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Holochamber Functions Master List
[h2]Updated as of May 6, 2022[/h2]

• This is a master list of each Holochamber Function and the effects that they provide. For more information on the Holochamber Functions system, check out the 0.4.4 Patch Notes.
  
• Holochamber Function effects with a “+” as a suffix indicate an enhanced positive modifier.

[h2]Standard Functions[/h2]

• Attrition
  
  • Decreased Boss Health
    
• Efficiency
  
  • Increased Floor Progression Rate
    
• Fortitude
  
  • Players Take Less Damage
    
• Knowledge
  
  • Increased Experience Points
    
• Ordnance
  
  • Increased Ammo Drops
    
• Perseverance
  
  • Increased Healing Effectiveness
    
• Riches
  
  • Increased Credit Gains
    
• War
  
  • Enemies Take More Damage
    

[h2]Sinful Functions[/h2]

• Avarice
  
  • Increased Credit Gains +
    
  • Reduced Experience Gains
    
• Envy
  
  • Increased Floor Progression +
    
  • Reduced Ammo Drops
    
• Gluttony
  
  • Increased Ammo Drops +
    
  • Increased Healing Effectiveness +
    
  • Enemies Take Less Damage
    
• Lust
  
  • Increased Ammo Drops +
    
  • Players Take More Damage
    
• Pride
  
  • Increased Credit Gains +
    
  • Reduced Experience Gains
    
• Sloth
  
  • Players Take Less Damage +
    
  • Reduced Floor Progression
    
• Wrath
  
  • Enemies Take More Damage +
    
  • Reduced Healing Effectiveness
    

[h2]Supply Functions[/h2]

• Chatka Supply
  
  • Exclusively Drops Chatka Weapon
    
• Kadru Supply
  
  • Exclusively Drops Kadru Weapon
    
• Nazuna Supply
  
  • Exclusively Drops Nazuna Weapon
    
• Wolf Supply
  
  • Exclusively Drops Wolf Weapon
    
• Zheng Supply
  
  • Exclusively Drops Zheng Weapon
    

0.4.3 Hotfix

[h2]Bug Fixes[/h2]

• Fixed issue causing game to crash on machines powered by Intel 10th gen (Ice Lake), Intel 11th gen (Tiger Lake), and Intel 12th gen (Alder Lake) CPUs.
  

v0.4.3

• New Level: Planet Oterion Part 2 (Lost City)
  
  • Explore lost ruins hidden beneath Oterion’s jungle canopy
    
  • Overcome deadly traps and ancient mechanisms
    
  • Discover the mysteries of an ancient civilization
    
  • Enemies spawn from level 25 and up
    

• Boon System enabled for Holochamber activities
  
• Boons augment the player experience by introducing modifiers during gameplay
  
• Boons are active until the completion of the current floor
  
• Boons cannot stack
  
• The Boon selection can be rerolled for a cost (in Credits)
  
• Rerolling the Boon selection increases the cost to reroll until the current floor is completed
  
• List of Holochamber Boons
  
  • Boon of Riches
    
    • Increased Credit gains
      
    • Reduced Experience gains
      
  • Boon of Knowledge
    
    • Greatly Increased Experience gains
      
    • Reduced Special Ammo drop rate
      
    • Reduced Credit gains
      
  • Boon of Efficiency
    
    • Increased Floor Progression rate
      
    • Players take more damage
      
  • Boon of War
    
    • Enemies take substantially more damage
      
    • Reduced Special Ammo drop rate
      
    • Reduced Player Healing Effectiveness
      
  • Boon of Fortitude
    
    • Players take substantially less damage
      
    • Reduced Credit gains
      
    • Reduced Player Healing Effectiveness
      
  • Boon of Ordnance
    
    • Greatly increased Special Ammo drop rate
      
    • Reduced Credit gains
      
    • Reduced Experience gains
      
  • Boon of Perseverance
    
    • Increased Special Ammo drop rate
      
    • Increased Player Healing Effectiveness
      
    • Players take substantially more damage
      
  • Boon of Attrition
    
    • Increased Floor Progression rate
      
    • Reduced Credit gains
      
    • Reduced Experience gains
      

• New Aim Assistance
  • Weapons now have aim assistance when using the Laser Sights
    
  • Weapon aim assistance has a finite effective range per weapon type
    
  • Aim Assistance applies to horizontal and vertical targets
    
  • Aim assistance is tuned separately for each weapon type
    
• New Weapon Manufacturers
  • Zheng Small Arms Co.
    
