Sketchy's Contract news & patch notes

We made it! Full Release is finally here after 2 years working on Sketchy's as a Solo Dev. I am extremely proud of what I created and very grateful to the amazing community that has come with it. It's been a absolute pleasure getting to meet so many great people that play Sketchy's and an honor to have had so many of you gain wonderful memories from Sketchy's.

Well, here it is:

NEW

• The story has arrived! Players will take part in an 11-part story that will take them to 11 different planets to hopefully piece together what Sketchy is and why they've been "working" for it all this time.

• 15 Achievements have been added to the game!

• New Map – Null Sector

  A map that takes place in an asteroid belt where Sketchy's work primarily resides.

• New Player Skin "Droid" - this is now the new default skin as well with 6 different variations! (the original astronaut is still there). Additionally, this droid has an animated mouth that responds to player voice activity which gives a bit more personality.

• 5 New Plush

• 10 New Furniture Items (kitchen pieces and a big TV!)

• 6 New Weapons Charms

• 1 New Pet – Baby Night Walker

UPDATES

• The Payment Bonus Burger Shop Perk has been updated. Players who unlock this perk by reaching 50% inventory can now access and modify their suit points while on a planet.

• Shaking the Claw Machine will now reposition prizes that get stuck in the glass to the top of the shoot which should then fall and grant the player their prize.

• The Special Event Halloween and Winter Cosmetics are now available for purchase via normal currency all year round.

• The T2 and T3 button options in the Customization Menu for placing furniture have been consolidated into the T1 furniture as there is no more Tier specific furniture. This also makes it much easier to browse furniture when decorating. The T1 button has been renamed to “Purchased”.

• Decreasing enemy health and damage sliders no longer works on Hardcore Mode as Hardcore Mode is not intended to be intentionally nerfed via settings to make it an easy mode.

• Targets that are immune to damage now display “Immune” when taking damage.

• Renamed Pterodactyl to Quetzalcoatlus

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where certain level brackets weren’t getting XP when reaching the required quota as depicted in the Suit Modification screen.

• Fixed an issue where Quota was increasing by 450 each contract on Hardmore rather than 350 which was causing a discrepancy in the required quota for leveling brackets (this means that if you were previously doing hardmode runs, you will notice your required quota got smaller due to the reduction to 350 from 450 per contract).

• Fixed an issue where the Snowman Egg progress wasn’t being granted for Sketchy Wonderland.

• Fixed an issue where the Firepit Furniture was displaying as 0 Cosmic Coins.

• Fixed an issue where Elizabeth Doppelgangers dead bodies would appear invisible with just a floating helmet.

• Fixed an issue that could cause a loot value bug to occur specifically on 8 player groups.

• Fixed an issue where using the store all for crates was not skipping Oxygen Reservoirs.

• Fixed an issue where Black-Market Storage Crate would not shrink with the player when picked up/equipped while shrunk.

• Fixed an issue causing the Contamination Purifier to display an incorrect version of its mesh when highlighted for placement.

• Fixed an issue where players that fall off the world during the night shift would be teleported to the ship which is not on the ground.

• Fixed a placement issue with Spatulas.

• Fixed an inaccessible access crate in Level 0 of Port Aeriss.

• Fixed an issue where dodge was avoiding laser damage.

• Fixed an issue where players that get teleported back to ship after entering orbit from a planet, would have any items picked up afterwards get added only to slots that were empty prior to the teleport.

• Fixed an issue where clients killed at Sketchy’s would respawn at the spot they died.

• Fixed the placement mesh for the Ultimate Boombox.

• Fixed an issue where the Time Manipulator and Contamination Purifier were counting toward collected quota when purchased and placed into the ship.

• Fixed an issue where player tips could remain on the screen when manually turning them off in the settings.

• Fixed a teleport gen spawn area in Port Lumin Level 1 that was obstructed making it unreachable.

So what's Next?

As I mentioned months ago prior to this release, I will no longer be updating Sketchy's. I will monitor the discord and keep a look about for major bugs (hopefully we don't see many of those) and push hotfixes as needed. At some point I will stop pushing hotfixes as well because I will working on a new game which will require all of my bandwidth.

New Game?

For those of you that were not able to make it to my live stream discussing my future as a developer, I am beginning work on a new game - still as a Solo Dev - that will fall in my favorite genre - "Survival Build/Craft". I have not released any details around it just yet, but please join the Sketchy Discord if you are interested in hearing more or simply following along with that development!

Thank you so much everyone who has supported and continues to support my development. I am so excited for what's to come.

-Forsakenhalo

Hi all, This is a short news post to let you know that I will be releasing Sketchy's out of Early Access in roughly 2 weeks on July 15!

It's been over 2 years working on Sketchy's as a Solo Dev and I am extremely proud of what I created and very grateful to the amazing community that has come with it.

As a quick rundown, Full Release will have new content including:

• An 11 part Storyline.

• 15 Steam Achievements!

• A New Map - Null Sector (this map contains the final quest of the newly added storyline). This is the only map that Zero Gravity is part of how you move around the Map, specifically in the level 0 area.

  • This a section of Security Level 1, a supplies area built into a shattered asteroid.

  • This is a section of Security level 2 where you'll find many specimens you've fought on various planets and maybe a few other bizarre experiments.

  • Lastly, we have the Main Frame, a place where all answers are finally revealed - a place where you will confront Sketchy. A minimum of 1 player is required to have the last quest of the story or has completed the story in order to take down the barrier outside the Main Frame to enter and confront Sketchy.

  • NOTE - the Last Boss - confronting Sketchy - is a high level enemy that will require you to utilize everything you've learning in combat. It's recommended you are a minimum level 50, have suit points maxed in the appropriate areas, use Black Market weapons for optimum damage, and COOK A BURGER to keep yourself constantly healing. You will be challenged!

• New Enemies to fight and collect.

• New Pet - "Baby Nightwalker".

• A New Skin: "Droid" - this is the new starter skin for new players. All color variations are free to purchase. Additionally , the mouth is animated to move when detecting sound through player voice chat.

• New plush, furniture, and weapon charms.

• Some additional QOL updates and Bug Fixes of course.

• Additionally, for anyone wondering about seasonal event cosmetics, they will be available to purchase with normal cosmic coins all year round, so if you missed out on those events in the past 2 years there's no need to worry!

There will also be a new trailer that will launch with Release day that really showcases the fun and chaotic game that Sketchy's have become.

This community has given such amazing feedback and helped in so many areas of testing. I truly couldn't have made Sketchy's what it is today without you all.

and just to repeat, the FULL RELEASE DATE is JULY 15!

Again, thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout all this time.

- Forsakenhalo

Hi all, this update wraps up the new player experience as well as balancing a bit with the early gameplay with T1 and T2. Additionally, T3 has become a dedicated Hardcore Mode for Level 90 players which it was always intended to be.

This means that reaching level 90 and unlocking T3 furniture is now something you can do simply by playing Tier 2 (the normal mode of the game). with the exception that players need to reach higher quotas on Tier 2 in order to push past level 60 and purchase T3 furniture.

For those curious, I've made these changes so that all players can experience all of Sketchy's without the need to push into a very difficult mode. The Hardmode Contract is a place for advanced players who simply wish to push their limits and see how far they can get on the hardest difficulty.

And with that said, here is what has changed:

NEW

• Added an Accessibility option for Night Vision Photosensitivity that enables/disables the visual noise affect.

UPDATES

Balance Changes

• Reduced the cost of O2 Reservoirs from 75 to 50 credits.

• Reduced the cost of flamethrower from 100 to 75 credits.

• Lowered the med gen to 250 to 200 credits.

• The number of credits received from a Contract on Tier 1 is no longer scaled down with larger groups (i.e. everyone gets more money). Solo gets more pay for obvious reasons.

• Increased the amount of money made from Tier 1 contracts by 30%.

• Increased credits gained on 4 player groups and up on Tier 2.

• Increased credits gained from mimic pouches by 50%.

• Increase the number of free O2 reservoirs that spawn in Level 2 area on Tier 1 from 3 to 5.

• Increased the min/max range of credits gained from Level 3-coin pouches.

• Players now heal in the Med Bay for 20 health every 3 seconds up from 5 on Tier 2. There is no passive healing in the Med Bay on Hardcore (T3) – that’s the whole point of “hardcore”.

• Increased sun sword speed perk from 25% to 60% on Hardcore and 90% with burger shop enhancement perk.

• Increased sun sword base damage from 75 to 80.

• The Med Bay Burger Shop Perk now additionally increases the passive healing from the Medbay by 150%.

Difficulty Changes

• Reduced the damage done by security level 1 enemies on Tier 1 by 15%.

• Reduced the damage done by security level 2 enemies on Tier 1 by 25%.

• Enemies Levels are now scaled down at the early quota requirement brackets for Tier 1 and 2 contracts. For example, a typical level 9 creature in security level 1 area on Tier 1 contract will now scale down to a level 6 creature and deal 30% less damage if the Quota requirement is below 900. The creature returns to its original level 9 once the quota leaves the early bracket. This should help new players push into security codes a bit easier on initially leveling a new suit. 

• Shovel and Pickaxe Doppelgangers no longer spawn on Tier 1.

Sketchy Data Redesign

• Sketchy’s Data has been renamed to “Bestiary” and has been moved into the Tab Menu for easy accessibility.

• The Bestiary has a new cleaner design.

• The Bestiary now shows notification icons when new entries have been added after scanning a creature. This will help new players learn about creatures more easily and more intuitively.

• Lurk Roots can now be killed by all weapons. They take significantly less damage from guns and take significantly more damage from fire and melee weapons.

• Updated the Lurk Root tip description for medical gens.

• Redesigned the new life form discovered popup when scanning something.

Progression Changes

• All T3 Cosmetics have been moved to T2. Cosmetics still require a specific quota to be unlocked but only require T2 Contracts to be obtained.

• Players can now level all the way to 90 on T2 rather than only T3 (Hardcore). However, your required quota must be a certain amount to receive levels past 60 similar to furniture.

• At 5100 quota or higher, suit level cap is 70

• At 6850 quota or higher, suit level cap is 80

• At 8600 quota or higher, suit level cap is 90

• Signing down to T1 now starts the quota requirement at 900 (the initial signing point) rather than 1600.

• Hardcode Mode has its own rules that make it challenging meaning that players will want to use Black Market weapons and Burger Buffs to maximize their chance at survival. This mode IS NOT FOR PLAYERS BELOW LEVEL 90, hence the word "HARDCORE":

• All Enemies are Level 90 now.

• Enemies are very aggressive.

• Enemies grow stronger each day of the Contract (resets once returning to orbit).

• No passive Med Bay healing.

• All Hardcode Mode enemies are now scanned as Level 90.

General

• The Buff from Big Bang Burger now increase your damage done by 10%!

• Port Lumin has received some level design updates and a new toxic plant has been added to the level 2 area to make it more consistent with level design in other maps.

• Dropping all loot or one by one via the ship quick drop off will now automatically send it to the drop off rather than needing to manually press send (I made this change because it was easy to accidentally forget to send the loot then finalize with nothing in the box).

• The Tier Description on the Ship Computer is more Information.

• Updated the evolution description for Pew Pew regarding how many missiles it fires.

• Updated the evolution description for Toxy.

• Updated the strength description for Loot Mimics regarding how much damage is reduced from range weapons.

• When free O2 reservoirs are used for the first time then become visible on Night Vision thereafter. A new player TIP will popup explaining to use Night Vision to see them.

• Pew Pew passive song volume is now affected by the Sound Effects audio option rather than Music as it was conflicting with Boombox. It could be hard to hear Pew Pew if you were someone with Music volume reduced to prevent boombox music from being too loud.

• Changed the message when interacting with cooking/coffee when the Burger Shop Perk is not unlocked to be more informative.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where the Flamethrower was bypassing friendly fire when turned off.

• Fixed an issue where Flamethrowers were not properly lighting the environment on fire for Clients.

