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Jupiter Hell 1.9 - Heavy!

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60d ago

You thought we were gone forever? Coming back with a bang we present you the first new class for Jupiter Hell - the Heavy Gunner! Contrary to what you may think, this one was designed for Jupiter Hell first, and only then appeared in Jupiter Hell Classic, despite the timing :). Speaking of Jupiter Hell Classic, it also received a big update today - check out the announcement for Jupiter Hell Classic 0.11 "Terminal" for more details on that! Quick note - currently neither Linux nor Mac version of the game will work (use "previous" branch if you need a quick JH fix) - we will try to enable the Linux branch within a few days, but the Mac version will take some time. We updated our backend to SDL3, and are in the process of updating our renderer to SDL3_gpu as well (that's why we're OpenGL only for now) - once that is done we will be able to support all platforms again, but it is a bit of work. We apologize for the inconvenience! Second note - while the translations were overhauled from the last release (especially the Japanese one), the new content isn't translated yet. We hope to fix this in the near future!

== Heavy Gunner ==

NEW #1905 - new class - Heavy Gunner!

The definite hero of this patch, the Heavy Gunner comes with a majority of brand new traits, including 5 brand new MASTER traits, an interesting class skill, and opening up significantly different playstyles than our other 3 classes! To tempt you to jump in, I'll list the Master traits - Firefly, Nuclear Coil, Trench Warrior, Meatgrinder, and Ablative Armor. Joining them are new traits - Heavy Handed, Concussion, Armorer, Grenadier, Reclaimer, Bullet Rain and Flare.

== Perk upgades ==

NEW #1933 - weapon ADV perk values now randomized!
CHANGE #1933 - Sustain perk on melee weapons repairs armor on kill
CHANGE #1933 - Retaliate and High Explosive perk buffed
CHANGE #1933 - Swap Harness will only naturally roll on Explosives
CHANGE #1933 - Cleaner, Zombiebane and Mechabane buffs increased
CHANGE #1933 - Stabilized perk can roll on Shotguns instead of Rotaries
CHANGE #1933 - Critical chance balance - JS 15->10, mod 25->20, AV 25->30
CHANGE #1891 - IDR and MDF melee weapons have a separate manufacturer perk
CHANGE #1914 - several weaker weapon/armor perks slightly improved

In an attempt to make drops more fun, we've randomized and increased the range of the values you can get from AV weapons found in the wild, buffed several unexciting ones and adjusted what can appear where. Sustain, IDR and MDF perks have a dedicated effect on meleee weapons now.

== UI/Engine upgrades ==

NEW #1594 - item details window!
NEW #1546 - SDL3 used as the backend, currently OpenGL only (other backends soonish)
CHANGE #1594 - item details window includes better progression info for uniques
CHANGE #1556 - mod perk picker lists all possible perks along with required WK level
CHANGE #1909 - Technician power drop is drop-animated like other items

There's a new item details window, that will both solve the issue of multiple perks cluttering the equipment stats, and also give you more information including stats that are usually hidden (like critical damage). I think many people will also enjoy the expanded mod application interface listing all perks including ones that require higher WK levels. Finally as mentioned before, significant backend changes are in progress too so report all issues!

== Buffs, buffs everywhere! ==

CHANGE #1936 - buffed uniques - Firecrown, Denial, Carnage, Executioner
CHANGE #1936 - minor buffs - Twin Viper, Avalanche, Monster
CHANGE #1936 - buffed exotics - volley gun, flintlock, EMP rifle, frag shotgun
CHANGE #1936 - buffed exotics - EMP, AWP, and Power saw drop earlier
CHANGE #1936 - buffed exotics - CRI sword has a new perk
CHANGE #1936 - minor buffs - class swords, 9mm eliminator, elephant gun
CHANGE #1936 - minor buffs - ancient gun, frag shotgun, CRI blaster
CHANGE #1936 - minor buffs - class and ancient swords, slight nerf to Soulstealer
CHANGE #1936 - minor buffs - tactical rifle, precision rifle, gatling, snailgun
CHANGE #1936 - minor buffs - AP SMG, torrent SMG, JAC SMG, riot SMG
CHANGE #1936 - nailgun and super nailgun marked as not auto-reloadable

You get a buff, you get a buff, everyone gets a buff! We went through the entire exotic/unique item list and buffed a lot of the unexciting items. Some of the buffs are pretty significant so keep an eye in-game!

== Gameplay changes ==

CHANGE #1889 - Fireangel hits now reduce enemy fire resistance before applying Burning
CHANGE #1914 - exalted ADAPTIVE nerfed - max 90% resistance, twice as fast decay
CHANGE #1897 - exalted DAMAGEGATE keyword added
CHANGE #1889 - on_area_damage (like Fireangel effect) now works with beam/rail weapons
CHANGE #1914 - combat armor - dodge penalties -30 -> -25, health 700 -> 1000
CHANGE #1914 - buffed damage of rail and launcher weapons
CHANGE #0000 - plasma shotgun crit damage 50->25
CHANGE #0000 - added some guaranteed non-blade melee weapons to the episodes
CHANGE #0000 - added some guaranteed cell weapons to IO

These are more general balance changes, including one very significant to absolute endgame play - the reign of terror of the ADAPTIVE trait is over.

== Level changes ==

CHANGE #1914 - MDF Central manuf. station gets an extra charge per clearance > 1
CHANGE #1914 - Valhalla shutdown warden now costs one card instead of two
CHANGE #1914 - Valhalla has a new terminal option and better potential rewards
CHANGE #1914 - Anomaly can randomly get better rewards the higher the attunement is
CHANGE #1914 - Anomaly Warlock relics no longer have XP penalties
CHANGE #1914 - improved Military Barracks rewards
CHANGE #1914 - improved Refueling Base rewards
CHANGE #1914 - slightly improved Lock and Warehouse rewards
CHANGE #1914 - The Rift has 2 less multitools

You'll notice balance changes directed at branch rewards here. We're trying hard to make the choice of branch meaningfull and prevent having a set meta of branch choices. Keep us in the loop if you think some branches are still underwhelming, or "mandatory".

== Bugfixes ==

FIX #1546 - FMOD updated to newest, fixes Linux issues
FIX #1924 - fixed hunker (cover_mod) having no effect against shotguns
FIX #1930 - fixed forklifts being able to block only exit path (esp L1)
FIX #1920 - fixed music reload issues in mod_mode
FIX #1916 - fixed menu music playing incorrectly after load in some cases
FIX #1926 - fixed rare stage 2 harbinger crash related to movement
FIX #1928 - hacked bots with an entry position will lose the entry position
FIX #1892 - army surplus will work with Dante ammo crates
FIX #1893 - hacked/disabled GATEKEEPER enemies lose their GATEKEEPER status
FIX #1922 - clip expanded weapons will now be properly found with a full mag
FIX #1932 - GATEKEEPER won't spawn on Dante Inferno (and EASY difficulty)
FIX #1927 - unlocked locked doors become destructible again
FIX #1914 - Furious will properly stack with Bloodrush
FIX #0000 - fixed Callisto L2 not being able to generate unique items
FIX #0000 - fixed Bloodrush not stacking with other adrenaline damage boosts
FIX #0000 - fixed Shadowcloak UI and values
FIX #0000 - fixed Io intro message grammar
FIX #0000 - fixed JAC bleed affinity
FIX #0000 - fixed crash related to too many permanents (mod only issue)
FIX #0000 - fixed issues related to too long mod paths (mod only issue)

And finally what would be a patch without a juicy list of bugfixes? We fixed a lot of issues, including some long running ones, so hopefully the game will be more stable and enjoyable for everyone!

== Raw changelog ==

Release 1.9 - Terminus - June 4th, 2026

NEW #1905 - new class - Heavy Gunner!
NEW #1933 - weapon ADV perk values now randomized!
NEW #1594 - item details window!
NEW #1546 - SDL3 used as the backend, currently OpenGL only (other backends soonish)
CHANGE #1594 - item details window includes better progression info for uniques
CHANGE #1556 - mod perk picker lists all possible perks along with required WK level
CHANGE #1936 - buffed uniques - Firecrown, Denial, Carnage, Executioner
CHANGE #1936 - minor buffs - Twin Viper, Avalanche, Monster
CHANGE #1936 - buffed exotics - volley gun, flintlock, EMP rifle, frag shotgun
CHANGE #1936 - buffed exotics - EMP, AWP, and Power saw drop earlier
CHANGE #1936 - buffed exotics - CRI sword has a new perk
CHANGE #1936 - minor buffs - class swords, 9mm eliminator, elephant gun
CHANGE #1936 - minor buffs - ancient gun, frag shotgun, CRI blaster
CHANGE #1936 - minor buffs - class and ancient swords, slight nerf to Soulstealer
CHANGE #1936 - minor buffs - tactical rifle, precision rifle, gatling, snailgun
CHANGE #1936 - minor buffs - AP SMG, torrent SMG, JAC SMG, riot SMG
CHANGE #1936 - nailgun and super nailgun marked as not auto-reloadable
CHANGE #1933 - Sustain perk on melee weapons repairs armor on kill
CHANGE #1933 - Retaliate and High Explosive perk buffed
CHANGE #1933 - Swap Harness will only naturally roll on Explosives
CHANGE #1933 - Cleaner, Zombiebane and Mechabane buffs increased
CHANGE #1933 - Stabilized perk can roll on Shotguns instead of Rotaries
CHANGE #1933 - Critical chance balance - JS 15->10, mod 25->20, AV 25->30
CHANGE #1889 - Fireangel hits now reduce enemy fire resistance before applying Burning
CHANGE #1909 - Technician power drop is drop-animated like other items
CHANGE #1914 - exalted ADAPTIVE nerfed - max 90% resistance, twice as fast decay
CHANGE #1897 - exalted DAMAGEGATE keyword added
CHANGE #1891 - IDR and MDF melee weapons have a separate manufacturer perk
CHANGE #1914 - MDF Central manuf. station gets an extra charge per clearance > 1
CHANGE #1914 - Valhalla shutdown warden now costs one card instead of two
CHANGE #1914 - Valhalla has a new terminal option and better potential rewards
CHANGE #1914 - Anomaly can randomly get better rewards the higher the attunement is
CHANGE #1914 - Anomaly Warlock relics no longer have XP penalties
CHANGE #1914 - improved Military Barracks rewards
CHANGE #1914 - improved Refueling Base rewards
CHANGE #1914 - slightly improved Lock and Warehouse rewards
CHANGE #1914 - The Rift has 2 less multitools
CHANGE #1889 - on_area_damage (like Fireangel effect) now works with beam/rail weapons
CHANGE #1914 - combat armor - dodge penalties -30 -> -25, health 700 -> 1000
CHANGE #1914 - several weaker weapon/armor perks slightly improved
CHANGE #1914 - buffed damage of rail and launcher weapons
CHANGE #0000 - plasma shotgun crit damage 50->25
CHANGE #0000 - added some guaranteed non-blade melee weapons to the episodes
CHANGE #0000 - added some guaranteed cell weapons to IO
FIX #1546 - FMOD updated to newest, fixes Linux issues
FIX #1924 - fixed hunker (cover_mod) having no effect against shotguns
FIX #1930 - fixed forklifts being able to block only exit path (esp L1)
FIX #1920 - fixed music reload issues in mod_mode
FIX #1916 - fixed menu music playing incorrectly after load in some cases
FIX #1926 - fixed rare stage 2 harbinger crash related to movement
FIX #1928 - hacked bots with an entry position will lose the entry position
FIX #1892 - army surplus will work with Dante ammo crates
FIX #1893 - hacked/disabled GATEKEEPER enemies lose their GATEKEEPER status
FIX #1922 - clip expanded weapons will now be properly found with a full mag
FIX #1932 - GATEKEEPER won't spawn on Dante Inferno (and EASY difficulty)
FIX #1927 - unlocked locked doors become destructible again
FIX #1914 - Furious will properly stack with Bloodrush
FIX #0000 - fixed Callisto L2 not being able to generate unique items
FIX #0000 - fixed Bloodrush not stacking with other adrenaline damage boosts
FIX #0000 - fixed Shadowcloak UI and values
FIX #0000 - fixed Io intro message grammar
FIX #0000 - fixed JAC bleed affinity
FIX #0000 - fixed crash related to too many permanents (mod only issue)
FIX #0000 - fixed issues related to too long mod paths (mod only issue)

== What's next ==

As the cadence of JH updates won't be too often, we'd still like a yearly content update to be a thing. Next version will be either 2.0 Ascension, or 1.10 Aftermath. Yes, there's still more stuff we want to add, and definitely not a single version, but the updates will be now a bit more spaced out :). In the meantime, do check out Jupiter Hell Classic, it's cooking nicely for a 1.0 release this summer, and already has a Heavy class, but quite different from the JH one!

Brutal. Demanding. Unforgiving. Refined

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354d ago

The wait is over - Jupiter Hell Classic has officially launched into Early Access on Steam!

We've just hit the big button - Jupiter Hell Classic is live in Early Access!

This is not a reskin, this is not a release, this is a game between worlds - taking the best of two games and trying to improve upon that (see the FAQ for details!).

A huge thank you to our community for your support and enthusiasm. Your feedback has been instrumental in shaping Jupiter Hell over the years, and we're excited to continue this journey together as we work towards the 1.0 release.

As with all our releases, the success of this launch really depends on you - yes, you. Traditional roguelikes are a niche, mostly overlooked by mainstream press and big content creators. If you enjoy what we're doing (and trust me, we have a lot more planned!), help us spread the word. Tell your friends, leave a review, share it in your communities, and let us know what you think!

What's next? Check out our roadmap for upcoming features:

Upcoming releases (tentative)

0.5 - Early Access - August 13th!
0.6 - Callisto - September 2025 - TBA
TBA
1.0 - Full Release - Q3 2026
1.1 - yes, traditional roguelikes are never "done" :)
TBA

Planned features - Characters:

Heavy and Medic classes with assorted new traits
more class specific advanced traits
class kits - alternative variants for existing classes
more item traits and more complex items
hacking!