    • Specialize in close range weapons
      
    • Highly effective against Bugs and Beasts
      
    • Roll with perks that deal extra damage to non-armored targets and provide player stat bonuses
      
    • Produce Assault Rifles, Burst Rifles, Handguns, Combat and Slug Shotguns, SMGs, LMGs and Flamethrowers
      
  • Kadru
    
    • Specialize in long range weapons
      
    • Highly effective against Bots and Aliens
      
    • Roll with more perks than other Manufacturers
      
    • Produce Burst Rifles, DMRs, Handguns, Crossbows, Snipers, Slug Shotguns and LMGs
      
  • General Tuning
    
    • Reduced Flamethrower base damage from 780 to 660
      
    • At Common quality, Flamethrower damage goes from 1755 to 1485
      
    • Burst Rifle base accuracy lowered to 92
      
    • Rocket Launcher reduced projectile scale
      
    • Light Machine Gun base accuracy lowered to 97
      
    • Fully Loaded perk now increases reserve mags by +1
      
    • Kinetic perk now has a damage ceiling
      
    • Focus Fire perk now has a damage ceiling
      

• Gameplay
  
  • Players now spawn near a living ally
    
  • Downed players are detached from the player camera until they revive
    
• Main Menu
  
  • Updated the Holochamber selection menu to use Oterion’s name
    
• Lockjaw Prison Part 1 (Mining)
  
  • Fixed a navigation bug where the player could become stuck behind the rocks after the first large shipping container on the Mining Floor
    
• Genesis II Station
  
  • Updated military robot name formatting for consistent style
    
  • Added new art to the Training Simulator area in the Archives
    
  • Declassified Oterion’s name on the System Map
    
  • Added an Early Access warning to the System Map explaining mouse input requirements
    
  • Improved navigation and adjusted art in the Training Room
    
  • Known Issue: Currently the Exit Node returns the player to the Station even if accessed via the Main Menu (a fix for this is under development)
    
• Titus
  
  • Fixed persistent lighting issue
    
• Oterion
  
  • Updated sector name in the ammo depot of the Military Checkpoint to fit within the UI
    
  • Fixed several culling errors causing parts of the AzTek facility to vanish when the player was on the Broken Vehicle Bridge or in Daedalus Tower
    
  • Smoothed out blocky angles in the shorelines of the Wetlands
    
  • Fixed several terrain errors where water volume edges were visible
    
  • Added new dialogue from Dr. Hadley to assist the player finding their next objectives
    
  • Cleaned up NPC dialogue throughout the level
    
  • Activated the terminal 2F Maintenance Area in the AzTek Facility
    
  • Corrected a bug causing development note text to appear in the river during the river crossing
    
  • Improved player navigation in the AzTek facility to help keep the player in view of the camera
    
  • Fixed a bug which allowed the player to fall into a gap between the staircase and terrain on an outbuilding near the AzTek Facility
    
  • Updated language on Objectives to fit within the UI
    
  • Reworked southern Wetlands area into more directed pathways
    
  • Enemies start spawning at level 20 in Oterion Wetlands
    
  • Added blocking volumes near Wetlands entrance
    
  • Fixed logic issues when decoding the first data module
    
  • Added misc water puddles to Wetlands
    
  • Update minimap to show data modules from farther distances
    
  • Fixed several collision issues with moss piles
    
  • Added extra credits and weapon caches
    
  • Added new loading screen
    
  • Added beetle fauna fx
    
  • Added new Swamp Trap spawners to Wetlands
    
  • Fixed blocking volumes near Lost City entrance
    
  • Added B3-L1-4L bot encounter to swamp ruins
    
  • Fixed an issue where shadows were covering points of interest
    
  • Added caution gate to prevent players from entering Wetlands too soon
    
  • Added caution gate to broken bridge before reaching Lost City entrance
    
  • Fixed southern Wetlands checkpoint
    
  • Major art and navigation fixes throughout the level
    
• General
  
  • Updated weapon perk lists for all weapon manufacturers
    
  • Changed Checkpoint minimap marker icon
    
  • Reformatted weapon perk screen info layout and text
    
  • Fixed bug causing perks to not update correctly in the Flyout menu
    
  • Fixed jungle river audio sound class bug
    
  • Fixed bug causing stats to not update correctly for the Offense+, Support+ and Special+ perks
    