• Fixed an issue where Lurk Roots could sometimes still damage players if its animation was triggered shortly after it died.

• Fixed an issue where Pew Pew’s passive music was not turning on or shutting off correctly based on when it was locked on a target or not.

• Fixed an issue where small crabs were taking reduced damage from melee weapons rather than guns.

• Fixed an issue where the Controller was not able to tab over to the Burger Shop Menu button.

• Fixed an issue If you with the jetpack that can cause infinite flying.

• Fixed an issue where Alien Rockets were not killing players with friendly fire disabled.

• Fixed an unreachable access crate in Sahariss Level 0.

• Fixed an issue you where the Derp requirement to cook burgers was not turning red when the requirement wasn’t met.

• Fixed an issue where Lurk root keeps attacking players while they are dead.

• Fixed an issue where non-player installed O2 reservoirs were blocking single target damage from rifles.

• Fixed an issue where scanning multiple creatures would cause overlaps of discovered data popups that could then not be clicked away.

I appreciate those of you who have kindly and respectfully shared ideas and feedback to help make Sketchy's better. -Forsakenhalo

Updates

• Removed the flickering effect on outlines when scanning items.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Burger Shop Inventory can sometimes be overfilled.

• Fixed a major issue with cooking.

• Fixed a spawn area on Port Coral where the Lurk Roots would be high up in the air.

• Fixed an issue where the Flashlight Keybind Icon for Controller was not displaying beneath the players stamina bar.

• Fixed an issue where removing items from the Burger Shop Crate just after returning to orbit causes them to disappear to spawn incorrectly.

• Fixed an inaccessible access crate beneath the landscape in Level 1 Port Sahariss.

Update

• Players that are teleported back to the ship from Sketchy’s Belt or in Orbit whenever another player pilots the ship will not lose their items anymore.
• Updated the visual design of the Black-Market Vendor area off Port Sahariss. It is now a small archeological-themed spot that is consistent with the map theme and makes it easier to find.
• Updated the Black-Market Vendor area on Sketchy Wonderland and Port Aeriss to make it easier to find.
• XP gained on T1 has been increased to ensure new players gain a certain amount of levels before reaching the starting eligibility to sign Tier 2.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where Player Pets would not spawn into the Apartment correctly on login.
• Fixed an issue that could cause Jelloti in a Jar and some corpses to be uninteractable on login.
• Fixed an area where players could still be knocked off the level 2 elevator in Port Lumin.
• Fixed an issue where the Death Ray was not working Jelloti.
• Fixed an issue where O2 could still decline while dead.
• Fixed an area in Port Sahariss Level 2 that exited the Contamination Bounds.
• Fixed an area in port Sahariss Level 0 where a Lurk Root was clipping the environment making it unkillable.
• Fixed a visual defect in Level 2 entrance of Port Aeriss.
• Fixed a spelling issue with the Time Manipulator.

UPDATE

• The death backpack icon will now disappear 5 minutes after the player revives rather than 5 minutes after they die. This will help ensure players have plenty of time to find their way back to where they died.
• Jelloti in a Jar item will now dance when next to boombox music.
• The Freezer can now be stored away for Hosts. It can be relocated by clients.
• The Air Purifier can now only be activated outside of the ship.
• The Time Manipulator can now only be activated outside of the ship.
• The droid blaster no longer phases through physical collision.
• Updated the collision in the Museum Center platform causing a large gap between placed items.
• The Sandworm is now twice as large when placed.
• Health now reduces by 20% every 2 seconds on Tier 3 when you have no more oxygen.
• Wraith damage increased as it was weaker than most other deadly enemies.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue causing dupes to occur with the burger shop crate.
• Fixed an issue where the Jetpack wasn’t being properly disabled for clients when turned off.
• Fixed an issue where aliens could not be shot additional times after the first time.
• Fixed an issue where the replenisher/loot converter screen can still be interacted with while an item is replenish/converting.
• Fixed an issue where the Contamination purifier didn’t get deleted when returning to orbit.
• Fixed an issue where the Time Manipulator didn’t get deleted when returning to orbit.
• Fixed an issue where the Time Manipulator could be interacted with while in orbit.
• Fixed an issue where the Unharvested Night Blossoms did not show Burger Shop icons.
• Fixed an area in Port Sahariss Level 2 where players could fall through the ground.
• Fixed an access crate location in Sector Zero level 2 that was impossible to reach.
• Fixed an issue where placing an Contamination Purifier blocks the player viewport.
• Fixed an issue where the Trilobite Terrarium doesn’t highlight hovering over it in placement mode.
• Fixed an issue where the Capsule would become visible after harvesting something underwater and clip into the player viewport.
• Fixed an issue where players could be shrunk while dead, causing them to revive as shrunk and unable to perform certain actions.
• Fixed an issue with multiple areas along the path of the Level 2 elevator on Port Lumin that knocked players off.
• Fixed an issue where the suit gathering suit modifier states “quality/rare gatherable” rather than “uncommon/rare”.

It's finally here! The last major update has arrived bringing so much to Sketchy's. This update focuses on replayability, progression, and simplification of systems to make the game as intuitive and engaging as it can be.

Players can finally do work for the burger Shop, Cook a Big Bang Burger, and make strategic decisions about which planets to travel to based on their needs and conditions making each contract different than the previous.

So here it is, 0.7.0.0!

NEW

The Burger Shop Redesign

With this last update, players will finally participate at the Burger Shop, which is now a thriving fast food stop for extraterrestrials. Here are the key elements:

• The Burger Shop has an Inventory Room that players can restock with specific food items to gain access to the following perks:

• 20% Inventory - Cooking Machine

• 35% Inventory - Coffee Machine

• 50% Inventory - 30% Payment Bonus

• 60% Inventory - Reduced Revive time from Med Gens.

• 70% Inventory - 30% Discount on Black Market Goods.

• 85% Inventory - Weapon Perks for both T2 and T3.

• As aliens land their spaceships and order food, inventory will be slowly consumed - with very little consumed while at Sketchy's.

• Aliens still visit the burger shop while players are on a planet / in orbit, but the inventory consumed doesn’t get reflected until players travel orbits. This is in place to make sure any perk you had active prior to landing, won’t be lost mid-contract on a planet which would hinder gameplay.

• Cooking System - one of the perks you'll gain access to is the ability to cook a Big Bang Burger! (I feel a lot of you saying "FINALLY!!"). Burgers heal you to full health then provide an additional 2% health per second for 30 minutes! The burger buff does not last through death.

• Coffee Machine - another perk is the ability to brew Sketchy Coffee. Coffee reduces the rate at which your stamina declines by 5X for 15 minutes allowing you to run for quite some time before running out of breath. The burger buff does not last through death.

• New Storage Item: "Burger Shop Crate" - allows players to place 20 burger shop specific items into the crate which can then be brought to the burger shop to directly feed into the inventory shelves.

The Planetary Conditions System and New NPC

This new system brings Planetary incentive to Sketchy's, meaning that farming harsher planets has value and that even avoiding "easy" planets might be in your best interest from time to time. Preparing for your next trip and where you decide to land will matter. Here are the key elements:

• Each Contract (T2 and T3), random conditions both negative and positive are generated for each map.

• There are 16 different planetary conditions - 8 negative and 8 positive.

• Negative Conditions range from Night Shift Contamination to No revives.

• Positive Conditions range from all enemies dropping coin pouches to Level 3 containing a massively expensive golden egg!

• Players will want to see which planet will be most appropriate to their needs based on the conditions which will dramatically alter the way you travel throughout the Sketchy Galaxy.

• New NPC as one of the positive Conditions: "Black Market Vendor" - this vendor appears randomly on different planets each contract with special goods that are considered extremely powerful but as you might imagine are very expensive.

• (NEW) Massive Portable Storage - carries 3000 worth of quota and can store any loot including Elizabeth and substances.

• Compact Gathering Capsule (moved here from T3) - carries 1000 worth of quota.

• (NEW) Contamination Purifier - removes any and all forms of unbreathable air on the planet.

• (NEW) Time Manipulator - stop times for 5 minutes.

• (NEW) Death Ray - instantly kills an enemy.

• Ultimate Boombox (moved here from T3)

• Sun Sword (moved here from T3)

• Galactic Axe (moved here from T3)

• Pulse Rifle Supreme (moved here from T3)

• Cosmic Blast (moved here from T3)

• Hypernova (moved here from T3)

• New Night Shift Creature that spawns on Tier 2 and 3.

Gameplay

• Storage bins/crates now have vertical snap-placement when in placement mode.

• Night Vision now shows the nameplates of all teammates on the map allowing you to find your friends very easily when you or someone else gets lost.

• Night Vision now also displays the distance beneath the name of a teammate allowing for more precision when looking for friends.

• Night Vision displays player-activated Oxygen Reservoirs.

• Dying now displays the location of where you last died for 5 minutes, allowing you to easily find the loot you dropped.

• A Main Objective Message will now appear for Tier 1 players at the top of the screen when logging into the game giving them steps to follow to complete the core gameplay loop.

UPDATES

Map Design

• Complete Overhaul Level design for Port Sahariss with Level 1 being an oasis and Level 2 being an Ancient Temple.

• And of Course, there is a New Furniture that comes with this redesign - Anubis Statue!. The Lava Lamp now spawns in Port Ragnar and the Firepit is now a purchasable furniture from the Furniture NPC.

• (NEW) Unique level 3 loot added for Port Sahariss.

• Redesigned Level 2 area for Treasure Island.

• Redesigned Level 1 and 2 areas for Port Glacial.

• Redesigned Level 2 area for Port Ragnar.

• Updated Level 1 layout of Port Ragnar.

• Updated Level 1 area of Port Lumin.

• Replaced all floating rock jumping areas in Port Aeriss with stable bridges to walk across (remember those slippery falls?).

• Lasers have been removed from all maps except Sector Zero.

• Updated Security Level elevator transport locations for Port Lumin, Ragnar, Sahariss, Sector Zero, Glacial, and Aeriss.

• There are now Force Fields blocking entire security levels preventing players from exploring the area until the Security code is entered. This will help prevent new players from getting lost in areas they don’t have access to yet.

• Teleporter Generators are now protected by a Lurk Root. This concept falls in line with the upcoming Story at Full Release that explains their existence and how they interfere with technology.

Flashlight and Oxygen have been completely redesigned:

• Oxygen now automatically replenishes over 4 (or 5 I don't remember) seconds whenever entering the ship, med bay, teleporter room, or standing next to an Oxygen Reservoir.

• Suit Chargers have been removed.

• (NEW) Oxygen Reservoir - 1-handed item that can be placed anywhere then activated to provide unlimited oxygen to anyone standing next to it. Additionally, activated Reservoirs can be seen via Night Vision making them great markers.

• The Rate of O2 decay in contaminated zones is now the SAME ON ALL TIERS rather than becoming increasingly more demanding with each tier. So if you notice O2 going down a bit more in this update, that's why.

• The O2 suit modifier has been reduced to 10 oxygen per point down to 20 as it plays a new role in synergy with Oxygen Reservoir Items.

• Night Vision now passively recharges when shut off.

Level 3 Changes

• Level 3 is now a “Loot Stash Building” meaning that it spawns 3 pieces of loot rather than just one and also a bunch of credit pouches!

• Each level 3 Building except the one with an Egg now spawns a Grocery Bag containing a large amount of food items intended to be used for Restocking Burger Shop Inventory (use it how you wish). This makes pushing for Level 3 incredibly valuable for maintaining burger shop perks.

• Level 3 sketchy substances have been replaced with new loot items.

Item Changes

• Increased Damage of Cosmic Blast explosion proc from 50% increased damage to 100% increased damage.

• Reduced Shotgun range by 20% but increased its damage by 30%.

• Increased Attack speed of Sun Sword by 10%.

• The Flamethrower is now available for Purchase on T1 and price reduced from 200 to 100.

• T3 Items have been migrated over to the black market.