Planned features - Environment:

fire and smoke and related environmental interaction and trait changes
terminals and related environmental interaction
Dante special levels and branch
at least two more branches for each moon (each run will randomly pick two)
at least three more bosses
mechanical enemies

Planned features - Challenges:

at least one more unlockable difficulty level
more challenges, including the much awaited Endless mode
Angelic badge set for the masochists among us

Planned features - Visual:

particle emitters for more blood, chunks, special FX and general mayhem
possibly some rudimentary visual lighting
movement fluidness and animation improvements
animation ordering

Planned features - Audio:

overhaul of the soundtrack! (lower fi matching JH tracks :) )
more audio variety
better 3d soundscape
better handling of multiple sounds

Possible features:

If there's enough interest and funding - no promises.

localization and localization kit for modding
console ports (Switch confirmed feasible)

Regular updates:

more enemy types
more item variety
more exotics, uniques and assemblies
more challenges
modding tools and improvements
UI improvements
more transparent mechanics (info screens)

Why Early Access?

Because we want to build it with you. Jupiter Hell Classic is fully playable, but EA is our chance to grow the game together. We're talking frequent updates, hanging out with you all on Discord, and actually building features based on what you want to see. No corporate roadmap nonsense - just us, you, and a game that evolves based on direct player feedback. if you've been with us through Jupiter Hell or DRL, you know how we roll. Open development, regular updates, and a community that actually shapes the game. That's just how we do things around here.

Join us on the discord for Beta builds and discussions, and dive straight into the depths of Jupiter!

Social Links:

We've also updated the free demo to match the launch version quality, so if you're still on the fence, go give it a try first.)

See you in hell, Marines!

Hyperstrange's Massacre Before Christmas Sale

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605d ago

Hyperstrange's Massacre Before Christmas Publisher Sale

Everyone celebrates Christmas their own way: some find joy in baking pies... and smashing heads of anyone who disturbs their holiday spirit. Others care for their holiday tree like it’s sacred, keeping it perfectly watered. There are those who take this time to settle personal scores… umm, I mean, misunderstandings - laying all their cards on the table so they can enjoy a grudge-free holiday. Our job? Making sure that there are proper presents! So come join us under our Hyperstrange Tree - it might be a little early, a little blood-soaked, and a lot chaotic, but the wicked gifts are already there, waiting for you. We named this event The Hyperstrange's Massacre Before Christmas and it’s ready to deliver gifts of death-n-glory and gore-packed fun! Allow us to invite you to ZlimBratSki’s stream, where he’ll explain everything!

Click here - you really don’t want to miss it!

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Want a little sneak peek? Alright, it is the season of giving, after all! Here’s what you’ll find out:

All the gritty details about the upcoming Blood West: Dead Man's Promise DLC. Who, what, where, whom, why, and who asked for it. And most importantly: WHEN??
A deep dive into character progression and skills in our new survivorslike, Hordes of Hunger. Learn how to combine abilities and perks that work together to create powerful builds using and prepare yourself for battles against the Horde.
A sack full of trailers and updates on our other games, and maybe even a hint about some sneaky, but generous giveaways.

That’s it? - Nah, man. There’s some seriously epic surprises coming your way!

That also means that our chainsaw-snow-shovel slices prices with the ferocity of massacring elves in Santa’s toy factory, bringing huge discounts across our and our friends' catalogs. From immersive stealth action and rip-roaring boomer shooters to grim roguelikes and metal-fueled mayhem that’ll deck the halls with rumbling chorus - and if that’s not enough, we’ve cooked up some insane LIMITED BUNDLES packed with other kickass games! Here are a few of them: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/48179/Selaco_x_Supplice/ https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/47840/CONSCRIPT_x_EMPTY_SHELL/ https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/47953/AMID_EVIL_x_ELDERBORN/ https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/47783/Jupiter_Hell_x_Dark_Envoy/ https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/47952/DUSK_x_POSTAL_Brain_Damaged/ So gather up gunslingers, slayers, hunters and darkness explorers. Grab your rifles, spears, and gruesome cheer, because the Hyperstrange’s Massacre Before Christmas is here to turn your cozy December into a blood-soaked frenzy!

The event ends on December 18! Don’t miss out!

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We are bringing on the HEAT with the Summer Sale

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766d ago

Stop, it's Summer Sale time.

Summer, a time of joyful exuberance. A time to kick-back, relax and what is a better form of relaxation than indulging in some reckless shopping during the Summers Sale! We have prepared a discount’s galore for you to browse and peruse, so what are you looking for?

You want boom shoots? - We got them.
You want stylish boom shoots? - We got them too.
You want something more cerebral? - We got your back.
You want to run around with sharp objects? - We got you covered.
You want something strange? - Say no more.
You want something cute, wholesome and heartwarming? - Actually, no.. we don’t have these.

So what are you waiting for? Grab your friends, loved ones and that weird neighbor that you see only once a week at the bus stop - It's time for a Hyper Summer Sale!

DELIRIOUS DISCOUNTS

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1317020/77p_egg_Eggwife/?curator_clanid=38371631 https://store.steampowered.com/app/727850/ELDERBORN/?curator_clanid=38371631 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2243110/EMPTY_SHELL/?curator_clanid=38371631 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1604280/STHELL/?curator_clanid=38371631 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1734680/INCISION/?curator_clanid=38371631 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1587130/Blood_West/?curator_clanid=38371631

NEW THINGS

Supplice Episode 3

Supplice, the most stylish boomer-shooter there is, has just got a whole new Episode! New weapons, new enemies and a new frozen wasteland to explore. If you have missed the fun-train, then you can get Supplice with a 20% discount during the Summer Sale!

Hordes of Hunger

Ever wondered how a 3D action survivorslike would look like? Then wonder no more as our feverish imagination has done that for you! Wishlist Hordes of Hunger to stay in the loop on our development progress.

Have fun and don't spend your moolah in one place!

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Jupiter Hell 1.8 - Abattoir!

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874d ago

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33717650/ac62a5d1cf877420bcb54f055bf64d57adba53af.png Just when you thought it was safe, 1.8 "Abattoir" is out!

== Ossuary, Abattoir and expanded Dante! ==

NEW #1862 - new Dante branch - Ossuary!
NEW #1863 - new Dante branch special - Abattoir!
NEW #1864 - new Dante branch Abattoir boss!
NEW #1839 - new Dante enemy variant - frost guardian!
NEW #1868 - Dante has its own station variants!
NEW #1494 - new lootbox models for Dante
NEW #1858 - Dante is now 5 levels deep!
CHANGE #1520 - minor visual improvements of Dante
CHANGE #1570 - improved Dante Inferno rewards
CHANGE #1847 - visibility of Dante crates improved for less bumpin'

This is the meat (heh), of the update - a brand new branch for Dante, with a new mechanic, a new special level and a very interesting and scary boss. Do treat this as a victory lap - the boss fight might prove more difficult than the regular boss, but gives a medal (with a whopping 500 points) to brag about it, kinda "full win" style! There are several minor improvements (everyone will enjoy the increased visibility of barrels), with new Dante stations with their own set of options, and dedicated lootbox models (yes, terminals will come soon too!). Length of the main branch has been expanded by one, Inferno rewards have been slightly improved and there's a new Guardian variant to boot!

== Scouts and shotguns ==

CHANGE #1847 - Scouts now start with 3 weapon slots too
CHANGE #1831 - all shotguns apply Slowdown (-50% move speed) for 1.5s
CHANGE #1831 - most shotguns now have 0.75 swap time

Scout 2 weapon slot setup was thematic, but it did restrict the variety of his gameplay. We're eyeing changing his Hoarder trait too in the next patch, but for now he can enjoy the newly greatly buffed shotguns.

== Early game improvements ==

NEW #1703 - CAL L2 boon - either T2 speial chest or terminal procure!
NEW #1859 - CAL L1 - two new intro level generators
CHANGE #1850 - minor improvements to Callisto level generators

More variety in the L1 levels that you've all played to death! Additionally small improvements in Callisto all around, and a special reward in Callisto L2 - a special chest on the first 3 difficulties, or a Terminal procure option on UV+ for less reliance on RNG for the most important items!

== Gauntlet and Conduct medals ==

NEW #1871 - new trial - the Gauntlet!
NEW #1559 - 21 new medals in 7 new "nethack-style conducts" series!

Here's one for the madmen. A new trial, the ultimate challenge, the Gauntlet. A fixed weekly seed for you to compete against other player. Same map, same spawns, same items, same punishing and extremely quickly scaling difficulty. Expect to die. Additionally, the game now recognizes some conducts - playing without using medkits, multitools, armors, masteries, etc, not unlike the old and loved NetHack conducts (anyone old enough to remember those? :P). See Medals section in player data for details. You get partial credit, so if you maintain a conduct for a bigger part of the game you still get recognized for it!

== Exalted enemies ==

NEW #1846 - 6 brand new exalted keywords!
CHANGE #1830 - exalted RESIST split to IMMUNE and RESIST
CHANGE #1830 - LETHAL and DEADLY can no longer appear together
CHANGE #1830 - exalted reaver and fiend ranged weapons inc damage/acc
CHANGE #1830 - UNSTABLE removed from the non-exalted Inferno pool
FIX #1830 - fixed exalted fiends/ravagers with double ranged weapons

Following the theme of catering to the endgame players, we provide some much needed variety and balance (and a vital fix!) in exalted keywords. Some of the new ones are really flashy!

== Japanese translation ==

NEW #1791 - Japanese translation!

Japanese has been added to the list of available languages. Please note that the translation was done against 1.7, so there are some texts still missing - we will update them soon(ish)! We're eager to hear feedback on the translation!

== Other stuff ==

NEW #1843 - new accessibility option - object outlines
NEW #1354 - added and improved skill and kit FX
CHANGE #0000 - FXAA only active on highest shader level
CHANGE #0000 - AWP git gud capped at +200%

While Dante barrels, the worst offender, are now easier to spot, if you want your furniture to be even more visible, you'll enjoy the new outline option. We've added some sweet FX where needed too! Finally AWP got a slight nerf, mostly because it made Endless extremely boring (it's still quite boring, but we'll get to that next release!).

== Plethora of fixes ==

FIX #1825 - prevent Stage 3 boss from flying away too far
FIX #1878 - fixed menu keys being stuck in loop
FIX #1877 - fixed languages menu multipling in mod mode
FIX #1866 - watcher effects will trigger even if watcher can't take action
FIX #1866 - watchers won't watch themselves
FIX #1801 - fixed potential crash on Steam Deck save and quit
FIX #0000 - fixed Deadly Precision abbreviation
FIX #0000 - fixed Supply/Proto mixup in one Asterius breach version
FIX #0000 - fixed offscreen emitters being shortly visible at creation
FIX #0000 - fixed rendering of tiled textures (spaceport, altar)
FIX #0000 - fixed Carnage found bullet count

Several fixes have been made, not all of them on this list. The three major ones are probably the fixes to Watcher AI, the Steam Deck crash fix (hopefully works!) and the Boss fight head flying away instead of fighting like a ... head.

== Raw changelog ==

Release 1.8 - Abattoir - March 11th, 2024

NEW #1862 - new Dante branch - Ossuary!
NEW #1863 - new Dante branch special - Abattoir!
NEW #1864 - new Dante branch Abattoir boss!
NEW #1839 - new Dante enemy variant - frost guardian!
NEW #1868 - Dante has its own station variants!
NEW #1871 - new trial - the Gauntlet!
NEW #1791 - Japanese localization!
NEW #1843 - new accessibility option - object outlines
NEW #1846 - 6 brand new exalted keywords!
NEW #1703 - CAL L2 boon - either T2 speial chest or terminal procure!
NEW #1859 - CAL L1 - two new intro level generators
NEW #1559 - 21 new medals in 7 new "nethack-style conducts" series!
NEW #1494 - new lootbox models for Dante
NEW #1858 - Dante is now 5 levels deep!
NEW #1354 - added and improved skill and kit FX
CHANGE #1847 - Scouts now start with 3 weapon slots too
CHANGE #1831 - all shotguns apply Slowdown (-50% move speed) for 1.5s
CHANGE #1831 - most shotguns now have 0.75 swap time
CHANGE #0000 - FXAA only active on highest shader level
CHANGE #1520 - minor visual improvements of Dante
CHANGE #1830 - exalted RESIST split to IMMUNE and RESIST
CHANGE #1830 - LETHAL and DEADLY can no longer appear together
CHANGE #1830 - exalted reaver and fiend ranged weapons inc damage/acc
CHANGE #1830 - UNSTABLE removed from the non-exalted Inferno pool
CHANGE #1850 - minor improvements to Callisto level generators
CHANGE #1847 - visibility of Dante crates improved for less bumpin'
CHANGE #1570 - improved Dante Inferno rewards
CHANGE #0000 - AWP git gud capped at +200%
FIX #1825 - prevent Stage 3 boss from flying away too far
FIX #1830 - fixed exalted fiends/ravagers with double ranged weapons
FIX #1878 - fixed menu keys being stuck in loop
FIX #1877 - fixed languages menu multipling in mod mode
FIX #1866 - watcher effects will trigger even if watcher can't take action
FIX #1866 - watchers won't watch themselves
FIX #1801 - fixed potential crash on Steam Deck save and quit
FIX #0000 - fixed Deadly Precision abbreviation
FIX #0000 - fixed Supply/Proto mixup in one Asterius breach version
FIX #0000 - fixed offscreen emitters being shortly visible at creation
FIX #0000 - fixed rendering of tiled textures (spaceport, altar)
FIX #0000 - fixed Carnage found bullet count

== What's next ==

Yes, this version was supposed to be "Aftermath". Next version will surely be :P. Expect more Dante and Callisto improvements and who knows, maybe finally a new class?

New & Upcoming Games

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1080d ago

Hyperstrangers!

Dreamhack Beyond is right around the corner, Dudes, and you guessed it - we are in it! However, this bit of news isn’t just about that. While you are keeping up with all news related to Jupiter Hell, we would like to showcase other things we have been cooking for your gaming pleasure! But, but, but... before these beauties will be ready to be injected into your veins, you gotta follow and wishlist. It makes the algorithm gods happy and jolts our developers’ hearts with joyful exuberance - whatever that means.

CosmoPirates

Space, the final frontier, a place devoid of the tight-ass bureaucracy. A place where a man can cruise in their Fiat 126p, lick batteries, and be a self-made cosmonaut! Unless you get raided by pirates, poisoned by a hot-dog from an unlicensed food-shuttle or scammed by Kovalsky at the spaceship dealer. CosmoPirates takes card battling, deck building to the final frontier of cartoonish comedy. Pimp-out your ride, gather your crew, and take out the cringeworthy overlord. Be wary tho, for there always must be a Cringe lord - and on your journey you might just become one.

