort order (e.g. when sorting by member number/level and two or more factions have the same number/level)

Fixes:
- Outer Rim Protectorate origin didn't provide the mining speed bonus when mining with drones
- PvP: ally raiding notification was sent to all players coming online even if they're not in alliance with the raided base's owner faction
- Current action timer (yellow circle, e.g. when refueling an item) overlapped with the current character's nickname/healthbar when "Show healthbar over my character" option enabled

=== CryoFall v0.30.3.4 (A30 Experimental Patch #2) ===

If you have not tried the experimental version yet, please consider joining one of the experimental servers and help us improve the game!

Patch notes:

Exotic weapons changes:
- Exotic weapons no longer require plastic to craft, instead they require toxin (for Toxin proliferator) and slime (for Swarm launcher).
- Swarm launcher is more durable now.
- Toxin proliferator now has a higher range (essentially becoming a sniper rifle) and adds a higher toxin effect. So it should be a good alternative support-weapon in PvP.

Changes:
- Negative stat modifiers will appear in red in status effect tooltips and character origin selection.
- Food/water consumption speed renamed to Hunger/Thirst rate to make it clear that these are debuffs.
- PvP: new raiding notifications for ally bases, including bases of your faction's members that didn't transfer their bases to faction ownership. Map marks are also added.
- Rebalanced frag grenade—it now has a more reasonable radius and slightly higher damage, so it should be more useful in fights now.
- Metal armor recipe was simplified to use steel instead of iron and flux.
- Added mutants to all ruins to make a monster selection there more varied.
- Increased (x2) the number of input and output slots for the water pump and cistern.
- Increased barrel and cistern speed when adding/removing liquids.
- Added blue outline for a construction site when the mouse cursor is over.
- Added green outline when selecting a structure for relocation.
- Reworked door access editor to make option "opens to everyone" separate from other options (for both faction-controlled and regular doors).
- Increased deconstruction speed with a crowbar.
- Adjusted icon plate positions for crates, armored safe, fridges, and freezer to make them visible when placed behind the walls.

Fixes:
- Fixed emoji selection.

=== CryoFall v0.30.2.1 (A30 Experimental Patch #1) ===

We're happy to announce that the first patch to the experimental A30 version is out!
If you have not tried the experimental version yet, please consider joining one of the experimental servers and help us improve the game.

Patch notes:

Changes:
- Industrial drones: drones will temporarily reserve their previously occupied slots so you will never drop returning drones due to lack of free space in the inventory and hotbar.
- Boss event start delay: 20 minutes boss spawn timer on PvE servers, no delay on PvP servers.
- Adjusted the crafting recipe requirements of solar panels.
- Reduced the lifetime duration of the reactor fuel rod.
- Increased pragmium reactor psi emission.
- Decreased unrefined keinite drop from black beetle and burrower.
- Base lights auto active time changed (now from 20:00 to 7:00).
- PvP: Click on newbie protection notification will open the Social menu.
- Updated art for cliffs (both types), cliff render mask, road slopes (up and down).
- Crafting: Now you don't need to remove equipped items if they need to be used for crafting (e.g. braided helmet with oil lamp recipe).

Fixes:
- Chat was not closed when clicking on the menu buttons/hotbar/other UI elements.
- The respawn UI input was blocked if the chat was opened during the character's death.
- Dropped drone will provide a "dropped items" map mark and notification (though you're unlikely to see it now unless you manually remove the reserved slots for returning drones and you have no space in the inventory).
- Biomaterial collector: When there is not enough space in the inventory, a full biomaterial vial will drop on the ground and a notification will be shown.
- Learning skill was progressing incorrectly fast on servers with high LP rates (like the A30 experimental servers).
- "Use oil lamp" quest task was not finishing immediately on lamp use. This task will be also satisfied when using a lamp installed into the braided helmet.