• T1 Boombox has been removed due to some Sketchy activity from a Black Market Vendor.

• T1 and T3 med gen have been removed due to some Sketchy activity from a Black Market Vendor.

• Scythe damage now does 45 damage baseline making it better than the Flamingo sense it cannot be looted on T1 Contracts as is.

Revive / Death Penalty Changes

• Installing a Med Gen now automatically begins reviving any player that is already dead.

• If players team wipe with a med gen installed, the med gen will be consumed to prevent players from being sent back to orbit and losing all progress. A new med gen will need to be installed for future revives.

• Removed the stacking revive time penalty.

Enemy Changes

• Reduced the number of missiles Pew Pew fires to 3.

• Reduced Pew Pew's health.

• Reduced Jelloti's Health.

• Increased health and damage of Hell Hound and Tremasaur.

• Increased the price of Hell Hound and Lavasaurus corpses.

• Increased the time it takes for droids and undead to respawn.

Tier 1 Changes (New Player)

• Standing in the Med Bay now provides 20 health every 3 seconds up from 5 health.

• Med Gen is automatically installed when landing the ship.

• Planet Orcoon is now the only available planet until Tier 2.

• Tier 2 can now be singed at 900 quota rather than 1600 quota allowing players to experience the “normal” more difficulty of the game more quickly.

• Signing down to a Tier 1 Contact now defaults the starting quota to 1600 rather than 200.

Quality of Life

• Players can now rotate items/weapons while in placement mode just like they can with furniture.

• Boombox will now keep track of the currently played song even when mouse wheeling to different items. No more needing to keep spamming “change song” to get back to your favorite track after killing a monster or looting some items.

• Player items such as Weapons and Storage Crates are now Highlighted (visible through other objects) when they are scanned to make them more visible when searching for them. This is especially helpful when looking for dropped items on death or when dropping storage crates while looting and/or trying to place a large 2-hander into storage.

• Players now only need to type the Access Code itself, for example: “123”, instead of “Lvl 1 123“, for access to security level 1. The game will automatically search for the access level corresponding to the code you gave it, greatly simplifying the amount of typing at the search command.

• Removed the “SCN” feature from the Ship Computer.

• Increase the number of items you can order of a specific type from the Store droid from 4 to 8.

• Cleaned up and simplified the Ship Computer to be more intuitive/easier to use.

• Removed the self revive prompt on solo that gave 10 seconds to choose the revive option. Solo players will automatically begin revival on death.

• Teleporter Generators now highlight when they are scanned, signifying their importance and making it easier to see them through the Lurk Roots that now block them.

General

• The Tier 1 and Tier 2 buttons in the Space Shop Menu have been renamed to “Utility” and “Weapons” to better organize and make browsing for items more intuitive.

• The Digging Modifier now increases the player’s chance of digging up a pirate booty!

• Lurk Root damage increased slightly on T2 and significantly on T3 to balance with the latest buff to player base health through leveling.

• Lurks Roots no longer need to be harvested to collect them. Simply pick up the Lurk Root once you’ve burned it.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where Pew Pew would shoot infinitely when a boombox was on the ground playing.

• Fixed an issue where AI were not walking around in Port Glacial Level 1 and 2 areas.

• Fixed an issue where the Night Substance explosion was not killing max level players.

• Fixed an issue where the Darkwood level 2 teleport was teleporting players to level 2 instead of level 1.

• Fixed an issue where Killing a Hatching before it hatched gave a different quota value than killing a hatching after it hatched.

• Fixed an issue where Teleporter Destinations at Port Glacial were incorrect.

• Fixed a issue with the Lurk Root’s hitbox being way too large which could prevent damage from being dealt to nearby objects/enemies.

• Fix an issue where the Burger Shop radio was displaying “turn on” when hovered over rather than “turn off” and would only turn off after pressing twice.

• Fixed Gathering Capsule attachment orientations for various player skins.

• Fixed an issue where dug up mimics would have 100 health regardless of the Contract Tier.

• Fixed an issue where digging would be prevented if your action bar was full.

• Fixed an issue where trying to rotate an item/furniture in placement mode while hovering over another cosmetic would store the cosmetic away rather than rotating the current once.

• Fixed an issue where sometimes the spaceship remains invisible after the night shift ends typically when returning to orbit.

• Fixed an issue where the placement size of for ice cream maker was incorrect.

• Fixed an issue where the loot converter displayed “replenish weapon”.

• Fixed an issue where Singing down/up a contract would remove quota requirements from furniture cosmetics.

• Fixed an issue where the Frog Suit was not holding the Sandworm corpse properly.

Full Release - v1.0.0

• New Map

• A Small Storyline

• Achievements

• and some additional cosmetic content

Expected Full Release Date?

I am targeting early June of this year, but there is no set date as of now. As I get closer, I will make the proper official announcement with date reveals etc., but I wanted to give you an approximate date, so you have some idea of what to expect.

Post Full Release

Once Sketchy's has released, I will be pushing hotfixes only as needed, with hotfixes slowing overtime, but there will be no major updates.

As for my plans as a game developer following the completion of Sketchy's? I'll talk more on that once Full Release is live.

I am so excited to release Sketchy's. Thank you so much to everyone who has and still continues to support!

-Forsakenhalo

The Remaining Roadmap

Hey everyone! It's been a couple of months sense the last update which brought some great quality of life and major changes to the game that helped streamline the overall Sketchy's gameplay and make the player experience more intuitive.

I've done a stream or two sense then discussing with my community the complete roadmap to Full Release and thought it would be good to sum it all up in a compact post here on Steam to get everyone up to speed outside of my streams and discord. So here it is, what remains of Sketchy's Contract.

Keep in mind that I will not be going into the complete details of these features but simply highlighting them so you have an idea. The full details will be posted with the content release itself.

Last Major Update - 0.7.0.0

This update aims to drive Sketchy's into completion by hitting all the areas that don't feel as deeply developed as others. One major thing I thought about while cooking this last update was Charm and Personality of Sketchy's. I really want Sketchy's to Stand out as something truly unique - something you remember - and to do that, I needed to focus on the Burger Shop, replayability, and the personality of the game.

The Burger Shop Redesign

With this last update, players will finally participate at the Burger Shop, which is now a thriving fast food stop for extraterrestrials. Here are the key elements:

• The Burger Shop has an Inventory Room that players can restock with specific food items to gain access to special perks.

• As aliens land their spaceships and order food, inventory will be slowly consumed - with very little consumed while at lower inventory levels and more consumed at high inventory.

• Cooking System - one of the perks you'll gain access to is the ability to cook a Big Bang Burger! (I feel a lot of you saying "FINALLY!!"). More on what the burger does when I post the update itself.

• Coffee Machine - another perk is the ability to brew Sketchy Coffee. More on what coffee does when I post the update itself.

• New Storage Item: "Burger Shop Crate" - allows players to place 20 burger shop specific items into the crate which can then be brought to the burger shop to directly feed into the inventory shelves.

The Planetary Conditions System and New NPC

This new system brings Planetary incentive to Sketchy's, meaning that farming harsher planets has value and that even avoiding "easy" planets might be in your best interest from time to time. Preparing for your next trip and where you decide to land will matter. Here are the key elements:

• Each Contract (T2 and T3), random conditions both negative and positive are generated for each map.

• There are 16 different planetary conditions - 8 negative and 8 positive.

• Negative Conditions range from Night Shift Contamination to No revives.

• Positive Conditions range from all enemies dropping coin pouches to Level 3 containing a massively expensive golden egg!

• Players will want to see which planet will be most appropriate to their needs based on the conditions which will dramatically alter the way you travel throughout the Sketchy Galaxy.

• New NPC as one of the positive Conditions: "Black Market Vendor" - this vendor appears randomly on different planets each contract with special goods that are considered extremely powerful but as you might imagine are very expensive.

Other key changes

• A complete redesign of Port Sahariss - Ancient Egypt themed.

• A new Night creature to fight.

• Night Vision now displays the location of Friends in the world as well as their distance from you and their dead bodies.

• Dying now displays the position where you last died in the world with a bag icon.

• Level 3 now drops a ton of loot not just a single item.

• Oxygen System rework.

• New item to Purchase: "Oxygen Reservoir" which complements the Oxygen Rework.

• Fixes and more

Expected 0.7.0.0 Release Date?

I am targeting end of March, but will release it the moment its ready, so keep an eye out on Discord.

Full Release - v1.0.0

I can't believe its been nearly 2 years now sense Early Access began. The amount of content, community feedback changes, and updates I've pushed into this game over that time is overwhelming. With that said, I wanted to be clear that Full Release will not contain any major features/systems as that would entail potential bugs. Instead, Full Release will focus on these key elements:

• New Map

• A Small Storyline

• Achievements

• and some additional cosmetic content

Expected Full Release Date?

I am targeting end of May of this year, but there is no set date as of now. As I get closer, I will make the proper official announcement with date reveals etc., but I wanted to give you an approximate date, so you have some idea of what to expect.

Post Full Release

Once Sketchy's has released, I will be pushing hotfixes only as needed, with hotfixes slowing overtime, but there will be no major updates.

As for my plans as a game developer following the completion of Sketchy's? I'll talk more on that once Full Release is live.

I want to give a huge thank you to everyone who has Supported me during this journey developing Sketchy's. I can't wait to get this update and the Full Release out to you all.

-Forsakenhalo

Hi all, Just another update to continue polishing and adding those final touches to Sketchy's. Alas, the long awaited "Unstuck Button" is here!

NEW

• Added Unstuck feature. Unstuck can be performed once a minute and will relocate your player to a nearby area.

• Added Pause feature for Solo Players. Pressing escape will now pause the game on solo gameplay.

• While healing, a healing buff icon now appears next to the player health bar to indicate they are gaining health. This will also help new players that aren’t aware of certain healing mechanics such as Med Bay providing passive healing while standing inside.

UPDATE

• Remove Interactables associated with the old Hallow Manor Investigation system.

• Added logic to handle players that manage to fall though a map into the infinite void. Players should now be automatically relocated to the ship should the situation occur.

• The Flashlight keybind is now displayed beneath the Stamina Bar.

• The Scan keybind is now displayed beneath the Action Bar.

• Moved the Replenisher at Sketchy’s Belt to be closer to the ship for better accessibility.

• The Med Bed Panel Description has been updated.

• The Med Gen installation unit as a new Monitor showing the status of Med Gen installation and explaining that it grants Auto-Revive.

• Removed the “Return to Orbit” option for solo revive as it is redundant. Players will automatically return to orbit if they don’t choose revive before time runs out.

• Free weapons such as the Flamingo on a Stick will now be skipped from the “Store All” option on storage crates so that they aren't accidentally lost from the action bar (especially if you are using one at the time for combat).

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where certain nighttime enemies such as raptors were despawning during Nighttime.

• Fixed an issue where Greed was attempting to steal dead bodies from players.

• Fixed an issue where the Boombox was playing the wrong soundtracks.

• Fixed an issue where players that failed a contract above level 70 would have their suit level set back to 70.

• Fixed an issue where the Helping Hand and Support Stick would not store into crates/quick drop off using the Drop All option and could create a bugged action bar slot.

• Fixed an issue where Pew Pew would slowly slide toward its target on initiating its defense system.

• Fixed an issue where dead players were receiving Med Bay healing if spectating a player standing in the Med Bay.

• Fixed an Access Crate in the darkwood house that was unreachable.

• Fixed the description for Stamina cost on the Shield Modifier.

• Fixed the description for Mithryte Shovel regarding fast digging speed.

• Fixed a missing ceiling beam in the Storage Room of the Player Apartment.

• Fixed a missing floor piece beneath telephone booths.