Wishlist & Follow

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2466240/CosmoPirates/

NecroGolf

There are some things that simply go great together although you wouldn’t think so: potatoes and pizza, mayo and ketchup or Zombies and Golf! That’s right! There is nothing more riveting than trying to land a perfect birdie with a horde of the ravenous undead breathing down your neck. In NecroGolf, an arcade golf simulator with RPG elements and zombies, you can put your precision golfing to the test. NecroGolf releases in less than a month, on September 15th, so make sure to wishlist it, grab your clubs and get in your golf cart, for in this zombie apocalypse, there is only golf.

Want to take a test swing? Check out the Demo!

Want to see some new gameplay? Check out our stream during Dreamhack Beyond!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2330380/NecroGolf/

77p egg: Eggwife

If you are in for even more Hyperstrangeness, then embark in 77p egg: Eggwife on a quest whose crude, gory, toilet-humor can only be rivaled by games such as Postal 2, Duke 3D, or Goat Simulator. Master your bodily functions to perform such feats as poop-jumping and employ a wide range of "UK-Legal'' weapons such as the Applicator, Crossbowner and Stigmatic 77,000! Does this masterpiece have a story? Yes, and a relatable one at that. Building a stable relationship isn’t that easy and our protagonist will need your help on his quest to find a new wife! Unless he gets lost in the grocery aisle again.

Wishlist & Follow

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1317020/77p_egg_Eggwife/

EMPTY SHELL

Let’s step down from the joyful sensory overload of the above mentioned games to something a little bit different. Something less strange and definitely more hyper. In Empty Shell, a top-down roguelite survival horror, you will get thrown into a secret facility on a Japanese island. Having signed a contract which stated only one condition “recover the designated target”, you will soon learn why it is so important to read the fine print. During each run, you will try to get the “volunteer” through the facility while dealing with limited visibility, dwindling supplies and whatever is out there, stalking and hunting you throughout the randomized maze of tight-corridors.

Wishlist the game! If you can't wait to play, we have a prologue waiting for you!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2243110/EMPTY_SHELL/

Strategic Mind: Spirit of Liberty

If you are peckish and looking for something more crunchy to stimulate your strategic mind, then look no further than Spirit of Liberty, a hardcore, turn-based, historically accurate strategy game set in WWII. Master the intricacies of the game’s systems to keep your units supplied and armed with the best equipment and dismantle enemy forces through combined-arms tactics and help from your cabinet of generals.

Do you have what it takes? Check out the limited time demo today and wishlist the game not to miss the launch that is happening later this month!

Want to see some new gameplay? Check out our stream during Dreamhack Beyond!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1474770/Strategic_Mind_Spirit_of_Liberty/

Hordes of Hunger

As tradition commands, we have saved the best for the dessert! Hope you're still hungry for here comes our most ambitious in-house project so far. Hordes of Hunger is a fast-paced action arena slasher with roguelite elements set in the dark fantasy setting of Ismer. A land engulfed by the living hunger, the cosmic horror known only as the Beast. You are the unlucky one still living inside the nightmare and the only way out is through it.

Wishlist and follow not to miss our monthly spoiler section

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2157710/Hordes_of_Hunger/ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40033268/837feb3f28a9199565f25131081dd9a6a06b4fa0.png

Jupiter Hell 1.7 - Creation!

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1095d ago

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33717650/ef1ad91a0f3b459b3c2250106440431b4cfa7001.png Took a bit longer than usual as we're busy with bringing JH to other devices, but the big feature of 1.7 is now ready - Steam Worshop support (and modding in general) is live!

== Modding ==

NEW #0012 - Modding/Steam Workshop support!
NEW #1803 - modmode has been added for modding purposes

Head to Steam Workshop now, as there are already a few mods waiting to be tried out, including Hellpedia, several challenges and a new class to boot! To those interested in trying their hand themselves, we're slowly building up documentation (also serves as a repo for the sample mods) and the best place to ask questions is (as usual) the Jupiter Hell Discord ( https://discord.gg/jupiterhell ).

== Early Game ==

NEW #1391 - early game - 4 exotic weapons, 1 consumable, 1 armor
NEW #1756 - flavor e-mails with branch mechanics spoilers
CHANGE #1799 - EXPT'L - enemies deal 60% damage on EASY (but full acc)

We're constantly trying to improve the early game experience, adding new content and variety. This time we have new early game exotic weapons, a nova device and a new exotic armor. We also introduced new flavor e-mails (gray) in each moon branch that give hints to the nature of the branch mechanics. Finally, a bit experimentally, we changed how EASY difficulty works - instead of reducing enemy accurancy, we instead reduced enemy damage. The reason behind this change is that being hit is the most important feedback you get in terms of whether you play properly, so EASY was not a great teacher to get to higher difficulties. Feedback on this change is very welcome!

== Tier 2 and 3 Stations ==

NEW #1804 - tech and med stations have tier 2 and 3 variants

Medical and technical stations come in Tier 2 and Tier 3 varieties. There's quite a few never before seen options in those stations so be on the lookout! Mostly they can appear in mini-levels and vaults.

== Quality of Life ==

NEW #1794 - all post mortems are archived in morgue subfolder
NEW #1795 - post mortems can be viewed from highscore screen
CHANGE #1776 - charge based terminals return to last option after use
CHANGE #1793 - backup of score.dat and player.dat if > 1024b
CHANGE #1798 - in Purgatory only the glyph room blocks save and quit

Post mortems got a bit of upgrades. From now on they're all archived in a subfolder of the games folder. You can also view them from the score screen for mortems created from now on. We also added a backup system for score and player dat files. If you accidentaly lose one of them, be sure to quickly recover them from a .backup file. These will not be overwritten immedately, only after a game or two, so you have time!

== Balance ==

CHANGE #1799 - buffed damage of all shotguns
CHANGE #1789 - all rotaries got a damage buff and -25% crit damage
CHANGE #1789 - drum launcher and grenade launcher damage nerf
CHANGE #1789 - Gun Kata - crit damage from lev 1, +100% at lev 3
CHANGE #1783 - most ancient items got significant buffs
CHANGE #1799 - JoviSec armor crit chance 25% -> 15%
CHANGE #1804 - Sysop L3 extra charges 3->4
CHANGE #1391 - higher level infestations (Endless) will be more varied
CHANGE #1391 - medusa infestations added

As usual, here's the new meta :P. On a more serious note - only the grenade launchers were seriously overperforming (especially looking at you, drum launcher) so a nerf was inevitable. JoviSec armor was a bit to strong, taking away variety in Callisto branch choice and often locking the armor for the whole run. We still want it to be strong, just not OP. To make up for that, several other things have been significantly buffed - all rotaries, all shotguns, Gun Kata, ancient items and SysOp. Hopefully that increases the variety of stuff that is viable for a run! Finally, for those Endless players, and just because we have a cruel streak, Medusa infestations are a thing now.

== Bugfixes ==

FIX #1775 - fixed performance issues in Callisto Rift
FIX #1775 - don't add exalted traits to player on INFERNO
FIX #1805 - fixed rare AV trait reroll issue - no more trait remove

The regular amount of bugfixes is also present, some not noted on this list.

== Raw Changelog ==

Release 1.7 - Creation - August 3rd, 2023

NEW #0012 - Modding/Steam Workshop support!
NEW #1391 - 5 new armor perks, 2 new helmet perks
NEW #1391 - early game - 4 exotic weapons, 1 consumable, 1 armor
NEW #1794 - all post mortems are archived in morgue subfolder
NEW #1795 - post mortems can be viewed from highscore screen
NEW #1756 - flavor e-mails with branch mechanics spoilers
NEW #1803 - modmode has been added for modding purposes
NEW #1804 - tech and med stations have tier 2 and 3 variants
CHANGE #1799 - EXPT'L - enemies deal 60% damage on EASY (but full acc)
CHANGE #1799 - buffed damage of all shotguns
CHANGE #1789 - all rotaries got a damage buff and -25% crit damage
CHANGE #1789 - drum launcher and grenade launcher damage nerf
CHANGE #1789 - Gun Kata - crit damage from lev 1, +100% at lev 3
CHANGE #1776 - charge based terminals return to last option after use
CHANGE #1783 - most ancient items got significant buffs
CHANGE #1391 - higher level infestations (Endless) will be more varied
CHANGE #1391 - medusa infestations added
CHANGE #1793 - backup of score.dat and player.dat if > 1024b
CHANGE #1798 - in Purgatory only the glyph room blocks save and quit
CHANGE #1799 - JoviSec armor crit chance 25% -> 15%
CHANGE #1804 - Sysop L3 extra charges 3->4
FIX #1775 - fixed performance issues in Callisto Rift
FIX #1775 - don't add exalted traits to player on INFERNO
FIX #1805 - fixed rare AV trait reroll issue - no more trait remove

== What's next ==

Next version will be the Aftermath release, due to sometime still this year, which should bring any requested modding improvements, endgame and Dante Station improvements, and maybe more - stay tuned! Also, we're working on... can we say it Hyperstrange? (Yes, you can! --HS) Can we? Yeah, the first port of Jupiter Hell. Expect a Nintendo Switch release at the turn of the year ;).

Thank you,

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Jupiter Hell 1.6 - Watcher!

slizgisteam_community_announcements

1320d ago

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33717650/595ef6baeafa676c8a9b2c69ba37c2bb1f82e8cd.png Jupiter Hell 1.6 "Watcher" introduces a new enemy type, adds new exalted keywords, armor and helmet manufacturer perks, updates master trait balance and more! A bit longer in the production pipeline, and a bit smaller as we focus more of our efforts on porting and future ventures, we bring you update 1.6 "Watcher"!

==Watcher==

NEW #1599 - new enemy - Watcher - available in 4 variants! A new enemy is roaming the Jovian moons, one that will bring misery by his gaze alone! Each of the three moons has its own variant, and there's a really deadly exalted version to be encountered too!

==Armor/Helmet manufacturer perks==

NEW #1752 - armors and helmets have manufacturer perks Just as weapons have their dedicated perks depending on the branch they're found on, so will now armors and helmets. As with weapons, the manufacturer perks are applied to basic and exotic versions of armor/helmets.

==Nightmare changes==

NEW #1777 - strong enough toxin/fire/acid will "melt" (gib) enemies CHANGE #1778 - gibbing once again prevents Nightmare respawns CHANGE #1777 - dual weapons take into account next weapon when gibbing CHANGE #1775 - Inferno keywords match enemy type exalted keyword pool FIX #1775 - Inferno exalted enemies won't get extra keywords

==Exalted upgrades==

NEW #1775 - LETHAL and TOUGH exalted keywords (weaker DEADLY/RESIL) NEW #1775 - RESIST, ICE, HELLFIRE, TOXIN exalted keywords added! While revisiting Nightmare/Inferno, we thought that the exalted enemy keywords could use some more variety and could have less deadly effects on lower tiers. DEADLY and RESILIENT have their weaker counterparts, RESIST may appear on high tier enemies, and most elemental enemies now have a new set of ICE/HELLFIRE/TOXIN keywords.

==Master trait balance==

CHANGE #1780 - Bladedancer decreases move time by 10%/lvl CHANGE #1780 - improved Gunrunner bonuses CHANGE #1780 - Assassinate stealth refund from L1, L3 is +200% crchance CHANGE #1780 - Bulletstorm - ammo use 50% at L1, pistols/L2 penalty 110% CHANGE #1780 - Headshot - Pistol/Semi only, if pistol crit chance is 2x While we know that perfect balance is unachievable, we definitely want to get to a point where no Master Trait is "below B tier". This is the newest round of changes, expect further balance tweaks in further updates!

==Difficulty balance==

CHANGE #1775 - exalted warlocks will appear not only as respawns CHANGE #1774 - Hunt events on Io and Dante have 90/120 turns timers CHANGE #1773 - Mines exalted reaver weaker on EASY and MED CHANGE #1773 - fanatic explosion dmg difficulty dependent (lower on E/M) Same as with trait tuning, some general difficulty tuning is in order. In particular, the game is a bit deadly to newcomers, hence some targeted changes for EASY and MEDIUM players. Oh, and if you play on UV+ have some exalted warlocks, because screw you :P.

==Burning changes==

CHANGE #1781 - smoke creation and med/stimpacks remove flames under user FIX #1781 - negative ignite resistance no longer escalates fire dmg We messed up a bit with burning damage, especially with how it interacted with negative ignite resistance. This will no longer produce escalating damage, so no more cheesy "bring a inferno grenade to the Europa boss-fight" wins! On the flip side, packs and smoke effects will now remove flames from the floor.

==Bugfixes==

FIX #1766 - fixed corpse/debris remove options FIX #1766 - fixes to Mimir friendly bot counter and target issues FIX #1766 - fixed late demons not spawning on high level Callisto maps FIX #1766 - fixed blue keycard costs not matching code in Valhalla Shipping is the usual bit of bugfixes, the most notable ones listed above.

==Full Changelog==

Release 1.6 - Watcher - December 21st, 2022 NEW #1599 - new enemy - Watcher - available in 4 variants! NEW #1777 - strong enough toxin/fire/acid will "melt" (gib) enemies NEW #1775 - LETHAL and TOUGH exalted keywords (weaker DEADLY/RESIL) NEW #1775 - RESIST, ICE, HELLFIRE, TOXIN exalted keywords added! NEW #1752 - armors and helmets have manufacturer perks CHANGE #1778 - gibbing once again prevents Nightmare respawns CHANGE #1777 - dual weapons take into account next weapon when gibbing CHANGE #1780 - Bladedancer decreases move time by 10%/lvl CHANGE #1780 - improved Gunrunner bonuses CHANGE #1780 - Assassinate stealth refund from L1, L3 is +200% crchance CHANGE #1780 - Bulletstorm - ammo use 50% at L1, pistols/L2 penalty 110% CHANGE #1780 - Headshot - Pistol/Semi only, if pistol crit chance is 2x CHANGE #1775 - Inferno keywords match enemy type exalted keyword pool CHANGE #1775 - exalted warlocks will appear not only as respawns CHANGE #1774 - Hunt events on Io and Dante have 90/120 turns timers CHANGE #1773 - Mines exalted reaver weaker on EASY and MED CHANGE #1773 - fanatic explosion dmg difficulty dependent (lower on E/M) CHANGE #1781 - smoke creation and med/stimpacks remove flames under user FIX #1781 - negative ignite resistance no longer escalates fire dmg FIX #1766 - fixed corpse/debris remove options FIX #1766 - fixes to Mimir friendly bot counter and target issues FIX #1766 - fixed late demons not spawning on high level Callisto maps FIX #1766 - fixed blue keycard costs not matching code in Valhalla FIX #1775 - Inferno exalted enemies won't get extra keywords

==What's Next?==

Probably time to take a slight breather, but we haven't forgotten about neither Dante upgrades, nor about Workshop integration and full modding - expect to hear about those in the first half of 2023! 'Till next year! Yours, {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33717650/004e98061256dda3ac95738fd8db13a87798daef.png

Jupiter Hell 1.5 - Ancient!

