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Development Update #11

CiaoKakaosteam_community_announcements

30d ago

Hey Everyone!

Welcome back to another Incursion Red River Dev Blog. In this one, we’re taking a closer look at some of the bigger things we’ve been working on recently. We’ve made improvements to AI, added new utility items, and progressed on both Outskirts and Delta. We’re aware of the areas you all are looking forward to seeing more of, so we wanted to give you a preview of where things are currently at. We’ll also be going over some quality of life changes, smaller gameplay improvements, the new M14 rifle, and a few other improvements that should help make the overall experience feel better across the board.

New AI Overhaul

AI Director

Inspired by games like Left 4 Dead, our system manages how many bots are dispatched to search for an enemy, better handles how bots share perception data, and limits how many bots get activated each frame. It will automatically group players to handle when players are split off from each other. So bots will be dispatched at a reasonable rate to each group.

Danger Zone System

Dead bodies for AI now have nav-mesh modifiers attached to them. Bots will dynamically avoid areas where friendlies have died. If multiple bodies are stack up, it will increase the cost further, up until it fully blocks that area. Grenade avoidance will also make use of this system.

Other Improvements

The search system used by bots has been re-worked and reworked. It uses a new, separate system to pre-calculate search areas when the raid starts, rather than calculate everything from when a bot decides to start searching, making it much more optimized. We’ve updated the avoidance logic for bots as well. Then now avoid bumping into and walking into each other. Currently, we're still researching whether to implement full crowd simulation or not. Performance at scale is the biggest limiting factor for us. We’re not ready to show off specific details yet, but we are working on giving bots the ability to detect when a player is illuminated by lights in the world. Once this is fully working and ready, it will give bots much more realistic vision at night. We also have been doing an optimization pass on all things AI related. Implementations for their animations and movement resulted in substantially better behavior. There are hundreds of little changes in addition to those aforementioned, and we’ve substantially reworked the code-base and simplified just about everything back-end wise without affecting their in-game behavior.

New Outskirts & Delta Progress

As a part of making Outskirts our most realistic map to date yet, we’ve taken heavy references from real world businesses and our community Vietnamese advisors. The first two major POIs we have to show off are the gravel/concrete processing plant and the Bike Shop. Both are located within the industrial zone controlled by the UICS. The Bike Shop is a CQB zone with high value mechanical loot. Be sure to watch your corners and prepare before entering. Alternatively, the processing plant is an open construction site where cover can be sparse and will take some strategy to cross safely. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/a7d2de99000cb1f8a433aa5c0e0903559a2c81ca.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/785bcd8e1cc55ed4289f2355297142786332f4ed.jpg The school is one of our largest POIs on Delta that has several objectives tied to it, with the player exploring and passing through it fairly often. As with all of our locations, a lot of effort has gone into making sure it looks and feels authentic, but also fits within the occupied nature of the village. Classrooms have either been looted and left in disarray, or repurposed as small makeshift command centers where troops eat and sleep but also monitor the surroundings to plan their raids. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/e76f3f8983d3b5c972fa2992c1a45c7dfb1e7f50.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/f7609766b837b264ec9f12d9919676140d6cd7ef.jpg

New Grenades & Utility

With the next update we’ll add new utilities for players to use during fights and approach different combat scenarios. To complement the newly added frag grenades with our last update, we are now introducing a new flashbang grenade, a smoke grenade and a tear gas grenade (more on that in the lore part). These tactical throwables should add variety to both your arsenal and playstyle, and can create new gameplay scenarios. Along that we also added a very niche feature that may help players to play a bit more stealthy. You now have the option to put bullets into your quickslots and throw them like a grenade essentially. They obviously don’t explode, but still make noise that might distract AI and expose them to your position. We can’t wait to see what you will do with the new utility! For the showcase please keep in mind that animations, models and sounds are placeholders at the moment!

New Boss (Concept)

Introducing, Торговец. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/ebb163b5f87cea1ed800349d392c01b99c690be5.jpg Born in Russia and abandoned by his parents, Торговец was left to scavenge a life for himself. Small gangs and the criminal underground hardened him, he learned its language. Before his connections grew unmanageable, his “mentors” saw that he wound up in prison. Someone controllable on the inside was just too valuable. While in the echoes of Stalin’s prisons, he took to playing the different criminal “families” against one another. Through the years his status grew and by the time the Soviet Union fell and he was released, the name Торговец had spread. The Iron Guard Corp and their benefactors in Russia recognized his utility and assigned him to Vietnam. The position there was not what he wanted, but he knew how to thrive in unideal places and with people of his own to command it wasn’t long before he was indispensable. Playing people against one another was always his sharpest tool but he is not to be underestimated in the field. We went into the design of the new boss wanting to create a feeling of quiet intimidation. While he will be a challenge on his own, his context and guards around him will really flush out the difficulty.

New Main Theme Music

We have a new main theme for the main menu, the goal was to lay a foundation for future music and have a recognizable but not fatiguing vibe for the first introduction to our game. The instrumentation was heavily inspired by Vietnamese instruments and the Dan Bau can be heard playing the main tune, while still merging modern instruments and orchestra to match better the tone of the story. One thing to keep in mind, is that the music is still a Work In Progress, and is not finalized yet. We are continuing to adjust, improve, and refine it as development moves forward. As always, we really appreciate all of your feedback, so let us know what you think and what you would like to hear more of.

New Movement Stance

Movement stays a focus point of this update cycle and after the overhauled movement speed & acceleration in the last update and the added high mantling, we are now introducing tactical sprint and a new low ready stance. The tactical sprint will help you to faster traverse bigger distances and to disengage easier from dangerous situations. Naturally it burns your stamina faster, but it can give you the deciding advantage in a fire fight. The low ready stance has been requested by our more tactical player community and we are happy to finally introduce it. While its gameplay impact is less deep, it does help with regen arm stamina faster, it mainly gives you the option to feel & play more tactical. There is also a gameplay immersion option that makes your character automatically go into low ready mode after 10s of being out of combat/in an idle state.

New Weapon

As already shown on our socials before, the M14 finally makes its appearance in Incursion! The weapon will fill the whole of an entry level long range weapon for the UICS and we made sure to include a lot of customization options as well! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/1abbb2a194d3f4677603e4feac8f7be216168869.jpg

Misc Improvements

Searching Containers

A new feature we also added is that loot is no longer instantly shown but searched by the player now. Search time is influenced by rarity of item and size. While this may feel odd at first glance, we believe that this will make looting a lot more interesting and will lead to more intense situations in a fire fight when you have to decide to keep searching or going back into action.

Loot Modifier

Another feature we are finally able to introduce are loot modifier/loot modifier volumes. While previously loot was only defined by how our level designers placed the loot boxes and loose loot, we now can further influence the loot that is spawned within these containers by loot modifiers. For example we could force a specific area to have only medical items, or only foot items, or have rarer and more loot than other areas. Generally we hope that makes locations more interesting to loot and you can get a feeling for where to get what rather than just expecting everything to spawn anywhere. By default night raids also provide better and rare loot, giving you another reason to go in the dark!

Auto Hacking

We know that the terminal missions have always been very controversial in our community, and while a lot of players love the command line “hacking”, a lot of players were also understandably overwhelmed by it and felt very stressed and kept away from the missions. To give that part of the community a chance to do the terminal missions in a reasonable manner, we added an “auto hacking” option that, once started, goes through all files in the terminal and executes every action one by one. This will eventually complete any mission goal and output any information you may want to have. Though the auto hacking is relatively slow and experienced players will still have an advantage to do it manually. Ideally “auto hacking” is used to get known to the mechanics as you can watch it in realtime and later on you can learn to manually hack it!

Weapon Viewport Position & FOV

Last but not least players also requested to be able to not only adjust the general FOV but also the weapon FOV (which is independent of the general one) as well as being able to adjust the weapon position in the viewport. We finally added the option, so players can adjust everything to their preference!