-Forsakenhalo

I hope everyone was able to get their Winter Cookies and some holiday rewards! With the Winter Event concluded, its time to focus all my efforts on Sketchy's Full Release. Over the coming months, you can expect to see hotfixes and quality of life patches to help create a successful launch. In this update,

I've updated the Gathering System based on player feedback and improved other things as well. here's the break down:

UPDATES

• Gathering Bar has been redesigned based on Player Feedback. There is no longer a separate bar to swap to. Instead, gathering items are automatically switched to the moment you interact with the appropriate gatherable. For example, walking up to an Herb while holding a Flamethrower and interacting with it will automatically equip a hedge knife and begin harvesting. This will make gathering extremely convenient and seamless. I hope everyone enjoys this change and can continue hoarding all that loot even more efficiently!

• Digging is now similar to mining and herbing. Simply scan the area you see loot then search around for the prompt to begin digging. You will automatically swap to the shovel making it so seamless to play.

• As you can see, minding ore has never been easier. Just walk up to an ore vein and start mining. Goodbye item swapping!

  New Player Balances

• Players now gain 5 health per second while standing in the Med Bay. I’ve added this feature to help new players struggling to loot food or have enough credits to buy chips/boombox. This should help with health-management in early game combat.

• Flamingo On a Stick damage increased from 25 to 35.

• Food healing Rework – All Food items now heal for a flat 50 up from 15 and 25. All Drink Items now heal for 65 up from 25.

• Players that revive when then Night Shift Ends revive with 100 health up from 10.

• Bagels, Biscuits, Frozen Pizza, Jam, and Burger can now be consumed for healing.

  General

• Players now choose to revive when auto-revive completes allowing players to continue spectating until they are ready rather than being forced to automatically revive.

• Vending Machine Chips now heal for 200 up from 35 and cost 75 credits up from 15.

• T3 Med Gen Perk has been upgraded. It now revives players with 500 health rather than the default 100 health makes it even better to spend those credits on.

• Increase Pulse Rifle Supreme Shock Damage from 40 to 70.

• When players interact with the PVP Air Hockey Table, it now says “Free Plays!” at the top rather than how many arcade coins you have.

• Updated the keybind description for dodge to “dodge/shield”.

• Reduced price of Basic Med Gen from 100 to 75.

• Increased price of Medium Storage from 60 to 85 credits.

• Increased price of Large Storage from 125 to 200 credits.

• The Ultimate Boombox now only deals damage when not held by a player. This is especially necessary to avoid breaking the pacify mechanic for Pew Pew as the Boombox must be held to do so.

• Due to the increase in baseline health of T2 and T3 players and the ability to store substances, the Radiation Sketchy Substance damage has been significantly increased per tier.

• T3 Subject 6 no longer teleports to players. The evolution ability has been changed to increased attack speed.

• Claustropede and Boombot damage increased on T2 and T3 contracts.

• Players now take 3X damage while dancing. The idea is that dancing makes players vulnerable. You should not be able to "out dance" the damage of an enemy (that's what shields and dodging is for). Dancing to boost healing should be seen as an out of combat acceleration, not an in-combat feature.

• Hallow Manor Map Change - the paranormal gameplay feature of Hallow Manor has been completely removed. The Level 0 area is now a normal place to look, kill, and gather materials just like Darkwood or any other map. The Creepy house still remains, but we are no longer performing awkward paranormal activities. Let's keep it Sketchy - that means, looting, killing, and gathering every inch of the map!

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where Substances couldn’t be stored into Large Storage Crates if the player dropped the crate rather than placing.

• Fixed an issue where players could manually press revive without a body being on the medical table. This mechanic has been replaced with the auto-revive system.

• Fixed an issue where sometimes capsules got lost when a player died.

• Fixed an issue where clotty stops following its target after some time from being damaged.

• Fixed an issue where Jelotti was unintentionally taking damage from sources other than fire.

• Fixed an issue where the Medical Bed was saying “requires a generator” if no corpse was on table.

• Fixed an issue where the capsule sometimes displayed the wrong number when attached to a player.

• Fixed an issue where Lasers continue to be activated after Greed Who stole Christmas Dies.

• Fixed an issue where items dropped at the entrance of the Greed Who Stole Christmas could not be interacted with.

• Fixed an issue where players that become shrunk via shrink ray get stuck when walking out of the ship between the ship hatch threshold.

• Fixed collision with the quick drop off screen in the ship that wasn’t supposed to be interacted with.

• Fixed an issue where Crouching in shallow water could cause players to get stuck in a state between swimming and crouching. Mostly seen on clients.

• Fixed an issue where the Cosmic Blast Shotgun was activating it’s the proc effect on reload rather than on shoot.

• Fixed an issue where Drop all loot with the Quick Drop Off wasn’t working properly for Controller.

• Fixed an issue where certain non-store purchased items were not selling with store all such as baguette, cutlass, etc.

• Fixed an issue where Empty Storages were not being deleted on a Failed Contract.

• Updates will potentially be less frequent and smaller sense I will be focusing on polishing and preparing full release. Thank you so much to everyone that has been helping find bugs and suggest great ideas to help make Sketchy's the best version of itself.

What's Next?

Updates will potentially be less frequent and smaller sense I will be focusing on polishing and preparing full release. Thank you so much to everyone that has been helping find bugs and suggest great ideas to help make Sketchy's the best version of itself.

And a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who has left positive reviews expressing your overwhelming delight and love for this game and hard work that I put into it. It truly gives me the motivation to push forward and give you all the best version of this game that I can. -Forsakenhalo

The last update of the year! With it, I bring a revamped Revive System that turns medical generators into infinitely self reviving systems. That's right, you only need to install 1 med gen to revive as many times and as many people as you want. Not only that, players AUTOMATICALLY begin reviving the moment they die meaning that players don't even need to go back to the med bay to press the button! I personally love this change because as a Solo and Duo player myself, I want to spend as little time spectating as possible or waiting for a friend to get me. The more time I can spend in-game looting and killing monsters, the happier I am.

UPDATES

• I’ve increased the amount of Cookies granted from the Bag of Gifts looted from the Greed Who Stole Christmas from 3 to 10 for the remainder of the winter event, so go farm those cookies before it ends!

• Increased chance of getting toy train/lantern from Sketchy presents from 12.5% to 25%.

• Large Portable Storage now has a Tier 3 ONLY Perk – Can store Sketchy Substances!

• Large Portable storage price increased from 90 credits to 150 credits.

• Updated the amount of cosmic coins gained for high level players and increased the maximum allowance per contract from 1000 to 1500 cosmic coins.

• Cosmic Blast Perk updated – each failed attempt to proc 50% increased damage increases the next attempt by 25%. This will guarantee a proc by the 3rd attempt eliminating complete reliance on RNG.

• Revival System Overhaul

• Players now automatically begin self-reviving upon death when a Med Gen is installed.

• Solo Players get significantly reduced self-revive time when a Med Gen is installed.

• Only 1 Med Gen can be installed per run (returning to orbit resets med gens). No need to use up 10 Med Gens to revive 10 players. Leaving the planet will reset the med gen.

• If no med gen installed, a body must be placed on the table (not required for Solo Players).

• If Basic Med Gen, revive time = 60 seconds.

• If Advanced Med Gen, revive time = 30 seconds.

• If Accelerated Med Gen, revive time = 10 seconds.

• Each time a player dies, the time it takes to revive the next time they die is increased by 10 seconds up to a maximum of 30 added seconds (if solo, 5 seconds and up to 15 respectively). Returning to orbit resets the revive time penalty.

  Due to med gens having infinite uses now, prices have increased:

• Basic Med gen increased from 25 credits to 100.

• Advanced Med gen increased from 185 credits to 400.

• Accelerated Med Gen increased from 300 credits to 700.

• The Gold Treasure chest can now be store into portal storage crates.

• Changed the informational description in the Ship Information page on the Ship computer for naming your ship.

• Reduce the size of the Quick Drop off Collison in the ship to help prevent items that were placed close and/or clipping it from being picked up.

• Updated land/retuning to orbit logic to help prevent the ship from appearing in an incorrect position on low latency/low end GPU.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue allowing bar switch to cancel weapon animations while still allowing the weapon to fire producing an unintended outcome of absurd damage output with said weapon.

• Fixed an issue where dropping a capsule vs placing it while holding a 2-handed storage resets it.

• Fixed an issue where sometimes dropping a 2-handed item does not clear the “hands are full” message on the action bar.

• Fixed an issue where dropped items could have their values changed to the value of the equipped gathering capsule.

• Fixed an issue where dug up mimics were not attacking players.

• Fixed an issue where dug up mimics were spelled correctly.

• Fixed an issue where the Red Lantern disappears when placed.

• Fixed an issue where credits rewarded after you pass 5100 quota requirement on Tier 2 was not scaling correctly.

• Fixed the missing Bar Stool texture.

• Fixed an issue where the sauce dispenser was blocking a large portion of the screen when carried.

• Fixed an issue where if the night shift ends while a player is in the process of being revived, the revive is not canceled causing the player to still be revived despite the end of night shift reviving them.

• Fixed an interaction keybind message when interacting with a cosmetic when not in placement mode.

• Fix holding position of pulse rifle on new Halloween skins.

I wish everyone a Happy Holidays! I'll be doing a stream at the start of the new year to discuss what to expect leading up to Full Release which is right around the corner so if you are interested checking out the discussion, please remember to join discord! -Forsakenhalo

UPDATES

• Updated capsule storage logic to help prevent the issue where placed capsules sometimes reduce in value.
• Shrink Ray is now a permanent effect on players. It can be cancelled by using the crouch key.
• The Storage Rack on the Ship near the freezer can now be moved or stored allowing you to have even more space and freedom to decorate/organize your ship.
• Added a new Storage rack Furniture piece to T1 which is identical to the storage racks in the apartment storage room. You can purchase 20 in total for those who want to have one giant storage warehouse.
• The keybind for placement mode on Controller has been changed from D-pad Down to (RB + D-pad Up) due to a conflict with D-pad Down being used to drop items.
• The Christmas Elf now holds a candy cane to beat its victims with.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where players were unable to level above 70 despite the level up prompt saying they were.
• Fixed an issue where using hotkeys to swap gathering tools when on the gathering action bar would cause the action bar to freeze preventing any further use of items.
• Fixed the interaction detection box for the Flamethrower that was making it extremely annoying to pick up.
• Fixed an issue where fully charged shrink rays that existed before Update 0.6.0.0 would show 8/6 on the resource bar rather than the new 6/6.
• Fixed an issue where dead bodies in the water could be tossed around vertically out of control making them hard to pick up.
• Fixed an issue where Night Walkers could linger into the Day Time after Night Shift ends.
• Fixed an issue where the texture for the Bar Cosmetic was not loading.
• Fixed a spawn issue on Sketchy Wonderland where a lurk root kept spawning beneath the landscape.
• Fixed an issue where in Sector Zero the Level 1 teleporter would not teleport to Level 2 and Level 2 teleporter would not teleport to Level 1.
• Fixed an issue with Elizabeth.
• Fixed an issue where players could interact with assets in the Level 3 buildings of Sketchy Wonderland Map that were intended to be just visual pieces.
• Fixed an issue where the Snowman was regenerating all of its health when leaving combat.
• Fixed an issue where Jelloti was taking damage while dancing to a boombox.
• Fixed the scan description for the Pulse Rifle Supreme.
• Fixed the Tier 3 evolution description for Greed.
• Fixed the description for Basic and Advanced med gen saying 20 second revival time instead of 15.
• Fixed a spelling error in the Tier 1 contract description for the Contract Manager.
• Fixed a spelling error with the Starlight Herb.
• Fixed a missing wall behind the burger shop.

-Forsakenhalo

Hi all, its that time of the year again - Sketchy Christmas! This is a HUGE update that brings in so much feedback from the community while also bringing new stuff you never saw coming! Let's jump into it!

Before you read through this giant update I just wanted to highlight the importance of everything here. This update focuses on QOL, Player Progression, and Difficulty Balance to get Sketchy's to a place where it feels "right". Before I go to Full Release its important to me to consider all the little things (the things that really matter) from the community and try to tweak as many of them as possible to best reflect the experience of the player.

