Galactic Vault news & patch notes

Operators,

• Fixed a bug in the keybinds menu where row highlighting incorrectly shifted up a row during the binding process.
• Fixed some navigation issues in Acid Pit
• Fixed some navigation issues in Hangar
• Fixed custom run screen sometimes opened when starting game
• Fixed a reason that enemies got stuck in doors
• Fixed a reason drones got stuck outside hatches
• Fixed being able to put more points as possible in the skill-tree skills with a star
• Fixed player spawning in level when falling through hallway, now spawns back in hallway
• Fixed end-screen stats wrong when stat would be 0
• Fixed spot enemies could get stuck
• Fixed weapon selection animations
• Fixed potential crash with accelerating + bouncing projectiles
• Updated game’s engine version
• Reduced the cry audio on Zubica’s intro
• Disabled Supply Cart objective in Acid Pit
• Reduced total amount of enemies and increased spawning speed during ‘Boom Boom’ wave
• Reduce A.R.G.U.S. big laser tracking speed
• Reduce A.R.G.U.S. big laser radius slightly
• Reduce A.R.G.U.S. big laser damage per second slightly
• Increased Elite Grunts grenade warning indicator distance
• Increased Elite Grunts grenade flare size
• Reduced Elite Grunt fire-rate from 0.8 -> 0.4 shots per second
• Reduced Elite Grunt damage from 14 -> 11 per projectile
• Reduced Elite Grunt accuracy by ~15%
• Increased Pump-4 and Sweeper handling (faster transitions)
• Increased Sweeper damage from 13 -> 14
• Tweaked shotgun crosshair to better match actual spread
• Reduced ‘Light Core’ fire-rate from 25% -> 15%

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The Infestation update went live last Monday, and operators have torn into it. New rooms, new enemies, and Zubica stalking the rooms as our nastiest boss yet. Take her down and the new weapon is yours, and it earns its slot in your loadout.

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• Updated splash screen to use new art
• Fixed ‘only ranged enemies’ wave name
• Fixed Rocket Boots feeling odd
• Increased Rocket Boots ‘Mega Rockets’ explosion area and damage
• Fixed knife showing in players hand when starting a run just after doing melee
• Zubica boss spores now spawn lower
• Zubica spit attack explosion size from 3 -> 3.5m and speed from 12 -> 15
• Increased all spores radius from 0.22 -> 0.25
• Fixed Zubica being rolled as final boss each run
• Fixed Outbreak weapon blueprint being rewarded each time Zubica was defeated (instead of once)
• Fixed a possible crash cause
• Fixed Tank enemy sometimes getting stuck

Infestation has spread to the vaults, rooms are infected, mutated enemies are crawling out of them, and a new boss is guarding weapon blueprints worth fighting for. The v1.3.0 Infestation Update is out now.

Watch the Infestation trailer:

Survive the Infestation

Infected rooms bring a new objective: shoot every Infestation Bulb to stop the spread before it overruns the ship. Two new infested enemies spawn from these rooms, and they don't always stay put; sometimes they breach containment and hunt you down elsewhere.

Face Zubica

A new boss takes flight with deadly spores, fast aerial strikes, and infected blobs. Beat her and claim the blueprints for the infected weapon.

New infected weapon

An experimental rifle with a rapid three-round burst. High-impact rounds infect whatever they hit, and the integrated scope plus digital ammo counter keep you sharp in the chaos.

Infection element

The new Infection element turns the infestation into your weapon. Infected enemies burst into spores that spread to everything nearby, chaining into more infections. It runs on the same three-tier system as the other elements, the rest you'll discover in the field.

Other additions

• Added 2 new achievements: Infection Cleaner & Defeat Zubica

• Added 4 new enemy waves: Up Close, Containment Breach, Stampede, Swarm

• Added Infestation Chance to Custom Run

• Added both Infestation enemies to Custom Run

• Added Team Credits to main menu

• Added toggle for meter / foot distance unit

• Added toggle to always skip cutscenes (intro, boss and respawn)

• Added an icon for upgrades you can't afford in the shop

• Added room number you're about to enter on the door

• Added grenade hologram under grenade upgrades

• Added collider on Brutus / Ajax backpack

• Added slider ramp-up on hold for value changes

• Added clear distinction between enemy and player ground effects

Balance & Tweaks

• Increased meta-progression credits rewards

• Increased XP-gain from kill-streaks (double, triple, etc)

