Update 0.6.4

New “Post-Campaign” System
• Procedurally generated levels for post-campaign play
  
• Face high level enemies and earn unique weapons and loot
  
• Major work in progress, but the Lost City post-game level is now nearing completion in dev testing!
  
• Check out our next Livestream for a sneak peek and more release details!
  

Economy Updates
• The Engineering Bay in the Space Station and the Holochamber starting pad will have new kiosks
  
• These new kiosks will allow for more character and stat customization options
  
• Other specialty loot including Cypher Keys will be saved to the Player(s) vault in future updates
  
• A New rare currency is being developed and will feature both in Campaign and Holochamber
  

Rygar Part II
• Players will explore underground research facilities and face brand new enemies
  
• We will introduce the next weapons manufacturer
  
• Watch our next major update Livestream for further news!
  

v0.6.4

• We have added the first 3 official achievements to SP! More will be added throughout Early Access!
  • Exterminator - Kill 100 Bugs
    
  • Skilled Hunter - Kill 100 Beasts
    
  • If It Bleeds... Kill 100 Aliens
    

Holochamber Arcade Overhaul
• Holochamber has underwent a major rework to allow for more dynamic gameplay
  
• Floors are now divided into three waves: Slayer, Mission (chosen at random), and Elite Slayer.
  
• Missions have been reworked and integrated into the core gameplay loop
  


HC - Gameplay
• NEW: Domain Transfer - Players can now spend 3 Tessera at a new kiosk to transfer their run to a different Holochamber simulation at random
  
• UPDATED: Holochamber Functions have been integrated into the wave-based gameplay loop
  
  • Functions provide passive boons to the player that affect their gameplay experience
    
  • The first Wave of each floor will provide a regular Function
    
  • The third wave of each floor will provide a strong Function with a small trade-off
    
• Elite enemies no longer grant bonus floor progression
  
• SuperArmor's damage resist reduced from 50% to 30%
  


HC - Missions
• NEW: Plunder Protocol
  
  • Items will drop from enemies and players must acquire enough of them to complete the wave
    
• NEW: Uplink Protocol
  
  • Players must locate and defend a data lattice against an onslaught of enemies for 30 seconds to complete the wave
    
• NEW: Elite Slayer
  
  • Defeat a number of Elite-tier enemies with heightened aggression to complete the wave
    


HC - Sandbox & Economy
• The starting room of each dungeon floor now serves as a Safe Zone
  
  • As long as players remain in the Safe Zone, enemies will not spawn
    
• Enemies now spawn more frequently in both Simulation and Boss encounters
  
• Enemy threat level will rise at an increased rate per floor to compensate for longer floor durations
  
• Added the Treasure Cache as a random spawn in the dungeon on each floor
  
  • The associated Looter Protocol has been deprecated
    
• Added the Tessera Cache as a random spawn in the dungeon on each floor
  
  • Tessera have a very small chance of dropping from enemies
    
• Added Unique weapons to the Holochamber loot pool
  


HC - UI
• The placement of Holochamber-specific HUD items has been improved
  
  • Score counter now appears at the bottom of the screen
    
• Modifiers display has been updated
  
  • Modifiers are now updated in real-time with their exact percentages
    
  • Modifiers granted by PowerUps are now displayed
    
• The display of Main Objective prompts has been improved
  


HC - Bug Fixes
• Adjusted the logic of PowerUps to prevent duplicate effects from stacking
  
• Corrected a data error that caused initial Floor Progression Rate in Holochamber to be higher than intended
  

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NEW Unique Wolf “OVRKL” Rocket Launcher
• Rapid Fire Perk
  
• Full Auto Perk
  
• Big Mag Perk
  
NEW Unique Nazuna “Kaiju” SMG
• NEW Perk “Ranger”
  • Use the targeting laser to switch firing modes between SMG and DMR
• NEW Perk “Regen”
  • Slowly restore HP over time
    
NEW Unique Nazuna “Renegade” Combat Shotgun
• Gut Punch Perk
  
• NEW Perk “Super Shotgun”
  • Use the targeting laser to switch between Combat and Slug firing modes

Gameplay
• Melee damage now has a chance to knockback hit enemies
  
Enemies
• NEW: Oterion Toad
  
  • The regular non-infected Toad that lives in the Wetlands
    
  • Similar to the Infected Toad, but not as powerful
    
  • Appears in Wetlands and Lost City
    
• Updated AI logic for Infected Toads
  

UI
• Added "Unique" icon to UI for curated weapons
  
• Dismantling weapons from the Vault now requires a button hold
  
• Added a weapon dismantling animation and SFX
  
• Vault will now correctly show the current number of weapons on startup and after dismantling
  
• Optimized Minimap camera
  
• Fixed logic for updating correct CR amount
  
• Optimized Screen rain drops FX
  

Space Station
• Added a new NPC to Engineering, Jeffrys
  
  • He will evolve into a weapons vendor for players
    
  • Watch our Discord to learn more!
    

Titus
• Drills will now destroy all nearby enemies when starting
  

Titus Caverns
• Adjusted some enemy spawning at higher difficulties
  
• Minor art updates
  

Oterion Wetlands
• Added the new wetland frog enemies throughout the southern marsh areas
  
• Minor art updates at the southern edge of the marsh
  

Oterion Lost City
• Added the new wetland frog enemies in the sunken corridor area
  
• Fixed an issue where outdated glyph materials were still appearing on certain wall meshes
  

Known Issues
• Rygar environmental material issues
  
• Rocket Launchers are using outdated character animations
  
• Enemies will sometimes spawn into props in Holochamber mode
  
• Cypher Keys are still not saving correctly. Fix coming in the next update.
  
• Tessera are not saving at this time. They will be implemented in the next update.
  
• Some Modifiers may display incorrectly under certain circumstances.
  
• AoE decals used in Plunder and Uplink Protocols display abnormally on transparent surfaces.
  

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