NEW

• New Map: Sketchy Wonderland - this is a permanent new map added to the snow planet that is winter holiday themed. Ride a sleigh with reindeers between security levels, fight the greed who stole christmas and return to Krampus's Cabin where you'll feel small next to giant presents and toys.

• Greed Who Stole Christmas returns permanently!

• New Plush and Furniture of course!

• 2New Pet - Evil Snowman!

  9 New Weapons - yup there are all new weapons that come with this update, especially for Tier 3! I really want Tier 3 players to have lots of perks and feel god-like so you can expect some pretty cool mechanics from them.

• Battle Axe

• Galactic Axe

• Cyber Sword

• Sun Sword

• Experiment Ray

• Pulse Rifle Delux

• Pulse Rifle Supreme

• Cosmic Blast

• Hypernova

• Accelerated Med Gen

Arcade Games

• Air Hockey – a really fun way to earn some extra cosmic coins! You can either play against an AI to earn coins or play a PVP version that is FREE to play (NO COINS required and no reward just infinite fun) to mess around with others. It gets real competitive real quick!

• Sketchy Duck – another fun way to earn extra cosmic coins where you can drop a rubber duck and test your luck! Yes, the ducks squeak as they bounce.

Featured Community Requests

• I've been going through all the ideas and feedback and

• New Collectables System– Allows players to convert any loot item into a zero-value decoration preventing that item from being lost when a contract is failed. Converting items will cost credits. Now you don't have to worry about losing that beautifully decorated apartment with 100 Pew Pews when you fail a contract (assuming you convert them all).

• New Museum area is a designated area for collection to show off things you collected from different planets!

• Added Second Floor to the apartment and moved the Arcade there.

• Ship Quick Drop - there is now a mini drop off in the ship that allows you to send loot from the ship to the drop off box saving massive amounts of time between contracts.

• Added Misophonia option to Accessibility Settings. If a player has it enabled, the sound of chips will not be played if the person with the option enabled eats chips, not if a player with it disabled eats chips.

• Players can now shake the Claw Machine in Frustration. Remember all those times the claw machine just broke? Giving it a good shake should fix it right up(I hope)!

UPDATES

Gathering

• Gathering Action Bar - players now have access to a second action bar containing a pickaxe, shovel, and hedge knife that is built into your suit and cannot be lost. This means no more buying gathering tools and having them take up 3 slots of your action bar. I really wanted gathering to be a bigger part of Sketchy's and for more players especially solo to have better and more convenient access to it.

• 3 New Suit modifiers have been added for upgrading your gathering tools, one for each tool. Rather than purchasing these tools from the store droid, simply go to your suit modifier and upgrade your mining, digging, or herbing to gain access to a higher grade gathering tool that will significantly increase gathering efficiency.

• Players must reach lvl 31 to be eligible for point spending in the gathering modifier up to a one upgrade and lvl 61 to be eligible for point spending in the gathering modifier up to a second upgrade.

• Gatherables are now labeled as either “Common, Quality, or Rare” when scanned.

• Gatherables are no longer “locked behind specific Quota requirement”. Instead, more valuable/rare gatherables have a significantly increased chance to spawn the higher your quota gets. Remember though, gathering tools have been updated as well so getting higher tier gathering tools increases the speed of gathering. For example: a Iron Pickaxe will take a long time to mine a rare Ore Vein while a Carbon Pickaxe will mine a rare Ore Vein with normal speed.

Progression

• Exosuit Overhaul - Renamed to "Shield" and replaces dodge. Using the dodge key now activates an energy shield that lasts 2.5 seconds and reduces damage taken by 10%. Each point spent in the Shield Modifier Increase damage reduction by an additional 10% but reduces the duration by .25 seconds.  A fully upgraded shield reduces damage taken by 100% for 1.25 seconds. Stamina cost is scaled based on maximum stamina. Higher Shield = Higher stamina cost.

• Level Cap increased from 70 to 90 for Tier 3.

• The amount of damage gained from leveling between 30 – 60 has increased from 2% per level to 3% per level.

• The amount of damage gained from leveling between 60 – 90 has increased from 2% per level to 4% per level.

• The amount of health gained from leveling between 30 – 60 has increased from 10 per level to 20 per level.

• The amount of health gained from leveling between 60 – 90 has increased from 10 per level to 30 per level.

• Player damage now scales down to the Maximum Suit Level of the Tier the player is on. For example, if a Level 70 player signs down to T1, their damage will scale down to the magnitude of a Suit level 30 player because Level 30 is the Cap for Tier 1.

• Planet Chronis, Gaia, and Area 31 are now Tier 2 and 3 ONLY planets.

• Players now need to reach specific Quota requirement to purchase certain furniture in addition to reaching a specific tier. The more expensive the furniture, the higher your Quota will need to be to purchase it. This gives more incentive to push for higher quota.

  Tier 2 now has an uncapped quota requirement like T3. Players can still sign T3 at any point once they reach the requirement.

  New Player Experience

• T1 is going to be a place for NEW PLAYERS and learning how to play Sketchy’s. This means that T1 will not contain certain content that is considered difficult/challenging. Here’s a break down:

• T1 Night Walkers are significantly weaker and sell for cheaper.

• 8PM creatures only spawn on T2 and higher.

• Deadly creatures only spawn on T2 and higher.

• Night Substances only spawn on T2 and higher.

• Level 1 and 2 Mimics hit significantly less hard and sell for cheaper.

• No slimes sense slimes cannot be killed with T1 weapons.

• Infinite Revives.

  Currency Changes

• Cosmic Coins are now granted on Chained Quota again rather than needing to complete a full 3-day contract.

• Claw Machine Coins have been renamed to Arcade Coins.

• The max number of Cosmic Coins players can earn from a contract is now capped based on their suit level. For example: Level 1-10 each contract can grant a max of 50 cosmic coins while level 20-30 can grant at max of 125. Leveling up your suit makes you eligible for higher earnings!

• However, Cosmic Coins are now earned as a fraction of the Quota Requirement. For example, A level 30 player doing a 200 requirement-quota on T1 will earn 12 coins for a contract while doing a 1600 quota-requirement on T1 will earn 125. There is now an incentive to complete higher quota requirements because the reward is significantly increased.

• Credits awarded is now scaled as a fraction of your current Quota Requirement over the Maximum Quota requirement of your current contract Tier (same system as cosmic coin scaling). If you want more money, do higher Quota Contracts. Farming low quota will yield low payout. For example, completing ten 200 quota requirement contracts will yield the same number of credits as doing a single 1600 quota requirement contract. Cleary doing 1600 quota requirements contracts is the most time efficient way of playing.

• Simply put - the higher your Quota the more you get paid.

Penalty System Changes

• Players will no longer drop credits when they die.

• Failing a contract will not delete items that have been converted into collectables.

• Failing a contract no longer drops you a Tier. You will simply drop to the starting quota for your current Tier.

Difficulty and Player Balancing

• Custom Difficulty Sliders for Damage and Health modification now only yield increased loot value when playing on a Tier 3 contract.

• Subject 6 damage reduced from 135 to 100.

• Subject 6 has had its Weakness Updated.

• Evil Snow man has been moved to Sketchy’s Wonderland Map.

• Evil Snowman weakness has been updated.

Weapon/Item Changes

• T3 Weapon Perks now only activate when playing T3 contracts. You will still benefit from the damage or healing increase of a T3 weapon on T2, but you will not benefit from the powerful perks unless you do T3 content.

• NEW Boombox Models for Tier 1 and Tier 3 boomboxes.

• Pulse Rifle now has T2 and T3 variations.

• Supernova no longer has the exploding proc effect. The effect has been moved into the T3 variation of the Supernova called the "Hypernova".

• Shrink total energy has been reduced from 8 to 6.

• The "experiment shot" has been remove from the shrink and turned into its own weapon "Experiment Ray".

• New gun: Experience Ray – turns creatures into random objects preventing them from damaging you during the duration. 3 total shots.

• Ultimate Boombox will now only deal damage to enemies nearby if at least 1 player is standing within its healing radius.

Revive System Changes

• T1 now has infinite free revives!

• T2 now has 3 free revives for 3 or less and 5 revives for 4 or more players.

• T3 has 1 free revive for 3 or less players and 2 revives for 4 or more players.

• Revival time is now adjusted based on the type of revive you use. For example, using a free revive takes 30 seconds to revive someone while using a Tier 3 Med gen reduces that time to 3 seconds. There’s a catch though. Tier 3 medical gens can only be installed on T3.

Quality of Life

• Placing all items into the drop off/ship storage using the "Drop All Items" will now filter out Player Weapons so that they are not accidentally sold when mass selling items.

• Players no longer pick up cosmetics to put them away. While in placement mode, hover over a cosmetic and press the secondary interaction “R” to put it away.

• Teleporters no longer require generators to be activated. Instead, when players find a generator on the map, simply interacting with it will automatically activate the teleporter for that level without the need of carrying back a generator to install it.

• Helpful tips about the game are displayed to dead players while they wait to be revived.

• Changed Colors of the Ship Hatch open/close to distinguish it from the send/finalize quota buttons.

• Can now change Boombox music when its placed.

General

• Contracts can now only be signed on the 1st day of the contract.

• Contract Manager signature page has a new look, showing all 3 tiers side by side so players can easily compare the differences.

• The Drop Off box Quota screen has a new look. It now shows a prediction of credits that players will receive based on how much they put in.

• Increased the number of burger and cat neon signs you can own to from 1 to 5.

• Increased the number of Christmas trees you can own from 1 to 5.

• Increased the number of Winter Misc cosmetics you can own from 3 and 5 to 10.

• Increased the number of Aquariums you can own from 1 to 2.

• The Finalize Contact button at the Drop off has a new look so that it stands out more as a “Big Red Button”.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where Clients with High Ping that enter the water experience loss of swimming control. While this issue should be resolved it’s possible that clients with high ping will experience networking hitching in while swimming.

• Fixed an issue with Port Glacial where parts of level architecture were missing.

• Fixed an issue allowing players to press the finalize button shortly after pressing the “send” button which could result in a failed contract.

• Fixed a collision issue with the shotgun making it awkward to pick up.

• Fixed an issue where the Baguette item was not spawning from Access Crates.

• Fixed an issue where Elizabeth was setting the wrong value for her worth after turning back into a doll from being animated.

• Fixed an issue where the cutlass, baguette, back support, blaster, and helping hand items could not be placed into storage crates.

• Fixed an issue where players cannot pick up a 2-handed item if their action bar is full and a gathering capsule is equipped.

• Fixed an issue where herbs were not spawning on the Hollow Manor Map.

• Fixed an issue where sending a chat message was not making the sent notification sound.

• Fixed an issue where if a player died to an enemy that they attacked first, the enemy would become fixated on their corpse and remain targeted onto the player even after reviving.  

• Fixed an issue with footsteps sounds on the snow sometimes sounded like concrete.

• Fixed an issue where the Fire defuff could apply to dead players which could cause them to revive with fire still on them.

• Fixed an issue where the area that claw prizes dropped into had an interaction collision that could prevent the player from picking up the prize.

• Fixed an issue where slimes were blocking the screen when trying to place them with placement mode.

• Fixed an issue causing stamina degen caused by gathering capsules to be much higher than intended if the capsule was filled much higher than the max storage value.

What's Next?

As always I will be keeping an eye out on the new update to make hotfix as things pop up but as for next year, I have 1 more Major Update planned that will set the stage for Full Release. I will do a stream discussing those details next year when I am further into development.

Thank you so much everyone for all the support and feedback you've provided to help make Sketchy's what it is today. I can't believe we are coming up on 2 years this April! I am incredibly thankful for this community and am super excited for next year!

-Forsakenhalo

I hope you all enjoyed the Halloween Event and were able to pick up some Halloween goodies! Thank you everyone who checked out Sketchy's during the event. Don't worry, the new map is permanent and so is the new Elizabeth Skin, so you'll still have access to that content if you missed Halloween.