Chose Infill location

A lot of players also complained about the locked option to choose the infill time when you first start the game and haven’t unlocked the terminal upgrade. We have now re-enabled that option, while adding a new feature that is unlocked after upgrading the terminal. The option to choose the desired infill location at each map. This gives you another option to prepare even better for your raid and plan ahead.

Looking Ahead

As always, make sure to follow us on our socials to stay up to date with everything Incursion Red River. We’ll continue sharing progress, previews, and behind the scenes looks as development moves forward. We also have more streams coming up soon, so keep an eye out for those if you want to see more of the game in action, ask questions, and hang out with the team live. In the next updates, we’ll be talking more about the eat and drink systems, in-raid events, and showing more progress on Outskirts as that map continues to come together. There’s still a lot more we’re excited to show, and we’re looking forward to sharing those details with you soon. Thanks for your continued support, and we’ll see you in the next one.

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Development Update #11

CiaoKakaosteam_community_announcements

30d ago

Hey Everyone!

New AI Overhaul

AI Director

Danger Zone System

Other Improvements

New Outskirts & Delta Progress

New Grenades & Utility

New Boss (Concept)

New Main Theme Music

New Movement Stance

New Weapon

Misc Improvements

Searching Containers

Loot Modifier

Auto Hacking

Weapon Viewport Position & FOV

Chose Infill location

Looking Ahead

Development Update #10

CiaoKakaosteam_community_announcements

83d ago

Hey Everyone!

We wanted to give you a quick look at what we’ve been working on for the next update. The first development update for our next big content update is focusing on our new map as well as several smaller and bigger QoL updates that hopefully help with polishing up the overall gameplay experience along with features that have been requested by the community for a long time.

New Map Outskirts

Next up in worldbuilding, we’re ready to introduce Outskirts as some of you might’ve seen from the deployment view. However, Outskirts geographically is set on the southern shoreline of the Red River Delta so its visual position will be updated. Outskirts is the first environment to introduce multi-faction gameplay. The area is a hotzone with the IGC at the airfield and UICS in the main boulevard, with the VLF fragmented in the jungle between. We’re looking to reach a more modern feeling with this map as we move closer to an urban landscape; we can’t wait to show you more! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/438030652f2b4b6d8d8b1e8c93ce611b5d4477a2.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/66de028b5b6580e7e7161e1b1b273808a415fc7b.png

New Delta Interiors

As planned for the last update, we are now working on the interiors for Delta. To give you a first glance at how that is going to turn out, here you can watch our level designer speeding through one of the rooms:

New Weapon Roadmap

Instead of releasing a new weapon roadmap for 2026, we decided to just release a smaller weapon roadmap that contains all planned weapons for the next big content update. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/3635cc8127fad1777fa1a4e87cc9bb646e4fc733.png

New Scope Shader

For the next big content update, we have completely overhauled our current scope shader to allow for much better clarity as well as some new visual features that help to sell the realism of the scopes. To do so, we moved from a standard mesh shader for the reticles to a post processing shader, allowing for rendering the scope reticles in a much clearer way, being independent of the anti-aliasing as well as providing us the option to add effects like lens aberration.

Movement & Traversal

Something that didn’t make it to the last big content update unfortunately, was the high mantling option. Something that was highly requested by the community after we already added vaulting and mantling (low). We were now able to implement it within the last few weeks and it should make movement and navigation a lot less frustrating. Based on your feedback, we’ve also opened up more lanes in the Delta map, allowing for additional routes and reducing areas that were previously blocked by invisible walls. You should have more freedom in how you move and approach different areas now.

Audio & Music

We are also implementing right now new in-game music to better match the pacing of gameplay and improve overall immersion. These are a first batch to carve out how we are going to fill in spaces to make the game more immersive on the music side from now on. Naturally players will have good control over the music volumes and presence from their settings to customize their experience. Along that we polished up our loading screens, and added proper music transitions between menu/hideout/lobby/in-game to make the overall experience feel more seamless and smooth.

Performance & Optimization

The last couple of weeks one of our biggest focus was to look again into performance and see what we can do to further improve it and squeeze out more FPS of the Unreal Engine 5 We found several small improvements to the GPU as well as the CPU with hopefully more along the lines. Overall we were already able to improve performance compared to the live build by about 10-15%.

Misc Improvements

Backpack Rolling

Something a lot of people also frequently requested was an option to roll up backpacks to safe space in your inventory/stash. We are right now still testing the feature, but we are confident to ship it with the next big content update. Here is a quick look:

Hideout Upgrade Item Managment

Speaking of saving space, especially in the early game, players were forced to fill up their stash with a lot of hideout upgrade items in order to upgrade them later. Instead of only being able to “select” items, players are going to be able to “submit” them instead which saves the progress and removes items from the stash, freeing up a lot of space early on.

Load Different Ammunition In Magazines

A long requested quality of life feature was to be able to add different ammunition types to the same magazine. This often led to confusion in the past about why you weren’t able to load ammunition and made ammunition management more tedious than it should be, not to mention that it frankly wasn’t realistic at all, just a technical limitation. We are happy to showcase the added mechanic now!

Updated Ergo & Recoil

To further improve weapon handling and making different builds more viable, we greatly increased the influence of ergonomics on the ADS time. Furthermore we also had another look at our recoil and reduced it across the board, especially for the MP5.

Updated Player Movement

In the current live build, people every now and then report that movement would feel clunky, unresponsive and you would have the feeling of “being stuck in mud”. We heard you and had a look at our current movement variables such as acceleration, braking speed, friction and max movement speeds across different stances. We tweaked all of them in addition to add more of a directional difference when moving, as well as adding a small acceleration boost when you start to sprint, which should make you able to get out of tense situations faster and easier.

Looking Ahead

This update is really about pushing the game forward, bigger encounters, more dynamic systems, and a world that feels more alive. We’re also exploring dynamic world events, including things like convoy-style encounters, as part of future updates. As always, we’ll be listening closely to your feedback once this is in your hands. We really appreciate all the support from the community. Everything from your feedback to the time you spend playing and sharing your experiences helps us keep improving the game. This update is a direct result of that, and we’re excited to keep building it with you. We’ll have more to share soon as development continues. Thank you again for all the support.

Development Update #9 - AI

CiaoKakaosteam_community_announcements

227d ago

Hey Everyone!

In this episode we wanna spotlight the latest ai changes mainly driven by our new AI programmer, better known as Solarint. You may know him from the AI mod for SP-Tarkov called “SAIN”. Before we start, we want to get ahead of any possible confusion around the use of the term “AI”. When we talk about AI or bots, this has nothing to do with LLMs or any of the hype around “AI”. This is a normal game system inspired by decades of work from other developers. The point of this dev-log is to list the major new mechanics being introduced and explain the reasoning and goals for each system. So, let's talk about what we’ve been working on for the past few months. In 1.3 we will introduce the first version of RedFor - an AI system for all bots in Incursion Red River. Shoutout to our discord community who suggested the fantastic name!

Overview

AI behavior has been completely rebuilt. It will feel fundamentally different to the enemies you will encounter in 1.2. We are aiming for grounded and realistic behavior. Bots won't be doing jumpshots or anything that a person in their situation wouldn’t plausibly do. This first version is designed to be a solid framework to build off in future updates. That means it is not feature complete and some behavior is placeholder until the systems can be made to support it as intended. Even so, we think it will be a very compelling upgrade compared to 1.2. Just like in 1.2, RedFor is using a version of Goal Oriented Action Planning or “GOAP” called “Hierarchical Task Networks”. This is certainly not a comprehensive list of everything new, but should give you a good idea of what we are designing going forward. All the clips shown are recorded in editor on a test map, unscripted, and mostly unedited. Everything is actively in development and there are several issues currently being worked on.