  • Fixed an issue that could cause the flamethrower to deal multiple instances of damage per shot to enemies with multiple hitboxes
    
  • Updated planetary info on the System Map
    

v0.4.2

• New Weapon Manufacturers
  
  
  
  
  • AzTek Arms Technologies
    
    • Specialize in Power weapons
      
    • Highly effective against all enemy types
      
    • High level weapons can roll with status effect perks
      
    • Produce Flamethrowers and Grenade Launchers
      
  • Chatka Collective
    
    • Focused on armor breaching and high explosives
      
    • Highly effective against robotic armor or biological carapace plating.
      
    • Produce Assault Rifles, DMRs, Shotguns, Rocket Launchers, Burst Rocket Launchers, Grenade Launchers, Flamethrowers and Miniguns
      

• Jungle Planet
  
  • Optimized art loading to improve performance throughout the level
    
  • Updated navigation in the swamp to prevent enemies spawning on top of level geometry
    
  • Improved the materials for jungle-deployed military robots
    
  • Fine-tuned the collision on the stairs to enter the small buildings
    
  • Updated the art and terrain around the forward base and its river bridge
    
  • Improved minimap sector naming
    
  • Fixed some art issues with the fungal swamp growth where growth was floating in the water rather than on the ground
    
  • Improved collision and navigation in the AzTek facility to help keep the player in view of the camera
    
  • Updated dam and boom town art with rust and overgrowth
    
  
  
  
• Titus
  
  • Updated navigation and animation on the CommsNet Tower maintenance bot
    
  • Overhauled art on the CommsNet Tower to make it more solid and fix a small gap in one of the support columns
    
  • Fixed a collision bug where players could run up the wall and out of the level in the underground caverns
    
  • Fixed another collision bug where players could run out of the level through the eastern cave exit after the Broodwatcher miniboss battle
    
  • Updated minimap to better showcase terrain and barriers
    
  
  
  
• General
  
  • Updated enemy bloodspatters for consistency within species and to better fit with existing level art
    
  • Melee animation no longer locks the player in place (Animation is WORK IN PROGRESS)
    
  • Fixed an issue causing Melee to be permanently disabled when interrupted by certain actions
    
  • Offense, Support, and Special skill values are now saved
    
  • Removed Primary Ammo Kiosks from Holochamber floors
    
  • Fixed issue where flytrap enemy would not release rooted players on death
    
  • Increased Jungle Beetle's attack radius
    

v0.4.1

• Titus
  
  • fixed a navigation bug where players could fall into a bottomless pit in the Uncharted Caverns
    
• Jungle
  
  • Fixed a spelling error in the Minimap sector for the Research District
    
  • Updated collision in the AzTek Facility service area
    
  • Improved navigation in the AzTek Facility to help keep players in view of the camera
    
  • Adjusted some foliage clipping into rocks and buildings
    
  • Updated the Minimap with new sectors after the forest swamp region
    
  • Overhauled art and materials relating to the Medastia Sporangium
    
  • Improved navigation and collision along the edges of the level and behind several buildings where players could get stuck
    
  • Solved a collision issue which was causing the survivor NPCs to clip through floors and furniture
    
  • Updated animation and dialogue on the survivor NPCs
    
  • Added a mysterious new location by the river crossing!
    
  • Moved a continue point by the river crossing to fit the new location
    
  • Large-scale texture and material optimization to aid performance (more improvements are still underway!)
    
• Weapons
  
  • Removed the following alternate weapons while perk randomization work and art updates continue (some of these will return in future updates):
    • Nazuna Zokuto AR
      
    • Nazuna Suzumebachi DMR
      
    • Nazuna Obake Handgun
      
    • Nazuna Borei Handgun