Now, its time to get back to focusing on wrapping up the year with QOL, polish, and bug fixes as I prepare Sketchy's for Full Release (date unannounced).

The Cardboard Halloween Suits have will be available all year. You'll find them in the Suit Modifier under the section "Cardboard Suits".

UPDATES

• Improved performance and optimization on the Hollow Manor Map. Players should see an increase in FPS the next time they land.

• I’ve reworked the 2 daily info in Hollow Manor that required players to leave the house and look through the video camera for certain activity. It was a bit frustrating especially for large groups of players to require all players to leave the house in order to find an orb or get an interaction. Now, players only need to step a small distance away from the Ghost Room for orbs/activity to occur in the video camera.

• Reworked the Haunted Manor Daily Info from “This entity is known for hiding ghost orbs if players are in the house. Place a camera and observe from the truck for activity” to “This entity is known for hiding ghost orbs if players are NEAR the ghost room. Place a camera and observe from a distance for activity.”

• Reworked the Haunted Manor Daily Info from “This entity is known to avoid interactions if players are in the house. Place a camera and observe from the truck for activity” to “This entity is known to avoid interactions if players are NEAR the ghost room. Place a camera and observe from a distance for activity.”

• EMF readings caused by Electronics and Knocked objects should now be detected from the location of the object emitting the signal.

• Improved Networking for Client-Side Movement, providing a significantly more enjoyable experience when players have very high PING due to long distance from a host or bad connection. If you are someone who typically experiences high ping or lives very far away from the host you play with, please let me know in the discord how your experience is after playing this update.

• Improved Flashlight Networking to give instant feedback on High PING clients.

• The 2 display suits in the back of the apartment living space have been removed. Instead, I’ve added a Suit Modifier near the entrance of the apartment that allows you to customize your character just as you do in the Ship.

• I've always felt a disconnect between the apartment and the ship so I've added teleports that directly connect them to each other allowing you to bounce back and forth without the need for physically walking out of your ship. This is extremely convenient. Not only does it save time when loading things into the apartment after a big haul, it makes the apartment feel so much connected to you.

• Players can now teleport directly from the Space Ship to the Apartment.

• Players can now teleport directly from the Apartment to the Space Ship.

• Added the cosmic coin cap to the Contract Manager.

• Removed the nanite check box in the Video Settings as it is not being used anymore.

• The Sketchy Teleport outside the apartment now goes directly to the Drop off.

• Reduced the volume of the Pew Pew song on the Boombox.

• Simplified the Paranormal Computer on Hollow Manor and added the description about the Breaker to the “TIPS” section in the Journal.

• Added a central mark to the compass so that it’s easier to see which direction you are facing.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where disconnecting the Xbox Controller was leaving controller icons on the Settings Menu rather than reverting back to PC icons.

• Fixed an issue where the Frosted Snowman walks around during the day.

The Winter Event will return this year in December so keep an eye out for more news regarding that. I'm not dropping too many details as to what to expect right now, but I figure I'd at least confirm that there will be one for those who are curious.

Thanks everyone for your continued support!

-Forsakenhalo

NEW

• New Skin – Elizabeth! That's right! Many of you requested an Elizabeth skin and now she's here! You'll need 1500 Cosmetic Coins to get her which means if you haven't dipped your toes into Tier 2 contracts, now's the time.

• This skin is Permanent and completely separate from the Halloween update/currency! Elizabeth isn't going anywhere (except maybe into your nightmares).

UPDATES

• For the remainder of the Halloween Event, I've increased the drop rate for the rare Mandrake Weapon Charm. Login and get it before its gone!

• The Ouija Board can now be put in Storage Boxes.

• Squidish has been added to Sketchy’s Data.

• The Boombox has a new music track: “Pew Pew”.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where the new Halloween Skins show 0/20.

• Fixed an issue where the “Arrived Message” when landing on a planet was showing if a new day was started after staying overnight/skipping night shift.

Happy Halloween everyone!

-Forsakenhalo

FIXES

• Fixed the player collision width preventing the narrow entrance and corridor in haunted house from being walked through.
• Fixed an issue where Wraith Corpse was blocking interaction so if an item was underneath it, that item could not be picked up.
• Fixed an issue where player dead bodies were phasing through Hollow Manor/ Dark Wood wagon transports.
• Fixed an issue where the Ghost Investigation computer was showing 1PM on guessing correctly rather than 2PM.
• Fixed a few spawn points where Miss Nibbles was appearing in an incorrect location.
• Fixed a few spawn points where Moro appeared in an incorrect location.
• Fixed a few spawn points where Crucifx appeared in an incorrect location.

Updates

• Added the degrees Celsius symbol on the Thermometer screen.
• Added an “You’ve Arrived” message when the ship finishes its landing sequence to help guide new players on what steps to take next.
• Made the Hollow Manor bathroom easier to find and more intuitive to navigate.
• The Ghost Investigation Journal should now work with Controller.
• The Ghost Investigation Computer should now work with Controller.
• Reworked EMF spawn times from interactions to persist longer, especially when players have a ghost that only interacts when players aren’t in the house.
• Adjusted Mannequin locations to be located primarily in rooms rather than open areas where evidence is not found. This will help make the objective for speaking to mannequins more intuitive to prevent players from speaking to aesthetically placed mannequins rather than reactive ones.
• Updated the description of new haunted house plush to say: “Somewhere in Sketchy's Haunted Graveyard”.
• The Wraith Scythe can now be stored into storage boxes.

FIXED

• Fixed an issue where Georgie was not immediately unshrinking players after killing a player and ending the hunt.
• Fixed an issue where Entities were killing players from vertical distances such as when they are directly above a player (first floor) in the basement.
• Fixed an issue where Entities were killing players through a wall assuming the player was close enough to the wall to be grabbed.
• Fixed an issue where the Toilet mimic sound was being heard by all players on the map.
• Fixed an issue where the Pumpkin Halloween cookie could be blocked by wooden boards if you get basement.
• Fixed an issue where the Doll Jack in the Box could spawn in the attic if blocked off or in the basement if blocked off.
• Fixed an issue where Doppelgangers were not copying the new Halloween Skins.
• Fixed an issue where the Thermometer was inconsistently detecting cold temps when the Daily Info was set to Cold Weather.
• Fixed an issue where the Ouija Board was not resetting the Planchette to its correct initial position after spelling out a word.

-Forsakenhalo

UPDATES

• The New Halloween Skins are now Free to purchase. Due to it being a bug on day 1 of the update I decided to keep it this way and allow everyone to benefit from it. Thanks everyone who has played and provided feedback to help me continue making Sketchy’s great!

• Hunts now ends if one player is killed.

• Ouija board now only shows the planchette when placed down signifying it can now be spoken too.

• The Oujia Board now says: “place down to communicate” when held

• Reduced the chance of getting interactions in non-ghost rooms.

• The Daily info for “Aggressive” has been reworked.

• The Ghost now starts the hunt from a random room rather than always dead center of the house.

• Mr. Y strength that makes him transparent has been made more opaque and colored red to help make him a bit more visible during hunts.

• Replaced 1 of Georgie’s strength that was not working and was implemented incorrectly with a new strength involving the balloon ghost event.

• Adjust lighting on low and medium settings at the Hollow Manor Map.

• Friendly fire now prevents damage taken from Big Daddy, Pocket Rocket, and Super Nova explosions.

• Adding/Removing items to cart in the Weapons Shop now updates your current credits at the top right, turning red with a negative sign if your total exceeds the amount you have.

• Increased cosmic coins gained via T1 contracts from 100 to 125.

• Increased cosmic coins gained via T2 contracts from 450 to 525.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where players outside the house could be targeted at the start of a hunt.

• Fixed an issue where Mr. Y could target a player outside the house mid-hunt when attempting to pursue a different player.

• Fixed an issue where the Entity could target swap within seconds just after recently swapping targets.

• Fixed an issue where Georgie could kill a player in a happy place if they entered the closet before Georgie began pursuit.

• Fixed an issue where lighting based on video settings was not being updated when arriving to the new Map.

• Fixed an issue causing some cursed crucifixes from being able to be picked up.

• Fixed an issue where objects interacted with in Level 3 buildings would cause an egg to spawn rather than when the door opens.

• Fixed an issue allowing players to burn the Mandrake at the fireplace without actually needing to have a Mandrake equipped.

• Fixed an issue where Miss Nibbles was spawning multiple times after being collected.

• Fixed a basement spawn location for Miss Nibbles where she wasn’t spawn correctly.

• Fixed an issue with basement stair collision that would cause players shrunk during Georgie’s hunt to get stuck.

• Fixed an issue where placing an EMF down wasn’t properly calculating distance to an EMF signal causing the EMF to potentially not pick up a reading when placed.

• Fixed an issue where the new Skin would clip into the camera while run forward when shrunk.

• Fixed holding animation issues of whacker weapons.

• Fixed an issue where Miss Nibbles doesn’t count when looted to ship.

• Fixed an issue where Cat Treats doesn’t count when looted to ship.

• Fixed an issue where Crucifix doesn’t count when looted to ship.

• Fixed an issue where Pianos were not triggering as an interactable for fingerprints.

• Fixed an issue where the piano sound could be heard everywhere on the map when stepped on by Moro.

• Fixed an issue allowing the jetpack to be used on Hollow Manor.

• Fixed an issue where sometimes credits could get dropped on death in the investigation house.

• Fixed an issue where some AI got stuck in level 2 areas at Hollow Manor graveyard.

• Fixed an issue prevented Level 2 teleporter gen from installing at Hollow Manor Level 2.

• Fixed an issue where the Super Nova Rifle was held incorrectly by the new Halloween Skins.

• Fixed an issue where people that jump into the box cannot get out.

• Fixed an issue where Pew Pew would detect active Boomboxes NOT held by players causing him become stuck in an infinite rocket firing loop until killed or the boombox was picked up.

• Fixed an issue where clients joining into sessions sometimes cant move their character around after selecting a file.

• Fixed an issue where if the solo revive times out and sends the player back to the orbit, the option to revive would remain on the screen.

Thank you everyone for your continued support and I hope you continue enjoying the spooky season! - Forsakenhalo

Hey all!

Major Update 0.5.0.0 is finally! Sorry it took so long, but I've been cooking like crazy trying extremely hard to have this update as amazing as possible for you all.

Lots of you have hopefully already read the news I posted last week so have a pretty good idea of what's coming, but I just want to say THANK YOU so much to everyone who has been patient waiting for me to finish cooking this MASSIVE update.

I know there might be some bugs with day 1 but as many of you know I am going to be on top of it! I truly hope you have both a horrifying and amazing time playing this. Oh and remember, the new MAP is permanent, so the Ghost Hunting won't be going away anytime soon!

Anyway, here's the details!

New Map - Hollow Manor

• This map brings with it a brand-new paranormal investigation feature.

  Here's how it works:

• When you land your ship, time will be completely frozen, so you will not have to worry about time until you finalize your investigation at the ghost hunting truck Sketchy has provided just outside the Manor.

• Security Level 0 is a Haunted Manor that you will investigate using paranormal devices located in the truck to find evidence.

• Once you've found enough evidence to determine the Entity haunting the Manor, you'll finalize the investigation at the Truck and gain access to Security Level 1.

• Time of day begins ticking once you finalize the Investigation. But there's a twist. The time of day will start at 1PM for a correct guess and 7PM if you are wrong.

• You'll have 4 primary tools to perform your investigation. Let's go through them quickly:

• UV - The UV light is used to find fingerprints left behind after a physical interaction such as the entity opening a door occurs.

• EMF - The EMF is used to find a Level 5 EMF reading that can be left behind following paranormal interactions with electronics such as a TV or even when objects are thrown/lifted into the air.

• Thermometer - The Thermometer is used to find freezing temps or a temp below 5 degrees Celsius. Sometimes players might need to use a Ouija Board to get a freezing temp reading on the Thermometer.