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1448d ago

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33717650/8d5c361d417f542113e5c1f0d3ed2a05ce78968c.png Jupiter Hell 1.5 "Ancient" upgrades Io branches and mainline, introduces a boss at Io Gateway, improves fire mechanics and visuals (and Fireangel!), adds more manufacturer perks, adds the Fanatic, improves AI and more! It's been a year since the official 1.0 release of Jupiter Hell. And there was much rejoicing. Well, let's celebrate with yet another update, and no, we're not slowing down ;) But first - we're taking the first steps into making Jupiter Hell fully modable - the basic systems are in place, and on the Jupiter Hell Discord (https://discord.gg/jupiterhell) the community is already building and sharing the first mods! If you want to give a shot at modding JH, or take an early shot at trying them out, come and hang out with us! Let's divide the update into sections - Io, Ancient, Fire, Fanatic and The Rest.

==Io==

NEW #1727 - Black Site branch/special rework! NEW #1728 - CRI Laboratories branch/special rework! NEW #1730 - Shadow Halls/Dark Cathedral rework! NEW #1725 - Europa Ruins/Frozen Temple rework! NEW #1769 - Warehouse/Infernal Lock revisited! CHANGE #1770 - improved Io level generators (mostly visual) CHANGE #1772 - Wealth and Power wishes improved Io got the same treatment as Callisto and Europa before it. However, when it comes to level mechanics, due to Io being added fairly late in development it already had plenty mechanics of its own - hence we did a bit different approach. The twin paths of Black Site and CRI Armory have a very noticable change - however "fully completing" their branch challenges is MUCH more harder than with the other branches. It's a challenge, not something you're expected to do each game. There are spoilers on the Discord if you're interested ;). Ruins and Halls got improvements on their twists, and visual, generation, music and especially loot improvements. Definitely a path that is worth revisiting again! Be on the lookout for new manufacturer perks - word is that they're very spicy!

==Ancient==

NEW #1718 - Io has a brand new boss! With this, our old plan to have a boss on every moon is complete! Mwahhahahaha.... Akhem. This ones a tough SOB. Be prepared to die from time to time. The whole Io Gateway got a makeover and is now an Ancient ruin. There's some more stuff related to the Io Boss that will come in a later version too ;).

==Fire==

NEW #1767 - improved fire visuals and added flame tiles! NEW #1767 - Fireangel revisited! (burning 3->1 but added area burn!) CHANGE #1767 - burning status prevents regeneration CHANGE #1767 - burning limited to 50 stacks NEW #1765 - AI now actively avoids harmful hazards if possible Fire visuals have been overhauled and the floor can now be set on fire too. Fireangel is now the premium Master Trait for people who "want to set the world on fire". Burning is more useful too as it prevents enemies from regenerating. Well, the player too, but you won't play with matches, won't you? Well if you do, there's a new napalm grenade to be found. Word on the street says it makes short work of the Cryomancer. These changes required us to improve the AI a bit - it no longer happily punches barrels and walks into environmental hazards!

==Fanatic==

NEW #1600 - new Callisto enemy - fanatic NEW #1767 - Callisto-only level modifier "Desolation" Callisto did get some "love" this update too! You can now encounter a new enemy, with a very popular game mechanic :P. Also, there's a new level event to be on the lookout, taking advantage of the new fire visuals. This is not the end of Callisto changes - we are aware that "the beginning is a very delicate time" and strive hard to improve variety in the early game - more improvements coming soon!

==The Rest==

CHANGE #1768 - rotaries have higher chance to hit more targets CHANGE #1767 - warlocks do less ranged damage but more burn and flame CHANGE #1767 - visual - Mephitic tier 2 buff has a visual effect CHANGE #1767 - visual - crater decals no longer are always centered CHANGE #1767 - Callisto Mines mechanic is displayed as an event CHANGE #1767 - Endless level variety increased (along with manuf. perks) CHANGE #1727 - you can now swap places with any friendly AI CHANGE #1772 - CRI phase devices sample 2x more possibilities CHANGE #1766 - improved icon visibility (esp on white backgrounds) FIX #1766 - critical defence (helmets) work against ranged attacks FIX #1766 - fixed several issues with fx system targeting Apart from many unlisted fixes theres some improvements too. Rotaries (the Spin up perk in particular) have an inherent bonus to hitting other targets then the initially targeted one (if they miss, or the enemy dies), which improves their crowd control capabilities. Any non-hostile AI can now be swapped places with using SHIFT move. CRI phase devices sample twice more potential spots, so bigger chance to get you to a really safe spot. Helmets finally work as advertised when it comes to crit damage protection. Finally icons are now more visible, especially on bright floors (thx Deemzul!).

==Full changelog==

Release 1.5 - Ancient - August 15th, 2022 NEW #1718 - Io has a brand new boss! NEW #1727 - Black Site branch/special rework! NEW #1728 - CRI Laboratories branch/special rework! NEW #1730 - Shadow Halls/Dark Cathedral rework! NEW #1725 - Europa Ruins/Frozen Temple rework! NEW #1765 - AI now actively avoids harmful hazards if possible NEW #1767 - improved fire visuals and added flame tiles! NEW #1767 - Fireangel revisited! (burning 3->1 but added area burn!) NEW #1767 - Callisto-only level modifier "Desolation" NEW #1600 - new Callisto enemy - fanatic NEW #1769 - Warehouse/Infernal Lock revisited! CHANGE #1768 - rotaries have higher chance to hit more targets CHANGE #1770 - improved Io level generators (mostly visual) CHANGE #1767 - burning status prevents regeneration CHANGE #1767 - warlocks do less ranged damage but more burn and flame CHANGE #1767 - visual - Mephitic tier 2 buff has a visual effect CHANGE #1767 - visual - crater decals no longer are always centered CHANGE #1767 - Callisto Mines mechanic is displayed as an event CHANGE #1767 - Endless level variety increased (along with manuf. perks) CHANGE #1727 - you can now swap places with any friendly AI CHANGE #1772 - CRI phase devices sample 2x more possibilities CHANGE #1772 - Wealth and Power wishes improved CHANGE #1767 - burning limited to 50 stacks CHANGE #1766 - improved icon visibility (esp on white backgrounds) FIX #1766 - critical defence (helmets) work against ranged attacks FIX #1766 - fixed several issues with fx system targeting

==What's Next==

Well, it's high time to revisit Dante, right? No worries though, the next update will also bring changes to the early game for you ambitious people struggling to get your first win and refusing to play on Easy :P. And with that, I'll take it Easy for a day or two. And then off to 1.6 and Beyond! Oh, one more thing before we go - if you're new to Jupiter Hell, but you already own POSTAL: Brain Damaged, you can get Jupiter Hell with a special PBD-owner discount through the following bundle: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/26624/Cheesy_OneLiners_Galore Yours, {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33717650/004e98061256dda3ac95738fd8db13a87798daef.png

POSTAL: Brain Damaged - Connoisseur Edition (OST & Art Book bundle!) + upcoming updates!

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1507d ago

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Hyperstrange friends, RWS fam!

Hyperstrange-developed POSTAL: Brain Damaged, the action-packed DOOM Eternal-like spin-off of the POSTAL series is finally here, and if you own any of the eligible RWS or Hyperstrange titles, or some other staple throwback-shooters like DUSK, Hedon, or Nightmare Reaper, you can get PBD with an additional discount added on top of -20% release discount via one of the special bundle deals. Plus, we're happy to report it really SLAPS! With more than 1100 reviews it currently enjoys an 'Overwhelmingly Positive' rating, with more than 95% players recommending the game. https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/38371631/18684ae3b765836c7dde86fa69ffe2737dfcac06.gif Yes, Hyperstrange really pulled this one off. The game is good and the release has been relatively bug-free despite the 2-week delay made explicitly to implement some bugs and stay on-brand. But it wouldn't be a POSTAL release if something haven't gone wrong. Many of you were waiting for the release of the POSTAL: Brain Damaged Official Soundtrack. The wait is finally over! The OST has arrived, and you can get it separately or bundled with the official Art Book in the POSTAL: Brain Damaged - Connoisseur Edition.

UPCOMING UPDATES

The Hyperstrange Dev team is very grateful for the amazing reception of PBD. This gives them even more motivation to improve and expand the game post-release. Here's what to expect soon:

Post-release fix - an update taking care of the known issues reported by the players, that slipped into the full release (ETA: One week)
Balancing update - some players, as well as some internet micro-celebrities, have brought to our attention that the game offers way to much ammo if you explore the levels 'Quake-style', and far too little if you prefer to push on 'Doom Eternal-style'. The update will take care of that issue, allowing everyone to enjoy the game in their preferred playstyle. The update will also reconfigure some of the enemy positioning, spawns, and behavior. (ETA: One month)
New playmodes - With that taken care of, the dev team will proceed to expanding the game itself, introducing an oft-requested horde mode, as well as another playmode offering a new, and replayable PBD experience. (ETA: This summer)
More to be announced!

Hyperstrange and RWS are both extremely pleased with the reception of POSTAL: Brain Damaged. We're as excited as you are, to see what the future will bring to this explosive and twisted spin-off. Your true friends and family,

Hyperstrange & RWS

Jupiter Hell 1.4.0 - Chaos!

slizgisteam_community_announcements

1511d ago

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33717650/21f1051820f78c9d54d6cb15982216db8482ccfb.png Jupiter Hell 1.4 "Chaos" brings the Valhalla flavored upgrades to Europa branches and mainline, introduces a boss at Europa Central Dig, improves level generation (especially of cave/basalt generators), adds more manufacturer perks, several balance changes, buffs to many exotics and uniques and a SHIFT move to instantly swap places with that friendly bot! But first, a word from our sponsor, Raid Sha.... oh wait. I mean from Hyperstrange! The good folks there released POSTAL: Brain Damage to rave reviews (I can't believe I'm writing that about a Postal game...!), whereas their Dude can give the JupeGuy a run for his money in one-liners, I've also spotted a call-out to Jupiter Hell? https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/26624/Cheesy_OneLiners_Galore/ Aaaanyway, back to the update! Let's split this into sections to make the "wall of text" more approachable :P

EUROPA

Just as "Valhalla" overhauled Callisto, "Chaos" does the same for Europa (guess I won't be able to hide what the next release will be about, eh).

== Branch reworks ==

NEW #1732 - Conamara Chaos branch/special rework! NEW #1713 - Dig Zone branch/special rework! NEW #1731 - Asterius branch/special rework! NEW #1750 - Refueling Base/The Pit reworked CHANGE #1737 - improved Europa level generators (mostly visual) Three of the four branches have been given dedicated mechanics and a added reward at the end (Ruins will be overhauled with Io), the level generation has been more or less updated in each branch, although it will mostly be visible in the cave/basalt branches. Improvements have been also made to the mainline and mainline special levels. All special levels have improved rewards. All branches have their own new Manufacturer perk. You might even hear a new tune somewhere!

== Ice Cold Boss ==

NEW #1712 - Europa has a boss too! An old favorite got a new job! However brand new mechanics are present, and you might consider getting some cold resistance for this particular fight!

== Caves & Cliffs ==

CHANGE #1714 - improved cave/basalt level visuals CHANGE #1714 - improved cave/basalt level generators All of the cave and basalt levels got a visual upgrade, and most also got a architectural update for more variety. We'll be revisiting other generators in the next updates too!

== Visuals ==

NEW #1709 - Callisto security visual improvements finished NEW #1745 - Europa security visual improvements We started the Callisto security visual upgrade in the Valhalla release, but now it's complete - human enemies should be much better visible in the dark (insert snarky comment about wanting to get shot here), and Europa security got a similar visibility bump. Some of the enemies look really disturbing, but fear not - you'll never see that 'cause the models are so small ;)

== A taste of Io ==

NEW #1721 - Mephitic Mines branch/special rework! CHANGE #1695 - CRI weapon prefix is a manufacturer now CHANGE #1695 - CRI manufacturer present on alive CRI soldiers/branch CHANGE #1695 - CRI sword/CRI blaster always roll with CRI manufacturer As we left out an Europa branch for the Io update, it was only fair to pick a Io branch to update in this release - Mephitic Mines was chosen as it goes well with our visual basalt generator improvements! Also take careful note on the CRI Manufacturer perk, as it gives a whopping +25% damage against ALL demons, which is a significant buff to all Io weaponry!

== Redacted! ==

NEW #1551 - (there's a new secret in this release, not as huge and not community driven like the last one, but close and personal ;)

GAMEPLAY

It was time for another larger balance pass. Our main objectives were to make the mid-late game a bit harder, make mid-late game loot a bit stronger and more interesting, especially uniques and exotics, and rebalance a bit the master perks.

== Enemies ==

CHANGE #1749 - balance - base/exalt reavers have lower melee dmg/acc CHANGE #1749 - balance - exalted reavers don't get +10% speed CHANGE #1729 - balance - fiend/kerberi/reaver status higher, lower base CHANGE #1729 - balance - sentinels proc cold effects FIX #1746 - fixed rare in-your-face spawns (mostly in mini-levels) Friendly Neighbourhood Reaver was a meme in the community since Early Access, and I though that I dealt with the most annoying cases of this syndrome, but alas some more nerfing is needed. Especially due to a bug in the enemy safe placement system, that if after several attempts it couldn't place the enemy in a requested safe distance... placed them happily on top of you. Now it reduces the attempted range instead of just giving up. Both reavers and exalted reavers were nerfed in their melee oppressiveness. Enemy status effects have been increased to make resistances more worthwhile and change up the gameplay depending what resistances you carry. To offset that, base damage has been lowered.