• Increased Nyra fire-rate while doing 'in air' attack

• Increased Nyra dash speed while in overdrive

• Increased Nyra movement and fly speed by ~10%

• Reduced amount of different elements needed for elementalist unlock from 4 → 3

• Reduced Jetpacker flamethrower direct impact damage from 4 → 2

• Reduced Jetpacker base health from 900 → 820

• Reduced A.R.G.U.S. laser hitbox size by 10%

• Reduced A.R.G.U.S. spinning speed by 20%

• Slightly increased A.R.G.U.S. height above ground while spinning

• Made Challenge description indicate Captain / Lieutenant instead of 'boss / mini-boss'

• Added damage falloff for prestige upgrades and increased falloff distance (instead of only increasing falloff start)

• Hyper Shatterer now has infinite piercing before first impact, allowing it to always shatter on environment impact

• Supply Cart bomb bigger and animated

• Supply Cart extra indicator to show it's an objective until bomb is destroyed

• Juiced up Almighty Bomber explosion

• Player footstep sounds play less frequent

Fixes

• Fixed shader pre-compilation (engine side bug fixed): removes stutters on first-time playing

• Fixed some inconsistencies in upgrade descriptions

• Fixed horizontal and vertical recoil multipliers being swapped

• Fixed a tiny offset to the left when firing

• Fixed disintegrate effect on A.R.G.U.S. and WYR-MECHA

• Fixed rings stuck in air when killing A.R.G.U.S.

• Fixed Unloader drone not showing elemental effects

• Fixed hard-cut before respawn print

• Fixed hard-cut when intro cinematic plays

• Fixed run timer continuing during pause / cinematics

• Fixed WYR-MECHA bombs staying after boss died

• Fixed Blink movement ability not triggering correctly with dedicated binding

• Fixed Heat-based weapons becoming stuck when pausing during reload

• Fixed run-continue sometimes having wrong credits, health or shield (saving before some pickups registered)

• Fixed Blade Drone top not dissolving

• Fixed jetpack not draining when using dedicated ability key

• Fixed keybind 'left-rightTriggerButton' not displaying icon but text instead

• Fixed Eraser off-hand position

• Fixed off-hand position with Underbarrel

• Fixed pause menu opening when closing Weapon Select or SkillTree with 'Escape'

• Fixed language sometimes reverting to system language after setting it in the dropdown

• Fixed issue with difficulty options not properly opening

• Fixed enemy death sounds not always coming from the correct direction

• Fixed upgrade particle color after reroll being wrong

• Fixed a bunch of controller navigation issues in CustomRunUI

• Fixed grenade and weapon 'Upgrade' not reacting to controller input

• Fixed skin toggle responding to wrong controller button

• Fixed issue where buttons would stay next to the grenade selection screen when closing it

• Fixed issue where you didn't hear a sound when selecting between grenades with controller

• Fixed controller navigation in the difficulty selection

• Fixed mouse focus lost / incorrect after alt-tab

• Reduced grenadier grenade cook speed, slightly increased throw animation speed

• Some safeguards against crashes (mainly on high enemy counts)

Jump in, clear the infection, and turn it loose on everything in your way.

~ MeepMeep Games

Operators

The situation has escalated. We can now officially confirm that the recent containment breach involves unknown, highly hostile lifeforms.

Effective immediately, all affected biolab sectors are on hard lockdown. ​Do not attempt to bypass the security bulkheads. Standard-issue loadouts are struggling to neutralize these entities, so our R&D department has been authorized to fast-track experimental countermeasures.

Help your fellow operators hold the line, join our discord (https://discord.gg/xzNvYEp2ms) to contain the breach and provide valuable intel! Check the discord for more details!

​— Management

Operators Automated maintenance drones were dispatched to assess the recent anomalies in the enemy biolaboratories. Unfortunately, we have lost visual contact. Final telemetry data suggests the security lenses were obstructed by a rapidly expanding, unidentified organic residue. The affected sectors have been put on hard lockdown. Standard cleanup crews have been grounded until further notice. Proceed with extreme caution. — Management

• Fixed another race-condition causing freezes after cinematic sequences (intro, boss, print) (if you still experience one please let us know!)
• Fixed parts of PauseScreen staying when closing
• Fixed some boss abilities not targeting the Blink clone
• Fixed loading screen fade sometimes being skipped

• Fixed crash in custom run when reaching room 18
• Fixed RoomNumber decal not going above 15
• Added small extra view duration based on amount of Rewards gained
• Constrained 'Conserving Magazine (Missed shots regain ammo)' to only trigger on the main bullet when destroyed (hitting environment). Split, Shatter and extra bullets (shrapnel etc) don't trigger the effect anymore.

