Frozen Synapse news & patch notes

Hi there, I don't generally post much FS2 stuff in this community but I'd really appreciate it if you'd give this a watch: https://youtu.be/xvyCQGEAtO8 This video shows off the core gameplay loop of FS2, a little bit of content and also is a discussion of what we're doing to polish the game up for its final beta. Any comments much appreciated.

We went a bit quiet on Frozen Synapse 2 recently - sorry about that - please do join that Steam community as well over here if you're interested in the game. https://steamcommunity.com/app/445020 I've been trying to keep everyone up to date with some videos this week and I hope to do more soon. Have a look here: https://youtu.be/hwiBFifhJHM

We went a bit quiet on Frozen Synapse 2 recently - sorry about that - please do join that Steam community as well over here if you're interested in the game. https://steamcommunity.com/app/445020 I've been trying to keep everyone up to date with some videos this week and I hope to do more soon. Have a look here: https://youtu.be/hwiBFifhJHM

Hi, I'm considering doing a physical release of the FS1 and forthcoming FS1 soundtrack album at some point next year. If you would be interested in purchasing one I would massively appreciate it if you could vote here - http://www.strawpoll.me/14581291/r - would help me gauge any interest. Your vote could actually make it happen - thanks. Paul

Hi, I'm considering doing a physical release of the FS1 and forthcoming FS1 soundtrack album at some point next year. If you would be interested in purchasing one I would massively appreciate it if you could vote here - http://www.strawpoll.me/14581291/r - would help me gauge any interest. Your vote could actually make it happen - thanks. Paul

This update adds 2 new fixed maps from the recent map making contest, which will be used in the upcoming legacy tournament. You can still sign up here until January 15th: http://forums.mode7games.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=10815 It also fixes some edge cases where multiplayer related achievements weren't being granted properly.

This update adds 2 new fixed maps from the recent map making contest, which will be used in the upcoming legacy tournament. You can still sign up here until January 15th: http://forums.mode7games.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=10815 It also fixes some edge cases where multiplayer related achievements weren't being granted properly.

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/2485725/d6beeda91087f8b3c2935fb7fc305b4d1aeab2a3.png Dear fellow Tacticians, the new year is about to arrive and we are all already eagerly anticipating the arrival of Frozen Synapse 2. While patiently waiting and to start 2017 off with the bang of a well place virtual grenade, we will finally move into the hot phase of our Frozen Synapse Legacy Tournament! First of all, huge thanks to everyone participating in our map creation contest! The voting was a head to head contest between two maps, so we decided to useboth of them for the tournament and will reward each map creator with a Frozen Synapse 2 Closed Beta key. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/2485725/eebd27f7aa6ffa087aa512f164bde57108a7ab24.png http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/2485725/4dfa6abbc6f7036d0d16026000d7385d2de70011.png -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/2485725/9cd893841eedf31240710c8dc1d91be150ff2de1.png 1st place: Frozen Synapse 2 Closed Beta // Frozen Cortex // nervous_testpilot Discography 2nd place: Frozen Synapse 2 Closed Beta // Frozen Cortex 3rd place: Frozen Synapse 2 Closed Beta -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/2485725/167bac68319cb26bb76715ba47544e6de325197d.png Signup deadline: January 15th, 23:59 GMT How to sign up: Post your FS username (and your Steam name) in the announcement thread of the official FS forums Match type: Dark Extermination 1st round: January 16th - January 22nd 2nd round: January 23rd - February 5th Have fun training!