== Masters ==

CHANGE #1729 - Vampyre - melee restore 8%/12%/20% CHANGE #1729 - Vampyre - grants overhealth CHANGE #1729 - Sharpshooter - resets skill cooldown on kill CHANGE #1729 - Gun Kata - only in opt_range, removed dodge penalties CHANGE #1729 - Gun Kata - single target dual shots from L2 CHANGE #1729 - Gun Kata - critical damage bonus based on proximity CHANGE #1729 - Survivor - no in-combat regeneration, 5/5/10 crit CHANGE #1729 - Ghost - L2/L3 swapped, L3 Stealth cost is 12 CHANGE #1729 - Wizard - smoke cooldown up to 25 Let's get the painful info out of the way - Survivor, Ghost and Wizard are OP, and needed a nerf (the alternative was to rebalance the whole game and all the rest of the traits around them, which would have taken the better part of this year). That said, at the moments the nerfs are slight, and hopefully the buffs to the other Masters will bring them closer in line. Vampyre now grants overhealth (and better melee restore numbers) and Sharpshooter resets cooldowns on kill (for Headshot synergy). Gun Kata got more significant changes - it somehow totally missed the initial idea of getting in between enemies and shooting like mad, and instead became a "snipe from the edge of vision" trait. Worse, due to often missing from that range it became very ammo inefficient and not a great Master at higher difficulties at all. So the plan was simple - make it more Mid-range focused, while making it much stronger to compensate. All dodge penalties have been remove (you even get a +10% extra dodge per shot), firing both pistols at a single target is at L2, and L3 gets a critical damage bonus depending on range (closer = higher) on top of it! Take them out for a spin and tell us what you think!

== Weaponry ==

CHANGE #1729 - balance - 40mm drum launcher - 32 damage/6 capacity CHANGE #1729 - balance - plasma launcher - +10 damage CHANGE #1740 - unique buffs - level the same way regardless of tier CHANGE #1740 - unique buffs - Scrapgun and Void get +1 base damage CHANGE #1740 - unique buffs - Firestorm deals more fire damage CHANGE #1740 - unique buffs - Carnage - +1 opt, +4 clip CHANGE #1740 - unique buffs - Monster and Bloodletter - +20 damage CHANGE #1740 - unique buffs - Overlord works on Guardians/Sentinels CHANGE #1740 - exotic buffs - AWP and CRI blaster +5 damage CHANGE #1740 - exotic buffs - nailgun/super nailgun +2 damage CHANGE #1740 - exotic buffs - micro launcher/power saw +20 damage CHANGE #1740 - exotic buffs - toxin rifle +2 damage Bad things out of the way - it took a NetHack speedrunner to show us how ridiculously overpowered the 40mm drum launcher was, so it (and only it) needed a slight nerf in power. Plasma launchers needed some love. All post-Callisto Uniques got a blanket buff - they level up much quicker now. Apart from that a lot of exotics and uniques got straight-up damage buffs. Oh, and Overlord will now work on Guardians/Sentinels. Take that, Alighieri!

== UI/UX/Other stuff ==

We're constantly dedicated to improving the UI and ease of gameplay, here are the recent changes in that field.

== UI/UX ==

CHANGE #1744 - UI/UX - mouse path uses icons instead of highlights CHANGE #1748 - UI/UX - modded items don't display text description CHANGE #1747 - UI/UX - elevator, term/box/station reveal on clear Mouse mode now has nice visuals indicating the target path, not ugly highlights. Modded items will no longer display the description to give some real estate for mod descriptions (a full blown item view is coming too). Elevators and other items of interest will reveal on level clear, so you won't have to wonder where that *&^(*@) exit is.

== Hacking ==

NEW #1739 - use SHIFT-move to swap position with friendlies CHANGE #1738 - improved friendly pathfinding (esp. for Hunt) It was pretty annoying to move around with an army of bots, now you can quickly swap positions with them using SHIFT! As a bonus, friendly pathfinding got a significant improvement - Hunt commands will be much more reliable now!

== Other stuff ==

CHANGE #1743 - Purgatory - Cathedral hint leads to Inferno unlock CHANGE #1742 - Callisto Mines - 5 turn warning countdown for summon The path to finding the Valhalla release secret has been glorious! You can find information on it in the Wiki (https://jupiterhell.fandom.com/wiki/Purgatory) but to ease access to the Inferno difficulty we made it so that the Cathedral secret leads to the unlock bossfight (this all makes sense in context, I promise). Also those summoned reavers were really annoying in Callisto Mines, so we gave them a countdown warning timer.

== Bugfixes ==

FIX #1729 - stimpacks properly reset Headshot FIX #1733 - status effect text for Freeze/Chilled fixed Several bugfixes and typos have been fixed in addition to the two above.

== Full Changelog ==

Release 1.4 - Chaos - June 13th, 2022 NEW #1712 - Europa has a boss too! NEW #1732 - Conamara Chaos branch/special rework! NEW #1713 - Dig Zone branch/special rework! NEW #1731 - Asterius branch/special rework! NEW #1721 - Mephitic Mines branch/special rework! NEW #1750 - Refueling Base/The Pit reworked NEW #1709 - Callisto security visual improvements finished NEW #1745 - Europa security visual improvements NEW #1739 - use SHIFT-move to swap position with friendlies NEW #1551 - CHANGE #1737 - improved Europa level generators (mostly visual) CHANGE #1714 - improved cave/basalt level visuals CHANGE #1714 - improved cave/basalt level generators CHANGE #1738 - improved friendly pathfinding (esp. for Hunt) CHANGE #1695 - CRI weapon prefix is a manufacturer now CHANGE #1695 - CRI manufacturer present on alive CRI soldiers/branch CHANGE #1695 - CRI sword/CRI blaster always roll with CRI manufacturer CHANGE #1749 - balance - base/exalt reavers have lower melee dmg/acc CHANGE #1749 - balance - exalted reavers don't get +10% speed CHANGE #1729 - balance - fiend/kerberi/reaver status higher, lower base CHANGE #1729 - balance - sentinels proc cold effects CHANGE #1729 - balance - 40mm drum launcher - 32 damage/6 capacity CHANGE #1729 - balance - plasma launcher - +10 damage CHANGE #1729 - Vampyre - melee restore 8%/12%/20% CHANGE #1729 - Vampyre - grants overhealth CHANGE #1729 - Sharpshooter - resets skill cooldown on kill CHANGE #1729 - Gun Kata - only in opt_range, removed dodge penalties CHANGE #1729 - Gun Kata - single target dual shots from L2 CHANGE #1729 - Gun Kata - critical damage bonus based on proximity CHANGE #1729 - Survivor - no in-combat regeneration, 5/5/10 crit CHANGE #1729 - Ghost - L2/L3 swapped, L3 Stealth cost is 12 CHANGE #1729 - Wizard - smoke cooldown up to 25 CHANGE #1740 - unique buffs - level the same way regardless of tier CHANGE #1740 - unique buffs - Scrapgun and Void get +1 base damage CHANGE #1740 - unique buffs - Firestorm deals more fire damage CHANGE #1740 - unique buffs - Carnage - +1 opt, +4 clip CHANGE #1740 - unique buffs - Monster and Bloodletter - +20 damage CHANGE #1740 - unique buffs - Overlord works on Guardians/Sentinels CHANGE #1740 - exotic buffs - AWP and CRI blaster +5 damage CHANGE #1740 - exotic buffs - nailgun/super nailgun +2 damage CHANGE #1740 - exotic buffs - micro launcher/power saw +20 damage CHANGE #1740 - exotic buffs - toxin rifle +2 damage CHANGE #1744 - UI/UX - mouse path uses icons instead of highlights CHANGE #1748 - UI/UX - modded items don't display text description CHANGE #1747 - UI/UX - elevator, term/box/station reveal on clear CHANGE #1743 - Purgatory - Cathedral hint leads to Inferno unlock CHANGE #1742 - Callisto Mines - 5 turn warning countdown for summon FIX #1746 - fixed rare in-your-face spawns (mostly in minilevels) FIX #1729 - stimpacks properly reset Headshot FIX #1733 - status effect text for Freeze/Chilled fixed

== What's next ==

It doesn't take an oracle to foresee that the next update will be all about Io! We do plan some additional more early-game improvements for it too, so stay tuned even if you constantly die on Europa :P. Jupiter Hell 1.5 "Ancient" is tentatively scheduled for the beginning of August to celebrate a year since Jupiter Hell got a full release! That's all for today folks, and now time for some really really needed rest. I'll give myself a few hours, maybe even a full day! xD Yours, {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33717650/004e98061256dda3ac95738fd8db13a87798daef.png

Jupiter Hell 1.3.0 - Valhalla!

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1602d ago

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33717650/66d056dff0d32db28a5f73ba2e1244ba0f8b9e29.png Jupiter Hell 1.3 "Valhalla" brings an overhaul to Callisto branches and mainline, a new boss at Valhalla Spaceport, level generation improvements, manufacturer perks, slowing smoke, experimental localization (Polish and German for now) and secrets! There's one big secret in the game, for which you won't find spoilers anywhere, but hopefully the search for it will stir the community - jump by the Jupiter Hell discord if you want to take part in the hunt! https://discord.gg/jupiterhell Read down below for details! But first...

== Special Offer ==

The Valhalla update calls for a special 30% discount - the biggest one yet! - and for something more... Viking-ish to add to the mix. If you like tactics, chances are you also like strategy. If you enjoy traditional roguelikes, you may get a kick out of discovering modern RTS games. If you love to control every careful step of a bad-ass space-marine, you may also like ordering around hosts of broad-shouldered Vikings. Yeah... I've got nothing. It's a low-fantasy RTS bundled with a horror/Sci-Fi roguelike. Because after all, why wouldn't you want to try something different? https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/25281/ Frozenheim is a serene Norse city builder with elaborate management gameplay and RTS tactical combat. Lead your Viking clan through hardships of the frozen north, season by season, year after year. Build and survive. Set sail, explore and conquer. Win Odin’s favor and secure your place in Valhalla! If you already own one, you can get the other at an extra 10% discount (on top of any other discounts that might be active at the time). Enjoy! And now... back to our regular schedule.

== Valhalla Spaceport ==

Spaceport, the final Callisto level, got a rework! Not only is the level generator significantly improved, the mechanics and visuals improved, but there's a new boss that guards the path to the Europa Dropship! All praise the Callisto Warden, and be carful not to damage him too much at once ;).

== Callisto Rework ==

All of Callisto special levels and level generators have been revisited. Each branch has now it's own special mechanic that affects the final special level, and sometimes the rest of Callisto or even the rest of the game! Level generators both in the branches as well as in the mainline have been improved and the two special levels accessible from mainline also got reward, generator and mechanical improvements! Each branch also has a manufacturer perk - EVERY non-Unique and non-ADV weapon (exotics ARE included) that spawns there will have an extra free perk that is dependent on the branch! Currently there are three manufacturers with three separate effects - JS (JoviSec), VS (ValSec) and MDF (Mimir Defence Force). The effects are minor but if modded (or on an exotic) can really push the capabilities of the weapon!

== Gameplay Changes ==

This release we focused on what you explore and not who you are, but one big mechanical change has snuck in - Smoke (but not gas!) now slows movement of anyone standing in it. However, the technician, master of smoke, is immune to this effect! Not only does this increase the utility of smoke grenades, but also improves the disengage mechanics of the tech, and provides more utility to non-Toxicologist builds! There are some slight buffs to a few post-Callisto enemies - the Callisto loot is now much better, so we wanted to keep the difficulty curve consistent. More of such changes will come with 1.4. As Callisto L2 was always the most boring level that stood between you and the game getting interesting, we made it so that it generates at 2/3 size and 2/3 enemies so you can get to the mid-game quicker :P. Cover tiles are no longer made of paper, duh.

== Visual Improvements ==

Each generator that we revisited has been enhanced with more visual details, as well as we finally added tech that allows for decals to be placed on generation - Callisto levels now have a bit of blood scattered in them, and we'll use this tech for further improvements down the line! You'll also notice that we also implemented lighting/state control - this can be currently observed by the effect you get on Lockdown events - more is yet to come! Lighting and particle effects have been slightly improved in many places, and more light sources placed in Callisto levels (it was f*&*^ng dark there -_-).

== Other Stuff ==

The big thing is probably experimental localization support - we start off with Polish and German, but more languages will come! The localization is against the last update, so new stuff will appear in English, we'll patch that soon :). Please report any misaligned strings though, and any potential crashes (hopefully none!)! Several minor changes have been done, and a regular batch of bugfixes (see details below).

== Raw Changelog ==

Release 1.3 - Valhalla - March 14th, 2022 NEW #1684 - welcome the CalSec Warden, the new boss of Callisto! NEW #1662 - Valhalla Terminal branch/special rework! NEW #1666 - Mimir Habitat branch/special rework! NEW #1664 - Callisto Rift branch/special rework! NEW #1665 - Callisto Mines branch/special rework! NEW #1696 - regular/exotic weapons can have a manufacturer perk! NEW #1704 - smoke causes Slow -25%, techs are immune to this NEW #1680 - CHANGE #1697 - improved Barracks/Docks and their rewards CHANGE #1684 - Valhalla Spaceport got a facelift and mechanics CHANGE #1702 - Callisto L2 is 2/3 size (and enemy count) CHANGE #1604 - Callisto L1-L3 generators improved CHANGE #1709 - improved Callisto security textures for visibility CHANGE #1604 - improved lighting in all Callisto levels CHANGE #1604 - added random decals (mostly blood) in Callisto CHANGE #0416 - destroyed doors will lose their icons CHANGE #0416 - minor changes to door icons and icon color CHANGE #1670 - Gunrunner reloads both weapons on move if dualwield CHANGE #1668 - all ravagers get +20 health CHANGE #1668 - guardian shell back to 80% CHANGE #1700 - increased cover health CHANGE #1661 - target reticule on big enemies is expanded CHANGE #1682 - big enemies are visible as long as any tile is CHANGE #1683 - every big enemy tile can be targeted CHANGE #1688 - friendly units wont attack disabled enemies CHANGE #1688 - Shutdown CalSec gives XP at level enter, not instant CHANGE #1696 - JS revolver renamed to ".44 HE revolver" CHANGE #1702 - The Pit has a safe zone around elevator CHANGE #1604 - bumping vending machines drops their content CHANGE #1672 - Endless L1 will never generate events CHANGE #1702 - L2 infestations are smaller CHANGE #1674 - several minor lighting sources have been adjusted CHANGE #1674 - several particle sources have been adjusted FIX #1693 - Toxicologist L2 converts smoke 'nades (was L3) FIX #1671 - medusa's Slithering shows percentage again FIX #0416 - you can no longer close the destroyed half of a door

== What's Next? ==

Next up is 1.4 "Chaos", taking its name from "Conamara Chaos" - which will do for Europa and Io the same that Valhalla did for Callisto :). The update should land in about two months - hope you're excited as we are! This is the end of the official patch notes, read further only if you want Callisto spoilers!