Movement

The way bots move around in the world has been something of particular importance. We want bots to have a sense of physicality - like they exist in the game world. This will be an ongoing process, but for 1.3 we have rebalanced the speed at which bots move in all situations, and implemented inertia in their movement along with many smaller changes. We want them to mess up sometimes as long as their mistakes feel like human mistakes rather than buggy ai. But of course - It's a fine line here and this is going to be something I’m closely watching as play testing begins. Designing bots to fail in interesting ways is a lot more difficult compared to having them execute everything perfectly.

Dynamic Lean

Bots can lean around any corner at any time, and will try to minimize how much of their body is exposed to an enemy. **Video**

Difficulty: Challenging but Fair

The goal is to make every enemy feel like a threat and require respect, even for experienced FPS players. If things are too easy, it cheapens the experience. So much has changed that it's difficult to give an exact measure of how much more difficult it will be compared to 1.2. In some ways, it may be easier, and in others, it may be harder. At the same time, accessibility for players of all skill levels is important. We believe in allowing players to modify the experience in the way they seem fit. At risk of sounding corny - we want to “Empower the Player” to play the exact game they want, while also providing a solid default experience for those who’d rather just play. So if you either want to chill with friends, or if you want an absurdly hardcore experience where death comes quickly, we want to support it.

Stealth

To us, stealth is not lost when combat pops off. It's something you should always be thinking about to reposition and put yourself somewhere that your enemy doesn’t expect to give you an advantage. Currently we have a few key features related to this:

All bot senses have an enforced reaction time before they are allowed to perceive it.
Bot sound occlusion simulation. Bots hear sounds at a reduced range depending on what's between them and the sound source.
Bots who are un-alerted will have reduced peripheral vision and perception range for all their senses.
Bots who are about to see you will turn towards you and look before fully spotting you.
Vision speed depends on how far you are from where they expect you to be, if you flank they will be slower to see and react to you, while if you are where they expect, they will see and react to you faster.
Poor weather conditions will be reflected in how well bots can sense you. For example, rain will dull their hearing and vision depending on how intense it is.

Focus

This system gives bots the spatial awareness to understand where they should be pointing their weapon at all times. This has 3 main purposes:

It completely solves the classic AI issue of staring into walls because they saw or heard an enemy behind that wall.
If their enemy happens to appear where they expect them to appear, they can react faster and in a more believable way.
It makes flanking more effective for the player in a believable way.

AI - Friendly Fire

There are several new checks to make sure bots don’t gun down their friends. While not perfect, it does make it much rarer than before. But you should expect several improvements to this in the future. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/832394bc1f071d233ab2960590853a75751236c5.jpg

Suppression

Both players and AI will have the new Suppression Receiver System, which is able to identify when bullets are flying past their head and have suppression build up over time. The amount of suppression is scaled based on the caliber of bullet, so 9mm will affect bots much less than a 7.62 projectile. While we have new visual effects for the player as well, let's focus on the AI.

AI Under Suppression

Suppression against AI applies a debuff to their accuracy and perception, the more you shoot at them, the stronger the debuff. This builds and decays at the same rate as the player - letting you intuitively understand what counts as suppression, and how long you have before they start to recover. The system treats all characters in the world the same.

AI Suppressing Player

They are not limited to only suppressing enemies in a scripted way. Suppression can vary from firing a few shots at where you just ran into cover before they run to cover as well, or full on barrages of bullets from multiple bots as they coordinate bounding overwatch (work in progress!). They can decide to suppress any target at any time based on how long it's been since they perceived you in some way. So they can manoeuvre to flank 1 target while suppressing another at any time. They try to manage the ammo in their magazine to always keep enough ammo in reserve depending on the situation. For example, if they are being shot at and caught out of cover, they will allow themselves to use more of the ammo for suppression, but if they are in a safe position, they will be more trigger disciplined.

Flashlight and Laser Detection

Bots can now see you shining your laser or flashlight around in the environment. That means that being careless about light discipline will give you away and cause bots to search for where they think it came from. This system is something that is going to see major improvements and overhauls as we continue working on RedFor.

Customization

The previously hidden AI customisation menu under Gameplay settings has been moved to its own tab in the settings menu with this update. In the future we will continue to expand on what you can customize including ways to share your settings easily. I come from a modding background, and want to support that by designing systems in a way that modding is as easy as possible, and allowing you to customize the game from the settings without the need for mods. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/a88bfc8ea261bb8dd23e5c736247fee58637c0d9.png

Performance

Redfor is designed to make use of multithreading as much as possible. We are still in the process of optimizing, and don’t know yet how it’ll run on every system. With that being said, early performance profiling has been promising, and it should overall run better than before when playing singleplayer or hosting a server in coop - especially when there are large numbers of bots active and fighting. We are always looking to improve our systems, and we need the bots to run great for when we start adding AI vs AI fighting in the map in the future, as that will be the true test.

Feedback

Feedback is fundamental to game design and we want to hear what you think - both positive and negative. While we won't promise to implement every suggestion you have, we will always listen to feedback. As 1.3 begins play testing we will be closely watching for issues or looking to make changes based on your experience. We want to make something that YOU love, not just us. This is not a complete list of everything new. We’ll have a more complete changelog when the update is released. Also, if you want to know more about AI programming and what tools we use, feel free to reach out to Solarint on our discord, he will be eager to answer any question about AI!

OUTLOOK

We are now ramping up to the next big update for Incursion, which means we will also start testing soon! Should you wish to participate in playtesting when the time comes, be sure to join our Official Discord Server. Where you can assign yourself the playtester role, and give feedback over in the respective channels. Additionally, if you are interested in picking up the game, the Steam winter sale just started and Incursion has a 20% discount!

Development Update #8

Moritz Nasersteam_community_announcements

264d ago

Hey Everyone!

Welcome back to another Dev Update. The team has been incredibly busy and focused on getting this next major update out to you all. Some of the major talking points we have are on the fresh AI mechanics, fixes, gameplay tweaks, and the new map: Delta. So much has been worked on and added, as well as some brand new story elements in our first phase of story telling to the player. Our main focus however was on the new map. AI improvements have also been made thanks to our talented Lead AI Developer, Solarint. And, of course, overall engine improvements and optimization as we look to upgrade from Unreal Engine 5.4 to 5.6.

New Map - Delta

The previous Dev Update featured the Industrial Zone of Delta, and now we’re proud to present the other half of the map; Featuring dense urban residential zones, sprawling rice fields and terraces, and faction outposts in key chokepoints. We’ve heard the feedback from everyone requesting urban combat, and this area will be the first to feature this style of gameplay. You will be able to explore open interiors, set up sniper's nests from windows, flank through back alleys, and duck between suppressive fire from the IGC. On the outskirts of the town, you and your team can gain elevation and perform reconnaissance for your next mission. This region will favor snipers heavily with long sightlines, trenches, and bridges to conceal yourself within the landscape.

Story

Over the past many months we have been working on building out the story and lore for Incursion Red River. The challenge of blending the real world with our own fictional narrative has been an exciting one to explore and one we are excited to start sharing. Most of the story is told through mission briefings and world buildings so we worked to create a story that gave the player as much actionability as possible. Mission types will ask you to get pieces of information that slowly reveal the mystery, scope out specific buildings that play major roles, and extract with important packages to unlock new capabilities. You will follow a fairly linear story and take jobs for each faction but will only truly be working for FANG. Each faction is entangled in their own motivations and goals: VLF is seeking for liberation, IGC for control and the UICS to plant a western perspective. Each is more than they seem. But, we don’t plan to hold your hand through it. It will take deduction and attentiveness to learn all that is going on under your nose. We wanted the story to have substance to it, so the length is planned to take a while and be enjoyable in co-op as well. The larger plot has been broken down into three or so smaller arcs to be released incrementally, with phase one coming out with the next major update. Currently phase one features around 24 missions that will have you asking one question: Why was I sent here?