Operators

We have identified a minor containment breach within multiple enemy biolaboratories across the sector. While the breach currently appears to be contained, we strongly recommend proceeding with extreme caution during your upcoming runs.

Unfortunately, while gathering this critical intel, one of our field agents (read: one of our developers) got severely hurt. Due to the necessary recovery time and mandatory quarantine protocols we are forced to delay our next major update to late June.

We hope you understand, and we deeply appreciate your patience as we prepare the necessary firepower to deal with whatever is going on. Stay safe! 💙 Roadmap updated accordingly

~MeepMeep Games

• Minor containment breach
• Zub got its terrarium upgraded
• Added 'ErrorRun.save' to more easily debug the 'Kick back to hub in Hallway' bug
• Potential fix for 'stuck in hallway'
• Argus Hellshot renamed to Ajax Hellshot (to avoid confusion with A.R.G.U.S.)
• Removed constrain that Brutus never spawns if you already killed Ajax, same for Nyra and Lyra
• Fixed explosive upgrade not applying to Hydra (this also fixes some other cases with conflicting inherent stats (by default on weapon))
• Reduced A.R.G.U.S. big laser tracking speed by 30%
• Halved the 'Dislocator' upgrade self-knockback

Get ready to blow things up! We’ve just deployed a massive new update for Galactic Vault packed with new grenades, extra enemies and a bunch of new meta-progression!

🚨 Last Chance Sale!

Before we get into the new features, a quick reminder that our sale is almost ending! If you or your friends have been waiting for the right time to jump in, grab your copy of Galactic Vault NOW before the price goes back up!

💥 Grenades

There are 4 brand new grenade types, and each grenade can now be upgraded in the HUB. Fully maxing them out unlocks a powerful new effect. We've also upgraded all explosions visuals!

Fragment: The fragment grenades explodes into a bunch of sharp shards Vortex: The vortex grenade pulls enemies close before exploding Pulsing: The pulse grenade explodes multiple times, each time increasing it's radius Smart: The smart grenade scans an area for enemies, then fires seekers towards each target

👾 New Enemies

The Jetpacker: Armed with some sort of flame-thrower and a jetpack for quick repositioning.

The Blade Drone: A fast, lethal new mechanical threat that comes at you with scary looking blades.

🔫 Weapon Prestige System

Your favorite firearms just got deeper. Individual weapons now earn their own XP and can be leveled up! Unlock up to 4 stat upgrades per gun, with a bigger final power spike at max level. Weapon prestige unlocks once you reach level 10 on any gun.

👟 New Movement Abilities

Take to the skies with new Rocket Boots or dodge attacks instantly with Blink. We’ve also added a new dedicated movement keybind by popular request.

📈 Smoother Progression & Improved end-of-run screen

We've entirely restructured the meta-progression flow so the hub is no longer overwhelming when you first start playing. Plus, the end-of-run screen has been beautifully polished to show parallel XP bars and a brand new 3D Weapon Renderer!

⭐ Help Us Hit A Huge Milestone!

We're already over 100 reviews in total (thank you!), but we're just 3 away from our English language based reviews reaching 100! Please, if you like Galactic Vault and are enjoying the updates, take a second to drop a review on Steam. It helps us out immensely.

📝 Additional patch notes

Meta Progression Flow Improvements:

• SkillTree: Unlocks at lvl 3 Gun Mastery.

• Other Characters: Unlock when reaching lvl 5 Operator.

• Grenade Upgrades: Unlock in the HUB after 3 completed runs, also unlocks the 'Fragment grenade'

• Weapon Prestige: Unlocks when reaching lvl 10 with any gun.

• New Grenades: Reserved for the end-game, unlocking only in Insane & Impossible runs.

Balance Adjustments:

• Reduced Swarm mag from 45 -> 42.

• Increased Swarm spread by ~10%.

• Increased Arc-Blaster electric damage by 2.

• Reduced Hydra explosion range from 1.4m -> 1.1m.

• Reduced Hydra seeking by 15%.

• Reduced Hydra damage from 35 -> 32.

• Slightly reduced damage falloff for all shotguns.

• Reduced movement speed bonus for all pistols.

• Increased SideStep reload cooldown to 7s for the 'Loading step' skilltree perk.

• Reduced 'Magazine refill per second' from 1% -> 0.5% per kill, up to 4% -> 3% per point, for the 'Filling Magazine' skilltree perk.

• Slightly reduced meta credit gain per room.

• Slightly reduced enemy amount in the Server room.