== Spoilers ==

These are just hints to get started: * Valhalla Terminal - there's a new option on the terminal in each Terminal level... * Mimir Habitat - there's a MDF drone on each level... * Callisto Rift - I wonder what that valve on each level does... * Callisto Mines - there's a point on the minimap when you enter... If you want full spoilers, a dev interview was done on this version by BlindiRL which has a lot of details - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veFTz6rF2Xw Good luck RNG! Yours, {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33717650/004e98061256dda3ac95738fd8db13a87798daef.png

Blood West - our immersive stealth shooter is live on Steam. Special offer for ELDERBORN owners!

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1634d ago

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Hyperstrange friends!

We're proud to present our second full-scaled original title, Blood West, an immersive stealth shooter inspired by such classics as S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Thief, System Shock, Deus Ex, or Blood, but also hugely influenced by Crytek's excellent online title - Hunt: Showdown, while being a strictly single-player experience itself. There's a lot of ways to describe it, but it is best that you see for yourself - here's a chunky, 25-minute developer-gameplay, going through one of the first quests and showcasing some basic, and more advanced mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO6UmF0-9FU To sum up the Blood West experience in a few bulletpoints:

Blood West is not a non-stop action-focused velocity shooter. It's best taken slow, and thoughtfully, with sneaking, surveying the surroundings, planning your attacks, and going head-first into combat only when you're sure you're at an advantage.
Combat mechanics in Blood West are more complex than you might expect. Enemies have weak spots (usually the head), and can take a lot of damage before dying, unless you use their vulnerabilities.
Weapons have different stats, and usually guns that you loot from the enemies or find discarded somewhere, are old and rusty, and won't perform great. There are also different types of ammo, and some are more effective against certain enemy types than the others.
Your character - the Revenant Gunslinger - gains experience, and levels up. When that happens, you get some skill points to distribute unlocking very useful perks in the character screen. Different perk+weapon combinations allow for very different approaches to the game. Try different playstyles!

We hope you'll enjoy our newest game, a true labor of love.

Special offer for ELDERBORN players

The Hyperstrange Originals Bundle is our way to once again say thank you to all the Steam players who purchased the Hyperstrange debut title, ELDERBORN. It put us on the map and allowed us to grow, following our ambitions as a indie dev studio. Blood West is one of the effects of this pursuit. We'd like to offer all of our past supporters to check it out with a special 20% discount, that stacks with any other active discounts that may be in place. https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/38371631/29096be1109c6802917d5d9ab6062d172641c4de.png

Keep on rockin!

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Jupiter Hell 1.2.0 - Varia!

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1693d ago

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Exactly 5 years ago, Jupiter Hell has been funded on Kickstarter, let's celebrate that with a release, shall we? Brace yourselves, as this is - once again - a lengthy post and changelog!

Jupiter Hell 1.2 "Varia" brings a variety of changes, and changes that bring variety (see what we did there? :P). We have the player requested Mouse support (although it should be considered experimental still), a ton of new Callisto exotics, plasma SMGs (and unique SMGs!), new weapon perks, a big variety improvement of the traits (including master traits), a rework of damage type resistances (and affinities and vulnerabilities) and minor Callisto and Europa reward improvements. It's a lot to go over so lets split our changelog into sections - raw changelog is at the end as usual! Be sure to drop by the Jupiter Hell Discord (https://discord.gg/jupiterhell) if you have any questions - it's the best place to find help, discuss strategies, share mortems or videos of Jupiter Hell. The devs are very active there too!

== Mouse support! ==

While we still believe that Jupiter Hell is best played with a keyboard or gamepad only, we agree that an option for mouse control is great as an accessability feature, and probably also will be the prefered way to play by some people. JH 1.2 introduces experimental Mouse support. It's experimental in the sense that we didn't have enough time testing it, so there still might be bugs, and it isn't fully integrated into the game (no mouse tooltips, no tutorial support and the only source of help is in the help menu). That said, ALL the functionality (apart from name entry) is in the game, so it can be fully played without touching the gamepad or the keyboard :P. Enable mouse support in Settings/Input Settings by switching Mouse Support to "Active", and definitely read the Mouse and Mouse UI section in Help to get started! Feedback on mouse control needed and very welcome!

NEW #1174 - Mouse support (experimental)

== New gear! ==

Early game exotics

As a part of our long standing goal of early game improvement we noticed that the variety of exotic loot in Callisto is very lacking (I mean, who gets excited at the 121st 9mm calibrated to drop?). This update introduces 13 (!!) new exotic weapons that can drop in Callisto, each with a unique perk, many designed to be strong in the earlier part of the game helping to transition into mid and late game gear. 2 armors, 2 visors, and 9 weapons have been added to the loot pool, each of them dropping from at latest depth 3!

NEW #1591 - 13 new early game exotics!

Plasma SMGs

SMG builds didn't have a late game version of their favored weapon, so we fixed that. At the same time we fixed the horrible oversight of SMGs not having Unique's to be found! Plasma SMGs come with ADV variants, and 3 new Uniques in the loot pool.

NEW #1591 - plasma SMG added (and ADV variants)
NEW #1584 - 3 unique SMGs added! (early, mid and late)

New weapon perks

We took a critical look at the weapon ADV perk pool, decided to remove the unpopular and usually worthless Finisher perk, and instead introduced 6 new perks to spice up the variety of ADV weapons found. I'll use this section to also mention that CRI rail rifles got scopes that they were missing due to an oversight, and we buffed 7.62 snipers by a bit too!

NEW #1652 - 5 new perks for ADV weapons added
CHANGE #1625 - removed Finisher weapon perk, added Ambush perk
CHANGE #1603 - CRI rail rifle comes with a scope
CHANGE #1603 - 7.62 sniper damage 24 -> 25

== Trait changes! ==

Following further with the goal of improving early game, we also decided that it will be more beneficial for the game if picking early traits doesn't railroad characters into specific builds. We started those changes in 1.1, but only now can these changes truly shine. We took a deep look at every class in the game, with the goal of improving build variety, making traits have more character and opening up interesting new builds!

Marine trait changes

With Marine we wanted to have more gameplay around the Fury mechanic, and wanted to decouple the melee only traits into something that might be useful in non-melee builds in some edge cases. Vampyre now has a weaker effect if using non-melee weapons opening up for hybrid builds, Rip and Tear grants fury for non-melee kills and Furious grants a straight damage bonus on Adrenaline use. Army of Darkness was in a relatively good spot, but we wanted to give it some flavor. It now gives bonus to chainsaw damage and grants zero-time melee weapon swap to open up some proper hybrid gameplay options. If you know why a chainsaw specifically, then you had a groovy childhood like we did! Tough as Nails needed some love and gets a pain penalty removal functionality - without removing the pain status, so Adrenaline still works fully! Field Medic additionally grants faster medkit/stim use.

CHANGE #1602 - Vampyre works with non-melee weapons (but weaker)
CHANGE #1627 - Rip and Tear grants Fury for non-melee kills also
CHANGE #1627 - Furious loses fury generation on gibbing
CHANGE #1627 - Furious grants damage bonus when using Adrenaline
CHANGE #1627 - Marine Skilled increases Tenacity heal by 10%/lvl
CHANGE #1602 - Army of Darkness gains zero melee weapon swap time
CHANGE #1602 - Army of Darkness gains chainsaw damage bonus
CHANGE #1603 - TaN L2 provides -50% pain penalty, L3 removes it
CHANGE #1603 - Field Medic L2+ adds small medkit/stim use time bonus
CHANGE #1603 - Field Medic requires only one level of Ironman

Scout trait changes

Scout needed mostly a specific buff to the Assassinate master, and especially the hybrid Swashbuckler/Assassinate build. The former, while owning easier difficulties was definitely too dangerous for higher challenges, so we rebuild it with a charge mechanic that prevents it from going off the rails on Easy, but added crit chance bonuses and auto-hit so it can shine even in higher difficulties. Swashbuckler has been straight up buffed with the damage bonus now slowly degrading instead of being removed after using the other weapon group. Fairly casual gameplay with swapping between guns and melee will now fairly steadily maintain a +50% damage bonus. Speaking of melee, Gunrunner now works with melee, adding a third pure melee master option after Assassinate and Ghost builds, and even more opening up Scout to hybrid gameplay! Skilled has been buffed to provide an additional benefit of increasing energy, while Eagle Eye at level 3 now halves enemy cover. Speaking of Eagle Eye, Whizkid, Ghost and Gunrunner no longer require it, not to penalize pure melee builds.

CHANGE #1603 - Assassinate uses charges mechanic
CHANGE #1603 - Assassinate always hits, +50/100 crit chance at L1/L2
CHANGE #1603 - Swashbuckler bonus now degrades instead of removed
CHANGE #1603 - Gunrunner works with melee
CHANGE #1603 - Scout Skilled L1 and L3 increase Energy by 10
CHANGE #1603 - Eagle Eye L3 halves enemy cover
CHANGE #1603 - Whizkid and Ghost require Hacking L1 instead of EE L1
CHANGE #1603 - Gunrunner requires Son of a Gun L1 instead of EE L1

Technician trait changes

With Tech we really wanted to make him more unique by digging into status effects (which got big changes, see below) and grenades. Fireangel has it's namesake effect kick in from Level 1, and gives a bonus to ALL burning damage that you deal. Find a suitable relic or a nice Molten weapon? You'll be much more effective with it than a regular marine ;). Similarly Toxicologist got a blanket toxin damage buff at L1, and does smoke nade conversion at L2. This ties directly to the next buff, Grenadier L1 and L2 give a grenade damage boost (and they now crit if you have skills or items that increase general crit chance!).

CHANGE #1603 - Fireangel sets things on fire since L1
CHANGE #1587 - Fireangel L2/L3 grants +50%/+100% to ALL Burning
CHANGE #1587 - Toxicologist L2 - smoke nades, L3 +50% ALL toxin procs
CHANGE #1637 - Grenadier L1/L2 - +25%/+50% nade damage, no gib bonus
FIX #1636 - grenades can now crit and use other character buffs
FIX #1602 - Sharpshooter didn't increase auto/semi max range

Other trait changes

We cleaned up the trait descriptions to a pleasing universal format, and did two changes to the more general traits. While Ironman health bonus has been nerfed from +20% to +10% (giving an option for the health stations to shine more) this is because it also grants the important bleed resistance, giving it a wider desirability. Son of a Gun got a buff back to it's roots - while it stays weapon agnostic (did you know it works with melee and 'nades?), ADDITIONALLY it adds pistol/revolver range bonuses, to strengthen the early game of those pistol builds that we love. Gun Kata is once again, a bloodbath without incident :P

CHANGE #1603 - Ironman adds only +10% HP, but also bleed resistance
CHANGE #1628 - Son of a Gun adds pistol only range bonuses
CHANGE #1627 - trait descriptions cleanup

== Other changes! ==

Damage types and status effects

In spirit of enabling more fun synergies and combinations we decided to do a deeper dive into damage types and status effects. Apart from resistances now the game has negative resistances (vulnerability) and affinities (bonus to all damage done with a damage type/status). We added vulnerabilities to many relics (instead of the boring damage debuff) for more interesting gameplay and also status affinities to several ones too (and some traits as you might have read already above). There are also more interesting interactions between damage types - for example burning damage now cauterizes bleeding effect. More useful though is that bleeding prevents regeneration effects. This is only a slight problem for the player (if using a regeneration relic, Heart buff or Survivor), but is very useful against some enemies - regenerating exalted or enemies under the warlock aura! Speaking of which we removed the bleed resistance from Warlocks and enemies under their aura to emphasize and encourage this counterplay. Oh, and frag grenades now cause bleeding - finally having a use late-game and providing a cheap source of bleed at the same time! EMP had only limited (but powerful) use - now however it will also affect semi-mechanical enemies (think which demons have grafted metal/armor) damaging them partially and slowing them down (but never disabling). To make things interesting, the boss stages 1 and 2 are now considered semi-mechanical too. Having access to the vulnerability mechanic, we could not resist making some enemies vulnerable, and hence fire fiends have cold vulnerability, while ice fiends, cyroberi and cryoreavers - fire vulnerability.

CHANGE #1631 - several minor relics grant status effect buffs
CHANGE #1631 - minor fire/ice relics -100% resist instead of -damage
CHANGE #1633 - bleeding now prevents regeneration
CHANGE #1633 - Burning damage cauterizes Bleeding
CHANGE #1633 - frag grenades cause bleeding
CHANGE #1633 - Warlock aura no longer grants +50% bleed resistance
CHANGE #1633 - Warlocks no longer have bleed resistance (Archs 50%)
CHANGE #1587 - resistances are displayed uncapped
CHANGE #1587 - fire fiends have cold vulnerability
CHANGE #1587 - ice fiends, cryoberi and cryoreavers- fire vulnerab.
CHANGE #1587 - bots now have only 50% fire resistance
CHANGE #1630 - semi-mechanicals can be harmed with emp damage (50%)
CHANGE #1630 - boss stage 1 and 2 is semi-mechanical
CHANGE #1587 - emp and toxin resistances displayed on bots and bio
CHANGE #1587 - slash/impact/pierce resistances (with display)
FIX #1611 - Acid status shows damage amount
FIX #1587 - fixed some edge cases with wrong damage value display

Level generation changes

Preparing for the big Callisto changes coming in the next update (1.3) we decided to make the current special levels a bit more visit-worthy - Anomaly, Rift and Barracks rewards have been improved. We also noticed that Europa Ruins and Shadow Halls duo had a way lower amount of chests than intended - this has been significantlt improved. Frozen Temple is easier to open on Nightmare+, while Cathedral has a small added secret interaction - no hints are provided :P

CHANGE #1642 - improved Anomaly, Rift and Military Barracks rewards
CHANGE #1643 - Europa Ruins/Shadow Halls have a guaranteed box count
CHANGE #1643 - on N!+ Frozen Temple also opens after 125% kills
CHANGE #1578 - new small Cathedral secret added
FIX #1617 - CalSec shutdown will properly disable Rift enemies

== Bugfixes! ==

And finally there' the usual splatter of bugfixes!