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/2485725/d6beeda91087f8b3c2935fb7fc305b4d1aeab2a3.png Dear fellow Tacticians, the new year is about to arrive and we are all already eagerly anticipating the arrival of Frozen Synapse 2. While patiently waiting and to start 2017 off with the bang of a well place virtual grenade, we will finally move into the hot phase of our Frozen Synapse Legacy Tournament! First of all, huge thanks to everyone participating in our map creation contest! The voting was a head to head contest between two maps, so we decided to useboth of them for the tournament and will reward each map creator with a Frozen Synapse 2 Closed Beta key. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/2485725/eebd27f7aa6ffa087aa512f164bde57108a7ab24.png http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/2485725/4dfa6abbc6f7036d0d16026000d7385d2de70011.png -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/2485725/9cd893841eedf31240710c8dc1d91be150ff2de1.png 1st place: Frozen Synapse 2 Closed Beta // Frozen Cortex // nervous_testpilot Discography 2nd place: Frozen Synapse 2 Closed Beta // Frozen Cortex 3rd place: Frozen Synapse 2 Closed Beta -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/2485725/167bac68319cb26bb76715ba47544e6de325197d.png Signup deadline: January 15th, 23:59 GMT How to sign up: Post your FS username (and your Steam name) in the announcement thread of the official FS forums Match type: Dark Extermination 1st round: January 16th - January 22nd 2nd round: January 23rd - February 5th Have fun training!

Here's a look at the new units which will feature in the sequel... https://youtu.be/HxpdI47qLMI

Here's a look at the new units which will feature in the sequel... https://youtu.be/HxpdI47qLMI

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/2485725/d6beeda91087f8b3c2935fb7fc305b4d1aeab2a3.png The Beta-prelaunch period for Frozen Synapse 2 is slowly heating up. As part of our prelaunch activities and along other content we have coming up for you in the near future, we will hold a Frozen Synapse 1 tournament with some magnificient prizes and the chance for some lucky winners to grab some FS2 Beta invites! However, before the tournament kicks off, you can win a Frozen Synapse 2 Beta key, by designing a Frozen Synapse 1 map that will be used in the elimination round of the tournament - so without further ado, I'll introduce our first Frozen Synapse Map Making Contest (Drawings, pictures and real life miniatures are valid submissions)! You can find more info about the rules over in our official forums here - http://forums.mode7games.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=10780

http://cdn.edgecast.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/2485725/d6beeda91087f8b3c2935fb7fc305b4d1aeab2a3.png The Beta-prelaunch period for Frozen Synapse 2 is slowly heating up. As part of our prelaunch activities and along other content we have coming up for you in the near future, we will hold a Frozen Synapse 1 tournament with some magnificient prizes and the chance for some lucky winners to grab some FS2 Beta invites! However, before the tournament kicks off, you can win a Frozen Synapse 2 Beta key, by designing a Frozen Synapse 1 map that will be used in the elimination round of the tournament - so without further ado, I'll introduce our first Frozen Synapse Map Making Contest (Drawings, pictures and real life miniatures are valid submissions)! You can find more info about the rules over in our official forums here - http://forums.mode7games.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=10780

Many thanks for the recent feedback on the UI - has been really helpful and is much appreciated. Thought I would update you about some changes we're thinking of making based on your feedback and our own appraisal of the situation. None of this is final; all of it may not happen! That's the end of the caveats. Here's what we're planning on doing: - A fundamental mechanics change to aiming and shooting which will be announced soon! This adds a new level of depth to the game and is very fun to play with. It may not feature in every mode but early tests are encouraging - Ian will be explaining this system soon when some issues have been worked out. - Time handles replaced with wait orders. Wait orders are issued using the dragging functionality from time handles, but you do not place orders directly on the handles; you simply create a wait, then place your order in the stack after it. Time handles have always sucked to interact with directly, but dragging left to right is still the best way of defining an amount of time quickly; this should alleviate the former while retaining the latter. - Units will have a "selection handle", which is a larger clickable element attached to the unit by a line. Selection handles will avoid overlapping with other UI elements meaning that you won't have the problem of trying to distinguish between two overlapping units. - Probably something to make "check" less terrible to use - Hopefully some better scaling of the aim handle so it's less tiny when zoomed out - Probably some other things I haven't figured out yet