Performance Optimizations:

• Majorly improved performance of realtime shadows & lights.

• Optimized performance in low & medium quality presets.

• Reduced stutter when entering hallways (next room loading).

• Majorly reduced VFX overhead.

• Improved CPU performance when handling lots of enemies on screen.

Other Changes & Fixes:

• Improved Psycho stab animation.

• Improved explosion visuals across the board.

• Fixed the Elementalist unlock (stack 4 different elements on a gun) to now properly calculate weapons with built-in status effects.

• Added 2 entirely new enemy waves.

• Added the new enemies (Jetpacker & Blade Drone) into several existing waves.

• Fixed some navigation and pathing issues in the Acid Pit.

• Fixed achievements not always triggering properly.

• Disabled grenade usage in the shooting range.

• Didn't count, but many many many small bugfixes and tiny tweaks.

Jump in, start leveling those weapons, and let us know what you think! 💣

~MeepMeep Games

Here is a little sneak peek of next week's update 😉:

Changelog v1.1.4:

• Bruiser shield decay removed

• Bruiser lvl 10 Perk reworked => 5% of melee damage converted to shield

• Bruiser movement speed inrcease by 7%

• Fix rare / special element rolls

• Fixed some upgrades not rolling

• Fixed supporter skin toggle not showing after crafting a weapon

• Fixed Grenadier unlock condition (3 grenade upgrades in 1 run)
• Fixed insane run giving impossible achievement
• Fixed 'back' button not being selected with controller in Upgrades Overview
• Fixed Argus missing gun
• Fixed endscreen not displaying multiple boss icons
• Fixed humanoid tank audio issue
• Fixed null-reference exception in melee audio
• Improved audio loading (memory + cpu overhead)
• Improved some particle's performance

• Fixed skill-tree sometimes applying double
• Fixed some cases of missing localization
• Fixed some issues in new room's navmesh
• Fixed Bastion reload animation

👤 Meet the Roster: 5 Playable Characters

🗺️ Two New Rooms

🔥 Pushing the Limits: Insane & Impossible Vaults

• Starter, Normal & Secure Vaults: Reduced difficulty jump between them, secure is slightly easier as before. Ensuring smooth progression for everyone!

• Insane Vaults: A bit harder than our original Secure Vaults, with some extra threats.

• Impossible Vaults: The absolute real deal. 20 rooms, extremely difficult, multiple bosses.

🕹️ Demo Update

The demo is now updated to the release version, with all the fixes, optimizations, QOL and visual improvements we’ve been doing up until now for Galactic Vault!

🎮 Gamepad / Steam Deck

• Fixed a bunch of menu navigation issues with controller

• Fixed game not pausing when controller disconnects

• Fixed some missing glyphs

• Fixed some text being too small on Steam Deck

• Added 'hold stick' to navigate through menus

• Added glyphs to some menus

• Added Gamepad vibration strength option

• Completely re-wrote Aim Assist

⚖️ Balance Pass

• Greed Charm: Increased credit gain from 15% -> 20%.

• Vengeance Protocol: Increased damage gained per instance of damage taken from 5% -> 10% (Max damage cap remains at 80%).

• Ordnance Cache: Increased grenade drop chance from 15% -> 20%, and added +1 to Max Grenades.

• Flying Tiger: Now grants an additional +5% damage bonus.

• Smash & Grab: Increased ammo restored on melee kills from 15% -> 25%.

• Slide Loader: Increased ammo restored per second while sliding from 15% -> 25%.

• Double Mag: Reduced the reload speed penalty from 20% -> 5%.

• Defense Reload: Increased movement speed bonus from 15% -> 20%, and increased damage reduction from 50% -> 75%.

• Bayonet: Increased melee damage bonus from 30% -> 40%, and increased melee range bonus from 15% -> 30%.

• Temporal Chamber: Decreased bullet slow effect from 60% -> 50%, but increased damage bonus from 45% -> 50%.

• Salvage Strike: Increased melee lifesteal from 3% -> 6%.

• Dislocator: Increased bonus damage from 40% -> 50%.

• Drunkard's Barrel: Increased bonus damage from 40% -> 50%.

• Bayonet Blaster: Base damage multiplier increased from 2x (Double) -> 3x (Triple), and explosion radius increased by 1m.

• Spray 'n' Pray: Increased fire rate bonus from 35% -> 40%, and reduced the movement spread penalty from 25% -> 10%.

• Ranger: Increased flat damage per meter from 0.05 -> 0.25.

• Short Range: Increased short-range damage bonus from 40% -> 60%.