Sneak Peek

“FANG is infamous the world over. They are spoken highly of in all the darkest corners and most secure rooms. The higher ups have connections so deep they might as well be blood ties. They have utilized those relationships to ingratiate you with each faction who trust FANG to provide confidential talent. You are that talent. Each faction has agreed to bring you on board, unbeknownst to the others of course. Assignment 12908 RR is an extended on-site residency. In other words, you’ll be here for a while. Consider it an honor to join, few get the pleasure, but know there are enough waiting in the wings to step up if you fall short. FANG was founded alongside the United States, it’s that old, and they expect a lot from all of us. They expect a lot of you. To put it lightly, failure would be an incredible inconvenience. You do not want to fail FANG. And please, do not fail me. Your first mission is to get the satellite connection going. Good luck and get out.”

Mission System Overhaul

Alongside the expansion of the story, we overhauled our mission systems. While we previously had Operations and Tasks as trackable missions, Operations are now In-Raid Events and tasks are now separated between “General” Tasks and Story Missions.

New Missions

Tasks/Story Missions are locally tracked and can only be completed by the owning player. They can be tracked from the terminal. To support the development of our new story, we added an in engine story graph editor that enables us to set up the order of the story missions and the conditions on which it progresses. This tool will enable us to maintain the current story in its linear nature, and eventually expand it into a branching narrative with future updates.

New In-Raid Events

Each map now has a set of In-Raid Events that all have a certain probability to occur given certain conditions. These events are displayed on each player's GCPS and once interacted with in the Operation Device, will be started and tracked. Similar to previous operations, these Events are shared across all team members and all members will earn the same rewards. An important note is that Boss missions no longer exist as “Operations”, but they will be tied into the story. Once key missions are completed, bosses will spawn with a certain probability on their respective map.

AI Changes

There are many exciting features being worked on. Just about every single aspect of the AI is getting tweaked in some way. Because of how extensive the changes are, we are preparing a separate Developer Update specifically for the AI. Here's a short list of a few of the new and improved features:

AI utilizes suppressing fire.
AI are affected by suppressing fire.
Friendly fire checks before shooting.
Cover-finding changes.
New behavior design that prioritizes self preservation.
Flashlight detection.
AI Grouping/Squads.
Additional difficulty customizations.

Engine Upgrade

This update will come compiled under engine version 5.6 (previously 5.4). This version offers a significant performance boost along with more stability. Features like Nanite and Lumen are now much closer to production ready states than in previous versions. Also, the Procedural Content Generation (PGC) tool introduced in 5.0 got a great update, and we’ll be utilizing it extensively going forward. As a quick comparison between the previous and current engine versions… Overall, we observed a 10-20% performance gain most of which coming from Lumen. In other words, performance wise, with lumen enabled in the new patch will be nearly identical to having “None” selected for Global Illumination in the previous engine build (what you’re playing now).

Extreme Weather

At long last, Extreme Weather is finally making it into the upcoming update — featuring fully dynamic rain, thunderstorms, powerful wind gusts, lightning, and ground puddles. These events can happen at any moment in-raid, so best to always be coming prepared. The sound of rain will oftentimes occlude footstep audio and decrease visibility at range, keep your senses sharp! Something we eventually want to achieve during extreme weather is how it affects nearby powered objects such as lighting, radio towers, and generators. Lastly, AI enemies will be on the same playing field as you when a storm is brewing. AI perception will be dulled depending on the current intensity of the storm. As we previously showcased the extreme weather effects on X, here is a more technical aspect of the new weather: we had to review all our foliage and redo the vertex painting to allow for more realistic bending during extreme weather conditions.

New Weapons

Several new weapons and attachments are coming with the new update. This time we would like to showcase the classic 9x19mm Beretta M9A3 pistol and the 7,62x51mm Knight’s Armament SR-25 DMR. This combination should provide you with good long range punch, and mobility for sudden close quarters surprises! We hope that you find these new additions fun and enjoyable to play with and customize!

New Props

We've been hard at work continuing to capture the authentic look and feel of Vietnamese semi-urban areas for our new map, Delta. The key props we've developed are essential to bringing this environment to life, starting with the roofs that show the traces of humidity and heat.The high rainfall and tropical climate are evident on the tiled roofs, which are covered in realistic moss, lichen, and overgrowth. Alongside these are painted steel roofs, used primarily as overhangs for shade and rain protection, but occasionally as main roof structures. The new map features detailed roads and pavements. We use modular road-segments that allow us to quickly yet realistically construct the detailed network of streets you'll traverse throughout the map. The pavements follow classic Vietnamese tile patterns and feature displacement for high detail, providing an essential, realistic ground feel. Finally, the map is punctuated by other relevant environment props. The concrete water tower serves as a key landmark, but also an elevated threat — be wary, as it's a perfect spot for snipers. We are also scattering various miscellaneous streetside items across Delta to complete the immersive, lived-in feel of the entire environment.

Misc

Bunker GCPS

By popular request, we’ve implemented a new interior mapping system that now works for Bunker! We felt it was best for newcoming players to be able to interact with the GCPS directly in order to avoid any issues with objectives being overly difficult to find and signage not being fully clear. Bunker’s GCPS display has several (height) levels and shows the according ‘floor’ wherever you are on the Bunker map.

GPS Marker

Some more QoL features have been added to our GCPS/GPS system. Set pings from both you and your teammates now display on the compass. To help distinguish your pings from the rest, each player gets a dedicated color assigned. You can ping now directly mission markers on the GCPS, making the overall GCPS experience a lot smoother.

OUTLOOK

While the current state-of-things are being presented to you all, the AI and map are undergoing an accelerated level of development and will be playtest ready sooner rather than later. Should you wish to participate in playtesting when the time comes, be sure to join our Official Discord Server. Where you can assign yourself the playtester role, and give feedback over in the respective channels. We’re very excited to show you all of our story elements coming to the game. We’ll start to incorporate more story related missions, areas, and secrets that you, the player, will piece together. We’ll disclose more information regarding plot on our next Developer Stream the moment this update enters a more playable state. Until then, thank you for all of your support, and we will talk to you soon. Thank you!

Development Update #7

Moritz Nasersteam_community_announcements

326d ago

Hey Everyone!

Hey everyone, BlueTheRobot here, the community manager for Incursion Red River! I just have to say thank you to everyone for the support. Seeing the community’s growth lately has been very heartwarming. Attending Gamescom was nothing short of amazing! From meeting up with fellow developers, to seeing members of the community face to face at our booth: it really meant a lot to us as a team. We’re also grateful for all the feedback not just from this past update, but all developments from your YouTube videos, comments on X, Steam, and even messages in Discord. We try our best to see it all, and take all feedback into consideration. With that being said, we have quite the dev update for you. We’re going to be showcasing the new map, mantling and vaulting movement mechanics, and even some melee moves. Afterwards, we’ll discuss more additions and features for the rest of the dev update. Hope you all enjoy!

New Map

As promised during previous Dev Plays, here’s the next map - Delta. This region is focused on both long range, and urban centered combat. Prepare to traverse open rice fields or cut through the distant treelines to reach your targets. Skulk through what's left of the rural towns to find the loot you’re looking for. Delta from a design perspective will juxtapose between CQB in its urban centers to long range combat. Ranged combatives will take full advantage of our ballistics system, long range optics, and provide a fun experience for all our snipers out there. Thanks to previous feedback we kept orienting our design approach towards more realistic spaces true to the setting, and dynamic enough to support a variety of new missions. Regarding the latter, you’ll be encouraged to explore new routes throughout the map and approach objectives from ways that previously would give you too large of a disadvantage. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/299c720f27670a22bd94fc4998cfbf6259574d0c.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/2b34d24fba1fa3f59d5e8b01c05a319b93ff63f5.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/9e55139fac5c8824404c17041c58c55acd41b0e6.jpg

New Features

In addition to new content, we have also been working on some new systems that will finally make their way to Incursion Red River.