Many thanks for the recent feedback on the UI - has been really helpful and is much appreciated. Thought I would update you about some changes we're thinking of making based on your feedback and our own appraisal of the situation. None of this is final; all of it may not happen! That's the end of the caveats. Here's what we're planning on doing: - A fundamental mechanics change to aiming and shooting which will be announced soon! This adds a new level of depth to the game and is very fun to play with. It may not feature in every mode but early tests are encouraging - Ian will be explaining this system soon when some issues have been worked out. - Time handles replaced with wait orders. Wait orders are issued using the dragging functionality from time handles, but you do not place orders directly on the handles; you simply create a wait, then place your order in the stack after it. Time handles have always sucked to interact with directly, but dragging left to right is still the best way of defining an amount of time quickly; this should alleviate the former while retaining the latter. - Units will have a "selection handle", which is a larger clickable element attached to the unit by a line. Selection handles will avoid overlapping with other UI elements meaning that you won't have the problem of trying to distinguish between two overlapping units. - Probably something to make "check" less terrible to use - Hopefully some better scaling of the aim handle so it's less tiny when zoomed out - Probably some other things I haven't figured out yet

Hi, We're looking at trying to make some improvements to the Frozen Synapse UI in FS2. This is a difficult topic: Frozen Synapse is a very complex game; some elements of UI design are subjective; making changes to our UI is difficult and time consuming. So, please don't take it as a negative if we don't manage to incorporate your feedback. I'd like to know what you find difficult to do in the game, both in-game and in the menus, what you find fiddly especially. Feel free to post anything you want, but in general flagging up problems is a lot more useful to us than suggesting solutions. Thanks for taking the time to do this. If you wanted to me AMAZINGLY helpful, a video demonstrating your problems would be great but any notes or comments are more than welcome. Paul

Hi, We're looking at trying to make some improvements to the Frozen Synapse UI in FS2. This is a difficult topic: Frozen Synapse is a very complex game; some elements of UI design are subjective; making changes to our UI is difficult and time consuming. So, please don't take it as a negative if we don't manage to incorporate your feedback. I'd like to know what you find difficult to do in the game, both in-game and in the menus, what you find fiddly especially. Feel free to post anything you want, but in general flagging up problems is a lot more useful to us than suggesting solutions. Thanks for taking the time to do this. If you wanted to me AMAZINGLY helpful, a video demonstrating your problems would be great but any notes or comments are more than welcome. Paul

I spoke to Ian about his thoughts and process for designing the level generators in Frozen Synapse and Frozen Synapse 2 https://youtu.be/3kuSDU39kv4

I spoke to Ian about his thoughts and process for designing the level generators in Frozen Synapse and Frozen Synapse 2 https://youtu.be/3kuSDU39kv4

Ian is testing (in Frozen Synapse 2) a fix for a particular technique which was a borderline exploit in Frozen Synapse 1. We'd love your feedback - please read his post here - http://www.mode7games.com/blog/2016/06/06/neutralising-the-distraction-play/ but post your responses here on the Steam Community in the comments - many thanks!

Ian is testing (in Frozen Synapse 2) a fix for a particular technique which was a borderline exploit in Frozen Synapse 1. We'd love your feedback - please read his post here - http://www.mode7games.com/blog/2016/06/06/neutralising-the-distraction-play/ but post your responses here on the Steam Community in the comments - many thanks!

Hey, I wanted to keep everyone updated with some of our work on Frozen Synapse 2: Text - https://medium.com/@mode7games/frozen-synapse-2-dev-update-1-incursions-d556d5ff6ae0#.asowtpc1k Video - https://youtu.be/lTq5-lc7-Z4 Thanks!

Hey, I wanted to keep everyone updated with some of our work on Frozen Synapse 2: Text - https://medium.com/@mode7games/frozen-synapse-2-dev-update-1-incursions-d556d5ff6ae0#.asowtpc1k Video - https://youtu.be/lTq5-lc7-Z4 Thanks!

This update fixes a problem with slow AI calculations which was accidentally introduced in the last patch. It also fixes a long standing issue with slow camera zooming caused by alt-tabbing out of the game.

This update fixes a problem with slow AI calculations which was accidentally introduced in the last patch. It also fixes a long standing issue with slow camera zooming caused by alt-tabbing out of the game.

Achievements should now work on all platforms. Fixed account registration issue on Linux.

Achievements should now work on all platforms. Fixed account registration issue on Linux.

Published a small update to fix account registration issue.