• Video Camera - The Video Camera is used to see Ghost Orbs which sometimes might appear as dust. Using a Music Box can sometimes help force them to appear if you can't see them.

• Hunts - players will be occasionally hunted and will need to hide and survive until it ends so be mindful of your sanity and drink some coffee when it's getting low. Sketchy has provided a Coffee Machine in the truck for you, but its limited so don't be too greedy if you're with a group!.

  Now I could go on and on about the details regarding this awesome new feature, but I think you Ghost Hunters get the idea. Just be warned that there are jump scares... this house is going to test more than just your investigation skills.

  Oh and let's not forget about our new pet Mandrake!!!

  Xbox Controller Support

• In this update I am rolling out the Xbox Controller Support which is still in a beta testing phase for collecting feedback from you guys. The hope is to have a solid full release with a controller that has been well tested by the community. You should find all mappings in the keybind settings.

  Halloween EVENT!!

  This Halloween, Sketchy will ask you to head to Hollow Manor and find spooky items to bring and toss into Elizabeth's Cauldron in return for Candy that you can use to purchase Halloween Exclusive rewards!

  So what can you buy?

• All the Halloween Stuff from LAST year. PLUS,

• New Halloween Themed Plush!

• New Halloween Themed Misc!

• New Halloween Themed Weapon Charms!

• New Halloween Themed Skins!

• Sketchy's Haunted House returns! In fact, there's 2 of them now! Just when you thought it couldn't get any better. Muwahahahaha!

  • New - Sketchy's Haunted Graveyard

  • Sketchy's Classic Haunted House

The New Map also brings with it some new hidden furniture that you can find on level 2 as long as all new level 3 loot!

Beware though, at 8PM become the Hollow arrives.... careful of what lurks in the dark!

The Halloween Event will Run from Oct. 20th to Nov 3!

Thank you again so much for the continued support!

-Forsakenhalo

Hey all!

Spooky Season is here and I know how many of you have been dying for some news regarding Sketchy's Halloween! Well, here it is! The preview of what's coming next week! Just so you know, this is more of an overview. The full details will be dropped with the actual update, but this should get you hyped enough!

New Map - Hollow Manor

• This map brings with it a brand-new paranormal investigation feature.

  Here's how it works:

• When you land your ship, time will be completely frozen, so you will not have to worry about time until you finalize your investigation at the ghost hunting truck Sketchy has provided just outside the Manor.

• Security Level 0 is a Haunted Manor that you will investigate using paranormal devices located in the truck to find evidence.

• Once you've found enough evidence to determine the Entity haunting the Manor, you'll finalize the investigation at the Truck and gain access to Security Level 1.

• Time of day begins ticking once you finalize the Investigation. But there's a twist. The time of day will start at 1PM for a correct guess and 7PM if you are wrong.

• You'll have 4 primary tools to perform your investigation. Let's go through them quickly:

• UV - The UV light is used to find fingerprints left behind after a physical interaction such as the entity opening a door occurs.

• EMF - The EMF is used to find a Level 5 EMF reading that can be left behind following paranormal interactions with electronics such as a TV or even when objects are thrown/lifted into the air.

• Thermometer - The Thermometer is used to find freezing temps or a temp below 5 degrees Celsius. Sometimes players might need to use a Ouija Board to get a freezing temp reading on the Thermometer.

• Video Camera - The Video Camera is used to see Ghost Orbs which sometimes might appear as dust. Using a Music Box can sometimes help force them to appear if you can't see them.

• Hunts - players will be occasionally hunted and will need to hide and survive until it ends so be mindful of your sanity and drink some coffee when it's getting low. Sketchy has provided a Coffee Machine in the truck for you, but its limited so don't be too greedy if you're with a group!.

  Now I could go on and on about the details regarding this awesome new feature, but I think you Ghost Hunters get the idea. Just be warned that there are jump scares... this house is going to test more than just your investigation skills.

  Halloween EVENT!!

  This Halloween, Sketchy will ask you to head to Hollow Manor and find spooky items to bring and toss into Elizabeth's Cauldron in return for Candy that you can use to purchase Halloween Exclusive rewards!

  So what can you buy?

• All the Halloween Stuff from LAST year. PLUS,

• New Halloween Themed Plush!

• New Halloween Themed Misc!

• New Halloween Themed Weapon Charms!

• New Halloween Themed Skins!

• Sketchy's Haunted House returns! In fact, there's 2 of them now! Just when you thought it couldn't get any better. Muwahahahaha!

  • New - Sketchy's Haunted Graveyard

  • Sketchy's Classic Haunted House

Is there more? Actually... yes!! But I am going to leave that for... well, the

RELEASE DATE - Oct. 20th!

I am super excited about this update as I put an INSANE amount of work into it, and I can't wait to see people get spooked!

For anyone who might want an inside look at the update feel free to catch my latest stream on twitch which I discussed in detail and showed bits of the new MAP to the community!

I'm so excited for this. Thank you everyone who has continued to support me.

-Forsakenhalo

FIXES

• This is a very small hotfix to quickly fix the currency display on weapons that was depicting cosmic coins rather than credits when hovering over times to purchase from the store droid. Thank you for pointing this out so quickly.

UPDATES

• Reduced the damage of Doppelganger T3 evolution by 50%
• Reduced the damage dealt by Pickaxe Doppelganger leap swing attack by 20%.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where players could not use the Gotcha Machine even though they had enough gotcha coins.
• Fixed an issue where players could sometimes not receive the difference in cosmic coins up to the Tier Limit when turning in a contract.
• Fixed an issue where enemies would still retain aggro on the target it killed until another player attacked it enough to take the aggro away.
• Fixed a spelling error in the message for claw machine and gotcha machine when the player doesn’t have enough coins.
• Fixed a spelling error with hovered furniture information at the Furniture NPC that was displaying credits rather than cosmic coins.
• Fixed an issue where the Plunger had a sell value of 20 when it was supposed to be zero.

Thank you for the feedback and helping point out a few of these bugs so I could get them addressed quickly -Forsakenhalo

UPDATES

• Increased the amount of Cosmic Coins gained from T1 contracts from 85 to 100.
• Increased the amount of Cosmic Coins gained from T1 contracts from 350 to 450.
• Reduced the amount of damage that enemies gain at level 1 by 10% and level 2 by 10%.
• Increasing the Enemy Health and Damage Custom Settings NOW increases the value of Enemy Corpse as well! Challenging yourself to crank the difficulty and fight even more challenging creatures will feel a bit more rewarding.
• Updated the Custom Health and Damage description to explain how increasing the value also increases enemy corpse values.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where the Meat Freezer was still showing items as invisible in the apartment.
• Fixed an issue where picking up Toxy in a Jar was bugging the action bar.
• Fixed an issue where Loot Mimics were taking damage while stationary with no active target.
• Fixed the position of the keychain on the Super Nova Rifle.
• Fixed the description of the Tier 3 quota requirement in the Manager Menu from 5200 to 5100.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes enemies could stay fixated on the target they killed rather than leaving combat or changing to another target.

I hope everyone has been enjoying the new QOL with 0.4.0.0. Thanks again for your support and feedback. -Forsakenhalo

Hi everyone! I've been doing some serious cooking right after releasing the Dino Map (what's new, right?). Well, this Major update came out of no where sense I typically push a preview of it before hand, but with Halloween just around the corner, I wanted to get another update out there before I begin development on Sketchy's Halloween!

NEW

• New Dodge ability – Yup you can dodge now with the defaulted “left alt” keybind. Dodge costs a base of 75 stamina. The dodge cost increases by 5 stamina for each point spent in the stamina modifier.

• New Suit Modifier: Exosuit – reduces all incoming damage by 5% per point while increasing the cost of dodge by 10 stamina per point. I’ve added this modifier as a counterpart to dodging. For players that find themselves struggling to dodge or simply want to be a bit more "tanky" to take on tougher enemies, the exosuit is a great option. This makes for a balanced gameplay and allows players of different skill sets/playstyles to find something that works for them.

• New Tier 3 Weapon – The “Super Nova”. This rifle works just like the pulse rifle, building heat overtime. However, the Super Nova does more damage the hotter it gets and has a 8% chance to light its target on fire or explode on the target for 30 damage if already on fire.

• New Tier 1 Weapon – The “Pocket Rocket”. This very small rocket launcher is a mini version of the Big Daddy, Dealing roughly half the damage with a small blast radius. The smaller blast radius makes for a great means of high burst damage in small spaces/narrow corridors.

• New Custom Setting - Enemy Health (can only be applied in orbit).

• New Custom Setting - Enemy Damage (can only be applied in orbit).

• Decreasing these settings will make the game significantly easier on all Tiers, allowing enemy health and damage be reduced to as low as 50%. However, reducing these settings also reduces the worth of all newly found loot (not loot already in the ship prior to landing from orbit). The lower the settings the lower the worth of loot. This is a necessary trade off because the overallocation of quota would be way too high due to enemies being very easy to defeat.

  Note, custom settings can only be applied while in Orbit, so be sure to set your values before landing.

UPDATES

General

• Life Form discovery popup has a new look. Discovering a lifeform now displays a creature’s strength and weakness and lasts for a much longer period of time before fading. This new informational popup will allow players to learn about creature mechanics right away rather than having to remember to run back to the ship and read about them. Players can always manually force close the popup by pressing "Y", if they don't want to see the information anymore.

• Planet Teleporters have been redesigned to be more intuitive and convenient. The user interface for typing teleport commands or clicking on a teleport node button has been completely removed. Each Teleporter now has 2 sperate terminals that players simply interact with and immediately begin teleporting. This removes the tedious opening of the Teleport Screen as you move loot back and forth, making the process much more seamless.

• Additionally, Teleporters in Level 1 and Level 2 can now travel to each other. No more teleport from level 1 to Med Bay, then from Med Bay to Level 2 nonsense. Simply press the terminal with the destination you wish to go.

• The Skip Night Shift Computer has been redesigned to be more intuitive and convenient. The user interface for typing the “Land” command has been removed. Players now simply interact with the screen just like teleporting, repairing items, etc. I have also updated its appearance so that it stands out better especially for new players who don’t know about the Skip Night Shift feature.

• Updated the Custom Settings Layout to be more intuitive.

• Consumables such as donuts, milk, etc. now provide 50% increased healing per Contract Tier.

• Loot value now scales with group size. All loot that spawns on solo is increased by 30% to help with the unfair advantage of being alone. Groups with 5 or more players has slightly reduced value on spawned loot sense this number of players makes meeting quota obnoxiously easier than smaller groups.

• Players no longer earn a reward from the Happy Meal if they sign down a contract on the Final Day to prevent contract failure. Sketchy doesn’t reward people who fail to meet the originally assigned quota. Be glad Sketchy is kind enough to even allow you to prevent complete failure in the first place.

• Flamethrower Buff - Enemies lit on fire take 20% increased damage for the duration.

• Lurk Root now takes damage from all heat-based weapons meaning that Pulse Rifle and Super Nova can kill lurk roots. However, Flame Throwers are the most effective. Pulse Rifle and Super Nova do much less damage to lurk roots.

• Purchasing a new planet will automatically set that planet as the new destination (players had to redundantly reselect the planet after purchasing to travel to it which was unintuitive and inconvenient).

• Increased the base value of Night Substances from 75 to 100.

• Increased scan range of loot/items.

Enemies

• Doppelgangers now copy the current Suit of the player it chose to copy! So, if you see a Cardboard Robot walking around, it might not be your friend…

• Dopplegangers have gained a T2 and T3 evolution ability.

• Doppleganger strength description has been updated.

• Reduced Mosquito initial damage on attachment by 20%.

• Some enemies have evolved at Tier 2. be sure to read about those.

• Enemy Group Scaling Reworked! Enemies no longer scale health based on the number of players in the group. Instead, they take reduced damage per player around them. This will help balance out the difficulty for multiplayer where it was very difficult before to fight a creature if you left your teammates due to the large amount of health they would have due to scaling.