Mantling & Vaulting

A highly requested feature in the past was mantling and vaulting. There were quite a few situations where even the best of crouch jumpers couldn’t get past a hurdle that shouldn’t have been an obstacle in the first place. We’ve decided then to step away from being able to crouch jump, and instead replace it with a proper mantling and vaulting system. The game’s traversal actions are hopefully much smoother. Again, our focus while implementing it was to strike a good balance between smooth yet realistic movement. As seen in the showcase, the system makes windows more easily traversable for players, which can open up new strategies. Another feature that was on the list was proning, unfortunately we need to postpone the implementation as it is a much more complicated process (adjustments for AI would need to be made as well). While this may disappoint some, rest assured, proning will make its way to the game eventually!

Melee

Fists, but no melee attack? We know it was a bit weird to have an unarmed without the ability to attack, so we were finally able to get back and solve that. This means punching and melee weapons with the ‘enabled’ melee slot in the next update! Melee weapons will provide the fastest movement speed and lowest stamina cost, making wearing only a knife a bit more viable. (Also, we can’t wait for knife-only runs.)

Grenades

Another major request has been to add grenades to the game. In all FPS games, grenades play a major tactical role, and we are pleased to say IRR now has them. Grenades can be equipped via the Quickslots just like medical items and work as soon as equipped like any standard weapon. For the first iteration we added frag grenades which have two variants of “damage”. One is “blast damage” dealt by the shock wave, and the other is “frag damage”, which is dealt by fragments from the grenade. Damage is calculated (as seen in the video) by casting rays to each bone of the character in a certain range. Each hitting ray has a chance to deal “shrapnel” fragmentation damage. Fragmentations at their core work as bullets and have a penetration value and piercing chance. The percentage of ray hits and distance from the explosion source define the blast damage. Future grenades will come with different values. We’re also aiming to add tactical grenade variants such as smoke grenades and flashbangs.

Worldbuilding

As a result of our previous calling for native Vietnamese Advisors, we’ve been focusing our worldbuilding efforts into more authentic environments, scenarios, and cultural details. This will be an important transition for existing maps and a long process. Delta however, is being built from the ground up very closely to references. This includes our inclusion of semi-modern rural Vietnamese houses that will be more frequent throughout maps new and old, along with more accurate foliage.

New Texel Density

During this update cycle, we’ve taken broad measures to increase texture resolution to match the current FPS standard. Last patch we moved to support virtual texturing, which enabled us being able to use UDIMs. This opened an easier path to implement the higher texel density of 10.24 pixel per centimeter of geometry. Along with the resolution increase across the board, we’ve also taken to standardizing this resolution as well. Currently and very noticeably- our props have a wide range of resolutions, but after this update the world will feel much more consistent. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/ed94d1a1492495f69bc95d88547c31eff4818a24.jpg

New 3D Props

We want to show off our recent efforts in that regard by showing Vietnamese architecture. We’ve added new custom walls, floor trims, pillars, several slant roof types, doors, windows, indoor stairs and much more to our catalogue, allowing for more unique and authentic designs. In the texturing phase we gave special attention to the tropical conditions of Vietnam, such as moss overgrowth, humidity damage, and overall wear from harsh weather conditions. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/113da0668520fe55778e33ddd6c708e49a5bf88f.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/77dad49b1a0b83c37285f9adc6ba9c6134a432c5.jpg

New Weapons

While we just added (as an exclusive small content update for Gamescom) the Honey Badger to the game, we’re already working on the next weapon: the Galil Ace 2. Since we added the STV 380, a Vietnamese copy of the base Galil version, we decided to add the updated Galil Ace 2. It will serve as a great DMR choice that may be especially useful in the new map for long-range combat!

OUTLOOK

That’s it for now! We’ve been doing a lot over the last two months since our last major overhaul update in June, and we plan on showcasing even more later down the road. We have a ton planned coming very soon! More Developer plays, introducing Ben aka Solarint as our new Lead A.I. programmer, more insights with the new map Delta, and of course more playtester announcements. All of which you will be able to get updates and participate in over on our Discord server. Make sure to stay up to date with all of our socials, including X and YouTube for any upcoming news! We appreciate all of your support, we look forward to answering questions, and to talking with you in the near future. Thank you!

Hotfix #1.2.0.5

CiaoKakaosteam_community_announcementspatchnotes

387d ago

Hotfix – Version 1.2.0.5

Hello everyone! This is likely to be the final hotfix for update 1.2, introducing numerous fixes and new content. Hope you enjoy and have a great weekend! Fixes - Fixed safes showing extreme amount of items. - Fixed safes not being able to be opened by clients. - Fixed bug where medic item usage could cause character to get stuck and unable to shoot. - Fixed MICH helmet not showing slots in the inspect window. - Fixed stutter occurring during raids and while inspecting items. - Fixed nighttime being brighter than intended. - Fixed multiple level design issues including collision, missing details, and stuck areas. - Fixed Tasks not showing properly on clients - Several other smaller fixes AI Improvements - Adjusted AI voice line usage (now more frequent during combat). - Adjusted investigation behavior. - Improved AI visibility calculations: now uses sphere traces instead of line traces for better occlusion through foliage. - Rebalanced AI difficulty on Low and Medium: -> Lower damage -> Better aim and perception -> Designed for more engaging firefights Gameplay & Quality of Life - Bombs and Jammers are now stackable in-raid to reduce inventory clutter. - Durability bar added for equipped weapons. - Extraction countdown and Raid Summary screen now include sound effects. - New sound added for looting dead bodies. - Adjusted CNVD-T thermal imaging and night vision visuals. - Added new Audio Settings (footsteps, guns, reverb, ambience, voice lines) Balancing - Increased price and rarity of Vudu optic. - Reduced price and rarity of ACOG 4x optic. New Items - Added VLF Boss Helmet. - Added the following new items: -> AK-12 Pistolgrip Polymer -> AK-12 Handguard Polymer -> AK-12 Dust Cover -> AK-12 Collapsible Stock -> AK-12 545x39 Polymer 30Rnd -> AK-12 -> AK-12 545x39 Muzzle -> GBRS Hydra Mount -> Elcan SpecterDR 1x-4x Scope -> Leupold Carbine Optic Reflex Sight -> Trijicon ACOG 6x48 Scope -> KVP XL 45ACP Suppressor -> Fortis SHIFT Short M-LOK Angled Foregrip -> Fortis SHIFT Vertical Foregrip -> Inforce WMLX Flashlight -> SKS Stock Adapter - Added 10 new barter items.

Hotfix #1.2.0.2

CiaoKakaosteam_community_announcementspatchnotes

400d ago

Hotfix – Version 1.2.0.2

**Disclaimer: Current Bunker Intel Extraction mission might be bugged. Reroll to fix it.** Fixes - Fixed malfunction bug causing MP5 to be stuck in burst mode. - SCAR-H flash hider values fixed. - Fixed SOCOM suppressor. - Fixed floating gear items. - Fixed intel spawning behind closed doors. - Fixed flashlight not visible on other players. - Fixed a bugged jammer spot. - Fixed a bugged AI spawn spot. - Fixed several items incorrectly shown as available (should be locked). - Fixed provided loadout option showing incorrect gear in lobby. AI Adjustments - General AI changes: -> Reduced sprint speed slightly. -> Lowered rotation speed. -> Snipers now stay in elevated positions more consistently. -> Improved investigation behavior. -> Reduced AI damage per shot. -> Armor now takes more durability damage per hit. -> Door opening now may alert nearby AI. Peeking does not. -> AI is now more affected by poor visibility conditions (fog/night). - Medium difficulty tuning: -> Increased miss count on full-auto. -> Increased aiming spread. -> Slight increase to perception gain and threshold. Loot & Economy - Revive Syringe is now available starting at Tier 1. - Reduced value of Brush and Duct Tape. - P90 20-round abbreviation corrected and description adjusted. - Marked Coins are now less expensive and more likely to be found. - General malfunction adjustments: -> Guns no longer jam at high durability. -> Durability degradation slowed down slightly. -> General jamming chance reduced. UI & Interface - Faction tier now displays correct tier on storage update button. - Reroll option now disabled if you do not have enough cash. Map & Level Design - Updated Quarry GCPS map (previous version was outdated). - Fishing village infill now disables nearby extract. - Fixed some rock, road, and fence collision issues. - Fixed issue where some mission intels were not spawning correctly.