Gameplay bugfixes

FIX #1636 - fixed chainfire weapons that didn't stop when dead
FIX #1587 - Firecrown properly awards experience on kills
FIX #1618 - Journal entries will not archive entering minilevels
FIX #1625 - TAINTED properly shows up in enemy view
FIX #1639 - zero-time action will always be queued next
FIX #1638 - fixed status update on zero-time weapon swaps
FIX #1611 - stage 1 of the boss properly has size 1 melee-wise
FIX #1611 - boss conversion will not misplace player visually
FIX #1654 - fixed manufacture hint about perks for stock items
FIX #1641 - weapons with 100+ mag will display correctly

Engine bugfixes

FIX #1644 - proper stretch of low-health overlay on widescreen
FIX #1644 - fixed low-health overlay on some systems
FIX #1619 - opt outline will no longer disappear on fullbody FX
FIX #1653 - fixed Discord activity always showing "MED" diff

That's all the details you need - now let's sum this all up in the usual...

== Raw Changelog! ==

Release 1.2 - Varia - December 13th, 2021 NEW #1174 - Mouse support (experimental) NEW #1591 - 13 new early game exotics! NEW #1591 - plasma SMG added (and ADV variants) NEW #1584 - 3 unique SMGs added! (early, mid and late) NEW #1652 - 5 new perks for ADV weapons added CHANGE #1602 - Vampyre works with non-melee weapons (but weaker) CHANGE #1602 - Army of Darkness gains zero melee weapon swap time CHANGE #1602 - Army of Darkness gains chainsaw damage bonus CHANGE #1627 - Rip and Tear grants Fury for non-melee kills also CHANGE #1603 - Ironman adds only +10% HP, but also bleed resistance CHANGE #1603 - TaN L2 provides -50% pain penalty, L3 removes it CHANGE #1603 - Field Medic L2+ adds small medkit/stim use time bonus CHANGE #1603 - Field Medic requires only one level of Ironman CHANGE #1627 - Furious loses fury generation on gibbing CHANGE #1627 - Furious grants damage bonus when using Adrenaline CHANGE #1627 - Marine Skilled increases Tenacity heal by 10%/lvl CHANGE #1628 - Son of a Gun adds pistol only range bonuses CHANGE #1603 - Assassinate uses charges mechanic CHANGE #1603 - Assassinate always hits, +50/100 crit chance at L1/L2 CHANGE #1603 - Scout Skilled L1 and L3 increase Energy by 10 CHANGE #1603 - Swashbuckler bonus now degrades instead of removed CHANGE #1603 - Eagle Eye L3 halves enemy cover CHANGE #1603 - Whizkid and Ghost require Hacking L1 instead of EE L1 CHANGE #1603 - Gunrunner requires Son of a Gun L1 instead of EE L1 CHANGE #1603 - Gunrunner works with melee CHANGE #1603 - Fireangel sets things on fire since L1 CHANGE #1587 - Fireangel L2/L3 grants +50%/+100% to ALL Burning CHANGE #1587 - Toxicologist L2 - smoke nades, L3 +50% ALL toxin procs CHANGE #1637 - Grenadier L1/L2 - +25%/+50% nade damage, no gib bonus CHANGE #1627 - trait descriptions cleanup CHANGE #1603 - 7.62 sniper damage 24 -> 25 CHANGE #1603 - CRI rail rifle comes with a scope CHANGE #1631 - several minor relics grant status effect buffs CHANGE #1631 - minor fire/ice relics -100% resist instead of -damage CHANGE #1633 - bleeding now prevents regeneration CHANGE #1633 - Burning damage cauterizes Bleeding CHANGE #1633 - frag grenades cause bleeding CHANGE #1587 - fire fiends have cold vulnerability CHANGE #1587 - ice fiends, cryoberi and cryoreavers- fire vulnerab. CHANGE #1587 - bots now have only 50% fire resistance CHANGE #1630 - semi-mechanicals can be harmed with emp damage (50%) CHANGE #1630 - boss stage 1 and 2 is semi-mechanical CHANGE #1587 - resistances are displayed uncapped CHANGE #1587 - emp and toxin resistances displayed on bots and bio CHANGE #1587 - slash/impact/pierce resistances (with display) CHANGE #1633 - Warlock aura no longer grants +50% bleed resistance CHANGE #1633 - Warlocks no longer have bleed resistance (Archs 50%) CHANGE #1625 - removed Finisher weapon perk, added Ambush perk CHANGE #1642 - improved Anomaly, Rift and Military Barracks rewards CHANGE #1643 - Europa Ruins/Shadow Halls have a guaranteed box count CHANGE #1643 - on N!+ Frozen Temple also opens after 125% kills CHANGE #1578 - new small Cathedral secret added FIX #1611 - Acid status shows damage amount FIX #1636 - grenades can now crit and use other character buffs FIX #1636 - fixed chainfire weapons that didn't stop when dead FIX #1602 - Sharpshooter didn't increase auto/semi max range FIX #1587 - fixed some edge cases with wrong damage value display FIX #1587 - Firecrown properly awards experience on kills FIX #1617 - CalSec shutdown will properly disable Rift enemies FIX #1618 - Journal entries will not archive entering minilevels FIX #1625 - TAINTED properly shows up in enemy view FIX #1639 - zero-time action will always be queued next FIX #1638 - fixed status update on zero-time weapon swaps FIX #1611 - stage 1 of the boss properly has size 1 melee-wise FIX #1611 - boss conversion will not misplace player visually FIX #1641 - weapons with 100+ mag will display correctly FIX #1644 - proper stretch of low-health overlay on widescreen FIX #1644 - fixed low-health overlay on some systems FIX #1619 - opt outline will no longer disappear on fullbody FX FIX #1653 - fixed Discord activity always showing "MED" diff FIX #1654 - fixed manufacture hint about perks for stock items

== What's next! ==

Jupier Hell 1.3, currently codenamed "Valhalla", will be out between February/March, and will feature an overhaul to the Callisto zone, including several additions that will make the first half hour of a run more interesting and prettier! It will be either accompanied or preceded by a language update, bringing German, Russian, and Polish translations to Jupiter Hell. As this is the last mainline release of 2021 we wanted to wish you Happy Holidays and an excellent New Year! We're sure to do our part so that Jupiter Hell can still deliver new experiences and joy throughout 2022 :D Yours, {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33717650/004e98061256dda3ac95738fd8db13a87798daef.png

Jupiter Hell 1.1.0 - Exordium! + Week-long promo

slizgisteam_community_announcements

1756d ago

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33717650/30af721818e92de30e840644fad2d4811bc771ed.png Once again thank you for the terrific reception of Jupiter Hell full release! It's time for the new beginning, kicking off post-release updates with Jupiter Hell 1.1 Exordium! The update release is accompanied by a week-long promo, so if you were holding off to see how the game is going to fare after the release, you can grab it now, 20% off. This is a variety update, including UI/UX improvements, new early game enemy and weapons, and a huge improvement in character build variety! Many of which features will be continued in 1.2 - we decided to bring you the first set of them early, and you can read all about them below! Both 1.1 and 1.2 (which will hopefully land this year), are targeted at improving three main areas of the game - UI/UX and gameplay information, trait changes and build variety and early game improvements. We decided to split the update information (and changelog!) into these three sections. Wanna know all the details? Grab something to drink, this will take a while.

== UI/UX and gameplay information ==

Multiple save slots

A highly requested QOL feature has been added - you can now have multiple saved games running in parallel (no longer will that Endless run lock you out of enjoying the rest of the game :P). Moreover, the game will detect if you have saves from a previous version, and mark and store them for you - if you accidentally update and have an old save game lying around - no worries! You can switch to "previous" branch with the previous version, finish your run, and update back to mainline from Steam beta branch functionality :).

Character and enemy information

The character screen ("c" or navigating left/right from inventory/equipment), has received an overhaul - you have descriptions of what the current status effects mean, information on your current speed, detailed resistances information and more. Arguably more important, you have a similar screen for enemies (press h when targeting an enemy, or Right Trigger + Left Stick on the pad) - including precise health, description of all its status effects, detailed armor and weapon stats.

Other UI/UX improvements

There's a new Settings option for remembering your last entered name, even between sessions. You can pair it up with disabling name entry after a run to permanently set the name of the character. There's a new Setting for enabling constant outlines for enemies and the players for better visibility. Target reticule color is based on hit chance. When aiming manually, the squares are colored according to range (red is beyond max, green is within optimal, yellow is either below minimum or above optimal). Key repeat works in UI menus, there's no VO quip when topping off ammo with full inventory, and there's an alert on armor/headgear destruction. More status effects have their time left to end displayed in the status bar. Bottom right corner has a mini-display of how long your last action took in in-game seconds. Related Changelog entries NEW #0694 - support for multiple save slots! NEW #1545 - constant outline option in Settings/Display NEW #1595 - new character information screen! (c) NEW #1593 - new enemy information screen! (h when targeting) NEW #1547 - "Remember last name" option in Settings CHANGE #1543 - key repeat works for UI menus CHANGE #1595 - last action time displayed on UI CHANGE #1585 - you can only target in vision range CHANGE #1408 - incompatible saves will no longer be removed CHANGE #1558 - target reticule color based on hit chance CHANGE #1558 - manual targeting highlight by range CHANGE #1577 - no voice when topping off ammo CHANGE #1573 - alert messages on armor/headgear destruction CHANGE #1343 - resistances are percentage based CHANGE #1595 - removed "enemies left" information (metagaming) CHANGE #1568 - stimmed, juiced, adrenaline have turns left in UI

Further work

The character/enemy information is step 1 on the path to a full Hellpedia - expect it soon, along with enemy flavor descriptions and such! Also in progress is full mouse support that should make it into 1.2 also. We're also considering a detail screen for items too.

== Trait changes and build variety ==

The 1.0 traits, apart from a few exceptions, railroaded the player build into specific weapon groups. Sometimes the choice for a weapon group for the run had to be made very early, making finding nice exotics or uniques feel quite painful if they didn't fit your build. As part of improving early game, we decided to lift many restrictions to traits to allow broader build variety and broader weapon usability withing a given build.

Basic traits

Sustained fire and Son of a Gun have been reworked - and they now work with all ranged weapons.

Masters

Masters are now available earlier (L6), further levels available every 4 levels, and have less prerequisites in general. This should provide for more build variety and more options within a given build. Bulletstorm now works with auto's - granting them additionally +1 shot at L2. Sharpshooter works with auto's and semis, while Sniper works with ALL ranged weapons.

Balance

As Son of a Gun lost its range benefits, Gunslinger opt-range penalty has been reduced, and Headshot has received a massive accuracy bonus. Entrenchment was a bit too dangerous to use, so now it grants resistances when used. Vampyre needed a bit of love, heals 5/7.5/10 of both armor and health depending on target. Survivor was the only Master we deemed in need of a nerf - the damage bonus only is applied when below the regeneration gate, but is much stronger to further flesh out its risky playstyle. The increased usage possibility of auto weapons meant they needed a slight range nerf not to overshadow dedicated long and short range weapons for their respective traits. Related Changelog entries CHANGE #1571 - Master traits require level 6, less prereqs CHANGE #1569 - Vampyre buff - 5/7.5/10 for both armor and health CHANGE #1569 - Entrenchment additionally grants all resistances CHANGE #1569 - Bulletstorm works with auto's - +1 shot at L2 CHANGE #1569 - Sniper works with all ranged weapons CHANGE #1569 - Sharpshooter works with auto's and semi's CHANGE #1586 - Sustained fire is weapon agnostic CHANGE #1586 - Son of a Gun is weapon agnostic, no range bonuses CHANGE #1586 - Gunslinger opt-range penalty reduced by 1 CHANGE #1586 - Headshot grants accuracy bonus CHANGE #1569 - Survivor crit bonus counted from below 25% CHANGE #1569 - Survivor crit bonus increases with level CHANGE #1589 - nerf - auto range 2/3/8->7, assault 2/4->3/8

Further work

Apart from balance changes (more below), some traits still are too restricted and should open up for more weapons. While there are a few Masters that are "signature" (Gun Kata with pistols/SMGs, Blademaster with blades, etc) we generally want to have Masters and traits that still leave some choice in the weapon department.

== Early game improvements ==

Grenadiers and grenade launchers

Starting out we have a new enemy, the grenadier, which is designed to break the movement and engagement patterns in the early game. He also brings the new grenade launcher (with dedicated 40mm grenade ammo) which is a great early game swap weapon for crowd control. Grenade launchers also have their ADV variants added, and there's a new exotic grenade launcher to be found.

Level generation

We also started a long term revamp of level generation and improvements. Some early changes should already be noticable in the early Callisto level generators. We also are improving the lighting situation - Callisto was way too dark!

Early game gameplay

Melee fans will enjoy the fact that knives know come with intristic Resilient perk. Early game ADV rolls (9mm pistol, auto, SMG and shotgun) can now roll with higher perk values. Related Changelog entries NEW #1597 - new early game weapon type - grenade launchers! NEW #1598 - new humanoid enemy - grenadiers! CHANGE #1569 - knives have intristic resilent perk CHANGE #1597 - ADV grenade and rocket added to manuf. stations CHANGE #1572 - improved lighting on several Callisto levels CHANGE #1572 - improves some visuals and levgen on Callisto CHANGE #1589 - early game weapons can have better AV values

Further work

This is just the beginning of several early game improvements we have planned. We are aware that early game is currently the weakest and most repetetive part of the experience. Along with trait changes providing more options in the early game, we plan to add more early game enemies, more encounters, more level variety and level features. We're also considering some changes to character creation too - stay tuned!