• Vertical Stability: Increased recoil reduction from 15% -> 25%.

• Cold Aim: Now adds +100 damage to cold bullets.

• Health Extractor: Increased health drop chance per headshot from 0.5% -> 2%. Reduced the number of headshots required to reach the maximum value from 20 -> 10.

• Stand My Ground: Increased shield regeneration per second from 2 -> 4.

• Light Core: Removed the damage penalty completely. Increased movement speed bonus from 5% -> 10%, but slightly reduced the fire rate bonus from 30% -> 25%.

• Counterweight: Removed the melee speed penalty completely.

• Blitz: Increased movement speed bonus while shooting from 12% -> 20%.

• Focus Fire: Increased spread reduction from 80% -> 85%, and maximum reduction is now reached in 1 second (down from 1.5 seconds).

• Surge Core: Weapon slow-down delay extended; weapons now start slowing down after 1.5 seconds (up from 1 second).

• Momentum Drive: Buff duration increased to 2 seconds, and it can now stack up to 5 times.

• Charging Chamber: Increased damage bonus massively from 150% -> 400%.

• Elemental Core: Increased Elemental Intensity and Buildup from 30% -> 60%.

• Better Burst: Increased bonus damage on burst bullets from 25% -> 50%.

• Ice: Added a new +15% bonus damage effect.

• Status Intensity: Increased elemental intensity bonus from 30% -> 75%.

• Elemental Buildup: Increased elemental buildup speed from 30% -> 100%.

• Phantom Rounds: Increased extra pierces from 2 -> 3.

• Reflective Shells: Increased extra bounces from 2 -> 3.

• Blast Radius: Increased explosion radius bonus from +0.4m -> +1.0m.

• Vampiric Efficiency: Reworked scaling. No longer grants a flat +1%, but instead provides a massive 50% efficiency increase based on your current lifesteal value.

🛠️ Other Changes

• Improved some Russian translations

• New Seeking Icon

• Tweaked melee hitbox

• Slightly reduced chance for special and rare upgrades

• Increased Tech Component cost of T1 guns by 1, and T2 guns by 2 (you also earn tech-components faster, so time-to-unlock is about the same)

• Slightly lowered environment barrels explosion radius

• Increased size of key hint on Ability HUD

• Tweaked boss health-trailing speed

• Limit maximum elemental effect stacks to enemies

• Slightly reduced Brutus leap fire area radius

• Higher rooms have a slight bias to spawn stronger enemies now

• Tweaked boss rage scaling

• Tweaked some hitboxes

• Slightly nerfed Lyra

• Nerfed A.R.G.U.S.

• Buffed WYR-MECHA

• Reworked weapon blueprint drops, now small chance to get T1 on normal failure and T2 on secure failure, secure now always gives a random T2 drop on success (instead of only giving the T2 of the weapon category you played with)

• Added HUD shake to melee

• Added 'Start New' button to endscreen

• Added indicators in HUB when you have available SkillPoints or Guns to craft

• Added control point sounds

• Added supply cart sounds

• Added gun-craft sound & animation

• Added end-screen sounds

• Added UI interaction sounds

• Added sounds to upgrade & ability selection

• Added more sounds to the Charger enemy

• Added dash indicator for Lyra / Nyra

• Added a ‘new record’ xp multiplier when reaching a new highest room in a vault

• Added indication of next bullet stats, elements and effects (left bottom corner)

• Fixed some text clipping on different aspect ratios

• Fixed purple particle in stomps

• Fixed bosses not doing their abilities for a while

• Fixed T2 fire effect applying too many stacks on fast-firing enemies

• Fixed heat-based weapons not applying ‘first bullet / after reload’ effects when cooling automatically

• Fixed reload stuck on heat-based weapons due to slide

• Fixed Electric jolts not giving elemental lifesteal

• Fixed some non-stackable upgrades to appear after already having one

• Fixed a bunch of inconsistencies

• Fixed Lyra / Nyra not hitting you with sword dash

• Fixed weapons having missing ammo in HUB

Note: We’ve added a temporary workaround for an engine-side shader pre-compiling bug. You might experience minor stuttering during your first session until the engine issue is resolved.

❤️Thank you!

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Easter Decorations & Upcoming Major Update!

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Since we launched, your feedback and support have been out of this world. We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to process your suggestions and map out the future of Galactic Vault.

We are so excited to have you on this journey with us as our goal remains the same: making Galactic Vault the best experience possible.

• Fixed Gamepad 'B' button / Back key opening pause menu