Patch #1.2.0.0

CiaoKakaosteam_community_announcements

403d ago

PATCH NOTES

! **DISCLAIMER** : Update will wipe your inventory !

New Content:

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/781cd7e77fa0eca1c059ba3a3d425320959d831f.png Patch 1.2.0.0 aims to increase both content and quality on all fronts. Both maps Quarry and Bunker have received substantial changes. Quarry and your FANG Safehouse have been entirely overhauled, now featuring twice the playable size with major POIs redesigned from the ground up for authenticity and realism.

NEW Points of Interest - 7 additional POIs added with Bunker’s Medbay, Quarry’s Cave, 3x Size Military Base, Hilltop Fireteam Base, Riverside Beach Outpost, Jungle Village, Redesigned Marble Cutting Factory.
NEW Terminal/Defense Missions - Hack into a Terminal and Defend the area from incoming enemy Reinforcements.
NEW User Interface - Redesigned all menus to be more up to date with the setting and tone of the game.
NEW GCPS Tablet - Custom model and diegetic animations for your tablet for all objective location needs.
NEW Viewmodel Animations - Aside from all new weapon additions, movement animations have been overhauled to give more weight and impact to traversing the jungle.
NEW Improved Co-Op Networking - Ballistic calculations are now much more responsive.
NEW Malfunction/Jamming Feature - Determined by weapon durability (easily reparable from Safehouse), overheating, and firing method.
NEW Weapons - AK-101 - AK-102 - AK-103 - AK-104 - AK-105 - AK-12 - AKS-74 - RPK - SVDS - STV-380 - QSZ-92 - QBZ-97
NEW Complete Audio Overhaul
NEW Improved AI - AI is now more aggressive, deadly, and tactful than previous patches- with 2 more customization options to control their behavior. There are also now 2-3x the amount of AI per level depending on Player count (Co-Op).
NEW Scope Shader Overhaul - Now uses a system that allows for a middle-ground between Picture-in-Picture and standard rendering, but without the major performance drop.
NEW Gunsmith System
NEW Optimization Improvements
NEW Overhauled Foliage
NEW Automatic Stash Sorting
NEW Reworked Mission Locations
NEW Light Effects
NEW Audio Ambiences
NEW Loot and Economy Balancing
NEW Thermal Scopes
NEW Text Chat
NEW Raid Summary Screen
NEW VLF Boss Model
NEW 13 Gear Items
NEW Magazines and Attachments

Development Blog #2 - Complete Overhaul

Moritz Nasersteam_community_announcements

410d ago

Hey Everyone!

BlueTheRobot here! We are excited to share everything new coming up with update #1.2.0.0. In this blog, we’ll go over the newly added content and all the improvements made to existing systems. We are so happy to finally give you a deep dive on what we have been working on the last couple of months, so let’s get into it!

Reworked Audio

We heard you loud and clear! Our audio was the most mentioned issue by our community and it was our top priority to fix it with this update. To do so, we utilized a completely new method that handles occlusion and reverb. While we were previously relying on Unreal Engine’s built-in occlusion system, we now use Wwise Rooms & Portals. Therefore, we went through every map and hand-placed simplified rooms and portals that explicitly tell the sound engine to simulate audio raycasts. Now, we simulate proper reverb and occlusion with audio being able to bounce off walls and traverse through windows/doors. This is the first iteration of the new system, so not everything might be perfect yet, but we believe it is a huge improvement from the old build. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/e7b74160824357b3fdbb1a3e7eeaad8e3a19e031.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/4bbe6bf4047dd597f6057fcf7af746ca0a8166c6.png We’ve also refined existing audio cues and added additional ones to improve overall sound immersion. Gunshots were a focus when it came to improving sound. Shots from a distance have a much stronger punch. We introduced new ambient sounds, to Quarry in particular, so the environment can feel more lively. We also improved player foley effects, such as footsteps and jumping. Last but not least we also worked on a new breathing/injured system that triggers when a player runs out of stamina or drops below a certain health threshold.

Quarry Rework

Despite our improvements last patch to Quarry and its surroundings; the world was still far from our final vision for that map alone, but also for what we wanted for our environments moving forward. We strive for authentic and believable locations while maintaining fun yet challenging tactical gameplay. From a Level Design perspective, we need an environment that our AI can lock down so Players are forced to think about how they’ll approach their next contact point, and think creatively about sightlines and angles.. And of course, when the fight has begun, our AI needs an environment that allows them to employ their custom features such as taking cover, flanking, and as of this patch: calling in reinforcements to defend specific high value regions. One aspect holding back the previous iteration of the map was its density and pacing. Therefore, we expanded westwards to push the Military Base further from the Factory POI. However, this area is not just a deadzone, we’ve scattered more villages with associated patrols to ensure you stay on your toes throughout the trek. The Military Base itself has received a complete overhaul for the sake of realism and authenticity as requested from community feedback. We’ve taken the steps to gather the help of enlisted Vietnamese personnel to ensure this. If you’d like to read more about the Military Base, as well as viewing some in-progress screenshots, feel free to follow this link to a previous dev blog!

Bunker Expansion

Quarry is not the only map that has received additional areas, Bunker has finally received its last planned area to complete the loop through the map. The Medbay was always originally intended, but due to time constraints had to be previously postponed. However, the Medbay is now available for exploration and keeps the same sinister tone and high intensity CQB action as the rest of the map.

NEW Safehouse

The Hideout is now replaced with the Safehouse, while now this just seems like a nice fresh coat of paint- this new location will act as the building blocks for our later plans regarding resources, the story, and progression in general. The Safehouse is located on a relatively remote coastal airfield island and was prepared by your employer (FANG) to be used for all your operations in-country. With subsequent patches, we intend for you to grow the area to strategically assist your in your various deployments across Red River. Just don't let the rest discover your location…

NEW Gunsmith

Another intended QOL feature that was frequently requested by our community was a gunsmith. Previously assembling weapons has always been quite fiddly with only the marketplace available, and losing a loadout has been quite time consuming to reassemble. That has changed now with our new Gunsmith that lets you go through all available weapons, try out different attachments and save & load presets. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/e278e4fb49dc0470a7459be975031cd4ddb1079f.png

NEW Weapons

With this update we are adding a lot of new content for you to explore. First and foremost: plenty of new weapons to choose from.

AK 100 series
AK 12
AKS 74
RPK
SVDS
STV 380
QSZ-92
QBZ-97

Our focus with the newly added weapons was first to give the VLF, and later, the IGC factions more weapons to choose from. This way we can create a more interesting and dynamic loot pool for Quarry and Bunker. In addition to that we also added 13 new gear items and many new mags and attachments to choose from.

NEW Mission

With this update we are also introducing a new mission type: Intel Extraction. We previously called this *Defense* in our roadmap, but during development the legacy name was no longer suitable as the focus became more about extracting intel via a Terminal interface than defending a zone. Reinforcements are still triggered while interacting with the Terminal though, so watch out! Look up one of our previous dev updates to see the Terminal in action! Alongside the development of the new intel extraction mission, we also reworked some existing missions to fit the new map layouts while also adding several new tasks for you to explore and complete!

NEW Durability System

Weapon malfunction/jamming mechanics have been introduced to add more realism and more importantly- depth to firefights. Weapons will now display a visible reddish overheating effect, providing clear feedback on their condition during extended engagements. Malfunction chance occurs based on the weapon’s heat and durability. The more a weapon overheats and the lower its durability, the higher the likelihood of a malfunction occurring. To help balance the economy towards sourcing your own weapons, AI enemies will now carry used and much more worn down weapons, making them less valuable in comparison to the value of other loot. Also, as a long-time request, Players can not only repair their worn weapons but also damaged gear with one click from the Safehouse.