== The rest ==

New stuff

3 new unique weapons have been added (1 auto, 2 rotary), so there's now 3 of each - auto and rotary weapons, one early, one mid and one late game. New windchill event is added to Europa levels. Enviropacks and large and small combat packs have been added to the consumable department. The former provide a huge and fairly long resistance boost to allow exploring status heavy areas even for players without the proper resists (or survive tough fights), while the latter are a regeneration alternative to medkits - possible to pop BEFORE a hard engagement.

Balance

Event XP has been halved as it was often a make or break thing for early game - the general amount of XP available on every level has been increased to compensate. CalSec and Valhalla shutdown XP is unchanged. Plasma weapons have been buffed to be a more viable switch possibility even if you have good early game gear. Nightmare respawn has been modified. We intended to have the respawn be a clock that keeps the player on the move. Instead Nightmare and above became a gate that allows only gib-heavy builds. Hence, gibbing no longer prevents respawn, only makes it take longer, to open up more build variety. We also didn't want fighting respawns to be the meat of the N!+ experience, so the respawn timers have been increased. Oh, and Molten wont appear on AV weapons anymore, no reason to burn yourself :P

Bugfixes

The regular supply of bugfixes also got in. Several enemies got missing resistances, exalted kerberi will properly appear in mortem files, Radeon users will see the low health screen effect and micro launchers will now appear as often as they were meant to. Related Changelog entries NEW #1583 - 3 new unique weapons (1 auto, 2 rotary)! NEW #1568 - added enviropack, combat pack (large and small) NEW #1576 - new windchill level event CHANGE #1567 - negative healing mods affect large med/stimpacks CHANGE #1581 - halved XP gained from events CHANGE #1581 - increased per-level XP spawn size to compensate CHANGE #1589 - buff - plasma rifle damage 12->15 CHANGE #1589 - buff - plasma pistol damage 22->25 CHANGE #1589 - buff - plasma shotgun damage 50->60 CHANGE #1610 - N+ - gib doubles respawn time instead of prevent CHANGE #1610 - N+ - respawn timers made longer CHANGE #1589 - Molten will no longer appear on AV melee weapons FIX #1597 - fixed micro launcher exotic generation chance FIX #1557 - low health overlay works on Radeon cards now FIX #1343 - toxiberi are immune to poison FIX #1343 - cryoberi and cryoreavers are immune to cold FIX #1609 - exalted kerberi appear in kill counts properly

== Full Changelog ==

.../breaths in... Release 1.1 - Exordium - October 11th, 2021 NEW #0694 - support for multiple save slots! NEW #1597 - new early game weapon type - grenade launchers! NEW #1598 - new humanoid enemy - grenadiers! NEW #1583 - 3 new unique weapons (1 auto, 2 rotary)! NEW #1545 - constant outline option in Settings/Display NEW #1568 - added enviropack, combat pack (large and small) NEW #1576 - new windchill level event NEW #1595 - new character information screen! (c) NEW #1593 - new enemy information screen! (h when targeting) NEW #1547 - "Remember last name" option in Settings CHANGE #1543 - key repeat works for UI menus CHANGE #1595 - last action time displayed on UI CHANGE #1585 - you can only target in vision range CHANGE #1408 - incompatible saves will no longer be removed CHANGE #1558 - target reticule color based on hit chance CHANGE #1558 - manual targeting highlight by range CHANGE #1577 - no voice when topping off ammo CHANGE #1573 - alert messages on armor/headhear destruction CHANGE #1597 - ADV grenade and rocket added to manuf. stations CHANGE #1572 - improved lighting on several Callisto levels CHANGE #1572 - improves some visuals and levgen on Callisto CHANGE #1571 - Master traits require level 6, less prereqs CHANGE #1569 - Survivor crit bonus counted from below 25% CHANGE #1569 - Survivor crit bonus increases with level CHANGE #1569 - Vampyre buff - 5/7.5/10 for both armor and health CHANGE #1569 - Entrenchment additionally grants all resistances CHANGE #1569 - Bulletstorm works with auto's - +1 shot at L2 CHANGE #1569 - Sniper works with all ranged weapons CHANGE #1569 - Sharpshooter works with auto's and semi's CHANGE #1586 - Sustained fire is weapon agnostic CHANGE #1586 - Son of a Gun is weapon agnostic, no range bonuses CHANGE #1586 - Gunslinger opt-range penalty reduced by 1 CHANGE #1586 - Headshot grants accuracy bonus CHANGE #1569 - knives have intristic resilent perk CHANGE #1567 - negative healing mods affect large med/stimpacks CHANGE #1568 - stimmed, juiced, adrenaline have turns left in UI CHANGE #1343 - resistances are percentage based CHANGE #1581 - halved XP gained from events CHANGE #1581 - increased per-level XP spawn size to compensate CHANGE #1595 - removed "enemies left" information (metagaming) CHANGE #1589 - early game weapons can have better AV values CHANGE #1589 - buff - plasma rifle damage 12->15 CHANGE #1589 - buff - plasma pistol damage 22->25 CHANGE #1589 - buff - plasma shotgun damage 50->60 CHANGE #1589 - nerf - auto range 2/3/8->7, assault 2/4->3/8 CHANGE #1610 - N+ - gib doubles respawn time instead of prevent CHANGE #1610 - N+ - respawn timers made longer CHANGE #1589 - Molten will no longer appear on AV melee weapons FIX #1597 - fixed micro launcher exotic generation chance FIX #1557 - low health overlay works on Radeon cards now FIX #1343 - toxiberi are immune to poison FIX #1343 - cryoberi and cryoreavers are immune to cold FIX #1609 - exalted kerberi appear in kill counts properly

== What's Next ==

There are several features we planned for 1.1 but decided not to keep it in development for too long - these will land in 1.2! This includes full mouse support, German, Russian, and Polish text localisation, browsable Hellpedia and Help improvement, and more revamps of the early game (including two more early game enemies) and more changes to the trait system to make it more flexible. We hope to ship 1.2 before the year ends, so stay tuned! Yours, {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33717650/004e98061256dda3ac95738fd8db13a87798daef.png

Thank you for an amazing Steam Next Fest 2021, folks! We're keeping all the demos for you to play longer!

Mruqesteam_community_announcements

1760d ago

https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/38371631/8215daa0ebcca22bfc64465d6831bd30c2ba0ede.png As Steam Next Fest draws to a conclusion we want to thank everyone for stopping by and trying out our demos. We've had tens of thousands people playing the featured games, hundreds joining our community Discord to offer feedback, and posting on social media! Many of you have been asking "will I be able to keep playing the demo after Next Fest ends"? Steam suggests all Next Fest demos should be timed, to create a sense of urgency and make sure the players wishlist the game. But this is simply not the Hyperstrange way. We're old enough (well, some of us) to remember shareware times, when demos came on floppies and lasted forever (well, some of them). Cutting to the chase: the demos stay, at least until their respective games get released. Here's what you can play, in case you missed some of them:

RAYZE

RAYZE is a genre-defying hyper-paced music-filled first-person AIM RACER. Hit a target to accelerate. Miss and you slow down. Hit a wall and die. Find the fastest route. Get to the finish line. Simple? Yes. Easy? Hell no. Who said training to be your own aim-bot can't be fun? Welcome to your new casually hardcore obsession! The DEMO consists of the entire first sector of the game, that's 5 tracks for you to figure out and master, one bite-size FPS speedrun at a time. Achievements to unlock, global leaderboards to compete with friends and strangers... Just two more weeks until full release! Ready? 3... 2... 1... Let's RAYZE!

Blood West

BLOOD WEST, an immersive Wild West FPS where a revenant desperado takes on the twisted demons and eldritch horros in a cursed, desolate mining town. Hell is empty and all the devils are here! Plan your steps, be stealthy, gain advantage, manage your resources, and paint the world dark red! Blood West was the second most-played Hyperstrange demo in Steam Fest, and there's already many players telling us they cannot wait for the release, despite the game being brutally hard! If you missed the DEMO, you can still try, and if you like the experience of being the Revenant desperado, please remember to add the game to your wishlist!

Supplice

Supplice is a stylish throwback shooter that made a lot of people happy during the Steam Next Fest. inspired by the mid-90s FPS glory days and the legendary Doom modding community. Mixing the retro stylings of 90s era shooters with colorful graphics and frantic gameplay, it creates an experience that's ever so familiar but also exciting and fresh. The team behind the game is a real hot pot of Doom modding and FPS development legends, starting from Brett 'Mechadon' Harrell, the project founder, through Aleksander 'Cage' Kowalczyk, the lead artist also known for his work with Ion Fury, to James 'Jimmy' Paddock, the lead composer, known from his midi soundtracks to Sigil, Prodeus, and many other talents. Please check out the DEMO and follow & add the game to your wishlist if you want to stay up to date with its development.

Skullstone

Skullstone is a true to its form dungeon crawler with grid-based movement, real-time tactics combat, and first-person view. Lead a party of adventurers into the under-realm, looking for glory, gold, and a solution to the ancient evil plaguing the town above. A real stand-out in the FPS action-focused Hyperstrange catalog - why not give it some appreciation by playing the DEMO and wishlisting this pure-blooded classic RPG.

POSTAL: Brain Damaged

Last, but in no way the least in our Steam Next Fest lineup, POSTAL: Brain Damaged dominated the First-Person Shooter category, reaping the most wishlists and getting over 20 000 demo downloads. If by some strange twist of fate you're here but you don't know what is POSTAL: Brain Damaged... it's a spin-off of the Running With Scissors cult series, firmly rooted in the POSTALVERSE, but taking more gameplay cues from modern shooters such as the latest DOOM, than the fan-acclaimed POSTAL 4, the latest entry in the main series. This time around the story follows POSTAL DUDE on a journey through the dark and bizarre landscape of his own mind, which gives the developer a chance to explore new depths of weirdness, madness, and gore. The gloves are off! See for yourself - play the DEMO and make sure to hit that wishlist button hard! (Please note that as we focus on developing the game, we won't be able to update the demo, so it will reflect the state of development in September 2021, even if you play it in May 2022, when the game is getting released. Expect improvements and changes!) As we wrap-up the event, we feel immensely grateful to the wonderful Steam player community who show us so much appreciation. Please keep your feedback coming - if you have any to offer, please join our community Discord. We strive to make your live stranger and filled to the brim with good old action, and it's such a rush to see that you enjoy what we bring to your screens. That is it for today, be excellent to each other! Yours truly, https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/38371631/0703e4c0718a8efe5be90b59356042bc0910a9e2.png

Jupiter Hell news & patch notes

From Poland With Love is Live! 🇵🇱🎮

Hey Hyperstrange folks!

You know that legendary Polish hospitality where nobody is allowed to leave hungry, right?

Naturally, we couldn’t just sit this one out.

Now sink your teeth into our contribution to the feast:

Save some room for what’s next, and add our upcoming games to your Wishlist!

Jupiter Hell news & patch notes

From Poland With Love is Live! 🇵🇱🎮

Hey Hyperstrange folks!

You know that legendary Polish hospitality where nobody is allowed to leave hungry, right?

Naturally, we couldn’t just sit this one out.

Now sink your teeth into our contribution to the feast:

Save some room for what’s next, and add our upcoming games to your Wishlist!

Stay Hydrated, Stay Strange.

The Steam Summer Sale is here, and it's melting our prices!

🔥 THE DISCOUNTS 🔥

⚡ UPCOMING PROJECTS TO WISHLIST ⚡

== Heavy Gunner ==

== Perk upgades ==

== UI/Engine upgrades ==

== Buffs, buffs everywhere! ==

== Gameplay changes ==

== Level changes ==

== Bugfixes ==

== Raw changelog ==

Release 1.9 - Terminus - June 4th, 2026

== What's next ==

We’re back with another round of discounts, and this time there’s even more to grab!

See the fresh line-up for yourself!

Empty Shell - 50% OFF

ELDERBORN - 80% OFF

Jupiter Hell Classic - 15% OFF

Supplice - 40% OFF

INCISION - 35% OFF

CROSSBOW: Bloodnight - 77% OFF

77p egg: Eggwife - 50% OFF

No Sun To Worship - 50% OFF

RAYZE - 50% OFF

Sthell - 75% OFF

next year is going to be BIG.

‘Sup folks! How's December treating you? Getting cold out there, huh?

Jupiter Hell - 70% OFF Jupiter Hell Classic - 15% OFF ELDERBORN - 80% OFF Empty Shell - 50% OFF INCISION - 35% OFF Supplice - 40% OFF Crossbow: Bloodnight - 77% OFF

These prices stay frozen until December 15th, 19:00 CET - so grab what you can while the deal’s still hot!

The wait is over - Jupiter Hell Classic has officially launched into Early Access on Steam!

We've just hit the big button - Jupiter Hell Classic is live in Early Access!

What's next? Check out our roadmap for upcoming features:

Why Early Access?

We've also updated the free demo to match the launch version quality, so if you're still on the fence, go give it a try first.)

See you in hell, Marines!

The demo’s waiting. The Early Access release hits hard this August!

Hyperstrange 2025 Publisher Sale

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Hyperstrange's Massacre Before Christmas Publisher Sale

Click here - you really don’t want to miss it!

Want a little sneak peek? Alright, it is the season of giving, after all! Here’s what you’ll find out:

That’s it? - Nah, man. There’s some seriously epic surprises coming your way!

The event ends on December 18! Don’t miss out!

Hello Hyperstrangers

What can you expect from the demo:

Play the demo

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Stay Strange

Jupiter Hell Anniversary

We are kicking off this anniversary by discounting Jupiter Hell by 70% and that is not all that there is in store for you!

Happy Anniversary

Stop, it's Summer Sale time.

DELIRIOUS DISCOUNTS

NEW THINGS

Supplice Episode 3

Hordes of Hunger

Have fun and don't spend your moolah in one place!

== Ossuary, Abattoir and expanded Dante! ==

== Scouts and shotguns ==

== Early game improvements ==

== Gauntlet and Conduct medals ==

== Exalted enemies ==

== Japanese translation ==

== Other stuff ==

== Plethora of fixes ==