• Enemies now prioritize targets with the highest damage. In other words, if you are playing multiplayer and you stop attacking your target, as long as the other person passes the amount of damage you dealt to that target, they should take aggro from you. Changing aggro has an internal cooldown to prevent the enemy from being trolled back and forth.

• Elizabeth can only be damaged if she is actively chasing someone or is attached to them.

• Toxy Corpse is now 1-handed and can be stored.

Currency

• Furniture and Player skins are no longer purchased with credits so that players can dedicate credits to items/gameplay-driven features rather than “sacrificing” credits on furniture that is merely cosmetic.

• New Currency “Cosmic Coin” – These coins are only rewarded for contracts completed over a 3-day duration. This new Currency is used for purchasing cosmetics such as Furniture and Player Skins. The number of coins rewarded is fixed per Tier, with higher Tier Contracts rewarding significantly more coins. Additionally, players can only earn a maximum of these coins based on the Tier they are assigned meaning that Tier 1 contracts cannot be farmed to buy T3 cosmetics sense Tier 1 is capped at 250 coins. If you want Tier 3 Cosmetics, then you must play Tier 3 and earn them.

• Cosmic Currency Reward amount for completing a 3-day contract:

• T1 = 85 (Capped at 250)

• T2 = 350 (Capped at 1500)

• T3 = 1000 (Capped at 15000)

  With this new currency, making money to buy weapons is much easier so some weapons have been increased in price.

• Shrink Ray cost increased from 200 credits to 300 credits.

• Shrink recharge cost increased from 10 credits per charge to 15 credits per charge.

• Gathering Capsule cost increased from 50 to 75 credits.

• Compact Gathering Capsule price increased from 100 to 135 credits.

• Big Daddy price increased from 350 to 500 credits.

Pet Progression

• The number of Pet Eggs required to unlock pets has been reduced from 10 to 5.

• Currency required to purchase a pet now cost Cosmic Coins rather than credits.

• To build progress toward pets, Eggs MUST be turned in on the planet. Leaving the planet with the egg will remove its Eligibility to be turned in again. Do you sell it for money, keep it for decoration, or turn it in for pet progress and BONUS Cosmic Coins? Make this decision before you depart!

• Pet Egg Planet BONUS! If players choose to turn in the pet on the planet, they will earn Cosmic Coins as an extra reward, allowing them to save up for Cosmetics even quicker.

• Pet Egg turn in Cosmic Currency Reward amount:

  1. T1 = 75 (Capped at 250)

  2. T2 = 275 (Capped at 1500)

  3. T3 = 650 (Capped at 15000)                                                  

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where sometimes gathering something with a capsule equipped could cause an item on the action bar to be swapped with the gathered item causing the origin item to be lost.

• Fixed an issue where weapons dropped in the apartment caused a fake version of the item to spawn.

• Fixed an access crate that was obstructed inside a rock in Level 2 Port Jurassic making it inaccessible.

• Fixed an issue where the Water in Port Jurassic was blocking range damage such as pulse rifle and shotgun.

• Fixed an issue where changing suits while holding an item in an empty slot would cause the item to create a false duplicate in the slot next to it.

• Fixed an issue where the Big Daddy was not showing the Ammo Resource bar.

• Fixed an issue where the Big Daddy was not dealing damage to players if they had friendly fire off.

• Fixed an issue where the Big Daddy splash radius was not working properly.

• Fixed an issue where Placing loot into the Freezer in Sketchy’s Apartment would cause the loot to become invisible.

• Fixed an issue where sometimes clients could not interact with Drop Off Box.

• Fixed an issue where sometimes, items dropped into the drop off box could still be interacted with.

• Fixed an issue where replenishing an item was causing its value to become zero.

• Fixed an issue where Pew Pew would sometimes continue following a player after it was done shooting missiles.

• Fixed an issue where changing a keybind would prevent the player from mouse scrolling to other key binds unless they closed the Menu.

• Fixed an issue where the T3 Bar Furniture was not loading its textures properly.

• Fixed an issue with weapon descriptions for T2 and T3 shovels, blades, and pickaxes not displaying the correct damage value.

• Fixed various crouch animations while holding weapons for the Carboard Robot and a number of weapons such as pickaxe and shovel appearing to other clients as though the robot was not holding them correctly.

• Fixed an issue where Greed would run away after stealing an item then turn and attack players who were holding items rather than ignoring them until they attacked him first.

• Fixed an issue where the Gathering Capsule would become invisible after gathering something.

• Fixed an issue where the Snowman could get stuck standing still after shooting icicles.

• Fixed an issue where the scanner would sometimes pickup things too far away or visibility obstructed.

What's Next?

Controller Support

I am currently working on Xbox Controller Support and hoping to push a beta build for the community to begin testing in the next couple weeks. Please Join the discord to stay updated with that progress.

Halloween

Spooky season is just around the corner! I will begin work on Halloween right after I push Controller Support to Beta. This Halloween will bring a brand new Horror Map that I am excited for everyone to experience.

Thanks again for all the support.

- Forsakenhalo

UPDATES

• Spectating UI now displays the message “Change Player ”.
• Spectating UI has been modified to appear more clearly in bright lighting such as daytime and follows the same color theme as the action bar keybinds.
• Closed railing gaps in the Pterodactyl Cage to help prevent players from accidentally backing up and falling off.
• Pets now turn and walk toward the player that begins petting them, providing a more interactive

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where clients could experience having the currently held item be replaced by the item they picked up therefore resulting in losing that item and being left with a bugged slot.
• Fixed an issue causing action bar slots to become frozen and not allowing for other items to be picked up on those slots after interacting with 2-handers with a full action bar.
• Fixed an issue where players holding another player’s dead body at 8AM would have their action bar stuck on “Hands are Full” after the body is deleted.
• Fixed an issue where Greed was not performing his Tier 3 ability.
• Fixed an issue where Pets do not load into the ship/apartment on login.
• Fixed an issue where Pets were missing from the apartment after traveling through orbit.
• Fixed an issue where the Walnut was super tiny if carried with the Frog Suit equipped.
• Fixed an issue where while wearing the Carboard Robot suit, held items appeared too high in the viewport while swimming.
• Fixed an issue where the Frog Suit camera clipped into the ground when petting a pet.

- Forsakenhalo

UPDATES

• Improvements to networking regarding picking up/dropping items that lead to unexpected bugs to occur with the action bar.
• Improved response times for clients when performing pickup/drop interactions with items.
• Improved Session Security to further prevent "unwanted guests” from joining lobbies.
• Reworked Password security with better authentication to further prevent bypassing. Whether players join via steam direct invite or in-game invite, a password screen will prompt prior to joining.
• Increased the range of the Flamethrower.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where clients picking up or dropping a 1-hander while swapping different items on their action bar could experience a false swap where the item doesn’t spawn at the correct slot leaving the previous slot bugged, preventing further attempts to switch to that slot.
• Fixed an issue where if Greed attempted to steal an item from a client just as the client swapped items to avoid having it stolen, the player’s item could be duped or a “ghost item” could persist on the action bar.
• Fixed an issue where the Better Boombox and Ultimate Boombox were turned off when picked up into the current action bar slot.
• Fixed an issue with a small hole in Darkwood where players could fall through the ground.
• Fixed an issue with the positioning Ghoul Bat while held.

UPDATES

• The boombox now displays how much healing it does with and without dancing when scanned.
• When placement mode is activated, the action bar is covered by a “Placement Mode” text to better visibly indicate that its active should the player press the hotkey accidentally.
• Raised the holding positions for Dilophosaurus, Raptor, and Trex corpses which were too low for the player to see in their viewport requiring them to look down in order to see what they were holding

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where clients that pick up 2-hadned items simultaneous to another player could potentially not receive said item even though it showed that they had the item picked up.
• Fixed an issue where players that died right as 8AM approached would be stuck spectating and unable to play.
• Fixed an issue where players killed by a Trex experience respawning still attached to the Trex.
• Fixed an issue with Dilophosaurus corpse hit boxes when trying to shrink as a client that could cause players to miss if not hitting a specific spot on the body.
• Fixed an issue where Big Daddy was not displaying resource when equipped.
• Fixed an issue where dead players continued to take damage while spectating which caused the damage visual to display while spectating.
• Fixed an issue where Loot Mimics were not displaying on the Echo Lens for clients.

-Forsakenhalo

New

• Players now have a secondary interaction with the drop off box "Place All" which will place all items you are carrying into the drop off box with a single click! This a huge QOL option to save lots of time when dropping off big hauls.

UPDATES

Balances

• Pet Egg spawn chance from Level 3 buildings has been reworked to scale based on player's group size. Each building has a 25% on opening to grant the Egg for 1-2 players. This value is then reduced the more players there are in the group. This should help solo players have greater accessibility to obtaining pets sense the time constraint for solo is much more difficult than large groups.

• Reduced Credit Cost of Base Med Gen from 75 to 50.

• Reduced Credit Cost of Advanced Med Gen from 200 to 150.

• Increased the range of placement mode.

• Increased the price of Trex by 87.5%

• Reduced Trex health by 20%.

• Big Daddy is now increased by 50% of range damage modifier allowing it to do even bigger damager.

 General

• Reworked backend networking for picking up items as a client to prevent the “Ghosted Items” major bug (items that don’t actually exist, but the icon takes up a slot preventing players from filling that slot with another item).

• Lowered the position of the robot suit corpse when held by a player so that it doesn’t block the screen as much.

• Updated the look and feel of the Contract Manager UI providing a simpler and more intuitive user navigation.

• Updated the coloring of Steel and Carbon pickaxe to help them visually stand out more from the Iron Pickaxe.

• Moved the Custom Settings option into the Settings options as its own tab similar to Video, Audio, Keybinds, etc. This will make it more intuitive to access and also prevent players from overlooking it or not being able to find it to access certain options such as Friend Fire which can be turned off by the client to prevent other players from dealing damage to them. 

• Items now automatically snap to the ground after a short time after being dropped with physics. I’ve done this to help prevent items from clipping through the ground which can result in loss of loot/items.

FIXES

• Fixed an issue where the message “Hands are full” would appear on a player’s action bar after attempting to pick up a 2-hander causing the item to disappear along with the player being unable to pick anything up without dying or leaving the session.

• Fixed an issue where sunlight brightness was not properly adjusting after transitioning from night shift to morning causing the map to appear dimmer/darker than expected during daytime.

• Fixed an issue where the mosquito was not spawning on Tier 3.

• Fixed an issue where the elevator panel on Port Glacial Level 1 was obstructed behind the train.

• Fixed spelling issue of Ammoilte to Ammonite.

• Fixed an issue where the Boombox would not remain activated if dropped via physics rather than placed.

• Fixed an issue where looting something while holding the better or ultimate boombox was causing the music to shut off.

• Fixed an issue where eating chips with a full action bar while still facing the vending machine prevents the player from purchasing more chips unless they look away then back at the machine.

• Fixed an issue with an obstructed access crate that was unreachable in level 1 Pterodactyl Cage of Port Jurassic.

I hope everyone has been enjoying Port Jurassic! - Forsakenhalo

NEW

• Added 10 new Jurassic themed Weapon Charms!
• Added a weakness description to the Pterodactyl.

UPDATES

• Updated lighting for Low Settings across all maps.
• The Brachiosaurus can now kill players if they stand a little too close beneath its feet when it finishes eating from a tree.
• The poisonous raffessia now has a 3 second cooldown after it returns to its deflated state.
• Smoothened out animations of Neutral Dinosaurs on clients.

FIXES

• Fixed a few areas where AI were getting stuck in level 1.
• Fixed an issue where T-rex was taking zero damage from Big Daddy.
• Fixed an issue where Amber wasn’t spawning above Tier 1.
• Fixed an issue with neutral AI on other planets other than Jurassic were sliding around rather than walking.