Reworked UI

One aspect of the game that we felt needed a fresh look after the launch of Early Access was the user interface. With this next update, we’re looking to completely overhaul the current UI. We also want to make some important user experience changes as well to keep the UI consistent across the entire game. Our core philosophy behind the new user interface was to inject our unique setting into the design itself, while giving a chance to bring major UX and QOL improvements. We tried our best to strike a balance between the requirements for a game of this nature, which requires many details to be presented to the player at all times, and ease of use. This new design allows us to improve what we’ve already got, as well as making way for new features such as resources for safehouse improvements, the gunsmith, and other features that will be revealed later! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/2c72af9441362ef50257c4fd5d822db9494f8bf4.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/13fe064c204496567e2af14b7106a8c3086a7ef3.png

Reworked GCPS

The GCPS (Global Combat Positioning System) plays a major role in Incursion and helps the player track the current mission and navigate through the level. With this update, we completely overhauled the look of it to allow the Player to feel as if they’re really controlling it by hand. We’ve reworked the 3D model with in-house talent, added new immersive interaction animations and overhauled the UI entirely.

Misc Improvements

Apart from all the listed additions and improvements, we’ve also worked on smaller changes to improve the overall polish and experience of the game. As the famous gamedev quote goes: “small improvements and minor bug fixes.”

Coop Experience

One thing that always bothered us was the experience of playing as the client in a framework which didn’t fully allow the gunplay to shine. Bullets didn’t really connect properly and the overall experience felt less snappy. We tackled that issue by greatly improving the network load balance as well as introduced client authoritative bullets. Meaning the client (your machine) does the bullet calculation itself and tells the server where the actual impact is. This means we can also afford to immediately spawn the impact fx & sfx on the client, making gunfights much more responsive.

Viewmodel Animations

Additionally, we’ve touched up our viewmodel animations and weapon handling. Weapons now will feel more weighty when turning and movement animations feel more impactful. This also includes reworked fire animations and smoother transitions between player stances.

Icon Generation, Loading, and Textures

A common issue in the last build was unloaded & blurry icons that negatively influenced the looting experience. To tackle this issue, we now have pre-rendered icons for all items that only need to load from the game-files to greatly improve item loading time & quality. Additionally, we made improvements to force textures to be loaded when inspecting and for weapon icons in the inventory. On the same note of blurry textures, we’ve taken steps while overhauling our shaders for the Quarry Rework, to adopt virtual texturing for a more optimized approach towards streaming in textures. Material quality will now be more relevant to what you’re looking at and therefore cuts back immensely on blurry models in the world due to high VRAM usage.

Performance

Last but not least one of our key concerns is always to improve performance while also improving the visual fidelity of our game. With this update we managed to find several areas to improve performance (such as enabled virtual shadow maps by default) and still keep an overall smooth experience on most systems. In our internal testing we were able to see improved performance across the board.

Thermals

We also reworked our scope material to be more realistic by adding eye relief and a small zoom & distortion effect. Additionally, we also added two entirely new thermal scopes, very useful for bunker & night raids. Check one of our previous dev updates out for more information!

Chat

Long term we definitely want to add ingame VOIP. But for the time being we added a chat option so you can now also communicate with your team mates via the game.

Outlook

So to wrap it up, this update is a huge step forward for us, bringing all systems to a new level, and we believe we now have the foundation and quality level we wanted from the get go to build upon and add more content. We cannot wait to hear your opinions on the update! Feel free to join our upcoming dev stream tomorrow that we will announce soon, where we’ll be playing and showcasing this patch. Also, make sure to follow our socials and join our Discord to stay up to date!

Development Update #6

BlueTheRobotsteam_community_announcements

423d ago

Hey Everyone!

BlueTheRobot here -

Firstly, I just wanted to say thank you for the continuous support over these last couple of months.

We've been focused on making the upcoming update solid and stable with the help of our Discord Playtesters. Speaking of, if playtesting sounds interesting to you, feel free to join the group over on our Discord. It's been amazing to work alongside our community to ensure put out a solid update.

Release Date

So, the day you have all been waiting for, the highly anticipated 1.2.0.0 Update is set to launch on June 25th, bringing everything we've showcased these past few months, and more. Players can look forward to new AK Variants, a new durability system for weapons, armor repairs, a complete overhaul of the Quarry Map, an additional section in the Bunker map, completely new UI, the highly requested Audio Overhaul, and so much more. All of this is aimed at enriching the overall immersive combat experience in Incursion Red River. Check out the teaser trailer here!

Internal Testing

So as stated earlier, internal testing is currently underway within our Discord. The team is actively seeking feedback from the community to refine and enhance the update, ahead of the June 25th release. Players that are interested in checking out the new build and providing feedback, sharing insights can join using the hyper link posted here. Your participation is extremely invaluable, and helps shape the final version of this major overhaul update. To join, make sure you click on the little wrench icon to gain access to the playtester role, and check the pinned message to gain access to the test build on steam. Here's a few more screenshots from the current test build.

Creator Test Dates

To all our amazing content creators: we’ve made a slight adjustment to the early access schedule for Update 1.2.0.0. The exclusive creator test has been moved from June 11th to June 18th. We apologize for the delay, but we’re taking this extra time to fine-tune some key features so you get the best possible experience during your hands-on preview. We truly appreciate your patience —it’ll be worth it!

Socials

Stay connected with everything about Incursion Red River by following the team over on Twitter/X for the latest news, announcements, and behind-the-scenes updates. We also invite you to join our official Discord, where you can stay up to date on all development progress, share your feedback, and be part of a growing community. It really is the best place to engage directly with the devs, and fellow players as we continue building the future of Incursion Red River together.

Thanks everyone!

Development Update #5

Moritz Nasersteam_community_announcements

475d ago

Hey Everyone!

BlueTheRobot here, the official community manager, and firstly, just wanted to say thank you for all of your support over these past few months. We also just hit our one year anniversary recently of our Steam Early Access Release, and a ton has changed in what seems to be a short amount of time. So again, from the entire team, which is slowly growing- thank you for playing and sharing our game.

UI Overhaul pt. II

With this upcoming update, a lot will be changed from what you know and are used to in the current version of the game. One of our biggest changes is our complete User Interface (UI) Overhaul. While in our last update, we showcased the new inventory and stash; This update focuses on all other elements, such as settings, the safehouse terminal, main menu, and newly added raid summary screen.

Laptop & Menu

The new Safehouse terminal UI has already been shown off in one of our dev streams, but for those who have missed it, here is a brief overview of all new elements: To touch on our design choices a bit, we’ve decided to move away from the bright green/cyan aesthetic of the old computer and move towards something easier on the eyes and more user-friendly. The computer’s UI style is now cohesive with the rest of the menus and features some much needed quality of life changes as well- some of which being sourced directly from Community feedback.

Raid Summary

With the next update, players will finally be able to see a full breakdown of their raid statistics after each run. This has been a long-requested feature from the community, giving players a better sense of what they accomplished during a raid — or what went wrong in the case of a KIA. The summary includes details like loot value, raid time, and confirmed kills. Here's a quick look:

GCPS Overhaul

After we showed off the new GCPS model in one of our last development updates, we’re finally ready to show it off in-game with new animations that will make using it more immersive. The GCPS's UI was also partially updated to follow our new UI design philosophy.

