Encased News

Live world under the Dome

Dear subscribers! Once again, the latest issue of the post-apocalyptic CRONUS Weekly is on your screens. Can anyone hear us?

Today we want to talk a little bit about the world of Encased and how it reacts to player actions.

Reputation

Factions under the Dome are living organisms that react to your actions and decisions. If you kill, insult, or steal something from a faction representative, be prepared that every faction member will now dislike you. Making friends with everyone is even harder, many quests take away reputation from one side and accrue it to the other.

High reputation will give you discounts on barter and other faction services, while a negative reputation can turn entire settlements of initially neutral Dome residents against you.

By the way, even if you follow only the main story, you will get to know each of them in one way or another.

Visuals and inhabitants of locations

Have you repaired the power supply to the research center, killed the entire settlement, or done some other big deed? The world under the Dome will react. Players can check this right now by killing everyone at the "Roadside Picnic" location. Both before and after the Incident. The game will remember every move you make.

Crimes

In Encased, players will have the opportunity not only to take needed items from corpses, but also to steal them from living people. The former owner will start looking for the stolen item after some time and will continue to do so for a week. All this time the item will have the status "stolen" and cannot be sold.

If the guards catch you red-handed, you can go to prison for a week, where every day the hero will be given food and water so that he will not die of hunger.

Encased community is the most important for us - we are going to follow up those closely for your feedback on the game.

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Voices and locations

Dear subscribers! Once again, the latest issue of the post-apocalyptic CRONUS Weekly is on your screens. Can anyone hear us?

Today we're sharing news about the voice-overs and screenshots of the new locations we've been polishing for months. You'll definitely visit them in September, and hopefully remember them for a long time.

Voice-over

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Right now we are working hard on the game's voice-over and can already feel how much the atmosphere of the wasteland under the Dome has changed. Even if you have played through all the content of the fifth patch multiple times, the full game will be an absolutely new experience, we guarantee.

Abandoned Camp

Many players have already had time to explore the abandoned camp and unravel some of its secrets. But in the full release version of Encased it will appear in a completely new light, literally. We redesigned the lighting, placement of enemies, plants, secrets, stones, and even changed the landscape.

Streets of the New Committee City

The streets of the city of New Committee are surprisingly cozy. But is it also nice and safe here at night? If you’re brave enough, check it out for yourself!

Encased community is the most important for us - we are going to follow up those closely for your feedback on the game.

Small updates under the Dome

Dear subscribers! Once again, the latest issue of the post-apocalyptic CRONUS Weekly is on your screens. Can anyone hear us?

New week - new development news. Our team polishes the already available locations, as well as new ones and also updates and adds new art to the game. We're doing everything we can to make your adventure under the Dome this fall the most memorable experience :)

New Locations

There's a funny story behind this location. It was originally planned as a random combat arena, but our level designers ended up doing it so well that we decided to turn it into a normal location. Pretty soon we’ll populate it with unique settlers with their own stories and quests. We really hope you’ll enjoy it!

Random Encounters

Random encounters are a pretty big part of Encased and our team goes back to them almost every week. Right now there are already dozens of random story events in the game, and there will be even more in the full version.

By the way, you don't have to travel around the world map to see some of them. Sometimes a simple rest in the fresh air in the middle of the swamp or somewhere else is enough. By the way, who will try to find all the random events?

New artworks

Do you recognize it? Yes, this is the Emulator Project Lab in Junktown. This art and many others will be added to the game very soon. Our artists put all their souls into the game and hope that you’ll notice it while playing the game :)

Encased community is the most important for us - we are going to follow up those closely for your feedback on the game.

Week of announcements under the Dome

Dear subscribers! Once again, the latest issue of the post-apocalyptic CRONUS weekly is on your screens. Can anyone hear us?

What a week it's been, dear employees. A new trailer, the Linux version of Encased and new information about the game. Let’s talk about it!

Encased on Linux

Employees, the development of Encased on Linux is in full swing and here is the first screenshot! For now we cannot promise that the Linux version will be available on the same day as the Windows version, but, as you can see, it will definitely appear.

Which of you are waiting for this particular version of Encased? Tell us in the comments :)

CRONUS needs you

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Here's the new trailer from our great publisher, Prime Matter; if you haven't seen it yet, you definitely should.

Our team wants to thank each and every one of our players once again. Without your support, we would have never been this close to the release of our dream game.

Full version of Encased coming September 2021!

One of our publisher's big announcements at E3 was the almost final release date for Encased. We now know the month — September.

In the remaining months our team will continue to add new art, polish locations, and fix bugs. We're working hard to release the perfect version of Encased in just a few months. Thank you for continuing to support us!

Encased community is the most important for us - we are going to follow up those closely for your feedback on the game.

PRIME MATTER STREAMS: ENCASED

Hello fellow CRONUS employees,

We are pleased to announce that the first game to be streamed on our publisher PRIME MATTER’s new twitch channel is Encased! Right now Opal Cadman is continuing the adventures of Cadmus_Sanov under the Dome. Join her here on Twitch

PRIME MATTER STREAMS: ENCASED will now take place every Monday, 7pm CEST on the new PRIME MATTER Twitch channel. We hope to see you there!