Quarry Overhaul

As some of you may have already seen in last week’s Dev Stream, near the end of the stream we had shown off a work in progress view of Quarry’s new re-designed military base. We looked to the following goals for this new VCUP Base: Offer a more realistic design overall with each building having a dedicated purpose Allow for creative objective design that inspires more unique mission structures and environmental interaction within those missions Integrate greater opportunities for lore inclusion and environmental storytelling In particular with the last point, we’ve always had a story in mind for Quarry, though we haven’t quite had the chance to tell it properly. The general idea has always been that Quarry was once controlled by the prior VCUP (Vietnamese Communist Union Party) government, and recently taken over by the Western Mercenaries known as the UICS or United Intercontinental Security. In our next patch, vehicle types, enemy placement, dead bodies, and graffiti will express these details. We will continue to use these tools throughout our future environments. We showcased a part of the Quarry Overhaul at the end of our last dev play stream, you can rewatch it here:

New 3D Props

One of the most complex aspects of redesigning the Quarry has been the architecture. We had been planning to create our own workflow regarding architecture (as well as the rest of the 3D environment workflow) for quite some time. This process allows us to iterate much faster and finally establish our definitive style rather than having to adjust marketplace assets. The first few sets we’ve included are corrugated metal, traditional mud houses, and military cast concrete. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/e1b81c3a7eeecd5e9656dd5743e72e96d936236c.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/420d168f8e72dbac0260576025aa11ef7c04d229.png

AK 100 Series & AKS-74

While not shown in our weapon roadmap, we are introducing a bunch of new AK variants with this update, particularly the AK 100 series and the AKS-74. These will bring more variety and increase the pool of weapons the AI can choose from. In addition, we’ve also added more AK attachments, such as new handguards, silencers, and magazines. Here is the overview of all Kalashnikov variants viewed from the upcoming Gunsmith:

FUTURE

This update is our way of upgrading everything already in the game to a higher quality and building upon the foundation of our game. While we didn’t dedicate a category to audio with this dev update, we are hard at work fixing the audio bug a lot of you guys are reporting. We are confident that with the next update, the bug will be fixed, and audio will be improved in general. So stay tuned! We love hearing feedback from you guys, so please don’t hesitate to comment down below, or even better yet, join our Discord to post your comments in our feedback thread section. We have been doing more consistent development playthrough streams on our Official YouTube channel, so go ahead and check that out here. We try to stream at least twice a month, but please be patient with us. We love talking to you all, and showcasing some behind-the-scenes dev stuff, as well as just playing with members of our team and content creator program members. We also throw a few steam keys every now and then, so keep an eye on them!. Again, thank you to everyone who has supported us thus far, and we look forward to showcasing more in the future, and releasing this update within the next 2-3 months…

Development Update #4

Moritz Nasersteam_community_announcements

526d ago

Hey Everyone!

BlueTheRobot here, the community manager for Incursion Red River. Welcome to our fourth development update! It’s been some time since the previous one, but certain features that we wanted to show off took longer than anticipated. There has been a lot of progress in all areas and we are happy to bring you up to date!

UI Overhaul pt. I

Inventory & Stash

As teased in the last dev update, the inventory and stash received a complete UI overhaul, making them clean and modern. Alongside this, item icons have been improved, leading to better visuals and faster & more reliable texture loading. We have also added new sorting and filtering options, making it easier to find exactly what you need at a glance. Additionally, we consolidated the additional storage boxes per category into one large inventory box per category.

Gunsmith

The long awaited Gunsmith system has been implemented, allowing all weapons to be modified. Presets can also be saved and applied, making it easier than ever to maintain weapon configurations without manually adjusting each firearm repeatedly. We cannot wait to see what variants you guys come up with!

Weapon MalfunctionI

Weapon malfunction mechanics have been introduced to add more realism and depth to firefights. Weapons will now display a visible overheating effect, providing clear feedback on their condition during extended engagements. Malfunction chance occurs based on the weapon’s heat and durability. The more a weapon overheats and the lower its durability, the higher the likelihood of a malfunction occurring. To help balance the economy, AI enemies will now carry used and worn weapons, making them less valuable when looted to increase the value of other loot. Also, as a long-time request, players can not only repair their worn weapons but also damaged gear with one click within the hideout.

Quarry Overhaul

Our goal is to blend an authentic environment with an enjoyable level design requires lots of iteration to reach a quality result. With thorough testing from both internal testing and community feedback- we’ve been able to bring Quarry into its final state with this upcoming patch. Quarry has been expanded and re-imagined with our new design philosophies from both a technical workflow and level design perspective. Some of the major changes we’ve made include:

The military base has been moved further from the cliffside to increase downtime between points of interest and encourage the possibility of long range gameplay styles. Additionally, the base itself has been completely redesigned to better reflect what a modern, real-world military base might look like.
The Quarry cutting factory has been re-imagined with a complete layout and material overhaul.
The Quarry pit has been adjusted to be more accessible.
Extractions have been adjusted to better fit the new scale of the map.
Spawnpoints have been adjusted to give a greater buffer between enemy spawns and Players entering the raid.
New point of interest: cave
The cave provides a shortcut from the factory extract to the upper region of the Quarry pit. It is a CQB focused area housing new defense missions while giving the player a break from the longer sightlines.

Here are some WIP pictures of the cave: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/4575f5d42f513c630b556e9211799ad6d2994928.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/efb02b2a3689863e0f3dcf8186787bdd721a4a0f.png

New 3d Props

As our development team continues to grow, we are excited to introduce the first assets created by our newest 3D artist, Satyaki. These new props will mainly be used for the quarry overhaul and showcase our continuous efforts to achieve a higher standard in the game's overall quality. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/9ce35e254290952ef0a74f95cdfbbab2f777ec74.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/206cb1f93b500b2e7e17b12075223eddfb77a856.png

STV

We are excited to introduce the STV, the first Vietnamese firearm featured in Incursion Red River. Expanding the variety of weapons available in the game while finally giving the VLF faction a reasonable weapon to add to their arsenal. Here are the first renders: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/5e6d3684a8d8b3dba34ca6bc5b2c5a041bf146ae.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/462271784223ccce50cf6ab8a6b8ee8f082806fb.png

VLF Boss

Last but not least, we also wanted to share the progress on the VLF boss that we showed briefly in one of our dev streams. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/aaf4fd4b68fc449fe044c6163a9a34dbe566b101.jpg {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43394331/376461ef139f2bdf5c5e7453bc196bb67a94e0e9.jpg

FUTURE

On our development horizon, we’ll be looking at a weapon roadmap, a second part to the UI overhaul, more level design updates, and more. We look forward to seeing you all in our next dev stream which we’ll be announcing soon!

Incursion Red River news & patch notes

Hey Everyone!

New AI Overhaul

AI Director

Danger Zone System

Other Improvements

New Outskirts & Delta Progress

New Grenades & Utility

New Boss (Concept)

New Main Theme Music

New Movement Stance

New Weapon

Misc Improvements

Searching Containers

Loot Modifier

Auto Hacking

Weapon Viewport Position & FOV

Chose Infill location

Looking Ahead

Incursion Red River news & patch notes

Hey Everyone!

New AI Overhaul

AI Director

Danger Zone System

Other Improvements

New Outskirts & Delta Progress

New Grenades & Utility

New Boss (Concept)

New Main Theme Music

New Movement Stance

New Weapon

Misc Improvements

Searching Containers

Loot Modifier

Auto Hacking

Weapon Viewport Position & FOV

Chose Infill location

Looking Ahead

Hey Everyone!

New Map Outskirts

New Delta Interiors

New Weapon Roadmap

New Scope Shader

Movement & Traversal

Audio & Music

Performance & Optimization

Misc Improvements

Backpack Rolling

Hideout Upgrade Item Managment

Load Different Ammunition In Magazines

Updated Ergo & Recoil

Updated Player Movement

Looking Ahead

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Hey everyone! The Google Survey is now closed, and we want to say thank you for the 500+ responses we received. Our team will now begin reviewing your submissions and responses. We truly appreciate everyone who took the time to apply for the Closed NDA Playtest Sessions.

Closed Playtester Survey:

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Google Survey Link:

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Hotfix – Version 1.3.0.1

PATCH NOTES

New Content:

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Overview

Movement

Dynamic Lean

Difficulty: Challenging but Fair

Stealth

Focus

AI - Friendly Fire

Suppression

AI Under Suppression

AI Suppressing Player

Flashlight and Laser Detection

Customization

Performance